List of Famous people who died at 85

Hermann Kober was a Jewish-German mathematician who introduced Erdélyi–Kober operators. He taught, up to the early 1960s, at some of the King Edward VI Foundation schools in Birmingham.

Salem Hanna Khamis was a Palestinian economic statistician for the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization who helped formalise the Geary-Khamis method of computing purchasing power parity of currencies.

Lovro von Matačić was a Croatian conductor and composer.

Almira Sessions was an American character actress of stage, screen and television. Born in Washington, D.C., her career took her through all the acting mediums of the 20th century. She appeared in over 500 films and television shows. She worked into her 80s, finally retiring shortly before her death in 1974 in Los Angeles.

Mary Claire Fuller was an American stage and silent film actress and screenwriter.

Allen Boretz (1900–1985), was an American songwriter, playwright and screenwriter. The great success of his and John Murray's Broadway hit Room Service (1937) led to offers from Hollywood, and he wrote and co-wrote screenplays from the late 1930s through the 1940s.

Alfred Allen Santell, also known as Al Santell (1895–1981), was an American film director and film producer.

John Millard Tawes, was an American politician and a member of the Democratic Party who was the 54th Governor of Maryland from 1959 to 1967. He remains the only Marylander to be elected to the three positions of State Treasurer, Comptroller, and governor.