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• Alberic Depuydt, Zwevezele († 1923)
• Anna Maria Coenen, Maaseik, België († 1965)
• Anna Catharina Tjaden, Delfzijl († 1904)
• Aartje GELDERBLOM, Nieuw Lekkerland
• Anna Margaretha Braun, Posterholt († 1934)
• anna maria de wijs, made en drimmelen († 1942)
• Adriaan (Adriaan, Adrianus) Bos, Kedichem, Nederland († 1972)
• Alberdina Den Hartog
• Adrianus Willijns, WEESP (Amsterdam), Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1948)
• Adrianus Bos, Kedichem, Leerdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• Agnes Whitright (29), Monroeville, Allen, Indiana, United States
• Aaltje Dirks Botter (61), Schokland, Nederland
• Anna Adriana Maria Pessers (1), Tilburg
• Albertien Wekema (11), Peize
• andries TIMMERS (32), Nijmgen
• Aaltje Botter (61), Kampen
• Aaltje Benjamins Stegenga (76), Gaasterland
• Abraham Rip (0), Waddinxveen
• Aleydis Pruyn (75), Leiden
• Adolf Adams ter Cock (68), Groningen

• 1862 » Zonia Baber, American geographer and geologist († 1956)
• 1863 » Dragutin Lerman, Croatian explorer († 1918)
• 1865 » Ferdinand I of Romania († 1927)
• 1872 » Max Beerbohm, English essayist, parodist, and caricaturist († 1956)
• 1884 » Earl Derr Biggers, American author and playwright († 1933)
• 1887 » Harry Hooper, American baseball player († 1974)
• 1888 » Valentine Baker, Welsh co-founder of the Martin-Baker Aircraft Company († 1942)
• 1890 » Duke Kahanamoku, American swimmer, actor, and surfer († 1968)
• 1890 » Jean Rhys, Dominican-English novelist († 1979)
• 1893 » Haim Ernst Wertheimer, German-Israeli biochemist and academic († 1978)

• 1821 » John William Polidori, English writer and physician (b. 1795)
• 1832 » Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, French physicist and engineer (b. 1796)
• 1838 » Ferenc Kölcsey, Hungarian poet, critic, and politician (b. 1790)
• 1841 » John Ordronaux, French-American soldier (b. 1778)
• 1841 » Theodore Hook, English civil servant and composer (b. 1788)
• 1888 » Rudolf Clausius, German physicist and mathematician (b. 1822)
• 1895 » Albert F. Mummery, English mountaineer and author (b. 1855)
• 1923 » Kate Douglas Wiggin, American author and educator (b. 1856)
• 1930 » Tom Norman, English businessman and showman (b. 1860)
• 1932 » Kate M. Gordon, American activist (b. 1861)

• 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 28 » Yale Daily News becomes the first independent daily college newspaper in the United States.
• May 25 » Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore opens at the Opera Comique in London.
• 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.
• October 15 » The Edison Electric Light Company begins operation.
• 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 August 24, 1878 was about 16.7 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south east. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 89%.