1985 34846 225963218 2008-07-16T06:01:34Z CalendarWatcher 2292203 [[WP:UNDO|Undid]] revision 225957756 by [[Special:Contributions/58.110.241.72|58.110.241.72]] ([[User talk:58.110.241.72|talk]]) {{otheruses4|the year}} {{year nav|1985}} {{C20YearInTopicX}} Year '''1985''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MCMLXXXV]]''') was a [[common year starting on Tuesday]] (link displays 1985 [[Gregorian calendar]]). The year 1985 was declared ''[[International Youth Year]]'' by the [[United Nations]]. {{C20YearTOCtempleton|1985}} ==Events of 1985== ===January=== <!-- Link dates even if repeated, for date-format preferences. --> {{Month3|1|1|0}} * [[January 15]] - [[Tancredo Neves]] is elected president of [[Brazil]] by the Congress, ending the 21-year military rule. * [[January 17]] - [[British Telecom]] announces it is going to phase out its famous [[red telephone box]]es. * [[January 20]] - [[President of the United States|U.S. President]] [[Ronald Reagan]] is privately sworn in for a second term in office (publicly sworn in, January 21). * [[January 20]] - The [[San Francisco 49ers]] defeat the [[Miami Dolphins]] 38-16 in [[Super Bowl XIX]] at [[Stanford Stadium]] in [[Palo Alto]], [[California]]. * [[January 28]] - In [[Hollywood]], [[California]], the charity single "[[We Are the World]]" is recorded by [[USA for Africa]]. ===February=== {{Month3|2|4|0}} * [[February 1]] - [[AM stereo]] broadcasting starts in [[Australia]]. * [[February 5]] - [[Australia]] cancels its involvement in [[U.S.]]-led [[MX missile]] tests. * [[February 9]] - U.S. drug agent [[Enrique Camarena]] is kidnapped and murdered in [[Mexico]] (his body is discovered [[March 5]]). * [[February 10]] - [[Nelson Mandela]] rejects an offer of freedom from the [[South Africa]]n government. * [[February 11]] - [[Pakistan cricket team|Pakistani]] bowler [[Wasim Akram]] takes 10 wickets in his second [[Test cricket]] match, but [[New Zealand cricket team|New Zealand]] still wins. * [[February 14]] - [[CNN]] reporter Jeremy Levin is freed from captivity in [[Lebanon]]. * [[February 16]] - [[Israel]] begins withdrawing troops from [[Lebanon]]. * [[February 19]] - [[William J. Schroeder]] becomes the first [[artificial heart]] patient to leave the [[hospital]]. * [[February 19]] - The [[China Airlines Flight 006]] incident occurs. * [[February 28]] - The [[Provisional Irish Republican Army]] carries out a [[1985 Newry mortar attack|mortar attack]] on the [[Royal Ulster Constabulary]] police station at [[Newry]], killing nine officers in the highest loss of life for the RUC on a single day. ===March=== <!-- Link all dates, even if repeated, for date-format preferences. --> {{Month3|3|4|0}} * [[March 4]] - The [[Food and Drug Administration]] approves a [[blood test]] for [[AIDS]], used since then to screen all [[blood donation]]s in the United States. * [[March 6]] - [[Mike Tyson]] makes his professional debut in Albany, New York, a match which he wins by a first round knockout. * [[March 8]] - A [[1985 Beirut car bombing|car bomb planted in Beirut]] by [[CIA]] mercenaries attempted to kill the Islamic cleric [[Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah|Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah]] and kills more than 80 people, injures 200. * [[March 11]] - [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] becomes the General Secretary of the [[Soviet Communist Party]] and ''[[de facto]]'' leader of the [[Soviet Union]]. * [[March 11]] - [[Mohammed Al Fayed]] buys the London-based department store company ''[[Harrods]]''. * [[March 14]] - Five [[lion]]esses at the [[Singapore Zoo]] are put on [[birth control]] after the lion population increases from 2 to 16. * [[March 15]] - Vice-president [[Jose Sarney]] took oath as the first civilian president of [[Brazil]] in 21 years, as the elected president [[Tancredo Neves]] had become severely ill on the day before. * [[March 16]] - [[Associated Press]] newsman [[Terry A. Anderson|Terry Anderson]] is taken hostage in [[Beirut]]. He is eventually released on [[December 4]], [[1991]]. * [[March 24]] - [[Norwich City F.C.|Norwich City]] win the English [[Football League Cup|League Cup]] at Wembley Stadium, beating Sunderland 1-0 in the final. * [[March 25]] - The [[57th Academy Awards]] are held at in [[Los Angeles, California]] with ''[[Amadeus (film)|Amadeus]]'' winning [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]]. * [[March 31]] - [[WrestleMania (1985)|WrestleMania]] debuts at [[Madison Square Garden]] ===April=== {{Month3|4|0|0}} * [[April 1]] - Two [[Japan]]ese [[government-owned corporation]]s, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation, and Japan Tobacco and Salt Public Corporation, are [[privatization|privatized]] and changed their names to [[Nippon Telegraph and Telephone]], and [[Japan Tobacco]] * [[April 11]] - [[USS Coral Sea]] collides with the Equadorian tanker ship Napo off the coast of Cuba. * [[April 15]] - [[South Africa]] ends its ban on [[Interracial couple|interracial marriage]]s. * [[April 18]] - [[United Kingdom]] has its first ever national [[Glow-worm]] day. * [[April 19]] - The [[U.S.S.R]] performs a [[nuclear weapon|nuclear]] test at Eastern [[Kazakhstan]]. * [[April 21]] - Brazilian