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• Albertus Straus, Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands († 1878)
• Anna Catrina Ekkelboom, Frederiksoord (Vledder)
• Alida Catharina Wilhelmina Sijbrands, Amsterdam
• Abdelaziz Ben Hassan des Alaouites, Fès, Maroc († 1943)
• Roldanus, Den Haag († 1878)
• Adrianus van Straten, Hoeven († 1956)
• Marinus Overbeeke, St.Annaland
• Alphonsius Van Laere, Lokeren
• Alberdina Snijder, Meppel, Drenthe, Nederland († 1956)
• Abraham Slap, Amsterdam († 1945)

• Aaltjen Slangewal (67), Ede
• Aaltjen Slangenwal (66), Ede, Ede, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Adriaantje van Hal (72), Maassluis, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• "Charlotte" Friederike Wilhelmine Louise Grote (76), Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France
• mengerink (0), neede
• Aaltje Slangenwal (66), Ede
• Agatha Johanna van der Bijl (0), 's-Gravenhage
• Adriana Josephina Maria Maat (0), Rotterdam
• Aaltje Rust (83), Groote Keeten
• Aaltje Westerveld (0), Den Ilp, Landsmeer, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1868 » Édouard Alphonse James de Rothschild, French financier and polo player († 1949)
• 1869 » Zara DuPont, American suffragist († 1946)
• 1874 » Honus Wagner, American baseball player, coach, and manager († 1955)
• 1877 » Ettie Rout, Australian-New Zealand educator and activist († 1936)
• 1877 » Rudolph Ganz, Swiss pianist, composer, and conductor († 1972)
• 1885 » Chester W. Nimitz, American admiral († 1966)
• 1885 » Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Polish author, poet, and painter († 1939)
• 1890 » Marjorie Main, American actress († 1975)
• 1896 » Richard Thorpe, American director and screenwriter († 1991)
• 1898 » Kurt Tank, German pilot and engineer († 1983)

• 1825 » Thomas Bowdler, English physician and philanthropist (b. 1754)
• 1856 » Nikolai Lobachevsky, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1792)
• 1876 » Joseph Jenkins Roberts, American-Liberian politician, 1st President of Liberia (b. 1809)
• 1879 » Shiranui Kōemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 11th Yokozuna (b. 1825)
• 1910 » Osman Hamdi Bey, Greek archaeologist and painter (b. 1842)
• 1914 » Joshua Chamberlain, American general and politician, 32nd Governor of Maine (b. 1828)
• 1925 » Hjalmar Branting, Swedish journalist and politician, 16th Prime Minister of Sweden, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1860)
• 1927 » Edward Marshall Hall, English lawyer and politician (b. 1858)
• 1929 » André Messager, French pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1853)
• 1930 » Hermann von Ihering, German-Brazilian zoologist (b. 1850)

• 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 4 » Russo-Turkish War (1877–78): Sofia is liberated from Ottoman rule and designated the capital of Liberated Bulgaria.
• 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.
• February 18 » John Tunstall is murdered by outlaw Jesse Evans, sparking the Lincoln County War in Lincoln County, New Mexico.
• 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.
• October 15 » The Edison Electric Light Company begins operation.
• 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 February 24, 1878 was about 6.0 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 95%.