Replaying Saturday, August 31, 1985

The August 31, 1985 was a Saturday under the star sign of . It was the 242 day of the year. President of the United States was Ronald Reagan.

If you were born on this day, you are 40 years old. Your last birthday was on the Sunday, August 31, 2025, 307 days ago. Your next birthday is on Monday, August 31, 2026, in 57 days. You have lived for 14,917 days, or about 358,030 hours, or about 21,481,819 minutes, or about 1,288,909,140 seconds.

Some people who share this birthday:

  • Éric Zemmour (activist, columnist, editorial columnist, journalist, politician, pundit, writer, born August 31, 1958)
  • Richard Gere (actor, film actor, film director, film producer, human rights activist, photographer, stage actor, television actor, voice actor, born August 31, 1949)
  • Mohammad bin Salman (politician, born August 31, 1985)
  • Andrew Cunanan (criminal, prostitute, serial killer, spree killer, born August 31, 1969)
  • Tsai Ing-wen (lawyer, politician, university teacher, born August 31, 1956)
  • Sara Ramirez (composer, film actor, singer, singer-songwriter, songwriter, stage actor, television actor, voice actor, born August 31, 1975)
  • Emperor Taishō (aristocrat, military personnel, monarch, politician, born August 31, 1879)
  • Chris Tucker (actor, comedian, film producer, born August 31, 1971)
  • Jung Kyung-ho (actor, film actor, television actor, born August 31, 1983)
  • Maria Montessori (inventor, lecturer, mathematician, pedagogue, philosopher, physician, psychiatrist, psychologist, teacher, writer, born August 31, 1870)
  • James Coburn (actor, film actor, screenwriter, stage actor, television actor, television director, voice actor, born August 31, 1928)
  • Queen Rania of Jordan (consort, human rights activist, television producer, born August 31, 1970)
  • Jeff Hardy (composer, musician, poet, professional wrestler, sculptor, singer-songwriter, born August 31, 1977)
  • Ramón Arellano Félix (drug lord, born August 31, 1964)
  • Pepe Reina (association football player, born August 31, 1982)
  • Larry Fitzgerald (American football player, born August 31, 1983)
  • Katerina Tikhonova (athlete, manager, social activist, born August 31, 1986)
  • Daniel Bernhardt (actor, film actor, film producer, martial artist, model, born August 31, 1965)
  • Wilhelmina of the Netherlands (head of state, photographer, born August 31, 1880)
  • Gary Webb (journalist, born August 31, 1955)
  • Dee Bradley Baker (actor, blogger, dub actor, puppeteer, singer, television actor, voice actor, born August 31, 1962)
  • Takahiro Tamura (actor, film actor, narrator, born August 31, 1928)
  • Debbie Gibson (actor, composer, dancer, film actor, film producer, musician, pianist, record producer, singer, singer-songwriter, stage actor, television actor, born August 31, 1970)
  • Serena Rossi (actor, dancer, model, singer, stage actor, television presenter, voice actor, born August 31, 1985)
  • Alexei Uchitel (film director, film producer, born August 31, 1951)
  • Yuvan Shankar Raja (actor, composer, film actor, film score composer, singer, born August 31, 1979)
  • David Ospina (association football player, born August 31, 1988)
  • Hideo Nomo (baseball player, born August 31, 1968)
  • Hilary Labow (actor, interior designer, television presenter, born August 31, 1951)
  • Hassan Nasrallah (Islamic scholar, politician, born August 31, 1960)
  • Stephen Henderson (film actor, stage actor, television actor, born August 31, 1949)
  • Marcia Clark (journalist, lawyer, screenwriter, writer, born August 31, 1953)
  • Shar Jackson (actor, film actor, film producer, musician, rapper, singer, television actor, born August 31, 1976)
  • Mickie James (model, professional wrestler, singer, born August 31, 1979)
  • Itzhak Perlman (conductor, professor, violinist, born August 31, 1945)
  • Masashi Tashiro (actor, composer, film director, lyricist, owarai tarento, singer, tarento, born August 31, 1956)
  • Nikolai Lukashenko (schoolchild, born August 31, 2004)
  • Pablo Marí (association football player, born August 31, 1993)
  • Buddy Hackett (film actor, stage actor, television actor, voice actor, born August 31, 1924)
  • Ramon Magsaysay (engineer, politician, born August 31, 1907)
  • Marc Webb (film director, motorcycle rider, screenwriter, television director, television producer, born August 31, 1974)
  • Théophile Gautier (writer, born August 31, 1811)
  • Rudolf Schenker (autobiographer, composer, entrepreneur, heavy metal guitarist, writer, born August 31, 1948)
  • Joe Budden (musician, podcaster, rapper, singer, born August 31, 1980)
  • Larry Hankin (actor, film actor, film director, film editor, film producer, screenwriter, television actor, born August 31, 1940)
  • Cédric Soares (association football player, born August 31, 1991)
  • Bob Welch (guitarist, jazz guitarist, jazz musician, singer, singer-songwriter, songwriter, born August 31, 1945)
  • Alma Mahler (art collector, biographer, composer, model, musician, painter, writer, born August 31, 1879)
  • Sakura (actor, tarento, born August 31, 1983)
  • Gretl Braun (homekeeper, photographer, secretary, born August 31, 1915)
  • Fredric March (actor, character actor, film actor, stage actor, television actor, born August 31, 1897)
  • Luca Cordero di Montezemolo (businessperson, entrepreneur, lawyer, race car driver, racing automobile driver, born August 31, 1947)
  • Mathilde Kschessinska (ballet dancer, ballet teacher, dancer, dancing master, born August 31, 1872)
  • Nicolás Tagliafico (association football player, born August 31, 1992)
  • Shikan Nakamura XIII (actor, kabuki actor, born August 31, 1965)
  • Edward Thorndike (psychologist, teacher, university teacher, born August 31, 1874)
  • Jonathan Cake (actor, film actor, stage actor, television actor, born August 31, 1967)
  • Raymond Westerling (soldier, born August 31, 1919)
  • Eldridge Cleaver (civil rights advocate, born August 31, 1935)
  • Koichi Hagiuda (politician, born August 31, 1963)
  • Hermann von Helmholtz (anatomist, biophysicist, music theorist, musicologist, naturalist, ophthalmologist, philosopher, physicist, physiologist, psychologist, university teacher, born August 31, 1821)
  • Amrita Pritam (autobiographer, journalist, novelist, poet, politician, writer, born August 31, 1919)
  • Richard Basehart (film actor, stage actor, television actor, born August 31, 1914)
  • Anri (composer, musician, recording artist, singer, songwriter, born August 31, 1961)
  • William Saroyan (novelist, playwright, poet, screenwriter, songwriter, writer, born August 31, 1908)
