* 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 – Roland Octapad: A set of visually distinctive electronic drum triggers.

* 1985: Marlene Hultman, Ronald Siddell, Roland Stemmer, Monte Wolff, David Braathen, Mona Howell, Thomas Howerton

* Roland Vogt ( 1983 – 1985 )

* Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen ( 1965, reprinted 1984 ), ISBN 0-441-49055-7, was followed by the sequels Great Kings ' War ( 1985 ) by Roland Green and John F. Carr, ISBN 0-441-30200-9, and Kalvan Kingmaker and Siege at Tarr-Hostigos and The Fireseed Wars by Carr alone.

* Roland Breyne, La Brigade Piron, Louvain-la-Neuve, Université Catholique de Louvain, Séminaires d ' histoire contemporaine consacrés à la vie quotidienne pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale en Brabant wallon, Hainaut et Namurois, 1985, 78 pages.

Between 1983 and 1985, Roland had three UK chart hit singles including " Rat Rapping " and an album The Cassette Of The Album.

In 1985 he transferred to the BBC where he had a number of shows through the late 1980s, most notably Roland Rat the Series, a chat show set in Roland's sewer home, now converted into a high-tech media centre the Ratcave.

* OWRRAS ( 1985 )-This stood for Official Worldwide Roland Rat Appreciation Society.

Broadcast in the summer of 1985, a studio based programme like The Shedvision Show and the half-term series Roland Live.

The German saxophonist Roland Schaeffer also plays it, having studied from 1981 to 1985 with Karupaia Pillai.

As it was a last-minute replacement for Roland Rat, the initial 1985 run consisted of basic features and competitions, but from its second run in 1986, the format quickly began to develop.

* Marchand, Roland ( 1985 ) Advertising The American Dream ; Making Way For Modernity, 1920-1940.

Andreas Roland Grüntzig ( June 25, 1939 – October 27, 1985 ) was a German cardiologist who first developed successful balloon angioplasty for expanding lumens of narrowed arteries.

The Print Shop Companion, developed by Roland Gustafsson and released in 1985, added a calendar feature, an updated graphic editor, font and border editors, and a " Creature Maker " game, as well as an expanded library of fonts, borders, and graphics.

In 1985, Roland released another revision of the MKS-80, known as " Rev 5 ," which used different VCO, VCA, and filter circuits.

Edwin John Roland ( February 11, 1905-March 16, 1985 ), served as the twelfth Commandant of the United States Coast Guard from 1962 to 1966.

Notable works by Mark Morris include Gloria ( 1981 ), set to Vivaldi ; Championship Wrestling ( 1985 ), based on an essay by Roland Barthes ; L ' Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato ( 1988 ); Dido and Æneas ( 1989 ); The Hard Nut ( 1991 ), his version of The Nutcracker set in the 1970s ; The Office ( 1995 ); Greek to Me ( 2000 ); a dance version of the Virgil Thomson – Gertrude Stein opera Four Saints in Three Acts ( 2001 ); the ballet A Garden ( 2001 ); Grand Duo ( 1993 ); V ( 2002 ) and All Fours ( 2004 ).

Among her television roles, she played Mrs. Bardell in The Pickwick Papers ( 1985 ) and had a semi-regular part in Grange Hill in the 1980s as the mother of regular character Roland Browning.

* Roland Mattsson, 1984 – 1985

In 1985, Adams was discovered by Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith, founders of the English band Tears for Fears, while performing in a hotel bar in Kansas City, Missouri whilst they were on a US tour.