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• Adriana Maggeltje Sonneveld, Delfshaven († 1948)
• Aalt Prins, Kampen, Nederland († 1919)
• Adriana Cornelia Reijneveen, Zoetermeer, ZH, Nederland († 1958)
• Albert Willem Lubberts, Deventer
• Adriana Maggeltje Sonneveld, Delfshaven († 1948)
• Amélie Anna Agnès CLINCKEMAILLIE, Wijtschate,8953,West Vlaanderen,Vlaams Gewest,Belgie,Belgie
• Ligtvoet, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alida Maria De Backer, Aarschot
• Age Catrinus Boersma, St Nicolaasga, 8521, Nederland († 1946)
• Aaltje Heerkes Palsma, Menaldumadeel

• Adriaantje NOTEBOOM (34), Heinenoord
• Anna Maria Jansen (0), Maastricht
• Adrianus Bentvelzen (1), Naaldwijk, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Amantine Victoire GRONNIER (75), Roupy,02590,Aisne,Picardie,FRANCE
• Adriana Voorend (44), Ijsselstein, Utrecht, Nederland
• Albert Focht (3), Fremont Co.Iowa
• Antonius van de Pavert (1), Culemborg
• Andrew Montanye (44)
• Adde Harms Kruizinga (66), Vriescheloo, Groningen, Nederland
• Antonius van de Pavert (1), Culemborg

• 1863 » Jean Leon Gerome Ferris, American painter († 1930)
• 1869 » Carl Rungius, German-American painter and educator († 1959)
• 1870 » Lavr Kornilov, Russian general and explorer († 1918)
• 1879 » Alexander Rodzyanko, Russian general († 1970)
• 1885 » Nettie Palmer, Australian poet and critic († 1964)
• 1887 » John Anthony Sydney Ritson, English rugby player, mines inspector, engineer and professor of mining († 1957)
• 1890 » Walther Funk, German economist and politician, Reich Minister of Economics († 1960)
• 1893 » Burleigh Grimes, American baseball player and manager († 1985)
• 1893 » Ernest MacMillan, Canadian conductor and composer († 1973)
• 1896 » Jack Pickford, Canadian-American actor and director († 1933)

• 1815 » Chauncey Goodrich, American lawyer and politician, 8th Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut (b. 1759)
• 1823 » André-Jacques Garnerin, French balloonist and the inventor of the frameless parachute (b. 1769)
• 1842 » Louis de Freycinet, French explorer and navigator (b. 1779)
• 1850 » Honoré de Balzac, French novelist and playwright (b. 1799)
• 1886 » Eli Whitney Blake, American inventor, invented the Mortise lock (b. 1795)
• 1919 » Joseph E. Seagram, Canadian businessman and politician, founded the Seagram Company (b. 1841)
• 1940 » Walter Chrysler, American businessman, founded Chrysler (b. 1875)
• 1943 » Ali-Agha Shikhlinski, Azerbaijani general (b. 1865)
• 1944 » Ernst Thälmann, German soldier and politician (b. 1886)
• 1945 » Subhas Chandra Bose, Indian activist and politician (b. 1897)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Hendrik
4. Cornelis
5. Pieter
6. Willem
7. Gerrit
8. Jacob
9. Petrus
10. Adrianus
11. Jacobus
12. Arie
13. Dirk
14. Wilhelmus
15. Gerardus
16. Klaas

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Catharina
7. Adriana
8. Hendrika
9. Wilhelmina
10. Grietje
11. Aaltje
12. Trijntje
13. Neeltje
14. Jacoba
15. Antje
16. Geertruida

• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from November 3, 1877 to August 20, 1879 the cabinet Kappeijne van de Coppello, with Mr. J. Kappeijne van de Coppello (liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
• January 9 » Umberto I becomes King of Italy.
• January 16 » Russo-Turkish War (1877–78): Battle of Philippopolis: Captain Aleksandr Burago with a squadron of Russian Imperial army dragoons liberates Plovdiv from Ottoman rule.
• February 19 » Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.
• June 10 » League of Prizren is established, to oppose the decisions of the Congress of Berlin and the Treaty of San Stefano, as a consequence of which the Albanian lands in the Balkans were being partitioned and given to the neighbor states of Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria, and Greece.
• July 13 » Treaty of Berlin: The European powers redraw the map of the Balkans. Serbia, Montenegro and Romania become completely independent of the Ottoman Empire.
• October 22 » The Bramall Lane stadium sees the first rugby match played under floodlights.

The temperature on August 18, 1878 was about 16.7 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 89%.