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1885
1885 is a common year starting on Thursday.
Events
January
February
March
May
June
July
September
November
December
Unknown Dates
Births
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January 6 - Florence Turner, American actress (d. 1946)
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January 8 - John Curtin, Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1945)
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January 11 - Alice Paul, women's rights activist
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January 21 - Umberto Nobile, Italian politician and airship designer (d. 1978)
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January 27 - Jerome Kern, American composer (d. 1945)
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January 27 - Eduard Künnecke, composer (d. 1953)
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January 29 - Leadbelly, musician
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February 7 - Sinclair Lewis, American novelist
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February 9 - Alban Berg, Austrian composer (d. 1935)
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February 9 - Anita Ree , painter (d. 1933)
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February 13 - Bess Truman, wife of US President Harry S. Truman
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February 15 - Her Serene Highness Princess Alice of Battenberg
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February 21 - Sacha Guitry, dramatist, writer, director, and actor (d. 1957)
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February 24 - Chester Nimitz, U.S. admiral (d. 1966)
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February 24 - Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (a.k.a. “Witkacy”), Polish writer and painter (d. 1939)
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March 6 - Ring Lardner, American writer (d. 1933)
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March 11 - Sir Malcolm Campbell, land and water racer (d. 1948)
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March 14 - Raoul Lufbery, World War I American pilot (d. 1918)
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March 31 - Pascin, the "Prince of Montparnasse"
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April 1 - Wallace Beery, actor (d. 1949)
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April 3 - Allan Dwan, film director (d. 1981)
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April 4 - Arthur Murray, dancer
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May 2 - Hedda Hopper, columnist (d. 1966)
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May 7 - George 'Gabby' Hayes, actor (d. 1969)
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May 14 - Otto Klemperer, German conductor
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May 21 - Oscar A.C. Lund, Swedish film actor, director, and writer (d. 1963)
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May 22 - Toyoda Soemu, Japanese admiral
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June 14 - E. L. Grant Watson
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June 22 - Milan Vidmar, Slovenian electrical engineer and chess player (d. 1962)
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July 28 - Monte Attell, bantamweight world boxing champion (d. 1960)
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September 11 - D.H. Lawrence, English author
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September 22 - Ben Chifley, Prime Minister of Australia
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October 7 - Niels Bohr, Danish physicist (d. 1962)
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October 30 - Ezra Pound, American poet (d. 1972)
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November 2 - Harlow Shapley, American astronomer (d. 1972)
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November 5 - William James Durant, Will Durant, American philosopher and writer (d. 1981)
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November 11 - George Patton, American general (d. 1945)
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December 19 - Joe "King" Oliver, jazz musician (d. 1938)
Deaths
Last updated: 10-23-2005 10:42:51
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