In the year 1985, the Internet Domain Name System is created (Jan 1), We Are The World is recorded (Jan 28), Mikhail Gorbachev becomes new leader of the Soviet Union (Mar 11), Madonna launches her first concert tour (Apr 10), South Africa ends its ban on interracial marriages (Apr 15), ozone hole is discovered (May 16), the Schengen Area is born (Jun 14), Live Aid concerts raise money for Ethiopia (Jul 13), the first smoking ban in restaurants is passed in Aspen, Colorado (Aug 28), the Nintendo game Super Mario is released (Sep 13), the space shuttle Atlantis makes its maiden flight (Oct 3), Microsoft releases the first version of Windows, Windows 1.0 (Nov 20) -and all these fine people were born:
1985-0101 Jeff Carter* hockey player/OG - London, ON Canada
1985-0101 Juliana Harkavy* actress - New York City, NY USA
1985-0107 Lewis Hamilton* racing driver/WG - Stevenage, Hertfordshire, England
1985-0110 Robert Nilsson* Swedish-Canadian hockey player - Calgary, AB Canada
1985-0111 Aja Naomi King* actress - Los Angeles, CA USA
1985-0112 Issa Rae* actress/director/producer - Los Angeles, CA USA
1985-0115 Harri Olli* ski jumper - Rovaniemi, Finland
1985-0116 Pablo Zabaleta* football player/of Basque descent - Buenos Aires, Argentina
1985-0118 Matthew Mulligan* Am. football player/coach - Bangor, ME USA
1985-0120 Ehsan Haddadi* athlete (discus) - Tehran, Iran
1985-0121 Jussi Selo* (b Kykkänen) singer - Vantaa, Finland
1985-0121 Ryan Suter* hockey player/son of Bob Suter - Madison, WI USA
1985-0123 Kalle Lassila* cross-country skier - Veteli, Finland
1985-0125
1985-0128 Silja Kanerva* Finnish sport sailor/OB/lawyer - San Diego, CA USA
1985-0129 Todd Herzog* Survivor S15 Contestant - Pleasant Grove, UT USA
1985-0129 Athina Onassis* French-Greek heiress/equestrian/the only surviving descendant of Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis - Paris, France
1985-0131 Stephen Mokoka* long-distance runner - South Africa
1985-0201
1985-0202 Melody Gardot* jazz singer - NJ USA
1985-0204 Ashley" Bashy" Thomas* rapper/ actor - Hammersmith, London, England
1985-0205 Cristiano Ronaldo* football player - Funchal, Madeira, Portugal
1985-0214 Karima Adebibe* model/actress - Tower Hamlets, London, England
1985-0214 Ville Lång* badminton player - Lahti, Finland
1985-0215
1985-0218 Todd Lasance* actor - Newcastle, NSW Australia
1985-0219 Haylie Duff* actress/singer/writer - Houston, TX USA
1985-0219 Tatanka Means* Native American actor/entrepreneur/activist - Chinle, AZ USA
1985-0224 Priscilla Chan* pediatrician/philanthropist/ wife of Mark Zuckerberg - Braintree, MA USA
1985-0225
1985-0226 Shiloh Fernandez* actor/often confused with another actor - Ukiah, CA USA
1985-0226 Miki Fujimoto* 藤本 美貴 singer/actress - Takikawa, Hokkaido, Japan
1985-0228
1985-0301
1985-0304 Whitney Port* television personality/fashion designer/author - Los Angeles, CA USA
1985-0306 Linus Thörnblad* athlete (high jump) - Lund, Sweden
1985-0306 Ayisat Yusuf* Nigerian-Finnish football player/coach /to Finland at age 19 - Nigeria - Monaliiku
1985-0309 Brent Burns* hockey player/actor (Vikings) - Barrie, ON Canada
1985-0313 Emile Hirsch* actor - Los Angeles, CA USA
1985-0315 Antti Autti* snowboarder/WG - Rovaniemi, Finland
1985-0315 Kellan Lutz* model/actor - Dickinson, ND USA
1985-0318 Aivi Luik* football player - Perth, Australia
1985-0321 Sonequa Martin-Green* actress - Russellville, AL USA
1985-0325
1985-0326 Jonathan Groff* actor - Lancaster, PA USA
1985-0326 Keyra Knightley* actress - Teddington, London, England
1985-0327 Dustin Byfuglien* hockey player - Minneapolis, MN USA
1985-0327 Ram Charan* actor/ producer/entrepreneur - Madras, Tamil Nadu, India
1985-0327 Caroline Winberg* model - Sollentuna, Sweden
1985-0328 Sauli Koskinen* television host - Hyvinkää, Finland
1985-0328 Steve Mandanda* French football goalie - Kinshasa, Zaire
1985-0328 Stan Wawrinka* tennis player - Lausanne, Switzerland
1985-0329 Artur Brzozowski* race walker - Nisko, Poland
1985-0331
1985-0401
1985-0403 Jari-Matti Latvala* rally driver - Töysä, Finland
1985-0409 Sabrina Thompson* aerospace engineer/fashion designer - Roosevelt, NY USA
