* 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

Blissymbols were invented by Charles K. Bliss ( 1897 – 1985 ), born Karl Kasiel Blitz in the Austro-Hungarian city of Czernowitz ( at present the Ukrainian city of Chernivtsi ), which had a mixture of different nationalities that “ hated each other, mainly because they spoke and thought in different languages .”

Karl Gustav Ahlefeldt ( 13 March 1910 – 25 March 1985 ) was a Danish film actor.

* 1897 – Karl Marx, German composer ( d. 1985 )

* The Phoenix Factor: Surviving and Growing Through Personal Crisis ( 1985 ) ( later published as Up From the Ashes )-With Karl A. Slaikeu

* March 13 – Karl Gustav Ahlefeldt, Danish actor ( d. 1985 )

* Cheetah, Katherine ( or Kathrine ) & Karl Ammann, Arco Pub, ( 1985 ), ISBN 0-668-06259-2.

Pertwee also voiced the character of " Spotty " in the 1980s cartoon series SuperTed and in 1985 he starred in Do You Know The Milkyway ?, a television adaptation of Karl Wittlinger's stage play in which he played Dr. Neuross and another nine characters.

Karl Haushofer is a supporting character in the best selling Japanese historical fantasy novel Teito Monogatari ( 1985 — 1989 ) by Hiroshi Aramata.

* November 12 – Karl Marx, conductor and composer ( died 1985 ))

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

In 1985 he appeared in the BBC Radio 4 comedy drama series King Street Junior, as teacher Eric Brown, but he left after only two series and was replaced by Karl Howman ( as Philip Sims ).

* Karl “ Egghead ” Morris ( 1983 – 1985 )

In the field of law, the Soviet scholar Evgeny Pashukanis ( The General Theory of Law and Marxism, 1924 ), the Austrian politician Karl Renner, the German political scientist Franz Leopold Neumann, the British socialist writer China Mieville, the labour-law attorney Marc Linder, and the American legal philosopher Duncan Kennedy ( The Role of Law in Economic Theory: Essays on the Fetishism of Commodities, 1985 ) have respectively explored the applications of commodity fetishism in their contemporary legal systems, and reported that the reification of legal forms misrepresents social relations.

In the 1985 NBA Draft, the Utah Jazz chose Karl Malone with the 13th overall pick.

According to Malone's official NBA biography: " If professional scouts had correctly predicted the impact Karl Malone would have on the NBA, Malone would have been picked much higher than 13th in the 1985 NBA Draft.

On the other hand it can be noted that Karl Harrer, the Thule member most directly involved in the creation of the DAP in 1919, was sidelined at the end of the year when Hitler drafted regulations against conspiratorial circles, and the Thule Society was dissolved a few years later ( Goodrick-Clarke 1985: 150, 221 ).

Xenos Books is a publishing company in Riverside, California that was founded in 1985 by Karl Kvitko and Verona Weiss.

3318 Blixen is a main belt asteroid discovered by Poul Jensen and Karl Augustesen in 1985.

* Jettmar, Karl ( 1985 ) Religions of the Hindu Kush ISBN 0-85668-163-6

* Philosophy and the Real World: An Introduction to Karl Popper, Open Court Publishing, 1985, ISBN 0-87548-436-0 ( originally published as Karl Popper )

In 1985, Sunstein was made a full professor of both political science and law ; in 1988, he was named the Karl N. Llewellyn Professor of Jurisprudence in the Law School and Department of Political Science.

* Karl Schwarzschild Medal ( 1985 )

The 1983 Flick Affair revealed that German politicians had been bribed to allow the Flick family to reduce its tax liabilities, and after becoming an Austrian citizen to further reduce his tax obligations, in 1985 Friedrich Karl Flick sold most of his industrial holdings to Deutsche Bank for $ 2. 5 billion (£ 1. 4 billion ), retiring until his 2006 death.