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• Aaltje Gorter, Opperdoes († 1909)
• Alex Bush († 1909)
• Adrianus Klijn, Uithoorn († 1965)
• Wolf, Middelburg († 1878)
• Aletta Cornelia Wouters, Hilversum, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1947)
• Albert Fabian Justin, Rhode Island († 1928)
• Aaltje Gorter, Opperdoes, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1909)
• Albertus Lammert Bloem, Groningen
• Albert Barten, Noord-Scharwoude, Nederland († 1944)
• Adrianus Marinus Sermondt, Heusden

• Adriana II Heijstek (0), Emmikhoven
• ALBERTA HENDRINA ANTONIS BOSCH (2), Nijmegen, Nederland
• Adriana Heijstek (0), Emmikhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Abraham Stoel (9), Bloemendaal, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Dorothea Petronella Hartman (55), Olievenhoutfontein, Prince Albert, Western Cape, South Africa
• Angelique CHARLIER (73), Niel-bij-Sint-Truiden, Provincie Limburg, Flanders, Belgie
• Aaltjen Uelderink (77), Brucht (O)
• Anna Maria Catharina Hubertina Cranssen (23), Stevensweert
• Arend Sybolts Van Der Bijl (68), Menaldumadeel, Friesland, Netherlands
• Adrianus van de Coevering (0), Ammerzoden, Nederland

• 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)

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 18 » John Tunstall is murdered by outlaw Jesse Evans, sparking the Lincoln County War in Lincoln County, New Mexico.
• May 14 » The last witchcraft trial held in the United States begins in Salem, Massachusetts, after Lucretia Brown, an adherent of Christian Science, accused Daniel Spofford of attempting to harm her through his mental powers.
• 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 3 » Over 640 die when the crowded pleasure boat Princess Alice collides with the Bywell Castle in the River Thames.
• 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%.