* 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 – 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 left-wing Labour administration of Ted Knight was subjected to ' rate-capping ' with its budget restricted by the Government.

* John Z. DeLorean, Ted Schwarz, Delorean, Zondervan ( September, 1985 ), ISBN 0-310-37940-7

* “ Values and Secondary Qualities ”, in Ted Honderich, ed., Morality and Objectivity ( Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1985 ), pp. 110 – 29

In 1985, on an episode of " Too Close For Comfort " entitled " For Every Man There's Two Women "( S05, E10 ), Ted Knight ( playing Henry Rush ) appears on the episode wearing a Fairleigh Dickinson University maroon sweatshirt.

In 1985 the two were actually in their first band ever together called Demented Ted.

On November 22, 1985, Ted Shackley, Buckley's friend and recruiter, traveled to the Atlantic Hotel in Hamburg, where he met General Manucher Hashemi, the former head of SAVAK ’ s counterintelligence division.

He helped the Derby side of Mark Wright, Dean Saunders and Ted McMinn finish fifth in the league, and they only missed out on competing in the UEFA Cup due to the ban on English clubs in European competition ( which ran from 1985 to 1990 ) arising from the Heysel disaster.

In 1985, Ted Turner invited Watts to air his Mid-South Wrestling program on SuperStation TBS as an alternative to the World Wrestling Federation ( WWF ) programming that ran on Saturday nights.

It was produced by Ted Coneybeare ( 1971 – 1984 ) and Jed MacKay ( 1985 – 1993 ).

From 1985 to 1986, Booth appeared as pub landlord Ted Pilkington in the short-lived ITV soap Albion Market.

In January, 1985 Ted Knight was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contribution to the television industry.

About two weeks before he died in 1985, Welles asked filmmaker Henry Jaglom, " Don't let Ted Turner deface my movie with his crayons.

In 1985 Matheson's successor Ted Childs ordered Crossroads to be revamped.

By late 1985 CBS was experiencing rough financial straits, an after-effect of successfully fending off a hostile takeover attempt by Ted Turner the previous year.

Ted Koplar became president and chief executive officer of channel 11 in 1979, and gained complete control of the station upon his father's death in 1985.

CNN International, in large part a result of Ted Turner's Globalization ideals, began transmissions on January 1, 1985 at first primarily broadcasting to American business travelers in hotels.

* Ted Williams MVP Award¹ ( All-Star Game ) ( from 1970 to 1984, the award was known as the " Commissioner's Trophy ", which became the name for the World Series Trophy in 1985 )

* Discovering Sierra Birds, by Ted Beedy, ISBN 0-939666-42-1, Yosemite Association, 1985.

McGregor went on to write two additional early graphic novels for Eclipse, each set in contemporary New York City and starring interracial-buddy private eyes Ted Denning and Bob Rainier: Detectives, Inc .: A Remembrance of Threatening Green ( 1980 ), with artist Marshall Rogers, and Detectives, Inc .: A Terror Of Dying Dreams ( 1985 ), with artist Gene Colan, who would become a frequent collaborator.

In 1985, she toplined Little Treasure for Columbia Tri-Star with co-stars Ted Danson and Burt Lancaster, where she played a distraught stripper looking for her bank robber-father's buried fortune.

Late Returns, a Memoir of Ted Berrigan ( Tombouctou Books, 1985 ) ISBN 0-939180-35-9

The opening was also analyzed and played by the New York master Ted A. Dunst ( April 11, 1907 New York City – December 18, 1985 Lambertville, New Jersey ), giving the opening its most popular name in the United States.

From 1984 to 1985, Ging played the arrogant Lieutenant Ted Quinlan on the adventure / detective series Riptide from 1984 to 1985, in which he was eventually killed off to free him up to appear in The A-Team ( Ironically, in his final Riptide episode, he was killed by Carl Franklin, the sidekick of Colonel Decker-Fulbright's predecessor in The A-Team ).