page_title: 1885
section_title: January
hierarchical_section_title: 1885 / Births / January
caption_attribution_description: John Curtin
context_page_description: 1885 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1885th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 885th year of the 2nd millennium, the 85th year of the 19th century, and the 6th year of the 1880s decade. As of the start of 1885, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
context_section_description: January 6 – Florence Turner, American actress (d. 1946)
  January 8 – John Curtin, 14th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1945)
  January 11
  Jack Hoxie, American actor, rodeo performer (d. 1965)
  Alice Paul, American women's rights activist (d. 1977)
  January 12
  Harry Benjamin, American endocrinologist, sexologist (d. 1986)
  Claude Fuess, 10th Headmaster of Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts (d. 1963)
  January 14 – Constantin Sănătescu, 44th Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1947)
  January 16 – Zhou Zuoren, Chinese writer (d. 1967)
  January 17 – Nikolaus von Falkenhorst, German general and war criminal (d. 1968)
  January 21 – Umberto Nobile, Italian aviator and explorer (d. 1978)
  January 25 – Roy Geiger, American general (d. 1947)
  January 26
  Michael Considine, Australian politician (d. 1959)
  Harry Ricardo, English mechanical engineer, engine pioneer (d. 1974)
  Per Thorén, Swedish figure skater (d. 1962)
  January 27
  Jerome Kern, American composer (d. 1945)
  Eduard Künneke, German composer (d. 1953)
  Harry Ruby, American musician, composer, and writer (d. 1974)
  January 28 – Władysław Raczkiewicz, former President of Poland (d. 1947)
  January 30 – John Henry Towers, U. S. Admiral and naval aviation pioneer (d. 1955)
caption: John Curtin
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