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.

* 1951 – Sinclair Lewis, American writer, Nobel laureate ( b. 1885 )

* January 10 – Sinclair Lewis, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1885 )

Babbitt ( 1922 ), by Sinclair Lewis ( 1885 – 1951 ), satirizes the American bourgeois George Follansbee Babbitt, a middle-aged realtor, booster, and joiner in the Midwestern city of Zenith, who — despite being unimaginative, self-important, and hopelessly conformist and middle-class — is aware that there must be more to life than money and the consumption of the best things that money can buy.

From 1900 to 1950, Sinclair Lewis ( 1885 – 1951 ), William Faulkner ( 1897 – 1962 ), Henry Miller ( 1891 – 1980 ), Ernest Hemingway ( 1899 – 1961 ), John Steinbeck ( 1902 – 1968 ), Richard Wright ( 1908 – 1960 ), William Saroyan ( 1908 – 1981 ), Nelson Algren ( 1909 – 1981 ), Paul Bowles ( 1910 – 1999 ), Jerome Salinger ( 1919 – 2009 ), Norman Mailer ( 1923 – 2007 ), and Gore Vidal ( 1925 – 2012 ).

His son, Sir John George Tollemache Sinclair, 3rd Baronet, was member for the same constituency from 1869 to 1885.

Norval Sinclair Marley ( 1885 – 1957 ) was a Jamaican Marine famous for being the father of the reggae musician Bob Marley.

1868, Lewis Robins ; 1869, Washington Snyder ; 1870 – 1871, Sylvester M. Lester ; 1872 – 1873, George F. Rogers ; 1874 – 1875, Alvin H. Cipperly ; 1876 – 1880, Arthur M. Peck ; 1881 – 1885, James C. Cotton ; 1886 – 1888, Sanford B. Horton ; 1889 – 1895, Frank Pettit ; 1896 -, John B. Martin.

* William Garrett Lewis ( b. before 1834 ; d. 1885 ) pastor of Westbourne Grove Church

* February 7-Sinclair Lewis, American novelist ( born 1885 )

* John Spedan Lewis ( 1885 – 1963 ), son of John Lewis ( department store founder ), pioneer of industrial democracy and founder of the John Lewis Partnership

In Welsh ( Cymraeg ), a late-riser may be referred to as a saith cysgadur — seven sleeper — as in the 1885 novel Rhys Lewis by Daniel Owen, where the protagonist is referred to as such in chapter 37, p. 294 ( Hughes a ' i Fab, Caerdydd, 1948 ).

Kenneth Lewis Roberts ( December 8, 1885 – July 21, 1957 ) was an American author of historical novels.

* Rhys Lewis ( 1885 )

Florida state law chapter 3658, approved February 12, 1885, incorporated the Key West Street Car Company, owned by Walter C. Maloney, Edward H. Gato, Lewis W. Pierce, George G. Watson, John White, and Charles B. Pendleton, to construct and operate a line of railway or railroads on any or all the streets in the city of Key West, as per charter granted by the Board of Aldermen of said city of Key West, Fla., and the right to extend or build said road upon any and all the avenues, streets or roads leading into said city of Key West, and upon all roads on the island of Key West ; and said company shall further have the right to operate said line or lines of railroad, or any of them, with steam or horse power.

Lewis Fry was a Quaker, lawyer and later a Liberal and Unionist Member of Parliament from 1885 – 1892 and 1895-1890 for the constituency Bristol North.

In 1850, Clark married Ann Price Lewis ( died 1885 ), a descendant of Thomas Lewis, one of the original 1759 partners in the Dowlais Ironworks.

Lewis mentions that " by the end of 1885 Britain was preparing to resist an expected French landing at Zeila.

* A Tangled Tale, by Lewis Carroll ( 1885 )

In 1850, Clark married Ann Price Lewis ( died 1885 ), a descendant of Thomas Lewis.

* 1885 – American sharpshooter Annie Oakley was hired by Nate Salsbury to be a part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West.

* 1955 – Theda Bara, American actress ( b. 1885 )

The adoption of the radical Pittsburgh Platform in 1885, which dismissed observance of the ritual commandments and Jewish peoplehood as " anachronistic ", created a permanent wedge between the Reform movement and more traditional American Jews.

* Portrait of Mrs. John Wheeler Leavitt, 1885, grandmother of Cecilia Beaux, Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, Pa., ExplorePAHistory. com

* 1885 – George Richards Minot, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize ( d. 1950 )

* 1885 – Deems Taylor American conductor and music critic ( d. 1966 )

* 1945 – George Smith Patton Jr., American military commander ( b. 1885 )

* 1885 – Charles Daniels, American swimmer ( d. 1973 )

* 1885 – Burton Downing, American racing cyclist ( d. 1929 )

* 1885 – The American Telephone and Telegraph Company is incorporated in New York State as the subsidiary of American Bell Telephone.

* 1969 – George " Gabby " Hayes, American actor ( b. 1885 )

* John F. Young ( 1820 – 1885 ), American Episcopal bishop of Florida, translator of the hymn Silent Night

* 1885 – Miles Burke, American flyweight boxer ( d. 1928 )

* 1885 – Grover Lowdermilk, American baseball player ( d. 1968 )

* 1795 – John Marston, American sailor ( d. 1885 )

* 1885 – Jack Hoxie, American actor, rodeo performer ( d. 1965 )

* 1885 – Alice Paul, American women's rights activist ( d. 1977 )

* 1885 – Jerome Kern, American composer ( d. 1945 )

* 1885 – Russell van Horn, American lightweight boxer ( d. 1970 )

* 1885 – Edwin Swatek, American backstroke swimmer and water polo player ( d. 1966 )