About the day » Monday May 20, 1985Calender converter

• Mark Hermanus Post, Rotterdam
• Janneke Brouwer, Leeuwarden († 1988)
• Remco Metaal, Winterswijk

• Cathalina Hagen (89), Zaandam
• Ad van den Broek (59), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriana Christina Luijten (46), Etten-Leur, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Barwert van der Plas (75), Katwijk
• Anna Ludovica LOYENS (93), Hasselt, Provincie Limburg, Flanders, Belgie
• Anna Braaksma (80), Akkrum, Friesland, Nederland
• Bernardus Wilhelmus (Bernard) Winkels (66)
• Brent Sammons (28)
• Berend Harm "Bennie" Plas (60), Barger Compascuum, Drenthe, Nederland
• Aagje van Commenée (92), Utrecht

• 1983 » Óscar Cardozo, Paraguayan footballer
• 1983 » Matt Langridge, English rower
• 1984 » Keith Grennan, American football player
• 1984 » Mauro Rafael da Silva, Brazilian footballer
• 1984 » Patrick Ewing, Jr., American basketball player
• 1985 » Brendon Goddard, Australian footballer
• 1985 » Chris Froome, Kenyan-English cyclist
• 1986 » Dexter Blackstock, English footballer
• 1986 » Jiřina Svobodová, Czech pole vaulter
• 1986 » Stéphane Mbia, Cameroonian footballer

• 1973 » Jarno Saarinen, Finnish motorcycle racer (b. 1945)
• 1973 » Renzo Pasolini, Italian motorcycle racer (b. 1938)
• 1975 » Barbara Hepworth, English sculptor and lithographer (b. 1903)
• 1976 » Héctor Gutiérrez Ruiz, Uruguayan politician (b. 1934)
• 1976 » Syd Howe, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1911)
• 1976 » Zelmar Michelini, Uruguayan journalist and politician (b. 1924)
• 1989 » Gilda Radner, American actress and comedian (b. 1946)
• 1989 » John Hicks, English economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
• 1995 » Les Cowie, Australian rugby league player (b. 1925)
• 1996 » Jon Pertwee, English actor, portrayed the Third Doctor (b. 1919)

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. Amanda
12. Esther
13. Judith
14. Anne
15. Nicole
16. Saskia

• 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.
• January 13 » A passenger train plunges into a ravine in Ethiopia, killing 428 in the worst railroad disaster in Africa.
• March 3 » A magnitude 8.3 earthquake strikes the Valparaíso Region of Chile, killing 177 and leaving nearly a million people homeless.
• March 17 » Serial killer Richard Ramirez, aka the "Night Stalker", commits the first two murders in his Los Angeles murder spree.
• June 23 » A terrorist bomb explodes at Narita International Airport near Tokyo. An hour later, the same group detonates a second bomb aboard Air India Flight 182, bringing the Boeing 747 down off the coast of Ireland killing all 329 aboard.
• September 19 » Tipper Gore and other political wives form the Parents Music Resource Center as Frank Zappa and other musicians testify at U.S. Congressional hearings on obscenity in rock music.
• October 30 » Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off for mission STS-61-A, its final successful mission.

The temperature on May 20, 1985 was between 10.7 °C and 18.6 °C and averaged 14.8 °C. There was 4.1 mm of rain during 6.4 hours. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (15%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.