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July 16, 1985Born on Wednesday July 17, 1985
- Marcel Metelmann († 2016)
- James Dean Schilling, Sheldon, O'Brien County, Iowa († 2024)
Died on Wednesday July 17, 1985
- Baatje Peinder (64), Dinteloord en Prinsenland, Nederland
- Catharina Anna Maria Broekhof (70), Noordwijk
- Albertus Pieters (56), Brielle
- Cornelia (Cor) Jagtenberg (71), Leidschendam
- Aart de Goede (83)
- Cornelia Maria van der Peyl (89), Apeldoorn, Nederland
- Antoon Noordanus (74), Den Haag
- Cornelis A. Knijnenburg (72), Wassenaar,Wassenaar,Zuid-Holland,Nederland
- Alida van der Lee (90), Alphen aan den Rijn
- Brechtje Hendriks Kerkhof (48), Dronrijp, Menaldumadeel, Friesland, Nederland
Source: Delpher (KB | national library) Newspapers from July 17, 1985 at Delpher
Born on July 17
- 1983 » Adam Lind, American baseball player
- 1983 » Ryan Guettler, Australian motocross racer
- 1985 » Loui Eriksson, Swedish ice hockey player
- 1985 » Neil McGregor, Scottish footballer
- 1985 » Tom Fletcher, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1986 » DeAngelo Smith, American football player
- 1986 » Lacey Von Erich, American wrestler
- 1987 » Darius Boyd, Australian rugby league player
- 1987 » Jan Charouz, Czech race car driver
- 1987 » Jeremih, American singer, songwriter, and record producer
Died on July 17
- 1974 » Dizzy Dean, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1910)
- 1975 » Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Georgian author (b. 1893)
- 1980 » Boris Delaunay, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1890)
- 1980 » Don "Red" Barry, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1912)
- 1988 » Bruiser Brody, American football player and wrestler (b. 1946)
- 1989 » Itubwa Amram, Nauruan pastor and politician (b. 1922)
- 1991 » John Patrick Spiegel, American psychiatrist and academic (b. 1911)
- 1994 » Jean Borotra, French tennis player (b. 1898)
- 1995 » Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentinian race car driver (b. 1911)
- 1996 » Victims of TWA Flight 800
Names that were popular for boys in 1985
Names that were popular for girls in 1985
Source: Wikipedia Historical events 1985
- 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.
- March 20 » Libby Riddles becomes the first woman to win the 1,135-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
- July 10 » The Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland harbour by French DGSE agents, killing Fernando Pereira.
- 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.
- August 27 » The Nigerian government is peacefully overthrown by Army Chief of Staff Major General Ibrahim Babangida.
- 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.
- December 14 » Wilma Mankiller takes office as the first woman elected to serve as Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation.
Weather July 17, 1985
The temperature on July 17, 1985 was between 8.6 °C and 23.9 °C and averaged 17.3 °C. There was 10.0 hours of sunshine (62%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.