List of Famous people who died in 1985

Janet Jennings Auchincloss Rutherfurd was an American socialite. She was the half-sister of the former First Lady of the United States, Jacqueline Onassis and socialite Lee Radziwill.

Athole Dane Shearer Hawks was a Canadian American actress, who was the sister of motion picture star Norma Shearer and MGM film sound engineer Douglas Shearer.

Vivien Theodore Thomas was an American laboratory supervisor who developed a procedure used to treat blue baby syndrome in the 1940s. He was the assistant to surgeon Alfred Blalock in Blalock's experimental animal laboratory at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, and later at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. He served as supervisor of the surgical laboratories at Johns Hopkins for 35 years. In 1976 Hopkins awarded him an honorary doctorate and named him an instructor of surgery for the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Without any education past high school, Thomas rose above poverty and racism to become a cardiac surgery pioneer and a teacher of operative techniques to many of the country's most prominent surgeons.

Jussi Jalas was a Finnish conductor and composer.

Eamon Joseph O'Brien was an American actor. In a career spanning nearly four decades, he received an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Evgeny Mikhailovich Lifshitz was a leading Soviet physicist and brother of the physicist Ilya Lifshitz.

José Maria Carvalho Pedroto, OIH, was a Portuguese football midfielder and manager.

Victor Frederick Cochrane Hervey, 6th Marquess of Bristol, was a British aristocrat, hereditary peer and businessman. He was a member of the House of Lords, Chancellor of the International Monarchist League, and an active businessman who later became a tax exile in Monaco.

Åse Gruda Skard was a Norwegian university professor, child psychologist and author. She was a noted pioneer in the field of childhood development and psychology.