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• Adrianus de Waard, Zwijndrecht († 1878)
• Alida Cornelia van Musscher, Haarlem († 1954)
• Anna Maria MOLLEN, Vessem, 4320, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1950)
• Anna Maria Tetteroo, Naaldwijk
• Albert Loorbach, Muntendam gemeente Menterwolde Groningen († 1969)
• Anna Catharina Wijn, Eindhoven
• Adriaan Blaas, Goes († 1941)
• Adrianus "Edward" Den Beste, Pella, Marion, Iowa († 1960)
• Adrianus Hubertus Petrus Montens, Rotterdam
• Adrianus den Beste, Pella, Marion County, Iowa († 1960)

• Angelina de Burger (63), Stoppeldijk, Nederland
• Anna Marie Cornetensis (63), Gorsem, Provincie Limburg, België
• Andries Pieters Moed (0), Terwispel, Opsterland, Friesland, Nederland
• Arentje Dirks Frey (63), Papenburg, Ostfriesland, Germany
• Andries Moed (0), Opsterland
• Adriana van Dongen (70), Geertruidenberg
• Amandus BORRA, Koekelare
• Arendje Prins (81), Ooltgensplaat, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Hagedoorn (61), Den Haag
• Aaltje (Jansen) Timmer (65), Putten, Gelderland, Netherlands

• 1864 » Otto Erich Hartleben, German poet and playwright († 1905)
• 1865 » George V of the United Kingdom († 1936)
• 1866 » George Howells Broadhurst, English-American director and manager († 1952)
• 1873 » Otto Loewi, German-American pharmacologist and psychobiologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1961)
• 1877 » Raoul Dufy, French painter and illustrator († 1953)
• 1879 » Alla Nazimova, Ukrainian-American actress, producer, and screenwriter († 1945)
• 1879 » Raymond Pearl, American biologist and botanist († 1940)
• 1879 » Vivian Woodward, English footballer and soldier († 1954)
• 1881 » Mikhail Larionov, Russian painter and set designer († 1964)
• 1890 » Baburao Painter, Indian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter († 1954)

• 1858 » Julius Reubke, German pianist and composer (b. 1834)
• 1861 » Stephen A. Douglas, American lawyer and politician, 7th Secretary of State of Illinois (b. 1813)
• 1865 » Okada Izō, Japanese samurai (b. 1838)
• 1875 » Georges Bizet, French pianist and composer (b. 1838)
• 1877 » Ludwig Ritter von Köchel, Austrian botanist, composer, and publisher (b. 1800)
• 1882 » Christian Wilberg, German painter and illustrator (b. 1839)
• 1894 » Karl Eduard Zachariae von Lingenthal, German lawyer and jurist (b. 1812)
• 1899 » Johann Strauss II, Austrian composer and educator (b. 1825)
• 1900 » Mary Kingsley, English explorer and author (b. 1862)
• 1902 » Vital-Justin Grandin, French-Canadian bishop and missionary (b. 1829)

• 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.
• March 3 » The Russo-Turkish War ends with Bulgaria regaining its independence from the Ottoman Empire according to the Treaty of San Stefano.
• 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.
• September 3 » Over 640 die when the crowded pleasure boat Princess Alice collides with the Bywell Castle in the River Thames.
• December 18 » The Al-Thani family become the rulers of the state of Qatar.

The temperature on June 3, 1878 was about 14.9 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 69%.