About the day » Tuesday July 2, 1985Calender converter

• Marijke Kuyt († 1986)
• Barbara Stroink, Lübeck
• Marijke Kuijt († 1986)
• Lieke Paf, Enschede († 1985)
• Elleke GOOSSEN, Terneuzen († 1985)

• Aaltje Beijnen (83)
• "Jacobus Dirk" Walraven (61), Middelburg, Zeeland, Netherlands
• Anna Catharina Verdeuzeldonk (89), Liessel
• Cees Jansen (53), Dongen
• Bastiaan Gelok (70), Goes, Goes, Zeeland, The Netherlands
• Abraham Teunis Stolk (54), Vreeswijk Utr
• Catharina Dorothea Schols (86), Elen (B)
• Adrianus Arnoldus Huiberts (73), Delft
• Céline STAS (71), Antwerpen (Belgium)
• Arthur Gailly (90)

• 1983 » Kyle Hogg, English cricketer
• 1983 » Michelle Branch, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1984 » Johnny Weir, American figure skater
• 1984 » Thomas Kortegaard, Danish footballer
• 1985 » Ashley Tisdale, American actress, singer, and producer
• 1985 » Chad Henne, American football player
• 1985 » Rhett Bomar, American football player
• 1986 » Brett Cecil, American baseball player
• 1986 » Lindsay Lohan, American actress and singer
• 1987 » Esteban Granero, Spanish footballer

• 1975 » James Robertson Justice, English actor (b. 1907)
• 1977 » Vladimir Nabokov, Russian-born novelist and critic (b. 1899)
• 1978 » Aris Alexandrou, Greek author and poet (b. 1922)
• 1986 » Peanuts Lowrey, American baseball player and manager (b. 1917)
• 1988 » Vibert Douglas, Canadian astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1894)
• 1989 » Andrei Gromyko, Soviet economist and politician, Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1909)
• 1990 » Snooky Lanson, American singer (b. 1914)
• 1991 » Lee Remick, American actress (b. 1935)
• 1993 » Fred Gwynne, American actor (b. 1926)
• 1994 » Andrés Escobar, Colombian footballer (b. 1967)

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. Jennifer

• 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.
• April 19 » Two hundred ATF and FBI agents lay siege to the compound of the white supremacist survivalist group The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord in Arkansas; the CSA surrenders two days later.
• June 23 » A terrorist bomb explodes at Narita International Airport near Tokyo. An hour later, the same group detonates a second bomb aboard Air India Flight 182, bringing the Boeing 747 down off the coast of Ireland killing all 329 aboard.
• 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.
• October 1 » Israel-Palestinian conflict: Israel attacks the Palestine Liberation Organization headquarters in Tunisia during "Operation Wooden Leg".
• October 7 » Four men from the Palestine Liberation Front hijack the MSAchille Lauro off the coast of Egypt.
• December 27 » Palestinian guerrillas kill eighteen people inside the airports of Rome, Italy, and Vienna, Austria.

The temperature on July 2, 1985 was between 11.5 °C and 21.4 °C and averaged 16.0 °C. There was 6.6 hours of sunshine (40%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.