1985 in the United States
Events from the year 1985 in the United States.
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Incumbents
Federal government
- President: Ronald Reagan (R-California)
- Vice President: George H. W. Bush (R-Texas)
- Chief Justice: Warren E. Burger (Minnesota)
- Speaker of the House of Representatives: Tip O'Neill (D-Massachusetts)
- Senate Majority Leader: Howard Baker (R-Tennessee) (until January 3), Bob Dole (R-Kansas) (starting January 3)
- Congress: 98th (until January 3), 99th (starting January 3)
Events
January
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January 20: Ronald Reagan, the President of the United States, begins his second term
- January 20
- President Ronald Reagan and Vice President George H. W. Bush are privately sworn in for a second term in office (publicly sworn in, January 21).
- Super Bowl XIX: The San Francisco 49ers defeat the Miami Dolphins 38–16 at Stanford Stadium in Palo Alto, California.
- January 28 – In Hollywood, California, the charity single "We Are the World" is recorded by USA for Africa. Like the enormously successful "Do They Know It's Christmas?" that was recorded by Band Aid in the UK two months prior, the single raises money to combat the ongoing famine in Ethiopia. The American act consists of high-profile performers, including Michael Jackson, Lionel Richie, Tina Turner, Cyndi Lauper and Diana Ross.
February
- February 5 – Australia cancels its involvement in United States-led MX missile tests.
- February 9 – U.S. drug agent Enrique Camarena is kidnapped and murdered in Mexico (his body is discovered on March 5).
- February 13 – Bobby Knight throws a chair across a basketball court.
- February 14
- CNN reporter Jeremy Levin is freed from captivity in Lebanon.[1]
- 21-year-old female singer Whitney Houston releases her debut album – Whitney Houston.[2]
March
- March 1 – The GNU Manifesto by Richard Stallman is published for the first time.
- 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 6 – Boxer Mike Tyson makes his professional debut in Albany, New York, a match which he wins by a first-round knockout.
- March 8 – A car bomb planted in Beirut by CIA mercenaries attempts to kill Islamic cleric Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah. He survives, but the bomb kills more than 80 people and injures 200.
- March 16 – Associated Press newsman Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut (he is eventually released on December 4, 1991).
- March 25 – The 57th Academy Awards, hosted by Jack Lemmon, are held at Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, with Miloš Forman's Amadeus winning Best Picture and Best Director (Forman's second win), along with six other awards out of 11 nominations. The film is tied in nominations with David Lean's A Passage to India.
- March 31 – WrestleMania debuts at Madison Square Garden.
April
- The National Archives and Records Administration is established as an independent federal agency.[3]
- April 1 – Eighth-seeded Villanova defeats national powerhouse Georgetown, 66–64, to win the first 64-team field NCAA Tournament in Lexington, Kentucky.
- April 7 – National Geographic Explorer debuts on Nickelodeon.
- April 11 – The USS Coral Sea collides with the Ecuadorian tanker ship Napo off the coast of Cuba.
- April 12 – 1985 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 Torrejon Air Force Base, causes 18 dead (all Spaniards) and 82 injured.
- April 19 – A four-day siege of white supremacist group The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord begins in Arkansas.
- April 23 – Coca-Cola changes its recipe and releases New Coke. The response is overwhelmingly negative, and the original formula is back on the market in less than three months.
May
- May 5 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan joins West 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 – The FBI brings charges against the suspected heads of the five Mafia families in New York City.
- May 13 – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Mayor Wilson Goode orders police to storm the radical black American resistance group MOVE's headquarters to end a stand-off. The police drop an explosive device into the headquarters, killing eleven members of MOVE 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 Walker Jr., is arrested by the FBI for passing classified Naval communications onto the Soviets.
- May 31 – Forty-one tornadoes hit in Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and Ontario, killing 76 people.
June
- June 9 – Los Angeles Lakers win the NBA championship, defeating the Boston Celtics.
- June 13 – In Auburn, Washington, police defuse a Unabomber bomb sent to Boeing.[4]
- 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.[5]
- June 17 – John Hendricks launches the Discovery Channel in the United States.[6]
- June 20 – NeXT is founded by Steve Jobs after he resigns from Apple Computer.
- 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 26 – A Walt Disney World Monorail System train catches fire in Epcot around 9:00 p.m, due to friction caused by a flat tire.