1985-0410 Johanna Kurkela* singer - Lumijoki, Finland
1985-0416 Andreas Granqvist* football player - Påarp, Sweden
1985-0417 Rooney Mara* actress - Bedford, NY USA
1985-0420 Billy Magnussen* actor - Queens, NY USA
1985-0420 Brent Seabrook* hockey player - Richmond, BC Canada
1985-0424 Mike Rodgers* athlete/sprinter - St. Louis, MO USA
1985-0426 Tiffany Jackson* basketball player/coach - Longview, TX USA (2022/37)
1985-0427 Jamie Gray Hyder* model/ actress/of Lebanese descent - USA
1985-0430 Gal Gadot* model/ actress (Wonder Woman) - Petah Tikva, Israel
1985-0501
1985-0503 Danila Kozlovsky* actor/director - Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union
1985-0508 Elina Erra* actress - Helsinki, Finland
1985-0510 Ryan Getzlaf* hockey player - Regina, SK Canada
1985-0511 Carly Hibberd* road racing cyclist - Sherwood, QLD Australia (2011/26)
1985-0512 Alex Uttley* acrobatic gymnast (Spelbound) - England
1985-0513 Jaroslav Halák* hockey goalie - Bratislava, Czechoslovakia
1985-0513 Travis Zajac* hockey player - Winnipeg, MB Canada
1985-0515 Tom Persson* businessman (H&M) - Stockholm, Sweden
1985-0516 Corey Perry* hockey player/3GC - Haileybury, ON Canada
1985-0516 Christopher Lee Watts* convicted of familicide - Spring Lake, NC USA
1985-0518 Francesca Battistelli* Christian singer/songwriter - New York City, NY USA
1985-0520 Jinh Yu Frey* mixed martial artist - Arlington, TX USA
1985-0521 Lucie Hradecká* tennis player - Prague, Czechoslovakia
1985-0521 Jesse Laesterä* figure skater/victim of the Myyrmanni bombing - Vantaa, Finland
1985-0527 Marko Anttila* hockey player/OG - Lempäälä, Finland
1985-0530 Aki Nummela* marathon runner - Finland
1985-0601 Jose Cuadrado* football goalie - Valledupar, Cesar, Colombia
1985-0601 Tirunesh Dibaba* long-distance runner/OG - Bekoji, Ethiopia
1985-0605
1985-0608 Sofya Velikaya* Russian fencer/OS - Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan, Soviet Union
1985-0609 Sonam Kapoor* actress - Bombay, Marashtra, India
1985-0610 Kaia Kanepi* tennis player - Haapsalu, Estonia, Soviet Union
1985-0612 Dave Franco* actor/ filmmaker/brother of James Franco - Palo Alto, CA USA
1985-0614 Juuso Hietanen* hockey player/OG - Hämeenlinna, Finland
1985-0622 Chloe Delevingne* businesswoman - London, England
1985-0624 Mary Holland* actress/ comedian/writer - Galax, VA USA
1985-0625
1985-0627 Svetlana Kuznetsova* tennis player - Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union
1985-0627 Nico Rosberg* German-Finnish racing driver/WG - Wiesbaden, West Germany
1985-0627 Martin Sensmeier* model/ actor/w Tlingit/Koyukon-Athabascan heritage - Anchorage, AK USA
1985-0630 Laban Korir* long-distance runner - Uasin Gishu District, Kenya
1985-0630 Michael Phelps* swimmer/OG - Baltimore, MD USA
1985-0701
1985-0705 Tess Holliday* (b Hoven) model/blogger - Laurel, MS USA
1985-0707 David Crowley* activist - Owatonna, MN USA (2014)
1985-0709 Cris Cyborg* mixed martial artist - Curitiba, Brazil
1985-0709 DeRay Mckesson* school administrator/civil rights activist,/podcaster - Baltimore, MD USA
1985-0709 Ashley Young* football player - Stevenage, England
1985-0710
1985-0713 Charlotte Dujardin* equestrian/OG/ writer - Enfield, London, England
1985-0713 Guillermo Ochoa* football goalie - Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
1985-0713 Andrew Wolff* rugby player/Filipino heritage - Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex, England
1985-0714
1985-0714 Phoebe Waller-Bridge* actress/ screenwriter/producer - Hammersmith, London, England
1985-0715 Johan Jepson* handball player - Karlshamn, Sweden
1985-0718 Akiseyama Mitsuhiko* 明瀬山 光彦 sumo wrestler - Kasugai, Aichi, Japan
1985-0720 Walid Ktila* paralympic athlete (wheelchair racer)/OG - Tunis, Tunisia
1985-0721 Vanessa Lengies* actress/dancer/singer - Montreal, QC Canada
1985-0721 Aliette Opheim* actress/dancer - Täby, Stockholm, Sweden
1985-0724 Patrice Bergeron* hockey player/3GC - L’Ancienne-Lorette, QC Canada
1985-0724 Zhao Qinggang* athlete (javelin) - Dalian City, Liaoning Province, China
1985-0725 Francesca Chillemi* model/actress - Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto, Sicily, Italy
