About the day » Saturday April 18, 1885Calender converter

• Alphonsius Marien, St. Niklaas Waas († 1916)
• Afke Jeltes Hepkema, Doniaga († 1967)
• Aafke Hoving, Hekkum,, Groningen, Nederland († 1954)
• Andries DEINUM, Hindeloopen (Friesland, The Netherlands) († 1976)
• Aaldertiena Nolles, Wymbritseradeel († 1886)
• Aaltje Swart, Zuid-Scharwoude
• Aaltje Swart, Zd-Scharwoude († 1930)
• Aafke Kornelis' Hoving, Hekkum Aadorp († 1954)
• Anastasia Markowski († 1953)
• Aalida Mooi, Groningen, Groningen, Nederland

• Antke Jans' Roep (57), Hollum, Ameland
• Adaline WALLACE # (74), Des Moines, Polk, Iowa, Verenigde Staten
• Antke Jans ROEP (57), Hollum, Friesland, Nederland
• Adriana Johanna Steenks (0), Naaldwijk
• Alida Maria van der Meer (1), Mijdrecht, De Ronde Venen, Utrecht, Nederland
• Adriaan Bladel van (64), Gemeente Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Albert Geerts Nabring (67), De Wilp
• 'n Levenloos geboren dochter van Hagestein (0), Zuidland
• Alexander Nicolaas Roggeveen (27), Overschie
• Anje Jans Lewe (Leeuw, Leeuwe) (73), Wagenborgen, Delfzijl, Groningen, Nederland

• 1877 » Vicente Sotto, Filipino lawyer and politician († 1950)
• 1879 » Korneli Kekelidze, Georgian philologist and scholar († 1962)
• 1880 » Sam Crawford, American baseball player, coach, and umpire († 1968)
• 1882 » Isaac Babalola Akinyele, Nigerian ruler († 1964)
• 1882 » Leopold Stokowski, English conductor († 1977)
• 1884 » Jaan Anvelt, Estonian educator and politician († 1937)
• 1888 » Duffy Lewis, American baseball player, coach, and manager († 1979)
• 1889 » Jessie Street, Australian activist († 1970)
• 1892 » Eugene Houdry, French-American mechanical engineer and inventor († 1962)
• 1893 » Violette Morris, French shot putter and discus thrower († 1944)

• 1859 » Tatya Tope, Indian general (b. 1814)
• 1864 » Juris Alunāns, Latvian philologist and linguist (b. 1832)
• 1873 » Justus von Liebig, German chemist and academic (b. 1803)
• 1898 » Gustave Moreau, French painter and academic (b. 1826)
• 1906 » Luis Martín, Spanish religious leader, 24th Superior-General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1846)
• 1912 » Martha Ripley, American physician (b. 1843)
• 1917 » Vladimir Serbsky, Russian psychiatrist and academic (b. 1858)
• 1923 » Savina Petrilli, Italian religious leader (b. 1851)
• 1936 » Milton Brown, American singer and bandleader (b. 1903)
• 1936 » Ottorino Respighi, Italian composer and conductor (b. 1879)

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.
• 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.
• July 1 » The United States terminates reciprocity and fishery agreement with Canada.
• July 6 » Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies on Joseph Meister, a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog.
• September 2 » Rock Springs massacre: In Rock Springs, Wyoming, 150 white miners, who are struggling to unionize so they could strike for better wages and work conditions, attack their Chinese fellow workers killing 28, wounding 15 and forcing several hundred more out of town.
• November 7 » The completion of Canada's first transcontinental railway is symbolized by the Last Spike ceremony at Craigellachie, British Columbia.
• December 28 » Indian National Congress, a political party of India, is founded in Bombay Presidency, British India.

The temperature on April 18, 1885 was about 21.3 °C. The air pressure was 5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 25%.