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• Alberto Kantovitz († 1878)
• Aaltje Onck, Nijkerkerveen
• Anna Jacoba Maria Willemse, Schiedam,- († 1882)
• Aaltje Cornelis Wagenaar, St. Jacobiparochie
• Adriaantje Cornelia Boogaart, Tholen († 1965)
• Breewel, Nieuwkoop, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albertus Peek, Naarden († 1967)
• Albert de Vries, Usquert, Groningen, Nederland († 1941)
• Adriana van Zoest, Hellevoetsluis
• Ann Elizabeth Nicholls, Inverell, New South Wales, Australia († 1919)

• Catharina de Boden (2), Gouderak, gemeente Ouderkerk, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria de Wit (71), Ammerzoden, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adrianus de ROOIJ (0), Werkendam, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Arie KOOIJMAN
• Arie van Loon (1), Dubbeldam
• Cornelia Ansems (53), Raamsdonkveer
• van Santen (0), Beusichem (Buren) (GL)
• Adrianus de Bruijn (1), Rockanje, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Carl Ludwig Leopold Lohmann (0), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Andries Franciscus de Wit* (0), Den Helder, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 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)

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 21 » The first telephone directory is issued in New Haven, Connecticut.
• March 24 » The British frigate HMSEurydice sinks, killing more than 300.
• 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.
• 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.
• September 3 » Over 640 die when the crowded pleasure boat Princess Alice collides with the Bywell Castle in the River Thames.

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