List of Famous people who died at 85

Zakir Hussain was a Pakistani field hockey player. He was born in Lahore. He won a gold medal at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, and a silver medal at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne. He died on 19 August 2019.

Richard John Kerry was an American Foreign Service officer and lawyer. He was the father of politicians John Kerry and Cameron Kerry.

Charles Phelps Taft II was a U.S. Republican Party politician and member of the Taft family. From 1955 to 1957, he served as Mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio. Like other members of his family, Taft was a Republican for the purposes of statewide elections. However, when running for municipal office in Cincinnati, Taft was a member of the Charter Party. During his term as mayor, Fortune magazine ranked Cincinnati as the best managed big city in the United States. As mayor, he gained the nickname "Mr. Cincinnati". He married Eleanor Chase in 1917, They had 6 children, Eleanor Kelllogg Hall (Taft), Sylvia Howard Lotspeich (Taft) ,Seth Taft, Lucia Chase Taft, Cynthia Herron Taft Manning, and Rosalyn Rawson Taft.

Emmi Bonhoeffer was the wife of anti-Hitler activist Klaus Bonhoeffer and sister-in-law of theologian, Dietrich Bonhoeffer. She was born on May 13, 1905, in Berlin. She died on March 12, 1991, in Düsseldorf. She married Bonhoeffer on September 3, 1930.