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Gregorian Year 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was
a common year starting
on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar,
the 1985th year of the Common Era (CE)
and Anno Domini (AD)
designations, the 985th year of the 2nd millennium, the 85th year of
the 20th century,
and the 6th year of the 1980s decade. The
year 1985 was designated as the International
Youth Year by the United Nations. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths · 4Works of
fiction taking place in 1985 Events[edit] January[edit] ·
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Greenland is withdrawn from the European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 ·
Cellnet
Launches 2nd UK Cellular Network. ·
Japan
Aerospace Exploration Agency launches Sakigake, Japan's first interplanetary
spacecraft and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other
than the United States or the Soviet Union. ·
January 13 – A passenger train plunges
into a ravine in Ethiopia, killing 428 in the worst railroad disaster in
Africa. ·
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[edit] ·
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.[1][better source needed] ·
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.[2] ·
Israel begins withdrawing troops
from Lebanon. ·
The ideology of
Hezbollah is declared in a "program" issued
in Beirut. ·
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 nine officers in the highest
loss of life for the RUC on a single day. March[edit] UNKNOWN DATE: 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 – The 8.0 Mw Algarrobo
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 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 would later 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 kilometres (25,000 mi), 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. April[edit] ·
April 1 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 deaths (all Spaniards) and 82 injuries. ·
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 three months). ·
April 28 – The Australian Nuclear
Disarmament Party (NDP) splits. May[edit] ·
May 1 – Soekarno-Hatta
International Airport officially opened, which also became
the new international gateway into Indonesia. ·
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 people. ·
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 Argentina's claim to the islands. ·
May 16 – Scientists of the British Antarctic
Survey announce discovery of the ozone hole.[3][4][5] ·
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 – Approximately 10,000 people
are killed when Bangladesh is
affected by the storm surge from Tropical
Storm One (1B). ·
May 26 – A new guard in auto racing
took place as young gun Danny Sullivan beat the old guard Mario Andretti to win the 1985 Indianapolis 500 and landed on the
cover of Sports Illustrated. ·
May 29 – Heysel Stadium
disaster: Thirty-eight 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[edit] ·
June 6 – The remains of Josef Mengele, the physician notorious
for Nazi human
experimentation on inmates of Auschwitz
concentration camp, buried in 1979under
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[edit] Live Aid at JFK Stadium in Philadelphia ·
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 eight hours, while President Ronald Reaganundergoes 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. August[edit] ·
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.[6] ·
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 and 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.[7] ·
August 31 – Richard Ramirez, the serial killer known as
the Night Stalker, is captured in Los Angeles. September[edit] ·
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.[8][9] ·
September 2 – Hurricane Elena makes landfall on the
U.S. Gulf Coast after reaching a Category 3 status ·
September 4 – Catcher Gary Carter of the New York Mets ties a record with five
home runs in two games. ·
September 6 – Midwest
Express Airlines Flight 105, a Douglas DC-9, crashes just after takeoff
from Milwaukee, killing all 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. ·
Super Mario Bros. is
released for the Nintendo
Entertainment System. ·
Steve Jobs resigns from Apple Computer in order to found NeXT.[10] ·
September 19 – An 8.0 Mw earthquake strikes
Mexico City, killing 5,000–45,000 and injuring 30,000. ·
September 20 – The capital gains tax is
introduced to Australia.[11][12] ·
September 22 – The Plaza Accord is signed by five 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, South London. October[edit] ·
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 four 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. ·
October 25 – Emirates Airlines,
establishes in Dubai and performs its first flight to Karachi. November[edit] ·
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. ·
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. ·
Xavier Suárez is sworn in as Miami's
first Cuban-born mayor. ·
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[edit] ·
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 11 – Hugh Scrutton is killed
outside his Sacramento,
California computer rental store by a Unabomber explosive, becoming the first
fatality of the bombing campaign ·
December 12 – Arrow Air Flight
1285, a Douglas DC-8,
crashes after takeoff from Gander,
Newfoundland, killing 256 people – 248 of whom were U.S.
