About the day » Tuesday August 25, 1885Calender converter

• Adrianus Hendrikus Rockx, Utrecht
• Alida Mooij, Alkmaar
• Martinus Bloks, Heesch
• Anna Ernestina Elisabeth Meij, ,, Amsterdam, Nederland
• Albert Kattouw, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Netherlands(Sloot)
• Amanda Payne Morgan, Tahlequah, Cherokee, Oklahoma, Verenigde Staten († 1977)
• Amma Zone Cobb, Santa Rosa, Florida, United States († 1937)
• Adriana Aleida Wakelkamp, utrecht († 1945)
• van der Wulp, Tholen († 1959)
• Adrianus Hendrikus Waalwijk, Geertruidenberg

• Anna Maria van der Heijden (70), Oss
• Carolina Geertruida Helena Janitz (41), Semarang, Java, Indonesië
• Adrianus Mulder (45), Utrecht
• Antje Uldriks Hoekstra (8), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Abraham Hendrik van Suchtelen (88), 's Gravenhage
• Aaltje van de Vegt (66), Abcoude Baambrugge
• * Jantje den Toom (84), Molenaarsgraaf
• Aart van den Dragt (0), Oosteinde, Ermelo
• Adrianus van de RIET (97), Etten-Leur,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Carolina_Geertruida Janitz (41), Semarang, Ned.-Indie

• 1877 » Joshua Lionel Cowen, American businessman, co-founded the Lionel Corporation († 1965)
• 1878 » Ted Birnie, English footballer and manager († 1935)
• 1882 » Seán T. O'Kelly, Irish journalist and politician, 2nd President of Ireland († 1966)
• 1889 » Alexander Mair, Australian politician, 26th Premier of New South Wales († 1969)
• 1891 » David Shimoni, Belarusian-Israeli poet and translator († 1956)
• 1893 » Henry Trendley Dean, American dentist († 1962)
• 1898 » Arthur Wood, English cricketer († 1973)
• 1898 » Helmut Hasse, German mathematician and academic († 1975)
• 1899 » Paul Herman Buck, American historian and author († 1978)
• 1900 » Isobel Hogg Kerr Beattie, Scottish architect († 1970)

• 1867 » Michael Faraday, English physicist and chemist (b. 1791)
• 1882 » Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, Estonian physician and author (b. 1803)
• 1886 » Zinovios Valvis, Greek lawyer and politician, 35th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1791)
• 1892 » William Champ, English-Australian politician, 1st Premier of Tasmania (b. 1808)
• 1900 » Friedrich Nietzsche, German philologist, philosopher, and critic (b. 1844)
• 1904 » Henri Fantin-Latour, French painter and lithographer (b. 1836)
• 1908 » Henri Becquerel, French physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 1916 » Mary Tappan Wright, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1851)
• 1921 » Nikolay Gumilyov, Russian poet and critic (b. 1886)
• 1924 » Mariano Álvarez, Filipino general and politician (b. 1818)

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 17 » A British force defeats a large Dervish army at the Battle of Abu Klea in the Sudan.
• January 26 » Troops loyal to The Mahdi conquer Khartoum, killing the Governor-General Charles George Gordon.
• February 8 » The first government-approved Japanese immigrants arrived in Hawaii.
• September 22 » Lord Randolph Churchill makes a speech in Ulster in opposition to the Irish Home Rule movement.
• November 17 » Serbo-Bulgarian War: The decisive Battle of Slivnitsa begins.
• December 28 » Indian National Congress, a political party of India, is founded in Bombay Presidency, British India.

The temperature on August 25, 1885 was about 15.2 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 81%.