About the day » Sunday April 26, 1885Calender converter

• Aaltje Kuijt, Hoevelaken
• Albert Jan Alberda, Beerta, Groningen, Nederland († 1968)
• André PIRLOT de CORBION, Liège
• Angus Stewart, Duirinish, Inverness-shire, Scotland
• Anna Josepha van Gansewinkel, Rickelrath (Dl)
• Anna Maria Theodora Vermeulen, Woensel en Eckart († 1968)
• Anna Geertruida Roosburg, Paramaribo Suriname
• Aart Hartog, Sliedrecht
• Alida Helena Morlion, Pollinkhove, West-Vlaanderen (B) († 1977)
• Adrianus Petrus Johannes van Gerwen, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1891)

• Aleida ten Hulscher (65), Hengelo
• Albertus van der Weijden (25), Leiden
• Aaffien HOLTEMA (60), Holierde, Bierum, Groningen, Nederland
• Jantje Bakker (39), uithuizermeeden
• (1) Maria Ruizendaal (47), Maarssenveen, Utrecht, Nederland Nederland
• Aaltje Egberts Punter (81), Ooststellingwerf
• Nicolaes (0), Oud-Vroenhoven, Maastricht
• Albertus Matthijs Knoop (20), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Amanda Kellermeyer (27), Quincy, Adams, Illinois
• Albert Lammerts Vos (72), Kalkwijk (Hoogezand)

• 1876 » Ernst Felle, German rower († 1959)
• 1877 » James Dooley, Irish-Australian politician, 21st Premier of New South Wales († 1950)
• 1878 » Rafael Guízar y Valencia, Mexican bishop and saint († 1938)
• 1879 » Eric Campbell, British actor († 1917)
• 1879 » Owen Willans Richardson, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1959)
• 1886 » Ğabdulla Tuqay, Russian poet and publicist († 1913)
• 1886 » Ma Rainey, American singer († 1939)
• 1889 » Anita Loos, American author, playwright, and screenwriter († 1981)
• 1889 » Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-English philosopher and academic († 1951)
• 1894 » Rudolf Hess, Egyptian-German politician († 1987)

• 1865 » John Wilkes Booth, American actor, assassin of Abraham Lincoln (b. 1838)
• 1881 » Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen, German general (b. 1815)
• 1895 » Eric Stenbock, Estonian-English author and poet (b. 1860)
• 1910 » Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Norwegian-French author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1832)
• 1915 » John Bunny, American actor (b. 1863)
• 1920 » Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician and theorist (b. 1887)
• 1932 » William Lockwood, English cricketer (b. 1868)
• 1934 » Arturs Alberings, Latvian politician, former Prime Minister of Latvia (b. 1876)
• 1940 » Carl Bosch, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874)
• 1944 » Violette Morris, French footballer, shot putter, and discus thrower (b. 1893)

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 1 » Twenty-five nations adopt Sandford Fleming's proposal for standard time (and also, time zones).
• January 3 » Sino-French War: Beginning of the Battle of Núi Bop
• January 4 » Sino-French War: French troops under General Oscar de Négrier defeat a numerically superior Qing force at Núi Bop in northern Vietnam.
• January 26 » Troops loyal to The Mahdi conquer Khartoum, killing the Governor-General Charles George Gordon.
• March 3 » The American Telephone & Telegraph Company is incorporated in New York.
• June 17 » The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor.

The temperature on April 26, 1885 was about 18.5 °C. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 44%.