1985

January

January 1

The Internet's Domain Name System is created.

Greenland is withdrawn from the European Economic Community.

First UK Cellular Mobile Phone Network Launched by Vodafone

January 7 – Cellnet Launches 2nd UK Cellular Network

January 10 – Kenya recognizes the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR).

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 boxes.

January 20 – Ronald Reagan is privately sworn in for a second term as President of the United States.

January 21 – President Ronald Reagan is publicly sworn in.

January 27 – The Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) is formed.

January 28 – The charity single record "We Are the World" is recorded by USA for Africa.

February

February 4 – The border between Gibraltar and Spain reopens for the first time since Francisco Franco closed it in 1969.

February 5 – Australia cancels its involvement in U.S.-led MX missile tests.

February 9 – U.S. drug agent Kiki 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 African government.

February 12 – Rafael Addiego Bruno is sworn in as interim President of Uruguay.

February 14 – CNN reporter Jeremy Levin is freed from captivity in Lebanon.

February 16

Israel begins withdrawing troops from Lebanon.

The ideology of Hezbollah is declared in a "program" issued in Beirut.

February 19

William J. Schroeder becomes the first artificial heart patient to leave hospital.

China Airlines Flight 006 is involved in a mid-air incident; while there are 22 minor injuries and 2 serious injuries, no one is killed.

The first episode of the long-running British soap opera EastEnders is broadcast on BBC One television.

February 20 – Minolta releases the Maxxum 7000, the world's first autofocus single-lens reflex camera.

February 28 – 1985 Newry mortar attack: The Provisional Irish Republican Army carries out a mortar attack on the Royal Ulster Constabulary police station at Newry, killing 9 officers in the highest loss of life for the RUC on a single day.

March

March – The GNU Manifesto, written by Richard Stallman, is first published.

March 1 – After a 12-year-long dictatorship, Julio María Sanguinetti is sworn in as the first democratically elected President of Uruguay.

March 3 – An 8.0 on the Richter magnitude scale earthquake hits Santiago and Valparaíso, Chile, leaving 177 dead, 2,575 injured, 142,489 houses destroyed, and about a million people homeless.

March 4 – The United States Food and Drug Administration approves a blood test for AIDS, used since then to screen all blood donations in the United States.

March 8 – A Beirut car bomb, planted in an attempt to assassinate Islamic cleric Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, kills more than 80 people, injuring 200.

March 11

Mikhail Gorbachev becomes General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party and de facto leader of the Soviet Union.

Mohamed Al-Fayed buys the London-based department store company Harrods.

March 14 – Five lionesses at the Singapore Zoo are put on birth control after the lion population increases from 2 to 16.

March 15 – Vice-President José Sarney, upon becoming vice president, assumes the duties of president of Brazil, as the new president Tancredo Neves had become severely ill, the day before. Sarney will become Brazil's first civilian president in 21 years, upon Neves' death on April 21.

March 16 – Associated Press reporter Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut (he is released on December 4, 1991).

March 17 – Expo '85, a World's Fair, is held in Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan, until September 16.

March 18 – Australia's longest running soap opera Neighbours debuts on Seven Network.

March 21 – Canadian paraplegic athlete and activist Rick Hansen sets out on his 40,000 km, 26 month Man in Motion tour which raises $26M for spinal cord research and quality of life initiatives.

March 23 – OCAM is dissolved.

March 24 – United States Army military intelligence officer Arthur D. Nicholson is shot by Soviet military sergeant Aleksandr Ryabtsev at a Soviet military base in Ludwigslust, East Germany.

March 25 – The 57th Academy Awards are held in Los Angeles, with Amadeus winning Best Picture.

March 31 – WrestleMania debuts at Madison Square Garden.

April

April 1

Two Japanese government-owned corporations, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation, and Japan Tobacco and Salt Public Corporation, are privatized and change their names to Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, and Japan Tobacco.

Eighth seeded Villanova defeats national powerhouse Georgetown 66–64 to win the first 64 team field NCAA Tournament in Lexington, Kentucky.

April 10

Madonna launches her Virgin Tour, her first concert tour, in New York City.

April 11

The USS Coral Sea collides with the Ecuadorian tanker ship Napo off the coast of Cuba.

First Secretary Enver Hoxha, leader of the People's Socialist Republic of Albania dies.

April 12 – El Descanso bombing: A terrorist bombing attributed to the Islamic Jihad Organization in the El Descanso restaurant near Madrid, Spain, mostly attended by U.S. personnel of the Torrejón Air Base, causes 18 dead (all Spaniards) and 82 injured.

April 15 – South Africa ends its ban on interracial marriages

April 19

– The Soviet Union performs a nuclear test in eastern Kazakhstan.

– The FBI and ATF raid and confiscate guns at the CSA compound in Fort Smith, Arkansas.

April 21 – Brazilian President Tancredo Neves dies, he is succeeded by Vice President José Sarney. The Vice President post is left vacant until 1990.

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 Australian Nuclear Disarmament Party (NDP) splits.

May

May 4 – The 30th Eurovision Song Contest takes place in Gothenburg, Sweden and is won by the Bobbysocks! song La det swinge for Norway.

May 5 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan joins West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl for a controversial funeral service at a cemetery in Bitburg, West Germany, which includes the graves of 59 elite S.S. troops from World War II.

May 11

The FBI brings charges against the suspected heads of the five Mafia families in New York City.

Fire engulfs a wooden stand at the Valley Parade stadium in Bradford, England, during a football match, killing 56.

May 13

Philadelphia 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.

The National Assembly of Kuwait grants women the right to vote. The right is revoked in 1999 and re-instated in 2005.

May 15

An explosive device sent by the Unabomber injures John Hauser at University of California, Berkeley.

Argentinian President Raúl Alfonsín terminates Argentinian administration of the Falkland Islands but does not relinquish the Argentinian claim over the islands.

May 16 – Scientists of the British Antarctic Survey announce discovery of the ozone hole.

May 19 – John Anthony Walker Jr. is arrested by the FBI for passing classified naval communications to the Soviet Union.

May 23 – Thomas Patrick Cavanaugh 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, Tropical Storm One (1B), and storm surge, which kills approximately 10,000 people.

May 29 – Heysel Stadium disaster: 38 spectators are killed in rioting on the terraces during the European Cup final between Liverpool F.C. and Juventus at Heysel Stadium in Brussels, Belgium.

May 31 – Forty-one tornadoes hit Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and Ontario, killing 77.

June

June 6 – The remains of Josef Mengele, the physician notorious for Nazi human experimentation on inmates of Auschwitz concentration camp, buried in 1979 under the name of Wolfgang Gerhard, are exhumed in Embu das Artes, Brazil.

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, U.S. Navy Petty Officer Robert Stethem, is killed.

The Schengen Agreement is signed between certain member states of the European Economic Community, creating the Schengen Area, a bloc of (at this time) 5 states with no internal border controls.

June 15 – Studio Ghibli, an animation studio, is founded in Tokyo.

