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• Adriana NORT, Groningen, Nederland
• Albertus LAGARDE, Dreumel († 1945)
• Aaltje Koopman, Wittewierum (gem. Ten Boer) († 1879)
• (2) Cornelia Wilhelmina de Goeij, Utrecht, Noord-Holland, Nederland Nederland († 1920)
• Adrianus Richard Konig, Bergen op Zoom
• Buffel, Aartrijke († 1878)
• Warps, Asch (Gem. Buren) (GL) († 1878)
• Aleida Theodora Wilhelmina Driessen, Delft, South Holland, Netherlands († 1884)
• ADRIANUS MAN IN'T VELD, VLAARDINGER-AMBACHT († 1878)
• Adriaan Konings, Willemstad († 1884)

• Anna Maria van Waen, Groningen
• Aaltje Bouman (87), Dussen
• Buffel (0), Aartrijke
• Anna Catharina Bekker (71), Amersfoort 84
• Warps (0), Asch (Gem. Buren) (GL)
• Albert Berends Polman (85), Steenwijkerwold, Nederland
• Adrianus Renniers (0), Geertruidenberg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antonia van den Broek (81), Arnhem,Arnhem,Gelderland,Nederland
• Anna Maria Dirks (62), Hooge en Lage Mierde, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Bekker (71), Amersfoort

• 1864 » Johanna Elberskirchen, German author and activist († 1943)
• 1866 » Bernard O'Dowd, Australian journalist, author, and poet († 1953)
• 1867 » Mark Keppel, American educator († 1928)
• 1869 » Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor, designed the Nobel Peace Prize medal († 1943)
• 1871 » Gyula Kellner, Hungarian runner († 1940)
• 1873 » Edward Lawson, English soldier, Victoria Cross recipient († 1955)
• 1876 » Ivane Javakhishvili, Georgian historian and academic († 1940)
• 1876 » Paul Henry, Irish painter († 1958)
• 1879 » Bernhard Schmidt, Estonian-German astronomer and optician († 1935)
• 1887 » Jamini Roy, Indian painter († 1972)

• 1856 » Juan Santamaría, Costa Rican soldier (b. 1831)
• 1861 » Francisco González Bocanegra, Mexican poet and composer (b. 1824)
• 1873 » Edward Canby, American general (b. 1817)
• 1890 » David de Jahacob Lopez Cardozo, Dutch Talmudist (b. 1808)
• 1890 » Joseph Merrick, English man with severe deformities (b. 1862)
• 1894 » Constantin Lipsius, German architect and theorist (b. 1832)
• 1895 » Julius Lothar Meyer, German chemist (b. 1830)
• 1902 » Wade Hampton III, American general and politician, 77th Governor of South Carolina (b. 1818)
• 1903 » Gemma Galgani, Italian mystic and saint (b. 1878)
• 1906 » James Anthony Bailey, American businessman, co-founded Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus (b. 1847)

• 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 16 » Russo-Turkish War (1877–78): Battle of Philippopolis: Captain Aleksandr Burago with a squadron of Russian Imperial army dragoons liberates Plovdiv from Ottoman rule.
• February 22 » In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of five-and-dime Woolworth stores.
• 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 13 » Treaty of Berlin: The European powers redraw the map of the Balkans. Serbia, Montenegro and Romania become completely independent of the Ottoman Empire.
• 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.

The temperature on April 11, 1878 was about 11.9 °C. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 84%.