List of Famous people who died in 1985

James P 'Chick' Doyle was a former Irish badminton player. He was coached by Frank Peard and won ten National Irish titles in the period 1954–1963. His badminton career and All England record was affected by the fact that he emigrated briefly to Australia.

Muzaffer Ozak was a Muslim cleric and the 19th Grand Sheikh of the Halveti-Jerrahi Order of Dervishes, a traditional Muslim Sufi order from Istanbul, Turkey. He was Grand Sheikh of the Order from 1966 to 1985. Ozak was well-known in Western countries because of his visits to Europe and the United States of America, where he celebrated public dhikrs with his dervishes. He is also well known in Turkey for his ilahis, Sufi religious hymns. Ozak also ran a bookstore in the Sahaflar Çarşısı in Istanbul.

Hilding Constantin Rosenberg was the first Swedish modernist composer, and one of the most influential figures in Swedish 20th-century classical music.

Irving Harold Mills was an American music publisher, musician, lyricist, and jazz artist promoter. He sometimes used the pseudonyms Goody Goodwin and Joe Primrose.

Charles E. Kelly was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration for valor—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in World War II. Kelly was the first enlisted man to be decorated with the Medal of Honor for action on the European continent.