About the day » Tuesday March 12, 1985Calender converter

• Andreas Verhoeven

• Adriana Krijne (77), Breda,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Albert Alvin Hodges (60), Hope, Arkansas
• Albert Willem Weijenberg (91)
• Anna Vliegen (92), Dilsen (B), België
• Abigail Melva Bradtke (81), Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
• Alida Maria Kapitein (82), Amsterdam
• Anton Pieter Disselkoen (81), Gemeente Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Agatha Maria ZWARTHOED (53)
• Anjo Dijkstra (71)
• Anna Regina Jorna (76)

• 1984 » Jaimie Alexander, American actress
• 1984 » Shreya Ghoshal, Indian singer
• 1985 » Aleksandr Bukharov, Russian footballer
• 1985 » Andriy Tovt, Ukrainian footballer
• 1985 » Ed Clancy, English track and road cyclist
• 1985 » Marco Bonanomi, Italian racing driver
• 1986 » Ben Offereins, Australian runner
• 1986 » Danny Jones, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
• 1986 » Martynas Andriuškevičius, Lithuanian basketball player
• 1986 » Oleh Dopilka, Ukrainian footballer

• 1971 » Eugene Lindsay Opie, American physician and pathologist (b. 1873)
• 1973 » Frankie Frisch, American baseball player and manager (b. 1898)
• 1974 » George D. Sax, American banker and businessman (b. 1904)
• 1985 » Eugene Ormandy, Hungarian-American violinist and conductor (b. 1899)
• 1989 » Maurice Evans, English-American actor (b. 1901)
• 1991 » Ragnar Granit, Finnish-Swedish neuroscientist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
• 1991 » William Heinesen, Faroese author, poet, and author (b. 1900)
• 1992 » Lucy M. Lewis, American potter (b. 1890)
• 1998 » Beatrice Wood, American painter and potter (b. 1893)
• 1999 » Yehudi Menuhin, American-Swiss violinist and conductor (b. 1916)

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 31 » The first WrestleMania, the biggest wrestling event from the WWE (then the WWF), takes place in Madison Square Garden in New York City.
• August 23 » Hans Tiedge, top counter-spy of West Germany, defects to East Germany.
• September 19 » Tipper Gore and other political wives form the Parents Music Resource Center as Frank Zappa and other musicians testify at U.S. Congressional hearings on obscenity in rock music.
• October 29 » Major General Samuel K. Doe is announced the winner of the first multi-party election in Liberia.
• November 15 » A research assistant is injured when a package from the Unabomber addressed to a University of Michigan professor explodes.

The temperature on March 12, 1985 was between -1.0 °C and 7.1 °C and averaged 2.6 °C. There was 7.3 hours of sunshine (63%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.