About the day » Saturday August 15, 1885Calender converter

• Abraham de Mooij, Rijnsburg, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriaan Kramer, Haarlemmermeer
• Adrianus van Santen, Kedichem († 1889)
• Adronia Maria Dewulf, Klerken
• Adrianus van Tilburg, Halsteren,Noord-Brabant,Nederland († 1968)
• Aalt van Loo, Oldebroek, Nederland († 1978)
• van Petegem, Zaamslag
• Alfred Vincent, New-Wes-Valley, Division No. 7, NL, Canada
• Aat Visch, Epe, Gelderland, Nederland († 1932)
• Adriaantje van WEZEL, Sommelsdijk

• Antonetta van Kasteren (55), Haaren, Nederland
• Arie Wever (38), Schoorl, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Hubertina SMEETS (37), Heerlen, Limburg, Nederland
• Adrian L. Lubbers (1), Michigan, Noord-Amerika
• Adriana Sophia Kool (21), Lekkerkerk
• Berend Jan Scherpenkate (Scherpencate) (40), Oudleusen (Dalfsen), Ov, The Netherlands
• Andries Hoek (78), Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Andrew SUMMERS
• Annigje Meinen (0), Dedemsvaart
• Berend Koenderink (77), Ambt Almelo

• 1879 » Ethel Barrymore, American actress († 1959)
• 1881 » Alfred Wagenknecht, German-American activist and politician († 1956)
• 1882 » Gisela Richter, English archaeologist and art historian († 1972)
• 1882 » Marion Bauer, American composer and critic († 1955)
• 1883 » Ivan Meštrović, Croatian sculptor and architect († 1962)
• 1885 » Edna Ferber, American novelist, short story writer, and playwright († 1968)
• 1886 » Bill Whitty, Australian cricketer († 1974)
• 1890 » Jacques Ibert, French composer and educator († 1962)
• 1892 » Abraham Wachner, New Zealand politician, 35th Mayor of Invercargill († 1950)
• 1892 » Louis de Broglie, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1987)

• 1844 » José María Coppinger, governor of Spanish East Florida (b. 1733)
• 1852 » Johan Gadolin, Finnish chemist, physicist, and mineralogist (b. 1760)
• 1859 » Nathaniel Claiborne, American farmer and politician (b. 1777)
• 1907 » Joseph Joachim, Hungarian violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1831)
• 1909 » Euclides da Cunha, Brazilian sociologist and journalist (b. 1866)
• 1917 » Thomas J. Higgins, American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1831)
• 1925 » Konrad Mägi, Estonian painter and educator (b. 1878)
• 1928 » Anatole von Hügel, Italian ethnologist and academic, co-founded St Edmund's College, Cambridge (b. 1854)
• 1935 » Wiley Post, American pilot (b. 1898)
• 1935 » Will Rogers, American actor, comedian, and screenwriter (b. 1879)

• 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 23 » Sino-French War: Chinese victory in the Battle of Phu Lam Tao near Hưng Hóa, northern Vietnam.
• April 3 » Gottlieb Daimler is granted a German patent for his engine design.
• June 17 » The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor.
• September 29 » The first practical public electric tramway in the world is opened in Blackpool, England.
• November 28 » Bulgarian victory in the Serbo-Bulgarian War preserves the Unification of Bulgaria.
• December 28 » Indian National Congress, a political party of India, is founded in Bombay Presidency, British India.

The temperature on August 15, 1885 was about 15.6 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 87%.