About the day » Saturday May 25, 1985Calender converter

• Nancy Broers

• Carlos Eugenio Varady (69)
• Alice May BYE (91), Longford, Tasmania, Australia
• Ada Bouterse (86), Grand Haven, Ottawa, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Cornelia Petronella Johanna Antonia Smits (86), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Américo Ugolini (90), Londrina, Paraná, Brasil
• Cornelia Johanna Geerlings (74), Oegstgeest
• Clazina Maria Hoogervorst (84), Alphen aan den Rijn
• Casper Kuijper (79), Terschelling-West
• Adriana Petronella Barendina Budde (77), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria van Kippersluis (87)

• 1984 » A. J. Foyt IV, American race car driver
• 1984 » Kyle Brodziak, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1984 » Luke Ball, Australian footballer
• 1984 » Shawne Merriman, American football player
• 1985 » Demba Ba, French footballer
• 1985 » Gert Kams, Estonian footballer
• 1985 » Luciana Abreu, Portuguese singer and actress
• 1985 » Roman Reigns, American football player and wrestler
• 1986 » Edewin Fanini, Brazilian footballer
• 1986 » Yoan Gouffran, French footballer

• 1977 » Yevgenia Ginzburg, Russian author (b. 1904)
• 1979 » Amédée Gordini, Italian-born French racing driver and sports car manufacturer (b. 1899)
• 1979 » Itzhak Bentov, Czech-Israeli engineer, mystic, and author (b. 1923)
• 1981 » Fredric Warburg, English author and publisher (b. 1898)
• 1981 » Ruby Payne-Scott, Australian physicist and astronomer (b. 1912)
• 1983 » Idris of Libya (b. 1889)
• 1983 » Jack Stewart, Canadian-American ice hockey player (b. 1917)
• 1983 » Necip Fazıl Kısakürek, Turkish author, poet, and playwright (b. 1904)
• 1986 » Chester Bowles, American journalist and politician, 22nd Under Secretary of State (b. 1901)
• 1990 » Vic Tayback, American actor (b. 1930)

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. Amanda
12. Esther
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 5 » Ugo Vetere, then the mayor of Rome, and Chedli Klibi, then the mayor of Carthage meet in Tunis to sign a treaty of friendship officially ending the Third Punic War which lasted 2,131 years.
• July 17 » Founding of the EUREKA Network by former head of states François Mitterrand (France) and Helmut Kohl (Germany).
• August 22 » British Airtours Flight 28M suffers an engine fire during takeoff at Manchester Airport. The pilots abort but due to inefficient evacuation procedures 55 people are killed, mostly from smoke inhalation.
• October 29 » Major General Samuel K. Doe is announced the winner of the first multi-party election in Liberia.
• December 12 » Arrow Air Flight 1285, a McDonnell Douglas DC-8, crashes after takeoff in Gander, Newfoundland, killing all 256 people on board, including 236 members of the United States Army's 101st Airborne Division.

The temperature on May 25, 1985 was between 12.0 °C and 22.7 °C and averaged 17.3 °C. There was 8.5 hours of sunshine (53%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.