servicemen returning to Fort Campbell,
Kentucky from overseeing a peacekeeping force in the Sinai Peninsula. ·
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. ·
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[edit] ·
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.[13] ·
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. World population[edit]
Births[edit] January[edit] ·
Jeff Carter, Canadian hockey player ·
Steven Davis, Northern Irish footballer ·
Teng Haibin, Chinese gymnast ·
Heather O'Reilly,
U.S. women's national soccer player ·
Damien Bodie, Australian actor ·
John David Booty, American football
quarterback, USC ·
Linas Kleiza, Lithuanian basketball player ·
Danielle Campo, Canadian Paralympic swimmer ·
Al Jefferson, American basketball player ·
Fernando Rees, Brazilian race car driver ·
Michael Cuccione, Canadian child actor and
activist (d. 2001) ·
Lopez Lomong, Sudan-born American Olympic
runner ·
Diego Vera, Uruguayan footballer ·
Lewis Hamilton, British 4-Time Formula One world champion ·
Tiger Kirchharz, German dancer ·
Wayne Routledge, English footballer ·
January 8 – Rachael Lampa, American Christian singer ·
January 9 – Bobô,
Brazilian footballer ·
January 10 – Martiño Rivas, Spanish actor ·
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 ·
Joe Flacco, American football player ·
Gintaras
Januševičius, Lithuanian pianist ·
Sidharth Malhotra,
Indian actor ·
Renée Felice Smith,
American actress ·
Kangin, Korean singer (Super Junior) ·
Simone Simons, Lead singer of Dutch rock
group Epica ·
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 ·
Aura Dione, Danish pop musician ·
Sasha Pivovarova, Russian model ·
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 ·
Edwin Hodge, American actor ·
Rusko, British musician ·
Michael Trevino, American actor ·
J. Cole, American hip-hop musician and
record producer ·
Tom Hopper, British actor ·
András
Kállay-Saunders, Hungarian American recording artist, songwriter
and record producer ·
Bosh Berlin, American drummer (Living Things) ·
Liu Chunhong, Chinese weightlifter ·
Marc Gasol, Spanish basketball player ·
Isabel Lucas, Australian actress ·
January 30 – Richie Porte, Australian professional
cyclist (Tasmanian) February[edit] ·
February 2 – Fontel Mines, American football player ·
Bashy, English recording artist and actor ·
Bug Hall, American actor ·
Vicki
Chase, American porn actress ·
Laurence Maroney, American football player ·
Cristiano Ronaldo,
Portuguese footballer ·
Kris Humphries, American basketball player ·
Joji Kato, Japanese speedskater ·
Crystal Reed, American actress ·
Donald Moatshe, South African musician ·
Tegan Moss, Canadian actress ·
Tina Majorino, American actress ·
Deborah Ann Woll, American actress ·
Seo Min-woo, South Korean idol singer and
actor (d. 2018) ·
Jeremy Davis, American bassist (Paramore) ·
Bob Morris,
American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Hush Sound) ·
Trevor Smith,
Canadian ice hockey player ·
David Gallagher, American actor ·
Rachel Melvin, American actress ·
February 10 – Anette Sagen, Norwegian ski jumper ·
William Beckett,
American singer and songwriter ·
Mike Richards, Canadian hockey player ·
February 12 – Saskia Burmeister,
Australian actress ·
February 15 – Natalie Morales,
American actress ·
February 17 – Zelda Harris, American actress ·
Chelsea Hobbs, Canadian actress and singer ·
Todd Lasance, Australian actor ·
Lee Boyd Malvo, Jamaican serial killer ·
Jos van Emden, Dutch cyclist ·
Haylie Duff, American actress and singer ·
Garamondle Kebbel, American model and actress ·
February 20 – Yulia Volkova, Russian singer ·
February 21 – Larisa Bakurova, Ukrainian actress and model
based in Taiwan ·
Hameur Bouazza, Algerian footballer ·
Zach Roerig, American actor ·
Benji Marshall, Australian rugby league
player ·
Joakim Noah, American basketball player ·
Shiloh Fernandez, American actor ·
Miki Fujimoto, Japanese actor and pop singer ·
Fefe Dobson, Canadian pop and rock singer ·
Jelena Janković,
Serbian tennis player ·
Diego Ribas da Cunha,
Brazilian soccer player March[edit] ·
March 1 – Cole Sanchez, American voice actor and
artist ·
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 ·
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 ·
March 13 – Emile Hirsch, American actor ·
March 14 ·
