List of Famous people who died at 85

José Ortega Spottorno was a Spanish journalist and publisher. Born in Madrid to famous philosopher José Ortega y Gasset and Rosa Spottorno Topete, José Ortega Spottorno was the founder of affordable paperback publishing firm Alianza Editorial and the Spanish daily newspaper El País, which quickly became the bestselling Spanish newspaper, a crown it holds to this day. He was survived by his wife, Simone Ortega, and three children, one of whom works as a journalist for El País.

Charles Burles was a French lyric tenor, primarily associated with the French repertory, both opera and operetta.

Aksel Ivanovich Berg was a Soviet scientist in radio-frequency engineering and Soviet Navy Admiral, Hero of Socialist Labour. He was a key figure in the introduction of cybernetics to the Soviet Union.

Anatoly Andreyevich Gromyko was a Soviet and Russian scientist and diplomat. He specialized in American and African studies as well as international relations, and was a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Union of Russian Artists.

Jean-René Farthouat was a French lawyer who served as Bâtonnier of the Paris Bar Association from 1994 to 1995.

Ismaïl Khelil was a Tunisian politician.

Frank Fakaotimanava Lui was a Niuean politician, who served as the premier of the Pacific Island state of Niue from 1993 to 1999.

Phelim Robert Hugh O'Neill, 2nd Baron Rathcavan, PC (NI), was a politician in Northern Ireland and a hereditary peer in the British House of Lords.

Lieutenant Colonel John Henry Guy Nevill, 5th Marquess of Abergavenny, was a British peer.