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• Adrianus de Ruijter, Willeskop, Utrecht, Nederland
• Adrianus Scheepers, Oud en Nieuw Gastel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1955)
• Adrianus de Visser, Putten († 1879)
• Aafje de Boer, Volendam († 1959)
• Aaltje Gorter, Opperdoes, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1909)
• Adrianus van den Brom, Den Helder († 1952)
• Albert Barten, Nrd-Scharwoude
• Aletta Cornelia Wouters, Hilversum, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1947)
• Adrianus Oskam, Jaarsveld († 1878)
• Aaltje Pieters Pikstra, Oldekerk († 1950)

• Abigael Meijer Verdoner (62), Amsterdam
• Adriana Catharina Teeler (0), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Anna Maria Catharina Keuss (77), Alkmaar
• Anna Maria Catharina Hubertina Cranssen (23), Stevensweert
• Abigaël, Meijer Verdooner (62), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Arend Sybolts (Sybouts) van der Bijl (68), Klooster Anjum, Menaldumadeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Antonia Johanna van Dieren Bijvoet (51), Utrecht,Gemeente Utrecht,Utrecht,Netherlands
• ALBERTA HENDRINA ANTONIS BOSCH (2), Nijmegen, Nederland
• Anna Jacoba van Hekke (56), Zierikzee
• Aaltjen Uelderink (77), Brucht (O)

• 1871 » Stephen Crane, American poet, novelist, and short story writer († 1900)
• 1872 » Louis Dewis, Belgian-French painter († 1946)
• 1877 » Roger Quilter, English composer († 1953)
• 1878 » Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentinian academic and politician, Nobel Prize laureate († 1959)
• 1878 » Konrad Mägi, Estonian painter and educator († 1925)
• 1880 » Alfred Wegener, German meteorologist and geophysicist († 1930)
• 1880 » Grantland Rice, American journalist and poet († 1954)
• 1880 » Sholem Asch, Polish-American author and playwright († 1957)
• 1881 » Perikles Ioannidis, Greek admiral († 1965)
• 1886 » Hermann Broch, Austrian-American author and poet († 1951)

• 1814 » Alexander Samoylov, Russian general and politician, Russian Minister of Justice (b. 1744)
• 1888 » Nikolay Przhevalsky, Russian geographer and explorer (b. 1838)
• 1894 » Alexander III of Russia (b. 1845)
• 1903 » Theodor Mommsen, German archaeologist, journalist, and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1817)
• 1907 » Alfred Jarry, French author and playwright (b. 1873)
• 1925 » Max Linder, French actor, director, screenwriter, producer and comedian (b. 1883)
• 1938 » Charles Weeghman, American businessman (b. 1874)
• 1942 » Hugo Distler, German organist, composer, and conductor (b. 1908)
• 1952 » Dixie Lee, American singer (b. 1911)
• 1955 » Dale Carnegie, American author and educator (b. 1888)

• 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.
• 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.
• June 15 » Eadweard Muybridge takes a series of photographs to prove that all four feet of a horse leave the ground when it runs; the study becomes the basis of motion pictures.
• 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.
• September 3 » Over 640 die when the crowded pleasure boat Princess Alice collides with the Bywell Castle in the River Thames.
• December 18 » The Al-Thani family become the rulers of the state of Qatar.
• 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 November 1, 1878 was about 4.0 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%.