Eva Angelina, 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 17 – Dominic Adams, British actor and model ·
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 23 – Maryana Spivak, Russian actress ·
March 24 ·
Haruka Ayase, Japanese actress and model ·
Sayaka Hirano, Japanese table tennis player ·
March 26 ·
Matt Grevers, American Olympic swimmer ·
Jonathan Groff, American actor, singer, and
dancer ·
Keira Knightley, English actress ·
March 27 ·
Danny Vuković, Australian soccer player ·
Caroline Winberg, Swedish model ·
March 29 – William Chak, Hong Kong actor ·
March 31 – Jessica Szohr, American actress April[edit] ·
April 1 ·
Danilo Caçador,
Brazilian footballer (d. 2018) ·
Daniel Murphy,
American baseball player ·
Beth 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 ·
Lance Dos Ramos, Venezuelan actor, model and
animator ·
Rudy
Fernández, Spanish professional basketball player ·
Ricardo Vilar, Brazilian footballer ·
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 ·
Garamonda 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 ·
David
Robertson, American baseball player ·
Tomohisa Yamashita,
Japanese singer and actor ·
April 10 ·
Christie Laing, Canadian actress ·
Dion Phaneuf, Canadian NHL hockey player ·
Wang Meng,
Chinese short track skater ·
April 12 ·
Brennan Boesch, American baseball player ·
Olga Seryabkina, Russian pop musician ·
Hitomi Yoshizawa, Japanese singer and actor ·
April 13 – Carmen Carrera, American model ·
April 16 ·
Nate Diaz, American mixed martial artist ·
Benjamín Rojas,
Argentine singer ·
April 17 ·
Rooney Mara, American film and television
actress ·
Luke Mitchell, Australian actor and model ·
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga,
French tennis player ·
April 18 ·
Łukasz
Fabiański, Polish footballer ·
Elena Temnikova, Russian pop singer ·
April 19 ·
Sabrina Jalees, Canadian comedian, dancer,
actress, presenter, and writer ·
Zhang Xi,
Chinese beach volleyball player ·
April 20 – Billy Magnussen, American actor ·
April 22 ·
Kristin Fairlie, Canadian actress ·
Camille Lacourt, French swimmer ·
April 23 ·
Taio Cruz, British hip-hop musician ·
Angel Locsin, Filipino actress ·
April 24 ·
Courtnee Draper, American actress, singer
and voice actress ·
Joséphine Jobert,
French actress and singer ·
Kaori Nazuka, Japanese voice actress and
singer ·
April 26 – Nam Gyu-ri, Korean actress and pop singer ·
April 28 – Brandon Baker, American actor ·
April 30 – Gal Gadot, Israeli actress and model May[edit] ·
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 ·
Alexander Galimov,
Russian hockey player (d. 2011) ·
May 3 – Meagan Tandy, American actress and model ·
May 4 – Bo McCalebb, American/Macedonian basketball
player ·
May 5 ·
Clark Duke, American actor ·
Shoko Nakagawa, Japanese actress, voice
actress and singer ·
May 6 – Chris Paul, American basketball player ·
May 7 – Andrew
Carroll, American ice hockey player (d. 2018) ·
May 8 – Silvia Stroescu, Romanian artistic gymnast ·
May 10 – Odette Annable, American actress ·
May 11 – Jadyn Wong, Canadian 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 ·
Sally Martin, New Zealand actress ·
May 15 ·
Derek Hough, American dancer, choreographer,
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 ·
Tathagata Mukherjee,
Indian actor ·
May 17 ·
Christine Nesbitt,
Canadian speed skater ·
Matt Ryan,
American football player ·
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 ·
May 22 ·
Marc-Antoine Pouliot,
Canadian ice hockey player ·
Chrissie Chau, Hong Kong model ·
May 23 – Kanyeria, Kenyan music producer ·
May 24 – John Vigilante, American ice hockey
(d. 2018) ·
May 25 ·
Luciana Abreu, Portuguese pop singer and
actress ·
Lauren Frost, American actress and singer ·
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 ·
Colbie Caillat, American surburbian musician ·
Carey Mulligan, British actress ·
Emily Wilson,
American actress ·
May 30 ·
Sam Gifaldi, American actor ·
Turk McBride, American National Football
League player ·
May 31 ·
Zoraida Gómez, Mexican actress ·
Navene Koperweis, American progressive metal
musician June[edit] ·
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 6 – Abbie Cobb, American actress and author ·
June 7 – Marie Miyake, Japanese voice actress ·
June 9 ·
Sonam Kapoor, Indian actress and model ·
Sebastian Telfair,
American basketball player ·
June 10 ·
Andy Schleck, Luxembuergian road cyclist ·
