* 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 )

* Galatea, the main figure depicted with Pygmalion in Pygmalion and the Image, a series of four paintings by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones ( 1878 )

* 1812 – Edward Shepherd Creasy, English historian ( d. 1878 )

Sir John Everett Millais, The Two Princes Edward and Richard in the Tower, 1483, Royal Holloway collection, 1878

** Edward Plunkett, Baron Dunsany, Irish author ( b. 1878 )

"... Stratagem was, therefore, indispensable ; and it was necessary to blind Varus to their schemes until a favorable opportunity should arrive for striking a decisive blow ..." British historian Edward Shepherd Creasy ( 1812 – 1878 )

David Niven was born in London to William Edward Graham Niven ( 1878 – 1915 ) and Henrietta Julia Degacher.

* Pygmalion and the Image series, a series of four paintings by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones ( 1878 )

* Jerome Napoleon Charles Bonaparte ( 1878 – 1945 ); married, in 1914, Blanche Pierce Stenbeigh, daughter of Edward and Emily Pierce of Newtonville, Massachusetts, and former wife of Harold Stenbeigh of Hewlett, New York ; no issue.

The Two Princes Edward and Richard in the Tower, 1483 by Sir John Everett Millais, 1878, part of the Royal Holloway picture collection

His parents, George Philip Gein ( 1873 – 1940 ) and Augusta Wilhelmine ( Lehrke ) Gein ( 1878 – 1945 ), both natives of Wisconsin, had two sons: Henry George Gein ( 1901 – 1944 ), and his younger brother, Edward Theodore Gein.

It is named for Tennessee politician Edward S. Cheatham ( 1818 – 1878 ).

As reported in Edward Walford's Old and New London ( 1878 ), " In past times it was planted with gibbets, on which the bleaching bones of men who had dared to ask for some extension of liberty, or who doubted the infallibility of kings, were left year after year to dangle in the wind.

Notable among these are The Two Princes Edward and Richard in the Tower ( 1878 ) depicting the Princes in the Tower, The Northwest Passage ( 1874 ) and the Boyhood of Raleigh ( 1871 ).

Image: princes. jpg | The Two Princes Edward and Richard in the Tower ( 1878 ) Picture Gallery of Royal Holloway College

The naturalist Edward Nelson, who visited the island in 1878, noted 6 people living on Nelson Island: 5 Yupik and one non-Yupik trader.

* Edward Thomas ( 1878 – 1917 ) — poet

Some see the beginnings of true Anglo-Welsh poetry in the work of poets such as Gerard Manley Hopkins ( 1844 – 89 ), Edward Thomas ( 1878 – 1917 ), and Wilfred Owen ( 1893 – 1918 ).

( See also Gerard Manley Hopkins ( 1844 – 89 ), Edward Thomas ( 1878 – 1917 ) and Joseph Keating ( 1871 – 1934 ).

Edward Brook died in 1904 at Hoddom Castle, the house near Ecclefechan, south-west Scotland, which he had purchased in 1878.

Edward Fry was the father of the art critic and artist Roger Fry and the social reformers, Joan Mary Fry ( 1862 – 1955 ), Margery Fry ( 1874 – 1958 ) and Ruth Fry ( 1878 – 1962 ).

In England, too, Froude's Irish history had its critics, most notably William Edward Hartpole Lecky in his History of England in the Eighteenth Century, the first volumes of which were published in 1878, and in reviews in Macmillan's Magazine.

* Edward Taylor, The History of the Octagon Chapel 1878. in Dr Williams Library.

Among her most celebrated roles with Irving were Ophelia, Pauline in The Lady of Lyons by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton ( 1878 ), Portia ( 1879 ), Queen Henrietta Maria in William Gorman Wills's drama Charles I ( 1879 ), Desdemona in Othello ( 1881 ), Camma in Tennyson's short tragedy The Cup ( 1881 ), Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, another of her signature roles ( 1882 and often thereafter ), Juliet in Romeo and Juliet ( 1882 ), Jeanette in The Lyons Mail by Charles Reade ( 1883 ), the title part in Reade's romantic comedy Nance Oldfield ( 1883 ), Viola in Twelfth Night ( 1884 ), Margaret in the long-running adaptation of Faust by Wills ( 1885 ), the title role in Olivia ( 1885, which she had played earlier at the Court Theatre ), Lady Macbeth in Macbeth ( 1888, with incidental music by Arthur Sullivan ), Queen Katherine in Henry VIII ( 1892 ), Cordelia in King Lear ( 1892 ), Rosamund de Clifford in Becket by Alfred Tennyson ( 1893 ), Guinevere in King Arthur by J. Comyns Carr, with incidental music by Sullivan ( 1895 ), Imogen in Cymbeline ( 1896 ), the title character in Victorien Sardou and Émile Moreau's play Madame Sans-Gêne ( 1897 ) and Volumnia in Coriolanus ( 1901 ).

On 22 January 1878 he married Hannah ( Anna ) Johnson Boyle ( 1855 – 1925 ), the youngest daughter of Edward Boyle, a mechanical engineer from Edinburgh and his wife, Mary Ann née Mackie.