List of Famous people who died at 85

Henrique Medina Carreira was a Portuguese jurist and financial expert who served as Minister of Finance from 1976 to 1978.

Cecil Dale Andrus was an American politician who served fourteen years as the Governor of Idaho. A Democrat, he also served as U.S. Secretary of the Interior from 1977 to 1981 during the Carter Administration. Andrus lost his first gubernatorial election in 1966, but won four and his 14 years as governor is the most in state history. He is the most recent Democrat to have held the office.

Toshio Matsumoto was a Japanese film director and video artist.

Antonio Domingo Bussi was an Army General and politician prominent in the recent history of Tucumán Province, Argentina.

Gustav Fröhlich was a German actor and film director. He landed secondary roles in a number of films and plays before landing his breakthrough role of Freder Fredersen in Fritz Lang's 1927 film Metropolis. He remained a popular film star in Germany until the 1950s.

Alain Cuny was a French actor in theatre and cinema.

Hasna Begum was a Bangladeshi philosopher and feminist, and a professor of philosophy at the University of Dhaka until her retirement in December 2000.

Cornelius "Cor" Braasem was a Dutch water polo player and coach, who captained the Dutch team at the 1948 and 1952 Summer Olympics and trained it for the 1960 Games. He won a bronze medal in 1948, scoring six goals in seven matches. Four years later he played all nine matches and scored at least five goals. Though beating all their opponents, except for a 4:4 draw against the eventual winner Hungary, the Dutch team took fifth place through a dubious incident: after Yugoslavia lost to the Netherlands 2:3, it challenged the result based on a supposed partisanship of a referee, and won the replay 2:1.

Viktor Grigoryevich Tsaryov was a Russian footballer.

Elisabeth Johansen was a Greenlandic midwife and politician. She was the first certified midwife in the country, as well as the first woman to attain a political office in Greenland. She was the first women appointed Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog.