About the day » Wednesday October 7, 1885Calender converter

• Albert Hendriks, Emmen, Nederland († 1909)
• Adriana Sara Wabeke, Waarde, Zeeland, Nederland († 1978)
• Albert Hendriks, Munsterscheveld, Emmen († 1909)
• Adriaan Brandt, Middelburg († 1885)
• Adriana Sara Wabeke, Waarde, Zeeland, Nederland († 1978)
• Aalbert Veldhuisen († 1946)
• Aalbert Veldhuizen, Lunteren († 1946)
• Aaltjen Larink, Hoonte († 1958)
• Adrianus Martinus van den Dungen, Oisterwijk († 1959)
• Anna M Klein, Pella, Marion County, Iowa († 1966)

• Berendina ter Mars (Mors) (56), Lonneker
• Anna Goosens (0), Harderwijk
• Jantje Bouwsma(Bousma) (0), Warns
• Anna Goosen (0), Harderwijk
• Aagje Johanna Baerveldt (51), Zaandam
• Benjamin Keizer (0), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Antje Schuitmaker (20), Tzum
• August Beersemans (1), Rijkevorsel
• (2) Maartje Maria Jacoba Pepping (27), Oude Niedorp, Noord-Holland, Nederland Nederland
• Anna Theresia CRAMPE (78), Knokke-Heist, West-Vlaanderen, België

• 1879 » Joe Hill, Swedish-born American labor activist and poet († 1915)
• 1881 » Mikhail Drozdovsky, Ukrainian-Russian general († 1918)
• 1884 » Harold Geiger, American lieutenant and pilot († 1927)
• 1885 » Claud Ashton Jones, American admiral, Medal of Honor recipient († 1948)
• 1885 » Niels Bohr, Danish physicist and philosopher, Nobel Prize laureate († 1962)
• 1887 » Jack Russell, English cricketer and coach († 1961)
• 1888 » Edna Meade Colson, African American educator and activist († 1985)
• 1888 » Henry A. Wallace, American agronomist and politician, 33rd Vice President of the United States († 1965)
• 1889 » Robert Z. Leonard, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter († 1968)
• 1892 » Dwain Esper, American director and producer († 1982)

• 1849 » Edgar Allan Poe, American short story writer, poet, and critic (b. 1809)
• 1884 » Bernard Petitjean, French Roman Catholic missionary to Japan (b. 1829)
• 1894 » Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., American physician, author, and poet (b. 1809)
• 1903 » Rudolf Lipschitz, German mathematician and academic (b. 1832)
• 1904 » Isabella Bird, English historian and explorer (b. 1831)
• 1906 » Honoré Beaugrand, Canadian journalist and politician, 18th Mayor of Montreal (b. 1848)
• 1911 » John Hughlings Jackson, English neurologist and physician (b. 1835)
• 1919 » Alfred Deakin, Australian lawyer and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1856)
• 1925 » Christy Mathewson, American baseball player and manager (b. 1880)
• 1926 » Emil Kraepelin, German psychologist and academic (b. 1856)

• 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
• July 6 » Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies on Joseph Meister, a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog.
• September 12 » Arbroath 36–0 Bon Accord, a world record scoreline in professional Association football.
• November 7 » The completion of Canada's first transcontinental railway is symbolized by the Last Spike ceremony at Craigellachie, British Columbia.
• November 17 » Serbo-Bulgarian War: The decisive Battle of Slivnitsa begins.

The temperature on October 7, 1885 was about 8.9 °C. There was 20 mm of rain. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 92%.