About the day » Monday July 29, 1985Calender converter

• Alberta Maria Geertruida Kamphuis (81), Deventer
• Adriaan Willem de Vos (89), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Andre Willemyns (56), Roeselare, Région Flamande, Belgique
• Bertha Lokhorst (90), Philipsburg, Kansas, Verenigde Staten
• Cornelis Knor (76), Gouda, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arie RIDDERHOF (94), Dordrecht
• Angela Reiniera Wilhelmina Maria Paashuis (36)
• Cornelis (Cees) Fransen (80), Deurne, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Catharina Johanna Jans (68), Boxmeer
• Adriana Leijten (70)

• 1983 » Alexei Kaigorodov, Russian ice hockey player
• 1983 » Inés Gómez Mont, Mexican journalist and actress
• 1983 » Jason Belmonte, Australian bowler
• 1983 » Jerious Norwood, American football player
• 1984 » Chad Billingsley, American baseball player
• 1984 » Oh Beom-seok, South Korean footballer
• 1984 » Wilson Palacios, Honduran footballer
• 1985 » Besart Berisha, Albanian footballer
• 1985 » Okinoumi Ayumi, Japanese sumo wrestler
• 1985 » Simon Santoso, Indonesian badminton player

• 1979 » Herbert Marcuse, German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1898)
• 1981 » Robert Moses, American urban planner, designed the Northern State Parkway and Southern State Parkway (b. 1888)
• 1982 » Harold Sakata, American wrestler and actor (b. 1920)
• 1982 » Vladimir K. Zworykin, Russian-American engineer, invented the Iconoscope (b. 1889)
• 1983 » David Niven, English military officer and actor (b. 1910)
• 1983 » Luis Buñuel, Spanish actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1900)
• 1983 » Raymond Massey, Canadian-American actor and screenwriter (b. 1896)
• 1984 » Fred Waring, American television host and bandleader (b. 1900)
• 1987 » Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay, Indian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1894)
• 1990 » Bruno Kreisky, Austrian academic and politician, 22nd Chancellor of Austria (b. 1911)

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.
• March 8 » A supposed failed assassination attempt on Islamic cleric Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah in Beirut, Lebanon kills at least 45 and injures 175 others.
• May 29 » Heysel Stadium disaster: Thirty-nine association football fans die and hundreds are injured when a dilapidated retaining wall collapses.
• July 10 » An Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-154 stalls and crashes near Uchkuduk, Uzbekistan (then part of the Soviet Union), killing all 200 people on board in the USSR's worst-ever airline disaster.
• July 17 » Founding of the EUREKA Network by former head of states François Mitterrand (France) and Helmut Kohl (Germany).
• November 13 » The volcano Nevado del Ruiz erupts and melts a glacier, causing a lahar (volcanic mudslide) that buries Armero, Colombia, killing approximately 23,000 people.
• November 13 » Xavier Suárez is sworn in as Miami's first Cuban-born mayor.

The temperature on July 29, 1985 was between 13.9 °C and 21.5 °C and averaged 16.8 °C. There was 16.9 mm of rain during 4.5 hours. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (26%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.