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• Ada M McGinnity, Narrabri N.S.W († 1958)
• Alida den Heijer, Scheveningen († 1971)
• Alida Johanna Pijpers, Rotterdam
• Aaltje Schoemaker, Nieuw Dordrecht
• Adrianus van Esch, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1905)
• Agatha Helena van Ooijen, Woudrichem, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands
• Albert WADIN, Soignies, 55040, Hainaut, Belgique († 1910)
• Achillus Camillus Jacob, Reningelst (W-VL) België
• Adolf Smit, Delft († 1961)

• Adriana Botbijl (65), Brouwershaven
• Hol (0), IJzendoorn
• Antje Kan (5), Zaandam
• Anneke Zweers (72), Rheden
• Antonia van der BEEK (67), Babyloniënbroek
• Antje Dalenberg (78), Akersloot
• Antje Sijmonsd Dalenberg (78), Akersloot, nh.nld
• Anneke STRAVER (54), Andel
• Anneken Zweers (72), Rheden
• Antje Simonsdr Dalenberg (78), Akersloot, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1866 » Carl Westman, Swedish architect, designed the Stockholm Court House and Röhsska Museum († 1936)
• 1867 » Louise, Princess Royal of England († 1931)
• 1870 » Jay Johnson Morrow, American engineer and politician, 3rd Governor of the Panama Canal Zone († 1937)
• 1874 » Mary Garden, Scottish-American soprano and actress († 1967)
• 1879 » Hod Stuart, Canadian ice hockey player († 1907)
• 1880 » Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen, French author and poet († 1923)
• 1882 » Elie Nadelman, Polish-American sculptor († 1946)
• 1887 » Vincent Massey, Canadian lawyer and politician, 18th Governor General of Canada († 1967)
• 1888 » Georges Bernanos, French soldier and author († 1948)
• 1889 » Hulusi Behçet, Turkish dermatologist and physician († 1948)

• 1850 » Valentín Canalizo, Mexican general and politician. 14th President (1843–1844) (b. 1794)
• 1862 » William Wallace Lincoln, American son of Abraham Lincoln (b. 1850)
• 1871 » Paul Kane, Irish-Canadian painter (b. 1810)
• 1893 » P. G. T. Beauregard, American general (b. 1818)
• 1895 » Frederick Douglass, American author and activist (b. c. 1818)
• 1900 » Washakie, American tribal leader (b. 1798)
• 1907 » Henri Moissan, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 1910 » Boutros Ghali, Egyptian educator and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1846)
• 1916 » Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish journalist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1844)
• 1920 » Jacinta Marto, Portuguese saint (b. 1910)

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 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.
• February 22 » In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of five-and-dime Woolworth stores.
• 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.
• September 3 » Over 640 die when the crowded pleasure boat Princess Alice collides with the Bywell Castle in the River Thames.
• October 15 » The Edison Electric Light Company begins operation.

The temperature on February 20, 1878 was about 1.4 °C. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%.