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Born on Saturday January 5, 1985
- Heather Lynn Nyboer († 1985)
- Berend Wijnholds, Ter Apel
- Meike Geelen, Den Bosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
Died on Saturday January 5, 1985
- Arnold Lut(t)gens (70), Heerlen
- Anna Tronckoe (90), Temse
- Anna Maria Kern (83), Edam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
- "Monique" Françoise Marie Ghislaine Gabrielle d'Oultremont (58), Woluwe-Saint-Pierre, Bruxelles, Belgique
- Antonius Lagarde (63), Tiel
- Donald Burl Efaw (72), Marion Cnty, West Virginia, Verenigde Staten
- D. Meuesen (88)
- Aukje Eppinga (93)
- Antje Kranenborg (73), Winschoten, Groningen, Nederland
- Augustinus Exelmans (74), Pellenberg, België
Source: Delpher (KB | national library) Newspapers from January 5, 1985 at Delpher
Born on January 5
- 1979 » Kyle Calder, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1981 » Deadmau5 (Joel Thomas Zimmerman), Canadian musician
- 1982 » Janica Kostelić, Croatian skier
- 1984 » Derrick Atkins, Bahamian sprinter
- 1985 » Diego Vera, Uruguayan footballer
- 1986 » Deepika Padukone, Indian actress
- 1988 » Azizulhasni Awang, Malaysian track cyclist
- 1988 » Luke Daniels, English footballer
- 1989 » Krisztián Németh, Hungarian footballer
- 1990 » Mark Nicholls, Australian rugby league player
Died on January 5
- 1979 » Billy Bletcher, American actor, singer, and screenwriter (b. 1894)
- 1979 » Charles Mingus, American bassist, composer, bandleader (b. 1922)
- 1981 » Harold Urey, American chemist and astronomer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1893)
- 1981 » Lanza del Vasto, Italian poet and philosopher (b. 1901)
- 1982 » Edmund Herring, Australian general and politician, 7th Chief Justice of Victoria (b. 1892)
- 1982 » Hans Conried, American actor (b. 1917)
- 1985 » Robert L. Surtees, American cinematographer (b. 1906)
- 1987 » Herman Smith-Johannsen, Norwegian-Canadian skier (b. 1875)
- 1987 » Margaret Laurence, Canadian author and academic (b. 1926)
- 1990 » Arthur Kennedy, American actor (b. 1914)
Names that were popular for boys in 1985
- Jan
- Mark
- Jeroen
- Michael
- Peter
- Thomas
- Pieter
- Johannes
- David
- Bart
- Dennis
- Sander
- Robert
- Kevin
- Paul
- Tim
Names that were popular for girls in 1985
- Maria
- Linda
- Kim
- Laura
- Jessica
- Johanna
- Anna
- Stephanie
- Charlotte
- Sarah
- Amanda
- Esther
- Judith
- Nicole
- Anne
- Marieke
Source: Wikipedia Historical events 1985
- 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 13 » A passenger train plunges into a ravine in Ethiopia, killing 428 in the worst railroad disaster in Africa.
- March 3 » A magnitude 8.3 earthquake strikes the Valparaíso Region of Chile, killing 177 and leaving nearly a million people homeless.
- May 29 » Amputee Steve Fonyo completes cross-Canada marathon at Victoria, British Columbia, after 14 months.
- July 10 » An Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-154 stalls and crashes near Uchkuduk, Uzbekistan (then part of the Soviet Union), killing all 200 people on board in the USSR's worst-ever airline disaster.
- July 10 » The Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland harbour by French DGSE agents, killing Fernando Pereira.
- November 9 » Garry Kasparov, 22, of the Soviet Union becomes the youngest World Chess Champion by beating fellow Soviet Anatoly Karpov.
Weather January 5, 1985
The temperature on January 5, 1985 was between -14.4 °C and -4.8 °C and averaged -9.9 °C. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (65%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.