List of Famous people who died at 85

Joyce Davidson was a television personality in Canada and the United States.

James Edwin Webb was an American government official who served as the second appointed administrator of NASA from February 14, 1961, to October 7, 1968. Webb oversaw NASA from the beginning of the Kennedy administration through the end of the Johnson administration, thus overseeing all the critical first manned launches in the Mercury through Gemini programs, until just before the first crewed Apollo flight. He also dealt with the Apollo 1 fire.

Bernard Häring was a German Catholic moral theologian, and a Redemptorist priest.

James Algar was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. He worked for the Walt Disney Productions for 43 years and received the Disney Legends award in 1998. He was born in Modesto, California and died in Carmel, California.

Luigi Magni was an Italian screenwriter and film director.

Dina Schneidermann was a Ukrainian-Swedish violinist that studied violin with David Oistrakh in Moscow. Having married the Bulgarian violin professor Emil Kamilarov (1928–2007), Schneidermann moved to Bulgaria. The couple left Bulgaria in the 1980s, and moved to Uppsala, Sweden, where they lived for the rest of their lives.