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
Hedy Lamarr09 November 1914, Austrian, American
Actress, Co-inventor of technology for spread
Agatha Christie15 September 1890, British
Mary of Teck26 May 1867, British
Former Queen of the United Kingdom
Carl Jung26 July 1875, Swiss
Psychiatrist
Tony Curtis03 June 1925, American
Film actor
James Madison16 March 1751, American
4th President of the United States
Karl Lagerfeld10 September 1933, German
Fashion Designer
Lloyd Bridges15 January 1913, American
Film & TV Actor
Shelley Winters18 August 1920, American
Actress
Anne Meara20 September 1929, American
Actress
Daniel Boone22 October 1734, American
Pioneer
Lee Radziwill03 March 1933, American
Socialite, Actress, Interior Decorator
Grace Hopper09 December 1906, American
Computer Scientist
Svetlana Alliluyeva28 February 1926, Russian
Joseph Stalin's Daughter
Ariel Sharon26 February 1928, Israeli
Prime Minister of Israel
Howard Keel13 April 1919, American
Actor
Jessica Tandy07 June 1909, British
Actress
Robert Loggia03 January 1930, American
Actor
Hermann Hesse02 July 1877, Swiss, German
Poet
Annie Besant01 October 1847, British
Member of the London School Board
Bettie Page22 April 1923, American
Dorothy McGuire14 June 1916, American
Actress
Joe Paterno21 December 1926, American
American Football Player
Bhupen Hazarika08 September 1926, Indian
Musician, Singer, Poet, Filmmaker, Lyricist
Sojourner Truth01 December 1797, American
American women's rights activist
Ralph Waite22 June 1928, American
Actor
Enoch Powell16 June 1912, British
Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia25 March 1875, Russian
Grand Duchess of Russia
Mutsuhiro Watanabe18 January 1918, Japanese
Imperial Japanese Army Corporal
Carl Rogers08 January 1902, American
Psychologist
Don Ameche31 May 1908, American
Actor
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Howard Morris04 September 1919, American
Actor, Director
Harriet Beecher Stowe14 June 1811, American
American author
Fred Perry18 May 1909, British
Zhao Ziyang17 October 1919, Chinese
Former Prime Minister of China
Art Carney04 November 1918, American
Actor
Mary Wickes13 June 1910, American
Actress
Thomas Carlyle04 December 1795, Scottish
Philosopher
Ralph Vaughan Williams12 October 1872, British
Composer
Ernst Haeckel16 February 1834, German
Biologist, Physician, Philosopher & Artist
V. S. Naipaul17 August 1932, British
Writer
Carmine Persico08 August 1933, American
Boss of the Colombo Crime Family
Emilie Schenkl26 December 1910, Austrian
Wife of Subhash Chandra Bose
V. V. Giri10 August 1894, Indian
Fourth President of India
Joshua Chamberlain08 September 1828, American
Educator & War Hero
Desmond Llewelyn12 September 1914, Welsh
Actor
Chespirito21 February 1929, Mexican
Actor
K. R. Narayanan27 October 1920, Indian
President of India
Casey Stengel30 July 1890, American
American baseball manager
Maila Nurmi11 December 1922, Finnish, American
Actress
George Raft26 September 1895, American
Actor
Grace Lee Whitney01 April 1930, American
Actress
Edmond Halley08 November 1656, British
Astronomer
Walter Lippmann23 September 1889, American
First to introduce the concept of Cold War
Konrad Lorenz07 November 1903, Austrian
Zoologist
Robert Andrews Millikan22 March 1868, American
Physicist
Dorothea Dix04 April 1802, American
Social Reformer
Marjorie Main24 February 1890, American
Actress
H. L. Hunt17 February 1889, American
Businessman
Joyce Brothers20 October 1927, American
American psychologist
Morihei Ueshiba14 December 1883, Japanese
Martial Artist
Charles G. Dawes27 August 1865, American
Vice President of the United States
Jamini Roy11 April 1887, Indian
Indian painter
Delores Taylor27 September 1932, American
Actress
Arthur Malet24 September 1927, British, American
Actor
Konstantin Kuzakov1911 AD, Russian
Joseph Stalin's Son
Girija Prasad Koirala04 July 1924, Nepalese
Former Prime Minister of Nepal
Henry Bessemer19 January 1813, British
Inventor
Judith Wright31 May 1915, Australian
Poet, Environmentalist, Campaigner for Aboriginal
Franco Modigliani10 June 1918, Italian
Economist
Selman Waksman22 July 1888, Ukrainian
Discoverer of Streptomycin
Daniel Carleton Gajdusek09 September 1923, American
Physician and medical researcher
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.29 August 1809, American
Writer, Physician
Piero Sraffa05 August 1898, Italian
Founder of the Neo-Ricardian School of Economics
Melvin Calvin08 April 1911, American
Biochemist
Camilo José Cela11 May 1916, Spanish
Writer
Nicholas Murray Butler02 April 1862, American
Philosopher, Educator
Pavel Cherenkov28 July 1904, Russian
Physicist
Walter Houser Brattain10 February 1902, American
Physicist
Carl David Anderson03 September 1905, American
Physicist
Carl O. Sauer24 December 1889, American
Geographer
Frederick Gowland Hopkins20 June 1861, British
English biochemist
Jack Butler Yeats29 August 1871, Irish, British
Irish artist
Karel Appel25 April 1921, Dutch
Painter, Sculptor, Poet
Frank Macfarlane Burnet03 September 1899, Australian
Virologist & Noble Prize Laureate
Baruch Samuel Blumberg28 July 1925, American
Physician, Geneticist
Reinhard Selten05 October 1930, Polish
Economist
Charles Richet25 August 1850, French
Physiologist
Kenneth Noland10 April 1924, American
Abstract Painter
Bertram Brockhouse15 July 1918, Canadian
Physicist
James Paget11 January 1814, British
Founder of scientific medical pathology.
Simon van der Meer24 November 1925, Dutch
Physicist
Daniel Bovet23 March 1907, Italian
Pharmacologist
Edward Dunlop12 July 1907, Australian
Prisoner of War
Owen Chamberlain10 July 1920, American
Physicist