About the day » Wednesday October 30, 1985Calender converter

• Drandi Elizabeth Timmer
• Marleen Antonides, Heerenveen († 1985)
• Natalia Dawn PEARN († 2013)
• Marlies Antonides, Heerenveen († 1985)

• André Jans de Jong (12), Lemmer, Lemsterland, Friesland, Nederland
• Eleanor SCHWEINEBART (83), Seattle, Washington, Verenigde Staten
• Cornelia Bakker (74)
• Anthonie van de Vlekkert (86), Apeldoorn (GL)
• Catharina Christina Derks (72), Boxmeer,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Divera Floris (66), Zwaag, Hoorn, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Ardina Geertruda Maria van ROSMALEN (94)
• Adonia Sahanaja Sahanaya (Limahelu) (84), Deventer, Steenbrugge
• Derk Blokzijl (74), Appingedam
• Benjamin Lichtendonk (85)

• 1983 » Iain Hume, Scottish-Canadian footballer
• 1983 » Trent Edwards, American football player
• 1984 » David Mooney, Irish footballer
• 1984 » Eva Marcille, American model and actress
• 1984 » Isaac Ross, New Zealand rugby player
• 1984 » Gedo, Egyptian footballer
• 1984 » Tyson Strachan, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1985 » Ragnar Klavan, Estonian footballer
• 1986 » Keisuke Sohma, Japanese actor
• 1986 » Thomas Morgenstern, Austrian ski jumper

• 1973 » Ants Lauter, Estonian actor and director (b. 1894)
• 1975 » Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
• 1979 » Barnes Wallis, English scientist and engineer, inventor of the "bouncing bomb" (b. 1887)
• 1982 » Iryna Vilde, Ukrainian author and educator (b. 1907)
• 1987 » Joseph Campbell, American mythologist, scholar, and author (b. 1904)
• 1988 » T. Hee, American animator and screenwriter (b. 1911)
• 1990 » V. Shantaram, Indian actor, director, and producer (b. 1901)
• 1992 » Joan Mitchell, American painter (b. 1925)
• 1993 » Paul Grégoire, Canadian cardinal (b. 1911)
• 1996 » John Young, Scottish actor (b. 1916)

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 1 » The first British mobile phone call is made by Michael Harrison to his father Sir Ernest Harrison, chairman of Vodafone.
• February 5 » Ugo Vetere, then the mayor of Rome, and Chedli Klibi, then the mayor of Carthage meet in Tunis to sign a treaty of friendship officially ending the Third Punic War which lasted 2,131 years.
• May 29 » Amputee Steve Fonyo completes cross-Canada marathon at Victoria, British Columbia, after 14 months.
• August 23 » Hans Tiedge, top counter-spy of West Germany, defects to East Germany.
• September 2 » Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil politicians and former MPs M. Alalasundaram and V. Dharmalingam are shot dead.
• 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 30, 1985 was between 2.3 °C and 4.6 °C and averaged 3.6 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east.