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.

* 1939 – Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Polish author, painter, and photographer ( b. 1885 )

* September 18 – Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Polish writer and painter ( b. 1885 )

* Stanisław Kot ( 1885 – 1975 ), historian and politician

: For his son, the writer who lived 1885 – 1939, see Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz.

* Kazimierz Twardowski ( Vienna, 1885 – 1889 ), became father of the Lwów-Warsaw School of logic ( Jan Lukasiewicz, Stanisław Leśniewski, Tadeusz Kotarbiński, Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz and Alfred Tarski )

* Tadeusz Paweł Rutkowski, Stanisław Kot 1885 – 1975 Biografia polityczna, DIG 2000, ISBN 83-7181-165-9, Polish language

** Count Franciszek Stanisław Potocki, rosyjski tajny radca, Senator, prezes Heroldii Królestwa Polskiego ( Niemerow, 2 July 1788-Warsaw, 15 January 1853 ), married firstly at Mariachen, 8 September 1807 Princess Sidonie Françoise Charlotte ( Sydonia Franciska Carlota ) de Ligne ( 9 December 1786-Wien, 14 May 1828 ), and secondly Karolina Keffler ( d. 1885 ), only daughter of Prince Charles Antoine Joseph Emanuel de Ligne ( Brussels, 25 September 1759-killed in action at Roux-aux-Bois, 14 September 1792 ) and wife ( married on 29 July 1779 ) Princess Helene Massalska ( 9 February 1763-10 October 1814 ), without issue

* Stanisław Kot ( 1885 – 1975 ), scientist and politician, member of the Polish Government in Exile

Karl Bernhardovic Radek () ( 31 October 1885 – 19 May 1939 ) was a socialist active in the Polish and German movements before World War I and an international Communist leader after the Russian Revolution.

* Andrzej Gawroński ( 1885 – 1927 ), founder of the Polish Oriental Society, master of Sanskrit

* Metodyj Trochanovskij ( 1885 – 1947 ), Polish activist

* Marian Kukiel, ( 1885 – 1972 ) Polish General and Minister for War in exile during World War II

Jan Czochralski ( pronounced as ; 23 October 1885 – 22 April 1953 ) was a Polish chemist who invented the Czochralski process, which is used for growing single crystals and in the production of semiconductor wafers.

* Władysław Niegolewski ( 1819 – 1885 ), was a liberal Polish politician and member of parliament, an insurgent in the Greater Poland Uprisings of 1846 and 1848 and of the January 1863 Uprising, and a co-founder ( 1861 ) of the Central Economic Society ( TCL ) and ( 1880 ) the People's Libraries Society ( CTG ).

Of architectural interest in Greenpoint are: The Episcopal Church of the Ascension ( Ascension Greenpoint ) ( 1853 ) the oldest church in Greenpoint on Kent Street, The Astral Apartments ( 1885 ) ( NRHP ) on Franklin Street, the Saint Anthony of Padua Roman Catholic Church ( 1875 ) on Manhattan Avenue, the Eberhard-Faber Pencil Factory on Greenpoint Ave at Franklin St., the Polish Orthodox Cathedral of the Transfiguration of Our Lord ( 1921 ) ( NRHP ) on North 12th Street, the Oliver Hazard Perry School () ( 1867 ) on Norman Avenue ( the oldest continuously operating public school building in New York City ); the Capital One ( formerly Green Point ) Savings Bank ( 1908 ), the Saint Stanislaus Kostka Roman Catholic Church ( 1896 )() on Humboldt Street, which serves as a Catholic shrine for the Polish community, and the synagogue building of Congregation Ahavas Israel ( 1903 ) on Noble Street ( the sanctuary, with stained glass windows and a torah shrine with turn-of the century wood carvings, is currently open only during services on Saturday mornings ).

* Władysław Raczkiewicz ( 1885 – 1947 )-first president of the Polish government-in-exile, 1939 – 1947

By 1885, Prussia still faced difficulties digesting her " Polish provinces ", and the " Polish Question " was one of the Reich's most pressing problems.

Józef Kostrzewski ( February 25, 1885 – October 19, 1969 ) was a Polish archaeologist.

Władysław Raczkiewicz ( 28 January 1885, Kutaisi – 6 June 1947 ) was a Polish political figure and the first president of the Polish government in exile from 1939 until his death in 1947.

Accompanied by a Polish nobleman called Adam Ignatovich whom he had met in Omsk on his way to Chinese Turkestan, Hendricks arrived in Kashgar in 1885 and remained there until his death.

Founded in 1906 by Polish immigrant Jacob Sapirstein ( 1885 – 1987 ), who sold cards from a horse-drawn cart, American Greetings has been run by members of the family since its inception.

( from which Silesian Matica came to be in 1968 ); Polish Matica in Lvov ( 1882 ); Educational Matica in the Teschen Princedom in 1885 ; Educational Matica in Warsaw in 1905 ; Bulgarian Matica in Constantinople in 1909 and the new Bulgarian Matica in 1989.

Felicjan Kępiński ( 1885 – 1966 ) was a Polish astronomer.

Janusz Jędrzejewicz (; 21 June 1885 – 16 March 1951 ) was a Polish politician and educator, a leader of the Sanacja political group, and Prime Minister of Poland from 1933 to 1934.

According to German statistics Poles constituted 72 % of population in 1825 and 62 % in 1861 ; Gerard Labuda gives the number of 1500 Poles and 590 Germans living in the city in 1825 During the January Uprising in Russian Empire, Barczewo was the local centre of supplying medicine, food and even firearms to Polish rebels, with the Polish society in the city becoming active in war effort and led by August Sokołowski In 1885 a mass rally was organised by Poles, demanding among others that Polish children should be allowed to use their language in education