* 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

Camper Van Beethoven's 1985 album Telephone Free Landslide Victory includes a track called " Balalaika Gap ".

Stallman founded the Free Software Foundation in 1985 to provide the organizational structure to advance his free software ideas.

Software development for the GNU operating system began in January 1984, and the Free Software Foundation ( FSF ) was founded in October 1985.

Stallman founded the Free Software Foundation in 1985 to support the movement.

In 1985, Kiribati was one of the nine initial endorsers of the Treaty of Rarotonga creating the South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone Treaty.

Several major computer-related organizations have originated at MIT since the 1980s: Richard Stallman's GNU Project and the subsequent Free Software Foundation were founded in the mid-1980s at the AI Lab ; the MIT Media Lab was founded in 1985 by Nicholas Negroponte and Jerome Wiesner to promote research into novel uses of computer technology ; the World Wide Web Consortium standards organization was founded at the Laboratory for Computer Science in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee ; the OpenCourseWare project has made course materials for over 2, 000 MIT classes available online free of charge since 2002 ; and the One Laptop per Child initiative to expand computer education and connectivity to children worldwide was launched in 2005.

Radio Free Albemuth is a novel by Philip K. Dick, written in 1976 and published posthumously in 1985.

Arbor House acquired the rights to Radio Free Albemuth in 1985.

After a long period of transition, including the violent deaths of two presidents ( Haruo Remeliik in 1985 and Lazarus Salii in 1988 ), Palau voted in 1994 to freely associate with the United States while retaining independence under the Compact of Free Association.

Amway: The Cult of Free Enterprise, 1985, South End Press, ISBN 0-89608-253-9

1985 paperback, Free Press, ISBN 0-02-935180-4.

They started the Stonehenge Free Festival in 1974, but English Heritage later banned the festival, resulting in the Battle of the Beanfield in 1985.

" Rodgers ' children's books include A Billion for Boris ( 1974, later republished under the title ESP TV ), Summer Switch ( 1982 ), and The Rotten Book ( 1985 ), and she contributed songs to the landmark children's album Free to Be ... You and Me.

In September 1985, Sting performed " If You Love Somebody Set Them Free " at the 1985 MTV Video Music Awards at the Radio City Music Hall in New York.

In 1985, the band reduced its name to Camper Van Beethoven, replaced West with Anthony Guess, and recorded their debut album, Telephone Free Landslide Victory.

* Telephone Free Landslide Victory ( 1985 )

Telephone Free Landslide Victory is a 1985 album by musical group Camper Van Beethoven, released on Independent Projects.

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.

The " trilogy " may also include Radio Free Albemuth ( 1985 ) and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer ( 1982 ).

* Predestination & Free Will, David and Randall Basinger ( editors ), et al., 1985, Intervarsity Press, ISBN 0-87784-567-0

* The Power of Being Debt Free ( 1985 ); Thomas Nelson Publishing, ISBN 0-8407-5461-2

In 1985, the CBA followed with the " Ton-of-Money Free Throw ", which featured a prize of of pennies ($ 5, 000 ) if a randomly-selected fan could make one free throw.

The Free Software Foundation ( FSF ), started in 1985, intended the word " free " to mean freedom to distribute ( or " free as in free speech ") and not freedom from cost ( or " free as in free beer ").