* 1985 – Clarke MacArthur, Canadian hockey player

* 1985 – Al Mukadam, Canadian director, producer, screenwriter and actor

* 1985 – Frank Ongfiang, Italian footballer

* 1985 – James Alexandrou, English actor

* 1985 – Brennan Boesch, American baseball player

* 1985 – Jeísa Chiminazzo, Brazilian model

* 1985 – Ted Ginn, Jr., American football player

* 1985 – Anna-Katharina Samsel, German actress

* 1985 – Olga Seryabkina, Russian singer-songwriter ( Serebro )

* 1985 – Hitomi Yoshizawa, Japanese singer ( Morning Musume and Hangry & Angry )

* 1901 – Simon Kuznets, Ukrainian economist, Nobel laureate ( d. 1985 )

* 1985 – Ashley Alexandra Dupré, American call girl, columnist, and singer

* 1985 – Gal Gadot, Israeli actress and model

* 1985 – The Nigerian government is peacefully overthrown by Army Chief of Staff Major General Ibrahim Babangida.

* 1908 – Kurt Wegner, German artist ( d. 1985 )

* 1985 – Nikica Jelavić, Croatian footballer

* 1985 – Alexandra Nechita, Romanian-American painter

* 1985 – Mickaël Delage, French cyclist

* 1985 – Bafétimbi Gomis, French footballer

* 1985 – Garrett Weber-Gale, American swimmer

* 1922 – Philip Larkin, English poet ( d. 1985 )

* 1985 – Luca Filippi, Italian race car driver

* 1985 – Anna Kendrick, American actress

* 1985 – Hayley Peirsol, American swimmer

* 1985 – JaMarcus Russell, American football player

Despite Acorn themselves effectively shelving the Electron in 1985, games continued to be developed and released by professional software houses until 1991.

* Computer Originated World, referring to the globe ID the BBC1 TV network used from 1985 to 1991

Lilith Sternin starts as a one-time character in the Season 4 episode, " Second Time Around " ( 1985 ), but then she becomes a recurring character since Season 5 ( 1986 – 87 ), although she is a permanent character for Seasons 10 and 11 ( 1991 – 93 ).

In 1991 the percentage of Comorians residing in cities and towns of more than 5, 000 persons was about 30 percent, up from 25 percent in 1985 and 23 percent in 1980.

* Cold War ( 1985 – 1991 )

war: Katumbahan han Unyon Sobyet ( 1985 – 1991 )

The film was first released on VHS in 1985 and again in 1991.

Yakima Training Center ; Yakima, Washington was the main testing grounds of the HMMWVs from 1985 through December 1991, when the motorized concept was abandoned and the Division inactivated.

* 1985 – Thomas Sutherland is kidnapped in Lebanon ( he will not be released until 1991 ).

The Death of Klinghoffer ( 1991 ): The opera's story begins with the 1985 hijacking of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro by Palestinian terrorists and details the murder of a passenger named Leon Klinghoffer, a retired, physically disabled American Jew.

Dalglish became player-manager of Liverpool in 1985 after the resignation of Joe Fagan, winning a further three First Divisions, two FA Cups and four FA Charity Shields, before resigning from Liverpool in 1991.

More ambiguous portrayals of lesbian characters were seen in Silkwood ( 1983 ), The Color Purple ( 1985 ), and Fried Green Tomatoes ( 1991 ), despite explicit lesbianism in the source material.

John Lott and Kevin Hassett of the American Enterprise Institute study the coverage of economic news by looking at a panel of 389 U. S. newspapers from 1991 to 2004, and from 1985 to 2004 for a subsample comprising the top 10 newspapers and the Associated Press.

As reported in several studies, the media have depicted cults as problematic, controversial, and threatening from the beginning, tending to favor sensationalistic stories over balanced public debates ( Beckford, 1985 ; Richardson, Best, & Bromley, 1991 ; Victor, 1993 ).

He then married producer Barbara De Fina in 1985 ; their marriage ended in divorce as well, in 1991.

Mayotte's population density went from 179 persons per square kilometer in 1985 to 251 per square kilometer in 1991.

Soviet assistance, at its height one-third of GDP, disappeared almost overnight in 1990 – 91, at the time of the Collapse of the Soviet Union ( 1985 – 1991 ).

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, or Gorbachov ( more accurately reflecting the pronunciation of his name ) (; born 2 March 1931 ), is a former Soviet statesman, having served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991, and as the last head of state of the Soviet Union, having served from 1988 until its dissolution in 1991.

More recent manifestations include Paradise Motel ( 1985 ), Talking Walls ( 1987 ), Desire and Hell at Sunset Motel ( 1991 ) and the Korean films Motel Cactus ( 1997 ) and The Motel ( 2005 ).

" He also served as president of the Paleontological Society ( 1985 – 1986 ) and the Society for the Study of Evolution ( 1990 – 1991 ).

* Saparmyrat Ataýewiç Nyýazow ( 21 December 1985 – 16 December 1991 )

Gilliam is also known for directing several films, including Brazil ( 1985 ), The Adventures of Baron Munchausen ( 1988 ), The Fisher King ( 1991 ), 12 Monkeys ( 1995 ), and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas ( 1998 ).

Since 1991, however, there has been a jump in death rates from a low of 10 per 1000 in 1985 to a high of 25 per 1000 in 2002 / 2003.

Other long-term members of the group included Peter Baumann ( 1971 – 1977 ), who later went on to found the New Age label Private Music, to which the band was signed from 1988 to 1991 ; Johannes Schmoelling ( 1979 – 1985 ); Paul Haslinger ( 1986 – 1990 ); and, most recently Froese's son Jerome Froese ( 1990 – 2006 ).