• Alice of Battenberg, Berkshire, England († 1969)
• Adriana CornAntna Hegge, Loosduinen
• Aagje van Geest, De Lier, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1885)
• Adriaan den Dunnen, Hooge en Lage Zwaluwe, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands († 1941)
• Alphonse Vandermersch, Deulemont, Frankrijk († 1965)
• Alice Mountbatten, Windsor Castle († 1969)
• Adrianus Josephus van der Bruggen, Vught, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1952)
• Alice Von Battenberg, Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England († 1969)
• Anna Berkhout, Uitgeest, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1927)
• Adriana Cornelia Antonia Hegge

• Bernardina Boscher (106), Groenlo
• Abraham Bollegraf (62), Winschoten, Groningen, Nederland
• Anna Blotenburg (69), Deventer
• Aleksander Dominik Mielżyński (71), Torino, Italie
• Anna Catharina van Glabbeek (van Glabbeeck) (60), Maastricht, Nederland
• Adrianus Antonius Maria Henrichs (1), Bergen op Zoom
• Casper Zaunbrecher (74), 's Hertogenbosch
• Arie van Hoften (81), Ophemert
• Aaltje van het Hul (79), Oldebroek
• Anne Marie Adélaide Françoise Mouëzy (31), Bourgneuf-la-Forêt, 53039 Mayenne, France

• 1873 » Enrico Caruso, Italian-American tenor; the most popular operatic tenor of the early 20th century and the first great recording star. († 1921)
• 1877 » Erich von Hornbostel, Austrian musicologist and scholar († 1935)
• 1881 » Alexei Rykov, Russian politician, Premier of Russia († 1938)
• 1881 » William Z. Foster, American union leader and politician († 1961)
• 1883 » Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone († 1981)
• 1885 » Princess Alice of Battenberg, mother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh († 1969)
• 1888 » John Foster Dulles, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 52nd United States Secretary of State († 1959)
• 1890 » Myra Hess, English pianist and educator († 1965)
• 1894 » Meher Baba, Indian spiritual master († 1969)
• 1898 » William Astbury, physicist and molecular biologist († 1961)

• 1865 » Otto Ludwig, German author, playwright, and critic (b. 1813)
• 1870 » Henrik Hertz, Danish poet and playwright (b. 1797)
• 1877 » Jung Bahadur Rana, Nepalese ruler (b. 1816)
• 1878 » Townsend Harris, American merchant, politician, and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Japan (b. 1804)
• 1899 » Paul Reuter, German-English journalist and businessman, founded Reuters (b. 1816)
• 1906 » Anton Arensky, Russian pianist and composer (b. 1861)
• 1910 » Worthington Whittredge, American painter and educator (b. 1820)
• 1911 » Friedrich Spielhagen, German author, theorist, and translator (b. 1829)
• 1912 » William IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (b. 1852)
• 1914 » John Tenniel, English illustrator (b. 1820)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Jacobus
9. Petrus
10. Jacob
11. Adrianus
12. Arie
13. Dirk
14. Hendrikus
15. Wilhelmus
16. Gerardus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Catharina
8. Adriana
9. Hendrika
10. Aaltje
11. Jacoba
12. Grietje
13. Neeltje
14. Geertruida
15. Trijntje
16. Petronella

• 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 18 » Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is published in the United States.
• February 21 » The newly completed Washington Monument is dedicated.
• February 23 » Sino-French War: French Army gains an important victory in the Battle of Đồng Đăng in the Tonkin region of Vietnam.
• March 24 » Sino-French War: Chinese victory in the Battle of Bang Bo on the Tonkin-Guangxi border.
• March 26 » The Métis people of the District of Saskatchewan under Louis Riel begin the North-West Rebellion against Canada.
• September 6 » Eastern Rumelia declares its union with Bulgaria, thus accomplishing Bulgarian unification.

The temperature on February 25, 1885 was about 7.3 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 88%.