About the day » Monday February 4, 1878Calender converter

• Ane Marie Hansen, Fredericia Trinitatis Sogn, Elbo Herred, Vejle Amt († 1959)
• Alida Schouten, Zaandam
• Alice "Rose" Budd, Carthage, Jefferson, New York, Verenigde Staten († 1946)
• Albert Delattre, Antwerpen, België
• Adolph Gustav Artur Rose, Maryborough, Queensland († 1973)
• Aaltje hillegonda de Boer, Ooststellingwerf († 1964)
• Aagje Lans, Ouderkerk aan de Ijssel, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1970)
• Aart Kreunen, Muiden († 1960)
• Aaltje Heinen, Steenwijk († 1883)
• Aleida Helena Opgenoort, Gendt, Gelderland, Nederland († 1944)

• Alke Mulder (39), Blijham
• Arij Jansz De BEST (75), Heinenoord
• Anna Bernardina Henrica Wolterink (74), Zutphen
• Alberdina Ulenreef (34), Almelo
• Alexander Benjamin Medenbach de Rooij, van (35), Arnhem
• Anna Catharina Bezet (64), 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Abraham Vermeulen (23), Utrecht
• Adriana Wondergem (60), Middelburg
• Kotten (0), Almelo
• Adrianus Linders (0), Someren

• 1865 » Abe Isoo, Japanese minister and politician († 1949)
• 1868 » Constance Markievicz, Irish revolutionary and first woman elected to the UK House of Commons († 1927)
• 1871 » Friedrich Ebert, German lawyer and politician, 1st President of Germany († 1925)
• 1872 » Gotse Delchev, Bulgarian and Macedonian revolutionary activist († 1903)
• 1873 » Étienne Desmarteau, Canadian shot putter and discus thrower († 1905)
• 1875 » Ludwig Prandtl, German physicist and engineer († 1953)
• 1877 » Eddie Cochems, American football player and coach († 1953)
• 1881 » Eulalio Gutiérrez, Mexican general and politician, President of Mexico († 1939)
• 1881 » Fernand Léger, French painter and sculptor († 1955)
• 1883 » Reinhold Rudenberg, German-American inventor and a pioneer of electron microscopy († 1961)

• 1843 » Theodoros Kolokotronis, Greek general (b. 1770)
• 1891 » Pelagio Antonio de Labastida y Dávalos, Roman Catholic archbishop and Mexican politician who served as regent during the Second Mexican Empire (1863-1864) (b. 1816)
• 1905 » Louis-Ernest Barrias, French sculptor and academic (b. 1841)
• 1926 » İskilipli Âtıf Hodja, Turkish author and scholar (b. 1875)
• 1928 » Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1853)
• 1933 » Archibald Sayce, English linguist and educator (b. 1846)
• 1940 » Nikolai Yezhov, Russian police officer and politician (b. 1895)
• 1943 » Frank Calder, English-Canadian ice hockey player and journalist (b. 1877)
• 1944 » Arsen Kotsoyev, Russian author and translator (b. 1872)
• 1956 » Savielly Tartakower, Russian-French chess player, journalist, and author (b. 1887)

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 28 » Yale Daily News becomes the first independent daily college newspaper in the United States.
• February 19 » Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.
• 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.
• 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.
• December 18 » The Al-Thani family become the rulers of the state of Qatar.

The temperature on February 4, 1878 was about 2.4 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 91%.