- June 27 – U.S. Route 66 is officially decommissioned.
July
July 13: Live Aid in Philadelphia
- July 1
- Nick at Nite, a nighttime program service with an emphasis on classic television reruns, is launched in the United States, being broadcast on the same channel as Nickelodeon.
- A&E, which previously shared Nickelodeon's channel, begins broadcasting as its own 24-hour cable channel in January of that year on a separate satellite transponder.
- July 3 – Back to the Future opens in American theaters and ends up being the highest-grossing film of 1985 in the United States, and the first film in the successful franchise.
- July 13
- Live Aid pop concerts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and London raise over £50,000,000 for famine relief in Ethiopia. The English rock band Queen performs at Wembley Stadium in London for over 20 minutes. Queen's performance at the event was recreated in the 2018 film Bohemian Rhapsody.
- Vice President George H. W. Bush serves as acting president for eight hours, while President Ronald Reagan undergoes colon cancer surgery under anesthesia.
- July 19 – Vice President George H. W. Bush announces that New Hampshire teacher Christa McAuliffe will become the first school teacher to ride aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger.
- July 20 – The main ship wreck site of the Spanish galleon Nuestra Señora de Atocha (which sank in 1622) is found forty miles off the coast of Key West, Florida by treasure hunters who begin to excavate $400,000,000 in coins and silver.
- July 24
- Commodore launches the Amiga personal computer at the Lincoln Center in New York City.
- Walt Disney Feature Animation's 25th feature film, The Black Cauldron, is released. Considered one of the studio's darkest releases, it receives mixed reviews and results in a large revenue loss for Disney, putting the future of its animation department in jeopardy.
August
- August 2 – Delta Air Lines Flight 191 crashes near Dallas, Texas, killing 137 people.
- August 4 – Major League Baseball player Rod Carew of the California Angels becomes the sixteenth player to achieve 3,000 hits in a career.
- August 25 – Samantha Smith, "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. She was 13 years old.
- August 26 – Ryan White, who was expelled from Western High School in Indiana, is allowed to attend his first day of classes via telephone.
- August 31 – Richard Ramirez, the serial killer known as the Night Stalker, is captured in Los Angeles.
September
- September 6 – Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105, a Douglas DC-9, crashes just after takeoff from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, killing 31 people.
October
- October 4 – The Free Software Foundation is founded in Massachusetts.
- 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.
- The Mameyes landslide in Puerto Rico kills close to 300 people in the worst ever landslide in North American history.
- October 15 – In separate events, mail bombs kill two 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 two murders.
- October 18 – The Nintendo Entertainment System is released in U.S. stores.
- October 27 – The Kansas City Royals defeat the St. Louis Cardinals, 4 games to 3, to win their first World Series Title.
November
- 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 26 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan sells the rights to his autobiography to Random House for a record US$3,000,000.
December
- December 1 – The Ford Taurus and Mercury Sable are released for sale to the public.
- December 12 – Arrow Air Flight 1285, a Douglas DC-8, crashes after takeoff in Gander, Newfoundland, killing 256, 248 of whom were U.S. servicemen returning to Fort Campbell, Kentucky from overseeing a peacekeeping force in Sinai.
- December 16 – In New York City, 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 24 – Right wing extremist David Lewis Rice murders civil rights attorney Charles Goldmark as well as Goldmark's wife and two children in Seattle. Rice suspected the family of being both Jewish and Communist, and claimed his dedication to the Christian Identity movement drove him to the crime.
- December 27 – American naturalist Dian Fossey is found murdered in Rwanda.
- December 31 – The last issue of The Columbus Citizen-Journal is circulated.
Undated
- "The Year of the Spy", name given by media to 1985 because of a large number of foreign spies arrested in the United States.
- The Tommy Hilfiger brand is established.
- The Asian tiger mosquito, an invasive species, is first found in Houston, Texas.
