1985

**1985** (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday in the Gregorian calendar. 

## Events 
* January 20 - President Ronald Reagan is inaugurated for the second time.
* February 18 - NBA player Larry Bird barely misses a quadruple-double in a game against the Utah Jazz.  He sits out the entire fourth quarter.
* March 11 – Mikhail Gorbachev became the leader of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
* April 1 - Cincinnati, OH-based Procter & Gamble removed the moon & stars symbol from its packaging.
* July 13 – Live Aid concerts take place in London and Philadelphia
* September 1 – The wreckage of the RMS *Titanic* was found.
* November 18 – Bill Watterson first publishes "Calvin and Hobbes".
* November 20 – Microsoft ships the first version of Microsoft Windows out to be sold.
* December 6 - The Boston Celtics pick up their only home loss of the 1985-86 NBA season, losing to the Portland Trail Blazers at Boston Garden.  They establish the best single-season NBA home court record of all time.

## Births 
* January 14 – Shawn Sawyer, Canadian figure skater
* February 5 – Cristiano Ronaldo, Portuguese footballer
* February 9 – David Gallagher, American actor
* February 18 - Lee Boyd Malvo, Jamaican-American spree killer
* February 19 – Haylie Duff, American actress and singer
* March 26 – Keira Knightley, English actress
* April 3 – Leona Lewis, English singer
* May 2 – Lily Allen, English singer
* May 2 – Kyle Busch, American NASCAR driver
* May 18 – Joseph Roisman, American former navy sailor 
* June 2 – Ashley Tisdale, American actress and singer
* June 4 – Evan Lysacek, American figure skater
* June 4 – Lukas Podolski, Polish-born German footballer
* June 30 – Charley Uchea, English Big Brother contestant
* June 30 – Cody Rhodes, American professional wrestler
* July 2 – Mario Gómez, German footballer
* July 6 – Naomi Nari Nam, American figure skater
* August 18 – Rachel Smith, Panamanian-born Miss USA 2007
* August 19 – Lindsey Jacobellis, American Olympic snowboarder
* August 26 – Christopher Mabee, Canadian figure skater
* September 14 – Aya Ueto, Japanese actress and singer
* September 17 – Alexander Ovechkin, Professional ice hockey player for the Washington Capitals
* September 17 – Jon Walker, American guitarist
* September 21 – Reza Alinejad, Iranian criminal
* October 11 – Michelle Trachtenberg, American actress
* October 23 - Lachlan Gillespie, Australian musician (The Wiggles)
* October 24 – Wayne Rooney, English footballer
* October 25 – Ciara, American R&B/Pop singer
* November 4 – Marcell Jansen, German footballer
* November 16 – Sanna Marin, Prime Minister of Finland
* December 10 – Raven Symone, American actress

## Deaths 
### January 
* January 2 – Gabriel Elorde, Filipino professional boxer (b. 1935)
* January 3 – Tadeusz Pełczyński, Polish general (b. 1892)
* January 4 – Lovro von Matačić, Croatian conductor (b. 1899)
* January 4 – Brian Horrocks, British Army officer (b. 1895)
* January 7 – Jules Vandooren, French footballer (b. 1908)
* January 10 – Anton Karas, Austrian musician (b. 1906)
* January 10 – André Bjerke, Norwegian writer (b. 1918)
* January 15 – Salvador Cardona, Spanish cyclist (b. 1901)
* January 21 – Luise Ullrich, Austrian actress (b. 1910)
* January 22 – Paul Harteck, German chemist (b. 1902)
* January 22 – Mikhail Gromov, Russian aviator (b. 1899)
* January 26 – Kenny Clarke, American jazz drummer (b. 1914)

### February 
* February 20 – Clarence Nash, American voice actor (b. 1904)
* February 22 – Efrem Zimbalist Sr., Russian-American violinist (b. 1889)

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* March 10 – Konstantin Chernenko, Former General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (b. 1911)
* March 21 – Michael Redgrave, English stage actor (b. 1908)
* March 28 – Marc Chagall, Russian-French artist (b. 1887)
* March 29 – Gerhard Stöck, German olympic athlete (b. 1911)

### April 
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* April 11 – Enver Hoxha, Prime Minister of Albania (b. 1908)
* April 21 – Tancredo Neves, President of Brazil (b. 1910)

### May 
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* May 16 – Margaret Hamilton, American actress (b. 1902)
* May 18 – Penn Nouth, Prime Minister of Cambodia (b. 1908)

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* June 21 – Tage Erlander, Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1901)
* June 30 – Haruo Remeliik, President of Palau (b. 1933)

### July 
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* July 4 – Jan de Quay, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1901)
* July 8 – Simon Kuznets, American economist (b. 1901)
* July 16 – Heinrich Böll, German writer (b. 1917)

### August 
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* August 6 – Forbes Burnham, President of Guyana (b. 1923)
* August 8 – Louise Brooks, American film actress (b. 1906)
* August 12 – Kyu Sakamoto, Japanese singer (b. 1941)
* August 25 – Samantha Smith, American peace activist (b. 1972)
* August 31 – Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Australian virologist (b. 1899)

### September 
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* September 6 – Rodney Robert Porter, British biochemist (b. 1917)
* September 9 – Paul Flory, American chemist (b. 1910)
* September 19 – Italo Calvino, Italian writer (b. 1923)
* September 30 – Charles Francis Richter, American seismologist (b. 1900)

### October 
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* October 1 – E. B. White, American writer (b. 1899)
* October 2 – Rock Hudson, American actor (b. 1925)
* October 9 – Emílio Garrastazu Médici, President of Brazil (b. 1905)
* October 10 – Yul Brynner, Russian-American actor (b. 1920)
* October 10 – Orson Welles, American actor (b. 1915)
* October 12 – Johnny Olson, American radio personality (b. 1910)
* October 21 – Dan White, American politician (b. 1946)

### November 
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* November 14 – Wellington Koo, Acting President of the Republic of China (b. 1888)
* November 17 – Lon Nol, President of the Khmer Republic (b. 1913)

### December 
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* December 12 – Anne Baxter, American actress (b. 1923)
* December 14 – Roger Maris, American baseball athlete (b. 1934)
* December 26 – Dian Fossey, American Researcher (b. 1932)
* December 27 – Harold Whitlock, British olympic athlete (b. 1903)
* December 31 – Ricky Nelson, American musician (b. 1940)

## Movies released 
* ''Brewster's Millions*
* *Back to the Future*
* *The Breakfast Club*
* *Commando*
* *The Care Bears Movie*
* *The Goonies*
* *One Magic Christmas*
* *Runaway Train*
* *Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer*
* *Rambo: First Blood Part II*
* *Rocky IV*
* *Return to Oz*
* *St. Elmo's Fire''

## Hit songs 
*"Glory Days" – Bruce Springsteen
*"Some Heads Are Gonna Roll" – Judas Priest
*"Crazy for You" – Madonna
*"Reviens-moi" – Dalida
*"C'était mon ami" – Dalida
*"Le temps d'aimer" – Dalida
*"Le Vénitien de Levallois" – Dalida
*"Find A Way" – Amy Grant
*"Wise Up" – Amy Grant
*"Say You, Say Me" – Lionel Richie
*"We Are the World" – USA for Africa
*"Can't Fight This Feeling Anymore" – REO Speedwagon
*"I'm Going Down" – Bruce Springsteen
*"Freeway of Love" – Aretha Franklin

## New books 
**Forrest Gump* – Winston Groom

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