About the day » Saturday March 2, 1985Calender converter

• Christiaan Elbertus Jansen (80), Doetinchem
• Antje Woudstra (73)
• Catharina Rebekka Honings (78), Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Bernard "Vern" BRITTON (85), Spokane, Spokane County, Washington
• Adrianus Martinus van der Sar (67), Maasland, 3155, Nederland
• Albert Drescher (70), Rotterdam
• Alida Margaretha Muijs (74), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Albertus Kievit (69), Buurmalsen (West Betuwe) (GL)
• "Andrée" Laure Antoinette Maertens de Noordhout (86), Waarschoot, Belgique
• Anje van der Schaaf (78), Mijdrecht (gem. De Ronde Venen)

• 1982 » Kevin Kurányi, German footballer
• 1983 » Deuce, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1983 » Glen Perkins, American baseball player
• 1983 » Jay McClement, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1983 » Lisandro López, Argentinian footballer
• 1983 » Ryan Shannon, American ice hockey player
• 1985 » Reggie Bush, American football player
• 1985 » Suso Santana, Spanish footballer
• 1986 » Jonathan D'Aversa, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1987 » Jonas Jerebko, Swedish basketball player

• 1972 » Léo-Ernest Ouimet, Canadian director and producer (b. 1877)
• 1979 » Christy Ring, Irish hurler (b. 1920)
• 1982 » Philip K. Dick, American philosopher and author (b. 1928)
• 1987 » Lolo Soetoro, Indonesian geographer and academic (b. 1935)
• 1987 » Randolph Scott, American actor and director (b. 1898)
• 1991 » Serge Gainsbourg, French singer-songwriter, actor, and director (b. 1928)
• 1992 » Sandy Dennis, American actress (b. 1937)
• 1994 » Anita Morris, American actress, singer, and dancer (b. 1943)
• 1999 » Dusty Springfield, English singer (b. 1939)
• 2000 » Sandra Schmirler, Canadian curler (b. 1963)

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.
• 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.
• February 28 » The Provisional Irish Republican Army carries out a mortar attack on the Royal Ulster Constabulary police station at Newry, killing nine officers in the highest loss of life for the RUC on a single day.
• May 20 » Radio Martí, part of the Voice of America service, begins broadcasting to Cuba.
• May 25 » Bangladesh is hit by a tropical cyclone and storm surge, which kills approximately 10,000 people.
• June 15 » Rembrandt's painting Danaë is attacked by a man (later judged insane) who throws sulfuric acid on the canvas and cuts it twice with a knife.
• November 23 » Gunmen hijack EgyptAir Flight 648 en route from Athens to Cairo. When the plane lands in Malta, Egyptian commandos storm the aircraft, but 60 people die in the raid.

The temperature on March 2, 1985 was between 3.2 °C and 6.7 °C and averaged 4.6 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.