List of Famous people who died at 85

Emilio Simeon Allué Carcasona, SDB was a Spanish-born American prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Boston until his retirement in 2010.

Clarence Dickinson "Doc" Long, Jr. was a Democratic U.S. Congressman who represented the 2nd congressional district of Maryland from January 3, 1963 to January 3, 1985.

Berthold Keller was a German trade union leader.

Charles Welles Rosen was an American pianist and writer on music. He is remembered for his career as a concert pianist, for his recordings, and for his many writings, notable among them the book The Classical Style.

Otto Pächt was an Austrian art historian and one of the representatives of the second wave of the Vienna School of Art History. He mostly wrote on the medieval and Renaissance art of Europe. An exile from the Nazis, he taught in England and United States, before returning to Austria in 1963.

Emilio Pericoli was an Italian singer. He was born in Cesenatico, Romagna.

Simon Hantaï is a painter generally associated with abstract art.