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• Aaltjen Klijn Velderman, Epse
• Anna Geertruida DE WINTER
• Aart Van Driel, Oud-Beijerland († 1951)
• Amy Miller, Launceston († 1939)
• Alida Truijda Elizabeth Schuurman, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Adriana Maria Okkerse, Woerden, UTR, Nederland († 1955)
• Ada Elizabeth Fleming, New Haven, KY, United States († 1905)
• Aaltjen Klein Velderman, Gorssel, Lochem, Gelderland, Nederland († 1953)
• Anna G. de Winter, Haarlem († 1946)
• van Tuyll, Rotterdam († 1878)

• Alexander Gelders (79), Hulsberg, Nederland
• Aletha Evalina Young (51)
• Amelia Vertriest (38)
• Arie Tijsterman (0), Nieuwkoop, ZH, Nederland
• Berend Land (0), Elburg
• Anna Maria Epskamp (0), Veenendaal, Veenendaal, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Annigje OOSTEROM (35), Ameide
• Anna Paulina Flohr (35), Karang-Anjer, Indonesië
• Andries Philip Coens (85), Sneek, Friesland, Nederland
• Aartje Blokland (37), Groot-Ammers, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1870 » Ivan Bunin, Russian author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate († 1953)
• 1873 » Gustaf John Ramstedt, Finnish linguist and diplomat († 1950)
• 1873 » Rama Tirtha, Indian philosopher and educator († 1906)
• 1875 » David van Embden, Dutch economist and politician († 1962)
• 1878 » Jaan Lattik, Estonian pastor and politician, 9th Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs († 1967)
• 1881 » Clinton Davisson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1958)
• 1881 » Karl Bernhard Zoeppritz, German geophysicist and seismologist († 1908)
• 1882 » Edmund Dulac, French-English illustrator († 1953)
• 1882 » N. C. Wyeth, American painter and illustrator († 1945)
• 1885 » Giovanni Martinelli, Italian tenor and actor († 1969)

• 1847 » Sahle Selassie, Ethiopian ruler (b. 1795)
• 1853 » Juan Antonio Lavalleja, Uruguayan general and politician, President of Uruguay (b. 1784)
• 1859 » Louis Spohr, German violinist and composer (b. 1784)
• 1883 » George Coulthard, Australian cricketer and footballer (b. 1856)
• 1883 » Thomas Mayne Reid, Irish-American soldier and author (b. 1818)
• 1885 » Lewis Majendie, English politician (b. 1835)
• 1891 » Ernst von Fleischl-Marxow, Austrian physiologist and physician (b. 1846)
• 1902 » Herman Adolfovich Trautschold, German geologist and paleontologist (b. 1817)
• 1906 » Paul Cézanne, French painter (b. 1839)
• 1914 » Konishiki Yasokichi I, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 17th Yokozuna (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 22 » In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of five-and-dime Woolworth stores.
• 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.
• 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 October 22, 1878 was about 12.0 °C. There was 4 mm of rain. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 95%.