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• Afke Hotzes PIERSMA, Utingeradeel Friesland Netherlands
• Anna Riggerdina Stuyver, Weststellingwerf († 1887)
• Anna van der Kreeft, Culemborg
• Antje MONKELBAAN, Gaasterland(Friesland)
• Anna Lems, Charlois
• Aagje van Bodegom, Spijkenisse († 1937)
• Anna van der Kreeft, Culemborg, Gelderland, Nederland († 1926)
• Antonius Rikken, Steenwijkerwold
• Adam van der Veen, Bonnerveen, Gieten, Drenthe, Nederland († 1878)
• Anna Riggerdina Stuiver, Weststellingwerf, Friesland, Nederland († 1887)

• Antoine WEIGEL (0), Oberdorf (68960, Haut-Rhin, France)
• Annigje Jans van den DOLDER (81), Steenwijk,, Overijssel, Nederland
• Anje Jans Dijkema (45), Tinallinge (Baflo) Gem. Winsum
• Aaltje Having (72), Smeulveen (huidig Klazienaveen-Noord), Drenthe, The Netherlands
• Aaltje Having, Smeulveen, Emmen
• Anna Berendina Elisabeth Grootveld (0), Terheijden
• Antonius WITHAEGS (60), Ossendrecht(Nl)
• Antonius VERGOUWEN (64), Dongen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antje Kronenburg (37), Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Arnoldus_Johannes Markus (0), Den Haag

• 1871 » Marcel Proust, French novelist, critic, and essayist († 1922)
• 1874 » Sergey Konenkov, Russian sculptor († 1971)
• 1875 » Dezső Pattantyús-Ábrahám, Hungarian politician († 1973)
• 1875 » Mary McLeod Bethune, American educator and activist († 1955)
• 1877 » Ernst Bresslau, German zoologist († 1935)
• 1878 » Otto Freundlich, German painter and sculptor († 1943)
• 1882 » Ima Hogg, American society leader, philanthropist, patron and collector of the arts († 1975)
• 1883 » Hugo Raudsepp, Estonian playwright and politician († 1952)
• 1883 » Johannes Blaskowitz, German general († 1948)
• 1888 » Giorgio de Chirico, Greek-Italian painter and set designer († 1978)

• 1851 » Louis Daguerre, French photographer and physicist, invented the daguerreotype (b. 1787)
• 1863 » Clement Clarke Moore, American author and educator (b. 1779)
• 1881 » Georg Hermann Nicolai, German architect and academic (b. 1812)
• 1884 » Paul Morphy, American chess player (b. 1837)
• 1908 » Phoebe Knapp, American organist and composer (b. 1839)
• 1915 » Hendrik Willem Mesdag, Dutch painter (b. 1831)
• 1920 » John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher, British admiral (b. 1841)
• 1929 » Ève Lavallière, French actress (b. 1866)
• 1941 » Huntley Wright, English actor (b. 1868)
• 1941 » Jelly Roll Morton, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1890)

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 21 » The first telephone directory is issued in New Haven, Connecticut.
• 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.
• July 1 » Canada joins the Universal Postal Union.
• September 3 » Over 640 die when the crowded pleasure boat Princess Alice collides with the Bywell Castle in the River Thames.
• October 15 » The Edison Electric Light Company begins operation.

The temperature on July 10, 1878 was about 18.0 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 80%.