About the day » Thursday July 11, 1878Calender converter

• Albertus Johannes Linders Leenders, Nijmegen († 1879)
• Albert de Jong, Helder
• Alexander Eugene Grimm, Courbevoie, France († 1879)
• Adrianus Nobertus Vriens, Tilburg, NB, Nederland († 1885)
• Albertus, Johannes Linders Leenders, Nijmegen († 1879)
• Anna Isabella Maria van Roijen, Amsterdam († 1878)
• Albertus Wunderink, Warnsveld († 1947)
• Adrianus van Putten, Oude-Tonge, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Cornelia Bareman, Zaamslag (Terneuzen), Zeeland, Nederland
• Aagje SPAANS, Scheveningen, gemeente 's-Gravenhage (Z-H) († 1922)

• Duijvelaar (0), Middelharnis, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Nolbart (3), Halsteren
• Aart de Heus (71), Utrecht
• Albertus van Ommen (84), Velp
• Chaney Feaster (77), Fairfield County, SC
• Annetje van den Berg (69), Hellendoorn, Overijssel, The Netherlands
• Berend Grevers (27), Wageningen
• Charles BATEMAN (66), New Brunswick, Canada
• Adriana den Hertog (83), Hoogeveen in Rijnland, Nederland
• (63), Leersum

• 1866 » Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine († 1953)
• 1875 » H. M. Brock, British painter and illustrator († 1960)
• 1880 » Friedrich Lahrs, German architect and academic († 1964)
• 1881 » Isabel Martin Lewis, American astronomer and author († 1966)
• 1882 » James Larkin White, American miner, explorer, and park ranger († 1946)
• 1886 » Boris Grigoriev, Russian painter and illustrator († 1939)
• 1888 » Carl Schmitt, German philosopher and jurist († 1985)
• 1892 » Thomas Mitchell, American actor, singer, and screenwriter († 1962)
• 1894 » Erna Mohr, German zoologist († 1968)
• 1895 » Dorothy Wilde, English author and poet († 1941)

• 1797 » Ienăchiță Văcărescu, Romanian historian and philologist (b. 1740)
• 1806 » James Smith, Irish-American lawyer and politician (b. 1719)
• 1825 » Thomas P. Grosvenor, American soldier and politician (b. 1744)
• 1844 » Yevgeny Baratynsky, Russian philosopher and poet (b. 1800)
• 1897 » Patrick Jennings, Irish-Australian politician, 11th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1831)
• 1905 » Muhammad Abduh, Egyptian jurist and scholar (b. 1849)
• 1908 » Friedrich Traun, German sprinter and tennis player (b. 1876)
• 1909 » Simon Newcomb, Canadian-American astronomer and mathematician (b. 1835)
• 1929 » Billy Mosforth, English footballer and engraver (b. 1857)
• 1937 » George Gershwin, American pianist, songwriter, and composer (b. 1898)

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 9 » Umberto I becomes King of Italy.
• February 18 » John Tunstall is murdered by outlaw Jesse Evans, sparking the Lincoln County War in Lincoln County, New Mexico.
• March 15 » Restoration of the Scottish Catholic hierarchy, broken off back in 1603.
• 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.
• 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 July 11, 1878 was about 17.0 °C. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 80%.