June 17 – John Hendricks launches the Discovery Channel in the United States.

June 20 – A series of bomb blasts occur in Kathmandu and other cities of Nepal.

June 23 – Air India Flight 182, a Boeing 747, is blown up by a terrorist bomb 31,000 feet (9,500 m) above the Atlantic Ocean, south of Ireland, on a Montreal–London–Delhi flight, killing all 329 aboard.

June 24 – STS-51-G: Space Shuttle Discovery completes its mission, best remembered for having Sultan bin Salman Al Saud, the first Arab and first Muslim in space, as a Payload Specialist.

June 25 – Irish police foil a Provisional Irish Republican Army–sponsored 'mainland bombing campaign' which targeted luxury vacation resorts.

June 27 – U.S. Route 66 is officially decommissioned.

July

July 1 – The Convention on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons enters into force.

July 3 – Back to the Future opens in American theatres and ends up being the highest-grossing film of 1985 in the United States and the first film in the successful franchise.

July 4 – Ruth Lawrence, 13, achieves a first in mathematics at Oxford University, becoming the youngest British person ever to earn a first-class degree and the youngest known graduate of Oxford University.

July 10 – The Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland Harbour by French DGSE agents.

July 13

Live Aid pop concerts in London and Philadelphia raise over £50 million for famine relief in Ethiopia.

U.S. Vice President George H. W. Bush serves as Acting President for 8 hours, while President Ronald Reagan undergoes colon cancer surgery at Bethesda Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland.

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 Challenger.

The Val di Stava Dam in Italy collapses.

July 20 – State President of South Africa, P. W. Botha, declares a state of emergency in 36 magisterial districts of South Africa amid growing civil unrest in black townships.

July 23 – Commodore launches the Amiga personal computer at the Lincoln Center in New York.

July 24 – The Black Cauldron makes its theatrical debut.

July 31 – Liberia recognizes the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR).

August

August 2 – Delta Air Lines Flight 191 crashes near Dallas, Texas, killing 137 people.

August 7 – Takao Doi, Mamoru Mohri and Chiaki Mukai are chosen to be Japan's first astronauts.

August 12 – Japan Airlines Flight 123 crashes in Japan, killing 520 people (the worst single-aircraft disaster in history).

August 14 – The Accomarca massacre takes place in Ayacucho, Peru.

August 15 – Three miners die in an accident at a coal mine in southeastern Kentucky.

August 20 – Iran–Contra affair: The first arms, 96 BGM-71 TOWs, are sent to Iran in exchange for hostages in Lebanon and profits for the Nicaraguan Contras. The public does not know about the arms sale.

August 22 – British Airtours Flight 28M: The 737's left engine catches fire while on its take off roll, 55 people are killed while trying to evacuate the aircraft.

August 25 – Samantha Smith, 13, "Goodwill Ambassador" between the Soviet Union and the United States for writing a letter to Yuri Andropov about nuclear war, and eventually visiting the Soviet Union at Andropov's request, dies in the Bar Harbor Airlines Flight 1808 plane crash.

August 28 – The first smoking ban banning smoking in restaurants in the United States is passed in Aspen, Colorado.

August 31 – Richard Ramirez, the serial killer known as the Night Stalker, is captured in Los Angeles.

September

September 1 – The wreck of the RMS Titanic (1912) in the North Atlantic is located by a joint American-French expedition led by Dr. Robert Ballard (WHOI) and Jean-Louis Michel (IFREMER) using side-scan sonar from RV Knorr.

September 2 – Hurricane Elena makes landfall on the U.S. Gulf Coast after reaching a Category 3 status

September 6 – Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105, a Douglas DC-9, crashes just after takeoff from Milwaukee, killing 31.

September 11 – Pete Rose becomes the all-time hit leader in Major League Baseball, with his 4,192nd hit at Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati.

September 13

Super Mario Bros. is released for the Nintendo Entertainment System.

Steve Jobs resigns from Apple Computer in order to found NeXT.

September 19 – An 8.1 Richter scale earthquake strikes Mexico City. Around 10,000 people are killed, 30,000 injured, and 95,000 left homeless.

September 20 – The capital gains tax is introduced to Australia.

September 22 – The Plaza Accord is signed by 5 nations.

September 23 – Italian crime reporter Giancarlo Siani is killed by Camorra.

September 28 – Brixton riots are sparked with the shooting of Dorothy 'Cherry' Groce by the Metropolitan Police in Brixton, an area of south London, England.

October

October 1 – The Israeli air force bombs PLO Headquarters near Tunis.

October 3 – The Space Shuttle Atlantis makes its maiden flight.

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 first Nintendo home video game console in the United States is released as the Nintendo Entertainment System.

November

November 5 – In an all-English match, Mark Kaylor defeats Errol Christie to become the middleweight boxing champion, after the two brawl in front of the cameras at the weigh-in.

November 9 – In an all-Soviet match, 22-year-old Garry Kasparov defeats Anatoly Karpov to become the youngest-ever undisputed winner of the World Chess Championship.

November 12 – A total solar eclipse occurs over Antarctica at 14:11:22 UTC.

November 13 – Armero tragedy: The Nevado del Ruiz volcano erupts, killing an estimated 23,000 people, including 21,000 killed by lahars in the town of Armero, Colombia.

November 18

The comic strip Calvin and Hobbes debuts in 35 newspapers in the United States.

Elmo is first introduced by name on the children's TV show Sesame Street.

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 is hijacked by the Abu Nidal group and flown to Malta, where Egyptian commandos storm the plane; 60 are killed by gunfire and explosions.

November 25 – 1985 Aeroflot Antonov An-12 shoot-down: A Soviet Aeroflot Antonov An-12 cargo airplane, en route from Cuito Cuanavale to Luanda, is shot down by South African Special Forces and crashes approximately 43 km east of Menongue, the provincial center of the Cuando Cubango Province, Angola, killing 8 crew members and 13 passengers on board.

November 26 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan sells the rights to his autobiography to Random House for a record US$3 million.

November 29 – Gérard Hoarau, exiled political leader from the Seychelles, is assassinated in London.

December

December 1

The Organization of Ibero-American States for Education, Science and Culture (Organización e Estados Iberoamericanos para la Educación la Ciencia y la Cultura) (OEI) is created.

The Ford Taurus and Mercury Sable are released for sale to the public.

December 8 – The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) is established.

December 12 – Arrow Air Flight 1285, a Douglas DC-8, crashes after takeoff from Gander, Newfoundland, killing 256, 248 of whom were U.S. servicemen returning to Fort Campbell, Kentucky from overseeing a peacekeeping force in Sinai.

December 16 – In New York City, American 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 crime family.

December 20 – Pope John Paul II announces the instituting of World Youth Day for Catholic youths.

December 24 – Extremist David Lewis Rice murders civil rights attorney Charles Goldmark as well as Goldmark's wife and two children in Seattle. Rice suspects the family of being Jewish and Communist and claims 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 airports of Rome and Vienna, leaving 18 dead and 120 injured.