Ongoing
- Cold War (1947–1991)
- Iran–Contra affair (1985–1987)
Births
January
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- January 1 – Juliana Harkavy, actress
- January 2
- Adrienne Lyle, Olympic dressage rider
- Heather O'Reilly, soccer player
- Greg Toler, football player
- January 3
- Nicole Beharie, actress and singer
- John David Booty, football player
- January 4 – Al Jefferson, basketball player
- January 8
- Rachael Lampa, Christian singer
- Dan O'Connor, guitarist and frontman for Four Year Strong
- January 10 – Alex Meraz, actor, dancer, and martial artist
- January 11
- Lucy Knisley, comic artist and musician
- Aja Naomi King, actress
- January 12 – Issa Rae, actress
- January 14 – Michelle Wu, politician
- January 15 – Brandon Mebane, football player
- January 16
- Ash Christian, actor, film director and producer (died 2020)
- Joe Flacco, football player
- Renée Felice Smith, actress
- January 18 – Matt Hobby, actor and comedian
- January 19 – Damien Chazelle, film director and screenwriter
- January 20 – Brantley Gilbert, country singer-songwriter
- January 21 – Salvatore Giunta, U.S. Army Veteran in the Afghan War and Medal of Honor Recipient
- January 25
- Hartley Sawyer, actor, producer and writer
- Michael Trevino, actor
- January 26 – Edwin Hodge, actor
- January 28 – J. Cole, Hip-Hop musician and record producer
- January 29 – Mikey Hachey, bass player
- January 30 – Trae Williams, football player
- January 31 – Kalomira, Greek-born singer and model
February
- February 1 – Alex Clark, Youtuber/animator
- February 2 – Fontel Mines, football player
- February 4 – Bug Hall, actor
- February 5 – Laurence Maroney, football player
- February 6
- Kris Humphries, basketball player
- Crystal Reed, actress
- February 7
- Tina Majorino, actress
- Deborah Ann Woll, actress
- February 8
- Jeremy Davis, bassist for Paramore
- Bob Morris, singer-songwriter and guitarist for The Hush Sound
- Brian Randle, basketball player and coach
- February 9
- David Gallagher, actor
- Rachel Melvin, actress
- February 11 – William Beckett, singer-songwriter
- February 14 – Jake Lacy, actor
- February 15 – Natalie Morales, actress
- February 16 – Stacy Lewis, golfer
- February 17 – Zelda Harris, actress
- February 19
- Haylie Duff, actress and singer-songwriter
- Arielle Kebbel, actress
- February 22
- Fred the Godson, rapper and DJ (died 2020)
- Sean Garballey, politician
- Ryan Hall, mixed martial artist
- Zach Roerig, actor
- February 20 – TJ Kirk, YouTube personality
- February 25 – Joakim Noah, basketball player
- February 26 – Shiloh Fernandez, actor
- February 27 – Nicole Linkletter, model
March
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- March 1
- Michael Conner Humphreys, actor
- Cole Sanchez, actor and artist
- March 2
- Reggie Bush, football player
- Robert Iler, actor
- March 3 – Toby Turner, Internet personality, actor, comedian and musician
- March 6 – Chad Jackson, football player
- March 7 – Guy Benson, columnist
- March 9 – Rachel Nabors, cartoonist
- March 10 – Cooper Andrews, actor
- March 13 – Emile Hirsch, actor
- March 15
- Eva Amurri, actress
- Kellan Lutz, fashion model and actor
- March 21
- Ryan Callahan, hockey player
- Adrian Peterson, football player
- Sonequa Martin-Green, actress and producer
- March 22
- Mike Jenkins, football player
- Justin Masterson, baseball player
- James Wolk, actor
- March 24 – Jeremy James Kissner, actor
- March 26
- Matt Grevers, Olympic swimmer
- Jonathan Groff, actor and singer
- Francesca Marie Smith, actress and writer
- March 27 – Blake McIver Ewing, singer-songwriter, actor, model and pianist
- March 28 – Mark Melancon, baseball player
- March 31
- Peter Porte, actor
- Jessica Szohr, actress
April
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- April 1
- Daniel Murphy, baseball player
- Josh Zuckerman, actor
- April 4 – Todrick Hall, singer-songwriter, actor, director, choreographer and YouTuber
- April 5 – Lastings Milledge, baseball player
- April 6 – Sinqua Walls, basketball player and actor
