About the day » Thursday March 12, 1885Calender converter

• Albertha Mayenburg, Wilnis, De Ronde Venen, Utrecht, Nederland († 1971)
• Aaltje Geertsma, Het Bildt, Friesland, Netherlands († 1940)
• Alma Ball, Belleville, Republic, Kansas, Verenigde Staten († 1925)
• Abraham Keswiel, Mijdrecht, Nederland († 1885)
• Looijenga, Ferwerderadeel
• ... Salsmans, Berchem († 1885)
• Andreas Jacobus SPIJKERS, 's-Hertogenbosch
• Adriana van Campen, Woensdrecht, Noord-Brabant, Nl († 1968)
• Aaltje Akkerman, Stiens (Leeuwarderadeel) († 1921)
• Adrianus van Ingen, Utrecht († 1886)

• Anna Eliza Mercer (76), New Orleans, LA
• Anje Tonnis Dijkema (93), Middelstum
• Alexander Hext Chisolm
• adriana jesterhoudt (0), amsterdam, noord holland, nederland
• ... Salsmans (0), Berchem
• Adriaan Snoeijers (62), Woensdrecht, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Albertje Groen (4), Egmond aan Zee
• Aafke Jeltes Hilwerda (34), Herbaijum, Franekeradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Aafke Jeltes Hilverda (33), Herbayum
• Anje Tonnis Dijkema (93), Middelstum, Groningen, Netherlands

• 1874 » Edmund Eysler, Austrian composer († 1949)
• 1877 » Wilhelm Frick, German lawyer and politician, German Federal Minister of the Interior († 1946)
• 1878 » Gemma Galgani, Italian mystic and saint († 1903)
• 1880 » Henry Drysdale Dakin, English-American chemist and academic († 1952)
• 1881 » Väinö Tanner, Finnish politician of Social Democratic Party of Finland († 1966)
• 1882 » Carlos Blanco Galindo, Bolivian politician († 1943)
• 1883 » Sándor Jávorka, Hungarian botanist († 1961)
• 1888 » Hans Knappertsbusch, German conductor († 1965)
• 1888 » Walter Hermann Bucher, German-American geologist and paleontologist († 1965)
• 1890 » Evert Taube, Swedish singer-songwriter and lute player († 1976)

• 1898 » Zachris Topelius, Finnish-Swedish journalist, historian, and author (b. 1818)
• 1916 » Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian author (b. 1830)
• 1925 » Sun Yat-sen, Chinese physician and politician, 1st President of the Republic of China (b. 1866)
• 1929 » Asa Griggs Candler, American businessman and politician, 44th Mayor of Atlanta (b. 1851)
• 1935 » Mihajlo Pupin, Serbian-American physicist and chemist (b. 1858)
• 1942 » William Henry Bragg, English physicist, chemist, and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
• 1943 » Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor (b. 1869)
• 1946 » Ferenc Szálasi, Hungarian soldier and politician, Head of State of Hungary (b. 1897)
• 1949 » Wilhelm Steinkopf, German chemist (b. 1879)
• 1954 » Marianne Weber, German sociologist and suffragist (b. 1870)

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.
• January 3 » Sino-French War: Beginning of the Battle of Núi Bop
• January 4 » Sino-French War: French troops under General Oscar de Négrier defeat a numerically superior Qing force at Núi Bop in northern Vietnam.
• February 21 » The newly completed Washington Monument is dedicated.
• March 26 » The Métis people of the District of Saskatchewan under Louis Riel begin the North-West Rebellion against Canada.
• June 3 » In the last military engagement fought on Canadian soil, the Cree leader, Big Bear, escapes the North-West Mounted Police.
• October 13 » The Georgia Institute of Technology is founded in Atlanta, Georgia.

The temperature on March 12, 1885 was about 2.6 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 89%.