About the day » Monday January 14, 1985Calender converter

• Arie Korver (68), Zeist, Utrecht, Nederland
• Alma Vern Archambault [Ks] (71)
• Anna Nuijten (85), Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Albert Koopmans (53), Bilzen
• Arie Barnhoorn (72), Noordwijk, Nederland
• Andrew Vallois Friedrichs Sr (90), New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, Verenigde Staten
• Adrianus Johannes Stoop (86), Arendonk (B)
• Anna Maria, Annie Veenker (63), Stadskanaal, Groningen, Netherlands
• Alfred Charles Hounsom (65), Wandsworth, London, England
• Berendina Huisjes (77)

• 1983 » Cesare Bovo, Italian footballer
• 1983 » Jason Krejza, Australian cricketer
• 1984 » Erick Aybar, American baseball player
• 1984 » Erika Matsuo, Japanese violinist
• 1984 » Mike Pelfrey, American baseball player
• 1985 » Joel Rosario, Dominican-American jockey
• 1985 » Shawn Sawyer, Canadian figure skater
• 1986 » Alessio Cossu, Italian footballer
• 1986 » Yohan Cabaye, French footballer
• 1987 » Atsushi Hashimoto, Japanese actor

• 1978 » Harold Abrahams, English sprinter, lawyer, and journalist (b. 1899)
• 1980 » Robert Ardrey, American-South African author, playwright, and screenwriter (b. 1908)
• 1981 » G. Lloyd Spencer, American lieutenant and politician (b. 1893)
• 1981 » John O'Grady, Australian author and poet (b. 1907)
• 1984 » Ray Kroc, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1902)
• 1986 » Donna Reed, American actress (b. 1921)
• 1987 » Douglas Sirk, German-Swiss director and screenwriter (b. 1900)
• 1987 » Turgut Demirağ, Turkish director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1921)
• 1988 » Georgy Malenkov, Russian engineer and politician, 5th Premier of the Soviet Union (b. 1902)
• 1991 » Gordon Bryant, Australian educator and politician (b. 1914)

1. Jan
2. Mark
3. Jeroen
4. Michael
5. Peter
6. Thomas
7. Pieter
8. Johannes
9. David
10. Bart
11. Dennis
12. Sander
13. Robert
14. Kevin
15. Paul
16. Tim

1. Maria
2. Linda
3. Kim
4. Laura
5. Jessica
6. Johanna
7. Anna
8. Stephanie
9. Charlotte
10. Sarah
11. Amanda
12. Esther
13. Judith
14. Anne
15. Nicole
16. Saskia

• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 14.5 million citizens.
• January 28 » Supergroup USA for Africa (United Support of Artists for Africa) records the hit single We Are the World, to help raise funds for Ethiopian famine relief.
• March 16 » Associated Press newsman Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut. He is released on December 4, 1991.
• May 5 » Ronald Reagan visits the military cemetery at Bitburg and the site of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where he makes a speech.
• November 19 » Pennzoil wins a US$10.53 billion judgment against Texaco, in the largest civil verdict in the history of the United States, stemming from Texaco executing a contract to buy Getty Oil after Pennzoil had entered into an unsigned, yet still binding, buyout contract with Getty.
• November 20 » Microsoft Windows 1.0 is released.
• December 16 » Paul Castellano and Thomas Bilotti are shot dead on the orders of John Gotti, who assumes leadership of New York's Gambino crime family.

The temperature on January 14, 1985 was between -12.4 °C and -3.4 °C and averaged -7.7 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.8 hours of sunshine (10%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.