About the day » Sunday May 10, 1885Calender converter

• Achille Joseph Ghislain DEMOULIN, Arquennes, Henegouwen, België
• Aaltjen Pot, Gramsbergen (de Krim),, Overijssel, Nederland († 1922)
• Aagje Verwolf, Ameide († 1965)
• Albert Clemens Strack 1885-1973 Strack, Aschendorf († 1973)
• Aagje Verwolf, Ameide, Nederland († 1966)
• Adrianus Remkes, Utrecht, 3500, Nederland
• Lenssen, Broekhuizenvorst, Li.NL († 1980)
• Albert Traugott Wiegmann, Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia († 1967)
• Adrianus Epskamp, Veenendaal (Utrecht) († 1969)
• Aaltje ten Napel, Barsbeek, Overijssel, Netherlands († 1947)

• aafje zwagerman (0), Andijk
• adriana SCHILPEROORT (70), klaaswaal
• Anna Sophia WAGNER (72), Oppenhausen / Herschwiesen
• Aert (= Adriaan) van der Goes van Naters (77), Delft, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Anna Gezina Scholten (47), Enschede
• Adriaan Jonkheer van der Goes (77), Delft, Z.H
• Albert Schottert (3), lutten (overijssel)
• Aart Johannes Verbeek (70), 's-Gravenhage, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Arnoldus Johannes Arnoldus Wildenbeest (15), Bemmel
• Albert Hiddes Bosscher (71), Kommerzijl

• 1876 » Ivan Cankar, Slovenian poet and playwright († 1918)
• 1878 » Gustav Stresemann, German journalist and politician, Chancellor of Germany, Nobel Prize laureate († 1929)
• 1878 » Konstantinos Parthenis, Greek painter († 1967)
• 1879 » Symon Petliura, Ukrainian journalist and politician († 1926)
• 1886 » Karl Barth, Swiss theologian and author († 1968)
• 1888 » Max Steiner, Austrian-American composer and conductor († 1971)
• 1890 » Alfred Jodl, German general († 1946)
• 1891 » Mahmoud Mokhtar, Egyptian sculptor and academic († 1934)
• 1893 » Tonita Peña, San Ildefonso Pueblo (Native American) artist († 1949)
• 1894 » Dimitri Tiomkin, Ukrainian-American composer and conductor († 1979)

• 1829 » Thomas Young, English physician and linguist (b. 1773)
• 1849 » Hokusai, Japanese painter and illustrator (b. 1760)
• 1863 » Stonewall Jackson, American general (b. 1824)
• 1868 » Henry Bennett, American lawyer and politician (b. 1808)
• 1889 » Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Russian journalist, author, and playwright (b. 1826)
• 1891 » Carl Nägeli, Swiss botanist and mycologist (b. 1817)
• 1897 » Andrés Bonifacio, Filipino soldier and politician, President of the Philippines (b. 1863)
• 1910 » Stanislao Cannizzaro, Italian chemist and academic (b. 1826)
• 1945 » Konrad Henlein, Czech soldier and politician (b. 1898)
• 1945 » Richard Glücks, German SS officer (b. 1889)

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.
• January 4 » Sino-French War: French troops under General Oscar de Négrier defeat a numerically superior Qing force at Núi Bop in northern Vietnam.
• March 14 » The Mikado, a light opera by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, receives its first public performance at the Savoy Theatre in London.
• April 30 » Governor of New York David B. Hill signs legislation creating the Niagara Reservation, New York's first state park, ensuring that Niagara Falls will not be devoted solely to industrial and commercial use.
• August 29 » Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first internal combustion motorcycle, the Reitwagen.
• September 12 » Arbroath 36–0 Bon Accord, a world record scoreline in professional Association football.
• November 7 » The completion of Canada's first transcontinental railway is symbolized by the Last Spike ceremony at Craigellachie, British Columbia.

The temperature on May 10, 1885 was about 10.7 °C. The air pressure was 16 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 76%.