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• Albert Haverkamp, Bedum († 1878)
• Anje Alberts, Nieuw Scheemda, Scheemda, Groningen, Netherlands
• Adrianus Kersseboom, Rotterdam
• Albert Haverkamp, Bedum, Groningen, Netherlands († 1878)
• Antonius Manders, Uden, Nederland († 1941)
• Agnes Catharina van der Wens, Duisburg-Rurhort, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Duitsland († 1950)
• Anna Agnes Mönter, 49832 Messingen
• Arnold Joseph Schoenaerts, Borgloon, België († 1889)
• Adolf Oswald Dubsky, Athènes, Grèce († 1953)
• Aaltiena Houwing, Gieterveen, Gieten, Drenthe, Netherlands († 1934)

• Anna \ Antje Burgering (53), Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Arnoldus Josephus Melchior Stas, Rupelmonde
• Adriaan Faase (1), Brouwershaven
• Benjamin LEACH (80), Whaddon, Winslow, Buckinghamshire
• Baukje Cornelis de Rijk, Leeuwarden
• Calvin Due McKee (53), Menard, Illinois, United States
• Adrianus Wijnandus van Oeffel (31), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Baukje Cornelis (Boukje) de Rijk, Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Baukjen Kornelis de Rijk (75), Leeuwarden, 8911, Nederland
• Bauke Uiltjes Venema (71), Tietjerksteradeel Friesland Nederland

• 1864 » Frederick Bligh Bond, English architect and archaeologist († 1945)
• 1884 » Georges Duhamel, French author and critic († 1966)
• 1889 » Archibald Frazer-Nash, English motor car designer, engineer and founder of Frazer Nash († 1965)
• 1890 » Paul Boffa, Maltese physician and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Malta († 1962)
• 1891 » Ed Lewis, American wrestler and manager († 1966)
• 1891 » Man Mountain Dean, American wrestler and sergeant († 1953)
• 1891 » Stanley Spencer, English painter († 1959)
• 1892 » Pierre Blanchar, Algerian-French actor and director († 1963)
• 1893 » Walter Ulbricht, German soldier and politician († 1973)
• 1895 » Heinz Warneke, German-American sculptor and educator († 1983)

• 1857 » Alcide d'Orbigny, French zoologist and paleontologist (b. 1802)
• 1882 » Alberto Henschel, German-Brazilian photographer and businessman (b. 1827)
• 1882 » Charles J. Guiteau, American preacher and lawyer, assassin of James A. Garfield (b. 1841)
• 1890 » Samuel Parkman Tuckerman, American organist and composer (b. 1819)
• 1908 » Thomas Hill, American painter (b. 1829)
• 1913 » Alphonse Kirchhoffer, French fencer (b. 1873)
• 1916 » Eunice Eloisae Gibbs Allyn, American correspondent, author, and poet (b. 1847)
• 1917 » Antonio de La Gándara, French painter and illustrator (b. 1861)
• 1917 » Dadabhai Naoroji, Parsi intellectual, educator, cotton trader, and an early Indian political and social leader (b. 1825)
• 1919 » John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1842)

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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• July 1 » Canada joins the Universal Postal Union.
• October 15 » The Edison Electric Light Company begins operation.

The temperature on June 30, 1878 was about 20.6 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 71%.