1985 Information
1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year that started on a Tuesday, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. The year 1985 was declared International Youth Year by the United Nations.
Events of 1985
January
February
March
- March 3 – An 8.0 on the Richter magnitude scale earthquake hits Santiago and Valparaíso leaving 177 dead, 2,575 hurt, 142,489 destroyed houses and about a million people houseless
- March 4 – The 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 car bomb planted in Beirut by CIA mercenaries attempts to kill Islamic cleric Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah and kills more than 80 people, injuring 200.
- March 11
- 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 Jose Sarney takes the oath as the first civilian president of Brazil in 21 years, as the elected president Tancredo Neves had become severely ill on the day before.
- March 16 – Associated Press newsman Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut (he is eventually released on December 4, 1991).
- March 17 – Expo '85, a World's Fair, is held in Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan, until September 16.
- 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 dissolved.
- March 25 – The 57th Academy Awards are held at in Los Angeles, California with Amadeus winning Best Picture.
- March 31 – WrestleMania debuts at Madison Square Garden.
April
May
- May 4 – The 30th Eurovision Song Contest takes place in Gothenburg, Sweden.
- May 5 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan joins German Chancellor Helmut Kohl for a controversial funeral service at a cemetery in Bitburg, Germany, which includes the graves of 59 elite S.S. troops from World War II.
- May 11
- May 13 – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 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.
- May 15 – An explosive device sent by the Unabomber injures John Hauser at UC Berkeley.
- May 19 – John Anthony WalkerJr., is arrested by the FBI for passing classified Naval communications on to the Soviets.
- 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 and storm surge, which kills approximately 10,000 people.
- May 29 – Heysel 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 in Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and Ontario, killing 76.
June
- 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.
- June 17 – John Hendricks launches the Discovery Channel in the United States.
- June 23 – Air India Flight 182, a Boeing 747, blows up 31,000 feet (9,500 m) above the Atlantic Ocean, south of Ireland, killing all 329 aboard.
- June 24 – STS-51-G: Space Shuttle Discovery completes its mission, best remembered for having Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz 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 vacationing resorts.
- June 27 – U.S. Route 66 is officially decommissioned.
July
Live Aid at JFK Stadium in Philadelphia
August
September
- September 6 – Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105, a Douglas DC-9, crashes just after takeoff from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, killing 31.
- 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 22 – The Plaza Accord is signed by 5 nations.
- September 23 – Italian crime reporter Giancarlo Siani is killed by Camorra.
- September 28 – The 1985 Brixton race riots are sparked with the shooting of Dorothy 'Cherry' Groce by the Metropolitan Police in Brixton, an area of South London, England.
October
November
- November 5 – 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 12 – A total solar eclipse occurs over Antarctica at 14:11:22 UTC.
- November 13 – Nevado del Ruiz volcano erupts, killing an estimated 23,000 people, including 21,000 killed by lahars in the town of Armero, Colombia.
- November 15 – In separate events, mail bombs kill 2 people in Salt Lake City, Utah; a third bomb explodes the next day, injuring career counterfeiter Mark Hofmann. The ensuing police investigation leads to the arrest of Hofmann for the 2 murders.
- November 18 – The comic strip Calvin and Hobbes debuts in 35 newspapers.
- 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 26 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan sells the rights to his autobiography to Random House for a record US$3 million.
