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.
Rock Hudson17 November 1925, American
Actor
Orson Welles06 May 1915, American
Actor and Director
Omayra Sánchez29 August 1972, Colombian
Victim of Nevado del Ruiz Volcano
Yul Brynner11 July 1920, Russian
Film & Stage Actor
Ricky Nelson08 May 1940, American
Musician
Kiki Camarena26 July 1947, American
Undercover Agent
Dian Fossey16 January 1932, Rwandan, American
Zoologist, Conservationist
Anne Baxter07 May 1923, American
Actress
Paul Castellano26 June 1915, American
Gangster
Louise Brooks14 November 1906, American
Actress
Marc Chagall06 July 1887, Belarusian, French, Russian
Artist
Enver Hoxha16 October 1908, Albanian
Former Communist Leader of Albania
Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith19 July 1904, American
Last Descendant of Abraham Lincoln
Ruth Gordon30 October 1896, American
Actress
E. B. White11 July 1899, American
Philip Larkin09 August 1922, British
Poet
Robert Graves24 July 1895, British
Poet & Novelist
Jock Stein05 October 1922, Scottish
Football Manager
Stepin Fetchit30 May 1902, American
Actor
Wilfrid Brambell22 March 1912, Irish
Actor
Simone Signoret25 March 1921, French
Actress
Potter Stewart23 January 1915, American
Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of
Laura Ashley07 September 1925, Welsh
Founder of 'Laura Ashley' Brand
Lon Nol13 November 1913, Cambodian
Cambodian Politician
Simon Kuznets30 April 1901, American
Economist
Henry Hathaway13 March 1898, American
Film Director
John Franklin Enders10 February 1897, American
The Father of Modern Vaccines
Paul Flory19 June 1910, American
Chemist
Frank Macfarlane Burnet03 September 1899, Australian
Virologist & Noble Prize Laureate
Andre Kertesz02 July 1894, Hungarian
Photographer
Tjalling C. Koopmans28 August 1910, Dutch
Economist
Bill Scott02 August 1920, American
American voice actor
Rodney R. Porter08 October 1917, British
Biochemist
Konstantin Chernenko24 September 1911, Russian
Politician
Samantha Smith29 June 1972, American
Television actor, Child actor
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Roger Maris10 September 1934, American
Athlete
Dan White1946 AD, American
Government Official
Leonard Lake1945 AD, American
Murderer
Carl Schmitt11 July 1888, German
Jurist, Geopolitician, Politician, Philosopher,
Aniello Dellacroce15 March 1914, American
Italo Calvino15 October 1923, Italian, American
Writer, Poet, Politician, Journalist, Reporter,
Phil Silvers11 May 1911, American
Actor, Stage actor, Television actor
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg23 January 1896, French
Former Grand Duchess of Luxembourg
Lina Heydrich14 June 1911, German
Writer
Gary Holton22 September 1952, British
Guitarist
Bodil Joensen25 September 1944, Danish
Adult Film Star, Actor
Julie Vega21 May 1968, Filipino
Model, Singer, Actor
Jean-Marie LoretFrench
James Beard05 May 1903, American
Chef, Non-fiction writer
Vivien Thomas29 August 1910, American
Physician
Johnny Olson22 May 1910, American
Actor, Radio personality
Ahn Sahng-hong13 January 1918, South Korean
Ana Mendieta18 November 1948, American
Performance artist, Artist, Painter, Visual artist
Selma Diamond05 August 1920, Canadian
actor, screenwriter, television actor
Nelson Riddle01 June 1921, American
conductor, bandleader, composer, musician
Fernand Braudel24 August 1902, Brazilian, French
Economic historian, Historian, Professor
Heinrich Böll21 December 1917, German
Writer
David Byron29 January 1947, British
Singer, Songwriter
Janet Auchincloss Rutherfurd13 June 1945, American
Socialite
Brian Horrocks07 September 1895, British
Athletics competitor, Military personnel
Ettore Boiardi22 October 1897, American
Tancredo Neves04 March 1910, Brazilian
Politician, Lawyer, Entrepreneur
Jean Dubuffet31 July 1901, French
Painter, Sculptor, Visual artist, Writer
Stefan Bellof20 November 1957
Formula One driver
Pauli Murray20 November 1910, American
Lawyer
Shahnawaz Bhutto21 November 1958, Pakistani
Politician
George Pólya13 December 1887, American
Mathematician
László Bíró29 September 1899, Hungarian
Inventor
David Purley26 January 1945, British
Formula One driver, Aerobatics, Racecar driver
Thomas Bilotti23 March 1940, American
Rudi Gernreich08 August 1922, Austrian, American
Designer
Efrem Zimbalist21 April 1889, American
Composer, Conductor, Music educator, Violinist,
Donald O. Hebb22 July 1904, Canadian
Psychologist, Neuroscientist, University teacher
Eric Voegelin03 January 1901, American
Political scientist, Philosopher, University
Masako Natsume17 December 1957, Japanese
Actor, Model, Poet
Muhammad Zafarullah Khan06 February 1893, Indian, Pakistani
Politician, Diplomat, Judge, Lawyer
Barbara Yung07 May 1959, Hong Konger
Actor
Eugene Ormandy18 November 1899, Hungarian, American
Conductor, University teacher, Concertmaster
Emil Gilels19 October 1916, Russian
Pianist
Jo Jones07 October 1911, American
jazz musician, musician
Margaret Mahler10 May 1897, Hungarian
Psychiatrist, Child psychiatrist
Tage Erlander13 June 1901, Swedish
Politician
Méret Oppenheim06 October 1913, Swiss, German
Photographer, Writer, Painter, Model, Visual
Patricia Roberts Harris31 May 1924, American
Former United States Secretary of Housing and
Charles Francis Richter26 April 1900, American
American seismologist
William Pereira25 April 1909, American
Architect
Vyloppilli Sreedhara Menon11 May 1911, Indian
Poet, Writer
Julia Robinson08 December 1919, American
Mathematician, Philosopher, University teacher,
Karl Diebitsch03 January 1899, German
Painter, Postage stamp designer
Anton Karas07 July 1906, Austrian
Composer, Musician, Film score composer
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.05 July 1902, American
Elsa Morante18 August 1912, Italian
Italian novelist
Chester Gould20 November 1900, American
Cartoonist
Tjalling Koopmans28 August 1910, Dutch, American
Economist, Mathematician
Hedley Bull10 June 1932, Australian
Political scientist, University teacher
Albert Maltz28 October 1908, American
Screenwriter, Novelist, Writer