Famous People Who Died At 85
The list of famous people who died at 85 includes Hedy Lamarr, Agatha Christie, Shirley Temple, Mary of Teck, V. S. Naipaul. Famous personalities featured on this list, include political leaders, artists, actors and poets and from other domains of life. This list of celebrities who died at 85 includes people from United States, United Kingdom, France & Germany and many more countries.
Shirley Temple23 April 1928, American
Actress
Agatha Christie15 September 1890, British
Hedy Lamarr09 November 1914, Austrian, American
Actress, Co-inventor of technology for spread
Mary of Teck26 May 1867, British
Former Queen of the United Kingdom
Carl Jung26 July 1875, Swiss
Psychiatrist
James Madison16 March 1751, American
4th President of the United States
Karl Lagerfeld10 September 1933, German
Fashion Designer
Tony Curtis03 June 1925, American
Film actor
Lloyd Bridges15 January 1913, American
Film & TV Actor
Sojourner Truth01 December 1797, American
American women's rights activist
Daniel Boone22 October 1734, American
Pioneer
Anne Meara20 September 1929, American
Actress
Shelley Winters18 August 1920, American
Actress
Svetlana Alliluyeva28 February 1926, Russian
Joseph Stalin's Daughter
Grace Hopper09 December 1906, American
Computer Scientist
Ariel Sharon26 February 1928, Israeli
Prime Minister of Israel
Howard Keel13 April 1919, American
Actor
Jessica Tandy07 June 1909, British
Actress
Enoch Powell16 June 1912, British
Lee Radziwill03 March 1933, American
Socialite, Actress, Interior Decorator
Robert Loggia03 January 1930, American
Actor
Bettie Page22 April 1923, American
Hermann Hesse02 July 1877, Swiss, German
Poet
Harriet Beecher Stowe14 June 1811, American
American author
Carl Rogers08 January 1902, American
Psychologist
Annie Besant01 October 1847, British
Member of the London School Board
Mutsuhiro Watanabe18 January 1918, Japanese
Imperial Japanese Army Corporal
Zhao Ziyang17 October 1919, Chinese
Former Prime Minister of China
Don Ameche31 May 1908, American
Actor
K. R. Narayanan27 October 1920, Indian
President of India
Joe Paterno21 December 1926, American
American Football Player
Mary Wickes13 June 1910, American
Actress
Bhupen Hazarika08 September 1926, Indian
Musician, Singer, Poet, Filmmaker, Lyricist
Joshua Chamberlain08 September 1828, American
Educator & War Hero
V. S. Naipaul17 August 1932, British
Writer
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Carmine Persico08 August 1933, American
Boss of the Colombo Crime Family
Ralph Vaughan Williams12 October 1872, British
Composer
Art Carney04 November 1918, American
Actor
Thomas Carlyle04 December 1795, Scottish
Philosopher
Emilie Schenkl26 December 1910, Austrian
Wife of Subhash Chandra Bose
V. V. Giri10 August 1894, Indian
Fourth President of India
Dorothy McGuire14 June 1916, American
Actress
Fred Perry18 May 1909, British
Ernst Haeckel16 February 1834, German
Biologist, Physician, Philosopher & Artist
Edmond Halley08 November 1656, British
Astronomer
George Raft26 September 1895, American
Actor
Casey Stengel30 July 1890, American
American baseball manager
Chespirito21 February 1929, Mexican
Actor
Dorothea Dix04 April 1802, American
Social Reformer
Walter Lippmann23 September 1889, American
First to introduce the concept of Cold War
Konrad Lorenz07 November 1903, Austrian
Zoologist
Marjorie Main24 February 1890, American
Actress
Morihei Ueshiba14 December 1883, Japanese
Martial Artist
Joyce Brothers20 October 1927, American
American psychologist
H. L. Hunt17 February 1889, American
Businessman
Charles G. Dawes27 August 1865, American
Vice President of the United States
Robert Andrews Millikan22 March 1868, American
Physicist
Jamini Roy11 April 1887, Indian
Indian painter
Arthur Malet24 September 1927, British, American
Actor
Konstantin Kuzakov1911 AD, Russian
Joseph Stalin's Son
Henry Bessemer19 January 1813, British
Inventor
Judith Wright31 May 1915, Australian
Poet, Environmentalist, Campaigner for Aboriginal
Girija Prasad Koirala04 July 1924, Nepalese
Former Prime Minister of Nepal
Franco Modigliani10 June 1918, Italian
Economist
Piero Sraffa05 August 1898, Italian
Founder of the Neo-Ricardian School of Economics
Daniel Carleton Gajdusek09 September 1923, American
Physician and medical researcher
Melvin Calvin08 April 1911, American
Biochemist
Camilo José Cela11 May 1916, Spanish
Writer
Selman Waksman22 July 1888, Ukrainian
Discoverer of Streptomycin
Pavel Cherenkov28 July 1904, Russian
Physicist
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.29 August 1809, American
Writer, Physician
Nicholas Murray Butler02 April 1862, American
Philosopher, Educator
Carl O. Sauer24 December 1889, American
Geographer
Kenneth Noland10 April 1924, American
Abstract Painter
Karel Appel25 April 1921, Dutch
Painter, Sculptor, Poet
Walter Houser Brattain10 February 1902, American
Physicist
Jack Butler Yeats29 August 1871, Irish, British
Irish artist
Beulah Louise Henry11 February 1887, American
Lady Edison
Carl David Anderson03 September 1905, American
Physicist
Frederick Gowland Hopkins20 June 1861, British
English biochemist
Reinhard Selten05 October 1930, Polish
Economist
Baruch Samuel Blumberg28 July 1925, American
Physician, Geneticist
Charles Richet25 August 1850, French
Physiologist
James Paget11 January 1814, British
Founder of scientific medical pathology.
Daniel Bovet23 March 1907, Italian
Pharmacologist
Frank Macfarlane Burnet03 September 1899, Australian
Virologist & Noble Prize Laureate
Bertram Brockhouse15 July 1918, Canadian
Physicist
Simon van der Meer24 November 1925, Dutch
Physicist
Owen Chamberlain10 July 1920, American
Physicist
Abraham Whipple26 September 1733, American
Revolutionary Commander
Clifford Shull23 September 1915, American
Physicist
George Wells Beadle22 October 1903, American
Geneticist
Kim Dae Jung06 January 1924, South Korean
Former President of South Korea
Rosalie Edge03 November 1877, American
Women’s Right Activist & Environmentalist
Thomas Hart Benton15 April 1889, American
Painter
Edward Dunlop12 July 1907, Australian
Prisoner of War