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• Adriana de Leeuw, Oosterhout († 1878)
• Adrianus Monster, Mijnsheerenland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland, Nederland († 1878)
• Alletta Henriette Giesbertz, Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland († 1931)
• Alarico Silveira, Brasil († 1943)
• Adriana Cornelia Lekkerkerker, Rietveld († 1953)
• Albertus van Reden, Gouda, Nederland († 1954)
• Aletta Henriette Giesbertz, Nijmegen († 1931)
• (n.n.) van Brakel, Huissen († 1878)
• Andries Blaauw, Spitsbergen (Sappemeer)
• Akke Tjitzes Kleefstra, Grouw, Idaarderadeel, Friesland, Nederland († 1878)

• Anna Catharina Moors (12), Echt (Berkelaar)
• Annigje Harms Veldman (75), Beilen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Anna Maria Wolf (0), Goes, Zeeland, Nederland
• (n.n.) van Brakel (0), Huissen
• Alice Orton DNA\A (65), Fleming, Cayuga County, New York, United States of America
• Arie Alders (0), Rotterdam
• Arij Ariensz. Melief (89), Delft
• Adriaan Hendrikse (0), Vlissingen, Walcheren, NL
• Albert Moesker (75), Slochteren, Groningen, Nederland
• Antonius Sweegers (67), Anderlech

• 1868 » Cai Yuanpei, Chinese philosopher, academic, and politician († 1940)
• 1870 » Alexander Stirling Calder, American sculptor and educator († 1945)
• 1872 » G. W. Pierce, American physicist and academic († 1956)
• 1873 » John Callan O'Laughlin, American soldier and journalist († 1949)
• 1875 » Reinhold Glière, Russian composer and academic († 1956)
• 1876 » Elmer Flick, American baseball player († 1971)
• 1876 » Thomas Hicks, American runner († 1952)
• 1878 » Theodoros Pangalos, Greek general and politician, President of Greece († 1952)
• 1885 » Alice Paul, American activist and suffragist († 1977)
• 1887 » Aldo Leopold, American ecologist and author († 1948)

• 1836 » John Molson, Canadian businessman, founded the Molson Brewing Company (b. 1763)
• 1843 » Francis Scott Key, American lawyer, author, and songwriter (b. 1779)
• 1866 » Gustavus Vaughan Brooke, Irish actor (b. 1818)
• 1866 » John Woolley, English minister and academic (b. 1816)
• 1867 » Stuart Donaldson, English-Australian businessman and politician, 1st Premier of New South Wales (b. 1812)
• 1882 » Theodor Schwann, German physiologist and biologist (b. 1810)
• 1891 » Georges-Eugène Haussmann, French urban planner (b. 1809)
• 1902 » Johnny Briggs, English cricketer and rugby player (b. 1862)
• 1904 » William Sawyer, Canadian merchant and politician (b. 1815)
• 1914 » Carl Jacobsen, Danish brewer and philanthropist (b. 1842)

• 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 28 » Yale Daily News becomes the first independent daily college newspaper in the United States.
• May 25 » Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore opens at the Opera Comique in London.
• 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.
• December 18 » The Al-Thani family become the rulers of the state of Qatar.
• 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 11, 1878 was about -4.0 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northeast. The airpressure was 78 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 91%.