List of Famous people who died at 85

Karl Adolphs

First Name Karl
Last Name Adolphs
Born on November 9, 1904
Died on December 24, 1989 (aged 85)
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Karin Andersen

First Name Karin
Last Name Andersen
Born on December 9, 1927
Died on July 3, 2013 (aged 85)
Born in Germany, Brandenburg
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John Tukey

John Wilder Tukey
First Name John
Last Name Tukey
Born on June 16, 1915
Died on July 26, 2000 (aged 85)

John Wilder Tukey was an American mathematician best known for development of the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) algorithm and box plot. The Tukey range test, the Tukey lambda distribution, the Tukey test of additivity, and the Teichmüller–Tukey lemma all bear his name. He is also credited with coining the term 'bit'.

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Robert Alexander Rankin

First Name Robert
Last Name Rankin
Born on October 27, 1915
Died on January 27, 2001 (aged 85)

Robert Alexander Rankin FRSE FRSAMD was a Scottish mathematician who worked in analytic number theory.

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Hermann Bondi

First Name Hermann
Last Name Bondi
Born on November 1, 1919
Died on September 10, 2005 (aged 85)
Born in Austria

Sir Hermann Bondi was an Austrian-British mathematician and cosmologist.

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Enio Mainardi

First Name Enio
Born on May 24, 1935
Died on August 8, 2020 (aged 85)
Born in Brazil, São Paulo
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Walter Hugo Gross

First Name Walter
Last Name Gross
Born on February 5, 1904
Died on May 17, 1989 (aged 85)
Born in Germany, Brandenburg

Walter Hugo Gross was a German actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1933 to 1989.

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Edward Abraham

First Name Edward
Last Name Abraham
Born on June 10, 1913
Died on May 8, 1999 (aged 85)

Sir Edward Penley Abraham, was an English biochemist instrumental in the development of the first antibiotics penicillin and cephalosporin.

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Anna Ticho

First Name Anna
Last Name Ticho
Born on October 27, 1894
Died on March 1, 1980 (aged 85)

Anna Ticho was a Jewish artist who became famous for her drawings of the Jerusalem hills.

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André Remacle

André Marie François Bernard Remacle
First Name André
Last Name Remacle
Born on April 3, 1910
Died on July 14, 1995 (aged 85)
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