- April 9 – David Robertson, baseball player
- April 12 – Brennan Boesch, baseball player
- April 13 – Carmen Carrera, model
- April 15
- Chris Cates, baseball player
- John Danks, baseball player
- Aaron Laffey, baseball player
- April 16 – Nate Diaz, mixed martial artist
- April 17 – Rooney Mara, actress
- April 20
- Curt Hawkins, wrestler
- Billy Magnussen, actor
- April 26 – Bre Scullark, fashion model and actress
- April 28 – Brandon Baker, actor
May
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- May 2
- Kyle Busch, racing driver
- Sarah Hughes, Olympic figure skater
- May 3 – Meagan Tandy, actress and model
- May 4 – Bo McCalebb, American-born Macedonian basketball player
- May 5 – P. J. Tucker, basketball player
- May 6 – Chris Paul, basketball player
- May 7 – Andrew Carroll, hockey player (died 2018)
- May 8 – Usama Young, football player
- May 9
- Audrina Patridge, television personality and actress
- Chris Zylka, actor and model
- May 10 – Odette Annable, actress
- May 12
- Tally Hall, soccer player
- Michael Jagmin, singer and frontman for A Skylit Drive
- May 14
- Lina Esco, actress, producer and activist
- Dustin Lynch, Country singer-songwriter
- Zack Ryder, wrestler
- May 16 – Andrew Keenan-Bolger, actor, writer and director
- May 17
- Derek Hough, dancer, choreographer, musician and six-time Winner of Dancing with the Stars
- Matt Ryan, football player
- May 20 – Jon Pardi, country singer-songwriter
- May 21 – Cameron Van Hoy, actor, producer and writer
- May 22 – Chris Salvatore, actor, singer-songwriter, model and gay rights activist
- May 24 – John Vigilante, hockey player and coach (died 2018)
- May 25
- Lauren Frost, actress and singer
- Roman Reigns, wrestler
- May 28
- Colbie Caillat, musician
- Billy Flynn, actor and producer
- Emily Wilson, actress
- May 29 – Blake Foster, actor and martial artist
- May 30
- Sam Gifaldi, child actor
- Turk McBride, football player
- May 31 – Navene Koperweis, progressive metal drummer
June
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- June 1 – Ari Herstand, singer-songwriter
- June 2 – Maggie Thrash, graphic novelist
- June 4 – Evan Lysacek, Olympic figure skater
- June 6
- Abbie Cobb, actress and author
- Chris Henry, football player
- Becky Sauerbrunn, soccer player
- June 9 – Sebastian Telfair, basketball player
- June 10
- Celina Jade, actress
- Kristina Apgar, actress
- June 11 – Chris Trousdale, actor and recording artist (died 2020)
- June 12
- Dave Franco, actor
- Blake Ross, software developer
- Kendra Wilkinson, model, actress and author
- Chris Young, singer-songwriter and guitarist
- June 18
- Jimmie Allen, country music singer/songwriter
- Alex Hirsch, animator and actor
- June 20
- Mark Saul, actor
- Matt Flynn, football player
- June 21
- Kris Allen, musician, 8th American Idol winner
- Lana Del Rey, pop musician
- June 23
- Candice Patton, actress
- Marcel Reece, football player
- June 24
- Justin Hires, ator and comedian
- Jandy Nelson, Writer
- June 25
- Annaleigh Ashford, actress and singer
- Daniel Bard, baseball player
- June 27 – Martin Sensmeier, actor
- June 28 – Cory Blair, rugby player
- June 29 – Steven Hauschka, football player
- June 30
- Michael Phelps, Olympic swimmer
- Cody Rhodes, wrestler and actor
July
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- July 1 – Spose, Hip-Hop artist
- July 2 – Ashley Tisdale, actress, singer and producer
- July 5 – Megan Rapinoe, soccer player
- July 6
- Matt Overton, football player
- D. Woods, pop musician
- July 8 – Sterling Hyltin, ballerina
- July 10 – Robert Adamson, actor
- July 12
- Casper Brinkley, football player
- Jasper Brinkley, football player
- July 16 – Rosa Salazar, actress
- July 17 – Caitlin Van Zandt, actress
- July 18
- Chace Crawford, actor
- Hopsin, rapper and record producer
- July 19 – LaMarcus Aldridge, basketball player
- July 20 – John Francis Daley, actor
- July 22 – Takudzwa Ngwenya, Zimbabwean-born rugby player
- July 23 – Scott Chandler, football player
- July 25
- James Lafferty, actor
- Alex Presley, baseball player
