* 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

In 1985, the race was suspended for the first time for safety reasons when weather prevented the Iditarod Air Force from delivering supplies to Rohn and Nikolai, the first two checkpoints in the Alaska Interior.

Count Nikolai Tolstoy-Miloslavsky joined in late 1975, and Prince Moshin Ali Khan of Hyderabad and Lord Sudeley ( Vice-Chancellor from 1985 ) were both announced as new members in 1980.

Leigh is a nephew of Princess Nikolai Galitzine and has six children ( sons Benedict, Nicholas, Theodore, born 1988, 1994 and 1997, and daughters Natalia, Tamara and Marina, born 1985, 1987 and 1990 ) by his wife, Mary Goodman, a grandniece of George, Duke of Mecklenburg, a great grand daughter of Lady Ottoline Morrell, whom he married in London on 25 September 1984 .< ref >

* Tolstoy, Nikolai ( 1985 ) The Quest for Merlin.

* Ryzhkov, Nikolai – Soviet premier from 1985 – 1991

* Tikhonov, Nikolai – Soviet Chairman of the Council of Ministers 1980 – 1985 and First Deputy from 1976 – 1980

He was replaced as Chairman of the Council of Ministers in 1985 by Nikolai Ryzhkov.

On April 23, 1985 Gorbachev brought his two proteges Yegor Ligachev, and Nikolai Ryzhkov into the Politburo as full members, and sensibly took the opportunity to keep the ' power ' ministries happy by promoting KGB Head Viktor Chebrikov from candidate to full member of the Politburo, and appointing Minister of Defence Marshal Sergei Sokolov a Politburo candidate member.

On September 27, 1985 Nikolai Ryzhkov replaced 79 year old Nikolai Tikhonov as Chairman of the Council of Ministers, effectively the Soviet Prime Minister, and on October 14, 1985 Nikolai Talyzin replaced Nikolai Baibakov as Chairman of the State Planning Committee ( GOSPLAN ).

At the next Central Committee meeting on October 15, 1985 Nikolai Tikhonov retired from the Politburo and Nikolai Talyzin became a candidate member.

Among his works are the ballets The Little Hump-backed Horse ( 1955 ), Carmen Suite ( 1967 ), based on the opera Carmen by Georges Bizet ( the project had been turned down by both Shostakovich and Khachaturian ), Anna Karenina ( 1971, on the novel by Leo Tolstoy ), and Lady with a Lapdog ( 1985 ); the operas Not Only Love ( 1961 ), and Dead Souls ( 1976, after Nikolai Gogol's novel ); piano concertos, symphonies, chamber and piano music and other works.

In 1985, during Mikhail Gorbachev's rule, Silayev was appointed Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers and Chairman of the Machine-Building Bureau of the Council of Ministers in Nikolai Ryzhkov's first and second government.

Asteroid 24648 Evpatoria was discovered 1985 Sept. 19 by Nikolai Chernykh and Lyudmila Chernykh at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory, and named in honor of Evpatoria ( thus Yevpatoriya ).

* July 13, 1985 ( taped June 17 ): Barry Windham and Mike Rotundo regained the WWF Tag Team Championship by defeating Nikolai Volkoff and The Iron Sheik.

* 1985 – Rhiana Griffith, Australian actress, model, and artist

* Adrian Purtell ( born 1985 ), Australian rugby player

* 1906 – Harry Hopman, Australian tennis player and coach ( d. 1985 )

* 1985 – Leisel Jones, Australian swimmer

* 1985 – Eamon Sullivan, Australian swimmer

* 1985 – Karl Reindler, Australian race car driver

* 1985 – Luke Mitchell, Australian actor and model

* 1985 – Mark Milligan, Australian footballer

* 1934 – Neil Davis, Australian cameraman ( d. 1985 )

* 1985 – Jarrod Atkinson, Australian rules footballer

* 1985 – Todd Lasance, Australian actor

Some of the first examples were created ca 1981 by graffiti artist Blek le Rat in Paris ; by 1985 stencils had appeared in other cities including New York City, Sydney and Melbourne, where they were documented by American photographer Charles Gatewood and Australian photographer Rennie Ellis.

* Stephanie Bendixsen ( born 1985 ), presenter for Australian TV show Good Game known by the gamertag Hex

* 1985 – Sam Thaiday, Australian rugby player

* 1985 – Kane Tenace, Australian footballer

* 1985 – Stephanie McIntosh, Australian singer and actress

* 1985 – Orianthi Panagaris, Australian guitarist

* 1985 – Beau Ryan, Australian professional Rugby League footballer

* 1985 – Dan Sweetman, Australian television host

In February and March 1985 the Benson & Hedges World Championship of Cricket was played at the MCG, a One Day International tournament involving all of the then Test match playing countries to celebrate 150 years of the Australian state of Victoria.

* 1985 – Vince Lia, Australian footballer

* 1985 – Stephanie Bendixsen, Australian television personality

* 1985 – The Australian government returns ownership of Uluru to the local Pitjantjatjara Aborigines.

* 1985 – Casey Stoner, Australian motorcycle racer