* 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

Barred from film-making by prior anti-trust rulings, he acquired the struggling ABC television network in February 1953, leading it first to financial health, and eventually, in the mid-1970s, to first place in the national Nielsen ratings, before selling out to Capital Cities in 1985 ( Capital Cities would eventually sell out, in turn, to the Walt Disney organization in 1996 ).

Geographer and historian David Harvey in a series of works from the 1970s onwards ( Social Justice and the City, 1973 ; The Limits to Capital, 1982 ; The Urbanization of Capital, 1985 ; Spaces of Hope, 2000 ; Spaces of Capital, 2001 ; Spaces of Neoliberalization, 2005 ; The Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism, 2010 ), elaborated Marx's thought on the systemic contradictions of capitalism, particularly in relation to the production of the urban environment ( and to the production of space more broadly ).

In 1985, former actress Melina Mercouri, then Greece ’ s Minister of Culture, and her French counterpart Jack Lang came up with the idea of designating an annual Capital of Culture to bring Europeans closer together by highlighting the richness and diversity of European cultures and raising awareness of their common history and values.

Mercouri was the person who, in 1983, conceived and proposed the programme of the European Capital of Culture, which has been established by the European Union since 1985.

Other Top Ten Gold Songs released by Cheung through Capital Artists included " Wild Wind " ( 不羈的風 ) ( album, For Your Love Only, 1985 ); " Who Can Be With Me " ( 有誰共鳴 ) ( album, Leslie Cheung: Allure Me, 1986 ) and " Love in Those Years " ( 當年情 ) ( theme song for A Better Tomorrow, album Leslie Cheung: Allure Me, 1986 ).

Pachauri was on the Board of Governors, Shriram Scientific and Industrial Research Foundation ( September 1987 ); the Executive Committee of the India International Centre, New Delhi ( 1985 onwards ); the Governing Council of the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi ( October 1987 onwards ); and the Court of Governors, Administrative Staff College of India ( 1979 – 81 ) and advises such companies as Pegasus Capital Advisors, GloriOil, the Chicago Climate Exchange, Toyota, Deutsche Bank and NTPC.

* Anniversary Editions of La Capital newspaper: 1955, 1980, 1985, 2005.

* Booth, A. and Pack, M. Employment, Capital and Economic Policy in Great Britain 1918-1939 ( Blackwell, 1985 )

In 1985, WTVD's owner, Capital Cities Communications, purchased ABC, resulting in WTVD becoming an ABC owned and operated station.

In 1985, Pelletier was made a Member of the Order of Canada in recognition for having " played a pivotal role in many social, cultural and philanthropic organizations in the Old Capital ".

Capital gains or losses as a general rule can be disregarded for CGT purposes when assets were acquired before 20 September 1985 ( pre CGT ).

From 1984 until 1986, the league introduced more teams split into two conferences ( 1984 – Australian Conference, New South Wales / Australian Capital Territory clubs and National Conference, Victoria, South Australia, Queensland ; 1985 and 1986 – Northern Conference, New South Wales / Australian Capital Territory clubs and Southern Conference for the rest ) with 12 teams in each.

Dream Capital Mecha Police ( 1985 )

Further growth involved the acquisition of the building societies Sandhurst, in 1983, and Sunraysia, in 1985, a merger with Sandhurst Trustees Ltd and the acquisition of Capital and Compass building societies.

Beneficial retained ownership until 1985, when the company was purchased in a leveraged buyout led by Western Auto management and Wesray Capital Corporation.

Jasmin Lanaran Figueroa ( born 20 March 1985 in Tondo, Manila, National Capital Region ) is an athlete from the Philippines.

Joel Greenblatt achieved annual returns at the hedge fund Gotham Capital of over 50 % per year for 10 years from 1985 to 1995 before closing the fund and returning his investors ' money.

In April 1985, Capital Inicial succeeded in having their Descendo o Rio Nilo included on the compilation Os Intocáveis ( CBS ).

Capital ceased publishing in 1984, and in 1985 Baron took his creation to First Comics to then be illustrated by artist Bill Reinhold.