List of Famous people who died at 85

Konstantin Shayne was a Russian-American actor.

Antonio Santin, was an Italian bishop of the Roman Catholic Church. He was Bishop of Rijeka, Bishop of Koper (Slovenia), Bishop of Trieste (Italy), and was created Archbishop ad personam.

John Danforth Herman Greenwood, a composer best known for his work in motion pictures, was the son of New Zealander Alfred Greenwood (1842–1912) and his English-born wife Ottilie Rose Minna (1855–1932) née Schweitzer. He was named after his grandfathers: Herman Schweitzer, a Prussian born Analytical Chemist; and Dr. John Danforth Greenwood (1803–1890) from Sussex, England, a pioneering New Zealand physician and educationist, who had emigrated to New Zealand in 1842 after retiring from medicine due to ill health.

Andreas Speiser was a Swiss mathematician and philosopher of science.

Walter Augustus Huxman was an American attorney, politician, and jurist who served as the 27th governor of Kansas and a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.

William Edmund Barrett was an American author, best known for the 1962 novella The Lilies of the Field.

Helen Dukas was Albert Einstein's secretary. She also co-authored Albert Einstein: Creator and Rebel and co-edited Albert Einstein: The Human Side with Dr. Banesh Hoffmann. Dukas was one of two trustees chosen by Einstein, according to his Last Will and Testament, to hold the literary rights to all of his manuscripts, copyrights, publication rights, royalties, and royalty agreements. The other trustee was the economist Dr. Otto Nathan. In short, Dukas and Dr. Nathan were the "executors of his literary heritage." They collaborated on the compilation of The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, using documents that were subsequently donated to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.