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.

** Eva Morris, last surviving person documented as born in 1885 ( d. 2000 )

Eva Morris née Sharpe ( 8 November 1885 – 2 November 2000 ) was the oldest recognised person in the world, by the Guinness Book of Records, from December 1999 until November 2000.

Through the collaboration of William Morris with textile manufacturer Thomas Wardle, Wardle's wife Elizabeth, who was an accomplished seamstress, embarked on creating a reproduction in 1885.

The wealthy Kean family also donated the land on Morris Avenue and helped to establish Newark Normal College in 1885, which was renamed Kean College, and later Kean University, in the family's honor.

Their mausoleum was redesigned in 1885 by architect Richard Morris Hunt.

On his return to England in 1882, he joined the SDF, but grew disillusioned and in 1885 left to form the Socialist League with William Morris.

He had already been created a Baronet in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom in 1885, and a life peer under the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 as Baron Morris, of Spiddal in the County of Galway, in 1889.

Born in St. John's, Morris was educated at the University of Ottawa, joined the bar in 1885, and was a counsel for the British government during the North American fisheries arbitration in 1910 receiving a knighthood in 1904.

Morris served as governor of the Newfoundland Savings Bank from 1889 to 1913 and was elected to the Newfoundland House of Assembly in 1885 as an independent.

Michael Morris, 1st Baron Killanin PC, QC ( 14 November 1826 – 8 September 1901 ), known as Sir Michael Morris, Bt, from 1885 to 1889 and as The Lord Morris between 1889 and 1900, was an Irish lawyer and judge.

In 1885, Morris was created a Baronet, of Spiddal in the County of Galway, and two years later he was appointed Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench for Ireland.

Morris in 1885 reminded listeners to his lecture that London was no more difficult to reach from Melbourne in 1885 than it was to reach from Orkney Island after the Act of Union in 1707.

* Morris, Edward E .; Imperial federation: a Lecture for the Victorian Branch of the Imperial Federation League 28 Aug 1885, Melbourne

The Vanderbilt mausoleum, designed by Richard Morris Hunt and constructed in 1885 – 1886, is part of the family's private section within the cemetery.

Additional buildings they designed include: Theodore Roosevelt's country house Sagamore Hill in Oyster Bay Long Island ( completed 1887 ), Mount Morris Bank in Harlem ( 1883 ), the Victorian Renaissance revival style Main Building at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn ( 1887 ), the Queen Anne style Astral Apartments ( commissioned by Charles Pratt-built 1885 / 86 ) at 184 Franklin St. in Greenpoint, Brooklyn ( national register # 82001178 ), the Frank Babbott house at 153 Lincoln Place in Park Slope, Brooklyn, the main building of Barnard College in Manhattan, the John M. Greene Hall at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts and " Copshaholm ," James Oliver's house in South Bend, Indiana.

* Socialist League ( UK, 1885 ), a split from the Social Democratic Federation associated with William Morris

Abraham was the youngest of the eight children of Morris Rosenbach ( May 14, 1820 — May 8, 1885 ) and Isabella H. Polock ( November 26, 1834 — July 25, 1906 ), who were married on November 11, 1857.

In 1881, she enrolled at the National Art Training School, the precursor of the Royal College of Art, to study embroidery In 1885, aged 23, she became the director of the embroidery department at her father's enterprise Morris & Co ..

* Innings: Ed Morris ( 581, 1885 )

* Batters Faced: Ed Morris ( 2, 321, 1885 )

Samuel Morris ( 22 June 1855 in Hobart – 20 September 1931 in Albert Park, Victoria ) was an Australian cricketer who played in 1 Test in 1885.