About the day » Saturday October 19, 1878Calender converter

• Aaltje de Graaf, Wijk-Aalburg, NB, Nederland
• ALBERT NUST, VEENDAM († 1955)
• Anne Kussendrager, Drachten, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Maria van de Wal, Oirschot († 1968)
• Abraham Hofkes, Leiden,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1878)
• Anna Henriette Meermans († 1928)
• Aleida Berendina Hoornenberg, Winterswijk
• Adriana Vermeijden, Delfshaven
• Abraham Hofkes, Leiden († 1878)
• Agnes Bothmer, Kerkrade (L

• Arent Roelofs ter Steege (77), Hoogeveen, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Arend Roelofs ter Stege (77), Hoogeveen
• Adriana Verhoef (69), Everdingen, Utrecht, Nederland
• Arent Roelofs ter Steeg (77), Kleine Kerksteeg
• Anna de Hullu (79), Zuidzande, Zeeland, Nederland
• Arend Roelofs TER STEGE (TER STEEGE, TER STEEG) (77), Kleine Kerksteeg (Hoogeveen), Drenthe, Nederland
• Anna Maria Ahrens- (0), Doniawerstal, Nederland
• Anna Maria Bernardina Bonger (28), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Arent Roelofs (Stege) ter Steege (77), Kleine Kerksteeg, Hoogeveen
• Alida van Horssen (75), Rotterdam

• 1862 » Auguste Lumière, French director and producer († 1954)
• 1868 » Bertha Knight Landes, American academic and politician, Mayor of Seattle († 1943)
• 1873 » Bart King, American cricketer († 1965)
• 1873 » Jaap Eden, Dutch speed skater and cyclist († 1925)
• 1876 » Mihkel Pung, Estonian lawyer and politician, 11th Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs († 1941)
• 1876 » Mordecai Brown, American baseball player, coach, and manager († 1945)
• 1879 » Emma Bell Miles, American writer, poet, and artist († 1919)
• 1882 » Umberto Boccioni, Italian painter and sculptor († 1916)
• 1885 » Charles E. Merrill, American banker and philanthropist, co-founded Merrill Lynch Wealth Management († 1956)
• 1895 » Frank Durbin, American soldier († 1999)

• 1842 » Aleksey Koltsov, Russian poet and author (b. 1808)
• 1851 » Marie Thérèse of France (b. 1778)
• 1856 » William Sprague III, American businessman and politician, 14th Governor of Rhode Island (b. 1799)
• 1889 » Luís I of Portugal (b. 1838)
• 1897 » George Pullman, American engineer and businessman, founded the Pullman Company (b. 1831)
• 1901 » Carl Frederik Tietgen, Danish businessman and philanthropist, founded GN Store Nord (b. 1829)
• 1905 » Virgil Earp, American marshal (b. 1843)
• 1916 » Ioannis Frangoudis, Greek general and target shooter (b. 1863)
• 1918 » Harold Lockwood, American actor (b. 1887)
• 1924 » Louis Zborowski, English race car driver and engineer (b. 1895)

• 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 19 » Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.
• 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.
• July 13 » Treaty of Berlin: The European powers redraw the map of the Balkans. Serbia, Montenegro and Romania become completely independent of the Ottoman Empire.
• 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 18 » The Al-Thani family become the rulers of the state of Qatar.

The temperature on October 19, 1878 was about 11.0 °C. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 91%.