About the day » Tuesday August 27, 1985Calender converter

• Jeffrey Raynor, Riverhead, N.Y († 1991)
• Lex de Waal, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Viergever, Lunteren († 1985)
• NN Viergever, Lunteren († 1985)
• chantal catharina roelfina sommer, helmond (elkerliek ziekenhuis)

• Adelaïde Josephine Gabriëlla Stokman (80), Rotterdam
• Arie Gijsbertus van Dijk (77), Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Nederland
• Claudius Gerhardus Johannes Baars (91), Bladel, Noord Brabant, NL
• Antonia Sins (80), Wamel
• Cornelis Johannes Lamers (76), Bennekom (gem. Ede)
• Albertus Van Landeghem (94), Melsele
• Cornelia Lemke (89), Sheboygan, Wisconsin
• Cornelis "Kees" Versprille (63), Kraggenburg, Flevoland, Nederland
• Aleida Maria Oude Veldhuis (76)
• Alida Sachs (74), Hoorn, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1981 » Maxwell Cabelino Andrade, Brazilian footballer
• 1983 » Joanna McGilchrist, English rugby player and physiotherapist
• 1984 » David Bentley, English footballer
• 1984 » Sulley Muntari, Ghanaian footballer
• 1985 » Alexandra Nechita, Romanian-American painter and sculptor
• 1985 » Kevan Hurst, English footballer
• 1985 » Nikica Jelavić, Croatian footballer
• 1986 » Sebastian Kurz, Austrian politician, 25th Chancellor of Austria
• 1987 » Darren McFadden, American football player
• 1987 » Joel Grant, English-Jamaican footballer

• 1975 » Haile Selassie, Ethiopian emperor (b. 1892)
• 1978 » Gordon Matta-Clark, American painter and illustrator (b. 1943)
• 1978 » Ieva Simonaitytė, Lithuanian author and poet (b. 1897)
• 1979 » Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, English admiral and politician, 44th Governor-General of India (b. 1900)
• 1980 » Douglas Kenney, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1947)
• 1981 » Valeri Kharlamov, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1948)
• 1990 » Avdy Andresson, Estonian soldier and diplomat (b. 1899)
• 1990 » Stevie Ray Vaughan, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1954) (Double Trouble)
• 1994 » Frank Jeske, German footballer (b. 1960)
• 1996 » Greg Morris, American actor (b. 1933)

1. Jan
2. Mark
3. Jeroen
4. Michael
5. Peter
6. Thomas
7. Pieter
8. Johannes
9. David
10. Bart
11. Dennis
12. Robert
13. Sander
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.
• February 19 » Iberia Airlines Boeing 727 crashes into Mount Oiz in Spain, killing 148.
• August 22 » British Airtours Flight 28M suffers an engine fire during takeoff at Manchester Airport. The pilots abort but due to inefficient evacuation procedures 55 people are killed, mostly from smoke inhalation.
• August 23 » Hans Tiedge, top counter-spy of West Germany, defects to East Germany.
• October 10 » US Navy aircraft intercept an Egyptian airliner carrying the perpetrators of the Achille Lauro hijacking, and force it to land in Italy.
• November 21 » United States Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Pollard is arrested for spying after being caught giving Israel classified information on Arab nations. He is subsequently sentenced to life in prison.
• November 23 » Gunmen hijack EgyptAir Flight 648 en route from Athens to Cairo. When the plane lands in Malta, Egyptian commandos storm the aircraft, but 60 people die in the raid.

The temperature on August 27, 1985 was between 7.4 °C and 19.7 °C and averaged 14.0 °C. There was 10.5 hours of sunshine (75%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.