About the day » Friday March 20, 1885Calender converter

• Albertus Kruiver, Koog aan de Zaan
• Aleijda van Uitert, Echteld
• Albertus Marinus Dikkes, Amsterdam († 1947)
• Adrianus Cornelis Johannes Lorjé, 's Gravenhage († 1951)
• Aaltje Molenkamp, Steenwijkerwold († 1922)
• AaLtje Vermeulen, de Bilt
• Adriana Elisabeth Uijtdewilligen, Steenbergen, N-Br, NL († 1960)
• Adrianus Cornelis van der Giessen, yerseke (zeeland) († 1958)
• NN, Spijk, gem. Bierum († 1885)
• Aaltje Agricola, Sint Nicolaasga († 1956)

• Aaltje Klazes Tjallinga (78), Oppenhuizen, Friesland, Nederland
• Aaltje BEST (34), Beets, Gemeente Edam-Volendam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aagje Cornelisdr Boots (7), Berkhout, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Catharina van der Beek (79), Vlodrop, Limburg, Nederland
• Aagje Boots (7), Berkhout, Noord-Holland, Nederland Nederland
• Adriaan (Adrianus) de Jongh (83), Zundert, Nederland
• Anna Francisca Catharina Donkers (0), 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aaltje~Klazes Tjallinga (78)
• Anna Maria Smulders (85), Someren
• Aart Mandersloot (83), Achterberg, Utrecht, Nederland

• 1876 » Payne Whitney, American businessman and philanthropist († 1927)
• 1879 » Maud Menten, Canadian physician and biochemist († 1960)
• 1882 » Harold Weber, American golfer († 1933)
• 1882 » René Coty, French lawyer and politician, 17th President of France († 1962)
• 1884 » John Jensen, Australian public servant († 1970)
• 1884 » Philipp Frank, Austrian-American physicist, mathematician, and philosopher († 1966)
• 1885 » Vernon Ransford, Australian cricketer († 1958)
• 1888 » Amanda Clement, American baseball player, umpire, and educator († 1971)
• 1890 » Lauritz Melchior, Danish-American tenor and actor († 1973)
• 1894 » Amalie Sara Colquhoun, Australian landscape and portrait painter († 1974)

• 1849 » James Justinian Morier, Turkish-English author and diplomat (b. 1780)
• 1855 » Joseph Aspdin, English businessman (b. 1788)
• 1865 » Yamanami Keisuke, Japanese samurai (b. 1833)
• 1874 » Hans Christian Lumbye, Danish composer and conductor (b. 1810)
• 1878 » Julius Robert von Mayer, German physician and physicist (b. 1814)
• 1894 » Lajos Kossuth, Hungarian lawyer, journalist and politician (b. 1802)
• 1897 » Apollon Maykov, Russian poet and playwright (b. 1821)
• 1899 » Franz Ritter von Hauer, Austrian geologist and author (b. 1822)
• 1909 » Friedrich Amelung, Estonian historian and businessman (b. 1842)
• 1918 » Lewis A. Grant, American general and lawyer (b. 1828)

• 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
• February 5 » King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo as a personal possession.
• April 30 » Governor of New York David B. Hill signs legislation creating the Niagara Reservation, New York's first state park, ensuring that Niagara Falls will not be devoted solely to industrial and commercial use.
• May 2 » Cree and Assiniboine warriors win the Battle of Cut Knife, their largest victory over Canadian forces during the North-West Rebellion.
• July 6 » Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies on Joseph Meister, a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog.
• September 29 » The first practical public electric tramway in the world is opened in Blackpool, England.

The temperature on March 20, 1885 was about 7.7 °C. The air pressure was 20 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 91%.