Year (''' MCMXXXV ''') was a Common Year Starting On Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar .
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- February 15 - The discovery and clinical development of Prontosil , the first broadly effective antibacterial drug, is published in a series of articles in Germany's pre-eminent medical journal, ''Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift'', by Gerhard Domagk .
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- November 5 - Parker Brothers releases the board game Monopoly .
- November 8 - A dozen Labor leaders come together to announce the creation of the Congress Of Industrial Organizations (CIO), an organization charged with pushing the cause for Industrial Unionism .
- November 14 In General Election in Britain , Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin returned to office at the head of a National Government led by the Conservative Party with a large but reduced majority.
- November 22 - The '' China Clipper '' takes off from Alameda, California in an attempt to deliver the first Airmail cargo across the Pacific Ocean (the aircraft later reached its destination, Manila , and delivered over 110,000 pieces of Mail ).
- November 30 - The 1935 British -made film '' Scrooge '', the first all-talking film version of Charles Dickens classic, opens in the U.S. after its British release. Seymour Hicks plays Scrooge, a role he has played onstage hundreds of times. The film is criticized by some for not showing all of the ghosts physically, and quickly fades into obscurity. Widespread interest in it does not surface until the film is shown on Television in the 1980s, in very shabby-looking prints. It is eventually restored on DVD , but the criticisms of it remain.
- January 4 - Floyd Patterson , American boxer (d. 2006 )
- January 7
- --- Valeri Kubasov , cosmonaut
- --- Kenny Davern , American jazz clarinetist
- January 8 - Elvis Presley , American singer and guitarist (d. 1977 )
- January 9 - Bob Denver , American actor (d. 2005 )
- January 10
- --- Ronnie Hawkins , American musician
- --- Sherrill Milnes , American baritone
- January 12 - Kreskin , mentalist
- January 14 - Lucille Wheeler , Canadian skier
- January 16
- --- A.J. Foyt , American race car driver
- --- Udo Lattek , German football coach
- --- Harvey Gardner , American actor
- January 17 - Ruth Ann Minner , Governor of Delaware
- January 18 - Jon Stallworthy , English poet
- January 30 - Richard Brautigan , American writer (d. 1984 )
- January 31 - Kenzaburo Oe , Japanese writer, Nobel Prize laureate
- February 4 - Martti Talvela , Finnish bass (d. 1989 )
- February 11
- --- Gerry Goffin , American songwriter
- --- Gene Vincent , American guitarist and vocalist (d. 1971 )
- February 14 - Rob McConnell , Canadian jazz musician
- February 16 - Sonny Bono , American singer, actor, and politician (d. 1998 )
- February 17 - Christina Pickles , British actress
- February 25 - Sally Jessy Raphaël , American talk show host
- February 27 - Mirella Freni , Italian soprano
- March 1
- --- Robert Conrad , American actor
- --- Judith Rossner , American writer (d. 2005 )
- March 4 - Bent Larsen , Danish chess player
- March 6 - Ron Delany , Irish runner
- March 15
- --- Jimmy Swaggart , American televangelist
- --- Judd Hirsch , American actor
- March 18 - Ole Barndorff-Nielsen , Danish mathematician
- March 22 - M. Emmet Walsh , American actor
- March 24 - Peter Bichsel , Swiss writer
- March 25 - Gloria Steinem , American feminist and author
- March 26 - Mahmoud Abbas , President of the Palestine National Authority
- March 27
- --- Abelardo Castillo , Argentine writer
- --- Julian Glover , English actor
- March 31
- --- Richard Chamberlain , American actor
- --- Herb Alpert , American trumpeter
- April 18 - Paul A. Rothchild , American record producer (d. 1995 )
- April 19 - Dudley Moore , British actor (d. 2002 )