- Shantel VanSanten, actress and model
- July 26 – Matt Riddlehoover, filmmaker
- July 27
- Lou Taylor Pucci, actor
- Young Dolph, rapper (died 2021)
- July 28 – Monica Abbott, softball player
- July 30 – Mary Wiseman, actress
August
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- August 4 – Crystal Bowersox, singer-songwriter
- August 9
- Anna Kendrick, actress and singer
- Hayley Peirsol, swimmer
- JaMarcus Russell, football player
- Chandler Williams, football player (d. 2013)
- August 10 – Jared Nathan, child actor (died 2006)
- August 11 – Asher Roth, rapper
- August 13 – Jonathan Brookins, mixed martial artist
- August 15
- Emily Kinney, actress and singer-songwriter
- Nipsey Hussle, rapper (d. 2019)
- August 16
- Agnes Bruckner, actress
- Arden Cho, actress, singer and model
- Cristin Milioti, actress and singer
- August 18 – Brooke Harman, actress
- August 19
- J. Evan Bonifant, actor
- David A. Gregory, actor and writer
- Lindsey Jacobellis, Olympic snowboarder
- August 20 – Brant Daugherty, actor
- August 21 – Jake Pitts, singer-songwriter and lead guitarist for Black Veil Brides
- August 25 – Wynter Gordon, pop/dance singer-songwriter
- August 26 – Brian Kelley, country singer and one half of Florida Georgia Line
- August 27 –
- Alexandra Nechita, painter
- Kayla Ewell, actress
- Sean Foreman, singer-songwriter, member of electro hop group 3OH!3
- August 28 – Ashlyne Huff, singer-songwriter and dancer
- August 29
- Jeffrey Licon, actor
- Marc Rzepczynski, baseball player
September
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- September 1 – Camile Velasco, Filipina-born actress
- September 2 – Allison Miller, actress
- September 3 – Dominick Cruz, mixed martial artist
- September 4
- Kaillie Humphries, Olympic Bobsledder
- Morgan Garrett, actress
- September 6
- Lauren Lapkus, actress and comedian
- Mitch Moreland, baseball player
- September 7 – Alyssa Diaz, actress
- September 8 – Vanessa Baden, actress, writer, director and producer
- September 9
- Martin Johnson, singer/songwriter, record producer, guitarist and frontman for Boys Like Girls
- J. R. Smith, basketball player
- September 10 – Monica Lopera, Colombian-born actress
- September 14
- Paolo Gregoletto, bassist for Trivium
- Dilshad Vadsaria, actress
- September 16 – Madeline Zima, actress
- September 17 – Jon Walker, musician
- September 19 – Chase Rice, country singer-songwriter
- September 23
- Brian Brohm, football player
- Joba Chamberlain, baseball player
- Hasan Minhaj, comedian, political commentator and actor
- September 27 – Grace Helbig, Youtube personality, podcast host and comedian
- September 29 – Calvin Johnson, football player
- September 30 – T-Pain, singer-songwriter, rapper, record producer and actor
October
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- October 1
- Porcelain Black, industrial pop singer-songwriter
- Ryan M. Pitts, U.S. Army soldier in Afghan War, Medal of Honor Recipient
- Sicily Sewell, actress
- October 3 – Courtney Lee, basketball player
- October 4 – Brad Bell, television producer, screenwriter, actor, musician and comic book author
- October 5 – Brooke Valentine, singer
- October 6 – Sylvia Fowles, basketball player
- October 7 – Evan Longoria, baseball player
- October 8
- Max Crumm, actor and singer
- Bruno Mars, singer-songwriter, producer and actor
- October 10 – Aaron Himelstein, actor
- October 11 – Michelle Trachtenberg, actress, producer and singer
- October 14
- Daniel Clark, American-born Canadian actor
- Justin Forsett, football player
- October 20 – Jennifer Freeman, actress
- October 23 – Masiela Lusha, Albanian-born actress, poet and humanitarian
- October 25
- Ciara, Singer
- John Robinson, actor
- Christopher Sean, actor
- October 27 – Briana Lane, actress and musician
- October 28
- Troian Bellisario, actress
- Anthony Fantano, music critic
- October 31
- Kerron Clement, Trinidadian-born hurdler and sprinter
- Kether Donohue, actress and singer
November
- November 2 – Josh Grelle, actor
- November 3 – Tyler Hansbrough, basketball player