President [[Tancredo Neves]] dies, he is succeeded by [[Jose Sarney]]. * [[April 23]] - [[Coca-Cola]] changes its formula and releases [[New Coke]]. (The response is overwhelmingly negative, and the original formula is back on the market in less than 3 months.) * [[April 28]] - The [[Australia]]n [[Nuclear Disarmament Party]] (NDP) splits. ===May=== {{Month3|5|2|0}} * [[May 4]] - The 30th [[Eurovision Song Contest]] takes place in [[Gothenburg]], [[Sweden]]. * [[May 5]] - U.S. President [[Ronald Reagan]] joins German Chancellor [[Helmut Kohl]] for a controversial funeral service at a cemetery in [[Bitburg]], [[Germany]], which includes the graves of 59 elite [[Schutzstaffel|S.S.]] troops from [[World War II]]. * [[May 11]] - The [[FBI]] brings charges against the suspected heads of the 5 [[Mafia]] families in [[New York City]]. * [[May 11]] - [[Bradford City disaster|Fire engulfs a wooden stand]] in the [[Valley Parade]] stadium in [[Bradford]], [[England]] during a football match, killing 56. * [[May 13]] - [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]] Mayor [[Wilson Goode]] orders police to storm the radical group [[MOVE]]'s headquarters to end a stand-off. The police drop an explosive device into the headquarters, killing 11 MOVE members and destroying the homes of 61 city residents in the resulting fire. * [[May 15]] - An explosive device sent by the [[Unabomber]] injures John Hauser at [[University of California, Berkeley|UC Berkeley]]. * [[May 23]] - Thomas Patrick Cavanagh is sentenced to life in prison for attempting to sell [[stealth bomber]] secrets to the [[Soviet Union]]. * [[May 25]] - [[Bangladesh]] is hit by a [[tropical cyclone]] and [[storm surge]], which kills approximately 10,000 people. * [[May 29]] - [[Heysel Disaster]]: 38 spectators are killed in rioting on the terraces during the [[UEFA Champions League|European Cup]] final between [[Liverpool F.C.]] and [[Juventus]] at [[Heysel Stadium]] in [[Brussels]], [[Belgium]]. * [[May 31]] - Forty-one [[tornado]]es hit in [[Ohio]], [[Pennsylvania]], [[New York]] and [[Ontario]], leaving 76 dead. ===June=== {{Month3|6|5|0}} * [[June 13]] - In [[Auburn, Washington]], police defuse a [[Unabomber]] bomb sent to [[Boeing]]. * [[June 14]] - [[TWA Flight 847]], carrying 153 passengers from [[Athens]] to [[Rome]], is hijacked by a [[Hezbollah]] fringe group. One passenger, [[United States Navy|U.S. Navy]] Petty Officer [[Robert Stethem]], is killed. * [[June 17]] - [[John Hendricks]] launches the [[Discovery Channel]] in the [[United States]]. * [[June 23]] - [[Air India Flight 182]], a [[Boeing 747]], blows up 31,000 feet (9,500 m) above the [[Atlantic Ocean]], south of [[Ireland]], killing all 329 aboard. * [[June 24]] - [[STS-51-G]] [[Space Shuttle Discovery]] completed its mission, best remembered for having [[Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud]], the first [[Arab]] and first [[Muslim]] in space, as a [[Payload Specialist]]. * [[June 25]] - Irish police foil an [[Irish Republican Army]]-sponsored 'mainland bombing campaign' which targeted luxury vacationing resorts, arresting 13 suspects. * [[June 26]] - [[Walt Disney World Resort]] Monorail Gold catches fire on the EPCOT beam around 9:00pm due to friction from a flat tire. * [[June 27]] - [[Route 66]] is officially decommissioned. * ''[[Tetris]]'' was released ===July=== {{Month3|7|0|0}} * [[July 4]] - [[Ruth Lawrence]], 13, achieves a first in [[mathematics]] at [[Oxford University]], becoming the youngest [[United Kingdom|British]] person ever to earn a first-class [[academic degree|degree]] and the youngest known graduate of Oxford University. * [[July 10]] - The [[Greenpeace]] vessel ''[[Rainbow Warrior (1978)|Rainbow Warrior]]'' is [[sinking of the Rainbow Warrior|bombed and sunk]] in [[Auckland, New Zealand|Auckland]] harbour by [[France|French]] [[Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure|DGSE]] agents. * [[July 13]] - ''[[Live Aid]]'' pop concerts in [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]] and [[London]] raise over £50 million for [[famine]] relief in [[Ethiopia]]. * [[July 13]] - U.S. Vice President [[George H.W. Bush]] served as [[Acting President of the United States|Acting President]] for eight hours, while President [[Ronald W. Reagan]] underwent [[Colorectal cancer|colon cancer]] surgery. * [[July 19]] - U.S. Vice President [[George H.W. Bush]] announces that [[New Hampshire]] teacher [[Christa McAuliffe]] will become the first schoolteacher to ride aboard the [[Space Shuttle]] ''[[Space Shuttle Challenger|Challenger]]''. * [[July 19]] - The [[Val di Stava Dam collapse|Val di Stava Dam]] in Italy collapses. * [[July 20]] - The main [[ship wreck]] site of the [[Spain|Spanish]] [[galleon]] ''[[Nuestra Señora de Atocha]]'' (which sank in [[1622]]) is found 40 miles off the coast of [[Key West, Florida]] by treasure hunters who begin to excavate $400 million in [[coin]]s and [[silver]]. * [[July 24]] - [[Commodore International|Commodore]] launches the [[Amiga]] [[personal computer]] at the [[Lincoln Center]] in [[New York]]. ===August=== {{Month3|8|3|0}} * [[August 2]] - [[Delta Air Lines Flight 191]] crashes near [[Dallas, Texas]], killing 137 people. * [[August 4]] - Major League Baseball player [[Rod Carew]] of the Anaheim Angels becomes the 16th player to achieve 3,000 hits in a career. * [[August 6]] - In [[Hiroshima]], tens of thousands mark the 40th anniversary of the [[atomic bomb]]ing of the city. * [[August 7]] - [[Takao Doi]], [[Mamoru Mohri]] and [[Chiaki Mukai]] are chosen to be [[Japan]]'s first [[astronaut]]s. * [[August 12]] - [[Japan Airlines Flight 123]] crashes in [[Japan]], killing 520 people: the worst single-aircraft disaster in history. ===September=== {{Month3|9|6|0}} * [[September 1]] - [[RMS Titanic#Rediscovery|A joint American-French expedition]] locates the wreck of the [[RMS Titanic]]. * [[September 5]] - [[John Howard]] replaces [[Andrew Peacock]] as [[Australia]]n Federal Opposition Leader. * [[September 6]] - [[Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105]], a [[Douglas DC-9]], crashes just after takeoff from [[Milwaukee, Wisconsin]], killing 31. * [[September 19]] - An 8.1 [[Richter magnitude scale|Richter scale]] [[earthquake]] strikes [[Mexico City]]. More than 9,000 people are killed, 30,000 injured, and 95,000 left homeless. * [[September 22]] - [[Plaza Accord]] was signed by five nations. * [[September 28]] - The [[shooting]] of Dorothy 'Cherry' Groce by the [[Metropolitan Police]] sparks race riots in [[Brixton]], an area of [[South London]], [[England]]. * [[September 29]] - [[MacGyver]] Pilot episode aired on the [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] network. ===October=== {{Month3|10|1|0}} * [[October 1]] - The [[Israel]]i air force [[Hammam Beach raid|bombs]] [[Palestine Liberation Organization|PLO]] Headquarters near [[Tunis]]. * [[October 4]] - The [[Free Software Foundation]] is founded in [[Massachusetts]], [[USA]]. * [[October 7]] - The cruise ship ''[[Achille Lauro]]'' is hijacked in the Mediterranean Sea by 4 heavily armed Palestinian terrorists. One passenger, American [[Leon Klinghoffer]], is killed. * [[October 18]] - The [[Nintendo Entertainment System]] is released in US stores. ===November=== {{Month3|11|4|0}} *[[November 5]] - Mark Kaylor defeats [[Errol Christie]] to become [[middleweight]] boxing champion after the two brawled in front of the cameras at the weigh-in. * [[November 13]] - [[Nevado del Ruiz]] [[volcano]] erupts, killing an estimated 23,000 people, including 21,000 killed by [[lahar]]s in the town of [[Armero tragedy|Armero]], [[Colombia]]. * [[November 15]] - In separate events, [[mail bomb]]s kill two people in [[Salt Lake City, Utah]]; a third bomb explodes the next day, injuring career [[forgery|counterfeiter]] [[Mark Hoffman]]. The ensuing police investigation leads to the arrest of Hoffman for the two murders. * [[November 18]] - Comic strip [[Calvin and Hobbes]] Debuts in 35 newspapers * [[November 19]] - [[Cold War]]: In [[Geneva]], U.S. President [[Ronald Reagan]] and [[Soviet Union]] leader [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] meet for the first time. * [[November 20]] - Microsoft Corporation releases the first version of Windows, [[Windows 1.0]]. * [[November 23]] - [[EgyptAir Flight 648]] hijacked by [[Abu Nidal]] group, flown to [[Malta]], where [[Egypt]]ian commandos storm plane; 60 are killed by gunfire and explosions. * [[November 26]] - U.S. President [[Ronald Reagan]] sells the rights to his [[autobiography]] to [[Random House]] for a record US$3 million. * [[November 29]] - Gerard Hoarau, exiled political leader from the [[Seychelles]], is assassinated in [[London]]. ===December=== <!-- Link all dates, even if repeated, for date-format preferences. --> {{Month3|12|6|0}} * [[December 1]] - The [[Ford Taurus]] and [[Mercury Sable]] are released for sale to the public. * [[December 12]] - [[Arrow Air Flight 1285]], a [[Douglas DC-8]], crashes after takeoff in [[Gander International Airport|Gander]], [[Newfoundland and Labrador|Newfoundland]], killing 256, 248 of whom were [[United States|U.S.]] servicemen returning to [[Fort Campbell, Kentucky]] from overseeing a peacekeeping force in [[Sinai Peninsula|Sinai]]. * [[December 16]] - In [[New York City]], [[Mafia]] bosses [[Paul Castellano]] and [[Thomas Bilotti]] are shot dead in front of Spark's Steak House, making hit organizer [[John Gotti]] the leader of the powerful [[Gambino]] organized crime family. During the shootout Andrew Bearse was born in the middle of the street. His mother was hit by a stray bullet which forced her into early labor. He survived and currently resides in Detroit, Michigan. * [[December 24]] - [[Right wing]] extremist [[David Lewis Rice]] murders [[civil rights]] [[attorney]] Charles Goldmark as well as Goldmark's wife and 2 children in [[Seattle]]. Rice suspected the family of being [[Jewish]] and [[Communist]] and claimed his dedication to the [[Christian Identity]] movement drove him to the crime. * [[December 27]] - [[Rome and Vienna airport attacks]]: [[Abu Nidal]] terrorists open fire in the [[airport]]s of [[Rome]] and [[Vienna]], leaving 18 dead and 120 injured. * [[December 27]] - American naturalist [[Dian Fossey]] is found murdered in [[Rwanda]]. * [[December 31]] - The last issue of ''[[The Columbus Citizen-Journal]]'' is circulated. ===Undated=== * The [[Australia]]n state of [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]] celebrates