List of Famous people who died at 85

Menahem Golan was an Israeli film producer, screenwriter, and director. He was best known for co-owning The Cannon Group with his cousin Yoram Globus. Cannon specialized in producing low-to-mid-budget American films, primarily Genre films, during the 1980s after Golan and Globus had achieved significant filmmaking success in their native Israel during the 1970s.

Lieutenant-Colonel John Jacob Astor V, 1st Baron Astor of Hever, DL was an American-born English newspaper proprietor, politician, sportsman, military officer, and a member of the Astor family.

Viktor Ivanovich Likhonosov was a Russian writer, laureate of the Russian State Prize (1988), the International Mikhail Sholokhov prize and the first Yasnaya Polyana award (2003).

Necip Torumtay was the 20th Chief of the General Staff of the Republic of Turkey.

Harold Davis was a Scottish professional footballer, who was best known for his time with Rangers.

Bernard Joly was a French politician who served as Senator.

Aidan Merivale Crawley was a British journalist, television executive and editor, and politician. He was a member of both of Britain's major political parties: the Labour Party and Conservative Party, and was elected to the House of Commons as a Labour MP from 1945 to 1951, and as a Conservative MP from 1962 to 1967.

Bessie Lillian Gordy Carter was the mother of the thirty-ninth president of the United States Jimmy Carter. She was also known for her contributions to nursing in her home state of Georgia and as a Peace Corps volunteer in India as well as writing two books during the Carter presidency.

Gilbert Picard, called Gilbert Charles-Picard, was a 20th-century French historian and archaeologist, a specialist of North Africa during Antiquity.