About the day » Wednesday April 8, 1885Calender converter

• Adrianus van Galen, Berghem, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Agatha Maria Daniëls, Den Haag († 1943)
• Aaltje van Westeneng, Otterlo
• Adrianus de Bruijn, Ammerstol
• Afina Lameris, Hoogkerk († 1934)
• Albert Aimé Julien Plancke, Brugge
• Adrianus Van Beveren, Amsterdam, Gemeente Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1951)
• Alberdina Braakman, Bathmen
• Aleide Gerarde POOL, Tiel,, Gelderland, Nederland († 1966)
• Aleida Schmidt, Albergen († 1969)

• Aletta Terbruggen (79), Velp (Ge), Gelderland, Nederland
• Antje van den Toorn (73), Vinkeveen en Waverveen
• Anna Maria Engelina Grothues (6), Avereest, Nederland
• Albertus Johannes JONKER (61), Deventer, Gemeente Deventer, Overijssel, Nederland
• Anna Maria Antonia van Loosbroek (81)
• * Hermanus Hak (47), Leerdam
• Anna Maria Philomena Hubertina (Johanna Maria Philemina Hubertina) Simar (31), Boxtel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Cornelia van Veen (0), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Angeline Charnterel (92), Gilze en Rijen
• Adriaan Diepstraten (56), Gilze en Rijen

• 1875 » Albert I of Belgium († 1934)
• 1882 » (O.S. 27 March) - Dmytro Doroshenko, Lithuanian-Ukrainian historian and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine and Prime Minister of Ukraine († 1951)
• 1883 » Julius Seljamaa, Estonian journalist and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia († 1936)
• 1883 » R. P. Keigwin, English cricketer and academic († 1972)
• 1885 » Dimitrios Levidis, Greek-French soldier, composer, and educator († 1951)
• 1886 » Margaret Ayer Barnes, American author and playwright († 1967)
• 1888 » Dennis Chávez, American journalist and politician († 1962)
• 1889 » Adrian Boult, English conductor († 1983)
• 1892 » Mary Pickford, Canadian-American actress, producer, and screenwriter, co-founded United Artists († 1979)
• 1892 » Richard Neutra, Austrian-American architect, designed the Los Angeles County Hall of Records († 1970)

• 1848 » Gaetano Donizetti, Italian composer (b. 1797)
• 1860 » István Széchenyi, Hungarian statesman and reformer (b.1791)
• 1861 » Elisha Otis, American businessman, founded the Otis Elevator Company (b. 1811)
• 1870 » Charles Auguste de Bériot, Belgian violinist and composer (b. 1802)
• 1894 » Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, Indian journalist, author, and poet (b. 1838)
• 1906 » Auguste Deter, German woman, first person diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease (b. 1850)
• 1919 » Loránd Eötvös, Hungarian physicist, academic, and politician, Hungarian Minister of Education (b. 1848)
• 1920 » Charles Griffes, American pianist and composer (b. 1884)
• 1931 » Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Swedish poet Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)
• 1936 » Róbert Bárány, Austrian physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)

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.
• February 5 » King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo as a personal possession.
• 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.
• April 24 » American sharpshooter Annie Oakley is hired by Nate Salsbury to be a part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West.
• June 17 » The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor.
• September 6 » Eastern Rumelia declares its union with Bulgaria, thus accomplishing Bulgarian unification.
• September 22 » Lord Randolph Churchill makes a speech in Ulster in opposition to the Irish Home Rule movement.

The temperature on April 8, 1885 was about 6.5 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northwest. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 91%.