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• Anna Catharina Ummenthum, Belfeld
• Amandine VAN BELLE, Geraardsbergen, 41018, Oost-Vlaanderen, België
• Aart de Zwaan, Amsterdam
• Andries Smid, Valthermond Odoorn († 1967)
• Alberto Castelo, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil
• anna catharina ummenthum, belfeld († 1955)
• Alida Hendrica Otterlo, van, Utrecht († 1961)
• Aaltje KLIP, Ameland, Friesland, Nederland
• Adriana Overman, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1964)
• Aart Bregman, Warmenhuizen († 1884)

• Adriana Peters (67), Borkel en Schaft
• Aaltje de Weijer (57), Ochten (Echteld)
• Agnes Lowry (34), Kamas, Summit, Utah, Verenigde Staten
• Klep, Breda
• Aaltje Weijers (57), Ochten
• Anna Augustinus (0), Noordwijk
• *Maria van Wijck (1), Hoek, Zeeland, Nederland
• Aaltje Douwes FRANSSENS (7), Ezinge, Groningen, Nederland
• Albertien Luichiens Dilling (78), Assen
• Aleida Weibring (57), Haldern, Kleve, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

• 1858 » Mikimoto Kōkichi, Japanese businessman († 1954)
• 1860 » Charles Curtis, American lawyer and politician, 31st Vice President of the United States († 1936)
• 1864 » Julije Kempf, Croatian historian and author († 1934)
• 1868 » Juventino Rosas, Mexican violinist and composer († 1894)
• 1874 » W. Somerset Maugham, British playwright, novelist, and short story writer († 1965)
• 1878 » Ernst Alexanderson, Swedish-American engineer († 1975)
• 1882 » Virginia Woolf, English novelist, essayist, short story writer, and critic († 1941)
• 1885 » Kitahara Hakushū, Japanese poet and author († 1942)
• 1886 » Wilhelm Furtwängler, German conductor and composer († 1954)
• 1895 » Florence Mills, American singer, dancer, and actress († 1927)

• 1852 » Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Russian admiral, cartographer, and explorer (b. 1778)
• 1872 » Richard S. Ewell, American general (b. 1817)
• 1881 » Konstantin Thon, Russian architect, designed the Grand Kremlin Palace and Cathedral of Christ the Saviour (b. 1794)
• 1884 » Périclès Pantazis, Greek-Belgian painter (b. 1849)
• 1891 » Theo van Gogh, Art dealer, the brother of Vincent van Gogh (b. 1857)
• 1900 » Princess Adelheid of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, German Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein (b. 1835)
• 1907 » René Pottier, French cyclist (b. 1879)
• 1908 » Mikhail Chigorin, Russian chess player and theoretician (b. 1850)
• 1908 » Ouida, English-Italian author (b. 1839)
• 1910 » W. G. Read Mullan, American Jesuit and academic (1860)

• 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 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 22 » In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of five-and-dime Woolworth stores.
• May 14 » The last witchcraft trial held in the United States begins in Salem, Massachusetts, after Lucretia Brown, an adherent of Christian Science, accused Daniel Spofford of attempting to harm her through his mental powers.
• 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 25, 1878 was about 1.3 °C. There was 4 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 92%.