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• Aart van de MERWE, Dordrecht († 1899)
• Anna Maria Gesina Straub, Amsterdam († 1959)
• Koert Winkel, Hollandscheveld († 1906)
• Adriana Margaretha Valkenburg, Vreeswijk († 1940)
• Anna Maria Ottenheim, Nunhem († 1939)
• Anna Groendijk, Terschelling, Friesland, Netherlands († 1936)
• Antje Terpstra, Westongeradeel
• Adriana Jeanne Françoise Mersen Senn van Basel, Meester Cornelis († 1923)
• Aaltje Moelijker, St. Annaland gem. Tholen Zld. NL
• Abraham Franciscus Kloos, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• Anna Michiels (77), Millen, Riemst (B)
• Anna Fruchten (76), Linschoten, Montfoort, Utrecht, Netherlands
• van Hooijdonk, Woensdrecht
• Antje Hendriks Bosma (81), Kooten, gem. Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Nederland
• Aarnoud Joosse (43), Westkapelle, Zeeland, Nederland
• Aaltien Gnodde (37), Gasselternijveenschemond
• Aaltien Gnodde (37), Gasselternijveenschemond, Drenthe, Nederland
• Anna Fruchte (76), Linschoten
• Aarnoud Joosse (43), Westkapelle
• antonia ceelen (10), oss

• 1865 » Henri Lebasque, French artist († 1937)
• 1866 » Thomas Hunt Morgan, American biologist, geneticist, and embryologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1945)
• 1867 » Yevgeny Miller, Russian general († 1938)
• 1877 » Plutarco Elías Calles, Mexican general and President (1924-1928), known as the Jefe Maximo (Maximum Boss) from 1928-1936. († 1945)
• 1879 » Lope K. Santos, Filipino lawyer and politician, 4th Governor of Rizal († 1963)
• 1881 » Lu Xun, Chinese author and critic († 1936)
• 1884 » Adolf Bolm, Russian ballet dancer and choreographer († 1951)
• 1888 » Hanna Ralph, German actress († 1978)
• 1889 » Charles Kenneth Scott Moncrieff, Scottish author and translator († 1930)
• 1893 » Harald Cramér, Swedish mathematician and statistician († 1985)

• 1849 » Johann Strauss I, Austrian composer (b. 1804)
• 1867 » Oliver Loving, American rancher, co-developed the Goodnight–Loving Trail (b. 1812)
• 1893 » Louise von François, German author (b. 1817)
• 1900 » Félix-Gabriel Marchand, Canadian journalist and politician, 11th Premier of Québec (b. 1832)
• 1900 » John M. Palmer, American general and politician, 15th Governor of Illinois (b. 1817)
• 1901 » Arthur Fremantle, English general and politician, Governor of Malta (b. 1835)
• 1905 » Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac, French educator and politician (b. 1853)
• 1917 » Thomas Ashe, Irish Republican Brotherhood volunteer, and rebel commander (b. 1885)
• 1918 » Mikhail Alekseyev, Russian general (b. 1857)
• 1926 » Herbert Booth, English songwriter and bandleader (b. 1862)

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.
• February 19 » Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.
• February 21 » The first telephone directory is issued in New Haven, Connecticut.
• 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.
• 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.

The temperature on September 25, 1878 was about 16.6 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 62%.