American naturalist Dian Fossey is found murdered in Rwanda.

December 31 – American singer, songwriter and actor Ricky Nelson dies in a plane crash in De Kalb, Texas.

Date unknown

The Australian state of Victoria celebrates its 150th anniversary.

Harold Kroto, Robert Curl and Richard Smalley discover C₆₀, a type of fullerene.

Western Sahara is admitted to the Organization of African Unity; Morocco, which claims Western Sahara, leaves in protest.

Solarquest, the space age real estate game, is first published by Golden.

ATI Technologies is founded.

The Tommy Hilfiger brand is established.

DNA is first used in a criminal case.

Multiple cases of espionage in the United States prompt the media to label this "The Year of the Spy".

Africa has a population growth of 3.2 percent per year.

The Asian tiger mosquito, an invasive species, is first found in Houston, Texas.

The Famine in Ethiopia continues; USA for Africa ("We Are the World") and Live Aid raise funds for famine relief.

The Fall of Communism begins with resistance gaining victory in the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. Over the next six years, other countries begin renouncing Communism, ending with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

January

January 1

Jeff Carter, Canadian hockey player

Steven Davis, Northern Irish footballer

January 2

Teng Haibin, Chinese gymnast

Heather O'Reilly, U.S. women's national soccer player

January 3

John David Booty, American football quarterback, USC

Linas Kleiza, Lithuanian basketball player

January 4

Danielle Campo, Canadian Paralympic swimmer

Lenora Crichlow, British actress

Al Jefferson, American basketball player

Fernando Rees, Brazilian race car driver

January 5

Lopez Lomong, Sudan-born American Olympic runner

Diego Vera, Uruguayan footballer

January 7

Lewis Hamilton, British Formula One driver

Tiger Kirchharz, German dancer

Wayne Routledge, English Footballer

January 8 – Rachael Lampa, American Christian singer

January 9 – Bobô, Brazilian footballer

January 11

Newton Faulkner, British rock musician

Rie fu, Japanese pop and rock musician

Lucy Knisley, American comic artist and musician

January 15 – Brandon Mebane, American football player

January 16

Joe Flacco, American football player

Gintaras Januševičius, Lithuanian pianist

Siddharth Malhotra, Indian actor

January 17

Kangin, Korean singer (Super Junior)

Simone Simons, Lead singer of Dutch rock group Epica

January 19

Damien Chazelle, American film director and screenwriter

Rika Ishikawa, Japanese singer and host of television and radio programs

January 20 – Marina Inoue, Japanese voice actress

January 21

Aura Dione, Danish pop musician

Sasha Pivovarova, Russian model

January 22

Akira Nagata, Japanese singer (Run&Gun), actor and voice actor

Orianthi, Australian rock musician

January 23 – Doutzen Kroes, Dutch supermodel

January 25 – Tina Karol, Ukrainian singer

January 26

Edwin Hodge, American actor

Rusko, British musician

Michael Trevino, American actor

January 28

J. Cole, American hip-hop musician and record producer

Tom Hopper, British actor

András Kállay-Saunders, Hungarian American recording artist, songwriter and record producer

January 29

Bosh Berlin, American drummer (Living Things)

Liu Chunhong, Chinese weightlifter

Marc Gasol, Spanish basketball player

Isabel Lucas, Australian actress

Jessica Marais, Australian actress

January 30 – Richie Porte, Australian professional cyclist (Tasmanian)

January 31 – Kalomira, Greek pop and dance musician

February

February 2 – Fontel Mines, American football player

February 4

Bashy, English recording artist and actor

Bug Hall, American actor

February 5

Vicki Chase, American porn actress

Laurence Maroney, American football player

Cristiano Ronaldo, Portuguese footballer

February 6

Kris Humphries, American basketball player

Joji Kato, Japanese speedskater

Crystal Reed, American actress

February 7

Donald Moatshe, South African musician

Tegan Moss, Canadian actress

Tina Majorino, American actress

Deborah Ann Woll, American actress

February 8

Jeremy Davis, American bassist (Paramore)

Bob Morris, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Hush Sound)

Trevor Smith, Canadian ice hockey player

February 9

David Gallagher, American actor

Rachel Melvin, American actress

February 10 – Anette Sagen, Norwegian ski jumper

February 11

William Beckett, American singer and songwriter

Mike Richards, Canadian hockey player

February 14

Karima Adebibe, British actress and model

Heart Evangelista, Filipino actress

Kataxenna Kova, British model

Miki Yeung, Hong Kong actress and singer

February 17 – Anne Curtis, Filipino actress, television host, model, VJ and singer

February 18

Chelsea Hobbs, Canadian actress and singer

Todd Lasance, Australian actor

Lee Boyd Malvo, African-American serial killer

Jos Van Emden, Dutch cyclist

February 19

Haylie Duff, American actress and singer

Arielle Kebbel, American model and actress

February 20 – Yulia Volkova, Russian singer (t.A.T.u.)

February 21 – Larisa Bakurova, Ukrainian actress and model based in Taiwan

February 22

Hameur Bouazza, Algerian footballer

Zach Roerig, American actor

February 25

Benji Marshall, Australian rugby league player

Joakim Noah, American basketball player

February 26

Shiloh Fernandez, American actor

Miki Fujimoto, Japanese actor and member of pop group Hello! Project

February 27 – Nicole Linkletter, American model

February 28

Fefe Dobson, Canadian pop and rock singer

Jelena Janković, Serbian tennis player

Diego Ribas da Cunha, Brazilian soccer player

March

March 2

Reggie Bush, American football player

Robert Iler, American actor

Patrick Makau Musyoki, Kenyan long-distance runner

March 3

Alena and Ninel Karpovich, Belarusian twin sister musical duo, members of 3+2

Sam Morrow, Northern Irish footballer

Toby Turner, American comedian, actor and YouTuber

March 4

Scott Michael Foster, American actor

Angela White, Australian pornographic actress

March 5 – Kenichi Matsuyama, Japanese actor

March 7 – Cameron Prosser, Australian swimmer

March 8 – Ewa Sonnet, Polish model

March 9

Brent Burns, Canadian hockey player

Rachel Nabors, American cartoonist

March 10 – Lassana Diarra, French footballer

March 11

Paul Bissonnette, Canadian ice hockey player

Ajantha Mendis, Sri Lankan cricketer

Hakuhō Shō, 69th Yokozuna

March 12

Lolene, British recording artist and songwriter

Nikolai Topor-Stanley, Australian soccer player

Stromae, Belgian hip-hop musician

March 13

Hannah Claydon, British bondage model

Emile Hirsch, American actor

March 14

Eva Angelina, American pornographic actress

Brianna Love, American pornographic actress

March 15

Eva Amurri, American actress

Antti Autti, Finnish snowboarder

Curtis Davies, English football player

Kellan Lutz, American fashion model and actor

March 18

Krisztián Berki, Hungarian artistic gymnast

Bianca King, Filipina actress and model

March 19 – E. J. Viso, Venezuelan race car driver

March 21

Ryan Callahan, American hockey player

Adrian Peterson, American football player

March 22

Mayola Biboko, Belgian footballer

Jakob Fuglsang, Danish cyclist

Mike Jenkins, American football player

Justin Masterson, American baseball player

Kelli Waite, Australian swimmer

March 24

Haruka Ayase, Japanese actress and model

Sayaka Hirano, Japanese table tennis player

March 25 – Carmen Rasmusen, American surburbian singer

March 26

Matt Grevers, American Olympic swimmer

Jonathan Groff, American actor, singer, and dancer

Keira Knightley, Britsh actress

March 27

Danny Vuković, Australian soccer player

Caroline Winberg, Swedish model

March 28 – Sauli Koskinen, Finnish reality-television star, radio personality and entertainment reporter

