About the day » Thursday March 19, 1885Calender converter

• Anna Catharina Josephina Maria Teurlinckx, Eindhoven († 1960)
• Albert ten Have, Hengelo, Gelderland, Nederland († 1947)
• Ada A. Patrick Evans [K PqSSDI], Pitt County, North Carolina ql († 1977)
• Abraham Wouter van den Hoek, Gemeente Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1962)
• * Marijtje Eijlander, Zunderdorp († 1952)
• Albert ten Have, Hengelo († 1947)
• Alexander Petrus Oosterbroek, Baarn († 1885)
• Aleida Maria Martens, Gendringen, Nederland
• Adriana Weijling, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1972)
• Adriana Pluijmers, Lonneker († 1947)

• Anna Maria Geertruida (Geertje) Rolfes (89), Ter Aar, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Leenheer (0), Rhoon
• Anne Marie SOIRON (82), Sluis
• Anne Joseph Soemers (69), Bocholtz, Limburg, Nederland
• Annie Elizabeth Moore * (44), Plymouth, Devon, England
• Alijda ter Horst (58), baarn
• (H)endrijntje Dekker (76), Nieuwerkerk aan den IJssel, Nederland
• Annechina Piening (24), Wildervank, Gr, The Netherlands
• Albert Jans Veenstra (15)
• Adriana van den Engel (89), Montfoort, Utrecht, Nederland

• 1880 » Ernestine Rose, American librarian and advocate († 1961)
• 1881 » Edith Nourse Rogers, American social worker and politician († 1960)
• 1882 » Gaston Lachaise, French-American sculptor († 1935)
• 1883 » Joseph Stilwell, American general († 1946)
• 1883 » Norman Haworth, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1950)
• 1885 » Attik, Greek composer († 1944)
• 1888 » Josef Albers, German-American painter and educator († 1976)
• 1888 » Léon Scieur, Belgian cyclist († 1969)
• 1891 » Earl Warren, American lieutenant, jurist, and politician, 14th Chief Justice of the United States († 1974)
• 1892 » Theodore Sizer, American professor of the history of art († 1967)

• 1871 » Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger, Austrian mineralogist, geologist, and physicist (b. 1795)
• 1897 » Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie, Irish-French geographer, ethnologist, linguist, and astronomer (b. 1810)
• 1900 » Charles-Louis Hanon, French pianist and composer (b. 1819)
• 1900 » John Bingham, American lawyer and politician, 7th United States Ambassador to Japan (b. 1815)
• 1914 » Giuseppe Mercalli, Italian priest, geologist, and volcanologist (b. 1850)
• 1919 » Emma Bell Miles, American writer, poet, and artist of Appalachia (b. 1879)
• 1930 » Arthur Balfour, Scottish-English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1848)
• 1930 » Henry Lefroy, Australian politician, 11th Premier of Western Australia (b. 1854)
• 1942 » Clinton Hart Merriam, American zoologist, ornithologist, and entomologist (b. 1855)
• 1944 » William Hale Thompson, American rancher and politician, 41st Mayor of Chicago (b. 1869)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Jacobus
9. Jacob
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. Wilhelmina
8. Adriana
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.
• February 5 » King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo as a personal possession.
• February 8 » The first government-approved Japanese immigrants arrived in Hawaii.
• April 3 » Gottlieb Daimler is granted a German patent for his engine design.
• April 24 » American sharpshooter Annie Oakley is hired by Nate Salsbury to be a part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West.
• July 6 » Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies on Joseph Meister, a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog.
• November 7 » The completion of Canada's first transcontinental railway is symbolized by the Last Spike ceremony at Craigellachie, British Columbia.

The temperature on March 19, 1885 was about 4.7 °C. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 70%.