  • Kirstie Allsopp (television presenter, born August 31, 1971)
  • Javagal Srinath (cricketer, born August 31, 1969)
  • Yoshinori Kobayashi (columnist, comics artist, critic, film director, mangaka, born August 31, 1953)
  • Kōtarō Shiga (actor, born August 31, 1948)
  • Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou (aristocrat, born August 24, 1113)
  • Robert Kocharyan (engineer, politician, born August 31, 1954)
  • Go Joon-hee (actor, film actor, model, born August 31, 1985)
  • Mark L. Walberg (actor, film producer, television actor, television presenter, born August 31, 1962)
  • Akito Kiriyama (actor, born August 31, 1989)
  • Mostafa Tajzadeh (activist, political pundit, politician, born August 31, 1957)
  • Jayasurya Jayan (actor, born August 31, 1978)
  • Earnie Shavers (boxer, born August 31, 1945)
  • Jonathan LaPaglia (actor, film actor, film director, model, television actor, born August 31, 1969)
  • Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho (military personnel, politician, terrorist, born August 31, 1936)
  • Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii (chemist, inventor, pedagogue, photographer, publisher, teacher, traveler, born August 31, 1863)
  • Pablo Motos (announcer, comedian, journalist, television presenter, born August 31, 1965)
  • Turki bin Salman Al Saud (entrepreneur, born August 31, 1987)
  • Edwin Moses (athletics competitor, bobsledder, born August 31, 1955)
  • Caroline Cossey (actor, model, writer, born August 31, 1954)
  • Pádraig Harrington (golfer, born August 31, 1971)
  • Jalen Brunson (basketball player, born August 31, 1996)
  • Noble Willingham (actor, film actor, television actor, born August 31, 1931)
  • Frank Robinson (baseball player, baseball player-managers, born August 31, 1935)
  • Zack Ward (actor, film actor, television actor, born August 31, 1970)
  • Gina Schock (musician, singer, born August 31, 1957)
  • Tom Coughlin (American football player, coach, head coach, born August 31, 1946)
  • Francisco Boix (journalist, photography, born August 31, 1920)
  • Blake Lee (actor, born August 31, 1983)
  • Jack Thompson (actor, film actor, film producer, television actor, born August 31, 1940)
  • Jim Fassel (American football player, head coach, born August 31, 1949)
  • Yara Martinez (actor, film actor, television actor, born August 31, 1979)
  • Rituparno Ghosh (actor, film director, screenwriter, writer, born August 31, 1963)
  • Rachel Legrain-Trapani (beauty pageant contestant, model, born August 31, 1988)
  • Roque Júnior (association football manager, association football player, born August 31, 1976)
  • Feng Tianwei (table tennis player, born August 31, 1986)
  • Jean Béliveau (ice hockey player, born August 31, 1931)
  • Edwy Plenel (journalist, non-fiction writer, born August 31, 1952)
  • Isao Aoki (golfer, born August 31, 1942)
  • Kaori Mizumori (singer, born August 31, 1973)
  • Harry Meyen (film actor, film director, stage actor, voice actor, born August 31, 1924)
  • Rachel Dennison (actor, singer, born August 31, 1959)
  • Lucas Gregorowicz (film actor, stage actor, born August 31, 1976)
  • Julie Brown (actor, comedian, film actor, recording artist, screenwriter, singer, singer-songwriter, television actor, television director, voice actor, born August 31, 1958)
  • Alexander Radishchev (economist, novelist, philosopher, poet, writer, born August 31, 1749)
  • Ryan Kelley (actor, film actor, television actor, born August 31, 1986)
  • Ramón Castillaa (military personnel, politician, revolutionary, born August 31, 1797)
  • Mohammad Jahanara (military leader, born August 31, 1954)
  • Tetsuya Bessho (actor, seiyū, born August 31, 1965)
  • Gene Hoglan (drummer, musician, studio musician, born August 31, 1967)
  • Herbert Reul (Studienrat, politician, born August 31, 1952)
  • Maurice Pialat (actor, film actor, film director, film editor, film producer, screenwriter, television director, born August 31, 1925)
  • Raymond Williams (literary critic, literary historian, literary scholar, novelist, philosopher, professor, sociologist, writer, born August 31, 1921)
  • Francis Chan (author, theologian, born August 31, 1967)
  • Altiero Spinelli (politician, writer, born August 31, 1907)
  • Sanford Meisner (actor, drama teacher, born August 31, 1905)
  • Andrei Medvedev (tennis player, born August 31, 1974)
  • Clive Lloyd (cricketer, born August 31, 1944)
  • Amir Sayoud (association football player, born August 31, 1990)
  • Noelia (pornographic actor, singer, born August 31, 1979)
  • Vyacheslav Menzhinsky (military personnel, politician, born August 31, 1874)
  • Ted Wheeler (politician, born August 31, 1962)
  • Alicia Villarreal (singer, songwriter, television actor, born August 31, 1971)
  • Joe Swanberg (actor, cinematographer, film director, film editor, film producer, screenwriter, television actor, television producer, born August 31, 1981)
  • Shi Tingmao (competitive diver, born August 31, 1991)
  • Enzo Iacchetti (actor, comedian, singer, television actor, television presenter, born August 31, 1952)
  • Simon Neil (guitarist, singer, singer-songwriter, born August 31, 1979)
  • Kristina Lilley (actor, film actor, born August 31, 1963)
  • Todd Carty (actor, film actor, film director, television actor, born August 31, 1963)
  • Larry Grayson (comedian, television presenter, born August 31, 1923)
  • Rolando (association football player, born August 31, 1985)
  • Animal Hamaguchi (professional wrestler, born August 31, 1947)
  • António Félix da Costa (racing automobile driver, born August 31, 1991)
  • Rita Dalla Chiesa (journalist, television presenter, born August 31, 1947)
  • Ryan Kesler (ice hockey player, born August 31, 1984)
  • Giovanni Veronesi (film actor, film director, screenwriter, born August 31, 1962)
  • Jesse E. James (actor, lawyer, born August 31, 1875)
  • Arthur Godfrey (actor, military officer, radio personality, screenwriter, singer, television actor, television presenter, born August 31, 1903)
  • Akiko Hiramatsu (seiyū, singer, born August 31, 1967)
  • Kirsten Walther (comedian, film actor, voice actor, born August 31, 1933)
  • Julio Ramón Ribeyro (diplomat, journalist, writer, born August 31, 1929)
  • Holly Earl (actor, film actor, born August 31, 1992)
  • Stella Chang (singer, born August 31, 1966)
  • K. Natraj (film director, television actor, born August 31, 1949)
  • City Spud (rapper, born August 31, 1975)
  • Lucy Speed (actor, ballet dancer, film actor, born August 31, 1976)