its 150th anniversary. * [[Capital gains tax]] introduced to [[Australia]]. * [[Buckyball]]s discovered by [[Harold Kroto]], [[Robert Curl]] and [[Richard Smalley]]. * [[GNU Manifesto]] first written by [[Richard Stallman]]. * [[Western Sahara]] is admitted to the [[Organization of African Unity]]; [[Morocco]], which claims Western Sahara, leaves in protest. * [[Solarquest]], space age real estate game, first published by Golden. * [[Norma Phillips Thornworth]] elected president of [[Mothers Against Drunk Driving]]. * [[ATI Technologies]] is founded. * [[NeXT]] is founded by [[Steve Jobs]] after resigning from [[Apple Computer]]. * [[Tommy Hilfiger]] brand established * [[Tetris]] released * [[DNA]] is first used in a criminal case<ref>{{cite book |last=Gaines |first=Larry |authorlink= |coauthors=Miller, LeRoy |title=Criminal Justice In Action: The Core |year=2006 |publisher=Thomson/Wadsworth |location= |isbn=0-495-00305-0 }}</ref> * [[Greenland]] leaves the [[European Union]]. * Multiple cases of espionage in the [[United States]] prompts media to label this [[1985: The Year of the Spy|"The Year of the Spy"]] ===Ongoing=== [[The Cold War]] ===Fictional=== The following are references to year 1985 in fiction: <!--NOTE: Bullets below are colon-star (" :* "). --> * Film: :*In the [[Back to the Future trilogy|''Back to the Future'' trilogy]] ([[1985 in film|1985]], [[1989 in film|1989]], [[1990 in film|1990]]), the [[present (time)|present time]] is 1985. The events depicted in 1985 occur on [[October 25]]th, [[October 26|26th]] and [[October 27|27th]] of that year, which the films accurately portray as a [[Friday]] and the following [[weekend]]. :* ''[[The Wedding Singer]]'' ([[1998 in film|1998]]) is set in 1985. * Literature: :* ''[[The Third World War: The Untold Story#The Third World War: August 1985|The Third World War, August 1985]]'' (1978) and ''[[The Third World War: The Untold Story]]'' (1982) by Sir [[John Hackett]]: The Soviet Union invades Western Europe over three weeks in August. :*''[[The Eyre Affair]]'' by [[Jasper Fforde]] is set in an alternate-reality 1985. * Computer/video games: :* [[Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis]] (2001) ===World population=== {|class="wikitable" !colspan="7"|[[World population]] |- ! !1985 !colspan="2"|[[1980]] !colspan="2"|[[1990]] |- ![[Image:Globe.svg|50px]] [[World]] |align="right"|'''4,830,979,000''' |align="right"|4,434,682,000 |align="right"|{{#switch: u |u=[[Image:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]] 396,297,000 |d=[[Image:Red Arrow Down.svg|10px]] 396,297,000 |#default=[[Image:Straight Line Steady.svg|10px]] }} |align="right"|5,263,593,000 |align="right"|{{#switch: u |u=[[Image:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]] 432,614,000 |d=[[Image:Red Arrow Down.svg|10px]] 432,614,000 |#default=[[Image:Straight Line Steady.svg|10px]] }} |- ![[Image:Africa satellite orthographic.jpg|50px]] [[Africa]] |align="right"|'''541,814,000''' |align="right"|469,618,000 |align="right"|{{#switch: u |u=[[Image:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]] 72,196,000 |d=[[Image:Red Arrow Down.svg|10px]] 72,196,000 |#default=[[Image:Straight Line Steady.svg|10px]] }} |align="right"|622,443,000 |align="right"|{{#switch: u |u=[[Image:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]] 80,629,000 |d=[[Image:Red Arrow Down.svg|10px]] 80,629,000 |#default=[[Image:Straight Line Steady.svg|10px]] }} |- ![[Image:Two-point-equidistant-asia.jpg|50px]] [[Asia]] |align="right"|'''2,887,552,000''' |align="right"|2,632,335,000 |align="right"|{{#switch: u |u=[[Image:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]] 255,217,000 |d=[[Image:Red Arrow Down.svg|10px]] 255,217,000 |#default=[[Image:Straight Line Steady.svg|10px]] }} |align="right"|3,167,807,000 |align="right"|{{#switch: u |u=[[Image:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]] 280,255,000 |d=[[Image:Red Arrow Down.svg|10px]] 280,255,000 |#default=[[Image:Straight Line Steady.svg|10px]] }} |- ![[Image:Europe satellite orthographic.jpg|50px]] [[Europe]] |align="right"|'''706,009,000''' |align="right"|692,431,000 |align="right"|{{#switch: u |u=[[Image:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]] 13,578,000 |d=[[Image:Red Arrow Down.svg|10px]] 13,578,000 |#default=[[Image:Straight Line Steady.svg|10px]] }} |align="right"|721,582,000 |align="right"|{{#switch: u |u=[[Image:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]] 15,573,000 |d=[[Image:Red Arrow Down.svg|10px]] 15,573,000 |#default=[[Image:Straight Line Steady.svg|10px]] }} |- ![[Image:Latin America terrain.jpg|50px]] [[Latin America]] |align="right"|'''401,469,000''' |align="right"|361,401,000 |align="right"|{{#switch: u |u=[[Image:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]] 40,068,000 |d=[[Image:Red Arrow Down.svg|10px]] 40,068,000 |#default=[[Image:Straight Line Steady.svg|10px]] }} |align="right"|441,525,000 |align="right"|{{#switch: u |u=[[Image:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]] 40,056,000 |d=[[Image:Red Arrow Down.svg|10px]] 40,056,000 |#default=[[Image:Straight Line Steady.svg|10px]] }} |- ![[Image:LocationWHNorthernAmerica.png|50px]] [[Northern America]] |align="right"|'''269,456,000''' |align="right"|256,068,000 |align="right"|{{#switch: u |u=[[Image:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]] 13,388,000 |d=[[Image:Red Arrow Down.svg|10px]] 13,388,000 |#default=[[Image:Straight Line Steady.svg|10px]] }} |align="right"|283,549,000 |align="right"|{{#switch: u |u=[[Image:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]] 14,093,000 |d=[[Image:Red Arrow Down.svg|10px]] 14,093,000 |#default=[[Image:Straight Line Steady.svg|10px]] }} |- ![[Image:Oceania.jpg|50px]] [[Oceania]] |align="right"|'''24,678,000''' |align="right"|22,828,000 |align="right"|{{#switch: u |u=[[Image:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]] 1,850,000 |d=[[Image:Red Arrow Down.svg|10px]] 1,850,000 |#default=[[Image:Straight Line Steady.svg|10px]] }} |align="right"|26,687,000 |align="right"|{{#switch: u |u=[[Image:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]] 2,009,000 |d=[[Image:Red Arrow Down.svg|10px]] 2,009,000 |#default=[[Image:Straight Line Steady.svg|10px]] }} |} ==Births== {{Year in other calendars|jpera=Shōwa}} ===January-March=== <!-- Link all dates, even if repeated, for date-format preferences. --> <!-- Please do not add yourself, non-notable people, fictional characters, or people without Wikipedia articles to this list. No red links, please. --> * [[January 1]] - [[Deivson Rogerio da Silva]], Brazilian [[football]]er who plays for [[Beşiktaş J.K.]] * [[January 1]] - [[Steven Davis]], Northern Irish footballer * [[January 2]] - [[Heather O'Reilly]], US Women's national soccer player * [[January 3]] - [[John David Booty]], American football quarterback, [[University of Southern California|USC]] * [[January 4]] - [[Al Jefferson]], National Basketball Assoiciation player * [[January 7]] - [[Lewis Hamilton]], British Formula 1 Driver * [[January 11]] - [[Rie fu]], Japanese singer and songwriter * [[January 17]] - [[Simone Simons]], Dutch singer * [[January 17]] - [[Kang-In]], Korean singer, member of [[Super Junior]] * [[January 19]] - [[Rika Ishikawa]], Japanese singer and host of television and radio programs * [[January 23]] - [[Doutzen Kroes]], Dutch supermodel * [[February 1]] - [[Dean Shiels]], Northern Irish footballer * [[February 2]] - [[Fontel Mines]], National Football League tight end * [[February 4]] - [[Bug Hall]], American actor * [[February 5]] - [[Cristiano Ronaldo]], Portuguese footballer * [[February 5]] - [[Laurence Maroney]], [[National Football League]] runningback * [[February 6]] - [[Joji Kato]], Japanese speedskater * [[February 7]] - [[Tina Majorino]], American actress * [[February 9]] - [[David Gallagher]], American actor * [[February 9]] - [[Rachel Melvin]], American actress * [[February 10]] - [[Anette Sagen]], Norwegian ski jumper * [[February 14]] - [[Miki Yeung]], actress and singer from Hong Kong * [[February 14]] - [[Natsume Sano]], Japanese gravure idol * [[February 18]] - [[Lee Boyd Malvo]], American serial killer * [[February 18]] - [[Todd Lasance]], Australian actor * [[February 19]] - [[Haylie Duff]], American actress and singer * [[February 20]] - [[Yulia Volkova]], Russian singer * [[February 22]] - [[Hameur Bouazza]], Fulham F.C. footballer * [[February 25]] - [[Benji Marshall]], Australian NRL player * [[February 25]] - [[Joakim Noah]], American basketball player * [[February 26]] - [[Miki Fujimoto]], Japanese singer * [[February 28]] - [[FeFe Dobson]], Canadian singer * [[February 28]] - [[Jelena Janković]], Serbian tennis player * [[February 28]] - [[Diego Ribas da Cunha]] Brazilian soccer player * [[March 2]] - [[Reggie Bush]], American football player * [[March 3]] - [[Sam Morrow]], Northern Irish footballer * [[March 8]] - [[Ewa Sonnet]], Polish model * [[March 9]] - [[Brent Burns]], Canadian hockey player * [[March 10]] - [[Lassana Diarra]], French footballer * [[March 10]] - [[Nathalie Kelley]], Australian actress * [[March 11]] - [[Paul Bissonnette]], Canadian hockey player * [[March 11]] - [[Nikolai Topor-Stanley]], Australian soccer player * [[March 13]] - [[Emile Hirsch]], American actor * [[March 15]] - [[Antti Autti]], Finnish snowboarder * [[March 19]] - [[Ernesto Viso]], Venezuelan race car driver * [[March 21]] - [[Adrian L. Peterson]], American football player * [[March 24]] - [[Haruka Ayase]], Japanese actress and model * [[March 25]] - [[Carmen Rasmusen]], American singer * [[March 26]] - [[Keira Knightley]], English actress * [[March 26]] - [[Jonathan Groff]], American actor, singer, and dancer * [[March 27]] - [[Danny Vukovic]], Australian Footballer ===April-June=== <!-- Link all dates, even if repeated, for date-format preferences. --> <!