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• Adriaan Tevel, Serooskerke, Schouwen-Duiveland, Zeeland, The Netherlands († 1960)
• Aaltje Beernts Sietsma, Doniawerstal, Friesland, Nederland († 1878)
• Agatha Catharina Augusta Maria van Roessel, Tilburg, Nederland
• Agatha Catharina Augustina Maria van Roessel, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1966)
• Adrianus van der Hoven, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Albert C Jongewaard, Orange City, Sioux County, Iowa († 1938)
• Albertje Stapel, ’s-Gravenhage ZH Nederland († 1973)
• Aaltje Ridder, Muiderberg
• (2) Gotthilf Dittus, Stuttgart Duitsland († 1938)
• Aaltje van de Pol, Nijkerk († 1878)

• Aart Albers (9)
• Anne Geertruij Leuijerink (73), Lonneker, Overijssel, Nederland
• Antoinetta Wilhelmina Cornelia Schaepman (2), Zwolle, Ov., Nederland
• Angela Victoria Boyson (77), Esen West-Vlaanderen België
• Allardus Pieters Hoekstra (75), Westdongeradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna van Dijk, Monster, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Augustinus Vandenberghe (0), Bredene,, West-Vlaanderen, België
• Anna Maria Goossens, Deurne en Liessel
• Anna Magdalena Mouton (77), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antje Brunt- (82), Castricum, Nederland

• 1872 » René Bull, British illustrator and photographer († 1942)
• 1873 » Josip Plemelj, Slovenian mathematician and academic († 1967)
• 1875 » Yehuda Leib Maimon, Moldovan-Israeli rabbi and politician († 1962)
• 1880 » Frank Tarrant, Australian cricketer and umpire († 1951)
• 1882 » Fiorello H. La Guardia, American lawyer and politician, 99th Mayor of New York City († 1947)
• 1882 » Max Born, German physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate († 1970)
• 1882 » Subramania Bharati, Indian journalist and poet († 1921)
• 1884 » Piet Ooms, Dutch swimmer and water polo player († 1961)
• 1889 » Walter Knott, American farmer and businessman, founded Knott's Berry Farm († 1981)
• 1890 » Carlos Gardel, French-Argentinian singer-songwriter and actor († 1935)

• 1826 » Maria Leopoldina of Austria (b. 1797)
• 1840 » Emperor Kōkaku of Japan (b. 1771)
• 1872 » Kamehameha V of Hawaii (b. 1830)
• 1880 » Oliver Winchester, American businessman, founded the Winchester Repeating Arms Company (b. 1810)
• 1892 » William Milligan, Scottish theologian and scholar (b. 1821)
• 1906 » Charles Townsend, American fencer, engineer, and academic (b. 1872)
• 1909 » Ludwig Mond, German-born chemist and British industrialist who discovered the metal carbonyls (b. 1839)
• 1913 » Carl von In der Maur, Governor of Liechtenstein (b. 1852)
• 1918 » Ivan Cankar, Slovenian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1876)
• 1920 » Olive Schreiner, South African author and activist (b. 1855)

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.
• February 21 » The first telephone directory is issued in New Haven, Connecticut.
• February 22 » In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of five-and-dime Woolworth stores.
• 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.
• July 13 » Treaty of Berlin: The European powers redraw the map of the Balkans. Serbia, Montenegro and Romania become completely independent of the Ottoman Empire.
• 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.

The temperature on December 11, 1878 was about -1.0 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%.