* 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

** 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 )

Jules Verne describes in his novel Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen ( 1878 ) that when a fictional African " King of Kazounde " tasted a punch set aflame, " An act of spontaneous combustion had just taken place.

# ( 1878 ) Un capitaine de quinze ans ; English translation: Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen ( 1878 )

Other roles included Dick Simpson in Conscience Money ( 1878 ), Charles Chuckles in his An English Gentleman ( 1879 ) and John Blunt in his Michael Strogoff ( 1881 ).

* Dick Walsh, Kilkenny hurler ( born 1878 ).

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Richard M. " Dick " Brewer ( February 19, 1850 – April 4, 1878 ), was an American cowboy and outlaw.

Robert Dick Orok ( October 2, 1878 — 1958 ) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada.

See Robert Dick, Baker of Thurso, Geologist and Botanist, by Samuel Smiles ( 1878 ).

The children's author Mary Grant Bruce was born in the town in 1878.

The Martin Homeplace Museum showcases artifacts and memorabilia from Caldwell Parish's rich cultural history in a farmhouse built in 1878 on an 1816 Spanish Land Grant.

Folk schools were established in Elk Horn, Iowa ( 1878 – 1899 ); Grant, Michigan ( 1882 – 1888 ); Nysted, Nebraska ( 1887 – 1934 ); Tyler, Minnesota ( 1888 – 1935 ) and Kenmare, North Dakota ( 1902 – 1916 ) and finally in Solvang ( 1911 – 1931 ).

Others include: Millerites ( from 1833 ), Edward White ( 1846 ), Christadelphians ( from 1848 ), Thomas Thayer ( 1855 ), François Gaussen ( d. 1863 ), Henry Constable ( 1873 ), Louis Burnier ( Waldensian, d. 1878 ), the Baptist Conditionalist Association ( 1878 ), Cameron Mann ( 1888 ), Emmanuel Pétavel-Olliff ( 1891 ), Miles Grant ( 1895 ) George Gabriel Stokes ( 1897 ),

The Grant administration did little to pursue a treaty, and in 1878, the concession to build the canal fell to a French firm.

President Ulysses S. Grant appointed him the first President of the Board of Commissioners for the District of Columbia, the highest governing office of Washington, D. C., in which Dennison served from 1874 to 1878.

While in this latter post, he participated in the lengthy 1879 visit of former President and General Ulysses S. Grant to Japan at the conclusion of Grant's around-the-world tour that started in 1878.

* Charles Grant ( Australian politician ) ( 1878 – 1943 ), Australian Senator

In 1878 the White Stockings returned to the 1871 site and to a new park that is usually called Lake-Shore Park, Lake Front Park, or simply Lake Park, which was actually the name for the entire waterfront area ( not just the ballpark ) until being renamed Grant Park in 1901.

Grant, in rejecting the Lost Cause arguments, said in an 1878 interview that he rejected the notion that the South had simply been overwhelmed by numbers.

The former U. S. president and general Ulysses S. Grant visited Kristiania in the summer of 1878, and attended a gala dinner at Frogner with his entourage.

* General Ulysses S. Grant, 1877 – 1878

Sir Francis Grant, RA ( 18 January 1803 – 5 October 1878 ), was a Scottish portrait painter, who painted Queen Victoria and many distinguished British aristocratic and political figures of the day.

After some years of gradually failing health, Grant died of heart disease very suddenly at his residence, The Lodge, Melton Mowbray, on 5 Oct. 1878, and was interred in the church of England burying-ground in that town, his relatives having declined the usual honour of burial in St. Paul's Cathedral.

Among his sitters were Pius IX ( 1871 ), Lincoln, Grant ( 1878 ) Cardinal McCloskey, Louis Philippe (" his royal patron "), Marshal Soult, Webster, Calhoun, Hawthorne, Prescott, Longfellow, Liszt, Gambetta, Thiers, Lord Lyons, and the Princess ( now the queen ) of Rumania.

In 1878, Grant was in the Bannock War and was in the fight against Victorio in New Mexico.

* The Household Fire and Carriage Accident Insurance Company ( Limited ) v Grant ( 1878 – 79 ) LR 4 Ex D 216