I think the Kazhdan-Lusztig Conjectures are due to Vogan.
EDIT.
True or false, the claim is mainly based on the very first two paragraphs of
[II] Irreducible characters of semisimple Lie groups II. The Kazhdan-Lusztig conjectures. David A. Vogan, Jr. Duke Math. J. Volume 46, Number 4 (1979), 805-859. --- The link
Link, doi: 10.1215/S0012-7094-79-04642-8
gives a universal access to the first page, which contains the two paragraphs in question. In case you don't have access to the full paper, here is a scan of the references (to completely understand the two paragraphs):
Here are two more references:
[I] Irreducible characters of semisimple Lie groups I, David A. Vogan, Jr., Duke Math. J. Volume 46, Number 1 (1979), 61-108.
Link, doi: 10.1215/S0012-7094-79-04605-2
[KL] David Kazhdan and George Lusztig, Representations of Coxeter groups and Hecke algebras, Inventiones Mathematicae, Volume 53, Number 2, 165-184.
GDZ, eudml
I would summarize things as follows.
Step 1. In [I] Vogan made a certain conjecture.
Step 2. [II] and [KL] were written simultaneously. Each paper cites the other. In [KL] Kazhdan and Lusztig also made a certain conjecture. When he learned this, Vogan immediately (or at least very fast) proved that the "Step 1 conjecture" implies that of Kazhdan and Lusztig. (He even showed that the "Step 1 conjecture" generalizes that of Kazhdan and Lusztig.)
But, again, the best is to read carefully the first two paragraphs of [II]. Vogan explains this much more clearly than I, and it's always better to hear things from the horse's mouth.