About the day » Tuesday February 26, 1985Calender converter

• Elwin Wittenberg († 1999)

• André Henri Cornil Debruyne (65), Ieper, Belgique
• Dirk Verburgh (78), Vlaardingen
• Berend van Asselt (64), Apeldoorn
• Alton Herman Cibart (84), Houston, Georgia, United States
• Alexander Rodger RENWICK (85), Edinburgh Newington, Midlothian, Scotland
• Annie Bertha Bruce **** (94), Barnesville, Lamar, Georgia, Verenigde Staten
• Edna Baxter (86), Mount Sterling, Madison, Ohio, United States of America
• Antje Fokkes De Jong (91), Gem. Opsterland
• Antje de Jong (91), Drachten, Smallingerland, Friesland, Netherlands
• Cornelis Martinus van Dijk (70), Utrecht

• 1982 » Li Na, Chinese tennis player
• 1982 » Matt Prior, South African-English cricketer
• 1982 » Nate Ruess, American singer-songwriter
• 1983 » Jerome Harrison, American football player
• 1983 » Pepe, Brazilian-Portuguese footballer
• 1984 » Beren Saat, Turkish actress
• 1984 » Emmanuel Adebayor, Togolese international footballer, forward
• 1984 » Natalia Lafourcade, Mexican singer-songwriter
• 1985 » Fernando Llorente, Spanish international footballer, striker
• 1986 » Hannah Kearney, American skier

• 1981 » Howard Hanson, American composer, conductor, and educator (b. 1896)
• 1981 » Robert Aickman, English author and activist (b. 1914)
• 1985 » Tjalling Koopmans, Dutch-American economist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
• 1989 » Roy Eldridge, American trumpet player (b. 1911)
• 1993 » Constance Ford, American model and actress (b. 1923)
• 1994 » Bill Hicks, American comedian (b. 1961)
• 1995 » Jack Clayton, English director and producer (b. 1921)
• 1997 » David Doyle, American actor (b. 1929)
• 1998 » Theodore Schultz, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
• 2000 » George L. Street III, American captain, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1913)

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. Esther
12. Amanda
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.
• March 4 » The Food and Drug Administration approves a blood test for HIV infection, used since then for screening all blood donations in the United States.
• March 8 » A supposed failed assassination attempt on Islamic cleric Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah in Beirut, Lebanon kills at least 45 and injures 175 others.
• June 19 » Members of the Revolutionary Party of Central American Workers, dressed as Salvadoran soldiers, attack the Zona Rosa area of San Salvador.
• September 13 » Super Mario Bros. is released in Japan for the NES, which starts the Super Mario series of platforming games.
• October 6 » Police constable Keith Blakelock is murdered as riots erupt in the Broadwater Farm suburb of London.
• November 6 » In Colombia, leftist guerrillas of the 19th of April Movement seize control of the Palace of Justice in Bogotá.

The temperature on February 26, 1985 was between -0.5 °C and 8.2 °C and averaged 3.7 °C. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (14%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.