About the day » Saturday January 12, 1985Calender converter

• Agatha Cornelia van der Salm (86), Alphen aan de Rijn, Alphen aan den Rijn, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Antonie Hendrikus Baks (72)
• Anna Marie Scholten (88), Orange City, Sioux County, Iowa
• Aksel Jakob Aassve (90)
• Barbara Jean Belknap Hrdy [K] (56), Yolo County, California
• Diels Constant (91), Turnhout, Antwerpen, België
• Adrianus Joannes Janus (72)
• Anna Marie Rabold (78), Warrenton, Fauquier County, Virginia, Verenigde Staten
• Berendina Gezina Aleida Maria Rolink (41), Enschede
• Anna Bakker (77), Giethoorn, Overijssel, Nederland

• 1982 » Paul-Henri Mathieu, French tennis player
• 1984 » Daniel Sepulveda, American football player
• 1984 » Jonathan Zydko, French footballer
• 1985 » Artem Milevskiy, Ukrainian footballer
• 1985 » Borja Valero, Spanish footballer
• 1985 » Issa Rae, American actress, writer, director, producer and web series creator
• 1986 » Kehoma Brenner, German rugby player
• 1986 » Miguel Ángel Nieto, Spanish footballer
• 1987 » Naya Rivera, American actress and singer († 2020)
• 1987 » Salvatore Sirigu, Italian footballer

• 1974 » Princess Patricia of Connaught (b. 1886)
• 1976 » Agatha Christie, English crime novelist, short story writer, and playwright (b. 1890)
• 1977 » Henri-Georges Clouzot, French director and screenwriter (b. 1907)
• 1983 » Nikolai Podgorny, Ukrainian engineer and politician (b. 1903)
• 1988 » Connie Mulder, South African politician (b. 1925)
• 1988 » Piero Taruffi, Italian racing driver and motorcycle racer (b. 1906)
• 1990 » Laurence J. Peter, Canadian-American author and educator (b. 1919)
• 1991 » Robert Jackson, Australian public servant and diplomat (b. 1911)
• 1992 » Kumar Gandharva, a Hindustani classical singer (b. 1924)
• 1994 » Gustav Naan, Estonian physicist and philosopher (b. 1919)

• 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.
• March 3 » Arthur Scargill declares that the National Union of Mineworkers' national executive voted to end the longest-running industrial dispute in Great Britain without any peace deal over pit closures.
• March 11 » Mikhail Gorbachev is elected to the position of General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union making Gorbachev the USSR's de facto, and last, head of state.
• April 19 » Two hundred ATF and FBI agents lay siege to the compound of the white supremacist survivalist group The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord in Arkansas; the CSA surrenders two days later.
• May 31 » United States–Canada tornado outbreak: Forty-one tornadoes hit Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and Ontario, leaving 76 dead.
• December 20 » Pope John Paul II announces the institution of World Youth Day.
• December 27 » Palestinian guerrillas kill eighteen people inside the airports of Rome, Italy, and Vienna, Austria.

The temperature on January 12, 1985 was between -7.9 °C and 2.4 °C and averaged -1.8 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 1.8 hours. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (11%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.