Rok Perko, Slovenian professional skier ·
Kaia Kanepi, Estonian tennis player ·
Celina Jade, American actress ·
Kristina Apgar, American actress ·
June 11 – Dmitry Koldun, Belarusian singer ·
June 12 ·
Dave Franco, American television and film
actor ·
Blake Ross, American software developer ·
June 13 – Danny Syvret, Canadian ice hockey player ·
June 15 – Nadine Coyle, Irish singer ·
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 ·
Mark Saul,
American actor ·
Matt Flynn, American football player ·
Darko
Miličić, Serbian basketball player ·
June 21 ·
Kris Allen, 8th American Idol winner, rock musician ·
Sharna Burgess, Australian ballroom dancer ·
Lana Del Rey, American pop musician ·
June 22 ·
Aaron Lim, Malaysian racing driver ·
Douglas Smith,
American actor ·
Lindsay Ridgeway, American actress ·
Rosa Kato, Japanese actress and model ·
June 23 ·
Marcel Reece, American football player ·
Kavka Shishido, Japanese drummer and
vocalist ·
June 24 ·
Tom Kennedy,
English footballer ·
Aste, Finnish rapper ·
Krunoslav Simon, Croatian basketball player ·
June 25 ·
Ehra Madrigal, Filipino actress ·
Mohd Fitri Omar, Malaysian footballer ·
Scott
Brown, Scottish footballer ·
Maria Kristin
Yulianti, Indonesian badminton player ·
Annaleigh Ashford,
American actress, singer and dancer ·
Ethan Klein, American YouTuber ·
June 26 ·
Arjun Kapoor, Indian actor ·
Bobo Sollander, Swedish footballer ·
Ogyen Trinley Dorje,
Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader ·
Cameron Tovey, Malaysian-Australian
basketball player ·
June 27 ·
Martin Sensmeier, Alaska Native actor ·
James Hook,
Welsh rugby union player ·
Svetlana Kuznetsova,
Russian tennis player ·
Nico Rosberg, German 2016 Formula 1 world champion ·
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[edit] ·
July 1 ·
Spose, American hip-hop musician ·
Sebalter, Swiss pop musician and fiddle
player ·
Léa Seydoux, French actress ·
Ocean Mushure, Zimbabwean footballer ·
Zohre Esmaeli, Afghan-born fashion model ·
July 2 ·
Gábor Máthé,
Hungarian Deaflympic Champion in tennis ·
Ashley Tisdale, American actress and singer ·
Vlatko Ilievski, Macedonian singer and actor
(d. 2018) ·
July 3 ·
Dean Cook, British actor ·
Keisuke Minami, Japanese singer and actor ·
July 4 ·
Mariana Rios, Brazilian actress and singer ·
Pei Yuwen, Chinese footballer ·
July 5 ·
Judith Chemla, French actress ·
Stephanie McIntosh,
Australian actress ·
Nick O'Malley, British musician ·
François Arnaud,
French-Canadian stage and film actor ·
July 6 ·
Matt Overton, American football player ·
Killian Scott, Irish actor ·
Ranveer Singh, Bollywood actor ·
D. Woods, American pop musician ·
July 7 ·
Pong Escobal, Filipino basketball player ·
Langton Rusere, Zimbabwean cricket umpire ·
Zulkifli Che Ros, Malaysian male
weightlifter ·
Seo Woo, Korean actress ·
July 8 ·
Emanuele Abate, Italian athlete ·
Jason Day,
Peruvian actor ·
July 9 ·
Paweł
Korzeniowski, Polish swimmer ·
Cathy Leung, Hong Kong singer ·
Ashley Young, English footballer ·
July 10 ·
Mario Gómez, German footballer ·
Park Chu-young South Korean footballer ·
July 11 ·
Lilian Marijnissen,
Dutch politician ·
Ele Opeloge, Samoan weightlifter ·
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 ·
Pedro Carvalho,
Portuguese actor ·
Agniya Kuznetsova,
Russian actress ·
Chris Tiu, Filipino professional basketball
player, TV host, commercial model, and politician ·
Crowd Lu, Taiwanese singer-songwriter and
actor ·
Pushkar
Jog, Indian actor ·
July 16 ·
Cha Ye-ryun, South Korean actress ·
Denis Tahirović,
Croatian footballer ·
Yōko Hikasa, Japanese actress ·
July 17 ·
Tom Fletcher, British musician ·
Tom Cullen, Welsh actor, writer and director ·
Caitlin Van Zandt,
American actress ·
July 18 ·
José Carlos Júnior,
Brazilian footballer ·
Hopsin, American rapper and record producer ·
James Norton,
British actor ·
Chace Crawford, American actor ·
July 19 – LaMarcus Aldridge,
American basketball player ·
July 20 – John Francis Daley,
American television and film actor ·
July 22 ·
Jessica Abbott, Australian swimmer ·
Ryan Dolan, Irish singer ·
Takudzwa Ngwenya, Zimbabwean-American rugby
player ·
Akira Tozawa, Japanese wrestler ·
July 23 ·
William
Dunlop, Northern Irish motorcycle racer (d. 2018) ·
Scott
Chandler, American football player ·
July 24 – Teagan Presley, American porn star ·
July 25 ·
James Lafferty, American actor and athlete ·
