About the day » Tuesday February 26, 1985Calender converter

• Elwin Wittenberg († 1999)

• Antje de Jong (91), Ureterp, gem. Opsterland, Friesland, Nederland
• Alexander Rodger RENWICK (85), Edinburgh Newington, Midlothian, Scotland
• Dirk Verburgh (78), Vlaardingen
• Catharina Maria Beukers (82), Bergen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antje Fokkes De Jong (91), Gem. Opsterland
• Eleanor "Ellen" Wells (76), St Johnsbury, Caledonia, Vermont, Verenigde Staten
• Bintje van der Veen (79), Leeuwarden
• Augustinus Johannes Küller (61), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Petronella Verreijt (71), Goirle
• Berend van Asselt (64), Apeldoorn

• 1982 » Li Na, Chinese tennis player
• 1982 » Matt Prior, South African-English cricketer
• 1982 » Nate Ruess, American singer-songwriter
• 1983 » Jerome Harrison, American football player
• 1983 » Pepe, Brazilian-Portuguese footballer
• 1984 » Beren Saat, Turkish actress
• 1984 » Emmanuel Adebayor, Togolese international footballer, forward
• 1984 » Natalia Lafourcade, Mexican singer-songwriter
• 1985 » Fernando Llorente, Spanish international footballer, striker
• 1986 » Hannah Kearney, American skier

• 1981 » Howard Hanson, American composer, conductor, and educator (b. 1896)
• 1981 » Robert Aickman, English author and activist (b. 1914)
• 1985 » Tjalling Koopmans, Dutch-American economist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
• 1989 » Roy Eldridge, American trumpet player (b. 1911)
• 1993 » Constance Ford, American model and actress (b. 1923)
• 1994 » Bill Hicks, American comedian (b. 1961)
• 1995 » Jack Clayton, English director and producer (b. 1921)
• 1997 » David Doyle, American actor (b. 1929)
• 1998 » Theodore Schultz, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
• 2000 » George L. Street III, American captain, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1913)

1. Jan
2. Mark
3. Jeroen
4. Michael
5. Peter
6. Thomas
7. Pieter
8. Johannes
9. David
10. Bart
11. Dennis
12. Sander
13. Robert
14. Kevin
15. Paul
16. Tim

1. Maria
2. Linda
3. Kim
4. Laura
5. Jessica
6. Johanna
7. Anna
8. Stephanie
9. Charlotte
10. Sarah
11. Esther
12. Amanda
13. Judith
14. Nicole
15. Anne
16. Jennifer

• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 14.5 million citizens.
• February 19 » William J. Schroeder becomes the first recipient of an artificial heart to leave the hospital.
• April 19 » Two hundred ATF and FBI agents lay siege to the compound of the white supremacist survivalist group The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord in Arkansas; the CSA surrenders two days later.
• July 10 » An Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-154 stalls and crashes near Uchkuduk, Uzbekistan (then part of the Soviet Union), killing all 200 people on board in the USSR's worst-ever airline disaster.
• July 10 » The Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland harbour by French DGSE agents, killing Fernando Pereira.
• December 16 » Paul Castellano and Thomas Bilotti are shot dead on the orders of John Gotti, who assumes leadership of New York's Gambino crime family.
• December 20 » Pope John Paul II announces the institution of World Youth Day.

The temperature on February 26, 1985 was between -0.5 °C and 8.2 °C and averaged 3.7 °C. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (14%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.