List of Famous people who died at 85

Luděk Munzar was a Czech actor. He appeared in the Czech New Wave film The Joke and starred in the film Poslední propadne peklu under director Ludvík Ráža in 1982.

Andria Balanchivadze was a Georgian composer. He was the son of Meliton Balanchivadze, the composer, and brother of George Balanchine, the famous Georgian-American ballet choreographer.

Willy Fossli was a Norwegian footballer who played for Asker and the Norwegian national team as a striker. In the 1955–56 Hovedserien season, Fossli scored 17 goals and became the league's top scorer and the only player from Asker to have made the achievement. He was capped six times for the Norwegian national team.

Violette, Baroness Gardiner, known professionally as Muriel Box, was an English screenwriter and director, Britain's most prolific female director, having directed 12 feature films and one featurette. Her screenplay for The Seventh Veil won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.

Mikhail Yurievich German was a Soviet and Russian writer, art historian, doctor of art criticism, professor, and member of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA), International Council of Museums (ICOM), International PEN Club, Union of Russian Writers, Union of Journalists of St. Petersburg and the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ). He was a leading researcher at the Russian Museum.