List of Famous people who died in 1985

Alexia González-Barros González was a Spanish Roman Catholic child. González-Barros studied in school in Madrid and in her childhood received a papal blessing from Pope John Paul II during her trip to Rome. But in late 1984 she began feeling pains in her arm and back that led to a diagnosis two months later as being a malignant tumor in the vertebral column transforming into spinal cancer. Her siblings and friends remembered her for her piousness and her dedication to practicing holiness in all aspects of life.

Jacques Monod was a French actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1947 to 1985.

Mary Kenneth Keller, B.V.M. was an American Roman Catholic religious sister, educator and pioneer in computer science. She and Irving C. Tang were the first two people to earn a doctorate in computer science in the United States.

Suhaim bin Hamad bin Abdullah bin Jassim bin Muhammed Al Thani was a member of the ruling family of Qatar who served as the country's foreign minister. His brother, Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani, was the emir of Qatar.

Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. was a Republican United States senator from Massachusetts in both Senate seats in non-consecutive terms of service and a United States ambassador. He was considered for the vice presidency, most significantly in 1952 by Dwight Eisenhower. Later, largely due to Eisenhower's advice and encouragement, he ended up being chosen as the Republican nominee for Vice President in the 1960 presidential election alongside incumbent Vice President Richard Nixon. The Republican ticket narrowly lost to Democrats John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. In 1964, Lodge won by a plurality a number of that years‘ party presidential primaries and caucuses on the strength of his name, reputation, and respect among many voters. This effort was encouraged and directed by low-budget but high-impact grassroots campaign by academic and political amateurs.

Iván Marino Ospina was a Colombian guerrilla and co-founder of the revolutionary group 19th of April Movement (M-19).

Gleb Aleksandrovich Strizhenov was a Soviet actor, Honoured Artist of the RSFSR (1974). He was born in Voronezh, USSR. Oleg Strizhenov, who is also an actor, was his brother.

Barbara Yung Mei-ling was a Hong Kong actress during the early 1980s. Yung died due to gas inhalation at the age of 26, during the peak of her career.

Vladimir Jankélévitch was a French philosopher and musicologist.

David Garrick, better known by his stage name David Byron, was a British singer and songwriter, best known in the early 1970s as the lead vocalist with the rock band Uriah Heep. Byron possessed a powerful operatic voice and a flamboyant stage presence.