March 29 – William Chak, Hong Kong actor

March 31

Airi & Meiri, Japanese twin porn actresses and singers

Jessica Szohr, American actress

April

April 1

Josh Zuckerman, American actor

Daniel Murphy, American baseball player

Elizabeth Tweddle, British artistic gymnast

April 2

Barry Corr, Irish footballer

Thom Evans, Zimbabwean-Scottish rugby player

Stéphane Lambiel, Swiss figure skater

April 3

Leona Lewis, British pop musician

Jari-Matti Latvala, Finnish race car driver

April 4

Rudy Fernández, Spanish professional basketball player

Ricardo Vilar, Brazilian footballer

Apissada Kruerkongka Thai actress, Singer and Model.

April 5

Kim Ji-hoo, South Korean model and actor (d. 2008)

Lastings Milledge, American baseball player

April 6

Clarke MacArthur, Canadian ice hockey player

Al Mukadam, Canadian actor, director, and producer

Frank Ongfiang, Cameroonian footballer

Sinqua Walls, American basketball player and actor

April 7

Ariela Massotti, Brazilian actress

KC Concepcion, Filipina actress and singer

April 8

Patrick Schliwa, German rugby player

Yemane Tsegay, Ethiopian runner

April 9

Tim Bendzko, German singer-songwriter

Tomohisa Yamashita, Japanese singer and actor

David Robertson, American baseball player

April 10

Dion Phaneuf, Canadian NHL hockey player

Wang Meng, Chinese short track skater

April 12

Hitomi Yoshizawa, Japanese singer and actor

Brennan Boesch, American baseball player

James Alexandrou, British actor

Olga Seryabkina, Russian pop musician and was member of Serebro

April 13 – Carmen Carrera, American model

April 16

Nate Diaz, American mixed martial artist

Benjamín Rojas, Argentine singer

April 17

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, French tennis player

Luke Mitchell, American actor and model

Rooney Mara, American film and television actress

April 18

Łukasz Fabiański, Polish footballer

Elena Temnikova, Russian pop singer and was member of pop group Serebro

April 19 – Zhang Xi, Chinese beach volleyball player

April 22 – Camille Lacourt, French swimmer

April 23

Taio Cruz, British hip-hop musician

Angel Locsin, Filipino actress

April 24 – Kaori Nazuka, Japanese voice actress and singer

April 26 – Nam Gyu-ri, Korean actress, pop singer and member of group SeeYa

April 28 – Brandon Baker, American actor

April 30

Ashley Alexandra Dupré, American prostitute, urban musician

Gal Gadot, Israeli actress and model

May

May 1 – Drew Sidora, American actress and singer

May 2

Lily Allen, British pop musician

Kyle Busch, American race car driver

Sarah Hughes, American figure skater

May 3 – Meagan Tandy, American actress and model

May 4 – Bo McCalebb, American/Macedonian basketball player

May 5

Shoko Nakagawa, Japanese actress, voice actress and singer

Clark Duke, American actor

May 6 – Chris Paul, American basketball player

May 8 – Silvia Stroescu, Romanian artistic gymnast

May 9

Neha Bamb, Indian actress

Chris Zylka, American actor and model

Audrina Patridge, American television personality, actress and model

May 10 – Odette Annable, American actress

May 12 – Dániel Tőzsér, Hungarian footballer

May 13 – Iwan Rheon, Welsh actor, singer and musician

May 14

Matthew Cardona, American professional wrestler

Lina Esco, American actress, producer and activist

Dustin Lynch, American surburbian musician

Sally Martin, New Zealand actress

May 15

Derek Hough, American dancer, choreographer, actor, musician, and six-time winner of ABC's Dancing with the Stars

Cristiane, Brazilian footballer

Tyrone Savage, Canadian voice actor and theatre, film and television actor

May 17 – Christine Nesbitt, Canadian speed skater

May 18 – Oliver Sin, Hungarian painter

May 20 – Chris Froome, Kenyan-born British road racing cyclist

May 21

Mutya Buena, British urban singer and was member of Sugababes

Alison Carroll, British artistic gymnast, actress and model

Marie McCray, American porn actress

May 22

Marc-Antoine Pouliot, Canadian ice hockey player

Chrissie Chau, Hong Kong model

May 23 – Kanyeria, Kenyan music producer

May 25

Lauren Frost, American actress and singer

Alexis Texas, American pornographic actress

Luciana Abreu, Portuguese pop singer and actress

Roman Reigns, American professional wrestler

May 26 – Ashley Vincent, English footballer

May 27

Chien-Ming Chiang, Taiwanese baseball player

Andrew Francis, Canadian voice actor and actor

May 28

Carey Mulligan, British actress

Colbie Caillat, American surburbian musician

May 30 – Turk McBride, American National Football League player

May 31 – Navene Koperweis, American progressive metal musician

June

June 1 – Ari Herstand, American singer-songwriter

June 2 – Miyuki Sawashiro, Japanese voice actress

June 4

Evan Lysacek, American figure skater

Lukas Podolski, German footballer

Ana Carolina Reston, Brazilian fashion model (d. 2006)

Bar Refaeli, Israeli model and occasional actress

June 7

Charlie Simpson, Lead singer and guitarist of British rock group Fightstar

June 9

Sebastian Telfair, American basketball player

Sonam Kapoor, Indian actress and model

June 10

Andy Schleck, Luxembuergian road cyclist

Rok Perko, Slovenian professional skier

Kaia Kanepi, Estonian tennis player

Celina Jade, American actress

June 11 – Dmitry Koldun, Belarusian singer

June 12

Tasha-Ray Evin, Lead singer/guitarist of Canadian rock group Lillix

Dave Franco, American television and film actor

Blake Ross, American software developer

Kendra Wilkinson, American model

Chris Young, American surburbian musician

June 13 – Danny Syvret, Canadian ice hockey player

June 15

Nadine Coyle, Irish singer (Girls Aloud)

