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• * Cornelius Adrianus Schoutens, Tilburg († 1959)
• Adrianus Josephus van Breugel, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1912)
• Adrianus Bernardus Costermans, Rijsbergen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1878)
• Amelie Pieters, Schoondijke, Sluis, Zeeland, Nl († 1881)
• Adrienne Jonkvrouw Van Der Wijck, Huis ter Heide, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Anje Vink, Hellum, Midden-Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Adriana Simmers, Rotterdam
• Adrienne van der Wyck, Haarlem,Gemeente Haarlem,North Holland,Netherlands († 1945)
• Aaltjen Elferink, Lochem
• Alida Gezina Scheltens, Hoogezand († 1945)

• Adrianus Siebel (25), Rotterdam
• Anna Harmannus Muda (60), Ten Boer, Groningen, Nederland
• Allan Donald Mackintosh (25), Jamaica
• Anje KLOK (0), Ommelanderwijk (Veendam) Groningen Netherlands
• Anneke van Roekel (56)
• Arij Herbert (75), De Lier
• Anne Wytzes Kramer (53), Kubaard, Hennaarderadeel, Friesland, Neth
• Abram Hasness (75)
• Adrianus Broeders (0), Raamsdonk
• Anna Louisa Eras (0), Tilburg

• 1868 » Ellen Roosevelt, American tennis player († 1954)
• 1873 » Eliel Saarinen, Finnish architect and academic, co-designed the National Museum of Finland († 1950)
• 1881 » Aleksander Hellat, Estonian politician, 6th Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs († 1943)
• 1881 » Edgar Guest, English-American poet and author († 1959)
• 1884 » Rudolf Bultmann, German Lutheran theologian and professor of New Testament at the University of Marburg († 1976)
• 1885 » Dino Campana, Italian poet and author († 1932)
• 1886 » Paul Tillich, German-American philosopher and theologian († 1965)
• 1887 » Phan Khôi, Vietnamese journalist and scholar († 1959)
• 1888 » Tôn Đức Thắng, Vietnamese politician, 2nd President of Vietnam († 1980)
• 1890 » H. P. Lovecraft, American short story writer, editor, novelist († 1937)

• 1854 » Shiranui Dakuemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 8th Yokozuna (b. 1801)
• 1859 » Juan Bautista Ceballos, President of Mexico (1853) (b. 1811)
• 1882 » James Whyte, Scottish-Australian politician, 6th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1820)
• 1887 » Jules Laforgue, French poet and author (b. 1860)
• 1893 » Alexander Wassilko von Serecki, Austrian lawyer and politician (b. 1827)
• 1897 » Charles Lilley, English-Australian politician, 4th Premier of Queensland (b. 1827)
• 1912 » William Booth, English preacher, co-founded The Salvation Army (b. 1829)
• 1914 » Pope Pius X (b. 1835)
• 1915 » Paul Ehrlich, German physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1854)
• 1917 » Adolf von Baeyer, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1835)

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.
• 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.
• June 15 » Eadweard Muybridge takes a series of photographs to prove that all four feet of a horse leave the ground when it runs; the study becomes the basis of motion pictures.
• September 3 » Over 640 die when the crowded pleasure boat Princess Alice collides with the Bywell Castle in the River Thames.
• November 17 » First assassination attempt against Umberto I of Italy by anarchist Giovanni Passannante, who was armed with a dagger. The King survived with a slight wound in an arm. Prime Minister Benedetto Cairoli blocked the aggressor, receiving an injury in a leg.

The temperature on August 20, 1878 was about 18.1 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 49%.