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• Anna (Johanna) Catharina Lauwers, Stoppeldijk († 1947)
• Adriana Rijnvos, Oudenbosch († 1880)
• Alida Lamberdina Fortuijn Harreman, De Lier, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1880)
• Albert van der Veen, Nieuwehorne († 1950)
• Anna Catharina Lauwers, Stoppeldijk († 1947)
• Abraham Jongens, Sloten († 1957)
• Amelia Charlotte Boltze
• Aaltje De Groot, Laren, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1878)
• Adrianus van Rijen, Ginneken en Bavel († 1954)
• Anna Weldink, Eschmarke (Lonneker) († 1964)

• Annechien Goedkoop (73), Nieuw Buinen, Borger, Drenthe, Nederland
• * Margaretha Wagensveld (0), De Bilt, Utrecht, NL
• Aalbert Minnekusse PLUGGE (71), Scheveningen, gemeente 's-Gravenhage (Z-H)
• Catherine Sarah Smoak (66), Colleton County, South Carolina, Verenigde Staten
• Aalbert Plugge (71), Scheveningen
• Antonia van Fulpen (14), Maarssen
• AALBERT PLUGGE (71), SCHEVENINGEN (GEMEENTE 'S-GRAVENHAGE)
• de Rooij, Oosterhout (N.B.)
• Cecila Maria Wihelmina Pauwels (2), 's-Gravenhage, ZH, Nederland
• Aaltien Meinds (35), Peize, Eelde, Drenthe, Nederland

• 1870 » Albert Jay Nock, American theorist, author, and critic († 1945)
• 1872 » Leon Leonwood Bean, American hunter, businessman, and author, founded L.L.Bean († 1967)
• 1873 » Georgios Kafantaris, Greek politician and Prime Minister of Greece († 1946)
• 1874 » József Klekl, Slovene-Hungarian priest and politician († 1948)
• 1876 » Rube Waddell, American baseball player († 1914)
• 1878 » Patrick Joseph Hartigan, Australian priest and author († 1952)
• 1879 » Edward Hennig, American gymnast († 1960)
• 1880 » Sasha Chorny, Russian poet and author († 1932)
• 1887 » Jozef Tiso, Slovak priest and politician, President of Slovakia († 1947)
• 1890 » Conrad Richter, American journalist and novelist († 1968)

• 1841 » Patrick Campbell, Scottish admiral (b. 1773)
• 1869 » Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, French poet, author, and critic (b. 1804)
• 1882 » Arthur de Gobineau, French philosopher and author (b. 1816)
• 1890 » Samuel Freeman Miller, American lawyer and jurist (b. 1816)
• 1904 » Pavlos Melas, French-Greek captain (b. 1870)
• 1905 » Henry Irving, English actor and manager (b. 1838)
• 1909 » Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia, Spanish philosopher and academic (b. 1849)
• 1911 » Sister Nivedita, Irish-Indian social worker, author, and educator (b. 1867)
• 1917 » Florence La Badie, American actress (b. 1888)
• 1919 » Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Danish author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1857)

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.
• February 21 » The first telephone directory is issued in New Haven, Connecticut.
• March 24 » The British frigate HMSEurydice sinks, killing more than 300.
• June 10 » League of Prizren is established, to oppose the decisions of the Congress of Berlin and the Treaty of San Stefano, as a consequence of which the Albanian lands in the Balkans were being partitioned and given to the neighbor states of Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria, and Greece.
• September 3 » Over 640 die when the crowded pleasure boat Princess Alice collides with the Bywell Castle in the River Thames.

The temperature on October 13, 1878 was about 15.0 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 68%.