List of Famous people who died in 1985

Gina Kaus was an Austrian-American novelist and screenwriter.

Gabit Makhmutuli Musirepov was a Soviet Kazakh writer, playwright and author of libretto to Kazakh opera Kyz-Zhibek. People's Writer of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, President of the Kazakhstan Union of Writers and member of the Kazakhstan Academy of Sciences.

Ferhat Abbas was an Algerian politician who acted in a provisional capacity as the then yet-to-become independent country's President from 1958 to 1961, as well as the first President of the National Assembly and the first acting President after independence. His political views evolved from pro-French collaboration to those of a revolutionary nationalist, over a period of approximately twenty years.

Katharina Schroth was a schoolteacher and rehabilitation specialist who helped develop the Schroth Method, a treatment for scoliosis. With the help of her daughter Christa Lehnert-Schroth, she developed a method to correct her moderate form of scoliosis using breathing techniques to inflate into the concave side of the body while looking in a mirror.

Margarete Schön was a German stage and film actress whose career spanned nearly fifty years. She is best known internationally for her role as Kriemhild in director Fritz Lang's Die Nibelungen series of two silent fantasy films, Die Nibelungen: Siegfried and Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge.

Teixeirinha (pronounced tay-shay-REE-ñuh), given name Vitor Mateus Teixeira, was a Brazilian musician. Teixeirinha is the diminutive form of the common Brazilian surname of Teixeira.

Arthur Rothstein was an American photographer. Rothstein is recognized as one of America's premier photojournalists. During a career that spanned five decades, he provoked, entertained and informed the American people. His photographs ranged from a hometown baseball game to the drama of war, from struggling rural farmers to US Presidents.

Brigitte Gros (1925-1985) was a French journalist and politician. She served as the mayor of Meulan-en-Yvelines and as a member of the French Senate. She was the author of several books.

Hugo Spadafora Franco was an Italian and Panamanian physician and guerrilla fighter in Guinea-Bissau and Nicaragua. He criticized the military in Panama, which led to his murder by the government of Manuel Noriega in 1985.

Donald Desbrow Whillans was an English rock climber and mountaineer. He climbed with Joe Brown and Chris Bonington on many new routes, and was considered the technical equal of both.