* 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

By the mid-1980s, her record sales were still relatively strong, with " Save the Last Dance for Me ", " Downtown ", " Tennessee Homesick Blues " ( all 1984 ); " Real Love " ( another duet with Kenny Rogers ), " Don't Call It Love " ( both 1985 ); and " Think About Love " ( 1986 ) all reaching the country-singles Top 10.

Bernd Heine exemplifies the strong reaction evoked by Turnbull's evaluation of the Ik in a 1985 article in Africa, The Mountain People: Some Notes on the Ik of North-Eastern Uganda.

Over the next few years, the ratings gradually declined in Canada ( by 1985, it was seen only once a week in a Saturday-morning time slot on CTV ), but YCDTOTV continued to go strong in the U. S. on Nickelodeon, where it aired first five times a week and, eventually, every day.

A strong environmentalist, he engaged in peaceful civil disobedience to block logging of old-growth forests at Lyell Island in Haida Gwaii in 1985 and at Clayoquot Sound on the west coast of Vancouver Island in 1993.

Also, external affairs minister Joe Clark was the first foreign affairs minister to land in previously isolated Ethiopia to lead the Western response to the 1984 – 1985 famine in Ethiopia ; Clark landed in Addis Ababa so quickly he had not even seen the initial CBC report that had created the initial and strong public reaction.

In the 1980s he won a number of very strong tournaments, including Amsterdam IBM in 1981, Wijk aan Zee 1981, and 1985, Linares 1988, the 1989 Euwe Memorial, and the 1989 World Cup tournament in Rotterdam.

Incorporated as a first-class city, Bremerton has been governed by a nonpartisan strong mayor and nine-member city council since 1985.

The first-generation Taurus was launched in 1985 as a 1986 model to strong fanfare and sales, replacing the slow-selling mid-size Ford Granada-based Ford LTD. ( The full-size Ford LTD Crown Victoria remained as part of the Ford line up.

Born to Run continued to be a strong catalog seller through the years, re-entering the Billboard chart in late 1980 after The River was released, and again after the blockbuster success of Born in the U. S. A., spending most of 1985 on the chart.

Although they finished 16th in 1985 – 86 and re-election was a threat right up to the final few games of the season, they emerged as strong promotion contenders in the 1986 – 87 season, finishing sixth on 70 points and occupying the final playoff place in the division.

A strong proponent of the USFL's planned move to the fall in 1986, Einhorn opted not to field a team in the USFL's final spring lame duck season, 1985.

In 1985, the controlling interest of Atari Games was sold to Namco ( a company with strong past ties to Atari Inc .), who soon lost interest in operating an American subsidiary.

This was enough to bring him some strong support, but his administration's mishandling of the infamous 1985 earthquake in Mexico City damaged his popularity for initially refusing international aid, and it placed Mexico's delicate path to economic recovery in an even more precarious situation, as the destruction also extended to other parts of the country.

First released in 1985, the Rational Environment was an integrated development environment for the Ada programming language, which provided good support for abstraction through strong typing.

Papandreou was comfortably re-elected in the Greek legislative election, 1985 with 46 % of the vote, and won still further popularity in March 1987 by his strong leadership during a Greek-Turkish crisis in the Aegean Sea, but from the summer of 1988, his premiership became increasingly clouded by controversy, as the Bank of Crete scandal exploded.

By the same token, strong North American opposition to President Suazo's attempt to remain in power in 1985 helped preserve the fragile legitimacy that had been built over the preceding five years ... massive economic aid prevented the economy's collapse.

The desire was so strong for an expansion of IPFW during the 1980s that the Faculty Senate and Indiana-Purdue Foundation explored the full independence from both Purdue and IU, not entirely unlike the University of Southern Indiana ’ s independence from Indiana State University in 1985.

Zia's dream of Bangladesh's involvement in a strong regional cooperation was met after 4 years of his assassination when SAARC got founded on 8 December 1985 with a key role of the then Bangladeshi authority.

At daybreak on May 31, 1985, a strong area of low pressure was centered near Duluth, Minnesota.

However, it had fallen to 10th in 1985 ; although Austin Rover managed to keep up a strong presence in this sector due to the arrival of the similar sized Rover 200 saloon in August 1984.

Historically, March ( up to 1981 ), Ralt ( up to the early 1990s ) and Reynard ( 1985 – 1992 ) had been the main chassis manufacturers in two-litre F3, with Martini fairly strong in France ; Reynard pioneered use of carbon fibre in the mid-1980s replacing traditional aluminium or steel monocoque structures.

In 1985, rival station 3AK suddenly dumped its Beautiful music format, despite strong ratings.

The 1985 translation, by the recently deceased Czech Ewald Osers, is regarded by many reviewers as superior, capturing the crispness and strong metaphors of the original.

Mrs. Li Yapin ( 李亚频 ) was eventually released on September 26, 1985 due to strong American pressure.