List of Famous people who died in 1985

Ingeborg Hoffmann was a German actress and the first wife of the writer Michael Ende.

Paul J. Smith was an American music composer and violinist best known for his work at Disney.

Simon Smith Kuznets was an American economist and statistician who received the 1971 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences "for his empirically founded interpretation of economic growth which has led to new and deepened insight into the economic and social structure and process of development."

Frederick William Robin Smith, 3rd Earl of Birkenhead was British writer, historian and hereditary peer. Smith, the grandson of a British Lord Chancellor, succeeded to the Earldom upon his father's death in 1975.

Karl Heinz Stroux was a German actor, film and theatre director, and theatre manager. As the director of the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus from 1955 to 1972 he opened the new building in 1970.