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• Aaltje (2) Snijders, Emmen.NL († 1957)
• Aaltje Snijders, Roswinkel, Emmen († 1957)
• Alphonse Gerhard Fortwengler, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Aleida (Leida) Tilleman, Herveld, Gelderland, Netherlands († 1953)
• Ieke Koksma, Lemsterland
• ADRIAAN ZWARTBOL, ALBLASSERDAM († 1927)
• Hendricus Cornelis Maria Zijlmans, Raamsdonkveer († 1878)
• koekoek, beerta
• Adrianus Fortgens, Haaren († 1955)
• Wijnstok, Amsterdam,North Holland,Netherlands († 1878)

• Antje Gorter (51), Zuidhorn, Groningen, Nederland
• Adriana Gelinck (78), ‘s-Gravenhage,Gemeente ’s-Gravenhage,South Holland,Netherlands
• Albert Hickman (44), Rainsville, Warren, Indian, Verenigde Staten
• Anthonie de Munnik (48), Monster
• Agnes Mary Georgina Byng (44)
• Agnes Byng of Strafford (46)
• Anna MOLINA (45), Alger, Algérie
• Amelia Maria de Meijere (1), Eede
• Antje Pieters GORTER (51), Zuidhorn, Westerkwartier, Groningen, Nederland
• Antonia Maria Polti (65), Craveggia, 28852, Italia

• 1869 » Harvey Cushing, American surgeon and academic († 1939)
• 1871 » Clarence Hudson White, American photographer and educator († 1925)
• 1874 » Manuel Díaz, Cuban fencer († 1929)
• 1874 » Stanisław Taczak, Polish general († 1960)
• 1875 » Albert I of Belgium († 1934)
• 1882 » (O.S. 27 March) - Dmytro Doroshenko, Lithuanian-Ukrainian historian and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine and Prime Minister of Ukraine († 1951)
• 1883 » Julius Seljamaa, Estonian journalist and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia († 1936)
• 1883 » R. P. Keigwin, English cricketer and academic († 1972)
• 1885 » Dimitrios Levidis, Greek-French soldier, composer, and educator († 1951)
• 1886 » Margaret Ayer Barnes, American author and playwright († 1967)

• 1848 » Gaetano Donizetti, Italian composer (b. 1797)
• 1860 » István Széchenyi, Hungarian statesman and reformer (b.1791)
• 1861 » Elisha Otis, American businessman, founded the Otis Elevator Company (b. 1811)
• 1870 » Charles Auguste de Bériot, Belgian violinist and composer (b. 1802)
• 1894 » Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, Indian journalist, author, and poet (b. 1838)
• 1906 » Auguste Deter, German woman, first person diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease (b. 1850)
• 1919 » Loránd Eötvös, Hungarian physicist, academic, and politician, Hungarian Minister of Education (b. 1848)
• 1920 » Charles Griffes, American pianist and composer (b. 1884)
• 1931 » Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Swedish poet Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)
• 1936 » Róbert Bárány, Austrian physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)

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 4 » Russo-Turkish War (1877–78): Sofia is liberated from Ottoman rule and designated the capital of Liberated Bulgaria.
• January 28 » Yale Daily News becomes the first independent daily college newspaper in the United States.
• February 19 » Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.
• March 3 » The Russo-Turkish War ends with Bulgaria regaining its independence from the Ottoman Empire according to the Treaty of San Stefano.
• June 10 » League of Prizren is established, to oppose the decisions of the Congress of Berlin and the Treaty of San Stefano, as a consequence of which the Albanian lands in the Balkans were being partitioned and given to the neighbor states of Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria, and Greece.
• 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 8, 1878 was about 11.5 °C. The air pressure was 13 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 24%.