List of Famous people who died at 85

Robert Irby Clarke was an American actor best known for his cult classic science fiction films of the 1950s.

Raul Bopp was a Brazilian poet and diplomat. He did diplomatic work in Japan and was a friend of Oswald de Andrade. Hence his Cobra Norato is an example of work based in the Manifesto Antropófago. In 1977 he won the Prêmio Machado de Assis.

Saul Chaplin was an American composer and musical director.

Constantine Falkland Cary Smythe, MC was a Canadian businessman, soldier and sportsman in ice hockey and horse racing. He is best known as the principal owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League (NHL) from 1927 to 1961 and as the builder of Maple Leaf Gardens. As owner of the Leafs during numerous championship years, his name appears on the Stanley Cup eight times: 1932, 1942, 1945, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1951 and 1962.

René König was a German sociologist. He was very influential on West German sociology after 1949.

Vladimír Bouzek was an ice hockey player who played in the Czechoslovak First Ice Hockey League. He won a silver medal at the 1948 Winter Olympics. He was inducted into the International Ice Hockey Federation Hall of Fame in 2007. He also played football as a forward, and made three appearances for the Czechoslovakia national team between 1950 and 1951.