About the day » Wednesday October 28, 1885Calender converter

• Alida Veltkamp, schiedam († 1951)
• Jansen, Den Helder
• Assendelft 139A
• Adrianus Johannes Staffhorst, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland († 1911)
• Adah Bertha Williams, Port Matilda, Centre, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten († 1968)
• Alida Hock, Nijmegen
• 'n Levenloos geboren dochter van van Tol, Ter Aar (Langeraar)
• Aleida Helena Theresia Breshamer, Deventer († 1890)
• Alphonsus van Heese, Hontenisse
• Age Hollander, rotterdam (zuid holland)

• Aagje Hendriks Fleer (74), IJlst
• N.N.Jager (0), Emmen
• Adriana Meulendijk (0), Nuland
• Antje Smith (62), Harlingen, Friesland, Nederland
• Aafje TESSELAAR (23), Warmenhuizen,Nederland
• Aagjen Hendriks Fleer (74), IJlst
• Alida Johanna Hulsman (51), Rotterdam
• Adriaan de Later (5), Nieuwekerk, Schouwen-Duiveland, Zeeland, Nederland
• Andries van Nassau (59), Roosendaal, Noord-Brabant, Nl
• Antonius Bekel (4), Lutten, Ov., Nederland

• 1879 » Channing H. Cox, American lawyer and politician, 49th Governor of Massachusetts († 1968)
• 1880 » Billy Wedlock, English footballer († 1965)
• 1880 » Wilhelm Anderson, Belarusian-Estonian astrophysicist and astronomer († 1940)
• 1881 » Vin Coutie, Australian footballer († 1951)
• 1884 » William Douglas Cook, New Zealand horticulturalist, founded Eastwoodhill Arboretum († 1967)
• 1885 » Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian poet and playwright († 1922)
• 1886 » Noel Macklin, English soldier and engineer († 1946)
• 1888 » Christopher Vane, 10th Baron Barnard, English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Durham († 1964)
• 1889 » Juliette Béliveau, Canadian actress and singer († 1975)
• 1892 » Dink Johnson, American pianist, drummer, and clarinet player († 1954)

• 1857 » Louis-Eugène Cavaignac, French general and politician, 26th Prime Minister of France (b. 1802)
• 1877 » Robert Swinhoe, English ornithologist and entomologist (b. 1835)
• 1879 » Marie Roch Louis Reybaud, French economist and politician (b. 1799)
• 1899 » Ottmar Mergenthaler, German-American engineer, invented the Linotype machine (b. 1854)
• 1900 » Max Müller, German philologist and orientalist (b. 1823)
• 1914 » Richard Heuberger, Austrian composer and critic (b. 1850)
• 1916 » Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist and academic (b. 1838)
• 1916 » Oswald Boelcke, German WWI flying ace (b. 1891)
• 1917 » Dimitrios Votsis, Greek lawyer and politician (b. 1841)
• 1917 » Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein (b. 1831)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Jacob
9. Jacobus
10. Petrus
11. Adrianus
12. Arie
13. Dirk
14. Hendrikus
15. Wilhelmus
16. Gerardus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Catharina
7. Adriana
8. Wilhelmina
9. Hendrika
10. Aaltje
11. Neeltje
12. Jacoba
13. Grietje
14. Trijntje
15. Geertruida
16. Antje

• 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 April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
• January 4 » Sino-French War: French troops under General Oscar de Négrier defeat a numerically superior Qing force at Núi Bop in northern Vietnam.
• February 21 » The newly completed Washington Monument is dedicated.
• June 9 » Treaty of Tientsin is signed to end the Sino-French War, with China eventually giving up Tonkin and Annam – most of present-day Vietnam – to France.
• September 22 » Lord Randolph Churchill makes a speech in Ulster in opposition to the Irish Home Rule movement.
• October 13 » The Georgia Institute of Technology is founded in Atlanta, Georgia.
• November 28 » Bulgarian victory in the Serbo-Bulgarian War preserves the Unification of Bulgaria.

The temperature on October 28, 1885 was about 4.9 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 95%.