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• Andries JELMERSMA, Wonseradeel(Friesland)
• Anna Cornelia Rockx, Oud en Nieuw Gastel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1953)
• Amelia Catharina Caers, Herentals, België († 1973)
• Alida Moleman, Aalsmeer
• Andrea Duforest, Tourcoing,59200,Nord,Nord-Pas-de-Calais,France († 1938)
• Alida Moleman, Aalsmeer († 1962)
• Aaltje Dommerholt, Epse († 1947)
• Adriaantje Schat, Het Bildt († 1962)
• Anna Maria SCHULLER, Drimmelen, noord brabant, Nederland
• Adriaantje Pieters Schat, Het Bildt, Friesland, Nederland

• Adam Adrianus van Dun (0), Tilburg
• Abraham GRIFFIJN (9), 's-Gravenzande, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alexander Alphonsus Ferdinand van den Dungen, Uden
• Adriana van Rozendaal (44), Hooge en Lage Zwaluwe
• Adriaan Zandee (68)
• Adélaide BELLOT (74), Rom, 79120, France
• Aartje Oldemans (83), South Holland, Illinois,Cook County, Verenigde Staten
• Adrianus Ludovicus Anthoni (54), Vremde
• Adriana Burggraaf (13), Rotterdam (ZH NL)
• Anna Maria Aldegonda Hösli (0), Tilburg

• 1867 » Hiranuma Kiichirō, Japanese lawyer and politician, 35th Prime Minister of Japan († 1952)
• 1867 » James Edwin Campbell, American poet, editor, short story writer and educator († 1896)
• 1868 » Evelyn Beatrice Hall, English writer best known for her biography of Voltaire, and wrote under the pseudonym S. G. Tallentyre († 1956)
• 1870 » Florent Schmitt, French composer and critic († 1958)
• 1877 » Albert Young, American boxer and promoter († 1940)
• 1878 » Joseph Ruddy, American swimmer and water polo player († 1962)
• 1881 » Pedro de Cordoba, American actor († 1950)
• 1882 » Mart Saar, Estonian organist and composer († 1963)
• 1885 » Emil Väre, Finnish wrestler, coach, and referee († 1974)
• 1887 » Avery Brundage, American businessman, 5th President of the International Olympic Committee († 1975)

• 1844 » Pyotr Aleksandrovich Tolstoy, Russian general and politician (b. 1769)
• 1859 » Carl Ritter, German geographer and academic (b. 1779)
• 1873 » Émile Gaboriau, French journalist and author (b. 1832)
• 1891 » Herman Melville, American author and poet (b. 1819)
• 1895 » Louis Pasteur, French chemist and microbiologist (b. 1822)
• 1899 » Giovanni Segantini, Austrian painter (b. 1858)
• 1914 » Richard Warren Sears, American businessman, co-founded Sears (b. 1863)
• 1915 » Saitō Hajime, Japanese samurai (b. 1844)
• 1918 » Freddie Stowers, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1896)
• 1918 » Georg Simmel, German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1858)

• 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 9 » Umberto I becomes King of Italy.
• March 3 » The Russo-Turkish War ends with Bulgaria regaining its independence from the Ottoman Empire according to the Treaty of San Stefano.
• 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.
• July 13 » Treaty of Berlin: The European powers redraw the map of the Balkans. Serbia, Montenegro and Romania become completely independent of the Ottoman Empire.
• 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.

The temperature on September 28, 1878 was about 13.5 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%.