List of Famous people who died in 1985

Runme Shaw, K.St.J was the chairman and founder of the Shaw Organisation of Singapore. Runme Shaw and his brother, Run Run Shaw, together known as the Shaw Brothers, were pioneers in the film and entertainment industry in Singapore and Malaya, and brought to life the movie industry in Asia, especially the Southeast Asian region.

Pénélope Julie "Diddie" Vlasto Serpieri was a female tennis player from France. She won the silver medal at the Paris Olympics in 1924 in women's singles, losing the final to Helen Wills Moody. Vlasto also won the version of the French national championships in 1924 that was open only to French nationals. She was a doubles partner of Suzanne Lenglen in many doubles tournaments during the early 1920s.

Vice Admiral Sir Peveril Barton Reiby Wallop William-Powlett was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, South Atlantic Station.

Frances Joan Davidson, Viscountess Davidson, Baroness Northchurch,, styled Lady Davidson between 1935 and 1937 and as Viscountess Davidson between 1937 and 1985, was a British Conservative Party politician.

Nikolai Grigoryevich Dvortsov was a Soviet writer and a member of the Union of Soviet Writers since 1955.

Countess Katinka Andrássy de Csíkszentkirály és Krasznahorkai was a Hungarian noblewoman and the wife of Count Mihály Károlyi, who served as Prime Minister then President of the First Hungarian Republic after the First World War.

Shahnawaz Bhutto was the son of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, the former President and Prime Minister of Pakistan from 1971 to 1977 and Begum Nusrat Bhutto, who was of Iranian Kurdish descent. Shahnawaz Bhutto was the youngest of Bhutto's four children, including the former Prime Minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto. Shahnawaz was schooled in Pakistan, where he graduated in 1976 and later travelled abroad to complete his higher education.

Wolfgang Reitherman, also known and sometimes credited as Woolie Reitherman, was a German-American animator, director, and producer who was one of the Nine Old Men of core animators at Walt Disney Productions. Reitherman emerged as a key figure at Disney during the 1960s and 1970s, a transitionary period which saw the death of Walt Disney in 1966, with Reitherman serving as director and/or producer on eight consecutive Disney animated feature films from One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961) through The Fox and the Hound (1981).