About the day » Sunday May 24, 1885Calender converter

• Adolphine Agneta Jkvr. Groeninx Van Zoelen, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1967)
• * Neeltje Versteeg, Giessendam († 1918)
• Adriaantje Benjert, Goudswaard († 1886)
• Aaltien Epping, Oosterhesselen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1917)
• Aaltje Meywes, Groningen,Gemeente Groningen,Province of Groningen,Netherlands
• Adolfine Agneta Groeninx van Zoelen, 's Gravenhage († 1967)
• Oudshoorn, Woerden († 1885)
• Aagje Molenaar, Bergambacht
• Addie Mae Edwards, Mississippi († 1957)
• Aaltje Meijwes, Groningen

• Casper Jansz Brussee (20), Aalsmeer
• Albert Ridderman (20), Doesburg
• Aartje Verzee (68), Dordrecht
• Catharina Cornelia Mackaaij (2), Utrecht, Nederland
• Antonius van Dommelen (39), Delfshaven
• Anna Margaretha Belgraver (79), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Abraham Anton Jakob Stern (80), Paris, Île-de-France, France
• Amelia Theresia Lems, Heist-aan-zee
• Arnolda HABRAKEN (75), Nuenen, Gerwen en Nederwetten(N-Br.)
• Adolf Ernst Frederik van Bülow (61), Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen

• 1874 » Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine († 1878)
• 1875 » Robert Garrett, American discus thrower and shot putter († 1961)
• 1878 » Lillian Moller Gilbreth, American psychologist and engineer († 1972)
• 1879 » H. B. Reese, American candy maker, created Reese's Peanut Butter Cups († 1956)
• 1886 » Paul Paray, French organist, composer, and conductor († 1979)
• 1887 » Mick Mannock, Irish soldier and pilot, Victoria Cross recipient († 1918)
• 1891 » William F. Albright, American archaeologist, philologist, and scholar († 1971)
• 1895 » Samuel Irving Newhouse Sr., American publisher, founded Advance Publications († 1979)
• 1899 » Henri Michaux, Belgian-French poet and painter († 1984)
• 1899 » Suzanne Lenglen, French tennis player († 1938)

• 1843 » Sylvestre François Lacroix, French mathematician and academic (b. 1765)
• 1848 » Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, German author and composer (b. 1797)
• 1861 » Elmer E. Ellsworth, American colonel (b. 1837)
• 1872 » Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, German painter and illustrator (b. 1794)
• 1879 » William Lloyd Garrison, American journalist and activist (b. 1805)
• 1881 » Samuel Palmer, English painter and illustrator (b. 1805)
• 1901 » Louis-Zéphirin Moreau, Canadian bishop (b. 1824)
• 1908 » Old Tom Morris, Scottish golfer and architect (b. 1821)
• 1915 » John Condon, Irish-English soldier (b. 1896)
• 1919 » Amado Nervo, Mexican poet, journalist, and educator (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 4 » Sino-French War: French troops under General Oscar de Négrier defeat a numerically superior Qing force at Núi Bop in northern Vietnam.
• 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 19 » Louis Riel declares a provisional government in Saskatchewan, beginning the North-West Rebellion.
• March 24 » Sino-French War: Chinese victory in the Battle of Bang Bo on the Tonkin-Guangxi border.
• June 9 » Treaty of Tientsin is signed to end the Sino-French War, with China eventually giving up Tonkin and Annam – most of present-day Vietnam – to France.
• September 12 » Arbroath 36–0 Bon Accord, a world record scoreline in professional Association football.

The temperature on May 24, 1885 was about 11.7 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain. The air pressure was 15 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 75%.