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• Adrianus Klok, Norg († 1955)
• Alijda Johanna Roelofs, Huissen (Gld) Nederland († 1902)
• Alberto Kantovitz († 1878)
• Adriana Vendrig, Bodegraven († 1904)
• Aaltje Post, Heerde († 1906)
• Ann Elizabeth Nicholls, Inverell, New South Wales, Australia († 1919)
• Anna Catharina Tamson, Zaltbommel, Nederland († 1954)
• Aaltje Onck, Nijkerkerveen
• Anna Jacoba Maria Willemse, Schiedam,- († 1882)
• Aaltje Ella, Opsterland († 1952)

• Anna Aleida de Beaufort (0), Woudenberg,Gemeente Woudenberg,Utrecht,Netherlands
• van Santen (0), Beusichem (Buren) (GL)
• Anna Debora Huijboom (0), Haarlem
• Arie van Loon (1), Dubbeldam
• Adriana Cornelia Schenk (43), Halsteren( Nederland)
• Andries Krikke (0), Dwarsgracht, Giethoorn
• Agnes van Geem, Bazel
• Bouke Jochems Bron (3), Scheerwolde, Steenwijkerwold, Overijssel, Nederland
• Anna Maria De Wit (71), Ammerzoden, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Cornelia Ansems (53), Raamsdonkveer

• 1874 » Alfred Tysoe, English runner († 1901)
• 1876 » Walter Tewksbury, American runner and hurdler († 1968)
• 1877 » Maurice Farman, French race car driver and pilot († 1964)
• 1878 » Morris H. Whitehouse, American architect († 1944)
• 1880 » Broncho Billy Anderson, American actor, director, and producer († 1971)
• 1880 » Hans Hofmann, German-American painter and academic († 1966)
• 1882 » Aleksander Kesküla, Estonian politician († 1963)
• 1884 » George David Birkhoff, American mathematician († 1944)
• 1885 » Pierre Renoir, French actor and director († 1952)
• 1886 » Walter Dray, American pole vaulter († 1973)

• 1843 » Guadalupe Victoria, Mexican general and politician, 1st President of Mexico (b. 1786)
• 1843 » Robert Southey, English poet, historian, and translator (b. 1774)
• 1854 » Pedro María de Anaya, Mexican soldier. President (1847-1848) (b. 1795)
• 1863 » Edwin Vose Sumner, American general (b. 1797)
• 1869 » Juan Almonte, son of José María Morelos, was a Mexican soldier and diplomat who served as a regent in the Second Mexican Empire (1863-1864) (b. 1803)
• 1884 » Ezra Abbot, American scholar and academic (b. 1819)
• 1891 » Joseph E. Johnston, American general (b. 1807)
• 1915 » Frederick Winslow Taylor, American golfer, tennis player, and engineer (b. 1856)
• 1920 » Evelina Haverfield, British suffragette and aid worker (b. 1867)
• 1932 » Frantz Reichel, French rugby player and hurdler (b. 1871)

• 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.
• 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.
• July 1 » Canada joins the Universal Postal Union.
• 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.
• October 15 » The Edison Electric Light Company begins operation.
• December 18 » The Al-Thani family become the rulers of the state of Qatar.

The temperature on March 21, 1878 was about 7.1 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 95%.