Maxey Whitehead, American voice actress

June 17

Andrea Demirović, Montenegrin pop singer

Marcos Baghdatis, Cypriot tennis player

June 18 – Alex Hirsch, American animator and voice actor

June 19 – Ai Miyazato, Japanese golfer

June 20

Matt Flynn, American football player

Darko Miličić, Serbian basketball player

Collins Pennie, American actor

June 21

Kris Allen, 8th American Idol winner, rock musician

Sharna Burgess, Australian ballroom dancer

Lana Del Rey, American pop musician

June 22

Douglas Smith, American actor

Lindsay Ridgeway, American actress

June 24 – Tom Kennedy, English footballer

June 25

Annaleigh Ashford, American actress and singer

Ehra Madrigal, Filipina actress

Scott Brown, Scottish footballer

June 26

Ogyen Trinley Dorje, Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader

Arjun Kapoor, a Bollywood actor

June 27

Svetlana Kuznetsova, Russian tennis player

Nico Rosberg, German Formula One driver

June 28 – Phil Bardsley, English footballer

June 29 – Steven Hauschka, American football player

June 30

Michael Phelps, American swimmer

Cody Rhodes, American professional wrestler

July

July 1

Zohre Esmaeli, Afghan-born fashion model

Sebalter, Swiss pop musician and fiddle player

Spose, American hip-hop musician

Léa Seydoux, French actress

July 2

Gábor Máthé, Hungarian Deaflympic Champion in tennis

Ashley Tisdale, American actress and singer

Corey Bringas American voice actor

July 3 – Minami Keisuke, Japanese singer and actor

July 5

Stephanie McIntosh, Australian actress (Neighbours)

Nick O'Malley, British musician (Arctic Monkeys)

François Arnaud, French-Canadian stage and film actor

July 6

Matt Overton, American football player

Ranveer Singh, Bollywood actor

D. Woods, American pop musician (Danity Kane)

July 7 – Seo Woo, Korean actress

July 9

Paweł Korzeniowski, Polish swimmer

Cathy Leung, Hong Kong singer

July 10

Mario Gómez, German footballer

Park Chu-young South Korean footballer

July 11 – Robert Adamson, American actor

July 12

Adam Gregory, Canadian singer

Emil Hegle Svendsen, Norwegian biathlete

Luiz Ejlli, Albanian singer

Natasha Poly, Russian model

July 13

Charlotte Dujardin, English dressage rider

Guillermo Ochoa, Mexican footballer

July 14 – Oleksandr Pyatnytsya, Ukrainian javelin thrower

July 15 – Chris Tiu, Filipino professional basketball player, TV host, commercial model, and politician

July 16

Denis Tahirović, Croatian footballer

Yōko Hikasa, Japanese actress

July 17 – Tom Fletcher, British musician (McFly)

July 18

Chace Crawford, American actor

Hopsin, American rapper and record producer

July 19 – LaMarcus Aldridge, American basketball player

July 20 – John Francis Daley, American television and film actor

July 21 – Vanessa Lengies, Canadian actress

July 22

Jessica Abbott, Australian swimmer

Ryan Dolan, Irish singer

Takudzwa Ngwenya, Zimbabwean-American rugby player

Akira Tozawa, Japanese wrestler

July 23 – Scott Chandler, American football player

July 24 – Teagan Presley, American porn star

July 25

James Lafferty, American actor and athlete

Nelson Piquet Jr., Brazilian Formula One and NASCAR driver

Shantel VanSanten, American actress

July 26 – Leslie Mampe, known as South African American hip hop musician Da L.E.S

July 27 – Lou Taylor Pucci, American actor

July 28

Dustin Milligan, Canadian actor

Darren Murphy, Irish footballer

July 30

Aml Ameen, British actor

Elena Gheorghe, Romanian singer and former member of Mandinga

August

August 3 – Sonny Bill Williams, New Zealand Rugby League player

August 4 – Crystal Bowersox, American singer-songwriter

August 5 – Salomon Kalou, Ivorian footballer

August 9

Anna Kendrick, American actress

Hayley Peirsol, American swimmer

August 10 – Jared Nathan, American actor (d. 2006)

August 11

Asher Roth, American rapper

Jacqueline Fernandez, Sri Lankan-born Indian Bollywood actress

August 14 – Ashlynn Brooke, American pornographic actress

August 16 – Agnes Bruckner, American actress

August 21 – Melissa M, French singer

August 22 – Kether Donohue, American actress

August 23 – Juss Haasma, Estonian actor

August 25 – Wynter Gordon, American pop/dance singer-songwriter

August 27

Alexandra Nechita, American artist

Kayla Ewell, American actress

Sean Foreman, American singer, songwriter and performer; member of electro hop group 3OH!3

August 28 – Ashlyne Huff, American singer-songwriter and dancer

August 29 – Jeffrey Licon, American actor

August 30

Eamon Sullivan, Australian swimmer

Leisel Jones, Australian swimmer

Richard Duffy, Wales international footballer

Éva Risztov, Hungarian Olympic Champion swimmer

September

September 1 – Camile Velasco, Filipina-American actress

September 2

Allison Miller, American actress

Yani Gellman, Canadian/Australian film and television actor

September 3

Dominick Cruz, American WEC Bantamweight Champion

Brian Stelter, American reporter for NYT

Yūki Kaji, Japanese voice actor

Yuya Miyashita, Japanese vocalist, actor (Run&Gun)

September 5 – Dilshad Vadsaria, American television actress

September 7

Alyssa Diaz, American actress

Alyona Lanskaya, Belarusian singer

Rafinha, Brazilian football player

September 8

Vanessa Baden, American actress

Denny Morrison, Canadian speed skater

September 9

Amy Manson, British actress

Luka Modric, Croatian football player

J. R. Smith, American basketball player

September 10 – Elyse Levesque, Canadian film and television actress

September 13 – Emi Suzuki, Chinese-born Japanese female model

September 14 – Aya Ueto, Japanese actress

September 15

Kayden Kross, American porn actress

Iselin Steiro, Norwegian model

September 16

Madeline Zima, American actress

Max Minghella, English actor

September 16

Danny Fernandes, Canadian singer

September 17

Alex Ovechkin, Russian hockey player

Jon Walker, American musician (Panic! at the Disco)

September 19

Song Joong-ki, South Korean actor, model and host

September 21

Maryam Hassouni, Dutch actress

Lyrian, Japanese moe idol, singer

September 23

Tessanne Chin, Jamaican singer, winner of The Voice season 5

Maki Goto, Japanese singer and actress

Joba Chamberlain, American baseball player

September 24

Eric Adjetey Anang, Ghanaian sculptor

Kimberley Nixon, Welsh actress

Jessica Lucas, Canadian actress

September 26 – Marcin Mroziński, Polish actor, singer and television presenter

September 28 – Shindong, Korean singer (Super Junior)

September 29

Calvin Johnson, retired American football player and contestant on Dancing with the Stars season 23

Michelle Payne, Australian jockey

Dani Pedrosa, Spanish motorcycle racer

September 30 – T-Pain, American singer-songwriter, rapper, record producer and actor

