List of Famous people who died at 85

Ida Gomes, stage name of Ita Szafran was a Brazilian actress and voice actress born in Poland.

Carl Einar Hille was an American mathematics professor and scholar. Hille authored or coauthored twelve mathematical books and a number of mathematical papers.

Carlos Francisco Martins Pinheiro was the Roman Catholic titular bishop of Dumium and the auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Braga, Portugal.

Meryvn Alban Alexander was the Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Clifton from 1974 to 2001.

Brian George William Manning was an English astronomer who discovered 19 minor planets. He was born in 1926 in Birmingham. He constructed his first mirror from a piece of glass that a World War II bomb blew out of the roof of the factory where his father worked. He began as an engineering draughtsman but later became a metrologist at the University of Birmingham. In the late 1950s, he constructed an interference-controlled ruling machine in a home workshop, which was able to rule high-quality 3 by 2 inch gratings. In 1990, he received the H. E. Dall prize of the BAA.

Nicolaus Sombart was a German cultural sociologist, historian and writer.