* 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 – 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

* 1985 – Gerrit van Look, German rugby player and coach

* 1985 – Christian Gentner, German footballer

* 1985 – Franck Moutsinga, German rugby player

* 1985 – Jan Zimmermann, German goalkeeper

* 1895 – Margarete Schön, German actress ( d. 1985 )

* 1985 – Carl Schmitt, German philosopher and theorist ( b. 1888 )

* 1985 – Alexey Dmitriev, German ice hockey player

Among the commercial successes for German films of the 1980s were the Otto film series beginning in 1985 starring comedian Otto Waalkes, Wolfgang Petersen's adaptation of The NeverEnding Story ( 1984 ), and the internationally successful Das Boot ( 1981 ), which still holds the record for most Academy Award nominations for a German film ( six ).

* 1985 – Carolin Nytra, German athlete

* 1985 – Matthieu Franke, French-born German rugby player

According to Lee ( 1985 ), most historians have judged the Confederation to be weak and ineffective, as well as an obstacle to German nationalist aspirations.

1985 East Germany | German Democratic Republic stamp

* 1985 – René Adler, German footballer

* 1985 – Mario Gómez, German footballer

* 1985 – Silvio Bankert, German footballer

* 1985 – Marc Stein, German footballer

* 1888 – Carl Schmitt, German philosopher and theorist ( d. 1985 )

* 1985 – Pascal Behrenbruch, German decathlete

* 1985 – Anna Maria Mühe, German actress

* 1985 – Andreas Ottl, German footballer

* 1912 – Axel Springer, German journalist and publisher, founded Axel Springer AG ( d. 1985 )

He joined Eurokart dealer Adolf Neubert in 1985 and by 1987 he was the German and European kart champion, then he quit school and began working as a mechanic.