October

October 1

Tirunesh Dibaba, Ethiopian long distance runner

Porcelain Black, American industrial pop singer-songwriter

Matt Healy, lead singer and guitarist of the band Rock Incorporated

October 3

Courtney Lee, American basketball player

Megumi Takamoto, Japanese voice actress and singer

October 5

Nathalie Kelley, Peruvian actress

Nicola Roberts, Member of British pop group Girls Aloud

Brooke Valentine, American singer

October 7 – Evan Longoria, American professional baseball player

October 8

Kimberly Kevon Williams, American actress

Bruno Mars, American singer-songwriter and music producer

Magda Apanowicz, Canadian actress

October 9 – Frankmusik, English electropop musician

October 10

Dominique Cornu, Belgian professional cyclist

Aaron Himelstein, American actor

October 11

Margaret Berger, Norwegian electropop singer-songwriter

Michelle Trachtenberg, American actress

October 14

Daniel Clark, American-Canadian actor

Justin Forsett, American football player

Sherlyn, Mexican actress

October 16 – Casey Stoner, Australian motorcycle racer

October 17 – Stephanie McIntosh, Irish-Anglo film actor and model

October 18 – Iori Nomizu, Japanese voce atress, actress and singer

October 19 – RR Enriquez, Filipino model, television host and actress

October 20 – Jennifer Freeman, American actress

October 21 – Danny Wylde, American porn actor

October 22

Hadise, Belgian singer of Turkish descent

Zac Hanson, American musician

Manpei Takagi, Japanese actor

Shinpei Takagi, Japanese actor

October 23

Masiela Lusha, Albanian-American actress, poet, and humanitarian

Chris Neal, English footballer

October 24 – Wayne Rooney, English footballer

October 25

Ciara, African-American singer

John Robinson, American actor

October 26

Andrea Bargnani, Italian professional basketball player

Asin Thottumkal, Indian actress

October 27 – Troian Bellisario, American actress

November

November 2 – Josh Grelle, American voice actor

November 3

Tyler Hansbrough, American basketball player

Philipp Tschauner, German footballer

November 4 – Victoria Leigh Soto, American educator (d. 2012)

November 5

Kate DeAraugo, Australian Idol 2005

Elizabeth Rice, American actress

November 8 – Jack Osbourne, English television personality

November 10

Giovonnie Samuels, American actress

Ricki-Lee Coulter, former Australian Idol contestant and singer

November 11

Kalan Porter, Canadian singer

Raquel Guerra, Portuguese singer and actress

Robin Uthappa, Indian cricketer

November 12 – Daria Bijak, German artistic gymnast

November 13

Michael Bennett, American football player

Asdrúbal Cabrera, Venezuelan baseball player

Simo-Pekka Olli, Finnish volleyball player

November 14 – Thomas Vermaelen, Belgian footballer

November 15

Lily Aldridge, American model

Casnel Bushay, Vincentian sprinter

Nick Fradiani, American singer

November 17 – Bea Saw, Filipino actress

November 20 – Dan Byrd, American actor

November 21 – Carly Rae Jepsen, Canadian singer-songwriter

November 22 – Asamoah Gyan, Ghanaian football player

November 23

Katie Crown, American actress

Ahn Hyun-Soo, South Korean short track skater

November 25 – Marcus Hellner, Swedish cross-country skier

November 27 – Alison Pill, Canadian actress

November 28

Magdolna Rúzsa, Hungarian singer

Ryan Sampson, British actor

November 30

Kaley Cuoco, American actress

Chrissy Teigen, American model

December

December 1

Philip DeFranco, American YouTube star and video blogger

Janelle Monáe, African-American R&B/soul musician

Chanel Preston, American porn actress

December 2 – Amaury Leveaux, French swimmer

December 3

László Cseh, Hungarian swimmer

Amanda Seyfried, American actress

December 4

Stephen Dawson, Irish footballer

Krista Siegfrids, Finnish singer

December 5 – Frankie Muniz, American actor, musician, writer, producer, and racecar driver

December 6 – Dulce María, Mexican actress

December 7 – Jon Moxley, American professional wrestler

December 8 – Dwight Howard, American basketball player

December 9 – Wil Besseling, Dutch golfer

December 10

Raven-Symoné, African-American actress and singer

Edmund Entin, American actor

Gary Entin, American actor

Meghan Linsey, American singer-songwriter, contestant from The Voice season 8

Matt Forté, American football player

December 11 – Samantha Steele, American sportscaster

December 12 – Juan Camilo Zúñiga, Colombian footballer

December 14 – Nonami Takizawa, Japanese actress

December 17 – Greg James, British radio DJ

December 18 – Hana Soukupová, Czech model

December 19

Christina Loukas, American diver

Lady Sovereign, British rapper

David Reale, Canadian actor

December 21

James Stewart Jr., American motorcycle racer

Tom Sturridge, English actor

December 22 – Edurne, Spanish singer, actress, and TV presenter

December 23

Harry Judd, English drummer (McFly)

Luke O'Loughlin, Australian actor

December 26

Yu Shirota, Japanese actor and singer

Beth Behrs, American actress

December 27 – Paul Stastny, Canadian-American professional ice hockey player

December 29 – Alexa Ray Joel, American singer, songwriter and pianist

December 31 – Jonathan Horton, American gymnast

January

January 2 – Gabriel Elorde, Filipino boxer (b. 1935)

January 4 – Sir Brian Horrocks, British general (b. 1895)

January 5 – Robert L. Surtees, American cinematographer (b. 1906)

January 13 – Carol Wayne, American actress (b. 1942)

January 14 – Jetta Goudal, Dutch-born actress (b. 1891)

January 18 – Mahmoud Mohammed Taha, Sudanese religious thinker (b. 1909)

January 20 – Gillis W. Long, American politician (b. 1923)

January 22 – Sir Arthur Bryant, British historian (b. 1899)

January 29

Georges Portmann, French physician. (b. 1890)

Billy Cook, Australian jockey (b. 1910)

January 31 – Tatsuzō Ishikawa, Japanese novelist (b. 1905)

February

February 4 – Jesse Hibbs, American film director (b. 1906)

February 6 – Neil McCarthy, British actor (b. 1932)

February 8

William Lyons, British automobile engineer and designer (b. 1901)

Marvin Miller, American actor (b. 1913)

February 11 – Henry Hathaway, American film director (b. 1898)

February 12 – Nicholas Colasanto, American actor (b. 1924)

February 18 – Randolph E. Haugan, American author, editor and publisher (b. 1902)

February 20 – Clarence Nash, American actor (b. 1904)

February 21

Ina Claire, American actress (b. 1893)

Louis Hayward, British actor (b. 1909)

February 22 – Efrem Zimbalist, Russia-born Jewish American violinist (b. 1889)

February 26 – Tjalling Koopmans, Dutch economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)

February 27

Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., American politician (b. 1902)

