About the day » Monday October 21, 1985Calender converter

• MONIQUE LOUISE MAAT, Carring BaH. Austr
• Rombout Pieter Anton Reijnders, Dordrecht
• NN Snitjer, Groningen, Groningen, Nederland († 1985)

• Dirk Colijn (84), Sleeuwijk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Cornelia Maria van der Helder (93), Ede
• Anna THIBAUDIER (100), Menaldum, FR. NL
• Catharina Helena SPRONG (88), Almere
• Anthonia van Vulpen (63)
• Dirk Klop (81), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Bauke Geert Drijsten (72), zaandam
• Clazina Johanna VERHAGE (87), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Ann M Koestler (92), Little Chute, Outagamie, Wisconsin, United States
• Bajla Ramson (Betty) GODLEWICZ (89), Sao Paulo,,BRÉSIL

• 1984 » Anna Bogdanova, Russian heptathlete
• 1984 » Anouk Leblanc-Boucher, Canadian speed skater
• 1984 » José Lobatón, Venezuelan baseball player
• 1984 » Kenny Cooper, American soccer player
• 1984 » Kieran Richardson, English footballer
• 1984 » Marvin Mitchell, American football player
• 1984 » Tom Brandstater, American football player
• 1985 » Dean Collis, Australian rugby league player
• 1985 » Simone Bracalello, Italian footballer
• 1986 » Almen Abdi, Swiss footballer

• 1980 » Hans Asperger, Austrian physician and psychologist (b. 1906)
• 1982 » Radka Toneff, Norwegian singer-songwriter (b. 1952)
• 1983 » Joseph P. Lordi, American government official (b. 1919)
• 1984 » François Truffaut, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1932)
• 1985 » Dan White, American assassin and politician (b. 1946)
• 1986 » Lionel Murphy, Australian jurist and politician, 22nd Attorney-General of Australia (b. 1922)
• 1989 » Jean Image, Hungarian-French director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1910)
• 1990 » Dany Chamoun, Lebanese engineer and politician (b. 1934)
• 1990 » Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar, Indian philosopher and author (b. 1921)
• 1991 » Lorenc Antoni, Albanian composer, conductor, and musicologist (b. 1909)

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. Jennifer

• 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.
• August 23 » Hans Tiedge, top counter-spy of West Germany, defects to East Germany.
• August 27 » The Nigerian government is peacefully overthrown by Army Chief of Staff Major General Ibrahim Babangida.
• November 15 » A research assistant is injured when a package from the Unabomber addressed to a University of Michigan professor explodes.
• November 15 » The Anglo-Irish Agreement is signed at Hillsborough Castle by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Irish Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald.
• 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 October 21, 1985 was between 2.0 °C and 14.7 °C and averaged 7.7 °C. There was 8.9 hours of sunshine (86%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east.