About the day » Tuesday March 12, 1985Calender converter

• Andreas Verhoeven

• Arnoldus Martinus WIJTENBURG (74), Arnhem
• Anna Arnoldina Konermann (83), Assen
• Albert Alvin Hodges (60), Hope, Arkansas
• Adriana Johanna de Haas (82), Noordwijk
• Adriaan de Rooij (83), Haarlemermeer
• Aaltje Ott (74)
• Anna Regina Jorna (76)
• Aaltje Bakker (89)
• Adrianus Johannes de Graaff (69), 's-Gravenhage
• Adriaan Kox (62), Eersel

• 1984 » Jaimie Alexander, American actress
• 1984 » Shreya Ghoshal, Indian singer
• 1985 » Aleksandr Bukharov, Russian footballer
• 1985 » Andriy Tovt, Ukrainian footballer
• 1985 » Ed Clancy, English track and road cyclist
• 1985 » Marco Bonanomi, Italian racing driver
• 1986 » Ben Offereins, Australian runner
• 1986 » Danny Jones, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
• 1986 » Martynas Andriuškevičius, Lithuanian basketball player
• 1986 » Oleh Dopilka, Ukrainian footballer

• 1971 » Eugene Lindsay Opie, American physician and pathologist (b. 1873)
• 1973 » Frankie Frisch, American baseball player and manager (b. 1898)
• 1974 » George D. Sax, American banker and businessman (b. 1904)
• 1985 » Eugene Ormandy, Hungarian-American violinist and conductor (b. 1899)
• 1989 » Maurice Evans, English-American actor (b. 1901)
• 1991 » Ragnar Granit, Finnish-Swedish neuroscientist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
• 1991 » William Heinesen, Faroese author, poet, and author (b. 1900)
• 1992 » Lucy M. Lewis, American potter (b. 1890)
• 1998 » Beatrice Wood, American painter and potter (b. 1893)
• 1999 » Yehudi Menuhin, American-Swiss violinist and conductor (b. 1916)

• 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.
• May 29 » Amputee Steve Fonyo completes cross-Canada marathon at Victoria, British Columbia, after 14 months.
• May 29 » Heysel Stadium disaster: Thirty-nine association football fans die and hundreds are injured when a dilapidated retaining wall collapses.
• August 2 » Delta Air Lines Flight 191, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar, crashes at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport killing 137.
• September 1 » A joint American–French expedition locates the wreckage of the RMSTitanic.
• October 3 » The Space Shuttle Atlantis makes its maiden flight.
• December 14 » Wilma Mankiller takes office as the first woman elected to serve as Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation.

The temperature on March 12, 1985 was between -1.0 °C and 7.1 °C and averaged 2.6 °C. There was 7.3 hours of sunshine (63%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.