- November 29
December
Undated
Environmental
Ongoing
The Cold War
World population
| World population |
|
1985 |
1980 |
1990 |
| World |
4,830,979,000 |
4,434,682,000 |
396,297,000 |
5,263,593,000 |
432,614,000 |
| Africa |
541,814,000 |
469,618,000 |
72,196,000 |
622,443,000 |
80,629,000 |
| Asia |
2,887,552,000 |
2,632,335,000 |
255,217,000 |
3,167,807,000 |
280,255,000 |
| Europe |
706,009,000 |
692,431,000 |
13,578,000 |
721,582,000 |
15,573,000 |
| Latin America |
401,469,000 |
361,401,000 |
40,068,000 |
441,525,000 |
40,056,000 |
| Northern America |
269,456,000 |
256,068,000 |
13,388,000 |
283,549,000 |
14,093,000 |
| Oceania |
24,678,000 |
22,828,000 |
1,850,000 |
26,687,000 |
2,009,000 |
Births
January
- January 1 – Steven Davis, Northern Irish footballer
- January 1 – Lopez Lomong, American Olympic runner, born in Sudan
- January 1 – Deivson Rogerio da Silva, Brazilian footballer
- January 2 – Heather O'Reilly, US Women's national soccer player
- January 2 – Jennifer Heard, Australian actress
- January 2 – Teng Haibin, Chinese gymnast
- January 3 – John David Booty, American football quarterback, USC
- January 3 – Linas Kleiza, Lithuanian basketball player
- January 4 – Al Jefferson, American Basketball player
- January 4 – Fernando Rees, Brazilian racecar driver
- January 5 – Diego Vera, Uruguayan footballer
- January 7 – Lewis Hamilton, British Formula 1 Driver
- January 8 – Rachael Lampa, American singer
- January 11 – Rie fu, Japanese singer and songwriter
- January 16 – Joe Flacco, American football player
- January 16 – Gintaras Janusevicius, Lithuanian pianist
- January 17 – Simone Simons, Dutch singer
- January 17 – Kang-In, Korean singer (Super Junior)
- January 19 – Rika Ishikawa, Japanese singer and host of television and radio programs
- January 21 – Sasha Pivovarova, Russian model
- January 22 – Orianthi Panagaris, Australian guitarist and singer
- January 23 – Doutzen Kroes, Dutch supermodel
- January 29 – Bosh Berlin, American drummer for the band Living Things
- January 29 – Liu Chunhong, Chinese weightlifter
February
- February 1 – Dean Shiels, Northern Irish footballer
- February 2 – Fontel Mines, American Football player
- February 4 – Bug Hall, American actor
- February 5 – Cristiano Ronaldo, Portuguese footballer
- February 5 – Laurence Maroney, American football player
- February 6 – Joji Kato, Japanese speedskater
- February 7 – Tina Majorino, American actress
- February 9 – David Gallagher, American actor
- February 9 – Rachel Melvin, American actress
- February 10 – Anette Sagen, Norwegian ski jumper
- February 11 – William Beckett, American singer and songwriter
- February 14 – Karima Adebibe, English actress and model
- February 14 – Miki Yeung, actress and singer from Hong Kong
- February 18 – Lee Boyd Malvo, American serial killer
- February 18 – Todd Lasance, Australian actor
- February 19 – Haylie Duff, American actress and singer
- February 20 – Yulia Volkova, Russian singer
- February 22 – Hameur Bouazza, Algerian footballer
- February 25 – Benji Marshall, Australian rugby league player
- February 25 – Joakim Noah, American basketball player
- February 26 – Miki Fujimoto, Japanese singer
- February 28 – FeFe Dobson, Canadian singer
- February 28 – Jelena Janković, Serbian tennis player
- February 28 – Diego Ribas da Cunha Brazilian soccer player
March
- March 2 – Reggie Bush, American football player
- March 3 – Sam Morrow, Northern Irish footballer
- March 8 – Ewa Sonnet, Polish model
- March 9 – Brent Burns, Canadian hockey player
- March 10 – Lassana Diarra, French footballer
- March 10 – Nathalie Kelley, Australian actress
- March 11 – Paul Bissonnette, Canadian ice hockey player
- March 11 – Ajantha Mendis, Sri Lankan cricketer
- March 11 – Nikolai Topor-Stanley, Australian soccer player
- March 13 – Emile Hirsch, American actor
- March 14 – Eva Angelina, American pornographic actress
- March 15 – Curtis Davies, English Football Player
- March 15 – Antti Autti, Finnish snowboarder
- March 19 – E. J. Viso, Venezuelan race car driver
- March 21 – Ryan Callahan, American hockey player
- March 21 – Adrian L. Peterson, American football player
- March 22 – Luke Dormehl, British writer and filmmaker
- March 24 – Haruka Ayase, Japanese actress and model
