* 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

* 1985 – Meagan Duhamel, Canadian figure skater

In 2010, volleyball standout Meagan Dooley was named the Big East Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year, the university's seventh male or female Big East scholar-athlete of the year winner since the award was instituted in 1985.

Lynne, Bevan and Tandy returned to the studio in 1985 as a three-piece ( with Christian Schneider playing saxophone on some tracks ) to record ELO's final album of the 20th century, Balance of Power, released early in 1986.

On nine occasions since 1985, awards have been presented to duos or trios, including three married couples: lyricist Alan Jay Lerner & composer Frederick Loewe, actors Hume Cronyn & Jessica Tandy, musical-comedy duo Betty Comden & Adolph Green, the Nicholas Brothers ( Fayard & Harold ), actors Paul Newman & Joanne Woodward, Kander and Ebb ( John Kander & Fred Ebb ), actors Ossie Davis & Ruby Dee, musicians Pete Townshend & Roger Daltrey of The Who and the members of Led Zeppelin.

Thereafter, the pair were credited as producers or executive producers of more than a dozen films, including the courtroom drama The Verdict ( 1982 ), directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Paul Newman ; the science-fiction Cocoon ( 1985 ), directed by Ron Howard ; and the comedy-drama Driving Miss Daisy ( 1989 ), directed by Bruce Beresford and starring Jessica Tandy and Morgan Freeman.

The last new model that could be considered part of this line was the Tandy 600, introduced in October 1985.

In 1985 Tandy formed the Tandy Morgan Band featuring Dave Morgan and Martin Smith, both of whom had worked with ELO in live concerts.

In 1985, the Tandy Morgan band released the concept album Earthrise.

* The game was first released in 1985 on a self-booting disk that supported CGA, PCjr, and Tandy graphics.

* Austin Collie ( born 1985 ), Canadian-born American football player

* 1985 – Lacey Brown, American singer-songwriter

* 1985 – Britt Nicole, American singer

* 1985 – Douglass Wallop, American novelist and playwright ( b. 1920 )

* 1911 – Jackie Ormes, American cartoonist ( d. 1985 )

* 1985 – Adam Jones, American baseball player

* 1985 – Holly Blake-Arnstein, American singer and dancer ( Dream )

* 1985 – Brett Ratliff, American football player

* 1985 – Nate Diaz, American mixed martial artist

* 1912 – Frank Oppenheimer, American physicist ( d. 1985 )

* Adrian Arrington ( born 1985 ), American National Football League ( NFL ) player

* Adrian Peterson ( born 1985 ), American NFL running back

* 1985 – Agnes Bruckner, American actress

* 1985 – J. Evan Bonifant, American actor

* 1985 – Lindsey Jacobellis, American snowboarder

* 1985 – Megan Rochell, American singer-songwriter

* 1985 – Kevin Nee, American strongman

* 1901 – Guy Bush, American baseball player ( d. 1985 )