About the day » Thursday January 17, 1878Calender converter

• "Auguste" Joseph de Lalive d'Epinay, Fribourg, Suisse
• Amelia Maud Brown, Beetaloo Valley, South Australia, Australia († 1955)
• Adrianus Elseviers, Oorderen († 1908)
• Adrianus SMALING, Ridderkerk
• "Ermolao" Alessandro Maria Adamo Pio Asinari († 1948)
• Albertine Elzes ter Borg, Onstwedde (gem. Stadskanaal) († 1956)
• Adriana Wilhelmina Maria van Es, Cuijk en Sint Agatha († 1940)
• Adrianus van der Donk, Berlicum, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1878)
• Albertus Jansen, Westervoort
• Adrianus Smaling, Ridderkerk († 1956)

• Adrianus Sprangers (3), Chaam
• Anna Margareta Smeets (80), Maastricht
• Anna de Koning (24), Werkendam
• Andries de Bakker (54), Hengstdijk, Hontenisse, Zeeland, Netherlands
• Adriana Maria van Tilburg (0), Diessen
• Anna Trijbits (2), Gouda, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Geertruida Jeurissen (63), Oss
• Adriana Maria van Tilburg, Diessen
• Anthonia van Hunnik (87), Ede, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adriana Janse van Gorsel (74), Tholen

• 1871 » David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty, English admiral († 1936)
• 1875 » Florencio Sánchez, Uruguayan journalist and playwright († 1910)
• 1876 » Frank Hague, American lawyer and politician, 30th Mayor of Jersey City († 1956)
• 1877 » Marie Zdeňka Baborová-Čiháková, Czech botanist and zoologist († 1937)
• 1877 » May Gibbs, English-Australian author and illustrator († 1969)
• 1880 » Mack Sennett, Canadian-American actor, director, and producer († 1960)
• 1881 » Antoni Łomnicki, Polish mathematician and academic († 1941)
• 1881 » Harry Price, English psychologist and author († 1948)
• 1882 » Noah Beery, Sr., American actor († 1946)
• 1883 » Compton Mackenzie, English-Scottish author, poet, and playwright († 1972)

• 1861 » Lola Montez, Irish actress and dancer (b. 1821)
• 1863 » Horace Vernet, French painter (b. 1789)
• 1869 » Alexander Dargomyzhsky, Russian composer (b. 1813)
• 1878 » Edward Shepherd Creasy, English historian and jurist (b. 1812)
• 1884 » Hermann Schlegel, German ornithologist and herpetologist (b. 1804)
• 1887 » William Giblin, Australian lawyer and politician, 13th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1840)
• 1888 » Big Bear, Canadian tribal chief (b. 1825)
• 1891 » George Bancroft, American historian and politician, 17th United States Secretary of the Navy (b. 1800)
• 1893 » Rutherford B. Hayes, American general, lawyer, and politician, 19th President of the United States (b. 1822)
• 1903 » Ignaz Wechselmann, Hungarian architect and philanthropist (b. 1828)

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 28 » Yale Daily News becomes the first independent daily college newspaper in the United States.
• February 18 » John Tunstall is murdered by outlaw Jesse Evans, sparking the Lincoln County War in Lincoln County, New Mexico.
• February 19 » Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.
• June 4 » Cyprus Convention: The Ottoman Empire cedes Cyprus to the United Kingdom but retains nominal title.
• September 3 » Over 640 die when the crowded pleasure boat Princess Alice collides with the Bywell Castle in the River Thames.
• October 22 » The Bramall Lane stadium sees the first rugby match played under floodlights.

The temperature on January 17, 1878 was about 5.7 °C. The air pressure was 6 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 87%.