About the day » Saturday February 9, 1985Calender converter

• Carlos Felipe Ross Arbea
• Pieter van 't Velt, Hilversum
• Johannes Muller, Zoutkamp, Ulrum, Groningen, Nederland

• Cornelis Remijnse, Wolphaartsdijk Nederland
• Adriana Dirkje van der Straaten (77), Dordrecht,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Betty Doyle (59)
• Christina VAN ROEKEL (97), Holstein, IA, Iowa, United States of America
• Dirk Broekema (69)
• Dirk Kleine (76), Abbotsford B.C. Canada
• Catharina Hubertina Janssens (86), Roermond, Limburg, Nederland
• Adriana Dirkje (Sjaan) van der Straaten (77), Dordrecht
• Witjes (98), Doesburg
• Anna Maria Dorothea De Lange (87), Dordrecht, Netherlands

• 1982 » Domingo Cisma, Spanish footballer
• 1982 » Jameer Nelson, American basketball player
• 1983 » Mikel Arruabarrena, Spanish footballer
• 1984 » Maurice Ager, American basketball player, singer, and producer
• 1984 » Shōhōzan Yūya, Japanese sumo wrestler
• 1985 » David Gallagher, American actor
• 1987 » Davide Lanzafame, Italian footballer
• 1987 » Magdalena Neuner, German biathlete
• 1987 » Michael B. Jordan, American actor
• 1987 » Sam Coulson, English guitarist

• 1976 » Percy Faith, Canadian composer and conductor (b. 1908)
• 1977 » Sergey Ilyushin, Russian engineer and businessman, founded the Ilyushin Design Company (b. 1894)
• 1978 » Costante Girardengo, Italian cyclist and coach (b. 1893)
• 1979 » Allen Tate, American poet and academic (b. 1899)
• 1980 » Tom Macdonald, Welsh journalist and author (b. 1900)
• 1981 » Bill Haley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1925)
• 1981 » M. C. Chagla, Indian jurist and politician, Indian Minister of External Affairs (b. 1900)
• 1984 » Yuri Andropov, Russian lawyer and politician (b. 1914)
• 1989 » Osamu Tezuka, Japanese illustrator, animator, and producer (b. 1928)
• 1994 » Howard Martin Temin, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1934)

• 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.
• May 11 » Fifty-six spectators die and more than 200 are injured in the Bradford City stadium fire.
• June 30 » Thirty-nine American hostages from the hijacked TWA Flight 847 are freed in Beirut after being held for 17 days.
• August 7 » Takao Doi, Mamoru Mohri and Chiaki Mukai are chosen to be Japan's first astronauts.
• September 2 » Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil politicians and former MPs M. Alalasundaram and V. Dharmalingam are shot dead.
• December 8 » The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation, the regional intergovernmental organization and geopolitical union in South Asia is established.

The temperature on February 9, 1985 was between -6.6 °C and -3.0 °C and averaged -4.1 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.