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• Aafke Jonkman, Aduard, NL-GR
• Alida Vink, Rotterdam
• Anna van Duijvendijk, Middelharnis, Zuid-Holland, NL († 1947)
• Andries Tijmstra, Wons
• Alberta Stokhof de Jong, Nieuwer Amstel († 1878)
• Alida Magdalena Kalkhoven, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1964)
• Alphonsus Aloysius Vercauteren, Belsele
• Agnes Theodora Hendrika van der Leeuw, Geertuidenberg († 1930)
• Aaltje van Werven, Epe, Gelderland, Nederland († 1956)
• Aaltje Frederiks MOES, Hoogersmilde, Smilde, Midden-Drenthe, Drenthe, Nederland

• Anna Sara de Mooij (1), Rijnsburg, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Maria Den Ouden (1), Boskoop, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Anna, Maria van Beem (44), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Tas (79), Zevenhoven, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Aloisius Johannes Josephus Maria van Gastel (0), Roosendaal en Nispen (NL)
• Anna (Naatje) Levie Sanders (84), Rotterdam (Zuid-Holland)
• Alphonsus Maria Josephes van Groeningen (0), Utrecht
• Adrianus Wilhelmus van der Tuijn (0), Schiedam,-
• Adrianus Zaal (1), Wilnis
• Anna Maria van Beem (44), Amsterdam

• 1857 » Thorstein Veblen, American economist and sociologist († 1929)
• 1859 » Henry Simpson Lunn, English minister and humanitarian, founded Lunn Poly († 1939)
• 1862 » Nikolai Yudenich, Russian general († 1933)
• 1863 » Henry Ford, American engineer and businessman, founded the Ford Motor Company († 1947)
• 1872 » Princess Clémentine of Belgium († 1955)
• 1881 » Smedley Butler, American general, Medal of Honor recipient († 1940)
• 1890 » Casey Stengel, American baseball player and manager († 1975)
• 1893 » Fatima Jinnah, Pakistani dentist and politician († 1967)
• 1898 » Henry Moore, English sculptor and illustrator († 1986)
• 1899 » Gerald Moore, English pianist († 1987)

• 1832 » Lê Văn Duyệt, Vietnamese general, mandarin (b. 1763-4)
• 1870 » Aasmund Olavsson Vinje, Norwegian poet and journalist (b. 1818)
• 1875 » George Pickett, American general (b. 1825)
• 1889 » Charlie Absolom, England cricketer (b. 1846)
• 1898 » Otto von Bismarck, German lawyer and politician, 1st Chancellor of Germany (b. 1815)
• 1900 » Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (b. 1844)
• 1912 » Emperor Meiji of Japan (b. 1852)
• 1918 » Joyce Kilmer, American soldier, journalist, and poet (b. 1886)
• 1920 » Albert Gustaf Dahlman, Swedish executioner (b. 1848)
• 1930 » Joan Gamper, Swiss-Spanish footballer and businessman, founded FC Barcelona (b. 1877)

• 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 22 » In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of five-and-dime Woolworth stores.
• 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.
• May 25 » Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore opens at the Opera Comique in London.
• September 3 » Over 640 die when the crowded pleasure boat Princess Alice collides with the Bywell Castle in the River Thames.
• December 31 » Karl Benz, working in Mannheim, Germany, filed for a patent on his first reliable two-stroke gas engine, and he was granted the patent in 1879.

The temperature on July 30, 1878 was about 18.4 °C. The air pressure was 5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 72%.