Allan Dwan ( April 3, 1885 – December 28, 1981 ) was a pioneering Canadian-born American motion picture director, producer and screenwriter.

* Atlas ( 1863 – 1885 ), one of the eight South Devon Railway Dido class steam locomotives

He studied organ there from 1885 – 1893 with Eugène Munch, organist of the Protestant Temple, who inspired Schweitzer with his profound enthusiasm for the music of German composer Richard Wagner.

* 1885 – George de Hevesy, Hungarian chemist and Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1966 )

* 1885 – Leo Weiner, Hungarian composer and educator ( d. 1960 )

* 1885 – Japan's first patent is issued to the inventor of a rust-proof paint.

* 1885 – Edna Ferber, American novelist ( d. 1968 )

* 1885 – Jean Cabannes, French physicist ( d. 1959 )

* 1885 – Édouard Fabre, Canadian runner ( d. 1939 )

During his 72 years of Imamat ( 1885 – 1957 ), the community celebrated his Golden ( 1937 ), Diamond ( 1946 ) and Platinum ( 1954 ) Jubilees.

There has not been a monarch known as Alphonso or Alfonso I of Spain, the first king of that name of the unified Spain being Alfonso XII of Spain ( 1874 – 1885 ).

Alfonso XII ( born Alfonso Francisco de Asís Fernando Pío Juan María de la Concepción Gregorio Pelayo ) ( Madrid, 28 November 1857 – El Pardo, 25 November 1885 ) was King of Spain, reigning from 1874 to 1885, after a coup d ' état restored the monarchy and ended the ephemeral First Spanish Republic.

* Alfonso Sanz y Martínez de Arizala ( 28 January 1880, Madrid – 1970 ), married in 1922 to María de Guadalupe de Limantour y Mariscal ( d. 1977, Marbella ), daughter of Julio de Limantour y Marquet ( 17 June 1863, Mexico City – 11 October 1909, Mexico City ) and wife Elena Mariscal y ..., paternal granddaughter of French Joseph Yves de Limantour y Rence de la Pagame ( 1812, Ploemeur – 1885, Mexico City ) and wife Adèle Marquet y Cabannes ( 1820, Bordeaux –?

* Alfonso XII of Spain-( 1857 – 1885 ) ( ordinal numbering continues from the kings of Castile )

* 1885 – Cree warriors attacked the village of Frog Lake, North-West Territories, Canada, killing 9.

* 1885 – Vance Palmer, Australian author ( d. 1959 )

* 1885 – Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first internal combustion motorcycle, the Reitwagen

* 1885 – Karen Blixen ( Isak Dinesen ), Danish author ( d. 1962 )

* 1885 – Carl Goßler, German rower ( d. 1914 )

* 1885 – Gottlieb Daimler is granted a German patent for his engine design.

Alban Maria Johannes Berg ( February 9, 1885 – December 24, 1935 ) was an Austrian composer.

" In a review of H. D. Traill's analysis of Coleridge in the " English Men of Letters ", an anonymous reviewer wrote in 1885 Westminster Review: " Of ' Kubla Khan ,' Mr. Traill writes: ' As to the wild dream-poem ' Kubla Khan ,' it is hardly more than a psychologial curiosity, and only that perhaps in respect of the completeness of its metrical form.

* Phoenix: The Posthumous Papers of D. H. Lawrence ( 1885 – 1930 ), anthology of work by D. H. Lawrence

File: Girl with a Hoop. JPG | Girl With a Hoop, 1885, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C.

Earliest specimens of Z. B. D .- designed high-efficiency constant-potential transformers manufactured at the Ganz factory in 1885.

In their joint 1885 patent applications for novel transformers ( later called Z. B. D.

Although George Westinghouse had bought Gaulard and Gibbs ' patents in 1885, the Edison Electric Light Company held an option on the U. S. rights for the Z. B. D.

* March 2 – D. H. Lawrence, English writer ( Lady Chatterley's Lover ) ( b. 1885 )

Notable works of the school still extant are the famous archaic female statues found on the Athenian Acropolis in 1885 – 1887, the seated statues of Branchidae, the Nike of Archermus found at Delos, and the objects in ivory and electrum found by D. G.

* An Appreciation: D. H. Lawrence, 1885 – 1930 ( 1950 ) also as D. H. Lawrence: Portrait of a Genius But.

Inspired by the area and artists, D. H. Lawrence ( 1885 – 1930 ) painted while in Taos, signing his work " Lorenzo "; Nine of his paintings are displayed at La Fonda Hotel on the Taos Plaza.

D. H. Lawrence ( 1885 – 1930 ), author, lived at 12 Colworth Road, Addiscombe from 1908 to 1912 and was a teacher at Davidson Road School for some time.

Finished in 1898, it was the third tallest monument to an individual in the United States, surpassed only by the first dedicated Washington Monument ( 178 feet ) in Baltimore, Maryland finished in 1829 and the Washington Monument ( 555 feet ) in Washington, D. C. dedicated in 1885.

In 1885, Allen D. Beemer, George Canfield, and K. C.

Fritz Sittle ( Sittel ), a Choctaw citizen by marriage and one of the first settlers in the area, urged visiting newspaperman Edwin D. Chadick in 1885 to pursue the possibility of establishing an east-west rail line to run through the coal mining district at Krebs that would connect with the north-south line at McAlester.

In 1885 he started working with the Bureau of American Ethnology at Washington, D. C. under John Wesley Powell.

* Online Version of The Virgin of the World of Hermes Trismegistus, version translated by Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland in 1885 A. D.

A large part of his diary entitled Remarks and Collections, 1705 – 1714, edited by C. E. Doble and D. W. Rannie, has been published by the Oxford Historical Society ( 1885 – 1898 ).

* Edgington v Fitzmaurice ( 1885 ) 29 Ch D 459, " the state of a man's mind is as much a fact as the state of his digestion ", securities-fraud case dealing with false statements of intention

Unusually for a composer of such importance and reputation, Franck's fame rests largely on a small number of compositions written in his later years, particularly his Symphony in D minor ( 1886 – 88 ), the Symphonic Variations for piano and orchestra ( 1885 ), the Prelude, Chorale and Fugue for piano solo ( 1884 ), the Sonata for Violin and Piano in A major ( 1886 ), the Piano Quintet in F minor ( 1879 ), and the symphonic poem Le Chasseur maudit ( 1883 ).

George Baker with Bridget D ' Oyly Carte, 1964George Baker ( 10 February 1885 – 8 January 1976 ) was an English singer.

First established in 1872, the college awarded its first Ph. D. in 1885 to John Stillman, who later founded the Chemistry Department at Stanford University.

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1885.