* 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 )

* 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 )

* Malleson, George Bruce ( 1879 ) History of Afghanistan, from the Earliest Period to the Outbreak of the War of 1878 W. H.

The town was home to the civil engineer and calculating prodigy George Parker Bidder ( 1806 – 1878 ), who is notable for his work on railways over much of the world, as well as the docks of the East End in the Port of London.

* 1878 – George Bryant, American archer ( d. 1938 )

George Hoyt Whipple ( August 28, 1878 – February 1, 1976 ) was an American physician, pathologist, biomedical researcher, and medical school educator and administrator.

* 1878 – George M. Cohan, American actor, director, singer, and dancer ( d. 1942 )

George W. Lyon patented his cottage upright in 1878 and it was sold under the Lyon and Healy name.

* 1878 – Sir George Gilbert Scott, English architect ( b. 1811 )

* 1942 – George M. Cohan, American musician, actor, writer, and composer ( b. 1878 )

Waterhouse was dismissed as architect in 1878 and succeeded by George Gilbert Scott, who, after extending the Chapel, provided additional accommodation with the construction of New Court in 1881, with letters on a series of shields along the string course above the first floor spelling out the Psalm text " Nisi Dominus aedificat domum …" (" Except the Lord build the house, their labour is but vain that build it ").

The club was founded as West Bromwich Strollers in 1878 by workers from George Salter's Spring Works in West Bromwich, then in Staffordshire but now part of the West Midlands administrative county.

* November 5 – George M. Cohan, American songwriter and entertainer ( Yankee Doodle Dandy ) ( b. 1878 )

** George Whipple, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( b. 1878 )

****** HM Prince George, Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale, King Georg V of Hanover ( 1819 – 1878 )

Taking over the business in 1861, John Cadbury's sons Richard and George decided in 1878 that they needed new premises.

It was to be illustrated by George Cruikshank ( 1792 – 1878 ), who had succeeded the illustrators Hogarth and Rowlandson as London's leading satirist of urban life.

Cricketers born in the town include Cyril Baily in 1880, George Burrough in 1907, and Eustace Bisgood in 1878.

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.

George Gilbert Scott was appointed the project architect and oversaw a number of works from 1860 until his death in 1878.

George Gilbert Scott was working on the nave roof, vaulting and west bay when he died on 27 March 1878.

It was created in 1889 and was named for Fort Meade, which was garrisoned as a United States military post in the area in 1878 and was named for General George Meade.

Sir George Gilbert Scott ( 13 July 1811 – 27 March 1878 ) was an English Gothic revival architect, chiefly associated with the design, building and renovation of churches, and cathedrals, although he started his career as a leading designer of workhouses.

In 1878, George I. Seney, a New York capitalist, secured control of large plots of railroad land in Dewald and Olney Townships.