About the day » Sunday May 17, 1885Calender converter

• Anna Antoinetta Schat, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Aloijsius Godefridus van Gestel, Gilze en Rijen († 1958)
• Anna Teeslink, Allegan County, Michigan († 1943)
• Almon McIntier, Park Valley, Box Elder County, Utah, United States of America († 1955)
• Aleida Nantina Wilhermina Klaassen Sanders, Assen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1886)
• Adrianus Knobel, Etten Leur († 1957)
• Aart van Veldhuizen, Ede († 1885)
• Adrianus Johannes Van Zitteren, Roosendaal († 1944)
• Alphonsus Wilhelmus Maria Verhoeven, 's-Hertogenbosch Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1965)
• Arnts, Doornenburg († 1885)

• Antje Alberts Spaanstra (0), Drachten, Friesland, Nederland
• Antje Pranger (20), Brucht, Hardenberg, Overijssel, Nederland
• Aantje Stuij (0)
• Antje PRANGER (20), Brucht
• Antje Reinsd Pranger (20), Brucht, ov.nld
• Antje Nieuwenhuizen (69), Den Helder
• Alexander Macrae (47), Boness, Linlithgow, Scotland
• Adriana Blom (57), Heemstede
• Alida de Fok (72), Maarssen
• (l.l.) Post (0), Beerzerveld (Ommen, Ambt)

• 1874 » George Sheldon, American diver († 1907)
• 1882 » Karl Burman, Estonian architect and painter († 1965)
• 1886 » Alfonso XIII of Spain, Spanish monarch († 1941)
• 1888 » Tich Freeman, English cricketer († 1965)
• 1889 » Alfonso Reyes, Mexican author († 1959)
• 1889 » Dorothy Gibson, American actress and singer († 1946)
• 1891 » Napoleon Zervas, Greek general and politician († 1957)
• 1893 » Frederick McKinley Jones, American inventor and entrepreneur († 1961)
• 1895 » Reinhold Saulmann, Estonian sprinter and bandy player († 1936)
• 1895 » Saul Adler, Belarusian-English captain and parasitologist († 1966)

• 1868 » Kondō Isami, Japanese commander (b. 1834)
• 1875 » John C. Breckinridge, American lawyer and politician, 14th Vice President of the United States, Confederate States general (b. 1821)
• 1879 » Asa Packer, American businessman, founded Lehigh University (b. 1805)
• 1880 » Ziya Pasha, Greek author and translator (b. 1826)
• 1886 » John Deere, American blacksmith and businessman, founded the Deere & Company (b. 1804)
• 1888 » Giacomo Zanella, Italian priest and poet (b. 1820)
• 1911 » Frederick August Otto Schwarz, German-American businessman, founded FAO Schwarz (b. 1836)
• 1916 » Boris Borisovich Golitsyn, Russian physicist and seismologist (b. 1862)
• 1917 » Charles Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak (b. 1829)
• 1917 » Clara Ayres, American nurse (b. 1880)

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 4 » Sino-French War: French troops under General Oscar de Négrier defeat a numerically superior Qing force at Núi Bop in northern Vietnam.
• January 17 » A British force defeats a large Dervish army at the Battle of Abu Klea in the Sudan.
• 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.
• March 24 » Sino-French War: Chinese victory in the Battle of Bang Bo on the Tonkin-Guangxi border.
• September 29 » The first practical public electric tramway in the world is opened in Blackpool, England.
• December 28 » Indian National Congress, a political party of India, is founded in Bombay Presidency, British India.

The temperature on May 17, 1885 was about 10.9 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 77%.