- April 21
- --- Charles Grodin , American actor and journalist
- --- Thomas Kean , former Governor of New Jersey and 9/11 Commission Chairman
- April 23 - Bunky Green , American jazz musician
- April 25 - April Ashley , English model
- May 2 - Lance LeGault , American actor
- May 7 - Isobel Warren , Canadian author
- May 11 - Francisco Umbral , Spanish journalist, novelist, biographer and essayist (d. 2007 )
- May 12 - Felipe Alou , Dominican Major League Baseball manager
- May 17
- --- Ryke Geerd Hamer , German cancer researcher
- --- Dennis Potter , English writer (d. 1994 )
- May 20 - Marinella , Greek singer
- May 24 - Joan Micklin Silver , American director
- May 25 - Cookie Gilchrist , American football player
- May 27 - Lee Meriwether , American beauty queen and actress
- June 2
- --- Carol Shields , American-born writer (d. 2003 )
- --- Roger Brierley , English actor (d. 2005 )
- June 18 - John Spencer , British snooker player (d. 2006 )
- June 19 - Derren Nesbitt , British actor
- June 21 - Françoise Sagan , French writer (d. 2004 )
- June 28 - John Inman , British comedian (d. 2007 )
- July 6 - Tenzin Gyatso , 14th Dalai Lama , recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
- July 8 - Vitali Sevastyanov , cosmonaut
- July 9 - Wim Duisenberg , Dutch economist and politician (d. 2005 )
- July 11 - Oliver Napier , Northern Irish politician
- July 13 - Jack Kemp , American football player and U.S. Vice Presidential candidate
- July 15 - William G. Stewart , British television producer and presenter
- July 17
- --- Peter Schickele , American composer and comedian
- --- Donald Sutherland , Canadian actor
- July 18 - Jayendra Saraswathi , Hindu religious leader
- July 27 - Billy McCullough , Northern Irish footballer
- July 28 - Simon Dee , British television presenter
- July 29 - Peter Schreier , German tenor
- August 3 - Georgi Shonin , cosmonaut (d. 1997 )
- August 13 - Rod Hull , British entertainer (d. 1999 )
- August 15
- --- Jim Dale , English actor, singer and songwriter
- --- Lionel Taylor , American football player
- August 18 - Rafer Johnson , American athlete
- August 19 - Bobby Richardson , baseball player
- August 20 - Ron Paul , American politician
- August 22 - E. Annie Proulx , American author
- August 26 - Geraldine Ferraro , U.S. Vice Presidential candidate
- August 30 - John Phillips , American singer (d. 2001 )
- August 31
- --- Eldridge Cleaver , American activist (d. 1998 )
- --- Frank Robinson , baseball player
- September 1 - Seiji Ozawa , Japanese conductor
- September 2 - D. Wayne Lukas , American horse trainer
- September 11
- --- Gherman Titov , cosmonaut (d. 2000 )
- --- Arvo Pärt , Estonian composer
- September 16
- --- Carl Andre , American artist
- --- Bob Kiley , American public transit planner
- September 17
- --- Ken Kesey , American author (d. 2001 )
- --- Serge Klarsfeld , Romanian Nazi hunter
- September 25 - Adrien Douady , French mathematician (d. 2006 )
- September 29 - Jerry Lee Lewis , American musician
- September 30
- --- ZZ Hill , American musician
- --- Johnny Mathis , American singer
- October 1 - Julie Andrews , English singer and actress
- October 6 - Bruno Sammartino , Italian professional wrestler
- October 9 - Prince Edward, Duke Of Kent
- October 12 - Luciano Pavarotti , Italian tenor (d. 2007 )
- October 14 - La Monte Young , American composer
- October 15
- --- Bobby Joe Morrow , American athlete
- --- Willie O'Ree , Canadian hockey player
- October 18 - Peter Boyle , American actor (d. 2006 )
- October 20 - Jerry Orbach , American actor (d. 2004 )
- October 21 - Derek Bell , Irish musician (d. 2002 )
- October 22 - Ann Rule , American true-crime writer
- October 29 - Takahata Isao , Japanese animated film director
- October 30
- --- Robert Caro , American biographer
- --- Agota Kristof , Hungarian writer
- October 31 - Ronald Graham , American mathematician
