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• Antje Hayes BLOM, Opeinde (Smallingerland) Friesland Netherlands († 1932)
• Anna Maria Albers, Großringe, Ringe, Landkreis Grafschaft Bentheim, Lower Saxony, Germany († 1959)
• * Jannigje van Genderen, Schoonrewoerd († 1966)
• Anna Catharina Kitzen, Echt († 1919)
• Antje Blom, Opeinde († 1932)
• Agnes Johanna Noordover (Noordoven), Wassenaar († 1948)
• Andrietta Christina de WITTE, Terneuzen (Zeeland) (NL) († 1940)
• Abraham Groeneveld, Zoetermeer, Zoetermeer, Zuid Holland, Nederland († 1945)
• Abraham Groeneveld, Zoetermeer, Zuid-Holland, Nederland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Delien, Goirle, Nederland († 1878)

• Antonetta van Doren (50), Someren
• Apolonia de Groot (15), Pijnacker
• Aleda van Loon (26), Kampen, Gemeente Kampen, Overijssel, Nederland
• Ploeger (0), Kalkwijk Hoogezand, Groningen, Nederland
• Arie van der Sluijs (0), Geervliet, Nederland
• Albert Bouwknegt (1), Sleen
• Antje de Groot (12), Nieuwe Pekela
• Arminia Friccus van Schilden (78), Wenen
• Antje Siegers Fokkema (55), Beetsterzwaag
• Antje Janssen Cordes (43), Grossefehn, Aurich D

• 1867 » Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Spanish journalist and author († 1928)
• 1870 » Süleyman Nazif, Turkish poet and civil servant († 1927)
• 1874 » John D. Rockefeller, Jr., American businessman and philanthropist († 1960)
• 1876 » Havergal Brian, English composer († 1972)
• 1877 » Georges Catroux, French general and diplomat († 1969)
• 1880 » W. C. Fields, American actor, comedian, and screenwriter († 1946)
• 1881 » Alice Catherine Evans, American microbiologist († 1975)
• 1884 » Juhan Aavik, Estonian-Swedish composer and conductor († 1982)
• 1888 » Sydney Chapman, English mathematician and geophysicist († 1970)
• 1888 » Wellington Koo, Chinese statesman († 1985)

• 1829 » István Pauli, Hungarian-Slovenian priest and poet (b. 1760)
• 1829 » Paul François Jean Nicolas, vicomte de Barras, French captain and politician (b. 1755)
• 1870 » Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1797)
• 1871 » Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé, Canadian author (b. 1786)
• 1888 » Edward Lear, English poet and illustrator (b. 1812)
• 1899 » Alfred Sisley, French-English painter (b. 1839)
• 1906 » Christian IX of Denmark (b. 1818)
• 1928 » Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, Scottish field marshal (b. 1861)
• 1931 » Henri Mathias Berthelot, French general during World War I (b. 1861)
• 1933 » Sara Teasdale, American poet (b. 1884)

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 21 » The first telephone directory is issued in New Haven, Connecticut.
• February 22 » In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of five-and-dime Woolworth stores.
• 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.
• December 18 » The Al-Thani family become the rulers of the state of Qatar.

The temperature on January 29, 1878 was about -2.4 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south east. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%.