Iain Moncreiffe, Scottish genealogist and Officer of Arms (b. 1919)

J. Pat O'Malley, English actor (b. 1904)

March

March 3 – Iosif Shklovsky, Soviet astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1916)

March 7 – George Schick, Czechoslovakian conductor and music educator (b. 1908)

March 8 – Edward Andrews, American actor (b. 1914)

March 10

Konstantin Chernenko, Soviet politician (b. 1911)

Bob Nieman, American baseball player (b. 1927)

March 12 – Eugene Ormandy, Hungarian conductor (b. 1899)

March 13 – Mabel Alvarez, American painter (b. 1891)

March 16 – Roger Sessions, American composer (b. 1896)

March 21 – Sir Michael Redgrave, English actor (b. 1908)

March 23

Doctor Richard Beeching, Chairman of British Rail (b. 1913)

Zoot Sims, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1925)

March 28 – Marc Chagall, Russian-born painter (b. 1887)

March 29

Jeanine Deckers, Belgian nun and singer (b. 1933)

Gerhard Stock, German athlete (b. 1911)

March 30 – Shizuko Kasagi, Japanese singer (b. 1914)

March 31 – Michel Georges-Michel, French painter, journalist, novelist (b. 1883)

April

April 4 – Kate Roberts, Welsh-language authors (b. 1891)

April 6 – Terence Sanders, British Olympic rower - coxless fours (b. 1901)

April 7 – Carl Schmitt, German jurist, political theorist, and professor of law (b. 1888)

April 8 – J. Fred Coots, American songwriter (b. 1897)

April 11 – Enver Hoxha, Albanian head of state (b. 1908)

April 14 – Noele Gordon, British actress (b. 1919)

April 15 – Jack Medica, American Olympic swimmer (b. 1914)

April 16 – Scott Brady, American actor (b. 1924)

April 17 – Evadne Price (aka Helen Zenna Smith), Australian-British writer, actress and astrologer (b. 1888)

April 18 – Gertrude Caton–Thompson, English archaeologist (b. 1888)

April 21

John Welsh, English actor (b.1904)

Tancredo Neves, Brazilian elected president (b. 1910)

April 22 – Paul H. Emmett, American chemical engineer (b. 1900)

April 23 – Kent Smith, American actor (b. 1907)

April 25 – Richard Haydn, English actor (b. 1905)

April 26 – Albert Maltz, American screenwriter, one of the Hollywood Ten (b. 1908)

May

May 1 – Denise Robins, (aka Francesca Wright, Ashley French, Harriet Gray, Julia Kane) British romance novelist (b. 1897)

May 4 – Clarence Wiseman, the 10th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1907)

May 5 – Sir Donald Bailey, British civil engineer (b. 1901)

May 6

Pete Desjardins, American Olympic diver (b. 1907)

Julie Vega, Filipino child actress and singer (b. 1968)

May 7 – Dawn Addams, British actress (b. 1930)

May 8

Theodore Sturgeon, American writer (b. 1918)

Dolph Sweet, American actor (b. 1920)

May 9 – Edmond O'Brien, American actor (b. 1915)

May 10

Tahar Ben Ammar, Tunisian politician (b. 1889)

Florizel von Reuter, American violinist and composer (b. 1890)

May 12 – Jean Dubuffet, French artist (b. 1901)

May 13

Selma Diamond, American actress (b. 1920)

Leatrice Joy, American actress (b. 1893)

May 15 – Rama Devi, leader of nationalists in Orissa. (b. 1889)

May 16 – Shirley Ximena Hopper Russell, American artist (b. 1886)

May 17 – Andrej Bicenko, Russian fresco painter. (b. 1886)

May 19 – W. H. Diddle, American amateur golfer (b. 1882)

May 22 – Charles Murphy, American architect. (b. 1890)

May 28 – Roy Plomley, English radio broadcaster, producer, playwright and novelist (b. 1914)

May 30 – George K. Arthur, English actor and producer (b. 1899)

June

June 1 – Eugène Séguy, French entomologist (b. 1890)

June 5 – Lord George-Brown, British politician (b. 1914)

June 6

Norman W. Walker, British businessman (b. 1886)

Vladimir Jankélévitch, French philosopher and musicologist (b. 1903)

June 7

Georgia Hale, American actress (b. 1905)

Gordon Rollings, British actor (b. 1926)

June 9 – Matsutarō Kawaguchi, Japanese novelist (b. 1899)

June 10 – George Chandler, American actor (b. 1898)

June 11 – Karen Ann Quinlan, American right-to-die cause célèbre (b. 1954)

June 12 – Czesław Marek, Polish composer, pianist (b. 1891)

June 15

Percy Fender, English cricketer (b. 1892)

Andy Stanfield, American Olympic athlete (b. 1927)

June 17 – George Jackson, English footballer (b. 1893)

June 21 – Tage Erlander, Swedish politician and 25th Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1901)

June 28 – James Craig, American actor (b. 1912)

July

July 2

David Purley, British race car driver (b. 1945)

Hector Nicol, Scottish entertainer (b. 1920)

July 4 – Jan de Quay, Dutch politician and psychologist, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1959–1963) (b. 1901)

July 8

Phil Foster, American actor (b. 1913)

Simon Kuznets, American economist (b. 1901)

July 9 – Jimmy Kinnon, Scottish founder of Narcotics Anonymous (b. 1911)

July 14 – Lluís Solé, Spanish geographer and academic (b. 1908).

July 16 – Heinrich Böll, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)

July 17 – Margo, Mexican-American actress (b. 1917)

July 19

Janusz A. Zajdel, Polish writer (b. 1938)

Louisa Ghijs, Belgian stage actress and wife of Johannes Heesters (b. 1902)

July 21 – Alvah Cecil Bessie, American screenwriter, one of the Hollywood Ten (b. 1904)

July 22 – Matti Järvinen, Finnish Olympic athlete (b. 1909)

July 23

Kay Kyser, American bandleader (b. 1905)

Mickey Shaughnessy, American actor (b. 1920)

July 25 – Grant Williams, American actor (b. 1931)

July 26 – Grace Albee, American printmaker and wood engraver. (b. 1890)

July 27 – John Scarne, American magician and card expert (b. 1903)

August

August 2 – Frank Faylen, American actor (b. 1905)

August 5 – Arnold Horween, Harvard Crimson and NFL football player (b. 1898)

August 6 – Forbes Burnham, 1st Prime Minister of Guyana and 2nd President of Guyana (b. 1923)

August 8 – Louise Brooks, American actress (b. 1906)

August 10 – Kenny Baker, American actor and singer (b. 1912)

August 12

Manfred Winkelhock, German race car driver (b. 1951)

Kyu Sakamoto, Japanese singer, well known by his most famous song, "Sukiyaki", killed in the crash of Japan Airlines Flight 123 (b. 1941)

August 14 – Gale Sondergaard, American actor (b. 1899)

August 15 – Lester Cole, American screenwriter, one of the Hollywood Ten (b. 1904)

