The following is a list of notable deaths in 1985 . Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
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April
Enver Hoxha
Tancredo Neves
April 5 – Paul Hugh Emmett , American chemical engineer (b. 1900 )
April 6 – Terence Sanders , British Olympic rower – coxless fours (b. 1901 )[12]
April 7 – Carl Schmitt , German jurist, political theorist and professor of law (b. 1888 )
April 8 – John Frederick Coots , American songwriter (b. 1897 )[13]
April 10 – Alfredo Duhalde , Chilean statesman (b. 1898 )
April 11 – Enver Hoxha , Albanian Communist politician, leader of the Party of Labour 22nd Prime Minister of Albania (b. 1908 )[14]
April 14
April 15 – Jack Medica , American Olympic swimmer (b. 1914 )[16]
April 16 – Scott Brady , American actor (b. 1924 )
April 17 – Evadne Price , Australian-British writer, actress and astrologer (b. 1888 )
April 18 – Gertrude Caton–Thompson , English archaeologist (b. 1888 )
April 19 – Sergei Aleksandrovich Tokarev , Russian ethnologist (b. 1899 )
April 21
April 26 – Albert Maltz , American screenwriter, one of the Hollywood Ten (b. 1908 )
May
Tahar Ben Ammar
Margaret Hamilton
Penn Nouth
May 1 – Denise Robins , British romance novelist (b. 1897 )[18]
May 4 – Clarence Wiseman , 10th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1907 )
May 5 – Sir Donald Bailey , British civil engineer (b. 1901 )
May 6
May 7 – Dawn Addams , British actress (b. 1930 )
May 8
May 9 – Edmond O'Brien , American actor (b. 1915 )[20]
May 10
May 11 - Chester Gould , American cartoonist, creator of Dick Tracy (b. 1900 )[22]
May 12 – Jean Dubuffet , French artist (b. 1901 )[23]
May 13 – Leatrice Joy , American actress (b. 1893 )
May 14 – Barbara Yung , Hong Kong actress (b. 1959 )
May 16 – Margaret Hamilton , American actress (b. 1902 )
May 18
May 19 – Maqbular Rahman Sarkar , Bangladeshi academic (b. 1928 )[25]
May 22
June
Percy Fender
Tage Erlander
Haruo Remeliik
June 5 – Lord George-Brown , British politician (b. 1914 )
June 6
June 7
June 9 – Clifford Evans , British actor (b. 1912 )
June 10 – George Chandler , American actor (b. 1898 )
June 11 – Karen Ann Quinlan , American right-to-die cause célèbre (b. 1954 )[28]
June 12 – Helmuth Plessner , German philosopher and sociologist (b. 1892 )
June 15
June 17
June 19 – Bonnie Nettles , American religious leader (b. 1927 )
June 21 – Tage Erlander , Swedish politician, 25th Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1901 )
June 27 – Elias Sarkis , Lebanese lawyer, 27th President of Lebanon (b. 1924 )
June 28 – James Craig , American actor (b. 1912 )
June 30 – Haruo Remeliik , Palauan politician, 1st President of Palau (b. 1933 )
July
Jan de Quay
Simon Kuznets
Heinrich Böll
July 1 – Pauli Murray , American civil rights activist, lawyer, author and priest (b. 1910 )
July 3 – Erik Ågren , Swedish boxer (b. 1916 )
July 4 – Jan de Quay , Dutch politician and psychologist, 31st Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1901 )
July 8
July 9
July 14 – Lluís Solé , Spanish geographer and academic (b. 1908 )
July 15 – Rama Devi , Indian nationalist leader (b. 1889 )
July 16 – Heinrich Böll , German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917 )
July 17 – Margo , Mexican-American actress (b. 1917 )
July 19
July 21 – Alvah Cecil Bessie , American screenwriter, one of the Hollywood Ten (b. 1904 )
July 22 – Matti Järvinen , Finnish Olympic athlete (b. 1909 )
July 23
July 25 – Grant Williams , American actor (b. 1931 )
July 26 – Grace Albee , American printmaker and wood engraver. (b. 1890 )
July 27 – John Scarne , American magician and card expert (b. 1903 )
August
Forbes Burnham
Samantha Smith
Macfarlane Burnet
