About the day » Tuesday July 23, 1985Calender converter

• Kristof Smets, Sint-Truiden, België († 2007)
• PATRICK LAGENDIJK, MIDDELBURG († 2014)
• Jeffrey Zalm, Bennekom († 2003)

• Bouwe Raatjes (70), Winschoten
• Annie den Das (53)
• Clara Mae Chaney (62)
• Adrianus Marinus Leeggangers (83), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Adriana Klootwijk (78), Hengelo
• Antoon Marinus van Valkenburg van de Kreke (80), 's-Gravenhage,2595,Zuid-Holland,Nederland
• Arend Vonk (75), Bergum
• Bert Schregardus (78)
• B. Wilbrink (89), Rotterdam
• Dina van Wijk (69), Emmeloord Noordoostpolder Flevoland Nederland

• 1983 » Aaron Peirsol, American swimmer
• 1983 » Bec Hewitt, Australian actress
• 1984 » Brandon Roy, American basketball player
• 1984 » Celeste Thorson, American actress, producer, and screenwriter
• 1984 » Matthew Murphy, English singer and guitarist
• 1984 » Walter Gargano, Uruguayan footballer
• 1985 » Luis Ángel Landín, Mexican footballer
• 1986 » Aya Uchida, Japanese voice actress and singer
• 1986 » Nelson Philippe, French race car driver
• 1986 » Yelena Sokolova, Russian long jumper

• 1979 » Joseph Kessel, French journalist and author (b. 1898)
• 1980 » Keith Godchaux, American keyboard player and songwriter (b. 1948)
• 1980 » Mollie Steimer, Russian activist (b. 1897)
• 1980 » Sarto Fournier, Canadian lawyer and politician, 38th Mayor of Montreal (b. 1908)
• 1982 » Vic Morrow, American actor (b. 1929)
• 1983 » Georges Auric, French composer (b. 1899)
• 1985 » Johnny Wardle, English cricketer and manager (b. 1923)
• 1989 » Donald Barthelme, American short story writer and novelist (b. 1931)
• 1990 » Kenjiro Takayanagi, Japanese engineer (b. 1899)
• 1996 » Jean Muir, American actress (b. 1911)

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. Nicole
15. Anne
16. Marieke

• 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.
• May 29 » Amputee Steve Fonyo completes cross-Canada marathon at Victoria, British Columbia, after 14 months.
• May 29 » Heysel Stadium disaster: Thirty-nine association football fans die and hundreds are injured when a dilapidated retaining wall collapses.
• June 23 » A terrorist bomb explodes at Narita International Airport near Tokyo. An hour later, the same group detonates a second bomb aboard Air India Flight 182, bringing the Boeing 747 down off the coast of Ireland killing all 329 aboard.
• October 4 » The Free Software Foundation is founded.
• November 6 » In Colombia, leftist guerrillas of the 19th of April Movement seize control of the Palace of Justice in Bogotá.
• December 12 » Arrow Air Flight 1285, a McDonnell Douglas DC-8, crashes after takeoff in Gander, Newfoundland, killing all 256 people on board, including 236 members of the United States Army's 101st Airborne Division.

The temperature on July 23, 1985 was between 10.5 °C and 21.0 °C and averaged 16.7 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 10.4 hours of sunshine (65%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.