List of Famous people who are 85

Ivonka Survilla or Surviłła is the President of the Rada of the Belarusian Democratic Republic, a Belarusian government in exile.

Joseph E. Tata is an American television actor. He is known for his regular role as Nat Bussichio, the owner and operator of the Peach Pit diner, in the TV series Beverly Hills, 90210. He also reprised his role as Nat a few times in the spin-off 90210 in the very start of its first season. Before that, he portrayed Private Neddick on No Time for Sergeants (1964-1965), and he appeared in the 1970s in 8 episodes of The Rockford Files.

Serge Korber is a French film director and screenwriter. He directed 45 films between 1962 and 2007. Successful as the director of comedies starring Louis de Funès in L'homme orchestre and Perched on a Tree, he earned acclaim with his tragical drama Hearth Fires starring Annie Girardot and Claude Jade as mother and daughter. This film was official French film at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival.

Makoto Nagao was a Japanese computer scientist. He contributed to various fields: machine translation, natural language processing, pattern recognition, image processing and library science. He was the 23rd president of Kyoto University (1997–2003) and the 14th director of National Diet Library in Japan (2007–2012).

Yuliy Chersanovich Kim is one of Russia's foremost bards, composer, poet, songwriter for theater and films. His songs, encompassing everything from mild humor to biting political satire, appear in at least fifty Soviet movies, including Bumbarash, The Twelve Chairs, and An Ordinary Miracle, as well as the songs "The Brave Captain," "The Black Sea," "The Whale-Fish," "Cursed Lips," "Captain Bering," and "Baron Germont Went to War." Since 1998, he has been living in Israel and has made periodic tours through Russia, Europe, and the United States.

Kunio Shimizu was a Japanese playwright. Niigata is his hometown, which is located on the Japan Sea. At Tama University of Fine Arts Shimizu was a professor working in the Moving Images and Performing Arts Department.

Philip Kaufman is an American film director and screenwriter who has directed fifteen films over a career spanning more than six decades. He has been described as a "maverick" and an "iconoclast," notable for his versatility and independence. He is considered an "auteur", whose films have always expressed his personal vision.

Qabdesh Zhumadilov was a Kazakh author and national writer of Kazakhstan. He was born in Xinjiang.