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• Anna Catharina van der Aar, Alkemade († 1931)
• Adeweg Potman, Genemuiden († 1952)
• Adriana Flikweert
• antje catharina CHARITE, zwijndrecht
• Anna Maria Obermeier, Louisville, KY, United States († 1948)
• Anna Geertruida Beumer, Wehl, Gelderland, Nederland
• Abraham Huisman, Voorschoten, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1945)
• Adrianus Martinus van Gool, Tilburg († 1883)
• Adriana van den Broek († 1947)
• Adriana Flikweert, Poortvliet

• Anna Catharina DECAFMEYER (74), Hoeilaart, 1560, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgique
• Cornelia KLOPPERT (54), Brielle
• Christiaan Mosch (0), Warmenhuizen, Harenkarspel, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Bernadus van Aken (18), IJsselhunten, Gelderland, Nederland
• Christina Arentsen (29), barchem
• Beligje BORST (50), Elst
• Allegonda PRAATS (61), Leende
• Adrianus KAPTIJN (63), Haarlem
• Anna Maria de Laat (64), Heesch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• CHRISTINA BOT (42), VLAARDINGEN

• 1872 » Arthur Henry Adams, Australian journalist and author († 1936)
• 1872 » William S. Hart, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter († 1946)
• 1875 » Albert Bond Lambert, American golfer and pilot († 1946)
• 1875 » Evelyn Underhill, English mystic and author († 1941)
• 1876 » Fred Duesenberg, German-American businessman, co-founded the Duesenberg Automobile & Motors Company († 1932)
• 1878 » Elvia Carrillo Puerto, Mexican politician († 1968)
• 1882 » Warren Bardsley, Australian cricketer († 1954)
• 1884 » Cornelia Meigs, American author, playwright, and academic († 1973)
• 1886 » Joyce Kilmer, American soldier, author, and poet († 1918)
• 1887 » Lynn Fontanne, British actress († 1983)

• 1855 » William John Swainson, English ornithologist and entomologist (b. 1789)
• 1867 » Jean Pierre Flourens, French physiologist and academic (b. 1794)
• 1868 » August Schleicher, German linguist and academic (b. 1821)
• 1878 » Theodoros Vryzakis, Greek painter and educator (b. 1814)
• 1879 » Erastus Brigham Bigelow, American businessman (b. 1814)
• 1882 » Alfred Escher, Swiss businessman and politician, founded Credit Suisse (b. 1819)
• 1882 » Anthony Trollope, English novelist, essayist, and short story writer (b. 1815)
• 1889 » Jefferson Davis, American general and politician, President of the Confederate States of America (b. 1808)
• 1892 » Werner von Siemens, German engineer and businessman, founded the Siemens Company (b. 1816)
• 1918 » Alexander Dianin, Russian chemist (b. 1851)

• 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 18 » John Tunstall is murdered by outlaw Jesse Evans, sparking the Lincoln County War in Lincoln County, New Mexico.
• February 21 » The first telephone directory is issued in New Haven, Connecticut.
• March 15 » Restoration of the Scottish Catholic hierarchy, broken off back in 1603.
• May 25 » Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore opens at the Opera Comique in London.
• June 4 » Cyprus Convention: The Ottoman Empire cedes Cyprus to the United Kingdom but retains nominal title.
• 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 December 6, 1878 was about 0.2 °C. There was 3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%.