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• Alberdina Brunius, Horsten, Onstwedde, Groningen, Netherlands
• Antje Lont, Wieringen († 1936)
• Antje Schuitemaker, Nrd-Scharwoude († 1879)
• Anthonia Margaretha Groen, Bunnik († 1956)
• Angeline Kwekkeboom, Wilson Township, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin
• Antje Lont, Wieringen († 1936)
• Alberdina Bruinius, Horsten († 1972)
• Anna Theodora de Wit, Den Helder († 1929)
• Adrian Kent Hamilton, New Jersey, Verenigde Staten († 1974)
• Aart Essenburg, Laketown, Allegan, Michigan, Verenigde Staten († 1955)

• Albertus van der Linden (56), Leiden
• Alle Kamminga (3), Gerkesklooster
• Adriaan van de Sande (47), Goirle, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aukje Duursma (45), Marum, Groningen, Nederland
• Arnoldus Johannes van Meurs (77), Brielle, South Holland, Netherlands
• Agatha Breed (24), Zwaag, Hoorn,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus van de Sande (47), Goirle, Gemeente Goirle
• Berend Heitink (30), Vorden (Delden)
• Adrianus KERS (25), Jaarsveld
• Bastiaan WEIJ (70), Schiedam

• 1873 » A. K. Fazlul Huq, Bangladeshi-Pakistani lawyer and politician, 5th Pakistani Minister of Interior († 1962)
• 1873 » Thorvald Stauning, Danish union leader and politician, 24th Prime Minister of Denmark († 1942)
• 1874 » Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, American philanthropist, founded the Museum of Modern Art († 1948)
• 1874 » Martin Lowry, English chemist and academic († 1936)
• 1875 » H.B. Warner, English actor († 1958)
• 1880 » Andrei Bely, Russian novelist, poet, and critic († 1934)
• 1881 » Louis Bastien, French cyclist and fencer († 1963)
• 1883 » Napoleon Hill, American philosopher and author († 1970)
• 1883 » Paul Pilgrim, American runner († 1958)
• 1884 » William Hogenson, American sprinter († 1965)

• 1864 » William T. Anderson, American captain (b. 1838)
• 1866 » John Kinder Labatt, Irish-Canadian brewer, founded the Labatt Brewing Company (b. 1803)
• 1871 » Robert Anderson (Civil War), American general (b. 1805)
• 1890 » Carlo Collodi, Italian journalist and author (b. 1826)
• 1896 » Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour, French philosopher, academic, and politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1827)
• 1902 » Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American activist (b. 1815)
• 1909 » Itō Hirobumi, Japanese samurai and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1841)
• 1919 » Akashi Motojiro, Japanese general (b. 1864)
• 1927 » Jūkichi Yagi, Japanese poet (b. 1898)
• 1929 » Swan Hennessy, Irish-American composer (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.
• February 19 » Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.
• February 21 » The first telephone directory is issued in New Haven, Connecticut.
• February 22 » In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of five-and-dime Woolworth stores.
• May 25 » Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore opens at the Opera Comique in London.
• 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 26, 1878 was about 8.4 °C. There was 4 mm of rain. The air pressure was 15 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%.