List of Famous people who died at 85

Sir Christopher John Howard Chancellor was a British journalist and administrator who was general manager of the news agency Reuters from 1944 to 1959. The Daily Telegraph credited him for keeping the company running under extremely difficult wartime circumstances, noting that "It was largely thanks to Chancellor that Reuters had survived the war intact, despite the loss for several years of the greatest part of its world market." By 1951, at the firm's 100th anniversary, Chancellor was credited with tripling the agency's correspondents and revenues.

Sándor Veress was a Swiss composer of Hungarian origin. He was born in Kolozsvár/Klausenburg, Transylvania, Kingdom of Hungary, Austro-Hungarian Empire, nowadays called Cluj-Napoca, Romania, and died in Bern. The first half of his life was spent in Hungary; the second, from 1949 until his death, in Switzerland, of which he became a citizen in the last months of his life.

Tancred Ibsen was a Norwegian officer, pilot, film director, and screenwriter.

George Morfogen was an American stage, film and TV actor. He is known for playing Bob Rebadow in the HBO show Oz, and for his role as Stanley Bernstein in the original V miniseries.

Oliver William Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes was Dean of Lincoln in the latter part of the 20th century.

Sir John Clifford Mortimer was an English barrister, dramatist, screenwriter, and author.

Miklós Kocsár was a Hungarian composer.