About the day » Saturday March 21, 1885Calender converter

• Albertus Jakobs de Vlieg, Aduarderzijl († 1952)
• abel POLDERMAN, maasdam
• Aaltien Weggemans, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1956)
• Adrianus Luijkx, Wouw, Netherlands
• Adriana Labots, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1885)
• Albert Bel, Eursinge, Beilen, Drenthe, Netherlands († 1894)
• Assendelft 105
• Alida Pothoven, Arnhem,, Gelderland, Nederland
• Age Hendriks Geertsma, Dantumadeel, Friesland, Nederland († 1926)
• Aaltje Jans Meyer, Tietjerksteradeel, Friesland, Nederland

• Anna Margaretha (Gertrudis) Moonen (70), Klimmen, Limburg, Nederland
• Aartje Both (3), waddinxveen (zuid holland)
• Antje Arendse Nunnik (79), Krommenie, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aafje Breet (89)
• Adriaan Leenman (0), Sliedrecht
• Anna Helena Muller (69), Altenberge
• Adriana Johanna Elsing (1), Utrecht
• Anna Helena Müller (69), Altenberge, Haren (Ems), Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany
• Anna Catharina Timmermans (46), Waspik, Provincie Noord Brabant, Nederland
• Allie Brands (0), Zuidlaren, Tynaarlo,, Drenthe, Nederland

• 1880 » Broncho Billy Anderson, American actor, director, and producer († 1971)
• 1880 » Hans Hofmann, German-American painter and academic († 1966)
• 1882 » Aleksander Kesküla, Estonian politician († 1963)
• 1884 » George David Birkhoff, American mathematician († 1944)
• 1885 » Pierre Renoir, French actor and director († 1952)
• 1886 » Walter Dray, American pole vaulter († 1973)
• 1887 » Clarice Beckett, Australian painter († 1935)
• 1887 » Lajos Kassák, Hungarian poet, novelist and painter († 1967)
• 1887 » M. N. Roy, Indian philosopher and politician († 1954)
• 1889 » Jock Sutherland, American football player and coach († 1948)

• 1843 » Guadalupe Victoria, Mexican general and politician, 1st President of Mexico (b. 1786)
• 1843 » Robert Southey, English poet, historian, and translator (b. 1774)
• 1854 » Pedro María de Anaya, Mexican soldier. President (1847-1848) (b. 1795)
• 1863 » Edwin Vose Sumner, American general (b. 1797)
• 1869 » Juan Almonte, son of José María Morelos, was a Mexican soldier and diplomat who served as a regent in the Second Mexican Empire (1863-1864) (b. 1803)
• 1884 » Ezra Abbot, American scholar and academic (b. 1819)
• 1891 » Joseph E. Johnston, American general (b. 1807)
• 1915 » Frederick Winslow Taylor, American golfer, tennis player, and engineer (b. 1856)
• 1920 » Evelina Haverfield, British suffragette and aid worker (b. 1867)
• 1932 » Frantz Reichel, French rugby player and hurdler (b. 1871)

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.
• March 3 » The American Telephone & Telegraph Company is incorporated in New York.
• March 26 » The Métis people of the District of Saskatchewan under Louis Riel begin the North-West Rebellion against Canada.
• May 2 » Cree and Assiniboine warriors win the Battle of Cut Knife, their largest victory over Canadian forces during the North-West Rebellion.
• July 1 » The Congo Free State is established by King Leopold II of Belgium.
• July 1 » The United States terminates reciprocity and fishery agreement with Canada.
• December 28 » Indian National Congress, a political party of India, is founded in Bombay Presidency, British India.

The temperature on March 21, 1885 was about 2.2 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain. The air pressure was 15 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%.