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• (Stillborn) PIETERMAN, Uithuizermeeden Groningen Netherlands († 1878)
• Agnes Maria Cornelia van der Lee, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1936)
• Aalt Loogen, Harderwijk,Gelderland,Nederland
• Spin, Onna
• Albertus Dierink, Ambt, Almelo († 1963)
• Adrianus de Wit, 's-Grevelduin-Capelle († 1952)
• Anje Busz, Spijk (gem. Eemsdelta) († 1966)
• Anthonij Smorenburg, Amersfoort († 1947)
• Anna Cornelia Bergman, Velsen († 1880)
• Anthonia Otsen, Zwaag, Hoorn,, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1878)

• Aaltje Padding (7), Het Schut, Hoogeveen
• ABRAHAM VAN DER KRAAN (84), Bleiswijk
• Anna Maria Leenders (76), Oostende (B)
• Anna Maria Elisabeth Boissevain (0), Amsterdam
• Anna Gertrudis Reinders (75), Nieuwenhagen, Landgraaf
• Anke Yntes Schuursma (68), Hemelumer Oldeferd, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Proost (72), Lier
• Anton_Christiaan_Eduard Remij (30), Soerabaja, Ned.-Indie
• (Stillborn) PIETERMAN (0), Uithuizermeeden Groningen Netherlands
• Alida Janse van KOUWENHOVEN (75), Scheveningen, gemeente 's-Gravenhage (Z-H)

• 1875 » Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor, Turkish-Canadian journalist († 1966)
• 1877 » Joe Adams, American baseball player and manager († 1952)
• 1879 » Channing H. Cox, American lawyer and politician, 49th Governor of Massachusetts († 1968)
• 1880 » Billy Wedlock, English footballer († 1965)
• 1880 » Wilhelm Anderson, Belarusian-Estonian astrophysicist and astronomer († 1940)
• 1881 » Vin Coutie, Australian footballer († 1951)
• 1884 » William Douglas Cook, New Zealand horticulturalist, founded Eastwoodhill Arboretum († 1967)
• 1885 » Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian poet and playwright († 1922)
• 1886 » Noel Macklin, English soldier and engineer († 1946)
• 1888 » Christopher Vane, 10th Baron Barnard, English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Durham († 1964)

• 1841 » Johan August Arfwedson, Swedish chemist and academic (b. 1792)
• 1857 » Louis-Eugène Cavaignac, French general and politician, 26th Prime Minister of France (b. 1802)
• 1877 » Robert Swinhoe, English ornithologist and entomologist (b. 1835)
• 1879 » Marie Roch Louis Reybaud, French economist and politician (b. 1799)
• 1899 » Ottmar Mergenthaler, German-American engineer, invented the Linotype machine (b. 1854)
• 1900 » Max Müller, German philologist and orientalist (b. 1823)
• 1914 » Richard Heuberger, Austrian composer and critic (b. 1850)
• 1916 » Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist and academic (b. 1838)
• 1916 » Oswald Boelcke, German WWI flying ace (b. 1891)
• 1917 » Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein (b. 1831)

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.
• March 3 » The Russo-Turkish War ends with Bulgaria regaining its independence from the Ottoman Empire according to the Treaty of San Stefano.
• 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.
• 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.
• October 22 » The Bramall Lane stadium sees the first rugby match played under floodlights.

The temperature on October 28, 1878 was about 6.1 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 86%.