- March 25 – Carmen Rasmusen, American singer
- March 26 – Keira Knightley, English actress
- March 26 – Jonathan Groff, American actor, singer, and dancer
- March 27 – Danny Vukovic, Australian soccer player
- March 27 – Alison Carroll, English Actress and Model
April
- April 3 – Leona Lewis, English singer
- April 9 – Tomohisa Yamashita, Japanese singer and actor
- April 10 – Dion Phaneuf NHL hockey player
- April 10 – Wang Meng, Chinese short track skater
- April 12 – Hitomi Yoshizawa, Japanese singer and actor
- April 15 – Amy Reid, German pornographic actress
- April 16 – Benjamin Rojas, Argentine famous singer
- April 17 – Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, French tennis player
- April 18 – Łukasz Fabiański, Polish footballer
- April 22 – Camille Lacourt, French swimmer
- April 26 – Nam Gyu-Ri, Korean singer, former member of See Ya
- April 30 – Ashley Alexandra Dupree, American prostitute, R & B singer-songwriter
May
- May 2 – Sarah Hughes, American figure skater
- May 2 – Kyle Busch, American race car driver
- May 2 – Lily Allen, British singer
- May 6 – Chris Paul, American basketball player
- May 9 – Neha Bamb, Indian actress
- May 9 – Audrina Partridge, American television personality
- May 12 – Dániel Tőzsér, Hungarian footballer
- May 12 – Yoh Asakura, Shaman King Character
- May 14 – Sally Martin, New Zealand actress
- May 15 – Derek Hough, American dancer and choreographer
- May 15 – Cristiane, Brazilian footballer
- May 17 – Christine Nesbitt, Canadian speed skater
- May 21 – Mutya Buena, British singer and songwriter (formerly of Sugababes)
- May 22 – Marc-Antoine Pouliot, Canadian ice hockey player
- May 25 – Luciana Abreu, Portuguese singer and actress
- May 27 – Chien-Ming Chiang, Taiwanese baseball player
- May 28 – Colbie Caillat, American acoustic-folk singer-songwriter
- May 30 – Turk McBride, National Football League player
June
- June 4 – Evan Lysacek, American figure skater
- June 4 – Lukas Podolski, German footballer
- June 4 – Ana Carolina Reston, Brazilian fashion model (d.2006)
- June 7 – Charlie Simpson, English musician (Fightstar)
- June 9 – Sebastian Telfair, American basketball player
- June 10 – Andy Schleck, Luxembuergian road cyclist
- June 10 – Rok Perko, Slovenian professional skier
- June 12 – Tasha-Ray Evin, Canadian singer/guitarist (Lillix)
- June 12 – Blake Ross, American software developer
- June 12 – Kendra Wilkinson, American model
- June 13 – Danny Syvret, Canadian ice hockey player
- June 15 – Nadine Coyle, Irish singer (Girls Aloud)
- June 17 – Marcos Baghdatis, Cypriot tennis player
- June 19 – Ai Miyazato, Japanese golfer
- June 20 – Darko Milicic, Serbian basketball player
- June 21 – Kris Allen, 8th American Idol winner, singer-songwriter
- June 25 – Annaleigh Ashford, American actress and singer
- June 26 – Urgyen Trinley Dorje, Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader
- June 27 – Svetlana Kuznetsova, Russian tennis player
- June 27 – Nico Rosberg, German Formula One driver
- June 28 – Phil Bardsley, English footballer
- June 30 – Michael Phelps, American swimmer
- June 30 – Cody Rhodes, American professional wrestler
July
- July 2 – Ashley Tisdale, American actress and singer
- July 3 – Minami Keisuke, Japanese singer and actor
- July 5 – Stephanie McIntosh, Australian actress (Neighbours)
- July 5 – Nick O'Malley, British musician (Arctic Monkeys)
- July 9 – Paweł Korzeniowski, Polish swimmer
- July 9 – Cathy Leung, Hong Kong singer
- July 10 – Mario Gomez, German footballer
- July 10 – Park Chu-Young South Korean footballer
- July 12 – Emil Hegle Svendsen, Norwegian biathlete
- July 13 – Guillermo Ochoa, Mexican footballer
- July 17 – Tom Fletcher, British musician (McFly)
- July 18 – Chace Crawford, American actor
- July 22 – Takudzwa Ngwenya, American rugby union player
- July 23 – Scott Chandler, American football player
- July 23 – Ólafur Hannesson, Icelandic television personality
- July 24 – Teagan Presley, American porn star
- July 25 – James Lafferty, American actor and athlete
- July 25 – Nelson Piquet, Jr., Brazilian Formula One driver
- July 28 – Dustin Milligan, Canadian actor
August
- August 2 – Britt Nicole (Brittany Nicole Waddell), Christian rock artist.
