About the day » Thursday January 17, 1985Calender converter

• Wouter Hermsen, Tilburg († 2011)

• Adrianus Dingeman Franciscus Jansen (69), Breda
• Adriana van der Wacht (86), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Charlotta Berger (81), Leiden,Gemeente Leiden,South Holland,Netherlands
• Bessie Elizabeth Tillison (88), Mountain City, Johnson, Tennessee, Verenigde Staten
• Anje Bronsema (76)
• Catharina Gertrudis Dauven (84), Sittard, Netherlands
• Anna Martens (74), Gilze,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriana Pietertje van Sprang (84), Katwijk
• Christina van Weerlee (73), Leiden
• Albert van Urk (62)

• 1982 » Dwyane Wade, American basketball player
• 1983 » Álvaro Arbeloa, Spanish footballer
• 1983 » Johannes Herber, German basketball player
• 1983 » Marcelo Garcia, Brazilian martial artist
• 1983 » Rick Kelly, Australian race car driver
• 1984 » Calvin Harris, Scottish singer-songwriter, DJ, and producer
• 1985 » Betsy Ruth, American wrestler and manager
• 1985 » Pablo Barrientos, Argentinian footballer
• 1985 » Simone Simons, Dutch singer-songwriter
• 1987 » Cody Decker, American baseball player

• 1977 » Dougal Haston, Scottish mountaineer (b. 1940)
• 1977 » Gary Gilmore, American murderer (b. 1940)
• 1981 » Loukas Panourgias, Greek footballer and lawyer (b. 1899)
• 1984 » Kostas Giannidis, Greek pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1903)
• 1987 » Hugo Fregonese, Argentinian director and screenwriter (b. 1908)
• 1988 » Percy Qoboza, South African journalist and author (b. 1938)
• 1991 » Olav V of Norway (b. 1903)
• 1992 » Frank Pullen, English soldier and businessman (b. 1915)
• 1993 » Albert Hourani, English-Lebanese historian and academic (b. 1915)
• 1994 » Yevgeni Ivanov, Russian spy (b. 1926)

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.
• January 7 » Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launches Sakigake, Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other than the United States or the Soviet Union.
• 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.
• 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.
• September 4 » The discovery of Buckminsterfullerene, the first fullerene molecule of carbon.
• November 6 » In Colombia, leftist guerrillas of the 19th of April Movement seize control of the Palace of Justice in Bogotá.
• 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.

The temperature on January 17, 1985 was between -9.7 °C and -4.1 °C and averaged -7.0 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 3.0 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.