About the day » Thursday September 3, 1885Calender converter

• Anna BLOM, Twisk, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1958)
• * Petrus van Wijck, Vught
• Aagje van den Heuvel, Charlois († 1964)
• Adriana Schoutese, Maastricht, Nederland
• Anna Blom, Twisk († 1958)
• Adriana van Zelst, Sprang († 1886)
• Alida Westerveld, Weststellingwerf
• Jansen, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriana Christina van Hoegee, Utrecht († 1886)
• Adriana Maria Geelhoedt, Terneuzen (Terneuzen), Zeeland, Nederland († 1943)

• Albertus Petrus van der Meij (25), Haarlem, Noord Holland, Nederland
• Bregtje Lammerts van Ees (28), Rijnsburg
• Auguste Parijs (59), Amersfoort
• Adrianus van Mierlo (0), Dinther, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Caroline F. Atkinson (37)
• Anne Franses Tilma (39), Het Bildt, Friesland, Nederland
• Adrianus van de Leur (1), Vlijmen
• Berend Willem Berenschot (2), Solok, Sumatra
• Catharina Elisabeth Westenberg (37), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Arij Jansz. Sluijter (66), Maassluis

• 1869 » Fritz Pregl, Slovenian chemist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate († 1930)
• 1875 » Ferdinand Porsche, Austrian-German engineer and businessman, founded Porsche († 1951)
• 1878 » Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers, English tennis player († 1960)
• 1882 » Johnny Douglas, English cricketer and boxer († 1930)
• 1887 » Frank Christian, American trumpet player († 1973)
• 1893 » Andrey Dikiy, Russian-American journalist, historian, and politician († 1977)
• 1897 » Sally Benson, American author and screenwriter († 1972)
• 1899 » Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Australian virologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1985)
• 1900 » Percy Chapman, English cricketer († 1961)
• 1900 » Urho Kekkonen, Finnish journalist, lawyer, and politician, 8th President of Finland († 1986)

• 1857 » John McLoughlin, Canadian-American businessman (b. 1784)
• 1866 » Konstantin Flavitsky, Russian painter (b. 1830)
• 1877 » Adolphe Thiers, French historian and politician, 2nd President of France (b. 1797)
• 1883 » Ivan Turgenev, Russian author and playwright (b. 1818)
• 1886 » William W. Snow, American lawyer and politician (b. 1812)
• 1893 » James Harrison, Scottish-Australian engineer, journalist, and politician (b. 1816)
• 1906 » Mihály Kolossa, Hungarian author and poet (b. 1846)
• 1914 » Albéric Magnard, French composer and educator (b. 1865)
• 1929 » John Bigham, 1st Viscount Mersey, English jurist and politician (b. 1840)
• 1936 » Nikita Balieff, Armenian-Russian puppeteer and director (b. 1876)

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.
• February 21 » The newly completed Washington Monument is dedicated.
• March 24 » Sino-French War: Chinese victory in the Battle of Bang Bo on the Tonkin-Guangxi border.
• March 31 » The United Kingdom establishes the Bechuanaland Protectorate.
• June 17 » The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor.
• August 29 » Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first internal combustion motorcycle, the Reitwagen.
• November 28 » Bulgarian victory in the Serbo-Bulgarian War preserves the Unification of Bulgaria.

The temperature on September 3, 1885 was about 19.4 °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 74%.