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• Alida Maria Nederpelt, Hof van Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1879)
• Alberta Maria Boonekamp, Vaassen († 1938)
• Anthonius van der Valck, Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1878)
• Anna Maria Vanderbemden, Brustem, België († 1878)
• Alida Nicolette de VOOGD, Rotterdam
• Andreas ROGMAN, Rotterdam († 1921)
• Amanda Silvia do Valle, Santo Amaro do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil († 1962)
• Anna Cornelia de Witt Hamer, Goes, Zuid-Holland, Nederland NL
• Albert Jan Veenhuizen, Apeldoorn, Gelderland NL
• Alida Maria van Nederpelt, Hof van Delft († 1879)

• Berendina Hendrikka Carolina van 't Loo (52), Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Berendina Hendrika Carolina van't Loo (51), Arnhem,, Gelderland, Nederland
• Berendina Hendrikka Carolina LOO,VAN 'T (49), Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Berendina Hendrikka Carolina . van Loo (52), Arnhem
• Anna Catharina Smeets (46), Kortessem (B)
• Aaltje van Dorssen (63), Rotterdam Zuid-Holland Nederland
• Assueris Asser Salomon van Nierop (65), Amsterdam,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antonia Opstal (43), Noorden,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aleida Berendina Woestenesch (0), Winterswijk
• Antje Witte (31), De Westen, Texel

• 1863 » Frank Hornby, English businessman and politician, invented Meccano († 1936)
• 1869 » John Storey, Australian politician, 20th Premier of New South Wales († 1921)
• 1869 » Paul Probst, Swiss target shooter († 1945)
• 1882 » Walter White, Scottish international footballer († 1950)
• 1890 » Katherine Anne Porter, American short story writer, novelist, and essayist († 1980)
• 1891 » Fritz Feigl, Austrian-Brazilian chemist and academic († 1971)
• 1891 » Mikhail Bulgakov, Russian novelist and playwright († 1940)
• 1892 » Charles E. Rosendahl, American admiral († 1977)
• 1892 » Jimmy Wilde, Welsh boxer († 1969)
• 1893 » José Nepomuceno, Filipino filmmaker, founder of Philippine cinema († 1959)

• 1845 » Braulio Carrillo Colina, Costa Rican lawyer and politician, Head of State of Costa Rica (b. 1800)
• 1879 » Gottfried Semper, German architect and educator, designed the Semper Opera House (b. 1803)
• 1886 » Emily Dickinson, American poet and author (b. 1830)
• 1914 » Ida Freund, Austrian-born chemist and educator (b. 1863)
• 1919 » Hasan Tahsin, Turkish journalist (b. 1888)
• 1924 » Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant, French diplomat and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 1926 » Joseph James Fletcher, Australian biologist (b. 1850)
• 1928 » Umegatani Tōtarō I, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 15th Yokozuna (b. 1845)
• 1935 » Kazimir Malevich, Ukrainian-Russian painter and theoretician (b. 1878)
• 1937 » Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden, English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1864)

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 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 4 » Cyprus Convention: The Ottoman Empire cedes Cyprus to the United Kingdom but retains nominal title.
• 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.
• December 18 » The Al-Thani family become the rulers of the state of Qatar.

The temperature on May 15, 1878 was about 15.3 °C. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 79%.