* 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

After the mid-1960s, he became much less prolific, but his later work — including his final two epics, Kagemusha ( 1980 ) and Ran ( 1985 )— continued to win awards, including the Palme d ' Or for Kagemusha, though more often abroad than in Japan.

* 1985 – Japan Airlines Flight 123 crashes into Osutaka ridge in Gunma Prefecture, Japan, killing 520, to become the worst single-plane air disaster.

In 1985, the film won the Japan Academy Award for Special Effects.

American Pizza chains entered Japan in the 1970s ( e. g. Shakey ’ s Pizza and Pizza Hut 1973, Domino ’ s pizza in 1985 ).

In addition to the third devaluation of the Thai Baht, on September 22, 1985, Japan, the United States, the United Kingdom, France and West Germany agreed to sign the Plaza Accord to depreciate the U. S. Dollar in relation to the Japanese Yen and the German Deutsche Mark.

This means, as the U. S. Dollar accounted for 80 percent in the Thai basket of currencies, the Thai Baht was also depreciated further-making Thailand's export even more competitive and making the country more attractive to Foreign Direct Investment ( FDI ), especially from Japan whose national currency appreciated considerably since 1985.

* JT-60, in Naka, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan ; in operation since 1985

* Ushiku, Japan, since 1985.

Nintendo finally decided in 1985 to release its Famicom ( released in 1983 in Japan ) in the United States under the name Nintendo Entertainment System ( NES ).

In April and May 1985, Queen completed the Works Tour with sold-out shows in Australia and Japan.

* 1985 – " The Natural Way Of Farming-The Theory and Practice of Green Philosophy ", translator Frederic P. Metreaud, published by Japan Publications ( ISBN 978-0-87040-613-3 ).

The, often called the Sega Master System or SMS, is a third-generation video game console that was manufactured and released by Sega in 1985 in Japan ( as the Sega Mark III ), 1986 in North America and 1987 in Europe.

The Sega Mark III was released in Japan on Sunday, October 20, 1985 at a price of ¥ 15, 000 as a competitor to Nintendo's Family Computer.

Stillwater has been sister city to Kameoka, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan, since 1985.

Super Mario Bros. 2, later released in Japan as, is a platform game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Entertainment System as a sequel to the 1985 game Super Mario Bros.

In 1985, he had a very short stint with New Japan Pro Wrestling in a feud with Antonio Inoki and many of their matches ended in no contests or disqualifications.

The crash of Japan Airlines Flight 123 in 1985 is the single-aircraft disaster with the highest number of fatalities.

* 1985: Soul Sister, Brown Sugar ( Atlantic, Japan compilation LP of Stax / Atlantic releases )

In 1985, the astronomy committee of Japan's science council gave top priority to the development of a " Japan National Large Telescope " ( JNLT ), and in 1986, the University of Tokyo signed an agreement with the University of Hawaii to build the telescope in Hawaii.

Originating from Japan in 1985, eleven installments of the game have been published in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, China and North America to date.

* The Transformers ( 1984 – 1990 USA ) ( 1984 – 1992, UK / Canada ) ( 1985 – 1992, Japan )-retroactively called " Generation One " or " G1 " since then.

Super Robot Lifeform Transformers ) ( 1985 – 1986, Japan )