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• "Elena" María de los Dolores Luisa Francisca de Borbón, La Habana, Cuba († 1936)
• Alberdina ten BRINKE, Didam, Gelderland, Nederland († 1958)
• Albertus van Veggel, Lieshout, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Albert Hilbing, Steenwijksmoer († 1881)
• Albertus Brauns, Hoeselt, België († 1960)
• Agnes Lenaerts, Schimmert, Nuth
• Adrianus Gerardus Teunisse, Stompwijk, Nederland († 1908)
• Adriana Klazina Schellingerhout, Koudekerk, Nederland († 1949)
• Abraham Bertus Hulshoff Pol, Hengelo († 1939)
• Adrianus Simon KOOIJMAN, Oude-Tonge,, Pays-Bas († 1902)

• Antonij van den Wijgart (42), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Catharina Katarzyna Brejska (7), Pączewo, Starogard Gdański, Pomerania, Poland
• Anna Margaretha Smeenk (30), Warnsveld (Zutphen), Gelderland, Nederland
• Berend van der Kolk (84), Apeldoorn
• Anna Maria Versteegen (68), Venray
• Aaltje Dekker (0), Dwingeloo, Nederland
• Abraham Jilink (69), Kampen
• Antonia Schonenberg (40), Appeltern, West Maas en Waal, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aaltjen Jannes Morre (78), Vollenhove, Stad
• Arend Jan Kers (0)

• 1870 » Clark Wissler, American anthropologist, author, and educator († 1947)
• 1872 » Adolf Schmal, Austrian fencer and cyclist († 1919)
• 1872 » Carl Friedberg, German-Italian pianist and educator († 1955)
• 1875 » Tomás Burgos, Chilean philanthropist († 1945)
• 1876 » James Scullin, Australian journalist and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Australia († 1953)
• 1878 » James O. Richardson, American admiral († 1974)
• 1883 » Gerald Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th Baron Berners, English composer, painter, and author († 1950)
• 1885 » Uzeyir Hajibeyov, Azerbaijani composer, conductor, and playwright († 1948)
• 1888 » Grey Owl, English-Canadian environmentalist and author († 1938)
• 1888 » Toni Wolff, Swiss psychologist and author († 1953)

• 1857 » Karol Kurpiński, Polish composer and conductor (b. 1785)
• 1860 » Joseph Locke, English engineer and politician (b. 1805)
• 1872 » Charles XV of Sweden (b. 1826)
• 1890 » Dion Boucicault, Irish-American actor and playwright (b. 1820)
• 1896 » Hippolyte Fizeau, French physicist and academic (b. 1819)
• 1905 » George MacDonald, Scottish minister, author, and poet (b. 1824)
• 1909 » Grigore Tocilescu, Romanian archaeologist and historian (b. 1850)
• 1911 » Pyotr Stolypin, Russian lawyer and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Russia (b. 1862)
• 1915 » Susan La Flesche Picotte, doctor, teacher, and social reformer, first Native American to earn a medical degree
• 1924 » F. H. Bradley, English philosopher and author (b. 1846)

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 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 21 » The first telephone directory is issued in New Haven, Connecticut.
• February 22 » In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of five-and-dime Woolworth stores.
• March 15 » Restoration of the Scottish Catholic hierarchy, broken off back in 1603.
• 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.

The temperature on September 18, 1878 was about 15.5 °C. There was 5 mm of rain. The air pressure was 13 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%.