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• Albertina Mouthaan, Soerabaja
• A.W. Henry Rinne III († 1878)
• Aloijsia Maria Jongen, Tilburg, Nederland († 1961)
• Adrianus Johannes van der Gaag, Nootdorp († 1878)
• Aleida Tilleman, Valburg, Gelderland, Nederland († 1953)
• Adriana Johanna Siebel, Rotterdam
• Albert van Schijndel, Schijndel († 1878)
• Anje Egberts de Haan, Doezum, Grootegast, Groningen, Nederland
• Albin Thomas Clark, Grayson County, Kentucky
• Anje de Haan, Doezum, Grootegast, Groningen, Netherlands († 1962)

• Anna Catharina FOLMER (44), Stratum, Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriaan van DuijvenbOden (0), Katwijk
• Annegien Geerts Hilbrands (82), Drouwen, Borger
• Anna Barbara Krings (62), Kerkrade, Limburg, Nederland
• Alexandrine Albertine van der Hucht (75), Batavia, Java
• Anne Marie Joseph CALIFICE (43), Soumagne, 62099, Liege, Belgique
• Akke Akkerman (29), Haskerland
• Hoetmer (0), ,, Nederhorst den Berg, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Albertine Alexandrine van der Hucht (75), Batavia, Indonesië
• Agatha van der Salm (61), Voorschoten

• 1864 » Richard Harding Davis, American journalist and author († 1916)
• 1874 » Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić, Croatian author and poet († 1938)
• 1877 » Vicente Sotto, Filipino lawyer and politician († 1950)
• 1879 » Korneli Kekelidze, Georgian philologist and scholar († 1962)
• 1880 » Sam Crawford, American baseball player, coach, and umpire († 1968)
• 1882 » Isaac Babalola Akinyele, Nigerian ruler († 1964)
• 1882 » Leopold Stokowski, English conductor († 1977)
• 1884 » Jaan Anvelt, Estonian educator and politician († 1937)
• 1888 » Duffy Lewis, American baseball player, coach, and manager († 1979)
• 1889 » Jessie Street, Australian activist († 1970)

• 1832 » Jeanne-Elisabeth Chaudet, French painter (b. 1761)
• 1859 » Tatya Tope, Indian general (b. 1814)
• 1864 » Juris Alunāns, Latvian philologist and linguist (b. 1832)
• 1873 » Justus von Liebig, German chemist and academic (b. 1803)
• 1898 » Gustave Moreau, French painter and academic (b. 1826)
• 1906 » Luis Martín, Spanish religious leader, 24th Superior-General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1846)
• 1912 » Martha Ripley, American physician (b. 1843)
• 1917 » Vladimir Serbsky, Russian psychiatrist and academic (b. 1858)
• 1923 » Savina Petrilli, Italian religious leader (b. 1851)
• 1936 » Milton Brown, American singer and bandleader (b. 1903)

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.
• May 25 » Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore opens at the Opera Comique in London.
• 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.
• December 18 » The Al-Thani family become the rulers of the state of Qatar.
• 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 April 18, 1878 was about 10.4 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 95%.