- August 3 – Sonny Bill Williams Rugby League player
- August 5 – Salomon Kalou, Ivory Coast footballer
- August 5 – Sam Smith, New Zealand writer/performer/dentist
- August 9 – Hayley Peirsol, American swimmer
- August 14 – Ashlynn Brooke, American pornographic actress
- August 21 – Melissa M, French singer
- August 27 – Alexandra Nechita, American artist
- August 29 – Jeffrey Licon, American actor. David Chakmakjian, Native Chicagoan
- August 30 – Eamon Sullivan, Australian swimmer
- August 30 – Leisel Jones, Australian swimmer
September
- September 8 – Denny Morrison, Canadian speed skater
- September 11 – Jake Cole, English footballer
- September 13 – Emi Suzuki, Chinese-born Japanese female model
- September 14 – Aya Ueto, Japanese actress
- September 16 – Madeline Zima, American actress
- September 17 – Alexander Ovechkin, Russian hockey player
- September 17 – Jon Walker, American Musician, (Panic at the Disco)
- September 21 – Maryam Hassouni, Dutch actress
- September 23 – Maki Goto, Japanese singer and actress
- September 24 – Eric Adjetey Anang, Ghanaian sculptor
- September 24 – Kimberley Nixon, Welsh actress
- September 28 – Shindong, Korean singer (Super Junior)
- September 29 – Dani Pedrosa, Spanish motorcycle racer
October
- October 1 – Tirunesh Dibaba, Ethiopian long distance runner
- October 5 – Brooke Valentine, American singer
- October 5 – Nicola Roberts, British singer (Girls Aloud)
- October 7 – Evan Longoria, professional baseball player
- October 8 – Kimberly Kevon Williams, American actress
- October 10 – Dominique Cornu, Belgian professional cyclist
- October 10 – Aaron Himelstein, American actor
- October 11 – Michelle Trachtenberg, American actress
- October 14 – Sherlyn, Mexican actress
- October 14 – Daniel Clark, Canadian actor
- October 16 – Casey Stoner, Australian motorcycle racer
- October 18 – Lindsey Kildow, American alpine skier
- October 20 – Jennifer Freeman, American actress
- October 22 – Zac Hanson, American musician
- October 24 – Wayne Rooney, English footballer
- October 25 – Ciara, American singer
- October 26 – Andrea Bargnani, professional basketball player
- October 26 – Asin Thottumkal, Indian actress
November
- November 3 – Tyler Hansbrough, American basketball player
- November 5 – Kate DeAraugo, Australian Idol 2005
- November 8 – Jack Osbourne, English television personality
- November 10 – Giovonnie Samuels, American actress
- November 10 – Ricki-Lee Coulter, former Australian Idol contestant and singer
- November 11 – Kalan Porter, Canadian singer
- November 11 – Raquel Guerra, Portuguese singer and actress
- November 11 – Robin Uthappa, Indian cricketer
- November 13 – Simo-Pekka Olli, Finnish volleyball player
- November 22 – Asamoah Gyan, Ghanan football player
- November 23 – 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
- November 28 – Ryan Sampson, British actor
- November 30 – Kaley Cuoco, American actress
December
- December 2 – Amaury Leveaux, French swimmer
- December 3 – Amanda Seyfried, American actress
- December 3 – László Cseh, Hungarian swimmer
- December 5 – Frankie Muniz, American actor
- December 6 – Dulce María, Mexican actress
- December 8 – Dwight Howard, American basketball player
- December 10 – Raven-Symoné, American actress and singer
- December 14 – Nonami Takizawa, Japanese actress
- December 14 – Ren Yagami, Japanese singer, model and actor
- December 19 – Christina Loukas, American diver
- December 19 – Lady Sovereign, British rapper
- December 21 – James Stewart Jr., American motorcycle racer
- December 23 – Harry Judd, English drummer (McFly)
- December 23 – Luke O'Loughlin, Australian actor
- December 26 – Yuu Shirota, Japanese actor and singer
- December 31 – Jonathan Horton, American gymnast
Deaths
January–March
- 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 22 – Sir Arthur Bryant, British historian (b. 1899)