Shantel VanSanten,
American actress and model ·
Nelson Piquet Jr.,
Brazilian Formula One and NASCAR driver ·
July 27 ·
Aljin Abella, Australian actor ·
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 August[edit] ·
August 2 – Davey Boy Smith Jr.,
British-Canadian professional wrestler ·
August 3 – Sonny Bill Williams,
New Zealand Rugby League player ·
August 4 – Crystal Bowersox, American singer-songwriter ·
August 5 – Salomon Kalou, Ivorian footballer ·
August 7 – Rick Genest, Canadian artist, actor, and
fashion model (d. 2018) ·
August 8 – Toby Flood, English rugby union player ·
August 9 ·
Anna Kendrick, American actress ·
Hayley Peirsol, American swimmer ·
August 10 – Jared Nathan, American child actor (d. 2006) ·
Asher Roth, American rapper ·
Jacqueline Fernandez,
Sri Lankan-born Indian Bollywood actress ·
Ashlynn Brooke, American pornographic
actress ·
Shea Weber, Canadian ice hockey player ·
August 15 – Emily Kinney, American actress ·
Agnes Bruckner, American actress ·
Arden Cho, American actress, singer and
model ·
Cristin Milioti, American actress and singer ·
August 19 – David A. Gregory, American actor ·
August 20 – Brant Daugherty, American actor ·
Melissa M, French singer ·
Jake Pitts, American singer-songwriter (Black Veil Brides) ·
Laura Haddock, English actress ·
August 23 – Juss Haasma, Estonian actor ·
August 25 – Wynter Gordon, American pop/dance singer-songwriter ·
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 ·
Eamon Sullivan, Australian swimmer ·
Leisel Jones, Australian swimmer ·
Richard Duffy, Wales international
footballer ·
Éva Risztov, Hungarian Olympic Champion
swimmer ·
August 31 – Mohammad bin Salman,
Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia. September[edit] ·
Lilan Bowden, American actress ·
Camile Velasco, Filipina-American actress ·
Allison Miller, American actress ·
Yani Gellman, Canadian/Australian film and
television actor ·
Morgan Garrett, American voice actress ·
Raúl Albiol, Spanish footballer ·
Ri Kwang-chon, North Korean footballer ·
Walid Mesloub, Algerian footballer ·
September 5 – Dilshad Vadsaria, American television
actress ·
Oleksandr Akymenko,
Ukrainian football striker ·
Jan Mazoch, Czech former ski jumper. ·
Dario Jertec, Croatian football midfielder ·
Weronika Deresz, Polish rower ·
Lauren Lapkus, American actress and comedian ·
Mitch Moreland, American baseball player ·
Radhika Apte, Indian film and theatre
actress ·
Alyssa Diaz, American actress ·
Alyona Lanskaya, Belarusian singer ·
Rafinha,
Brazilian football player ·
Justin Bradley, Canadian actor ·
Vanessa Baden, American actress ·
Denny Morrison, Canadian speed skater ·
Amy Manson, British actress ·
Luka Modrić, 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 ·
Aya Ueto, Japanese actress ·
Dilshad Vadsaria, American television
actress ·
Kayden Kross, American porn actress ·
Iselin Steiro, Norwegian model ·
Madeline Zima, American actress ·
Max Minghella, English actor ·
Danny Fernandes, Canadian singer ·
Alexander Ovechkin,
Russian hockey player ·
Jon Walker, American musician ·
September 19 – Song Joong-ki, South Korean actor, model and
host ·
September 22 – Tatiana Maslany, Canadian actress ·
Tessanne Chin, Jamaican singer, winner
of The Voice season 5 ·
Maki Goto, Japanese singer and actress ·
Joba Chamberlain, American baseball player ·
Eric Adjetey Anang,
Ghanaian sculptor ·
Kimberley Nixon, Welsh actress ·
Jessica Lucas, Canadian actress ·
Talulah Riley, English actress ·
Marcin
Mroziński, Polish actor, singer and television presenter ·
September 28 – Shindong, Korean singer ·
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[edit] ·
Sicily, American actress ·
Tirunesh Dibaba, Ethiopian long distance
runner ·
Porcelain Black, American industrial pop
singer-songwriter ·
Matt Healy, lead singer and guitarist of the
band Rock Incorporated ·
Courtney Lee, American basketball player ·
Megumi Takamoto, Japanese voice actress and
singer ·
Nathalie Kelley, Peruvian actress ·
Nicola Roberts, British singer ·
Brooke Valentine, American singer ·
October 7 – Evan Longoria, American professional
baseball player ·
Jesse
MacDonald, Leader of new-wave band "The Fruit Patrol",
Lazy Rights Activist ·
Bruno Mars, American singer-songwriter and
music producer ·
Kimberly Kevon
Williams, American actress ·
Magda Apanowicz, Canadian actress ·
