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• Anna Maria Dijkstra, Harlingen († 1953)
• Albert BOUWMAN, Rottum (Kantens) Groningen Netherlands († 1958)
• Adam MOELIKER, Annaland, St, Zeeland, Nederland
• Snoeren, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Albertus Vos, Sleen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1968)
• Adrianus van Zwieten de Blom, Loosduinen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje de Haan, Zuideindigerslag († 1957)
• Adriana Johanna Maria Nas, Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adriana Kruijt, Katwijk († 1968)
• Anna Maria Thomas, Amsterdam

• Aldegonda TULKENS (61), Neeritter, 6015, Leudal, Limburg, Nederland
• Andreas Augustinus van Beurden (0), Antwerpen, B
• Auke Hendriks Algra (0), Hardegarijp, Tytsjerksteradiel, Friesland, Netherlands
• Anna Maria SEGERS (3), Mol,2400,Anvers,Flandre,BELGIQUE
• Annigje Moes (58), Nieuw Amsterdam (Emmen)
• Anna Jacoba van der Peijl (0), Terneuzen Nederland
• Andries Zaalberg (12), Leiden
• Arie Benne (41), Noordzee, Nederland
• Adrianus Johannes van der Gaag (0), Nootdorp
• Aleida Oude Roosen (61), Losser, Overijssel, Netherlands

• 1871 » Samuel McLaughlin, Canadian businessman and philanthropist, founded the McLaughlin Carriage Company († 1972)
• 1872 » James William McCarthy, American judge († 1939)
• 1873 » Alfred Jarry, French author and playwright († 1907)
• 1873 » David O. McKay, American religious leader, 9th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints († 1970)
• 1876 » Inez Knight Allen, Mormon missionary and Utah politician († 1937)
• 1881 » Harry Hillman, American runner and hurdler († 1945)
• 1881 » Refik Saydam, Turkish physician and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Turkey († 1942)
• 1884 » Théodore Pilette, Belgian race car driver († 1921)
• 1886 » Ninon Vallin, French soprano and actress († 1961)
• 1886 » Siegfried Sassoon, English captain, journalist, and poet († 1967)

• 1831 » John Aitken, Scottish-American publisher (b. 1745)
• 1853 » Frédéric Ozanam, French scholar, co-founded the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul (b. 1813)
• 1882 » Joseph Liouville, French mathematician and academic (b. 1809)
• 1894 » Hermann von Helmholtz, German physician and physicist (b. 1821)
• 1909 » Vere St. Leger Goold, Irish tennis player (b. 1853)
• 1916 » Friedrich Baumfelder, German pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1836)
• 1933 » Faisal I of Iraq (b. 1883)
• 1935 » Carl Weiss, American physician (b. 1906)
• 1940 » Hemmo Kallio, Finnish actor (b. 1863)
• 1942 » Rıza Nur, Turkish surgeon and politician (b. 1879)

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 19 » Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.
• May 25 » Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore opens at the Opera Comique in London.
• 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 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.
• 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 8, 1878 was about 16.5 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 95%.