- January 29 – Chic Murray, Scottish comedian (b. 1919)
- January 31 – Tatsuzō Ishikawa, Japanese novelist (b. 1905)
- February 4 – Jesse Hibbs American film director (b. 1906)
- February 8 – 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. 1905)
- February 21 – Ina Claire American actress (b. 1893)
- February 21 – Louis Hayward British actor (b. 1909)
- February 22 – Efrem Zimbalist, Russia-born Jewish American violinist (b. 1890)
- February 26 – Tjalling Koopmans, Dutch economist, Nobel Prize laureates (b. 1910)
- February 27 – Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. American politician (b. 1902)
- February 27 – J. Pat O'Malley English actor (b. 1904)
- March 3 – Iosif Shklovsky, Soviet astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1916)
- March 8 – Edward Andrews American actor (b. 1914)
- March 10 – Konstantin Chernenko, Soviet politician (b. 1911)
- March 10 – Bob Nieman, American baseball player (b. 1927)
- March 12 – Eugene Ormandy, Hungarian conductor (b. 1899)
- March 16 – Eddie Shore, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1902)
- March 21 – Sir Michael Redgrave, English actor (b. 1908)
- March 23 – Doctor Richard Beeching, Chairman of British Rail (b. 1913)
- March 23 – 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)
- March 30 – Shizuko Kasagi, Japanese singer (b. 1914)
April–June
- 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 – Vladimir Jankélévitch, French philosopher (b. 1903)
- April 11 – Enver Hoxha, Albanian dictator (b. 1908)
- April 15 – Jack Medica American Olympic swimmer (b. 1914)
- April 16 – Scott Brady American actor (b. 1924)
- April 21 – 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 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)
- May 6 – 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)
- May 8 – Dolph Sweet American actor (b. 1920)
- May 9 – Edmond O'Brien, American actor (b. 1915)
- May 10 – Chester Gould, American cartoonist (b. 1900)
- May 12 – Jean Dubuffet, French artist (b. 1901)
- May 13 – Selma Diamond American actress (b. 1920)
- May 13 – Leatrice Joy American actress (b. 1893)
- May 15 – Emerson Spencer, American athlete (b. 1906)
- May 16 – Margaret Hamilton, American actress (b. 1902)
- May 17 – Abe Burrows, American songwriter, composer, and writer (b. 1910)
- May 18 – Hedley Bull, Australian professor (b. 1932)
- May 19 – Tapio Wirkkala, Finnish designer (b. 1915)
- May 22 – Wolfgang Reitherman, American animator (b. 1909)
- May 30 – George K. Arthur English actor and producer (b. 1899)
July–September
- July 2 – David Purley, British race car driver (b. 1945)
- July 8 – Phil Foster American actor (b. 1913)
- July 8 – Simon Kuznets, American economist (b. 1901)
- July 9 – Jimmy Kinnon, Scottish founder of Narcotics Anonymous (b. 1911)
- 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)
- July 21 – Alvah Cecil Bessie American screenwriter, one of the Hollywood Ten (b. 1904)
- July 22 – Matti Järvinen Finnish athlete (b. 1909)
- July 23 – Kay Kyser American bandleader (b. 1905)
- July 23 – Mickey Shaughnessy American actor (b. 1920)
- July 25 – Grant Williams American actor (b. 1931)
- July 27 – John Scarne, American magician and card expert (b. 1903)
- August 1 – Helene Engelmann, Austrian figure skater (b. 1898)
- August 2 – Frank Faylen American actor (b. 1905)
- August 6 – Forbes Burnham, 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)
- August 12 – 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)
- 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 1 – Stefan Bellof, race car driver and 1984 World SportsCars (Group C) Champion (b. 1957)
- September 4 – Isabel Jeans British actress (b. 1891)
- September 4 – George O'Brien American actor (b. 1899)
- September 6 – Isabel Cox-Meighen, wife of Canadian prime minister Arthur Meighen (b. 1882)
- September 6 – Little Brother Montgomery, American musician (b. 1906)
