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• Adriana Maria Hendrikx, Goirle († 1942)
• Alberdina Damming, Culemborg († 1943)
• Adrianus van Run, Boxtel († 1955)
• Albert Mamlock, Poznan, Wlkp., Poland
• Abram van Lambaart, Delfshaven († 1930)
• Albertus Hermanus Stüte, Harderwijk († 1958)
• Agatha Maria Blom, Zevenhoven
• Abraham van Gelder, Aalten, Gelderland, Nederland († 1944)
• Adriaan Goedbloed, Serooskerke (W) († 1963)
• Aafke de Vries, Grijpskerk, Groningen, Nederland

• Adriaan Vader (7), Sint Laurens, Zeeland, NL
• Andrea Helena Lens (56), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Abraham Thierry van Casteel (35), Tokyo,,Tky,Japan
• Anna Gertrudis Kardinaal (48), Stevensweert, Limburg, Nederland
• Bosma (0), Joure, Skarsterl-N, Friesland, Netherlands
• Aaltje Prins (29), Oostknollendam
• Aleida Alberdina ten Kate (0), Kampen, Overijssel, The Netherlands
• Antje Stuivenwold (0), Twijzel, gem. Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Nederland
• Antonette Wilhelmina Maria Naber (1), Groningen
• Aaltje Altink (34), Rijssen

• 1873 » Otfrid Foerster, German neurologist and surgeon († 1941)
• 1874 » Albert Francis Blakeslee, American botanist and academic († 1954)
• 1877 » Enrico De Nicola, Italian journalist, lawyer, and politician, 1st President of the Italian Republic († 1959)
• 1877 » Muhammad Iqbal, Pakistani philosopher, poet, and politician († 1938)
• 1878 » Ahn Changho, Korean activist and politician († 1938)
• 1879 » Jenő Bory, Hungarian architect and sculptor († 1959)
• 1879 » Milan Šufflay, Croatian historian and politician († 1931)
• 1879 » S. O. Davies, Welsh union leader and politician († 1972)
• 1880 » Giles Gilbert Scott, English architect, designed the red telephone box († 1960)
• 1883 » Edna May Oliver, American actress († 1942)

• 1848 » Robert Blum, German poet and politician (b. 1810)
• 1854 » Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, wife/widow of Alexander Hamilton and co-founder of the first private orphanage in New York (b. 1757)
• 1880 » Edwin Drake, American businessman (b. 1819)
• 1911 » Howard Pyle, American author and illustrator (b. 1853)
• 1918 » Guillaume Apollinaire, Italian-French author, poet, and playwright (b. 1880)
• 1918 » Peter Lumsden, English general (b. 1829)
• 1919 » Eduard Müller, Swiss lawyer and politician, 26th President of the Swiss Confederation (b. 1848)
• 1924 » Henry Cabot Lodge, American historian and politician (b. 1850)
• 1932 » Nadezhda Alliluyeva, second wife of Joseph Stalin (b. 1901)
• 1937 » Ramsay MacDonald, Scottish journalist and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1866)

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 16 » Russo-Turkish War (1877–78): Battle of Philippopolis: Captain Aleksandr Burago with a squadron of Russian Imperial army dragoons liberates Plovdiv from Ottoman rule.
• January 28 » Yale Daily News becomes the first independent daily college newspaper in the United States.
• 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 1 » Canada joins the Universal Postal Union.

The temperature on November 9, 1878 was about 7.7 °C. The air pressure was 12 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 62%.