August 1 – D. H. Turner , British art historian and museum curator (b. 1931 )
August 2 – Frank Faylen , American actor (b. 1905 )
August 5 – Arnold Horween , Harvard Crimson and NFL football player (b. 1898 )
August 6
August 8 – Louise Brooks , American actress (b. 1906 )
August 9 – Clive Churchill , Australian rugby league player and coach (b. 1927 )
August 10 – Kenny Baker , American actor and singer (b. 1912 )
August 11 – Hector Grey , Scottish street trader and company director (b. 1904 )
August 12
August 14 – Gale Sondergaard , American actress (b. 1899 )
August 15 – Lester Cole , American screenwriter, one of the Hollywood Ten (b. 1904 )
August 20 – Donald O. Hebb , Canadian neuropsychologist (b. 1904 )
August 22 – Paul Peter Ewald , German-American crystallographer and physicist (b. 1888 )
August 24 – Morrie Ryskind , American dramatist (b. 1895 )
August 25
August 28
August 29
August 30 – Taylor Caldwell , Anglo-American writer (b. 1900 )[32]
August 31 – Macfarlane Burnet , Australian biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1899 )
September
Paul Flory
Italo Calvino
Charles Francis Richter
September 1
September 4
September 6 – Rodney Robert Porter , English biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1917 )[35]
September 7
September 8 – John Franklin Enders , American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1897 )
September 9 – Paul Flory , American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910 )[36]
September 10
September 11
September 13 – Augusto Rademaker , Brazilian admiral and former military junta member (b. 1905 )
September 14
September 17 – Laura Ashley , Welsh designer (b. 1925 )[37]
September 19 – Italo Calvino , Italian writer (b. 1923 )[38]
September 22 – Axel Springer , German journalist and the founder and owner of the Axel Springer AG (b. 1912 )
September 27 – Lloyd Nolan , American actor (b. 1902 )
September 30
October
Rock Hudson
Yul Brynner
Orson Welles
October 1 – E. B. White , American writer (b. 1899 )[39]
October 2
October 5 – Abdus Sattar , Bangladeshi statesman, 8th President of Bangladesh (b. 1906 )
October 6 – Nelson Riddle , American bandleader (b. 1921 )
October 9 – Emílio Garrastazu Médici , Brazilian general and statesman, 28th President of Brazil (b. 1905 )
October 10
October 12
October 13 – Francesca Bertini , Italian actress (b. 1892 )
October 14 – Emil Gilels , Soviet pianist (b. 1916 )
October 17 – Abdelmunim Al-Rifai , Prime Minister of Jordan (b. 1917 )
October 18 – Stefan Askenase , Polish-Belgian classical pianist and pedagogue (b. 1896 )
October 21 – Dan White , American politician and murderer (Moscone–Milk assassinations ) (b. 1946 )
October 24 – László Bíró , Hungarian inventor of the ballpoint pen (b. 1899 )
October 27 – Thomas Townsend Brown , American inventor (b. 1905 )
October 29 – John Davis Lodge , American actor and politician (b. 1903 )
October 31 – Hardit Malik , Indian fighter pilot and diplomat (b. 1894 )[40]
November
Wellington Koo
Lon Nol
November 1 – Phil Silvers , American entertainer (b. 1911 )[41]
November 5
November 6 – Sanjeev Kumar , Indian actor (b. 1937 )
November 8 – Nicolas Frantz , Luxembourgian cyclist (b. 1899 )
November 9 – Marie-Georges Pascal , French actress (b. 1946 )
November 11
November 13
November 14 – Wellington Koo , Chinese statesman (b. 1888 )
November 16 – John Sparkman , American politician (b. 1899 )
November 17
November 19 – Stepin Fetchit , American actor (b. 1902 )
November 22 – María Sabina , Mexican curandera (b. 1894 )
November 24 – Big Joe Turner , American blues singer (b. 1911 )
November 25 – Geoffrey Grigson , British poet, writer, critic (b. 1905 )
November 27 – Fernand Braudel , French historian (b. 1902 )
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