Deaths in 1985
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
Konstantin Chernenko Sir Michael Redgrave Marc Chagall Gerhard Stock
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 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 – George Brown, Baron 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 20 – Ralph A. Wolfe, American comic book artist and animator (b. 1894 )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 )[ 33] August 31 – Sir 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 )[ 36] 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 )[ 37] September 10
September 11
September 13
September 14
September 17 – Laura Ashley , Welsh designer (b. 1925 )[ 39] September 19 – Italo Calvino , Italian writer (b. 1923 )[ 40] 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 )[ 41] 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 )[ 42]
November
Wellington Koo Lon Nol November 1
November 2 – Don Bragg , American basketball player (b. 1933 )[ 44] 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
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