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• Anna Vogel, Eenrum, Het Hogeland, Groningen, Nederland
• Alexander Bax, Maros, Maros, Sulawesi Selatan, Indonesia († 1915)
• Adam Engelbertus Westgeest, Wassenaar († 1920)
• Albert Steen, Nieuwe Pekela († 1973)
• Anna Katrina Stahl, Vlagtwedde († 1958)
• Adrianus Alders, Rotterdam († 1897)
• Adam Engelbertus Westgeest, Wassenaar († 1920)
• * Geertje Kleijn, Nieuw-Lekkerland († 1910)
• Alida Margaretha Nieuwenhuizen, Haarlem
• Albert Wiebrens Duim, Lemsterland, Friesland, Nederland

• Adriana Hendrietta Louisa van Riemsdijk (90), Batavia, West-Java
• Aloysius De Vries (8), Morkhoven, Herentals, België
• Aaltje Straver (52), Willige Langerak
• ten Hove (0), Appingedam, Groningen, Nederland
• Marijtje Kroes (55), Sassenheim
• Aaltje Aartsen Doornekamp (83), Nijkerk
• Abraham Voogd (0), Rotterdam
• Anne Eliza Morbach Prom (77), Ryegaard Herregård, Kirke Såby, Danemark
• Aaldert Renting (70), Sleen, Nederland
• Adam van der Wolf, Spanbroek, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1874 » Grantley Goulding, English hurdler († 1947)
• 1874 » J. C. Leyendecker, German-American painter and illustrator († 1951)
• 1876 » Thakin Kodaw Hmaing, Burmese poet, writer and political leader († 1964)
• 1876 » Ziya Gökalp, Turkish sociologist, poet and activist († 1924)
• 1878 » Franz Schreker, Austrian composer and conductor († 1934)
• 1880 » Heikki Ritavuori, Finnish lawyer and politician, Finnish Minister of the Interior († 1922)
• 1881 » Hermann Staudinger, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1965)
• 1881 » Lacey Hearn, American sprinter († 1969)
• 1881 » Roger Martin du Gard, French novelist and paleographer, Nobel Prize laureate († 1958)
• 1882 » Emmy Noether, Jewish German-American mathematician, physicist and academic († 1935)

• 1842 » Stendhal, French novelist (b. 1783)
• 1862 » Manuel Robles Pezuela, Unconstitutional Mexican interim president, 1858–1859 (b. 1817)
• 1883 » Arthur Macalister, Scottish-Australian politician, 2nd Premier of Queensland (b. 1818)
• 1884 » Henry C. Lord, American businessman (b. 1824)
• 1910 » Nadar, French photographer, journalist, and author (b. 1820)
• 1914 » Rafqa Pietra Choboq Ar-Rayès, Lebanese saint (b. 1832)
• 1923 » Hovhannes Tumanyan, Armenian poet and author (b. 1869)
• 1927 » Paul César Helleu, French painter and etcher (b. 1859)
• 1931 » Bhagat Singh, Indian activist (b. 1907)
• 1931 » Shivaram Rajguru, Indian activist (b. 1908)

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 18 » John Tunstall is murdered by outlaw Jesse Evans, sparking the Lincoln County War in Lincoln County, New Mexico.
• February 22 » In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of five-and-dime Woolworth stores.
• March 15 » Restoration of the Scottish Catholic hierarchy, broken off back in 1603.
• 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 22 » The Bramall Lane stadium sees the first rugby match played under floodlights.
• 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 March 23, 1878 was about 3.4 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 74%.