August 22 – Paul Peter Ewald, German-born American crystallographer and physicist (b. 1888)

August 24 – Morrie Ryskind, American dramatist (b. 1895)

August 25 – Samantha Smith, American schoolgirl activist (b. 1972)

August 28 – Ruth Gordon, American actress (b. 1896)

August 29

Evelyn Ankers, British actress (b. 1918)

Patrick Barr, British actor (b. 1908)

August 30 – Taylor Caldwell, Anglo-American writer (b. 1900)

August 31 – Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Australian biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1899)

September

September 1 – Stefan Bellof, race car driver and 1984 World SportsCars (Group C) Champion (b. 1957)

September 4

Isabel Jeans, British actress (b. 1891)

George O'Brien, American actor (b. 1899)

September 6

Isabel Cox-Meighen, wife of Canadian prime minister Arthur Meighen (b. 1882)

Little Brother Montgomery, American musician (b. 1906)

September 7

Bruiser Kinard, American football player (Brooklyn Dodgers) and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame (b. 1914)

Rodney Robert Porter, English biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1917)

José Zabala-Santos, Filipino cartoonist (b. 1911)

George Pólya, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1887)

September 8 – John Franklin Enders, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1897)

September 9 – Paul Flory, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)

September 10

Ernst Öpik, Estonian astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1893)

Jock Stein, Scottish football player and manager (b. 1922)

September 11

William Alwyn, English composer (b. 1905)

Masako Natsume, Japanese actress (b. 1957)

September 14 – Julian Beck, American actor (b. 1925)

September 17 – Laura Ashley, Welsh designer (b. 1925)

September 19 – Italo Calvino, Italian writer (b. 1923)

September 22 – Axel Springer, German journalist and the founder and owner of the Axel Springer AG (b. 1912)

September 27 – Lloyd Nolan, American actor (b. 1902)

September 30

Floyd Crosby, American cinematographer (b. 1899)

Charles Francis Richter, American seismologist and physicist, creator of the Richter magnitude scale (b. 1900)

Simone Signoret, French actress (b. 1921)

October

October 1 – E. B. White, American writer (b. 1899)

October 2

Rock Hudson, American actor (b. 1925)

George Savalas, American actor, brother of Telly Savalas (b. 1924)

October 4 – Franklin Merrell-Wolff, American philosopher (b. 1887)

October 6 – John W. Snyder, American businessman and Cabinet Secretary (b. 1895)

October 8 – Nelson Riddle, American bandleader (b. 1921)

October 10

Yul Brynner, American actor (b. 1920)

Orson Welles, American actor and director (b. 1915)

October 12

Johnny Olson, American game show announcer (b. 1910)

Ricky Wilson, American guitarist (b. 1953)

October 14 – Emil Gilels, Soviet pianist (b. 1916)

October 21

Masuiyama Daishirō I, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1919)

Dan White, American politician and murderer (Moscone–Milk assassinations) (b. 1946)

October 22 – Thomas Townsend Brown, American inventor (b. 1905)

October 24 – László Bíró, Hungarian inventor of the ballpoint pen (b. 1899)

October 25 – Morton Downey, American singer (b. 1901)

October 29 – John Davis Lodge, American actor and politician (b. 1903)

October 31 – Poul Reichhardt, Danish actor (b. 1913)

November

November 1

Quick Draw Rick McGraw, American professional wrestler (b. 1955)

Ōuchiyama Heikichi, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1926)

Phil Silvers, American entertainer (b. 1911)

November 2 – William Lummis, British military historian (b. 1886)

November 5

Spencer W. Kimball, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1895)

Arnold Chikobava, Georgian linguist (b. 1898)

November 8 – Nicolas Frantz, Luxembourgian cyclist (b. 1899)

November 9 – Marie-Georges Pascal, French actress (b. 1946)

November 11 – Pelle Lindbergh, Swedish Professional Hockey goaltender (b. 1959)

November 13

William Pereira, American architect (b. 1909)

George Robert Vincent, American sound recording pioneer (b. 1898)

November 16 – Stuart Chase, American economist (b. 1888)

November 17

Lon Nol, Cambodian general and statesman, 32nd Prime Minister of Cambodia and 7th President of Khmer Republic (b. 1913)

Jimmy Ritz, American actor (b. 1904)

November 19 – Stepin Fetchit, American actor (b. 1902)

November 24 – Big Joe Turner, American blues singer (b. 1911)

November 25 – Geoffrey Grigson, British poet, writer, critic (b. 1905)

November 27

Fernand Braudel, French historian (b. 1902)

Rendra Karno, Indonesian actor (b. 1920)

November 28 – Johnny McNally, American football player, member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame (b. 1903)

December

December 2 – Philip Larkin, English Poet and Novelist (b. 1922)

December 6

Burleigh Grimes, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1893)

Burr Tillstrom, American puppeteer (b. 1917)

December 7

Robert Graves, English writer (b. 1895)

Potter Stewart, American Supreme Court Justice (b. 1915)

December 8 – Bill Wambsganss, second baseman in Major League Baseball (b. 1894)

December 12

Anne Baxter, American actress (b. 1923)

Ian Stewart, Scottish rock musician (b. 1938)

December 13 – Paul Caraway, American general and High Commissioner (b. 1905)

December 14 – Roger Maris, American baseball player (b. 1934)

December 15 – Carlos Romulo, Filipino diplomat (b. 1899)

December 16 – William H. Pettit, Christian missionary to Bangladesh (b. 1885)

December 21 – Kamatari Fujiwara, Japanese actor (b. 1905)

December 22 – D. Boon, American singer and guitarist (b. 1958)

December 23

Ferhat Abbas, Algerian nationalist (b. 1899)

Prince Bira, Prince of Siam and Formula One driver (b. 1914)

December 24

Kouzou Sasaki, Japanese politician (b. 1900)

Erich Schaedler, Scottish footballer (b. 1949)

December 26 – Dian Fossey, American biologist (b. 1932)

December 27 – Harry Hopman, Australian tennis player and coach (b. 1906)

December 31

Ricky Nelson, American actor and rock musician (b. 1940)

Sam Spiegel, Polish-born film producer (b. 1903)

Date unknown

Andrej Bicenko, Russian fresco painter and muralist (b. 1886)

Kaare Bratung, Norwegian cartoonist (b. 1906)

Hamlet Gonashvili, Georgian singer (b. 1928)

Works of fiction taking place in 1985

The 1998 romantic comedy, There's Something about Mary intro is set in 1985. The main character lands a prom date with his crush in High School but is cut short after an embarrassing zipper incident.

The 1980s sci-fi comedy, Back to the Future takes place in October 1985.

Nobel Prizes

Physics – Klaus von Klitzing

Chemistry – Herbert A. Hauptman, Jerome Karle

Literature – Claude Simon

Peace – International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War

Economics – Franco Modigliani

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine – Michael S. Brown, Joseph L. Goldstein