* Stanisław Kot ( 1885 – 1975 ), historian and politician

* Henry E. Chambers, Louisiana historian and educator ; was a school principal in Beaumont from 1884 to 1885.

* In 1885, another Russian historian and ethnologist, A. E. Alektorov, suggested that " Bashqort " means " distinct nation ".

* Will Durant ( 1885 – 1981 ), historian, Pulitzer Prize in literature

* February 1-Jane Williams ( Ysgafell ), poet, folklorist and historian ( died 1885 )

* Bela Borsody Bevilaqua ( 1885 – 1962 ) Cultural historian

* Library of Lord Acton, Catholic historian and Regius Professor of Modern History in 1885 – 1902.

The second Governor-General was Gavril Krastevich ( 1884 – 1885 ), a famous Bulgarian historian.

The spelling of Ockeghem's name comes from a supposed autograph of his which survived as late as 1885, and as reported by E. Giraudet, a historian in Tours ; the document has since been lost.

* Ola Elizabeth Winslow ( 1885 – 1977 ), American author and historian

* Will Durant ( 1885 – 1981 ), American philosopher, historian and author, husband of Ariel Durant

After Repetto's death in 1885, his brother sold his rancho to a consortium of five Los Angeles businessmen including banker Isaias Hellman and wholesale grocer / historian Harris Newmark for $ 60, 000, about $ 12 an acre.

Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae ( 14 March 1821 – 15 August 1885 ) was a Danish archaeologist, historian and politician, who was the second director of the National Museum of Denmark ( 1865 – 1874 ).

* Will Durant ( 1885 – 1981 ), historian and philosopher

* Zygmunt Klukowski ( 1885 – 1959 ), physician, bibliophile and historian, lived in Szczebrzeszyn

Thomas Rees ( 13 December 1815-29 April 1885 ) was a Congregational minister and historian of nonconformity.

A gifted storyteller and historian, he collected native accounts and wrote the History of the Ojibway People, Based Upon Traditions and Oral Statements, first published by the Minnesota Historical Society in 1885, some 32 years after his early death from tuberculosis.

Paul de Noailles, 6th Duke of Noailles ( 4 January 1802 – 29 May 1885 ) was a French nobleman and historian.

Will Durant ( 1885 – 1981 ) American historian says that " women enjoyed far greater freedom in the Vedic period than in later India.

In the nineteenth century, positivist French historian Hippolyte Taine repeated the Englishman's arguments in Origins of Contemporary France ( 1876 – 1885 ): that centralisation of power is the essential fault of the Revolutionary French government system ; that it does not promote democratic control ; and that the Revolution transferred power from the divinely chosen aristocracy to an " enlightened " heartless elite more incompetent and tyrannical than the aristocrats.

* Václav Vilém Štech ( 1885 – 1974 ), historian of arts, journalist

Charles Seymour ( January 1, 1885 – August 11, 1963 ) was an American academic, historian and President of Yale University from 1937 to 1951.

Belém experienced a greater level of autonomy: between 11 September 1852 and 18 June 1885, a municipality of Belém existed, presided by their first President, the historian Alexandre Herculano, that included the parishes of Nossa Senhora da Ajuda, Santa Maria de Belém, part of São Pedro de Alcântara, Santa Isabel and São Sebastião da Pedreira, in addition to Nossa Senhora do Amparo de Benfica, São Lourenço de Carnide and Menino Jesus de Odivelas.

He also came across books by researcher Don McLean and historian Douglas N. Sprague that advanced the conspiracy theory that the 1885 North-West Rebellion was deliberately provoked by Prime Minister John A. Macdonald to gain support for the building of the transcontinental railway.

The vital meeting was held at the Royal Hotel on 1 August 1885, W M C Hickson served as the chairman, and other notables in attendance included all the big sugar mill owners of that time, W G Farquhar, F L Nott, S McDougall, T Penny, S H Bravo and A H Young, all to become the first directors of the Company.

" In a review of H. D. Traill's analysis of Coleridge in the " English Men of Letters ", an anonymous reviewer wrote in 1885 Westminster Review: " Of ' Kubla Khan ,' Mr. Traill writes: ' As to the wild dream-poem ' Kubla Khan ,' it is hardly more than a psychologial curiosity, and only that perhaps in respect of the completeness of its metrical form.

Next year, H. G. Apenzeller from North Methodist church, who arrived 5 April 1885, started to evangelize with Dr. Scranton and his mother.

* Phoenix: The Posthumous Papers of D. H. Lawrence ( 1885 – 1930 ), anthology of work by D. H. Lawrence

* 1885 – D. H. Lawrence, English novelist ( d. 1930 )

* 1883 – 1885: Josiah H. L. Tuck, an American inventor, works in his own submarine designs.

* March 2 – D. H. Lawrence, English writer ( Lady Chatterley's Lover ) ( b. 1885 )

In 1885 a governor, H E Chetwynd Stapleton, bought a plot of land behind the Jesus Hospital, a building in Wood Street dating back to 1679 ; today the Stapylton field stands in front of the main School building and is used for rugby and cricket.

* An Appreciation: D. H. Lawrence, 1885 – 1930 ( 1950 ) also as D. H. Lawrence: Portrait of a Genius But.

* The History of Sir Richard Whittington by T. H. ( 1885 ), from Project Gutenberg

From Ritzville's designation as county seat in 1884 until 1892, courts were briefly held in rented space before the county purchased a building from N. H. Greene in 1885.

* Glover H. Cary ( 1885 – 1936 ), member of the U. S. House of Representatives from Kentucky

Philip Clayton ( 1885 – 1972 ), Anglican clergyman, army chaplain and founder of Toc H

In 1885 E. H. Naville identified Goshen as the 20th nome of Egypt, located in the eastern Delta, and known as " Gesem " or " Kesem " during the Twenty-sixth dynasty of Egypt ( 672-525 BC ).

Inspired by the area and artists, D. H. Lawrence ( 1885 – 1930 ) painted while in Taos, signing his work " Lorenzo "; Nine of his paintings are displayed at La Fonda Hotel on the Taos Plaza.

The tradition died out in the 1830s, but was revived in 1885 by the new vicar, W. H. Seddon, who mistakenly believed that the festival had been ancient in origin.

King Solomon's Mines, H. Rider Haggard's 1885 adventure novel, has been adapted to the following films:

King Solomon's Mines ( 1885 ) is a popular novel by the Victorian adventure writer and fabulist Sir H. Rider Haggard.

* Blaze de Bury, H. ( 1885 ).

The sites chosen were the Elisha Sharp House ( also known as the Sharp-Wasson-Worth House, c. 1825 ), the Stewart House ( 1830 ), the R. H. Johnson Stable, the Mount Zion church and Cemetery ( 1830 ), Zeigler's Mill ( 1850, previously Gettys Mill ), the Washington Ferry ( 1808 ), the Pisah Church ( 1818 ), the old gymnasium ( c. 1822 ), the old Meigs County Courthouse ( 1904 ), the old Volunteer Electric Cooperative BUilding ( 1935 ), the Ashley House ( 1885 ), and the Sam Eaves Store ( c. 1861 ).

D. H. Lawrence ( 1885 – 1930 ), author, lived at 12 Colworth Road, Addiscombe from 1908 to 1912 and was a teacher at Davidson Road School for some time.

Bingham County was created January 13, 1885, and named after Henry H. Bingham, a congressman from Pennsylvania and friend of William Bunn, Idaho's Territorial Governor.