List of Famous people who died at 85

Josef Musil was a Czech volleyball player. He won two Olympic medals, in 1964 and 1968, as well as five world and three European championships medals in 1952–1967.

Günther Friedrich was a German mineralogist and university professor at the RWTH University at Aachen. He was an expert in the field of the creation of marine Manganese nodule concretions.

Aquinas Walter Richard Sipe was an American Benedictine monk-priest for 18 years, a psychotherapist and the author of six books about Catholicism, the clerical sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, and clerical celibacy.

Albrecht Wellmer was a German philosopher at the Freie Universität Berlin.

Kwun-Lai Ng (1934-2018) is a former Chinese actress and Cantonese opera singer from Hong Kong. Ng is credited with over 150 films.

Anner Bylsma was a Dutch cellist who played on both modern and period instruments in a historically informed style. He took an interest in music from an early age. He studied with Carel van Leeuwen Boomkamp at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague and won the Prix d'excellence in 1957.

Alexander Mikhailovich Prokhorov was an Australian-born Soviet-Russian physicist known for his pioneering research on lasers and masers in the Soviet Union for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1964 with Charles Hard Townes and Nikolay Basov.

Hubert Alfred Wallace was a Canadian sailor who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics.

Urho Kaleva Kekkonen, often referred to by his initials UKK, was a Finnish politician who served as the eighth and longest-serving President of Finland from 1956 until 1982. He was the third and most recent president from the Agrarian League/Center Party. As head of state for nearly 26 years, he dominated Finnish politics, held a large amount of power, won his later elections with little opposition and has often been classified as an autocrat. Nevertheless, he remains a respected figure.