About the day » Tuesday April 9, 1985Calender converter

• Michael Stroink, Lingen
• Jerney Rosanna Hoedemaker, Den Helder († 2007)

• Augustina Witteveen (85), Workum, Fr, Nederland
• Frans Nicolai (79), Leeuwarden
• Alfons Anton Franciscus De Roey (64), Merksem
• Berendje Bakker (82), Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Emmanuel Marie Maurice Joseph Ghislain de BONHOME (47), Aywaille, 62009, Liège, Belgique
• Consuelo Esdaile (82), Redding (Shasta County) (California)
• Chester Claude Addison (87), Lee, Florida, Verenigde Staten
• Florent Ernest Van Elsen (81)
• Ebelinus Nieboer (53)
• Florent Ernest Van Elsen (81), Herenthout

• 1983 » Ryan Clark, Australian actor
• 1984 » Óscar Razo, Mexican footballer
• 1984 » Adam Loewen, Canadian baseball player
• 1984 » Habiba Ghribi, Tunisian runner
• 1985 » Antonio Nocerino, Italian footballer
• 1985 » David Robertson, American baseball player
• 1986 » Leighton Meester, American actress
• 1986 » Mike Hart, American football player
• 1987 » Graham Gano, American football player
• 1987 » Kassim Abdallah, French-Comorian footballer

• 1976 » Dagmar Nordstrom, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1903)
• 1976 » Phil Ochs, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1940)
• 1978 » Clough Williams-Ellis, English-Welsh architect, designed Portmeirion (b. 1883)
• 1980 » Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr, Iraqi cleric and philosopher (b. 1935)
• 1982 » Wilfrid Pelletier, Canadian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1896)
• 1988 » Brook Benton, American singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1931)
• 1988 » Dave Prater, American singer (b. 1937)
• 1988 » Hans Berndt, German footballer (b. 1913)
• 1991 » Forrest Towns, American hurdler and coach (b. 1914)
• 1993 » Joseph B. Soloveitchik, American rabbi and philosopher (b. 1903)

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 28 » Supergroup USA for Africa (United Support of Artists for Africa) records the hit single We Are the World, to help raise funds for Ethiopian famine relief.
• February 16 » Hezbollah is founded.
• March 17 » Serial killer Richard Ramirez, aka the "Night Stalker", commits the first two murders in his Los Angeles murder spree.
• May 20 » Radio Martí, part of the Voice of America service, begins broadcasting to Cuba.
• July 13 » Vice President George H. W. Bush becomes the Acting President for the day when President Ronald Reagan undergoes surgery to remove polyps from his colon.
• August 23 » Hans Tiedge, top counter-spy of West Germany, defects to East Germany.

The temperature on April 9, 1985 was between 4.3 °C and 12.0 °C and averaged 8.5 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (23%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.