* 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 – 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

In a 1985 arcade game Time Gal, the protagonist, Reika Kirishima design was inspired by Lum.

In 1984, Super Don Quix-ote, Esh's Aurunmilla and Ninja Hayate overlaid crude computer graphics on top of the animation to indicate the correct input to the player, which the 1985 games Time Gal and Road Blaster also featured.

Time Gal ( 1985 ) added a time-stopping feature, where specific moments in the game involve Reika stopping time ; during these moments, players are presented with a list of three options and have seven seconds to choose the one which will save the character.

* Bar Refaeli ( born 1985 ), Israeli model

* 2002 – Rachel Levy, Israeli victim of Kiryat HaYovel supermarket bombing ( b. 1985 )

Def Jam co-founder Rick Rubin had already left the label by then ; taking his place alongside Russell Simmons was Lyor Cohen, the son of Israeli immigrants who had run Rush Artist Management since 1985.

Since 1985, the State of Israel has outlawed political parties espousing Kahane's ideology as being " racist ", and forbids their participating in the Israeli government.

In 1985 he narrowly survived an Israeli assassination attempt when Israeli Air Force F-15s bombed his headquarters there as part of Operation Wooden Leg, leaving 73 people dead.

* " Olé, Olé ", the Israeli entry in the 1985 Eurovision Song Contest

He was jailed in Israel, but in May 1985, Okamoto was set free in an exchange of prisoners between Israeli and Palestinian forces.

Rubin became the successor to JDL founder Rabbi Meir Kahane, after the latter moved to Israel in 1985 and formed the Kach Party, which was eventually outlawed by the Israeli Government as " racist ".

After first meeting in 1975, Norris was in a long-term relationship with Israeli activist Ezra Nawi for a number of years until 1985.

The Israeli new shekel is in use since 1 January 1986 when it replaced the Old Israeli shekel that was in usage between 24 February 1980 and 31 December 1985, at a ratio of 1000: 1.

Since 1980, the shekel has been the currency of the modern state of Israel, first the Israeli shekel, then ( since 1985 ) the Israeli new shekel.

* Bella Igla ( born 1985 ), Israeli female chess player

Rehovot has had three clubs representing it the top division of Israeli football, Maccabi Rehovot between 1949 and 1956, Maccabi Sha ' arayim between 1963 and 1969 and again in 1985, and Hapoel Marmorek in the 1972 – 73 season.

Reviewing the book for the November 28, 1985 issue of The New York Times, Israeli historian Yehoshua Porath described the book as a " sheer forgery ," stating that " n Israel, at least, the book was almost universally dismissed as sheer rubbish except maybe as a propaganda weapon.

Israeli rock, up until 1985, with the appearance of Aviv Gefen, almost never dealt with the themes of drugs, sex, youthful anger and alienation ( though Arik Einstein's " Shuv Lo Shaket " is an exception ), and revolution.

* Joseph Zaritsky ( 1891 – 1985 ‎), Israeli painter

Responsibility for the two attacks was later claimed by the Abu Nidal Organization ( ANO ) in retaliation for Operation Wooden Leg, the Israeli bombing of PLO headquarters in Tunis on October 1, 1985.

* Terror raids leave 17 dead at Rome, Vienna airports Attack aimed at Israeli airline-published on the Toronto Star on December 27, 1985

As an example of such double standards, he highlights the public outcry at the killing of Leon Klinghoffer, a disabled American murdered by Palestinian " terrorists " in 1985, contrasting it with the complete U. S. ignorance of the Israeli military's killing of a disabled Palestinian, Kemal Zughayer, in 2002.

In June 1985, Israel withdrew most of its troops from Lebanon, leaving a residual Israeli force and an Israeli-supported militia in southern Lebanon as a " security zone " and buffer against attacks on its northern territory.

The Bank was made completely independent in 1985 and since 1992, the Bank manages its monetary policy so as to meet the inflation target set by the Israeli government-which is today a range of between 1 and 3 percent per annum, considered as price stability.