List of Famous people who died in 1985

Wilhelm Otto Ludwig Specht was a German mathematician who introduced Specht modules. He also proved the Specht criterion for unitary equivalence of matrices.

Masaichi Nagata was a Japanese film producer and baseball executive.

Nicholas Eden, 2nd Earl of Avon, OBE, styled Viscount Eden between 1961 and 1977, was a British Army officer and, later, a Conservative politician. He was the younger son of Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden and his first wife, Beatrice.

Wolfgang Walter Arnulf Abendroth was a socialist German jurist and political scientist. He was born in Elberfeld, now a part of Wuppertal in North Rhine-Westphalia. Abendroth was an important contributor to the constitutional foundation of postwar West Germany. He briefly held a professorship in law in East Germany. As he was opposed to Stalinism, he left for West Germany, where he was appointed professor in political science at Marburg in 1950. Abendroth also served as a senior judge in the state court of Hesse.

Stefano Satta Flores was an Italian actor and voice actor.