List of Famous people who died at 85

Kurt Waldemar Tschenscher was a German former football referee.

Thane William Howard Hardcastle Christopher Bettany was an English actor and dancer. He was the father of film actor Paul Bettany.

Clarence Eugene "Hank" Snow was a Canadian-American country music artist. Most popular in the 1950s, he had a career that spanned more than 50 years, he recorded 140 albums and charted more than 85 singles on the Billboard country charts from 1950 until 1980. His number-one hits include the self-penned songs "I'm Moving On", "The Golden Rocket" and "The Rhumba Boogie" and famous versions of "I Don't Hurt Anymore", "Let Me Go, Lover!", "I've Been Everywhere", "Hello Love", as well as other top 10 hits.

Alexander Nikolayevich Vyssotsky was a Russian-American astronomer. Vyssotsky was born in Moscow, Imperial Russia, and received his master's degree from Moscow State University.

Dr. Fritz Wittmann was a German politician (CSU) and lawyer.

William Kenneth Armitage was a British sculptor known for his semi-abstract bronzes.

Daniel Carleton Gajdusek was an American physician and medical researcher who was the co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1976 for work on an infectious agent which would later be identified as kuru, the first known human prion disease.

Francesco Marchisano was an Italian Cardinal who worked in the Roman Curia from 1956 until his death.

Albert Vigoleis Thelen was a German author and translator.