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• Albert Vink, Delft Zhl. NL († 1948)
• Aletta Anna Reiniera Ansingh, Amsterdam († 1939)
• Alexander van LOON, Antwerpen
• Adrianus Johannes van der Kuijl, Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1878)
• Aaltje Hylkes Zwart, Appelscha, 8426, Nederland († 1931)
• Anna Catharina Cramer, Sidoardjo (Soerabaya)
• Adriaan Jansen, Gilze en Rijen († 1964)
• ? ? († 1878)
• Adriana Ouwens, Ridderkerk, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Andrew Bakalyer, Tsjechoslowakije († 1975)

• Zandberg (Zandburg), Tietjerksteradeel
• Adriana Jansen (66), Wildervank
• Johannes Adrichem (60), Wijk aan Zee en Duin
• Adriaantje Adriana Gerrits de BRUIN (75), Hoogvliet, 6068, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Westerhof (57), Marum, Westerkwartier, Groningen, Nederland
• Aaltje Sietes Westerhoff (57), Niebert, Marum, Groningen, Nederland
• Aaltje Gierveld (1), Nijverdal (Hellendoorn)
• Adrianus VANLOMMEL (87), Geel
• Adrianus Van Lommel (87), Geel, België
• Adriana (Jans) Jansen (66), Wildervank, Groningen, Nederland

• 1873 » Algernon Maudslay, English sailor († 1948)
• 1873 » George Orton, Canadian runner and hurdler († 1958)
• 1873 » Jack O'Neill, Irish-American baseball player († 1935)
• 1875 » Issai Schur, German mathematician and academic († 1941)
• 1877 » Frederick Gardner Cottrell, American physical chemist, inventor and philanthropist († 1948)
• 1878 » John McLean, American hurdler, football player, and coach († 1955)
• 1880 » Manuel Azaña, Spanish jurist and politician, 7th President of Spain († 1940)
• 1883 » Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Russian journalist, author, and poet († 1945)
• 1883 » Francis X. Bushman, American actor, director, and screenwriter († 1966)
• 1887 » Robinson Jeffers, American poet and philosopher († 1962)

• 1843 » Dimitrie Macedonski, Greek-Romanian captain and politician (b. 1780)
• 1851 » Karl Freiherr von Müffling, Prussian field marshal (b. 1775)
• 1855 » Mary Russell Mitford, English author and playwright (b. 1787)
• 1862 » Samuel Colt, American engineer and businessman, founded Colt's Manufacturing Company (b. 1814)
• 1863 » Lyman Beecher, American minister and activist, co-founded the American Temperance Society (b. 1775)
• 1895 » Benjamin Godard, French violinist and composer (b. 1849)
• 1895 » Eli Whitney Blake, Jr., American chemist, physicist, and academic (b. 1836)
• 1901 » James Robert Dickson, English-Australian businessman and politician, 1st Australian Minister for Defence (b. 1832)
• 1904 » Jean-Léon Gérôme, French painter and sculptor (b. 1824)
• 1905 » Kārlis Baumanis, Latvian composer (b. 1835)

• 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.
• 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.
• May 25 » Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore opens at the Opera Comique in London.
• June 15 » Eadweard Muybridge takes a series of photographs to prove that all four feet of a horse leave the ground when it runs; the study becomes the basis of motion pictures.
• September 1 » Emma Nutt becomes the world's first female telephone operator when she is recruited by Alexander Graham Bell to the Boston Telephone Dispatch Company.
• December 31 » Karl Benz, working in Mannheim, Germany, filed for a patent on his first reliable two-stroke gas engine, and he was granted the patent in 1879.

The temperature on January 10, 1878 was about 1.3 °C. The air pressure was 10 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 76%.