October 9 – Frankmusik, English electropop musician ·
Kyle Switzer, Canadian actor ·
Dominique Cornu, Belgian professional
cyclist ·
Aaron Himelstein, American actor ·
Lee Min-hye, South Korean racing cyclist
(d. 2018) ·
Margaret Berger, Norwegian electropop
singer-songwriter ·
Michelle
Trachtenberg, American actress ·
Daniel Clark,
American-Canadian actor ·
Justin Forsett, American football player ·
Sherlyn, Mexican actress ·
October 16 – Casey Stoner, Australian motorcycle racer ·
October 18 – Iori Nomizu, Japanese voice actress, actress
and singer ·
October 19 – RR Enriquez, Filipino model, television host
and actress ·
October 20 – Jennifer Freeman, American actress ·
Manpei Takagi, Japanese actor ·
Shinpei
Takagi, Japanese actor ·
Masiela Lusha, Albanian-American actress,
poet, and humanitarian ·
Chris Neal, English footballer ·
October 24 – Wayne Rooney, English footballer ·
Ciara, African-American singer ·
Christopher Sean, American actor ·
John
Robinson, American actor ·
Andrea Bargnani, Italian professional
basketball player ·
Asin Thottumkal, Indian actress ·
October 27 – Troian Bellisario,
American actress ·
October 29 – Janet Montgomery, English film and
television actress ·
October 31 – Kether Donohue, American actress November[edit] ·
November 2 – Josh Grelle, American voice actor ·
Tyler Hansbrough, American basketball player ·
Philipp Tschauner,
German footballer ·
November 4 – Victoria Leigh Soto,
American educator (d. 2012) ·
November 5 – Elizabeth Rice, American actress ·
November 7 – Paul Terry,
English actor ·
November 8 – Jack Osbourne, English television
personality ·
Giovonnie Samuels,
American actress ·
Ricki-Lee Coulter,
former Australian Idol contestant
and singer ·
Remona Fransen, Dutch athlete ·
Raquel Guerra, Portuguese singer and actress ·
Kalan Porter, Canadian singer ·
Robin Uthappa, Indian cricketer ·
November 12 – Daria Bijak, German artistic gymnast ·
Rahul Kohli, English actor ·
Michael Bennett, American football player ·
Asdrúbal Cabrera,
Venezuelan baseball player ·
Simo-Pekka Olli, Finnish volleyball player ·
November 14 – Thomas Vermaelen, Belgian footballer ·
Lily Aldridge, American model ·
Casnel Bushay, Vincentian sprinter ·
Nick Fradiani, American singer ·
Jeffree Star, American musician and Youtuber ·
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 ·
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 ·
Nathan Keyes, American actor ·
Magdolna Rúzsa,
Hungarian singer ·
Ryan Sampson, British actor ·
Luis Valbuena, Venezuelan baseball player
(d. 2018) ·
Kaley Cuoco, American actress ·
Chrissy Teigen, American model December[edit] ·
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 ·
László Cseh, Hungarian swimmer ·
Amanda Seyfried, American actress ·
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 singer and actress ·
December 7 – Jon Moxley, American professional wrestler ·
December 8 – Dwight Howard, American basketball player ·
December 9 – Wil Besseling, Dutch golfer ·
Raven-Symoné, African-American actress and
singer ·
Edmund Entin, American actor ·
Gary Entin, American actor ·
Meghan Linsey, American singer-songwriter ·
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 ·
Christina Loukas, American diver ·
Lady Sovereign, British rapper ·
David Reale, Canadian actor ·
Gary Cahill, English footballer ·
James Stewart Jr.,
American motorcycle racer ·
Tom Sturridge, English actor ·
December 22 – Edurne, Spanish singer, actress, and TV
presenter ·
Harry Judd, English drummer ·
Luke O'Loughlin, Australian actor ·
Yu Shirota, Japanese actor and singer ·
Beth Behrs, American actress ·
Paul Stastny, Canadian-American professional
ice hockey player ·
Jessica Harmon, Canadian actress ·
December 28 – Taryn Terrell, American professional
wrestler ·
December 29 – Alexa Ray Joel, American singer, songwriter
and pianist ·
December 30 – Anna Wood,
American actress ·
December 31 – Jonathan Horton, American gymnast Deaths[edit] January[edit] ·
January 2 – Gabriel Elorde, Filipino professional boxer
(b. 1935) ·
January 4 – Sir Brian Horrocks, British general (b. 1895) ·
January 5 – Robert L. Surtees,
American cinematographer (b. 1906) ·
Ruth Godfrey,
American actress (b. 1922) ·
Mary Hardy,
Australian actress and comedian (b. 1931) ·
January 11 – Sir William McKell, 12th Governor-General of
Australia (b. 1891) ·
January 13 – Carol Wayne, American actress (b. 1942) ·
