About the day » Thursday April 25, 1878Calender converter

• Aagje Horjus, Het Schoterland, Het Schoterland, Schoterlandseweg 20, Jubbega, Nederland († 1954)
• Agnes Weijens, Den Helder
• Alma Celestina Vermast, Koewacht
• Alida Jansen, Veenendaal, Nederland († 1949)
• Adrianus Franciscus de Beer, Raamsdonk († 1879)
• Adrianus Henricus Sweere, Zevenbergen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aag Sipkes Horjus, Benedenknijpe, Schoterland, Friesland, Nederland
• Adeline Helene Van Neste, Langemark West-Vlaanderen († 1957)
• Adriaan Hultermans, Dongen
• Albert Dokter, Leeuwarden († 1958)

• Anton Mari(1) HOHWÜ (2), Amsterdam, Holland
• Albert van de Werff (32), Sleen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Anna Gesina Krüssel (67), Hebelermeer
• Anna PAYNE (116), Goochland, Virginia, United States
• Anna "Gesina" Kollmer - Klönne (67), Hebelermeer (D)
• Adrianus Driessen (0), Asten, North Brabant, Netherlands
• Arie Suijker (55), Vlaardinger-Ambacht
• Anna Maria de Hartog (41), Overasselt,, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anna Schoo (69), Leiden
• Adriana Verkouteren (51), Dinteloord en Prinsenland, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1871 » Lorne Currie, French-English sailor († 1926)
• 1872 » C. B. Fry, English cricketer, footballer, educator, and politician († 1956)
• 1873 » Howard Garis, American author, creator of the Uncle Wiggily series of children's stories († 1962)
• 1873 » Walter de la Mare, English poet, short story writer, and novelist († 1956)
• 1874 » Ernest Webb, English-Canadian race walker († 1937)
• 1874 » Guglielmo Marconi, Italian businessman and inventor, developed Marconi's law, Nobel Prize laureate († 1937)
• 1876 » Jacob Nicol, Canadian publisher, lawyer, and politician († 1958)
• 1878 » William Merz, American gymnast and triathlete († 1946)
• 1882 » Fred McLeod, Scottish golfer († 1976)
• 1887 » Kojo Tovalou Houénou, Beninese lawyer and critic († 1936)

• 1873 » Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy, Russian painter and sculptor (b. 1783)
• 1875 » 12th Dalai Lama (b. 1857)
• 1878 » Anna Sewell, English author (b. 1820)
• 1890 » Crowfoot, Canadian tribal chief (b. 1830)
• 1891 » Nathaniel Woodard, English priest and educator (b. 1811)
• 1892 » Henri Duveyrier, French explorer (b. 1840)
• 1892 » Karl von Ditmar, Estonian-German geologist and explorer (b. 1822)
• 1906 » John Knowles Paine, American composer and educator (b. 1839)
• 1911 » Emilio Salgari, Italian journalist and author (b. 1862)
• 1913 » Joseph-Alfred Archambeault, Canadian bishop (b. 1859)

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.
• 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.
• March 3 » The Russo-Turkish War ends with Bulgaria regaining its independence from the Ottoman Empire according to the Treaty of San Stefano.
• 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 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.
• 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.

The temperature on April 25, 1878 was about 14.3 °C. The air pressure was 12 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 66%.