- November 1 - Edward Said , Palestinian-born literary critic (d. 2003 )
- November 8 - Alain Delon , French actor
- November 9 - Bob Gibson , baseball player
- November 10 - Igor Dmitrievich Novikov , Russian astrophysicist
- November 13 - George Carey , Archbishop Of Canterbury
- November 14 - King Hussein Of Jordan (d. 1999 )
- November 17 - Toni Sailer , Austrian skier
- November 21 - Fairuz , Lebanese singer
- November 23 - Vladislav Volkov , cosmonaut
- November 27 - Pat Fordice , First Lady of Mississippi from 1992 until 2000 (d. 2007 )
- December 1 - Woody Allen , American film director
- December 5 - Calvin Trillin , American writer
- December 8 - Dharmendra , Indian actor
- December 11
- --- Ron Carey , American actor (d. 2007 )
- --- Pranab Mukherjee , Indian politician
- December 13 - Ken Hall , American football player, known as the “Sugar Land Express”
- December 14
- --- Lee Remick , American actress (d. 1991 )
- --- Anthony Wilden , British author and social theorist, noted translator of Jaques Lacan
- December 17 - Cal Ripken, Sr. , baseball player and manager (d. 1999 )
- December 19 - Bobby Timmons , American jazz pianist (d. 1974 )
- December 23 - Paul Hornung , American football player
- December 30
- --- Omar Bongo , President Of Gabon
- --- Sandy Koufax , baseball player
- April 5 - Basil Champneys , architect (b. 1842 )
- April 6 - Edwin Arlington Robinson , American poet (b. 1869 )
- April 14 - Emmy Noether , German mathematician (b. 1882 )
- April 18 - Panait Istrati , Romanian writer (b. 1884 )
- May 12 - Józef Piłsudski , Polish politician (b. 1867 )
- May 17 - Paul Dukas , French composer (b. 1865 )
- May 18 - T. E. Lawrence , English soldier (Lawrence of Arabia) (b. 1888 )
- May 19 - Charles Martin Loeffler , American composer (b. 1861 )
- May 21 - Jane Addams , American social worker, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1860 )
- May 29 - Josef Suk , Czech composer and violinist (b. 1874 )
- June 29 - Hayashi Fubo , Japanese novelist (b. 1900 )
- July 3 - André Citroën , French automobile pioneer (b. 1878 )
- July 12 - Alfred Dreyfus , French military officer (b. 1859 )
- July 17 - George William Russell , Irish nationalist, poet and artist (b. 1867 )
- July 17 - James Moore , winner of the first ever cycle race (b. 1849 )
- August 12 - Friedrich Schottky , German mathematician (b. 1851 )
- August 15 - Wiley Post , American pilot (plane crash) (b. 1898 )
- August 15 - Will Rogers , American humorist and actor (plane crash) (b. 1879 )
- August 21 - John Hartley , English tennis player, double winner of Wimbledon (b. 1849 )
- August 29 - Queen Astrid Of Belgium (b. 1905 )
- August 30 - Henri Barbusse , French novelist and journalist (b. 1873 )
- September 10 - Huey Long , American politician (b. 1893 )
- September 28 - W.K. Dickson , Scottish inventor (b. 1860 )
- October 20 - Arthur Henderson , Scottish politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1863 )
- October 22 - Tommy Tucker , 19th century baseball pioneer (b. 1863 )
- November 2 - Jock Cameron , South African cricketer (b. 1905 )
- November 28 - Erich Von Hornbostel , Austrian musicologist (b. 1877 )
- December 2 - James Henry Breasted , American Egyptologist (b. 1865 )
- December 3 - Princess Victoria Of The United Kingdom , daughter of King Edward VII (b. 1868 )
- December 4
- --- Johan Halvorsen , Norwegian composer (b. 1864 )
- --- Charles Robert Richet , French physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1850 )
- December 13 - Victor Grignard , French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1871 )
- December 14 - Stanley G. Weinbaum , American science-fiction author (b. 1902 )
- December 17 - Juan Vicente Gómez , Venezuelan military dictator (b. 1857 )
- December 20 - Martin O'Meara , Australian soldier (b. 1882 )
- December 21 - Kurt Tucholsky , German journalist and satirist (b. 1890 )
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