Famous People Who Died In 1985
Discover the most famous people died who died in the year 1985. This list includes people like Orson Welles, Rock Hudson, Yul Brynner, Ricky Nelson, Paul Castellano and many more. This list of celebrities is loosely sorted by popularity. People featured on this list, include political leaders, artists, novelists and poets who died in 1985. This list includes people from United States, United Kingdom, France & Russia and many more countries.
Potter Stewart(Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States)
23 January 1915
American
Konstantin Chernenko(Politician)
24 September 1911
Russian
Samantha Smith(Television actor, Child actor)
29 June 1972
American
Roger Maris(Athlete)
10 September 1934
American
Dan White(Government Official)
1946 AD
American
Vivien Thomas(Physician)
29 August 1910
American
Aniello Dellacroce15 March 1914
American
Leonard Lake(Murderer)
1945 AD
American
Carl Schmitt(Jurist, Geopolitician, Politician, Philosopher, Political scientist, University teacher)
11 July 1888
German
Phil Silvers(Actor, Stage actor, Television actor)
11 May 1911
American
Italo Calvino(Writer, Poet, Politician, Journalist, Reporter, Essayist, Novelist, Literary editor, Screenwriter, Science fiction writer, Children's writer)
15 October 1923
Italian,American
Lina Heydrich(Writer)
14 June 1911
German
Janet Auchincloss Rutherfurd(Socialite)
13 June 1945
American
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg(Former Grand Duchess of Luxembourg)
23 January 1896
French
Ettore Boiardi22 October 1897
American
Jean-Marie LoretFrench
Bodil Joensen(Adult Film Star, Actor)
25 September 1944
Danish
Johnny Olson(Actor, Radio personality)
22 May 1910
American
Ana Mendieta(Performance artist, Artist, Painter, Visual artist)
18 November 1948
American
James Beard(Chef, Non-fiction writer)
05 May 1903
American
Julie Vega(Model, Singer, Actor)
21 May 1968
Filipino
Fernand Braudel(Economic historian, Historian, Professor)
24 August 1902
Brazilian,French
Heinrich Böll(Writer)
21 December 1917
German
Ahn Sahng-hong13 January 1918
South Korean
Nelson Riddle(conductor, bandleader, composer, musician)
01 June 1921
American
Pauli Murray(Lawyer)
20 November 1910
American
David Byron(Singer, Songwriter)
29 January 1947
British
Tancredo Neves(Politician, Lawyer, Entrepreneur)
04 March 1910
Brazilian
Thomas Bilotti23 March 1940
American
Selma Diamond(actor, screenwriter, television actor)
05 August 1920
Canadian
Shahnawaz Bhutto(Politician)
21 November 1958
Pakistani
Gary Holton(Guitarist)
22 September 1952
British
Brian Horrocks(Athletics competitor, Military personnel)
07 September 1895
British
Jean Dubuffet(Painter, Sculptor, Visual artist, Writer)
31 July 1901
French
George Pólya(Mathematician)
13 December 1887
American
László Bíró(Inventor)
29 September 1899
Hungarian
Eric Voegelin(Political scientist, Philosopher, University teacher)
03 January 1901
American
Muhammad Zafarullah Khan(Politician, Diplomat, Judge, Lawyer)
06 February 1893
Indian,Pakistani
Efrem Zimbalist(Composer, Conductor, Music educator, Violinist, University teacher)
21 April 1889
American
Jo Jones(jazz musician, musician)
07 October 1911
American
Masako Natsume(Actor, Model, Poet)
17 December 1957
Japanese
Donald O. Hebb(Psychologist, Neuroscientist, University teacher)
22 July 1904
Canadian
Eugene Ormandy(Conductor, University teacher, Concertmaster)
18 November 1899
Hungarian,American