About the day » Sunday August 11, 1878Calender converter

• Adrianus de Neijs, Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Albertine SCHIELIN, Grentzingen (68960, Haut-Rhin, France) († 1958)
• Abraham Rip, Waddinxveen († 1878)
• Adrianus Le Maitre, Den Haag,Z.Holland,Nederland († 1892)
• Aaltje Derks Elzinga, Meerland (Midwolda) († 1959)
• Ambrosina de Oliveira Estivallet, Santiago, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil
• Aaltje Elzinga, Meerland (gem. Oldambt)
• aaltje BAKKER, zwijndrecht († 1914)
• Adrianus Buijks, Waspik nr335 († 1915)
• Aart Roelof Duiser, Strijen, ZH, Nederland († 1879)

• Clara Stemerdink (0)
• Abraham Goudswaard (53), Oud-Beijerland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Abraham Goudswaard (53), nieuw-beijerland (zuid holland)
• Catharina Konings (0), Dieden, Demen en Langel
• Alberta Stokhof de Jong (0), Nieuwer Amstel
• Bruinisje Teunisje van der Velden (59), Putten, Gelderland, Nederland
• Cornelis Clement (1), Wissenkerke
• Arend Vredenberg (66), Avereest
• Adriana Rasenberg (81), Made
• Adriana Rasenberg (81), Made en Drimmelen

• 1870 » Tom Richardson, English cricketer († 1912)
• 1874 » Princess Louise Charlotte of Saxe-Altenburg († 1953)
• 1877 » Adolph M. Christianson, American lawyer and judge († 1954)
• 1878 » Oliver W. F. Lodge, English poet and author († 1955)
• 1881 » Aleksander Aberg, Estonian wrestler († 1920)
• 1884 » Hermann Wlach, Austrian-Swiss actor († 1962)
• 1885 » Stephen Butterworth, English physicist and engineer († 1958)
• 1891 » Edgar Zilsel, Austrian historian and philosopher of science, linked to the Vienna Circle († 1944)
• 1891 » Stancho Belkovski, Bulgarian architect and educator († 1962)
• 1892 » Hugh MacDiarmid, Scottish poet and linguist († 1978)

• 1851 » Lorenz Oken, German botanist, biologist, and ornithologist (b. 1779)
• 1854 » Macedonio Melloni, Italian physicist and academic (b. 1798)
• 1868 » Halfdan Kjerulf, Norwegian pianist and composer (b. 1815)
• 1886 » Lydia Koidula, Estonian poet and playwright (b. 1843)
• 1890 » John Henry Newman, English cardinal and theologian (b. 1801)
• 1892 » Enrico Betti, Italian mathematician and academic (b. 1813)
• 1903 » Eugenio María de Hostos, Puerto Rican-American sociologist, philosopher, and lawyer (b. 1839)
• 1908 » Khudiram Bose, Indian Bengali revolutionary (b. 1889)
• 1919 » Andrew Carnegie, Scottish-American businessman and philanthropist, founded the Carnegie Steel Company and Carnegie Hall (b. 1835)
• 1921 » Mary Sumner, English philanthropist, founded the Mothers' Union (b. 1828)

• 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.
• March 3 » The Russo-Turkish War ends with Bulgaria regaining its independence from the Ottoman Empire according to the Treaty of San Stefano.
• 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.
• October 15 » The Edison Electric Light Company begins operation.
• October 22 » The Bramall Lane stadium sees the first rugby match played under floodlights.

The temperature on August 11, 1878 was about 18.3 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 87%.