31st of August 1985 News

News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on August 31, 1985

A FIRE UNIT CONFRONTS TOXIC PERIL

Date: 01 September 1985

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WE NEED A BRAIN-DEATH LAW

Date: 01 September 1985

By HOWARD T. ROSEN; Howard Rosen, a lawyer in Newark, is a member of the New Jersey Commission on Uniform State Law

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70,000 AT FUNERAL IN BALCK TOWNSHIP

Date: 01 September 1985

By SHEILA RULE, Special to the New York Times

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TWO STORES NAMED DUNHILL FIND A SOLUTION TO CONFUSION

Date: 01 September 1985

By ISADORE BARMASH

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BOYS' CLUB HELPING 150 TO FURTHER EDUCATION

Date: 01 September 1985

By MARVINE HOWE

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FREDERIC JAY GROSS WED TO LAURA A. GERINGER

Date: 01 September 1985

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WITH THE GREATEST OF EASE

Date: 01 September 1985

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CHUCK NORRIS -- STRONG, SILENT AND POPULAR

Date: 01 September 1985

By JUDY KLEMESRUD

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U.S. Orders Inspection of Jet Engines

Date: 01 September 1985

By Walter Goodman and Katherine Roberts

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SIMEON IS BEST

Date: 01 September 1985

Special to the New York Times

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