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 – 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.

* Paul Bern ( 1885 – 1937 ), director, second husband of Jean Harlow

Niels Bohr ( 1885 – 1962 ), the Danish physicist and one of the principle founders of quantum mechanics, had indeed hung in his office a large painting by Jean Metzinger, La Femme au Cheval ( Woman with a horse, The Rider ) 1911-12 ( now in the Statens Museum for Kunst, National Gallery of Denmark ).

In 1885, Ruckstull entered the Académie Julian, and studied under Gustave Boulanger, Camille Lefèvre, Jean Dampt and Antonin Mercié.

Raoul Villain ( 1885 – 1936 ) was a French nationalist primarily remembered for his assassination of the French socialist leader Jean Jaurès on July 31, 1914 in Paris.

These include such naturalists as Jean de Thévenot ( 1633 – 1667 ), Pierre Sonnerat ( 1748 – 1814 ), Jean Baptiste Leschenault de la Tour ( 1773 – 1826 ), Alfred Duvaucel ( 1793 – 1825 ), William Doherty ( 1857 – 1901 ) and Frank Kingdon-Ward ( 1885 – 1958 ).

* Jean Louis Ernest Camescasse: July 16, 1881 – April 23, 1885

Manosque was the birthplace of author Jean Giono ( 1895 – 1970 ) and composer Adolphe Blanc ( 1828 – 1885 ).

As assistant ( 1883 ) and successor ( 1885 ) to Louis de Mas Latrie, Giry restored the study of diplomatics, which had been founded in France by Dom Jean Mabillon, to its legitimate importance.

Geefs was born at Antwerp, the eldest of six brothers in a family of sculptors, the best-known of whom are Joseph Geefs ( 1808 – 1885, winner of the Prix de Rome in 1836 ) and Jean Geefs ( 1825 – 1860, and winner of the prize in 1846 ).

Rotrou's brother, Pierre Rotrou de Saudreville, left a memoir of him which is unfortunately lost, but this is cited by the Abbé Brillon ( 1671 – 1736 ) as his authority in a Notice biographique sur Jean Rotrou, first printed in 1885 at Chartres under the editorship of L. Merlet.

Europeans, primarily the French, German, and Belgians, arrived in the area in 1885.

* 1811 – Jean-Charles Chapais, French Canadian politician, Father of the Canadian Confederation ( d. 1885 )

In 1885, to get rid of habitual criminals and to increase the number of colonists, the French Parliament passed a law that anyone, male or female, who had more than three sentences for theft of more than three months each, would be sent to French Guiana as a " relégué.

* 1828 – Edmond François Valentin About, French writer ( d. 1885 )

* 1802 – Victor Hugo, French writer ( d. 1885 )

The Foreign Legion's First Battalion ( Lieutenant-Colonel Donnier ) was sent to Tonkin in the autumn of 1883, during the period of undeclared hostilities that preceded the Sino – French War ( August 1884 to April 1885 ), and formed part of the attack column that stormed the western gate of Son Tay on 16 December.

In January 1885 the Foreign Legion's 4th Battalion ( chef de bataillon Vitalis ) was deployed to the French bridgehead at Keelung ( Jilong ) in Formosa ( Taiwan ), where it took part in the later battles of the Keelung Campaign.

Conflicts between the Chinese Emperor and the French Republic over Indochina climaxed during the Sino-French War ( 1884 – 1885 ).

* 1885 – André Lhote, French painter ( d. 1962 )

* 1885 – André Maurois, French author ( d. 1967 )

* 1885 – Victor Hugo, French author ( b. 1802 )

* 1885 – Pierre Renoir, French actor and director ( d. 1952 )

* 1885 – François Mauriac, French author, Nobel laureate ( d. 1970 )

* 1967 – André Maurois, French author ( b. 1885 )

* Ernest Goüin ( 1815 – 1885 ), French engineer

* May 21 – Jacques Feyder, French filmmaker ( b. 1885 )

* 1884 – 1885: On August 9, 1884, " La France ", a French Army airship, makes its maiden flight.

* 1885 – 1889: Claude Goubet, a French inventor, builts two small electric submarines.

* August 22 – Sino – French War ( for control of Tonkin ) breaks out ( continues to April 1885 ).

* October 23 – Henri Milne-Edwards, French zoologist ( d. 1885 )

* February 26 – Victor Hugo, French author ( d. 1885 )

* Images from an illustrated 1885 French edition