-- Please do not add yourself, non-notable people, fictional characters, or people without Wikipedia articles to this list. No red links, please. --> * [[April 3]] - [[Leona Lewis]], English singer * [[April 9]] - [[Tomohisa Yamashita]] Japanese singer * [[April 10]] - [[Dion Phaneuf]] NHL hockey player * [[April 12]] - [[Hitomi Yoshizawa]], Japanese singer,actor * [[April 16]] - [[Benjamin Rojas]], Argentine famous singer * [[April 18]] - [[Łukasz Fabiański]], Polish footballer * [[April 26]] - [[Nam Gyu-Ri]], Korean singer, member of [[See Ya]] * [[April 30]] - [[Ashley Alexandra Dupree]], Prostitute,R & B Singer songwriter * [[May 2]] - [[Sarah Hughes]], American figure skater * [[May 2]]- [[Kyle Busch]], American race car driver * [[May 2]] - [[Lily Allen]], British singer * [[May 6]] - [[Chris Paul]], American basketball player * [[May 9]] - [[Neha Bamb]], Indian Actress * [[May 12]] - [[Dániel Tőzsér]], Hungarian footballer * [[May 14]] - [[Sally Martin]], New Zealand actress * [[May 15]] - [[Derek Hough]], American dancer and choreographer * [[May 15]] - [[Cristiane Rozeira de Souza Silva|Cristiane]], Brazilian footballer * [[May 21]] - [[Mutya Buena]], British Singer and Songwritter (ex-[[Sugababes]]) * [[May 22]] - [[Marc-Antoine Pouliot]], Canadian ice hockey player * [[May 25]] - [[Luciana Abreu]], Portuguese singer and actress * [[May 27]] - [[Chien-Ming Chiang]], Taiwanese baseball player * [[May 28]] - [[Colbie Caillat]], American acoustic-folk singer-songwriter * [[May 30]] - [[Turk McBride]], National Football League player * [[June 1]] - [[Prince Christian of Hanover]], son of Prince Ernst of Hanover * [[June 1]] - [[Tirunesh Dibaba]], Ethiopian long distance track athlete * [[June 4]] - [[Ana Carolina Reston]], Brazilian fashion model (d.[[2006]]) * [[June 7]] - [[Charlie Simpson]], English musician ([[Fightstar]]) * [[June 9]] - [[Sebastian Telfair]], American basketball player * [[June 12]] - [[Tasha-Ray Evin]], Canadian singer/guitarist ([[Lillix]]) * [[June 12]] - [[Blake Ross]], American software developer * [[June 12]] - [[Kendra Wilkinson]], American model * [[June 13]] - [[Danny Syvret]], Canadian ice hockey player * [[June 15]] - [[Nadine Coyle]], Irish singer ([[Girls Aloud]]) * [[June 17]] - [[Marcos Baghdatis]], Cypriot tennis player * [[June 24]] - [[Yukina Shirakawa]], Japanese gravure idol * [[June 26]] - [[Urgyen Trinley Dorje]], Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader * [[June 27]] - [[Svetlana Kuznetsova]], Russian tennis player * [[June 27]] - [[Nico Rosberg]], German Formula One driver * [[June 28]] - [[Phil Bardsley]], English footballer * [[June 30]] - [[Michael Phelps]], American swimmer ===July-September=== <!-- Please do not add yourself, non-notable people, fictional characters, or people without Wikipedia articles to this list. No red links, please. --> * [[July 2]] - [[Ashley Tisdale]], American actress * [[July 5]] - [[Stephanie McIntosh]], Australian actress ([[Neighbours]]) * [[July 5]] - [[Nick O'Malley]], British musician ([[Arctic Monkeys]]) * [[July 9]] - [[Paweł Korzeniowski]], Polish swimmer * [[July 9]] - [[Cathy Leung]], Hong Kong singer * [[July 12]] - [[Emil Hegle Svendsen]], Norwegian biathlete * [[July 13]]- [[Guillermo Ochoa]], Mexican footballer * [[July 17]] - [[Tom Fletcher]], British musician ([[McFly (band)|McFly]]) * [[July 18]] - [[Chace Crawford]], American actor * [[July 22]] - [[Takudzwa Ngwenya]], American rugby player * [[July 23]] - [[Scott Chandler]], NAtional Football League tight end * [[July 24]] - [[Teagan Presley]], American porn star * [[July 25]] - [[James Lafferty]], American actor and athlete * [[July 25]] - [[Nelson Angelo Piquet]], Brazilian [[Formula One]] driver * [[July 28]] - [[Dustin Milligan]], Canadian actor * [[August 3]] - [[Sonny Bill Williams]] Rugby League player * [[August 5]] - [[Salomon Kalou]], Ivory Coast footballer * [[August 9]] - [[Hayley Peirsol]], American swimmer * [[August 14]] - [[Ashlynn Brooke]], American pornographic actress * [[August 27]] - [[Alexandra Nechita]], American artist * [[August 29]] - [[Jeffrey Licon]], American actor * [[September 11]] - [[Jake Cole]], English footballer * [[September 14]] - [[Aya Ueto]], Japanese actress * [[September 16]] - [[Madeline Zima]], American actress * [[September 17]] - [[Alexander Ovechkin]], Russian hockey player * [[September 21]] - [[Maryam Hassouni]], Dutch actress * [[September 23]] - [[Maki Goto]], Japanese singer and actress * [[September 28]] - [[Shindong]], Korean singer, member of [[Super Junior]] * [[September 30]] - [[T-Pain]], American rapper/singer ===October-December=== <!-- Link all dates, even if repeated, for date-format preferences. --> <!-- Please do not add yourself, non-notable people, fictional characters, or people without Wikipedia articles to this list. No red links, please. --> * [[October 5]] - [[Nicola Roberts]], British singer ([[Girls Aloud]]) * [[October 7]] - [[Evan Longoria]], professional baseball player * [[October 8]] - [[Kimberly Kevon Williams]], American actress * [[October 10]] - [[Dominique Cornu]], Belgian professional cyclist * [[October 10]] -[[Ricki-Lee Coulter]], former [[Australian Idol]] contestant and singer * [[October 10]] -[[Aaron Himelstein]], American actor * [[October 11]] - [[Michelle Trachtenberg]], American actress * [[October 14]] - [[Sherlyn]], Mexican actress * [[October 14]] - [[Daniel Clark (actor)|Daniel Clark]], Canadian actor * [[October 18]] - [[Lindsey Kildow]], American alpine skier * [[October 20]] - [[Jennifer Freeman]], American actress * [[October 22]] - [[Zac Hanson]], American musician * [[October 24]] - [[Wayne Rooney]], English footballer * [[October 25]] - [[Ciara]], American singer * [[November 3]] - [[Tyler Hansbrough]], American basketball player * [[November 5]] - [[Kate DeAraugo]], Australian Idol 2005 * [[November 8]] - [[Jack Osbourne]], English television personality * [[November 