List of Famous people who died at 85

Alan Abraham Segal was a South African tennis player.

Michael Birkett, 2nd Baron Birkett was a British film producer/director, author and hereditary peer.

Ruth Barbara Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh, was an English author of thrillers and psychological murder mysteries.

Paul Chillan was a French footballer who played as a forward in over 200 matches for French Ligue 1 club Nîmes between 1959 and 1967. He was born in La Trinité, Martinique, and made two appearances for the France national team in 1963.

Terence Rawlings was a British film editor and sound editor with several BAFTA nominations and one Academy Award nomination. His credits as a sound editor date from 1962–1977, after which he was credited primarily as a film editor.

Martin Deutsch was an Austrian-American professor of physics at MIT. He is best known for being the discoverer of positronium.