List of Famous people who died at 85

Frank E. Morriss was a film and television editor with more than fifty film and television program credits dating from 1968. He had a notable collaboration with the director John Badham extending from 1974 – 2004. Morriss' editing of Charley Varrick (1973) was nominated for the BAFTA Award. He was honored at the 1974 Primetime Emmy Awards as "film editor of the year" for the television film The Execution of Private Slovik. Morriss was nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing: for Blue Thunder and for Romancing the Stone.

Judson Pratt was an American film, television and theatre actor. He is known for playing Billy Kinkaid in the American western television series Union Pacific, in which he starred with Jeff Morrow.

Norman Myles Kroll was an American theoretical physicist, known for his pioneering work in QED.

Mikhail Mitrofanovich Zaitsev was a general of the Soviet Army. Zaitsev's principal commands were the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany and the southern military districts of the Soviet Union.

Colin Ward was a British anarchist writer. He has been called "one of the greatest anarchist thinkers of the past half century, and a pioneering social historian."