* 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 – 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

* Alexandra Mowday ( born 1985 ), New Zealand scientist

* Ashley Alexandra Dupré ( born 1985 ), former Emperor's Club Diamond Girl, recently involved in prostitution case with Eliot Spitzer, former New York Governor.

Joan Rivers was born Joan Alexandra Molinsky in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants Beatrice ( née Grushman ; January 6, 1906 – October 1975 ) and Meyer C. Molinsky ( December 7, 1900 – January 1985 ).

Alexandra Nechita ( born August 27, 1985 ) is a Romanian-born American cubist painter and muralist.

They married in 1985 and have three daughters, Jennifer, Alexandra Danielle Yeaggy ( Father is the late Carlos Yeaggy, a makeup man Melody met on the set of Y & R ; Alexandra was adopted by Scott ) and Elizabeth.

****** Alexandra Gfin Stauffenberg ( born 09. May. 1922 ) ∞ Rolf Staelin ( 09. Jun. 1913-19. Feb. 1985 )

* 2011 – Leon Botha, South African painter and DJ ( b. 1985 )

* 1887 – Marc Chagall, Russian painter ( d. 1985 )

* John Walker ( painter ) ( born 1939 ), nominee for the Turner Prize in 1985

* 1985 – Jean Dubuffet, French painter ( b. 1901 )

* 1985 – Jacques Hnizdovsky, Ukrainian-born American painter and book illustrator ( b. 1915 )

* July 31 – Jean Dubuffet, French painter ( died 1985 )

* July 7 – Marc Chagall, Russian-born painter ( d. 1985 )

* October 17 – Andrej Bicenko, Russian fresco painter and muralist ( d. 1985 )

* July 29 – Ma Jir Bo, Chinese Realism oil painter ( d. 1985 )

His debut exhibition as a serious painter was at the Mary Boone Gallery in New York in 1985 and was initially regarded as that of " another rock musician dabbling in art for ego's sake ", though his primitive, non-conformist work has received more sympathetic and serious attention since then, with some sales approaching $ 25, 000.

Herbert Bayer ( April 5, 1900 – September 30, 1985 ) was an Austrian American graphic designer, painter, photographer, sculptor, art director, environmental & interior designer, and architect, who was widely recognized as the last living member of the Bauhaus and was instrumental in the development of the Atlantic Richfield Company's corporate art collection until his death in 1985.

Ofili became the first painter to win the Turner Prize since Howard Hodgkin in 1985.

Julian Beck ( May 31, 1925 – September 14, 1985 ) was an American actor, director, poet, and painter.

* Paul Kondas ( 1900 – 1985 ), painter

* Part III ("' De Stijl ", 1984 – 1985 ): text from The Principles of Plastic Mathematics by M. H. J. Schoenmaekers, along with text about the Dutch painter Piet Mondrian

Jean Philippe Arthur Dubuffet ( 31 July 1901 – 12 May 1985 ) was a French painter and sculptor.

* Patrick de Gmeline and Josephine Sinclair, " Lückner l ' aigle des mers " published by Lavauzelle publishers, France, illustrated with paintings ( first and fourth covers ) and drawings from the French painter Claude Le Baube, September 1985.

In 1985, SOE agent and painter Brian Stonehouse, who saw Andrée Borrel and the three other female SOE agents at the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp just before their deaths, painted a poignant watercolour of the four women which now hangs in the Special Forces Club in London, England.

After her death in 1985, he remarried in 1992 ; his second wife, Simone Rethel ( born 1949 ), is a German actress, painter, and photographer.

In 1985, SOE agent and painter Brian Stonehouse, who saw Rowden and the other female SOE agents at the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp just before their deaths, painted a watercolour of the four women which now hangs in the Special Forces Club in London.

Flora Caroline Twort ( 24 June 1893 – 1985 ) was an English painter who specialised in watercolours and pastels of the scenes and people of Petersfield, Hampshire.

* Joseph Zaritsky ( 1891 – 1985 ‎), Israeli painter