1885 births

Danish physicist (1885–1962)

American writer and playwright (1885–1951)

French writer (1885-1970)

American poet and critic (1885–1972)

English writer and poet (1885–1930)

Danish writer

United States Army general (1885–1945)

German mathematician (1885–1955)

1st king of Hashemite Iraq from 1921 to 1933

French playwright and filmmaker (1885-1957)

United States Navy fleet admiral (1885–1966)

American historian, philosopher and writer (1885–1981)

Hungarian chemist (1885–1966)

German philosopher (1885–1977)

French painter (1885–1941)

American-German psychoanalyst

Austrian composer (1885–1935)

Soviet army officer (1885–1925)

German publisher, Nazi politician and convicted war criminal (1885-1946)

Russian writer (1885–1922)

American physician (1885-1950)

First Lady of the United States from 1945 to 1953

Russian ballet dancer

Austrian actor and director (1885–1957)

German Luftwaffe Generalfeldmarschall during World War II (1885–1960)

Azerbaijani composer (1885–1948)

American astronomer (1885-1972)

American actor (1885-1949)

German chancellor (1885-1970)

Member of the House of Battenberg (1885–1969)

American actress (1885–1955)

Italian aeronautical engineer and Arctic explorer (1885-1978)

Polish artist, dramatist and novelist (1885–1939)

Soviet politician

American suffragist, feminist, and activist (1885–1977)

French writer (1885-1972)

Russian artist (1885–1953)

French painter (1885–1979)

Australian politician, 14th Prime Minister of Australia (1885-1945)

American novelist, short story writer and playwright (1885–1968)

American gossip columnist and actress (1885–1966)

Italian politician (1885-1924)

German general (1885-1971)

American composer of musical theater and popular music (1885-1945)

Japanese general and war criminal (1885–1946)

Russian revolutionary (1885-1939)

Swedish politician, Prime Minister of Sweden between 1932–1936 and 1936–1946 (1885–1946)

German field marshal (1885-1945)

German field marshal (1885–1953)

Australian politician, 16th Prime Minister of Australia (1945 to 1949)

Wife of Winston Churchill and life peer (1885–1977)

German Catholic philosopher (1885–1968)

Austrian film director (1885–1967)

Second President of Lithuania (from 19 June 1920 until 7 June 1926)

Russian physician and one of the first female psychoanalysts (1885–1942)

German conductor and composer (1885–1973)

first wife of Josef Stalin (1885–1907)

Polish politician, president of Poland from 1939 to 1947 (1885-1947)

Italian Futurist artist and composer (1885–1947)

World War II Nazi war criminal (1885-1947)