About the day » Thursday January 1, 1885Calender converter

• Aaldert Smit, Hoogeveen († 1940)
• (l.l.) Post, Dalfsen († 1885)
• Aart Verheul, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, NL
• Adriana Fieret, Scheveningen ('s-Gravenhage) († 1885)
• Adrianus de Vries, Deurne en Liessel († 1885)
• Adriana Gerarda Lagerweij, Leersum (Utrechtse Heuvelrug) († 1966)
• Aaldert Derks Smit, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Netherlands(Hollandscheveld) († 1940)
• Adrianus Wilhelmus van Duuren, Haarlemmermeer († 1957)
• Adriana de Rouwen, Hardinxveld-Giessendam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1948)
• Adriaan Stroman, Monnickendam(NH) († 1965)

• Age Van Haga (2)
• Albert (kind) Denekamp (0), Deventer //
• Amelia Francisca Joanna Boydens (72), Nieuwpoort, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
• Adriaan de Bont (68), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adrianus Huijbrechts (36), Roosendaal, Nederland
• Antje van Ophem Ophem (45), Medemblik, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Ann D (80), Alexandria, Virginia, Verenigde Staten
• Albert Denekamp (0), Deventer //
• Adriaan Huijbregts (36), Roosendaal en Nispen
• Adriaan KLASEN (73), Zevenbergen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1879 » E. M. Forster, English author and playwright († 1970)
• 1879 » William Fox, Hungarian-American screenwriter and producer, founded the Fox Film Corporation and Fox Theatres († 1952)
• 1883 » William J. Donovan, American general, lawyer, and politician († 1959)
• 1884 » Chikuhei Nakajima, Japanese lieutenant, engineer, and politician, founded Nakajima Aircraft Company († 1949)
• 1887 » Wilhelm Canaris, German admiral († 1945)
• 1888 » Georgios Stanotas, Greek general († 1965)
• 1888 » John Garand, Canadian-American engineer, designed the M1 Garand rifle († 1974)
• 1889 » Charles Bickford, American actor († 1967)
• 1890 » Anton Melik, Slovenian geographer and academic († 1966)
• 1891 » Sampurnanand, Indian educator and politician, 3rd Governor of Rajasthan († 1969)

• 1846 » John Torrington, English sailor and explorer (b. 1825)
• 1853 » Gregory Blaxland, Australian farmer and explorer (b. 1778)
• 1862 » Mikhail Ostrogradsky, Ukrainian mathematician and physicist (b. 1801)
• 1881 » Louis Auguste Blanqui, French activist (b. 1805)
• 1892 » Roswell B. Mason, American lawyer and politician, 25th Mayor of Chicago (b. 1805)
• 1894 » Heinrich Hertz, German physicist and academic (b. 1857)
• 1896 » Alfred Ely Beach, American publisher and lawyer, created the Beach Pneumatic Transit (b. 1826)
• 1906 » Hugh Nelson, Scottish-Australian farmer and politician, 11th Premier of Queensland (b. 1833)
• 1918 » William Wilfred Campbell, Canadian poet and author (b. 1858)
• 1921 » Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, German lawyer and politician, 5th Chancellor of Germany (b. 1856)

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.
• July 23 » President Ulysses S. Grant dies of throat cancer.
• September 6 » Eastern Rumelia declares its union with Bulgaria, thus accomplishing Bulgarian unification.
• September 22 » Lord Randolph Churchill makes a speech in Ulster in opposition to the Irish Home Rule movement.
• November 16 » Canadian rebel leader of the Métis and "Father of Manitoba" Louis Riel is executed for treason.
• November 19 » Serbo-Bulgarian War: Bulgarian victory in the Battle of Slivnitsa solidifies the unification between the Principality of Bulgaria and Eastern Rumelia.
• December 22 » Itō Hirobumi, a samurai, became the first Prime Minister of Japan.

The temperature on January 1, 1885 was about -1.9 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%.