* 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

* Miller, Russell ( 1985 ).

Russell, Wells, and Rushton ( 1985 ) reanalyzed several previous studies on similarities between spouses and concluded there is higher similarity on the more heritable characteristics.

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.

* 1985 – Poul Anderson, Trader to the Stars and Eric Frank Russell, The Great Explosion

* Russell, Bertrand ( 1985 ), The Philosophy of Logical Atomism, David Pears ( ed.

Hauer went on to play the adventurer courting Gene Hackman's daughter ( Theresa Russell ) in Nicolas Roeg's poorly received Eureka ( 1983 ); the investigative reporter opposite John Hurt in Sam Peckinpah's The Osterman Weekend ( 1983 ); the hardened Landsknecht mercenary Martin in Flesh & Blood ( 1985 ); and the knight paired with Michelle Pfeiffer in the Medieval romance Ladyhawke ( 1985 ).

* Russell, John, Seurat, ( 1965 ) London: Thames & Hudson, 1985

* Russell Carter ( born 1985 ), a First Team All-Big East basketball player at the University of Notre Dame in 2006-2007.

* Fiona Russell Powell, who joined the group for ABC's 1985 album How To Be A Zillionaire, was part of the original line-up of the pre ABC band, Vice Versa.

* Sir Geoffrey Winston Russell Palmer ( 1985 )— prime minister

* John Russell ( Irish footballer ) ( born 1985 ), Irish footballer for St Patrick's Athletic

The J. Strom Thurmond Dam ( 1954 ), the Hartwell Dam ( 1962 ) and the Richard B. Russell Dam ( 1985 ) and their reservoirs combine in order to form over of lakes.

* 1985 Jim Kale, Dale Russell, Sonnie Bernardi, Mike Hanford, Bob Fuhr

* 1985 Russell W Meyer and Cessna Aircraft Co for the outstanding safety record of the worldwide fleet of Citation aircraft

* Charles Russell ( actor ) ( 1918 – 1985 ), American actor

* Ken Russell ( Faust, 1985 )

Rubin portrayed a character based upon himself in the 1985 hip-hop motion picture Krush Groove, which was inspired by the early days of Russell Simmons ' career as a music producer.

Hartwell Lake and Dam the second project built in the basin was completed in 1963, and a third project, Richard B. Russell Lake and Dam was completed in 1985.

* Shirley Ximena Hopper Russell ( 1886 – 1985 ), American artist best known for Hawaiian themes

* Kurt Russell ( March 1985, June 1991 )

In 1985 Russell Simmons co-produced and appeared in the film, Krush Groove.

The work The African Game, a 45-minute opus for 25 musicians, was described by Robert Palmer of The New York Times as " one of the most important new releases of the past several decades " and earned Russell two Grammy nominations in 1985.

While as the Clearwater Phillies, the team played at Jack Russell Memorial Stadium from 1985 to 2003.