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• Aafke Veldman, Zuidbroek, Groningen, Nederland († 1878)
• Aaltje van Otterloo († 1900)
• Alphonsus Bun, Hengstdijk († 1880)
• adriaantje BAKKER, zuid beijerland
• Langenberg, Johanna Maria van de, Boxtel († 1952)
• Albrecht Ernst Jakma, Arnhem († 1950)
• Augusta Philomena De Vliegher, Moerbeke (B) († 1918)
• Aaltje Roelofs Bouwknegt, Nijeveen, Nederland († 1907)
• Aaltje Kruithof, Brucht, Hardenberg, Overijssel, Nederland († 1968)
• Aaltje Bouwknegt, Nijeveen, Dr, The Netherlands († 1907)

• Antoine GYS (68), Retie (Antwerpen), België
• Apolonia Johanna Beatrix van Bendegom (0), Zwartewaal, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Johannes Haarmans (48), Leeuwarden
• Antje Bekker (12), Rotterdam
• Antonius Gys (68), Retie
• Aaltje Jellesd Schotanus (68), Katlijk, schoterland.fr.nld
• Antonie Johannes Knoop (1), Warmond
• Adriana Elisabeth Drees (3), Terheijden, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands
• Aaltje Jelles SCHOTANUS (68), Schoterland
• ANTONIUS GYS (68), Dessel

• 1872 » Alice Salomon, German social reformer († 1948)
• 1873 » Sydney Barnes, English cricketer († 1967)
• 1874 » Ernst Rüdin, Swiss psychiatrist, geneticist, and eugenicist († 1952)
• 1877 » Ole Evinrude, Norwegian-American engineer, invented the outboard motor († 1934)
• 1879 » Arthur Robertson, Scottish runner († 1957)
• 1882 » Getúlio Vargas, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 14th President of Brazil († 1954)
• 1883 » Henry Jameson, American soccer player († 1938)
• 1883 » Richard von Mises, Austrian-American mathematician and physicist († 1953)
• 1885 » Karl Tarvas, Estonian architect († 1975)
• 1889 » Otto Georg Thierack, German jurist and politician († 1946)

• 1854 » Robert Jameson, Scottish mineralogist and academic (b. 1774)
• 1881 » Benjamin Disraeli, English journalist and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1804)
• 1882 » Charles Darwin, English biologist and theorist (b. 1809)
• 1893 » Martin Körber, Estonian-German pastor, composer, and conductor (b. 1817)
• 1901 » Alfred Horatio Belo, American publisher, founded The Dallas Morning News (b. 1839)
• 1903 » Oliver Mowat, Canadian politician, third Premier of Ontario, eighth Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (b. 1820)
• 1906 » Pierre Curie, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)
• 1906 » Spencer Gore, English tennis player and cricketer (b. 1850)
• 1909 » Signe Rink, Greenland-born Danish writer and ethnologist (b. 1836)
• 1914 » Charles Sanders Peirce, American mathematician and philosopher (b. 1839)

• 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.
• 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.
• October 22 » The Bramall Lane stadium sees the first rugby match played under floodlights.
• November 17 » First assassination attempt against Umberto I of Italy by anarchist Giovanni Passannante, who was armed with a dagger. The King survived with a slight wound in an arm. Prime Minister Benedetto Cairoli blocked the aggressor, receiving an injury in a leg.
• 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 19, 1878 was about 12.9 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 80%.