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• Adriaantje Markus, Fijnaart, Moerdijk, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands († 1958)
• Elbers, Loon op Zand
• Adriaantje Markus, Fijnaart en Heijningen
• Jan de Wit, Harlingen († 1895)
• ADOLF WERNIK, HAARLEM († 1940)
• Aafje Keij, Zouterwoude Nederland
• Adriana Philomena de Krom, Bergen op Zoom (NL) († 1952)
• Agatha Johanna SCHEEPBOUWER, 's-Gravenhage
• Albert Bokhove, Almelo
• Albert Adolfs SCHAAP, Warfhuizen Groningen Netherlands († 1959)

• Anna Gertruijda van de Graaf (39), Mierlo
• Anna Maria Fleuren (50), Broekhuizen, Limburg, Nederland
• Anna Maria Peletier (92), Zaltbommel,Gelderland,Nederland
• Aaltje BISSCHOP (61), Usquert, Groningen, Nederland
• Alberdina Jansd van Raalte (41), Epe, ge.nld
• Anna Geertruida Pasteur (57), 's Gravenhage
• Anje Rijpkes BUIKEMA (77), Winsum Groningen Netherlands
• Anna Geertruijda DE GRAAF, Mierlo, North-Brabant, Netherlands
• Anna Gortemaker (39), Peize
• Agnes Maria Schmitz (3), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1866 » John Cady, American golfer († 1933)
• 1877 » Kees van Dongen, Dutch painter († 1968)
• 1878 » Dave Nourse, English-South African cricketer and coach († 1948)
• 1880 » Douglas MacArthur, American general, Medal of Honor recipient († 1964)
• 1885 » Harry Ricardo, English engineer and academic († 1974)
• 1885 » Michael Considine, Irish-Australian politician († 1959)
• 1885 » Per Thorén, Swedish figure skater († 1962)
• 1887 » Dimitris Pikionis, Greek architect and academic († 1968)
• 1887 » François Faber, French-Luxembourgian cyclist († 1915)
• 1887 » Marc Mitscher, American admiral and pilot († 1947)

• 1860 » Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient, opera singer (b. 1804)
• 1869 » Duncan Gordon Boyes, English soldier; Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1846)
• 1870 » Victor de Broglie, French politician, 9th Prime Minister of France (b. 1785)
• 1885 » Charles George Gordon, English general and politician (b. 1833)
• 1885 » Edward Davy, English-Australian physician and engineer (b. 1806)
• 1886 » David Rice Atchison, American general and politician (b. 1807)
• 1887 » Anandi Gopal Joshi, One of the first female Indian physicians (b. 1865)
• 1891 » Nicolaus Otto, German engineer, invented the Internal combustion engine (b. 1833)
• 1893 » Abner Doubleday, American general (b. 1819)
• 1895 » Arthur Cayley, English mathematician and academic (b. 1825)

• 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 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.
• 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.
• October 22 » The Bramall Lane stadium sees the first rugby match played under floodlights.

The temperature on January 26, 1878 was about 3.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 86%.