List of Famous people who died at 85
Raymond Reisser
Raymond Reisser was a French professional racing cyclist. He rode in two editions of the Tour de France. He died on 4 April 2017.
Carlo Casini
Carlo Casini was an Italian politician. He was a member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 8 May 2006 until 30 June 2014, he served in a seat left vacant following the 2006 Italian general election. He represented the Union of Christian and Centre Democrats within the EPP parliamentary group. He was also an MEP from 1984 to 1999.
Curly Putman
Claude Putman Jr. professionally known as Curly Putman was an American songwriter.
Wang Jui
Wang Hsi-jui, known by his stage name Wang Jui (王瑞), was a Taiwanese actor. He won the Golden Bell Award three times. Wang died in Taipei of heart and lung failure on 1 June 2016 at the age of 85.
Alan Napier
Alan William Napier-Clavering, better known as Alan Napier, was an English actor. After a decade in West End theatre, he had a long film career in Britain and later, in Hollywood. Napier is best remembered for portraying Alfred Pennyworth, Bruce Wayne's butler in the 1960s live-action Batman television series.
Bernardo Leighton
Bernardo Leighton Guzmán was a Chilean Christian Democratic Party politician and lawyer. He served as minister of state under three presidents over a 36-year career. Exiled as a critic of Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship, he was targeted for assassination by Operation Condor.
Guy Thomas
Guy Thomas was a Belgian-born French songwriter.
Richard Boucher
Richard Boucher was a French football player and coach with Toulouse FC.
Germaine Sablon
Germaine Sablon was a French singer, film actress and a WWII French Resistance fighter.
Duane Graveline
Duane Edgar "Doc" Graveline was an American physician and NASA astronaut. He was one of the six scientists selected in 1965, in NASA's fourth group of astronauts, for the Apollo program. He was best known for being immersed in water for seven days as part of his zero gravity deconditioning research while working as a United States Air Force (USAF) research scientist.