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• -levenloos kind- Hartholt, Haule, Nederland († 1878)
• Andries de Geus, 's-Gravendeel, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1931)
• Alida Christina Brons, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1955)
• Alois Bosmans, Heist-op-den Berg (B) († 1957)
• Adrianus Streefkerk, Charlois († 1879)
• Alzira Pacheco, São Carlos, São Paulo, Brasil
• "Jkvr". Magdalena BEELAERTS VAN BLOKLAND, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1969)
• Adrianus Huijbregts, Princenhage († 1953)
• Adrianus Christiaan van der Heiden, Tiel, Gelderland, Nederland
• Albert Flokstra, Sonnega, Weststellingwerf, Friesland, Netherlands († 1951)

• Antje Bareman (0), Schoorl, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Annigje IJdens (4), Dalen,Drenthe,Niederlande,Dalerveen
• Bernd (Berend) Broekmans (82), Winterswijk
• Adrianus Johannes van Gestel (0), Hedikhuizen
• Anna Carolina Margaretha van den TOORN (34), Rotterdam
• Alijda Jekel (35), Weesp, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Berrevoets (26), Noordgouwe
• Antoine Séraphin VIVIER (64), Péruwelz,, Hainaut, Belgique
• Catharina Voets (2), Nuland, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anneken Wossink (86), IJzevoorde (Doetinchem)

• 1873 » Herbert Roper Barrett, English tennis player († 1943)
• 1873 » Julius Martov, Russian politician († 1923)
• 1874 » Charles William Miller, Brazilian footballer and referee († 1953)
• 1876 » Walter Burley Griffin, American architect and urban planner, designed Canberra († 1937)
• 1877 » Alben W. Barkley, American lawyer and politician, 35th Vice President of the United States († 1956)
• 1877 » Kavasji Jamshedji Petigara, Indian police officer († 1941)
• 1879 » Wylie Cameron Grant, American tennis player († 1968)
• 1881 » Al Christie, Canadian-American director, producer, and screenwriter († 1951)
• 1882 » Nikolai Janson, Russian politician († 1938)
• 1884 » Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, Ukrainian-Israeli historian and politician, 2nd President of Israel († 1963)

• 1848 » William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1779)
• 1870 » Comte de Lautréamont, Uruguayan-French poet and author (b. 1846)
• 1885 » Nicolás Avellaneda, Argentinian journalist and politician, 8th President of Argentina (b. 1837)
• 1890 » August Belmont, German-American banker and politician, 16th United States Ambassador to the Netherlands (b. 1816)
• 1895 » Ludwik Teichmann, Polish anatomist (b. 1823)
• 1916 » Hiram Maxim, American-English engineer, invented the Maxim gun (b. 1840)
• 1920 » Alexandru Macedonski, Romanian author and poet (b. 1854)
• 1920 » Lado Aleksi-Meskhishvili, Georgian actor and director (b. 1857)
• 1922 » Erskine Childers, Irish soldier, journalist, and author (b. 1870)
• 1929 » Georges Clemenceau, French physician, publisher, and politician, 72nd Prime Minister of France (b. 1841)

• 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.
• March 3 » The Russo-Turkish War ends with Bulgaria regaining its independence from the Ottoman Empire according to the Treaty of San Stefano.
• March 15 » Restoration of the Scottish Catholic hierarchy, broken off back in 1603.
• 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 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.
• 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 24, 1878 was about 3.3 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 87%.