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• Alberdina Jantiena Wolfs, Vlagtwedde, Groningen, Nederland († 1963)
• Adelheid Kramer, Compascuum, Emmen († 1878)
• Hoogendoorn, Zwammerdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aleida van den Hul, Willeskop, Montfoort, Utrecht, Nederland († 1878)
• Reinek, Sappemeer, Nederland († 1878)
• Adriana Snoep, Kortgene, Zeeland, Nederland
• Albert Carl Hoefer († 1880)
• Adriana den Blanken, Rietveld (Utrecht)
• Albert Woertink, Arriën
• Aagje Zwart, Egmond aan Zee (gem. Bergen, NH) († 1880)

• Charles Joseph Derthoo (71), Klerken
• Anna Maria Lauer (54), York, PA
• Catharina Antonia Aussel (46), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelia Kemeling (0), 's-Gravenzande, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alberdina Stoel (0), Kampen, Nederland
• Anna Cornelia van Oort (0), Werkendam
• Adrianus Lijzen (73)
• Adrianus Paans (0), Werkendam
• Aart Jelles de Groot (0), St. Annaparochie
• Anna Cornelia van Oord (0), Werkendam

• 1868 » James Alexander Calder, Canadian educator and politician, Canadian Minister of Militia and Defence († 1956)
• 1869 » Christian Lous Lange, Norwegian political scientist, historian, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1938)
• 1874 » Walter Murdoch, Australian author and academic († 1970)
• 1878 » Vincenzo Tommasini, Italian composer († 1950)
• 1879 » Periyar E. V. Ramasamy, Indian businessman, social activist, and politician († 1973)
• 1879 » Rube Foster, American baseball player and manager († 1930)
• 1881 » Alfred Carpenter, English admiral, Victoria Cross recipient († 1955)
• 1883 » William Carlos Williams, American poet, short story writer, and essayist († 1963)
• 1884 » Charles Griffes, American pianist and composer († 1920)
• 1886 » Anton Irv, Estonian captain († 1919)

• 1858 » Dred Scott, American slave (b. 1795)
• 1863 » Alfred de Vigny, French author, poet, and playwright (b. 1797)
• 1863 » Charles Robert Cockerell, English archaeologist and architect (b. 1788)
• 1864 » Walter Savage Landor, English author and poet (b. 1775)
• 1868 » Roman Nose, Native American warrior (b. circa 1823)
• 1877 » Henry Fox Talbot, English photographer, developed the Calotype Process (b. 1800)
• 1878 » Orélie-Antoine de Tounens, French lawyer and adventurer (b. 1825)
• 1879 » Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, French architect and theorist (b. 1814)
• 1894 » Deng Shichang, Chinese captain (b. 1849)
• 1899 » Charles Alfred Pillsbury, American businessman, co-founded the Pillsbury Company (b. 1842)

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 28 » Yale Daily News becomes the first independent daily college newspaper in the United States.
• 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.
• October 22 » The Bramall Lane stadium sees the first rugby match played under floodlights.
• 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 September 17, 1878 was about 17.2 °C. The air pressure was 21 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 80%.