About the day » Monday August 26, 1985Calender converter

• Isabella Mcdonald, Paisley, Ontario
• levenloos geboren kindje Smit, Soest, Utrecht, Nederland

• Abraham Bijl (75), Vijfhuizen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Abraham Bijl (75), Vijfhuizen (Haarlemmermeer), Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Johannes Hartman (80), Emmer-Compascuum, Emmen
• Adriana de Krom (81), Bergen op Zoom
• Angenita Magdalena Barbera van Loo (63), Sneek
• Anna Janssen (78), Bree (B), België
• Antonius Hendricus Janssen (65), Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Alphonsus Antonius Weesie (58), Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Allan George HAY (82), Wendouree, Victoria, Australia
• Anna Maria Carolina Janssen (78), Bree (B)

• 1982 » Angelo Iorio, Italian footballer
• 1983 » Félix Porteiro, Spanish race car driver
• 1983 » Mattia Cassani, Italian footballer
• 1985 » Brandon McDonald, American football player
• 1985 » David Price, American baseball player
• 1985 » Oleksiy Kasyanov, Ukrainian decathlete
• 1986 » Cassie Ventura, American singer, dancer, actress and model
• 1986 » Colin Kazim-Richards, Turkish footballer
• 1986 » Vladislav Gussev, Estonian footballer
• 1987 » Juan Joseph, American football player and coach († 2014)

• 1980 » Rosa Albach-Retty, German-Austrian actress (b. 1874)
• 1980 » Tex Avery, American animator, director, and voice actor (b. 1908)
• 1981 » Lee Hays, American singer-songwriter (b. 1914)
• 1981 » Roger Nash Baldwin, American trade union leader, co-founded the American Civil Liberties Union (b. 1884)
• 1986 » Ted Knight, American actor (b. 1923)
• 1987 » Georg Wittig, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
• 1987 » John Goddard, Barbadian-English cricketer and manager (b. 1919)
• 1988 » Carlos Paião, Portuguese singer-songwriter (b. 1957)
• 1989 » Irving Stone, American author (b. 1903)
• 1990 » Tang Chang, Thai artist (b. 1934)

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.
• May 5 » Ronald Reagan visits the military cemetery at Bitburg and the site of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where he makes a speech.
• June 19 » Members of the Revolutionary Party of Central American Workers, dressed as Salvadoran soldiers, attack the Zona Rosa area of San Salvador.
• July 13 » The Live Aid benefit concert takes place in London and Philadelphia, as well as other venues such as Moscow and Sydney.
• November 20 » Microsoft Windows 1.0 is released.
• December 27 » Palestinian guerrillas kill eighteen people inside the airports of Rome, Italy, and Vienna, Austria.

The temperature on August 26, 1985 was between 8.9 °C and 16.8 °C and averaged 13.0 °C. There was 1.8 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (9%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.