About the day » Sunday December 27, 1885Calender converter

• Aalt Klooster, Grafhorst, Nederland
• Anna Sommrová verw. Dusilová, Nová Ves (Neudorf), Böhmen, Österreich-Ungarn (jetzt: Branžež-Nová Ves, Tschechien)
• Grietje Vos, Hoogeveen († 1919)
• Aalt Klooster, Grafhorst, Ov. Nederland
• AALTJE KAMPHUIS, Voorthuizen († 1932)
• Ada Edith DICKER († 1948)
• Abraham Stienstra, Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands († 1930)
• Alice McBride, Minegar, Dromore, Omagh, Co. Tyrone, N. Ireland († 1961)
• van der Velden, Loon op Zand
• Abraham Jacobs Stienstra († 1930)

• Aaltien Harms Boers (82), Het Schut B124 (Hoogeveen) 226
• Adriana de Bie, Hooge en Lage Zwaluwe
• Aaltien Harms Boers (81), Schut / Hoogeveen
• Aaltje Anthonetta Mecima (78), Driever, Niedersachsen, Deutschland
• Adrianus Johannes Van Gijn (67), Klundert
• Albertus van der Kallen (80), Sneek, Nederland
• Alida Jacoba Weijers (0), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anthonia WIJNTJES (0), Poortugaal
• Abraham Jacobus van den Born (21), Hoogeloon
• Adriana GEERINGS (36), Woensel/Eindhoven (NL/NB)

• 1879 » Sydney Greenstreet, English-American actor († 1954)
• 1883 » Cyrus S. Eaton, Canadian-American businessman and philanthropist († 1979)
• 1888 » Thea von Harbou, German actress, director, and screenwriter († 1954)
• 1892 » Alfred Edwin McKay, Canadian captain and pilot († 1917)
• 1896 » Carl Zuckmayer, German author and playwright († 1977)
• 1896 » Louis Bromfield, American author and theorist († 1956)
• 1896 » Maurice De Waele, Belgian cyclist († 1952)
• 1898 » Inejiro Asanuma, Japanese politician († 1960)
• 1900 » Hans Stuck, German race car driver († 1978)
• 1901 » Marlene Dietrich, German-American actress and singer († 1992)

• 1834 » Charles Lamb, English essayist and poet (b. 1775)
• 1836 » Stephen F. Austin, American soldier and politician (b. 1793)
• 1858 » Alexandre Pierre François Boëly, French pianist and composer (b. 1785)
• 1896 » John Brown, English businessman and politician (b. 1816)
• 1900 » William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong, English engineer and businessman, founded Armstrong Whitworth (b. 1810)
• 1914 » Charles Martin Hall, American chemist and engineer (b. 1863)
• 1919 » Achilles Alferaki, Russian-Greek composer and politician, Governor of Taganrog (b. 1846)
• 1923 » Gustave Eiffel, French architect and engineer, co-designed the Eiffel Tower (b. 1832)
• 1924 » Agda Meyerson, Swedish nurse and healthcare activist (b. 1866)
• 1936 » Mehmet Akif Ersoy, Turkish poet, academic, and politician (b. 1873)

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.
• March 14 » The Mikado, a light opera by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, receives its first public performance at the Savoy Theatre in London.
• March 23 » Sino-French War: Chinese victory in the Battle of Phu Lam Tao near Hưng Hóa, northern Vietnam.
• April 2 » Canadian Cree warriors attack the village of Frog Lake, killing nine.
• April 24 » American sharpshooter Annie Oakley is hired by Nate Salsbury to be a part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West.
• October 13 » The Georgia Institute of Technology is founded in Atlanta, Georgia.
• November 16 » Canadian rebel leader of the Métis and "Father of Manitoba" Louis Riel is executed for treason.

The temperature on December 27, 1885 was about 2.5 °C. The air pressure was 5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%.