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• Adriana van der Zwaan, Hazerswoude, Hazerswoude, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1880)
• Aagje de Ruiter, Oud-Alblas († 1904)
• Alo√Øse SAHM, Traubach-le-Bas (68210, Haut-Rhin, France) († 1960)
• Adriana Klara DEEGE, Rotterdam († 1970)
• Albertus Josephus Wagemans, Den Haag († 1882)
• Adriana van der Zwaan, Hazerswoude († 1880)
• Adrianus Johannes van Hooft, Zevenbergen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1879)
• Aaltjen Nijenhuis, Olst,Gemeente Olst-Wijhe, Overijssel, Nederland († 1918)
• Alfred Raoul Borkent, Den Haag
• Aaltjen Nijenhuis, Olst, Nederland († 1918)

• Agatha Maria van Olst (51), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Amedeus Huyben (0), Temse
• Adolf Frederik Riessenberg (45), Curaçao, Nederlandse Antillen
• Andries Gabes Bron (74), ,, Drogeham, Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Netherlands
• Anna Cathrine Pedersdatter Kobberø (57), Vrensted sogn, Børglum herred, Hjørring amt
• Adrianus Bleecke (0), Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Andries Gabes Bron (74), Drogeham, gem. Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Nederland
• Adrianus Robbe (34)
• Aldegonda Driessen (64), Horst, Limburg, Netherlands
• Pitstra, leeuwarden

• 1866 » Konishiki Yasokichi I, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 17th Yokozuna († 1914)
• 1866 » Sigbjørn Obstfelder, Norwegian poet and author († 1900)
• 1870 » Alexander Berkman, Lithuanian-American activist and author († 1936)
• 1870 » Joe Darling, Australian cricketer and politician († 1946)
• 1870 » Stanley Jackson, English cricketer and politician († 1947)
• 1876 » Olav Duun, Norwegian author and educator († 1939)
• 1877 » Sigfrid Karg-Elert, German composer and educator († 1933)
• 1878 » Gustav Radbruch, German lawyer and politician, German Minister of Justice († 1949)
• 1886 » Harold Nicolson, English author and politician († 1968)
• 1894 » Cecil M. Harden, American politician († 1984)

• 1859 » Yoshida Shōin, Japanese academic and politician (b. 1830)
• 1861 » Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire, French priest and activist (b. 1802)
• 1870 » Karel Jaromír Erben, Czech historian and poet (b. 1811)
• 1874 » Marià Fortuny, Spanish painter (b. 1838)
• 1881 » Ami Boué, German-Austrian geologist and ethnographer (b. 1794)
• 1899 » Garret Hobart, American lawyer and politician, 24th Vice President of the United States (b. 1844)
• 1907 » Harry Boyle, Australian cricketer (b. 1847)
• 1907 » Paula Modersohn-Becker, German painter (b. 1876)
• 1908 » Carl Friedrich Schmidt, German-Russian geologist and botanist (b. 1832)
• 1909 » Peder Severin Krøyer, Norwegian-Danish painter (b. 1851)

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.
• January 9 » Umberto I becomes King of Italy.
• July 1 » Canada joins the Universal Postal Union.
• October 15 » The Edison Electric Light Company begins operation.
• 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 21, 1878 was about -1.3 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 92%.