10]] - [[Giovonnie Samuels]], American actress * [[November 11]] - [[Kalan Porter]], Canadian singer * [[November 11]] - [[Raquel Guerra]], Portuguese singer and actress * [[November 11]] - [[Robin Uthappa]], Indian cricketer * [[November 13]] - [[Simo-Pekka Olli]], Finnish volleyball player * [[November 23]] - [[Ahn Hyun-Soo]], South Korean short track skater * [[November 27]] - [[Alison Pill]], Canadian actress * [[November 28]] - [[Ryan Sampson]], British actor * [[November 30]] - [[Kaley Cuoco]], American actress * [[December 3]] - [[Amanda Seyfried]], American actress * [[December 3]] - [[László Cseh]], Hungarian swimmer * [[December 5]] - [[Frankie Muniz]], American actor * [[December 6]] - [[Dulce María]], Mexican actress * [[December 8]] - [[Dwight Howard]], American basketball player * [[December 10]] - [[Raven-Symoné]], American actress and singer * [[December 14]] - [[Nonami Takizawa]], Japanese actress * [[December 19]] - [[Lady Sovereign]], British rapper * [[December 21]] - [[James Stewart Jr.]], American motorcycle racer * [[December 23]] - [[Harry Judd]], English drummer ([[McFly (band)|McFly]]) * [[December 23]] - [[Luke O'Loughlin]], Australian actor ===Unknown dates=== * [[Britt Nicole]] (Brittany Nicole Waddell), [[Christian Contemporary music|Christian rock]] artist. ==Deaths== ===January-March=== <!-- Link all dates, even if repeated, for date-format preferences. --> * [[January 4]] - [[Brian Horrocks|Sir Brian Horrocks]], British general (b. [[1895]]) <!--FEBRUARY (deaths)--> * [[February 8]] - [[Marvin Miller]], American actor (b. [[1913]]) * [[February 20]] - [[Clarence Nash]], American actor (b. [[1904]]) <!--MARCH--> * [[March 10]] - [[Konstantin Chernenko]], Soviet politician (b. [[1911]]) * [[March 12]] - [[Eugene Ormandy]], Hungarian conductor (b. [[1899]]) * [[March 21]] - Sir [[Michael Redgrave]], English actor (b. [[1908]]) * [[March 28]] - [[Marc Chagall]], Russian-born painter (b. [[1887]]) * [[March 29]] - [[Jeanine Deckers]], Belgian nun and singer (b. [[1933]]) ===April-June=== <!--DEATHS--> <!-- Link all dates, even if repeated, for date-format preferences. --> * [[April 8]] - [[J. Fred Coots]], American songwriter (b. [[1897]]) * [[April 11]] - [[Enver Hoxha]], Albanian dictator (b. [[1908]]) * [[April 21]] - [[Tancredo Neves]], Brazilian elected president (b. [[1910]]) * [[April 22]] - [[Paul H. Emmett]], American chemical engineer (b. [[1900]]) * [[April 30]] - [[George Pravda]], Czechoslovakian actor (b. [[1918]]) <!--MAY (deaths)--> * [[May 4]] - [[Clarence Wiseman]], the 10th General of [[The Salvation Army]] (b. [[1907]]) * [[May 5]] - [[Donald Bailey|Sir Donald Bailey]], British civil engineer (b. [[1901]]) * [[May 6]] - [[Julie Vega]], Filipino child actress and singer (b. [[1968]]) * [[May 8]] - [[Theodore Sturgeon]], American writer (b. [[1918]]) * [[May 9]] - [[Edmond O'Brien]], American actor (b. [[1915]]) * [[May 10]] - [[Chester Gould]], American cartoonist (b. [[1900]]) * [[May 12]] - [[Jean Dubuffet]], French artist (b. [[1901]]) * [[May 16]] - [[Margaret Hamilton]], American actress (b. [[1902]]) * [[May 17]] - [[Abe Burrows]], American songwriter, composer, and writer (b. [[1910]]) * [[May 22]] - [[Wolfgang Reitherman]], American animator (b. [[1909]]) <!--JUNE--> * [[June 11]] - [[Karen Ann Quinlan]], American right-to-die cause célèbre (b. [[1954]]) * [[June 12]] - [[Hua Luogeng]], Chinese mathematician (b. [[1910]]) * [[June 15]] - [[Andy Stanfield]], American athlete (b. [[1927]]) ===July-September=== <!--DEATHS--> <!-- Link all dates, even if repeated, for date-format preferences. --> * [[July 2]] - [[David Purley]], British race car driver (b. [[1945]]) * [[July 9]] - [[Jimmy Kinnon]], Scottish founder of Narcotics Anonymous (b. [[1911]]) * [[July 16]] - [[Heinrich Böll]], German writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1917]]) * [[July 19]] - [[Janusz A. Zajdel]], Polish writer (b. [[1938]]) * [[July 27]] - [[John Scarne]], American magician and card expert (b. [[1903]]) <!--AUGUST--> * [[August 6]] - [[Forbes Burnham]], [[President of Guyana]] (b. [[1923]]) * [[August 12]] - [[Manfred Winkelhock]], German race car driver (b. [[1951]]) * [[August 12]] - [[Kyu Sakamoto]], Japanese singer, well known by his most famous song, "[[Sukiyaki (song)|Sukiyaki]]", killed in the crash of [[Japan Airlines Flight 123]] (b. [[1941]]) * [[August 14]] - [[Gale Sondergaard]], American actor (b. [[1899]]) * [[August 25]] - [[Samantha Smith]], American schoolgirl activist (b. [[1972]]) * [[August 31]] - [[Frank Macfarlane Burnet]], Australian biologist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (b. [[1899]]) <!--SEPTEMBER (deaths)--> * [[September 1]] - [[Stefan Bellof]], race car driver and 1984 World SportsCars ([[Group C]]) Champion (b. [[1957]]) * [[September 6]] - [[Isabel J. Cox|Isabel Cox-Meighen]], wife of Canadian prime minister Arthur Meighen (b. [[1882]]) * [[September 6]] - [[Little Brother Montgomery]], American musician * [[September 7]] - [[Rodney Robert Porter]], English biochemist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (b. [[1917]]) * [[September 8]] - [[John Franklin Enders]], American scientist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (b. [[1887]]) * [[September 9]] - [[Paul Flory]], American chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1910]]) * [[September 11]] - [[William Alwyn]], English composer (b. [[1905]]) * [[September 17]] - [[Laura Ashley]], Welsh designer (b. [[1925]]) * [[September 19]] - [[Italo Calvino]], Italian writer (b. [[1923]]) ===October-December=== <!