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• Alberdina (2) van Huis, Warfhuizen gem. Leens, Groningen, Holanda
• Aaltje Onnoosd Wolthuis, Wehe, gr.nld († 1953)
• Alberdina van Huis, Warfhuizen, Leens, Groningen, Nederland
• Adriana Margaretha van den Bosch, Standdaarbuiten, Nederland
• Adriana-3 de Klerk, Nieuw en Sint Joosland (Walcheren, ZL) NL († 1949)
• Albertus Johannes Franciscus Van Der Most, Avereest, Nederland († 1971)
• Aafje Middelburg, 's-Gravenzande († 1878)
• Adrian Kunst, Grand Rapids, Michigan, Verenigde Staten († 1950)
• Adrianus Hendrikus Willem Rijksen, Kesteren († 1949)
• Adrianus Joris Klomp, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• Alexandrine Augustine BERRIER (13), Entrains-sur-Nohain (58-Nièvre), France
• Adriaan Abraham van der Plank (0), Vlaardingen
• Lage (0), Drouwen, Drenthe, Netherlands
• Albertus van der Knaap (1), Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Cornelia Ceulemans (72), 's-Gravenwezel
• Adrianus Witjes (34), Schalkwijk, Utrecht, NL
• Anna Catharina Katrina Colmer, Kollmer (68), De Maten
• van der Kolk (0), Rheden, Gelderland, Nederland
• Amelia Calon (28), Biervliet
• Anna Catharina - Katrina Kollmer (68), De Maten, Westerwolde, Groningen, Nederland

• 1859 » Tony Mullane, Irish-American baseball player and manager († 1944)
• 1861 » Charles Martin Loeffler, German-American violinist and composer († 1935)
• 1862 » Walter Damrosch, German-American conductor and composer († 1950)
• 1866 » Gelett Burgess, American author, poet, and critic († 1951)
• 1878 » Anton Hansen Tammsaare, Estonian author († 1940)
• 1882 » Franklin D. Roosevelt, American lawyer and politician, 32nd President of the United States († 1945)
• 1889 » Jaishankar Prasad, Indian poet and playwright († 1937)
• 1899 » Max Theiler, South African-American virologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1972)
• 1900 » Martita Hunt, Argentine-born British actress († 1969)
• 1901 » Rudolf Caracciola, German race car driver († 1959)

• 1836 » Betsy Ross, American seamstress, said to have designed the American Flag (b. 1752)
• 1838 » Osceola, American tribal leader (b. 1804)
• 1858 » Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Dutch zoologist and ornithologist (b. 1778)
• 1867 » Emperor Kōmei of Japan (b. 1831)
• 1869 » William Carleton, Irish author (b. 1794)
• 1881 » Arthur O'Shaughnessy, English poet and herpetologist (b. 1844)
• 1889 » Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, heir apparent to the throne of Austria-Hungary (b. 1858)
• 1926 » Barbara La Marr, American actress (b. 1896)
• 1928 » Johannes Fibiger, Danish physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867)
• 1929 » La Goulue, French model and dancer (b. 1866)

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.
• February 18 » John Tunstall is murdered by outlaw Jesse Evans, sparking the Lincoln County War in Lincoln County, New Mexico.
• 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.
• September 3 » Over 640 die when the crowded pleasure boat Princess Alice collides with the Bywell Castle in the River Thames.
• November 17 » First assassination attempt against Umberto I of Italy by anarchist Giovanni Passannante, who was armed with a dagger. The King survived with a slight wound in an arm. Prime Minister Benedetto Cairoli blocked the aggressor, receiving an injury in a leg.
• 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 30, 1878 was about -1.5 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%.