1985

1985 (MCMLXXXV) was .
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 Gomez, 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
December 10 - Raven Symone, American actress
Lindsay Hawker, British murder victim (d. 2007)
Charlotte Lindstrom, Swedish criminal and model
Deaths
January
January 2 - Gabriel Elorde, Filipino professional boxer (b. 1935)
January 3 - Tadeusz Pelczynski, Polish general (b. 1892)
January 4 - Lovro von Matacic, 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 - Andre 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)
March
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 Stock, German olympic athlete (b. 1911)
April
April 11 - Enver Hoxha, Prime Minister of Albania (b. 1908)
April 21 - Tancredo Neves, President of Brazil (b. 1910)
May
May 16 - Margaret Hamilton, American actress (b. 1902)
May 18 - Penn Nouth, Prime Minister of Cambodia (b. 1908)
June
June 21 - Tage Erlander, Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1901)
June 30 - Haruo Remeliik, President of Palau (b. 1933)
July
July 4 - Jan de Quay, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1901)
July 8 - Simon Kuznets, American economist (b. 1901)
July 16 - Heinrich Boll, German writer (b. 1917)
August
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
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
October 1 - E. B. White, American writer (b. 1899)
October 2 - Rock Hudson, American actor (b. 1925)
October 9 - Emilio Garrastazu Medici, 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
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
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'etait mon ami" - Dalida
"Le temps d'aimer" - Dalida
"Le Venitien 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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