-- Link all dates, even if repeated, for date-format preferences. --> * [[October 1]] - [[E.B. White]], American writer (b. [[1899]]) * [[October 2]] - [[Rock Hudson]], American actor (b. [[1925]]) * [[October 2]] - [[George Savalas]], American actor, brother of [[Telly Savalas]] (b. [[1924]]) * [[October 6]] - [[Nelson Riddle]], American bandleader (b. [[1921]]) * [[October 10]] - [[Yul Brynner]], American actor (b. [[1920]]) * [[October 10]] - [[Orson Welles]], American film director (b. [[1915]]) * [[October 12]] - [[Johnny Olson]], American game show announcer (b. [[1910]]) * [[October 22]] - [[Thomas Townsend Brown]], American scientist (b. [[1905]]) * [[October 31]] - [[Poul Reichhardt]], Danish actor (b. [[1913]]) <!--Mary two--axe Earley, a Native Ameican Women's rights Activist--> <!--NOVEMBER (deaths)--> * [[November 1]] - [[Quick Draw Rick McGraw]], American professional wrestler (b. [[1955]]) * [[November 5]] - [[Spencer W. Kimball]], president of [[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] (b. [[1895]]) * [[November 5]] - [[Arnold Chikobava]], Georgian linguist (b. [[1898]]) * [[November 13]] - [[William Pereira]], American architect (b. [[1909]]) * [[November 13]] - [[George Robert Vincent]], American sound recording pioneer (b. [[1898]]) * [[November 24]] - [[Big Joe Turner]], American blues singer (b. [[1911]]) <!--DECEMBER--> * [[December 7]] - [[Robert Graves]], English writer (b. [[1895]]) * [[December 12]] - [[Anne Baxter]], American actress (b. [[1923]]) * [[December 15]] - [[Carlos Romulo]], Filipino diplomat (b. [[1899]]) * [[December 12]] - [[Ian Stewart (musician)|Ian Stewart]], Scottish rock musician (b. [[1938]]) * [[December 22]] - [[D. Boon]], American singer and guitarist (b. [[1958]]) * [[December 23]] - [[Ferhat Abbas]], Algerian nationalist (b. [[1899]]) * [[December 26]] - [[Dian Fossey]], American biologist (b. [[1932]]) * [[December 31]] - [[Ricky Nelson]], American singer and actor (b. [[1940]]) ===Environmental=== * [[Asian tiger mosquito]], an [[invasive species]] is first found in [[Houston, Texas]]. * [[November 13]] - The volcano [[Nevado del Ruiz]] erupts in [[Colombia]], killing an estimated 23,000 people. * [[1984 - 1985 famine in Ethiopia|Famine in Ethiopia]] continues; [[USA for Africa]] ("[[We Are the World]]") and [[Live Aid]] raise funds for [[famine relief]]. ==Nobel prizes== * [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Physics]] - [[Klaus von Klitzing]] * [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]] - [[Herbert A. Hauptman]], [[Jerome Karle]] * [[Nobel Prize in literature|Literature]] - [[Claude Simon]] * [[Nobel Peace Prize|Peace]] - [[International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War]] * [[Nobel Prize in Economics|Economics]] - [[Franco Modigliani]] * [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] - [[Michael S. Brown]], [[Joseph L. Goldstein]] ==Templeton Prize== * [[Alister Hardy|Sir Alister Hardy]] == Right Livelihood Award == * [[Theo van Boven]], [[Cary Fowler]] / [[Pat Mooney]] / [[Rural Advancement Fund International]], [[Lokayan]] / [[Rajni Kothari]] and [[Duna Kör]] ==See also== * [[20th century]] ==Notes== {{reflist}} {{commonscat}} [[Category:1985| ]] [[af:1985]] [[als:1980er#1985]] [[am:1985 እ.ኤ.አ.]] [[ar:1985]] [[an:1985]] [[roa-rup:1985]] [[frp:1985]] [[ast:1985]] [[gn:1985]] [[av:1985]] [[ay:1985]] [[az:1985]] [[bn:১৯৮৫]] [[zh-min-nan:1985 nî]] [[map-bms:1985]] [[be:1985]] [[be-x-old:1985]] [[bh:१९८५]] [[bs:1985]] [[br:1985]] [[bg:1985]] [[ca:1985]] [[cv:1985]] [[cs:1985]] [[co:1985]] [[cy:1985]] [[da:1985]] [[pdc:1985]] [[de:1985]] [[et:1985]] [[el:1985]] [[es:1985]] [[eo:1985]] [[eu:1985]] [[fa:۱۹۸۵ (میلادی)]] [[fo:1985]] [[hif:1985]] [[fr:1985]] [[fy:1985]] [[ga:1985]] [[gan:1985年]] [[gv:1985]] [[gd:1985]] [[gl:1985]] [[ko:1985년]] [[hy:1985]] [[hi:1985]] [[hr:1985.]] [[io:1985]] [[ig:1985]] [[ilo:1985]] [[bpy:মারি ১৯৮৫]] [[id:1985]] [[ia:1985]] [[os:1985]] [[is:1985]] [[it:1985]] [[he:1985]] [[jv:1985]] [[pam:1985]] [[kn:೧೯೮೫]] [[ka:1985]] [[csb:1985]] [[kk:1985]] [[kw:1985]] [[sw:1985]] [[ht:1985 (almanak gregoryen)]] [[ku:1985]] [[la:1985]] [[lv:1985]] [[lb:1985]] [[lt:1985 m.]] [[lij:1985]] [[ln:1985]] [[lmo:1985]] [[hu:1985]] [[mk:1985]] [[mi:1985]] [[mr:इ.स. १९८५]] [[ms:1985]] [[nah:1985]] [[nl:1985]] [[ja:1985年]] [[nap:1985]] [[no:1985]] [[nn:1985]] [[nrm:1985]] [[nov:1985]] [[oc:1985]] [[uz:1985]] [[pi:१९८५]] [[nds:1985]] [[pl:1985]] [[pt:1985]] [[ty:1985]] [[ksh:Joohr 1985]] [[ro:1985]] [[qu:1985]] [[ru:1985 год]] [[se:1985]] [[sq:1985]] [[scn:1985]] [[simple:1985]] [[sk:1985]] [[sl:1985]] [[so:1985]] [[sr:1985]] [[sh:1985]] [[su:1985]] [[fi:1985]] [[sv:1985]] [[tl:1985]] [[ta:1985]] [[tt:1985]] [[te:1985]] [[th:พ.ศ. 2528]] [[vi:1985]] [[tg:1985]] [[tr:1985]] [[tk:1985]] [[uk:1985]] [[vec:1985]] [[wa:1985]] [[vls:1985]] [[wuu:公元1985年]] [[yo:1985]] [[zh-yue:1985年]] [[cbk-zam:1985]] [[bat-smg:1985]] [[zh:1985年]]