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• Marinus Zwijnenburg, Bodegraven
• ALFONS - GERARD VANNESTE, Roeselare, 8800, Flandre occidentale, Belgique
• Johanna Dorothea Janssonius, Ameland († 1878)
• Aleijda Bloem, Didam († 1939)
• Alfred Reynolds, Wadena, Fayette, Iowa, Verenigde Staten († 1879)
• Amelia Maria Vrancken, Rillaar († 1881)
• (l.l.) Post, Zaandam († 1878)
• Anna Carolina Cornelia Petiet, Amsterdam
• Aleida Bloem, Didam, Gelderland, Nederland († 1939)
• Adrianus Jansz Wansem van der, Wassenaar

• Anna Maria Bovens (0), Urmond (Stein), Limburg, Nederland
• ABRAHAM VAN ECK (48), MIDDELHARNIS
• Alphonsus. Josephus Neve (0), Hontenisse (NL)
• Adelaide SCHNEBELE (84), Traubach-le-Haut (68210, Haut-Rhin, France)
• Akke Sacos Eekma (1), Ambt Vollenhove, Overijssel, Nederland
• Aafke Nagengast (4), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Anna de Vrieze (63), Balloo, Drenthe, Nederland
• Anna Cornelia Alkemade (0), Noordwijk, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Abraham van Eck (44), Middelharnis, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Anna Sigler (93), Middle Creek, Jefferson Twp Noble Co, OH

• 1864 » James F. Hinkle, American banker and politician, 6th Governor of New Mexico († 1951)
• 1874 » Charles Ives, American composer († 1954)
• 1882 » Bela Lugosi, Hungarian-American actor († 1956)
• 1882 » Margaret Dumont, American actress († 1965)
• 1885 » Jelly Roll Morton, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (Red Hot Peppers and New Orleans Rhythm Kings) († 1941)
• 1887 » Prince Yasuhiko Asaka of Japan († 1981)
• 1889 » Johann Gruber, Austrian priest and saint († 1944)
• 1890 » Aleksander Maaker, Estonian bagpipe player († 1968)
• 1891 » James Chadwick, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1974)
• 1891 » Samuel Flagg Bemis, American historian and author († 1973)

• 1865 » Champ Ferguson, American guerrilla leader (b. 1821)
• 1870 » Michael William Balfe, Irish violinist and composer (b. 1808)
• 1871 » Karl Christian Ulmann, Latvian-German theologian and academic (b. 1793)
• 1880 » Lydia Maria Child, American journalist, author, and activist (b. 1802)
• 1883 » George Chichester, 3rd Marquess of Donegall (b. 1797)
• 1890 » Richard Francis Burton, English-Italian geographer and explorer (b. 1821)
• 1894 » James Anthony Froude, English historian, novelist, biographer and editor (b. 1818)
• 1900 » Naim Frashëri, Albanian poet and translator (b. 1846)
• 1908 » Vaiben Louis Solomon, Australian politician, 21st Premier of South Australia (b. 1853)
• 1910 » David B. Hill, American lawyer and politician, 29th Governor of New York (b. 1843)

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.
• February 19 » Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.
• March 15 » Restoration of the Scottish Catholic hierarchy, broken off back in 1603.
• March 24 » The British frigate HMSEurydice sinks, killing more than 300.
• May 25 » Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore opens at the Opera Comique in London.
• 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.
• October 15 » The Edison Electric Light Company begins operation.

The temperature on October 20, 1878 was about 10.5 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 91%.