- November 4 – Victoria Leigh Soto, teacher, Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victim (k. 2012)
- November 5 – Elizabeth Rice, actress
- November 6 – Shayne Lamas, reality television personality and actress
- November 8 – Jack Osbourne, English-born television personality
- November 10 – Giovonnie Samuels, actress
- November 12 – Arianny Celeste, model and actress
- November 13
- Michael Bennett, football player
- Kit Williamson, actor and filmmaker
- November 15
- Lily Aldridge, model
- Charron Fisher, basketball player
- Nick Fradiani, singer
- Jeffree Star, YouTuber, entrepreneur, makeup artist and singer-songwriter
- November 18 – Allyson Felix, Olympic sprinter
- November 20 – Dan Byrd, actor
- November 22 – Daniel Cameron, politician
- November 23 – Mike Tolbert, football player
- November 25 – Dan Carpenter, football player
- November 30
- Gia Crovatin, actress
- Kaley Cuoco, actress
- Chrissy Teigen, model
December
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- December 1
- John Coughlin, skater (d. 2019)
- Philip DeFranco, YouTube personality and vlogger
- Janelle Monáe, R&B/Soul Musician
- December 3 – Amanda Seyfried, actress and singer-songwriter
- December 4 – Ronnie Ortiz-Magro, TV personality
- December 5 – Frankie Muniz, actor, musician, writer, producer and racing driver
- December 7 – Jon Moxley, wrestler
- December 8
- Josh Donaldson, baseball player
- Dwight Howard, basketball player
- December 10
- Edmund Entin, actor
- Matt Forte, football player
- T. J. Hensick, hockey player
- Meghan Linsey, singer-songwriter
- Raven-Symoné, actress, singer and dancer
- December 11 – Samantha Steele, sportscaster
- December 12
- Chris Jennings, football player
- David Veikune, football player
- December 16 – Amanda Setton, actress
- December 17 – Jeremy McKinnon, singer-songwriter, record producer and frontman for A Day to Remember
- December 19
- Shane Bitney Crone, filmmaker, writer and advocate for LGBT rights
- Christina Loukas, Olympic diver
- December 20 – Paul Wandtke, metalcore drummer
- December 21 – James Stewart Jr., motorcycle racer
- December 26 – Beth Behrs, actress
- December 27
- Halley Gross, screenwriter
- Paul Stastny, Canadian-born hockey player
- December 28
- Dan Amboyer, actor
- Taryn Terrell, wrestler
- December 29 – Alexa Ray Joel, singer-songwriter and pianist
- December 30 – Anna Wood, actress
- December 31 – Jonathan Horton, Olympic gymnast
Full Date Unknown
- Alaska Thunderfuck, drag queen and TV personality
Deaths
- January 7 – Ruth Godfrey, actress (born 1922)
- January 13 – Carol Wayne, actress (born 1942)
- January 19 – Eric Voegelin, German-American philosopher (born 1901)[7]
- January 20 – Gillis William Long, politician (b. 1923)
- February 16 – Mathew Beard, supercentenarian, last surviving person born in 1870 (b. 1870)[8]
- February 21 – John G. Trump, electrical engineer, inventor, and physicist (b. 1907)
- February 22 – Alexander Scourby, actor (born 1913)
- March 13 – Annette Hanshaw, singer (b. 1901)
- April 1 – Douglass Wallop, author and playwright (b. 1920)
- April 8 – John Frederick Coots, songwriter (b. 1897)
- April 22 – Paul H. Emmett, American chemical engineer (b. 1900)
- April 23 – Kent Smith, American actor (b. 1907)
- April 24 – Mildred W. Pelzer, American artist (b. 1889)
- October 2 – Rock Hudson, actor (b. 1925)
- October 10
- Yul Brynner, Russian-born American actor (b. 1920)
- Orson Welles, actor and director (born 1915)
- October 25 – Blair Lee III, politician, Lieutenant Governor of Maryland (b. 1916)[9]
- November 1
- Rick McGraw, wrestler (b. 1955)
- Phil Silvers, entertainer (b. 1911)[10]
- November 4 – Cus D'Amato legendary boxing trainer who was a mentor to hall of famer boxers Mike Tyson, Floyd Patterson and José Torres.
- November 16
- Stuart Chase, economist (b. 1888)
- John Sparkman, United States Senator from Alabama from 1946 till 1979. (b. 1899)
- November 25 – Ray Jablonski, American baseball player (b. 1926)
See also
References
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