* 1878 – Erich Mühsam, German author ( d. 1934 )

* 1878 – Aino Kallas, Finnish-Estonian author ( d. 1956 )

* 1878 – John Corry Wilson Daly, Canadian politician ( b. 1796 )

Alexander Mackenzie, PC ( January 28, 1822 – April 17, 1892 ), a building contractor and newspaper editor, was the second Prime Minister of Canada from November 7, 1873 to October 8, 1878.

* Sir Henri Elzear Taschereau – October 7, 1878

* 1878 – Dick Grant, Canadian runner ( d. 1958 )

** Haliotis kamtschatkana assimilis Dall, 1878 – synonym: Haliotis assimilis, the threaded abalone

Prominent leaders include co-founders Lucien Febvre ( 1878 – 1956 ) and Marc Bloch ( 1886 – 1944 ).

* 1878 – Tip Foster, English cricketer ( d. 1914 )

* 1878 – Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel, Russian army officer ( d. 1928 )

* 1878 – Léon Binoche, French rugby player ( d. 1962 )

* 1878 – Manuel L. Quezon, Filipino politician, 2nd President of the Philippines ( d. 1944 )

* 1878 – Richard Girulatis, German footballer and manager ( d. 1963 )

* George V of Hanover ( 1819 – 1878 )

* 1878 – George Whipple, American physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1976 )

* Queen Victoria – the British Weights and Measures Act of 1878 defined it as containing 4, 840 square yards.

* 1878 – Emil Fuchs, German-American attorney and baseball owner ( d. 1961 )

* 1878 – Oliver W. F. Lodge, English poet and writer ( d. 1955 )

* 1878 – Alfred Döblin, German writer ( d. 1957 )

* 1929 – Pierre Fatou, French mathematician ( b. 1878 )

* 1843 – Alice of the United Kingdom ( d. 1878 )

* 1878 – William Merz, American gymnast and athlete ( d. 1946 )

* 1878 – Jean Crotti, Swiss artist ( d. 1958 )

* 1965 – Louise Dresser, American actress ( b. 1878 )

* 1804 – Carl Freiherr von Rokitansky, German physician ( d. 1878 )

* July 22 – Carl Sandburg, American poet ( b. 1878 )

Carl Sandburg ( January 6, 1878 – July 22, 1967 ) was an American writer and editor, best known for his poetry.

# Carl Magnus Wilhelm Armfelt, ( 1797 – 1878 ).

A cartoon from Harper's Weekly of December 21, 1878, features Philip Sheridan and Secretary of the Interior Carl Schurz

1878: Secretary of the Interior Carl Schurz accosts U. S. Representative James G. Blaine chopping a tree in the forest

* Carl Johan Jägerhorn 1878 – 1883

The development of these idioms, as well as more conservative reactions against them, can be traced through the works of poets such as Edwin Arlington Robinson ( 1869 – 1935 ), Stephen Crane ( 1871 – 1900 ), Robert Frost ( 1874 – 1963 ) and Carl Sandburg ( 1878 – 1967 ).

* February 18-Baron Carl von Rokitansky, Bohemian pathologist ( died 1878 )

This report was printed in 1878, in the appendix of Carl K. S. Sprinchorn's Kolonien Nya Sveriges Historia ( in English: History of the Colony of New Sweden ).

The London première of Bizet's Carmen occurred here on 22 June 1878, and in subsequent seasons the theatre hosted the Carl Rosa Opera Company ( Rosa's wife, Euphrosyne Parepa, had made her name in opera partly at Her Majesty's ) and a programme of French plays and light opera.

Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden | King Carl XVI Gustav wearing Navy m / 1878 mess dress on the occasion of the wedding of Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden, and Daniel Westling

He was part of the famous Vienna School of Dermatology, and studied and worked with several eminent physicians of the time ; Ernst Wilhelm Ritter von Brücke ( 1819 – 1892 ), Carl Freiherr von Rokitansky ( 1804 – 1878 ), Josef Skoda ( 1805 – 1881 ), Johann Ritter von Oppolzer ( 1808 – 1871 ), and Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra ( 1816 – 1880 ).

In 1878 the German engineer Carl Humann began official excavations on the acropolis of Pergamon, an effort that lasted until 1886.

Carl Eduard Hellmayr ( January 29, 1878, Vienna, Austria – February 24, 1944, Orselina, Switzerland ) was an Austrian ornithologist.

He started his scientific career as a research assistant in the laboratory of Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke ( 1819 – 1892 ), and later as an assistant, in the same University, to the eminent pathologist Carl von Rokitansky ( 1804 – 1878 ).

The London premiere of Das Goldene Kreuz, in an 1878 production by the Carl Rosa Opera Company, coincided with the first of two extensive concert tours of England, during which he was able to play his Piano Concerto No. 2 ( another youthful work, written in 1868 ) and arrange performances of some of his other pieces.

Some of his teachers belonged to the famous Second " Vienna School ", such as Carl Freiherr von Rokitansky ( 1804 – 1878 ) and Josef Skoda ( 1805 – 1881 ) ( its founders ), as well as Joseph Hyrtl ( 1810 – 1894 ), Johann Ritter von Oppolzer ( 1808 – 1871 ), and the famous physiologist Carl Ludwig ( 1816 – 1895 ).

Baron Carl von Rokitansky ( German: Carl Freiherr von Rokitansky, Czech: Karel Rokytanský ) ( 19 February 1804 – 23 July 1878 ), was a Bohemian physician, pathologist, humanist philosopher and liberal politician.

Image: Carl Freiherr von Rokitansky ( 1804 – 1878 ). jpg | The old Rokitansky

* Carl Sternheim ( 1878 – 1942 ), German writer