* 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

Bowie had a cameo in Yellowbeard, a 1983 pirate comedy created by Monty Python members, and a small part as Colin, the hitman in the 1985 film Into the Night.

* 1985 – Matthew Colin Bailey, American designer and author

Troughton enjoyed the return to the programme so much that he readily agreed to appear one more time as the Second Doctor, with Colin Baker's Sixth Doctor in The Two Doctors ( 1985 ).

* 1985 Colin Walsh

Lou Cannon and Colin Powell believed the film inspired Ronald Reagan to discuss uniting against an alien invasion when meeting Mikhail Gorbachev in 1985.

* Paul Colin ( 1892 – 1985 ), poster artist

* 1982 – 1985: Sir Colin Figures, KCMG, OBE

The 1985 novel The Auslander Brigade by Colin D Evans, centres around the recruitment and deployment of the British Free Corps to fight on the Eastern Front.

* Colin Loader, ( 1985 ) The Intellectual Development of Karl Mannheim, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Parry died in 1918 and was succeeded as director by Sir Hugh Allen ( 1919 – 37 ), Sir George Dyson ( 1938 – 52 ), Sir Ernest Bullock ( 1953 – 59 ), Sir Keith Falkner ( 1960 – 74 ), Sir David Willcocks ( 1974 – 84 ), Michael Gough Mathews ( 1985 – 93 ), Dame Janet Ritterman ( 1993 – 2005 ) and Colin Lawson ( 2005 –).

* Jesse Colin Young – bass, guitar, vocals ( 1965 – 1972, 1984 – 1985 )

* 1985 – Kenneth Ives directed a made-for-TV feature film version of The Dumb Waiter, starring Kenneth Cranham and Colin Blakely, first broadcast by the BBC in July 1985.

* Colin Liddell, former editor of the Tokyo Journal, was born in nearby Kilwinning and was a resident of Irvine from 1976 to 1985.

Dag Nasty was a Washington D. C. melodic hardcore band formed in 1985 by guitarist Brian Baker of Minor Threat, drummer Colin Sears and bassist Roger Marbury, both of Bloody Mannequin Orchestra, and vocalist Shawn Brown ( later of Swiz and Jesuseater ).

* Macpherson, Michael Colin The psychology of abuse ( 1985 )

In 1985 Lady Herries of Terregles married the cricketer Colin Cowdrey, who in 1997 was given a life peerage as Baron Cowdrey of Tonbridge.

In 1985, the quincentenary year of the battle, Dadlington ( through the publications of Dr Colin Richmond and, subsequently, Dr Peter Foss ) became the centre of a controversy over the battle's location, which has now resulted in a major reassessment of the battle site and scenario currently being undertaken by Leicestershire County Council.

The notation was invented by Paul Klimek in Santa Cruz, California in 1981, and later developed by Bruce " Boppo " Tiemann and Bengt Magnusson at the California Institute of Technology in 1985, and by Mike Day, Colin Wright, and Adam Chalcraft in Cambridge, England in 1985 ( whence comes the alternative name ).

A third appearance was planned for the aborted 1985 season during Colin Baker's tenure as the Doctor, but never materialized.

* John Clute, Colin Greenland and David Pringle: Interzone – The 1st Anthology, Everyman Fiction Limited, 1985

* Colin Barwick – drums ( 1983 – 1985 )

In Alien Animals ( 1985 ), British paranormal researchers Janet and Colin Bord pointed out that Mawnan church is built in the middle of a prehistoric earthwork.