- September 7 – Rodney Robert Porter, English biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1917)
- September 8 – John Franklin Enders, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1887)
- September 9 – Paul Flory, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
- September 10 – Ernst Öpik, Estonian astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1893)
- September 11 – William Alwyn, English composer (b. 1905)
- September 11 – 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 27 – Lloyd Nolan American actor (b. 1902)
- September 30 – Floyd Crosby American cinematographer (b. 1899)
- September 30 – Charles Francis Richter, American seismologist and physicist, creator of the Richter magnitude scale (b. 1900)
- September 30 – Simone Signoret, French actress (b. 1923)
October–December
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- October 1 – E.B. White, American writer (b. 1899)
- October 2 – Rock Hudson, American actor (b. 1925)
- October 2 – George Savalas, American actor, brother of Telly Savalas (b. 1924)
- 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)
- October 10 – Orson Welles, American film director (b. 1915)
- October 12 – Johnny Olson, American game show announcer (b. 1910)
- October 12 – Ricky Wilson American guitarist (b. 1953)
- October 14 – Emil Gilels, Soviet pianist (b. 1916)
- October 21 – Masuiyama Daishiro I, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1919)
- October 22 – Thomas Townsend Brown, American scientist (b. 1905)
- October 24 – Laszlo Biro, 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 1 – Quick Draw Rick McGraw, American professional wrestler (b. 1955)
- November 1 – Ouchiyama Heikichi, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1926)
- November 1 – Phil Silvers, American entertainer (b. 1911)
- November 5 – Spencer W. Kimball, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1895)
- November 5 – Arnold Chikobava, Georgian linguist (b. 1898)
- November 8 – Nicolas Frantz, Luxembourgian cyclist (b. 1899)
- November 11 – Pelle Lindbergh, Swedish Professional Hockey goaltender (b. 1959)
- November 13 – William Pereira, American architect (b. 1909)
- November 13 – George Robert Vincent, American sound recording pioneer (b. 1898)
- November 17 – Lon Nol, Prime Minister of Cambodia, President of Khmer Republic (b. 1913)
- November 17 – 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 27 – Fernand Braudel, French historian (b. 1902)
- December 6 – Burr Tillstrom, American puppeteer (b. 1917)
- December 7 – Robert Graves, English writer (b. 1895)
- December 7 – Potter Stewart, American Supreme Court Justice (b. 1915)
- December 12 – Anne Baxter, American actress (b. 1923)
- December 12 – Ian Stewart, Scottish rock musician (b. 1938)
- December 14 – Roger Maris, American baseball player (b. 1934)
- December 15 – Carlos Romulo, Filipino diplomat (b. 1899)
- December 16 – Paul Castellano, Italian-American Mafia boss (b. 1915)
- 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)
- December 23 – Prince Bira, Prince of Siam and Formula one driver (b. 1914)
- December 24 – Kouzou Sasaki, Japanese politician (b. 1900)
- December 26 – Dian Fossey, American biologist (b. 1932)
- December 27 – Harry Hopman, Australian tennis player and coach (b. 1906)
- December 31 – Ricky Nelson, American singer and actor (b. 1940)
- December 31 – Sam Spiegel, Polish-born film producer (b. 1903)
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Nobel Prizes
Templeton Prize
Right Livelihood Award
Notes
- ^ "U.S. TV REPORTER FREE IN LEBANON". The New York Times. 1985-02-15. http://www.nytimes.com/1985/02/15/world/us-tv-reporter-free-in-lebanon.html?scp=16&sq=%22Jeremy%20Levin%20%22&st=cse. Retrieved 2009-10-15.
- ^ Gaines, Larry; Miller, LeRoy (2006). Criminal Justice In Action: The Core. Thomson/Wadsworth. ISBN 0-495-00305-0.
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