1985

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

1985 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1985 MCMLXXXV
Ab urbe condita	2738
Armenian calendar	1434 ԹՎ ՌՆԼԴ
Assyrian calendar	6735
Bahá'í calendar	141–142
Balinese saka calendar	1906–1907
Bengali calendar	1392
Berber calendar	2935
British Regnal year	33 Eliz. 2 – 34 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar	2529
Burmese calendar	1347
Byzantine calendar	7493–7494
Chinese calendar	甲子年 (Wood Rat) 4681 or 4621     — to — 乙丑年 (Wood Ox) 4682 or 4622
Coptic calendar	1701–1702
Discordian calendar	3151
Ethiopian calendar	1977–1978
Hebrew calendar	5745–5746
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2041–2042
- Shaka Samvat	1906–1907
- Kali Yuga	5085–5086
Holocene calendar	11985
Igbo calendar	985–986
Iranian calendar	1363–1364
Islamic calendar	1405–1406
Japanese calendar	Shōwa 60 (昭和６０年)
Javanese calendar	1917–1918
Juche calendar	74
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4318
Minguo calendar	ROC 74 民國74年
Nanakshahi calendar	517
Thai solar calendar	2528
Tibetan calendar	ཤིང་ཕོ་བྱི་བ་ལོ་ (male Wood-Rat) 2111 or 1730 or 958     — to — ཤིང་མོ་གླང་ལོ་ (female Wood-Ox) 2112 or 1731 or 959
Unix time	473385600 – 504921599

Events

• January 20 - President Ronald Reagan is inaugurated for the second time.^[a][1]
• 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.^[2]
• 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^[3]
• September 1 – The wreckage of the RMS Titanic was found.^[4]
• November 18 – Bill Watterson first publishes "Calvin and Hobbes".^[5]
• November 20 – Microsoft ships the first version of Microsoft Windows out to be sold.^[6]
• 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)

March

Michael Redgrave

Marc Chagall

• 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

Enver Hoxha

Tancredo Neves

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

May

Margaret Hamilton

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

June

Tage Erlander

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

July

Simon Kuznets

Heinrich Böll

• 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

Louise Brooks

Kyu Sakamoto

Samantha Smith

Frank Macfarlane Burnet

• 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

Rodney Robert Porter

Paul Flory

Italo Calvino

Charles Francis Richter

• 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

E. B. White

Rock Hudson

Emílio Garrastazu Médici

Yul Brynner

Orson Welles

• 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

Wellington Koo

Lon Nol

• 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

Anne Baxter

Ricky Nelson

• 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^[7]
• "Some Heads Are Gonna Roll" – Judas Priest
• "Crazy for You" – Madonna^[8]
• "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^[8]
• "We Are the World" – USA for Africa^[8]
• "Can't Fight This Feeling Anymore" – REO Speedwagon^[7]
• "I'm Going Down" – Bruce Springsteen
• "Freeway of Love" – Aretha Franklin^[7]

New books

• Forrest Gump – Winston Groom

Notes

1. "January 20th fell on Sunday, so Reagan was privately sworn in that day at the White House; public Inauguration on January 21st took place in the Capitol Rotunda, due to freezing weather."^[1]