About the day » Wednesday December 11, 1985Calender converter

• Marcus Oord, Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands († 1985)
• Anna Clair Gardiner, Pembury
• Mário Luiz Schappo, Lajes, Santa Catarina, Brasil († 1985)
• Gerrit Jan Martin ter Denge, rijssen

• Agnes Ewart (93), Greensborough, Victoria, Australia
• Cornelis Poldervaart (89), Gouda, Nederland
• Anna Maria (Anne) van Timmeren (87), Vlagtwedde
• Adriana Struis (77)
• Cornelis Dogge (90), Bergen op Zoom,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• "Marie Eleonore" Léocadie Ghislaine van Oldeneel tot Oldenzeel (70), Nijmegen, Pays-Bas
• Cornelis Joris Poldervaart (89), Gouda, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anthonia Eijgenraam (88), Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Egbert Broekhuysen (76), Cheshire, Massachusetts, Verenigde Staten
• Andreas Hubertus Joosten (87), Tegelen,, Limburg, Nederland

• 1982 » Pablo Pérez Companc, Argentinian race car driver
• 1984 » James Ellsworth, American wrestler
• 1984 » Leighton Baines, English footballer
• 1984 » Sandra Echeverría, Mexican actress and singer
• 1985 » Karla Souza, Mexican actress
• 1986 » Roy Hibbert, American basketball player
• 1987 » Alex Russell, Australian actor
• 1987 » Clifton Geathers, American football player
• 1987 » Miranda Tapsell, Australian actress
• 1988 » Tim Southee, New Zealand cricketer

• 1978 » Paul O'Dea, American baseball player and manager (b. 1920)
• 1978 » Vincent du Vigneaud, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)
• 1979 » James J. Gibson, American psychologist and author (b. 1904)
• 1983 » Neil Ritchie, Guyanese-English general (b. 1897)
• 1984 » George Waggner, American director, producer and actor (b. 1894)
• 1984 » Oskar Seidlin, German-American author, poet, and scholar (b. 1911)
• 1987 » G. A. Kulkarni, Indian author and academic (b. 1923)
• 1989 » Louise Dahl-Wolfe, American photographer (b. 1895)
• 1991 » Artur Lundkvist, Swedish author and critic (b. 1906)
• 1991 » Robert Q. Lewis, American actor, comedian, game show host/panelist, and television personality (b. 1921)

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.
• March 20 » Canadian paraplegic athlete and humanitarian Rick Hansen begins his circumnavigation of the globe in a wheelchair in the name of spinal cord injury medical research.
• 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 25 » Bangladesh is hit by a tropical cyclone and storm surge, which kills approximately 10,000 people.
• May 31 » United States–Canada tornado outbreak: Forty-one tornadoes hit Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and Ontario, leaving 76 dead.
• October 1 » Israel-Palestinian conflict: Israel attacks the Palestine Liberation Organization headquarters in Tunisia during "Operation Wooden Leg".
• December 14 » Wilma Mankiller takes office as the first woman elected to serve as Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation.

The temperature on December 11, 1985 was between -0.8 °C and 2.7 °C and averaged 1.2 °C. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.