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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.
Deaths in 1985
January
Mikhail Gromov
February
Clarence Nash
Efrem Zimbalist
March
Sir
Michael Redgrave
Marc Chagall
Gerhard Stock
Konstantin Chernenko
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 )
[11]
April 7 –
Carl Schmitt , German jurist, political theorist and professor of law (b.
1888 )
April 8 –
John Frederick Coots , American songwriter (b.
1897 )
[12]
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 )
[13]
April 14
April 15 –
Jack Medica , American Olympic swimmer (b.
1914 )
[15]
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 )
[17]
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 )
[19]
May 10
May 11 -
Chester Gould , American cartoonist, creator of
Dick Tracy (b.
1900 )
[21]
May 12 –
Jean Dubuffet , French artist (b.
1901 )
[22]
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 )
[24]
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 )
[27]
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 )
[31]
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 )
[34]
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 )
[35]
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 )
[36]
September 19 –
Italo Calvino , Italian writer (b.
1923 )
[37]
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 )
[38]
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 )
[39]
November
Wellington Koo
Lon Nol
November 1 –
Phil Silvers , American entertainer (b.
1911 )
[40]
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 )
December
Anne Baxter
Seewoosagur Ramgoolam
Ricky Nelson
References
^
"Sir Brian Horrocks is dead at 89; British General in World War II" .
The New York Times . January 9, 1985. Retrieved 19 December 2014 .
^
"Sir (Bill) William John McKell (1891–1985)" . Former members of the
Parliament of New South Wales . Retrieved 7 May 2019 .
^
"Eric Voegelin, Philosopher, Author and Professor, Dies" . New York Times . January 23, 1985. Retrieved March 20, 2021 .
^
"Rubén Rabanal" . efemeridesradicales.com.ar (in Spanish). Radical Ephemeris. Retrieved 15 December 2023 .
^ no byline (1 March 1985).
"Veteran Film-TV Actor J. Pat O'Malley Dies" .
Los Angeles Times . Retrieved 14 June 2020 .
^
Earle Chester Clements
^ Allen Hughes (March 13, 1985).
"Eugene Ormandy is Dead at 85 in Philadelphia" . New York Times . Retrieved January 21, 2021 .
^ Kika Markham (8 September 2014).
Our Time of Day: My Life with Corin Redgrave . Oberon Books. p. 36.
ISBN
978-1-78319-599-2 . [
permanent dead link ]
^ Elaine Markoutsas (April 21, 1985).
"A tapestry master's hands of gold" .
Chicago Tribune . Retrieved January 21, 2021 .
^ Van Den Berg, Leen (2005). Sœur Sourire: Journal d'une tragedie . Editions Luc Pire. p. 209.
ISBN
2-87415-483-0 .
^
"Terence Sanders" . IOC . Retrieved January 27, 2021 .
^
JOHN FREDERICK COOTS
^ Paulin Kola (2003).
The Search for Greater Albania . C. Hurst & Co. Publishers. p. 168.
ISBN
978-1-85065-596-1 .
^
Morgan, Derec Llwyd (1991), Kate Roberts . Writers of Wales series. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.
ISBN
0-7083-1115-6
^
"Jack Medica" . IOC . Retrieved January 12, 2021 .
^
Unisa Latin American Report . UNISA Centre for Latin American Studies. 1985. p. 30.
^ Hal May; Ann Evory (February 1986).
Contemporary Authors . Gale Research International, Limited. p. 393.
ISBN
978-0-8103-1916-5 .
^
"Pete Desjardins" . IOC . Retrieved March 1, 2021 .
^
"Edmond O'Brien, Actor, Dies at 69" . The New York Times . May 10, 1985. p. D22. Retrieved 26 March 2020 .
^ Raph Uwechue; Africa Books Limited (1991).
Makers of Modern Africa . Africa Journal Limited. p. 104.
ISBN
9780903274180 .
^
Chester Gould, Cartoonist, Dies at 84
^ Jean Dubuffet;
Agnes Husslein -Arco (2003).
Jean Dubuffet . Prestel. p. 16.
ISBN
978-3-7913-6010-2 .
^
Biography Hilding Rosenberg
^
"সাদুল্লাপুর উপজেলা, প্রখ্যাত ব্যক্তিত্ব" .
Bangladesh National Portal (in Bengali). Archived from
the original on 22 August 2020. Retrieved 22 August 2020 .
^ Vladimir Jankelevitch; Vladimir Jankélévitch (April 2005).
Forgiveness . University of Chicago Press. p. 13.
ISBN
978-0-226-39213-4 .
^
Hockey deaths - June 1985
^ Stryker, Jeff (March 31, 1996).
"Right to Die; Life After Quinlan" . New York Times . Retrieved August 30, 2015 .
^ Jon Surtees (1 June 2017).
Wisden at The Oval . Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 75.
ISBN
978-1-4729-4264-7 .
^
"Charlotte | grand duchess of Luxembourg | Britannica" . www.britannica.com . Retrieved 10 December 2022 .
^
"Controversy Erupts Over Death of Race Driver" . Los Angeles Times . August 14, 1985. Retrieved November 26, 2020 .
^ John Arthur Garraty; Mark Christopher Carnes (1999).
American National Biography . Oxford University Press. p. 206.
ISBN
978-0-19-512783-6 .
^
"Driver Is Killed In Race Accident" .
The New York Times .
Associated Press . 2 September 1985. Retrieved 8 October 2010 .
^ World Book, Inc. Staff (February 1986).
The World Book Year Book . World Book, Incorporated. p. 516.
ISBN
978-0-7166-0486-0 .
^
Perry, S. V. (1987).
"Rodney Robert Porter. 8 October 1917-6 September 1985" .
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doi :
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JSTOR
769960 .
PMID
11621436 .
^ Kenneth T. Jackson; Karen Markoe; Arnie Markoe (1998).
The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives: 1981-1985 . Charles Scribner's Sons. p. 282.
ISBN
978-0-684-80492-7 .
^ Slesin, Suzanne (18 September 1985).
"Laura Ashley, British Designer, Is Dead at 60" . The New York Times . Retrieved 8 December 2018 .
^ Beno Weiss (1993).
Understanding Italo Calvino . Univ of South Carolina Press. p. 6.
ISBN
978-0-87249-858-7 .
^ Jill C. Wheeler (1 January 2013).
E. B. White . ABDO Publishing Company. p. 21.
ISBN
978-1-61480-938-8 .
^
Hardit Singh Malik
^
The New York Times Biographical Service . University Microfilms. July 1985. p. 1317.
^
"CONFESSED MURDERER OF 13 IS EXECUTED IN NEVADA" . The New York Times . 1985-12-07.
ISSN
0362-4331 . Retrieved 2024-02-22 .