List of Famous people who died at 85

Randall Thompson was an American composer, particularly noted for his choral works.

Clement Greenberg, occasionally writing under the pseudonym K. Hardesh, was an American essayist known mainly as a very influential visual art critic closely associated with American Modern art of the mid-20th century and a Formalist aesthetician. He is best remembered for his association with the art movement Abstract Expressionism and the painter Jackson Pollock.

Ernst von Klipstein was a German film and television actor. von Klipstein became a prominent actor during the Nazi era, appearing in a large number of action films.

Paul Strand was an American photographer and filmmaker who, along with fellow modernist photographers like Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Weston, helped establish photography as an art form in the 20th century. In the 1930s, he helped found the Photo League. His diverse body of work, spanning six decades, covers numerous genres and subjects throughout the Americas, Europe, and Africa.

Mireille Knoll was an 85-year-old French Jewish woman and Holocaust survivor who was murdered in her Paris apartment on 23 March 2018. The murder has been officially described by French authorities as an antisemitic hate crime.

Sergio Stefanutti (1906–1992) was an Italian engineer specializing in the design of aircraft.

Alan Hume, BSC was an English cinematographer.