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• Adolfina Mechtelina Westerhuis, Deventer
• Vromans, Tilburg († 1878)
• Ankje Jans Wilkeshuis, Marrum, Ferwerderadeel, Friesland, Nederland († 1933)
• "Christian" Johann Leopold Maria von Thun und Hohenstein, Benátky nad Jizerou / Benatek, Tchéquie († 1970)
• adriana maria de wit, kouderkerk aan den rijn
• Anje KLOK, Veendam Groningen Netherlands († 1878)
• Albertina Dias de Toledo, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil
• Kenniphaas, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1878)
• Adriana Maria De Wit, Koudekerk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1916)
• Anna Maria Wilhelmina Corver, Assendelft NH NL

• Vromans (0), Tilburg
• Agnes (Child) POWLES (8), Whittington, Staffordshire
• Annie Lasater **** (72), Bedford, Tennessee, Verenigde Staten
• Adriana Klop (26), Hellevoetsluis
• Antonius van Drunen (68), Berkel-Enschot, Nederland
• Aaltje Aarts (0), Oldeboorn, gem. Utingeradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Sophia Moorman (0), Middelburg, Nederland
• de Jong (0), Alkemade
• Alida van Wees (21), Rotterdam
• Antonius van der Steen (0), Sint-Michielsgestel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1870 » Guillaume Lekeu, Belgian pianist and composer († 1894)
• 1873 » Johannes V. Jensen, Danish author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate († 1950)
• 1874 » Steve Bloomer, English footballer and coach († 1938)
• 1876 » Josef Hofmann, Polish-American pianist and composer († 1957)
• 1878 » Finlay Currie, Scottish-English actor († 1968)
• 1879 » Ruth St. Denis, American dancer and educator († 1968)
• 1880 » Walter W. Bacon, American accountant and politician, 60th Governor of Delaware († 1962)
• 1882 » Johnny Torrio, Italian-American mob boss († 1957)
• 1883 » Enoch L. Johnson, American mob boss († 1968)
• 1883 » Forrest Wilson, American journalist and author († 1942)

• 1848 » Christian VIII, Danish king (b. 1786)
• 1850 » Adam Oehlenschläger, Danish poet and playwright (b. 1779)
• 1852 » Ōnomatsu Midorinosuke, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 6th Yokozuna (b. 1794)
• 1873 » Basil Moreau, French priest, founded the Congregation of Holy Cross (b. 1799)
• 1875 » Jean-François Millet, French painter and educator (b. 1814)
• 1891 » Kalākaua, king of Hawaii (b. 1836)
• 1900 » John Ruskin, English painter and critic (b. 1819)
• 1901 » Zénobe Gramme, Belgian engineer, invented the Gramme machine (b. 1826)
• 1907 » Agnes Mary Clerke, Irish astronomer and author (b. 1842)
• 1908 » John Ordronaux, American surgeon and academic (b. 1830)

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 4 » Russo-Turkish War (1877–78): Sofia is liberated from Ottoman rule and designated the capital of Liberated Bulgaria.
• January 28 » Yale Daily News becomes the first independent daily college newspaper in the United States.
• February 22 » In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of five-and-dime Woolworth stores.
• 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 3 » Over 640 die when the crowded pleasure boat Princess Alice collides with the Bywell Castle in the River Thames.
• 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 20, 1878 was about 3.6 °C. The air pressure was 14 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 85%.