About the day » Saturday August 1, 1885Calender converter

• Anna Adriana Korteweg, Willemstad, Moerdijk, Noord Brabant, The Netherlands († 1885)
• Albert John Francis Greig, Willowie, South Australia
• Ada M. Dewitt Adams [Wk Mm0MtZionMBu], Pulaski County, Kentucky († 1947)
• Adriana SCHIPPER, Kralingen
• van Vliet, den Haag, Nederland († 1885)
• Adriana Cornelia Pluijmers, Middelburg († 1956)
• Alberta van Aalderen, Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland NED († 1971)
• Adriana Lodewica Faas, Lisse
• Alida Maria de Roode, Heemskerk († 1975)
• Alphonse Marie Theodore Cremers, Roermond († 1957)

• Cornelis de Bruijn (71), Woubrugge, Zuid Holland, Netherlands
• Klaas (0), Wierden
• Cornelia Scholten (0), Arnhem, Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Cornelis Johannsz van Egmond│dsluis (0), Rotterdam
• Cornelia van den Bosch (0), Ellewoutsdijk, Zeeland, NL
• Bastiana WITVLIET (0), Middelharnis
• Allegonda Maria van Deijne (0), Zeeland (N.Br.)
• Catharina Olsthoorn (65), Naaldwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelis de Bruijn (71), Woubrugge, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adolphe Andrien Joseph MASSON (30), Vierves-sur-Viroin,5670,Namur,Wallonie,BELGIQUE

• 1871 » John Lester, American cricketer and soccer player († 1969)
• 1877 » George Hackenschmidt, Estonian-English wrestler and strongman († 1968)
• 1878 » Konstantinos Logothetopoulos, Greek physician and politician, Prime Minister of Greece († 1961)
• 1881 » Otto Toeplitz, German mathematician and academic († 1940)
• 1885 » George de Hevesy, Hungarian-German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1966)
• 1889 » Walter Gerlach, German physicist and academic († 1979)
• 1891 » Karl Kobelt, Swiss lawyer and politician, 52nd President of the Swiss Confederation († 1968)
• 1893 » Alexander of Greece († 1920)
• 1894 » Ottavio Bottecchia, Italian cyclist († 1927)
• 1898 » Morris Stoloff, American composer and musical director († 1980)

• 1851 » William Joseph Behr, German publicist and academic (b. 1775)
• 1863 » Jind Kaur Majarani (Regent) of the Sikh Empire (b. 1817)
• 1866 » John Ross, American tribal chief (b. 1790)
• 1869 » Peter Julian Eymard, French Priest and Founder Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament (b. 1811)
• 1869 » Richard Dry, Australian politician, 7th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1815)
• 1903 » Calamity Jane, American frontierswoman and scout (b. 1853)
• 1911 » Edwin Austin Abbey, American painter and illustrator (b. 1852)
• 1911 » Samuel Arza Davenport, American lawyer and politician (b. 1843)
• 1918 » John Riley Banister, American cowboy and police officer (b. 1854)
• 1920 » Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Indian freedom fighter, lawyer and journalist (b. 1856)

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.
• March 19 » Louis Riel declares a provisional government in Saskatchewan, beginning the North-West Rebellion.
• March 30 » The Battle for Kushka triggers the Panjdeh Incident which nearly gives rise to war between the Russian and British Empire.
• June 3 » In the last military engagement fought on Canadian soil, the Cree leader, Big Bear, escapes the North-West Mounted Police.
• July 1 » The United States terminates reciprocity and fishery agreement with Canada.
• August 29 » Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first internal combustion motorcycle, the Reitwagen.
• November 17 » Serbo-Bulgarian War: The decisive Battle of Slivnitsa begins.

The temperature on August 1, 1885 was about 18.8 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 77%.