List of Famous people who died in 1985

Claudio Cassinelli was an Italian film, stage and television actor.

Karl Beurlen was a German paleontologist.

Robert "Bob" Shad was an American record producer and record label owner. He produced the first album by Big Brother and the Holding Company. Among his labels were Time Records, Brent Records, and Mainstream Records.

Renato Castellani was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He won the 1952 Gran Prix of the Cannes Film Festival for his film Two Cents Worth of Hope.

Riccardo Bacchelli was an Italian writer. In 1927 he was one of the founders of the review La Ronda and Bagutta Prize for literature. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature eight times.

Hans Felix Sigismund Baumann aka Felix H. Man was a photographer and later an art collector. In particular, he was a leading pioneer photojournalist, especially for Picture Post.

Karl Weber was a West German politician with the Christian Democratic Union. He served as the Minister of Justice from 2 April 1965 until his replacement by Richard Jaeger in 26 October of that same year. From 1916 till 1918 he served in the First World War, then he studied legal science in Bonn. From 1939 till 1945 he served in the Second World War.