Jetta Goudal, Dutch actress (b. 1891) ·
Anagarika Govinda,
German buddhist lama (b. 1898) ·
January 18 – Mahmoud Mohammed
Taha, Sudanese religious thinker (b. 1909) ·
January 20 – Gillis W. Long, American politician
(b. 1923) ·
Sir Arthur Bryant, British historian
(b. 1899) ·
Mikhail Gromov,
Soviet aviator (b. 1899) ·
January 26 – Kenny Clarke, American jazz drummer and
bandleader (born 1914) ·
Georges Portmann, French physician (b. 1890) ·
Billy Cook,
Australian jockey (b. 1910) ·
January 31 – Tatsuzō
Ishikawa, Japanese novelist (b. 1905) February[edit] ·
February 4 – Jesse Hibbs, American film director
(b. 1906) ·
February 6 – Neil McCarthy,
British actor (b. 1932) ·
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) ·
Ina Claire, American actress (b. 1893) ·
Louis Hayward, British actor (b. 1909) ·
John G. Trump, American electrical engineer,
inventor, and physicist (b. 1907) ·
February 22 – Efrem Zimbalist, Russian-American violinist
(b. 1889) ·
February 26 – Tjalling Koopmans,
Dutch economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910) ·
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[edit] Sir Michael Redgrave ·
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, Leader of the Soviet Union (b. 1911) ·
Bob Nieman, American baseball player
(b. 1927) ·
March 11 – Tom Adams,
2nd Prime Minister of Barbados (b. 1931) ·
March 12 – Eugene Ormandy, Hungarian-American conductor
(b. 1899) ·
March 13 – Mabel Alvarez, American painter (b. 1891) ·
March 15 – Radha Krishna
Choudhary, Indian historian (b. 1921) ·
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[edit] ·
April 4 – Kate Roberts,
Welsh-language author (b. 1891) ·
April 5 – Paul Hugh Emmett, American chemical engineer
(b. 1900) ·
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 10 – Alfredo Duhalde, Chilean politician
(b. 1898) ·
April 11 – Enver Hoxha, Albanian politician, 22nd Prime Minister
of Albania (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, Australian-British writer,
actress and astrologer (b. 1888) ·
April 18 – Gertrude
Caton–Thompson, English archaeologist (b. 1888) ·
April 19 – Sergei
Aleksandrovich Tokarev, Russian ethnologist (b. 1899) ·
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[edit] ·
May 1 – Denise Robins, (akas: 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,
8th Prime Minister
of Tunisia (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,
Indian nationalist leader (b. 1889) ·
May 16 ·
Margaret
Hamilton, American actress (b. 1902) ·
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 20 – Ben Hall, American actor (b. 1899) ·
May 22 ·
Charles Murphy,
American architect. (b. 1890) ·
Wolfgang Reitherman,
German animator, director and producer (b. 1909) ·
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[edit] ·
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 ·
Clifford Evans,
Welsh actor (b. 1912) ·
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 and
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,
25th Prime Minister
of Sweden (b. 1901) ·
June 27 – Elias Sarkis, 11th President of Lebanon (b. 1924) ·
June 28 – James Craig,
American actor (b. 1912) ·
June 30 – Haruo Remeliik, Palauan politician,
1st President of Palau (b. 1933) July[edit] ·
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, 31st Prime
Minister of the Netherlands (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-born American actress
(b. 1917) ·
July 19 ·
Janusz 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[edit] ·
August 1 – D. H. Turner, British art historian and
museum curator (b. 1931) ·
August 2 – Frank Faylen, American actor (b. 1905) ·
August 5 – Arnold Horween, Harvard Crimson and NFL
football player (b. 1898) ·
August 6 ·
Forbes Burnham, Guyanese political leader,
1st Prime Minister
of Guyana and 2nd President of Guyana (b. 1923) ·
John Harmon,
American actor (b. 1905) ·
August 8 – Louise Brooks, American actress (b. 1906) ·
August 10 – Kenny
Baker, American actor and singer (b. 1912) ·
Kyu Sakamoto, Japanese singer (b. 1941) ·
Manfred Winkelhock,
German race car driver (b. 1951) ·
August 14 – Gale Sondergaard, American actress (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) ·
Paul Harris,
American actor (b. 1917) ·
Samantha Smith, American schoolgirl activist
(b. 1972) ·
August 28 – Ruth Gordon, American actress, screenwriter,
