List of Famous people who died at 85

Gordon Douglas Brickner was an American film director and actor, who directed many different genres of films over the course of a five-decade career in motion pictures.

Ladislav Bezák (1932-2018) was a Czechoslovak aerobatic pilot, the first winner of the FAI World Aerobatic Championships in 1960, and first to win the Biancotto Trophy in 1965. In 1971, he defected by flying to West Germany. He loaded his wife and four sons into a two-seat Zlín Z 226 that took off in Prague and landed in Nuremberg, where all six were granted political asylum by West Germany. Ladislav Bezák died of natural causes at age 86 in his home in Bühne, Germany.

Elaine Elizabeth Shepard was a Broadway and film actress in the 1930s and 1940s. She was also the author of The Doom Pussy, a semi-fictional account of aviation in the Vietnam War.

Thomas O'Driscoll Hunter was an American actor known for work in Spaghetti Westerns and as a Hollywood screenwriter. He was also the founder of the New England Repertory Company.

Silvio Pedroni was an Italian cyclist. He competed in the individual and team road race events at the 1948 Summer Olympics. He also rode in the 1949 Tour de France.

Acácio Rodrigues Alves was the first Roman Catholic bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Palmares, Brazil.