About the day » Monday July 8, 1878Calender converter

• Adrianus Gerardus de Kok, Loosduinen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Ooms, Kralingen, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, NL († 1941)
• Alida Cornelia van Heijl, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1923)
• Abraham Bol, Valkenburg, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1961)
• Agnes van den Hogen, Woerden († 1932)
• Albertje Harms Kleine, Slood (Hoogeveen) († 1880)
• Anna Christina Elisabeth Holtkamp, Enschede, Overijssel, Nederland († 1960)
• Albertje Kleine, Hoogeveen († 1880)
• Anna Perdok, Siddeburen († 1954)
• Alida Cornelia van Heijl, Rotterdam († 1923)

• Aaltje Ter Stege (72), Slood, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Aart Tabak (0), Heerde
• Arthur Laurentius Cornelius Backers (0), Rotterdam
• Aart Tabak (0), Heerde
• Aaltje Roelofs ter Stege (72), Hoogeveen
• Anna Geertruida Pijnacker Hordijk (21), Naaldwijk
• Anna Maria Catharina Verschueren (62)
• Anne Marie Sarolea (15), Maestricht
• Calogero Gabriele Romano Colonna (37), Livorno, Italie
• Johannes Adriaan Zijlmans (0), Raamsdonkveer

• 1867 » Käthe Kollwitz, German painter and sculptor († 1945)
• 1876 » Alexandros Papanastasiou, Greek sociologist and politician, Prime Minister of Greece († 1936)
• 1882 » Percy Grainger, Australian-American pianist and composer († 1961)
• 1885 » Ernst Bloch, German philosopher, author, and academic († 1977)
• 1885 » Hugo Boss, German fashion designer, founded Hugo Boss († 1948)
• 1890 » Stanton Macdonald-Wright, American painter († 1973)
• 1892 » Pavel Korin, Russian painter († 1967)
• 1892 » Richard Aldington, English author and poet († 1962)
• 1893 » R. Carlyle Buley, American historian and author († 1968)
• 1894 » Pyotr Kapitsa, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1984)

• 1850 » Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge (b. 1774)
• 1859 » Oscar I of Sweden (b. 1799)
• 1873 » Franz Xaver Winterhalter, German painter and lithographer (b. 1805)
• 1887 » Ben Holladay, American businessman (b. 1819)
• 1895 » Johann Josef Loschmidt, Austrian chemist and physicist (b. 1821)
• 1905 » Walter Kittredge, American violinist and composer (b. 1834)
• 1913 » Louis Hémon, French-Canadian author (b. 1880)
• 1917 » Tom Thomson, Canadian painter (b. 1877)
• 1930 » Joseph Ward, Australian-New Zealand businessman and politician, 17th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1856)
• 1933 » Anthony Hope, English author and playwright (b. 1863)

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 16 » Russo-Turkish War (1877–78): Battle of Philippopolis: Captain Aleksandr Burago with a squadron of Russian Imperial army dragoons liberates Plovdiv from Ottoman rule.
• 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.
• March 24 » The British frigate HMSEurydice sinks, killing more than 300.
• June 4 » Cyprus Convention: The Ottoman Empire cedes Cyprus to the United Kingdom but retains nominal title.
• December 18 » The Al-Thani family become the rulers of the state of Qatar.

The temperature on July 8, 1878 was about 18.6 °C. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 52%.