and playwright (b. 1896) ·
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[edit] ·
September 1 – Stefan Bellof, race car driver and 1984
World SportsCars (Group C) Champion
(b. 1957) ·
Isabel Jeans, British actress (b. 1891) ·
George O'Brien,
American actor (b. 1899) ·
Little Brother
Montgomery, American musician (b. 1906) ·
Rodney Robert Porter,
English biochemist, recipient of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1917) ·
Bruiser Kinard, American football player (Brooklyn Dodgers)
and a member of the Pro Football
Hall of Fame (b. 1914) ·
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) ·
Ernst Öpik, Estonian astronomer and
astrophysicist (b. 1893) ·
Jock Stein, Scottish football player and
manager (b. 1922) ·
William Alwyn, English composer (b. 1905) ·
Masako Natsume, Japanese actress (b. 1957) ·
Julian Beck, American actor (b. 1925) ·
John Holt,
American writer and educator (b. 1923) ·
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) ·
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[edit] ·
October 1 – E. B. White, American writer (b. 1899) ·
Rock Hudson, American actor (b. 1925) ·
George Savalas, American actor (b. 1924) ·
October 4 – Franklin
Merrell-Wolff, American philosopher (b. 1887) ·
October 5 – Abdus Sattar,
8th President of Bangladesh (b. 1906) ·
October 6 – John
W. Snyder, American businessman and Cabinet Secretary (b. 1895) ·
October 8 – Nelson Riddle, American bandleader (b. 1921) ·
Alexander
Buchanan, Australian politician (b. 1910) ·
Yul Brynner, Russian actor and performer
(b. 1920) ·
Orson Welles, American actor and director
(b. 1915) ·
Johnny Olson, American game show announcer
(b. 1910) ·
Ricky
Wilson, American guitarist (b. 1953) ·
October 14 – Emil Gilels, Soviet pianist (b. 1916) ·
October 17 – Abdelmunim Al-Rifai,
Prime Minister of Jordan (b. 1917) ·
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[edit] ·
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) ·
Cus D'Amato legendary boxing trainer
who was a mentor to hall of famer boxers Mike Tyson, Floyd Patterson and José Torres. ·
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) ·
James Hanley,
British novelist, playwright and writer (b. 1897) ·
Pelle Lindbergh, Swedish Professional Hockey
goaltender (b. 1959) ·
William Pereira, American architect
(b. 1909) ·
George Robert
Vincent, American sound recording pioneer (b. 1898) ·
Stuart Chase, American economist (b. 1888) ·
John Sparkman, American politician (b. 1899) ·
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) ·
Juan Arvizu, Mexican operatic tenor and
bolero vocalist (b. 1900) ·
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) ·
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[edit] ·
December 2 – Philip Larkin, English poet and novelist
(b. 1922) ·
Burleigh Grimes, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1893) ·
Burr Tillstrom, American puppeteer (b. 1917) ·
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) ·
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 (New York Yankees) (b. 1934) ·
Seewoosagur
Ramgoolam, 1st Prime Minister of Mauritius (b. 1900) ·
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) ·
Ferhat Abbas, Algerian nationalist (b. 1899) ·
Prince Bira, Prince of Siam and Formula One driver (b. 1914) ·
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 28 – Renato Castellani,
Italian director (b. 1913) ·
Ricky Nelson, American actor and musician
(b. 1940) ·
Sam Spiegel, Polish-born film producer
(b. 1903) Date Unknown[edit] ·
Nazem Akkari, 19th Prime Minister of Lebanon
(b. 1902) ·
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[edit] ·
The
1998 romantic comedy, The Wedding Singer takes
place in 1985. ·
The
introduction of the 1998 romantic comedy There's
Something About Mary 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
present day in the 1985 science fiction comedy Back to the Future and
its sequels Back to the
Future Part II and Back to the
Future Part III is October 1985. Nobel Prizes[edit] ·
Physics – Klaus von Klitzing ·
Chemistry – Herbert A. Hauptman, Jerome Karle ·
Peace – International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear
War ·
Economics – Franco Modigliani ·
Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine – Michael S. Brown, Joseph L. Goldstein |
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