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• Abdelaziz Ben Hassan des Alaouites, Fès, Maroc († 1943)
• Andries Piening-, Drouwenermond, Nederland
• Adriana Cornelia van Olden, Solo Sumatra ( Padangse Bovenlanden) († 1961)
• Alberdina Cornelis Snijder, Meppel († 1956)
• Alice Grimes, Ballynagilly, Cookstown, Co. Tyrone, N. Ireland († 1898)
• Aaltje Van Weerden, Groningen,, Groningen, Nederland († 1921)
• Andries Piening, Drouwenermond (gem. Borger-Odoorn)
• Anna Catrina Ekkelboom, Frederiksoord (Vledder)
• Adriaan Katte, 's-Heer Arendskerke, Zeeland, Netherlands († 1878)
• mengerink, neede († 1878)

• Aagje Poulus Karstens Kerssens (67), Krommenie
• Aaltjen Arends Slangenwal (67), Ede, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aaltje Slangenwal (66), Ede
• Antje Jansdr Veen (83), Ouder-Amstel, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Aaltje de GRAAF (58), Holk,, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aaltje Rust (83), Groote Keeten
• AALTJE VAN WILGENBORG (51), Nijkerk
• Adrianus Van Dongen (0), Zevenbergen
• Adriana Josephina Maria Maat (0), Rotterdam
• Aaltje Jacobsdr Rus (82), Callantsoog, 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)

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 9 » Umberto I becomes King of Italy.
• February 19 » Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.
• February 21 » The first telephone directory is issued in New Haven, Connecticut.
• May 14 » The last witchcraft trial held in the United States begins in Salem, Massachusetts, after Lucretia Brown, an adherent of Christian Science, accused Daniel Spofford of attempting to harm her through his mental powers.
• September 3 » Over 640 die when the crowded pleasure boat Princess Alice collides with the Bywell Castle in the River Thames.
• November 17 » First assassination attempt against Umberto I of Italy by anarchist Giovanni Passannante, who was armed with a dagger. The King survived with a slight wound in an arm. Prime Minister Benedetto Cairoli blocked the aggressor, receiving an injury in a leg.

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%.