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Born on Thursday February 21, 1985
Died on Thursday February 21, 1985
- Catharina Quant (82), ,, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
- Bastiaan (Bas) Meijdam (78), Gorinchem
- Alida Cornelia van Eck (81)
- Anthony Danowski (78)
- Aaltje Diepeveen (68), Veenendaal
- Antonia Elisabeth Bruyninckx (67), Lubbeek-Pellemberg, 3212, Vlaams-Brabant, België
- Brand Timmer (81), Harderwijk
- Archie Samuel Lenning (67)
- alida cornelia van eck (81), Zeist
- Carolina Hendrica Peters (63), Brunssum,, Limburg, Nederland
Source: Delpher (KB | national library) Newspapers from February 21, 1985 at Delpher
Born on February 21
- 1983 » Braylon Edwards, American football player
- 1983 » Franklin Gutiérrez, Venezuelan baseball player
- 1983 » Mélanie Laurent, French actress
- 1984 » Andrew Ellis, New Zealand rugby player
- 1984 » David Odonkor, German footballer
- 1984 » James Wisniewski, American ice hockey player
- 1984 » Marco Paoloni, Italian footballer
- 1985 » Georgios Samaras, Greek footballer
- 1985 » Jamaal Westerman, American football player
- 1986 » Charlotte Church, Welsh singer-songwriter and actress
Died on February 21
- 1974 » Tim Horton, Canadian ice hockey player and businessman, co-founded Tim Hortons (b. 1930)
- 1980 » Alfred Andersch, German-Swiss author (b. 1914)
- 1982 » Gershom Scholem, German-Israeli historian and philosopher (b. 1897)
- 1984 » Mikhail Sholokhov, Russian novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
- 1985 » Louis Hayward, South African-American actor (b. 1909)
- 1986 » Helen Hooven Santmyer, American novelist (b. 1895)
- 1991 » Dorothy Auchterlonie Green, Australian poet, critic, and academic (b. 1915)
- 1993 » Inge Lehmann, Danish seismologist and geophysicist (b. 1888)
- 1994 » Johannes Steinhoff, German general and pilot (b. 1913)
- 1996 » Morton Gould, American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1913)
Names that were popular for boys in 1985
- Johannes
- Jan
- Michael
- Pieter
- Cornelis
- Peter
- John
- David
- Willem
- Thomas
- Robert
- Hendrik
- Mark
- Jeroen
- Maria
- Paul
Names that were popular for girls in 1985
- Maria
- Johanna
- Marie
- Anna
- Elisabeth
- Elizabeth
- Linda
- Ann
- Anne
- Catharina
- Kim
- Laura
- Cornelia
- Nicole
- Jessica
- Wilhelmina
Source: Wikipedia Historical events 1985
- 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.
- February 19 » Iberia Airlines Boeing 727 crashes into Mount Oiz in Spain, killing 148.
- March 8 » A supposed failed assassination attempt on Islamic cleric Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah in Beirut, Lebanon kills at least 45 and injures 175 others.
- May 5 » Ronald Reagan visits the military cemetery at Bitburg and the site of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where he makes a speech.
- May 13 » Police bombed MOVE headquarters in Philadelphia, killing six adults and five children, and destroying the homes of 250 city residents.
- September 2 » Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil politicians and former MPs M. Alalasundaram and V. Dharmalingam are shot dead.
- 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 weather on Thursday February 21, 1985
The temperature on February 21, 1985 was between -0.2 °C and 4.3 °C and averaged 1.4 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.
Source: KNMI
Source: KNMI