1985-0727 Adolph “Young Dolph” Thornton Jr.* rapper - Chicago, IL USA (2021/36)
1985-0730 Ami Ameen* actor - Camden Town, London, England
1985-0731
1985-0801
1985-0808 Anita Wlodarczyk* athlete (hammer)/OG - Rawisz, Poland
1985-0809 Anna Kendrick* actress - Portland, ME USA
1985-0811 Jacqueline Fernandez* Sri Lankan model/actress - Manama, Bahrain
1985-0812 Alexis Copello* athlete (triple jump) - Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
1985-0814 Shea Weber* hockey player/OG - Sicamous, BC Canada
1985-0815 Nipsey Hussle* (b Asghedom) rapper/songwriter - Los Angeles, CA USA (2019/33)
1985-0815 Emily Kinney* actress/singer/songwriter - Wayne, NE USA
1985-0819 Lars Nelson* cross-country skier/OG - Funäsdalen, Jämtland, Sweden
1985-0820
1985-0827 Danica Curcic* Serbian-Danish actress/to Denmark at age 1 - Belgrade, SR Serbia, Yugoslavia
1985-0831
1985-0901 Sofia Pekkari* singer/actress - Gothenburg, Sweden
1985-0905
1985-0908 Philip Ettinger* actor - Fair Lawn, NJ USA
1985-0909 Luka Modric* football player - Zadar, Yugoslavia
1985-0916 Max Minghella* actor/filmmaker - London, England
1985-0917 Alexander Ovechkin* hockey player (NHL 100)/SC - Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union
1985-0920 Sarah Kaufman* mixed martial artist - Victoria, BC Canada
1985-0921 Ryan Hawley* English actor (Emmerdale) - Dubai, United Arab Emirates
1985-0922 Tatiana Maslany* actress - Regina, SK Canada
1985-0923 Cush Jumbo* actress/writer - Denmark Hill, London, England
1985-0930
1985-1001 Emerald Fennell* actress/ author/screenwriter - London, England
1985-1002 Rudy Rok Mickelsson* breakdancer/stand-up comedian/YouTuber - Espoo, Finland
1985-1002 Linda Stahl* athlete (javelin/OB) - Steinheim, West Germany
1985-1005
1985-1006 Ida Engvoll* actress - Skog, Söderhamn, Sweden
1985-1006 Tarmo Kink* football player - Tallinn, Estonia, Soviet Union
1985-1008 Bruno Mars* (b Hernandez) singer/record producer/ dancer - Honolulu, HI USA
1985-1009 Sam Oji* football player - Westminster, England (2021/35)
1985-1010
1985-1011 Michelle Trachtenberg* actress - New York City, NY USA (2025/39)
1985-1012 Michelle Carter* athlete (shot put)/OG - San Jose, CA USA
1985-1012 Zhang Liangmin* Paralympic athlete (discus/OG & shot put) - China
1985-1012 Carl Söderberg* hockey player/WG - Malmö, Sweden
1985-1015 Karolina Kowalkiewicz* mixed martial artist - Lodz, Poland
1985-1016 Jay Beagle* hockey player/SC - Calgary, AB Canada
1985-1017 Max Irons* actor/model/ son of Jeremy Irons - Camden, London, England
1985-1024 Wayne Rooney* football player - Croxteth, Liverpool, England
1985-1030 Chrissy Teigen* model/television personality/entrepreneur - Delta, UT USA
1985-1101
1985-1105 Santtu-Matias Rouvali* percussionist/ conductor - Lahti, Finland
1985-1108 Jack Osbourne* media personality - London, England
1985-1113 Rahul Kohli* actor - London, England
1985-1116 Sanna Marin* politician - Helsinki, Finland
1985-1118 Allyson Felix* athlete/sprinter/OG - Los Angeles, CA USA
1985-1121 Nadine Müller* atllete (discus) - Leipzig, East Germany
1985-1125 Marcus Hellner* cross-country skier/OG - Lerdala, Sweden
1985-1130 Kaley Cuoco* actress/ producer - Camarillo, CA USA
1985-1201 John Coughlin* pair skater - Kansas City, MO USA (2019/33)
1985-1201 Petter Eliassen* cross-country skier (Vasaloppet) - Trondheim, Norway
1985-1203 Amanda Seyfried* model/actress/singer-songwriter - Allentown, PA USA
1985-1204 Krista Siegfrids* singer/ television presenter - Kaskinen, Finland
1985-1205 Mehdi Dehbi* Belgian-Tunisian actor/ director- Liège, Belgium
1985-1206 Christian Hubicki* robotics engineer/ Survivor S37 contestant - Baltimore, MD USA
1985-1210
1985-1211 Karla Souza* Mexican-American actress - Mexico City, Mexico
1985-1213 Jonne Halttunen* rally co-driver - Finland
1985-1215
1985-1219 Gary Cahill* football player - Dronfield, England
1985-1220
1985-1224 Christina Schwanitz* athlete (shotput/WG) - Dresden, East Germany
1985-1227 Adil Rami* football player - Bastia, France
1985-1227 Paul Statsny* American hockey player - Quebec City, QC Canada
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