List of Famous people who died at 85
Gyoji Matsumoto
Gyoji Matsumoto was a Japanese footballer who played for the national team. He later became a coach.
Colin Davis
Sir Colin Rex Davis was an English conductor, known for his association with the London Symphony Orchestra, having first conducted it in 1959. His repertoire was broad, but among the composers with whom he was particularly associated were Mozart, Berlioz, Elgar, Sibelius, Stravinsky and Tippett.
Milton Stover Eisenhower
Milton Stover Eisenhower was an American academic administrator. He served as president of three major American universities: Kansas State University, Pennsylvania State University, and Johns Hopkins University. He was the younger brother of U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Thérèse Casgrain
Thérèse Casgrain, LL.D. was a French Canadian feminist, reformer, politician and senator.
Thomas Hemsley
Thomas Jeffrey Hemsley, CBE was an English baritone.
Ranko Žeravica
Ranko Žeravica was a Serbian professional basketball coach. With a career that spanned over 50 years, he is most noted for his work with the senior Yugoslav national team, during the 1960s, 1970s, and early 1980s. In particular, Žeravica's single biggest achievement was guiding the country to its first ever major competition win — a gold medal on home soil, at the 1970 FIBA World Championship — leading to a huge expansion of the game of basketball throughout Yugoslavia.
Countess Ina Marie von Bassewitz
Princess Oskar of Prussia, Countess of Ruppin was a German aristocrat and the wife of Prince Oskar of Prussia.
Volodymyr Holubnychyy
Volodymyr Stepanovych Holubnychy was a Soviet and Ukrainian race walker, who competed for the Soviet Union. He dominated the 20 kilometre race walk in the 1960s and 1970s, winning four Olympic medals from 1960 to 1972 and finishing seventh in 1976. He became Olympic champion in 1960 and 1968. He is regarded as one of the greatest race walkers of all time and competed at the Olympics on five occasions in 1960, 1964, 1968, 1972 and 1976.
Mikko Juva
Mikko Einar Juva was a Finnish historian, theologian and archbishop.
Duan Zhengcheng
Duan Zhengcheng was a Chinese industrial engineer and inventor. He specialized in machinery manufacturing and automation, was an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) and served as a professor and doctoral supervisor at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology.