Famous People Who Died in 1985 (Part 2)

Deaths 201 - 400 of 408

• Jul 16 Heinrich Böll, German writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1917)
• Jul 16 Robert Siohan, French conductor and composer, dies at 91
• Jul 16 Wayne King, American saxophonist and bandleader, known as the Waltz King ("The Waltz You Saved for Me"), dies at 84

• Jul 17 Czesław Marek, Polish composer, dies at 93
• Jul 17 Margo, Mexican-American actress (Rumba, Viva Zapata), dies at 68 of a brain tumor
• Jul 17 Susanne Langer, American philosopher and educator (Philosophy in a New Key), dies at 89
• Jul 18 Robert Raglan, British character actor (Dad's Army - " Colonel Pritchard"), dies at 76
• Jul 18 Shahnawaz Bhutto, son of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto
• Jul 19 Janusz A. Zajdel, Polish sci-fi author (The Whole Truth about Planet Xi), dies at 47
• Jul 19 John Canaday, American art critic (Metropolitan Museum of Art Portfolios), dies at 78
• Jul 20 Bruno de Finetti, Italian probabilist statistician and actuary, dies at 79
• Jul 21 Mickey Shaughnessy, American actor and comedian (Chicago Teddy Bears), dies at 65
• Jul 21 Vicki Vola, American actress (Miss Miller-Mr District Attorney), dies at 68
• Jul 22 Matti Järvinen, Finnish javelin thrower (Olympic gold 1932), dies at 76
• Jul 23 Johnny Wardle, English cricketer (b. 1923)
• Jul 23 Kay Kyser, bandleader (Kay Kyser's Kollege), dies at 79

• Jul 27 'Smoky' Joe Wood, American baseball pitcher/outfielder (World Series 1912, 15, 20; MLB wins leader 34–5 1912; pitched no-hitter 1911; Boston Red Sox, Cleveland Indians), dies at 95
• Jul 28 Grant Williams, American actor (Hawaiian Eye, Incredible Shrinking Man), dies of toxic poisoning at 54
• Jul 29 James F Nolan, actor (Dante), dies of cancer at 69
• Jul 30 Julia Hall Bowman Robinson, American mathematician (b. 1919)
• Jul 30 Peter Knight, English musical arranger, conductor, and composer, dies at 68
• Jul 31 Eugene Carson Blake, US Secretary-General of World Council of Churches (1966-72), dies at 78
• Jul 31 Murray Chapple, New Zealand cricket batsman (14 Tests, 3 x 50; Canterbury, Central Districts), dies at 55
• Aug 1 Joseph Walker, cameraman, dies at 92
• Aug 1 Sam Wooding, American jazz pianist, and bandleader, one of the 1st to tour Europe (Chocolate Kiddies), dies at 90
• Aug 2 Frank Faylen, American actor (It's a Wonderful Life, Funny Girl), dies of pneumonia at 79
• Aug 2 Sandy Bell, South African cricket fast bowler (16 Tests, 48 wickets, BB 6/99; Western Province, Rhodesia), dies at 79
• Aug 4 Zbynek Vostrak, composer, dies at 65
• Aug 5 Theodore Sturgeon, American sci-fi author (Hugo, It, Caviar), dies at 67
• Aug 6 Forbes Burnham, Premier Guyana (1964-85), dies during surgery at 62
• Aug 7 Grayson Hall [Shirley Grossman], American actress (The Night of the Iguana, Dark Shadows), dies of cancer at 62

• Aug 8 Leo Weisgerber, German linguist (organicist theory), dies at 86
• Aug 8 Louise Brooks, American silent screen actress (Pandora's Box), dies of a heart attack at 78
• Aug 9 Clive Churchill, Australian rugby league fullback (37 Tests; NSW 27 games; South Sydney; RL "Immortal") and coach (Australia 29 Tests, South Sydney), dies at 58
• Aug 12 Kyu Sakamoto, Japanese singer (Sukiyaki), and actor, dies in JAL 123 crash at 43
• Aug 12 Manfred Winkelhock, German race car driver (b. 1951)
• Aug 12 Marcel Mihalovici, French composer, dies at 86
• Aug 13 J. Willard Marriott, American entrepreneur and hotelier (founder of Marriott Corporation), dies at 84
• Aug 13 Marion Martin, actress (Dakota Lil, Queen of Burlesque), dies at 67
• Aug 14 (Edith) "Gale" Sondergaard, American Academy Award-winning stage and screen actress (Anthony Adverse; The Letter), dies of cerebral thrombosis at 86
• Aug 15 Joe Carveth, Canadian ice hockey right wing (NHL All Star 1950; Stanley Cup 1943, 50 Detroit Red Wings; Boston Bruins, Montreal Canadiens), dies at 67
• Aug 15 Richard Yardumian, American composer (Creator Spirit), dies at 68
• Aug 20 Harchand Singh Longowai [Sant Ji], Indian Sikh leader and President of the Akali Dal during the Punjab insurgency of the 1980s, assassinated by Sikh extremists less than a month after he signed a peace accord with the government [1]
• Aug 22 Ginty Lush, Australian cricketer (NSW quickie of 30's), dies at 71
• Aug 22 Paul Peter Ewald, German Crystallographer and Physicist who devised the theory of X-ray interference by crystals and pioneered X-ray diffraction methods, dies at 97
• Aug 22 Willy-August Linnemann, Danish writer and journalist, dies at 71

• Aug 24 Paul Creston [Giuseppe Guttoveggio], Italian-American composer (Zanoni), educator, and music theorist (Creative Harmony), dies at 78
• Aug 25 Samantha Smith, American peace activist and actress (invited to the Soviet Union during Cold War), dies in plane at 13
• Aug 26 Alfredo Carmelo, Filipino aviator, lithographer, and painter, dies at 89
• Aug 28 Ruth Gordon, American actress (Rosemary's Baby, The Big Bus), dies of a stroke in her sleep at 88
• Aug 29 Alexander Abramsky, Soviet composer, dies at 87
• Aug 29 Evelyn Ankers, American actress (Black Beauty, Jungle Woman), dies at 67
• Aug 29 Patrick Barr, English actor (Black Orchid, On the Run), dies at 77
• Aug 30 "Philly" Joe Jones, American jazz drummer (Miles Davis Quintet), dies of a heart attack at 62
• Aug 30 Tatiana Proskouriakoff, Russian-American Mayan archaeologist who helped decipher Maya hieroglyphs, dies at 76
• Aug 30 Taylor Caldwell [Janet Miriam Holland Taylor Caldwell], Anglo-American novelist (Dynasty of Death, Dear and Glorious Physician), dies at 84
• Aug 31 Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Australian virologist (Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for tissue grafting), dies at 85
• Sep 1 James Pitman, British educator and spelling reformer (Alphabets and Reading: The Initial Teaching Alphabet), dies at 84
• Sep 1 Stefan Bellof, German race car driver (b. 1957)
• Sep 2 Abe Lenstra, Dutch soccer striker (47 caps; SC Heerenveen 395 games, SC Enschede, Enschedese Boys), dies at 64
• Sep 3 (Jonathon) "Jo" Jones, American jazz drummer, and percussionist (Count Basie), dies of pneumonia at 73
• Sep 3 John Herbert McDowell, American composer for ballet, TV and the stage, dies at 58
• Sep 4 George O'Brien, American actor (Sunrise: A Song of Two Human), dies of a stroke at 85
• Sep 4 Isabel Jeans, actress (Suspicion, Easy Virtue, Tovarich), dies at 93
• Sep 4 Robert McCormick, American NBC newscaster (Current Opinion), dies at 74

• Sep 6 Eurreal "Little Brother" Montgomery, American jazz, boogie-woogie and blues pianist, singer, and composer ("Crescent City Blues"), dies at 79
• Sep 6 Jane Frazee [Mary Jane Frehse], American actress, singer, and dancer (Beautiful But Broke, Beulah), dies at 70 of pneumonia
• Sep 6 Johnny Desmond [Giovanni De Simone], American radio and big band singer (Bob Crosby; Gene Krupa; Your Hit Parade; Glenn Miller's Army Air Forces Orchestra),dies of cancer at 65 [1]
• Sep 6 Leon Orthel, Dutch pianist and composer, dies at 79
• Sep 7 Frank "Bruiser" Kinard, American College-Pro Football HOF tackle (Ole Miss; 6 × First-team All-Pro; 5 × NFL All-Star; Brooklyn Dodgers/Tigers, Fleet City, NY Yankees), dies from Alzheimer's disease at 70
• Sep 8 John Franklin Enders, American microbiologist (1954 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for culturing poliovirus, developed measles vaccine), dies at 88
• Sep 8 Manuel Ivo Cruz, Portuguese composer and founder of Philharmonic Orchestra of Lisbon, dies at 84
• Sep 9 Paul Flory, American chemist (1974 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for work on polymers), dies at 75
• Sep 9 Rod Funseth, American golfer (US Masters runner-up 1978), dies from cancer at 52 [1]
• Sep 10 Alexa Kenin, American actress (Mousie-Coed Fever), dies at 23
• Sep 10 Ernest Julius Öpik, Estonian astronomer and astrophysicist known for his studies of meteors and the structure and evolution of the cosmos, dies at 91
• Sep 10 Jock Stein, Scottish soccer manager (Dunfermline Athletic, Hibernian, Scotland [1965, 78-85], Celtic, Leeds United), dies from a pulmonary edema at 62
• Sep 11 Andrew C. Thornton II, American drug smuggler, dies jumping from a plane to his death with $15 million in cocaine at 40
• Sep 11 Masako Natsume [Odate], Japanese actress and model (Tripitaka in "Monkey"), dies of leukemia at 27
• Sep 11 William Alwyn, English composer, dies at 79
• Sep 13 Dane Rudhyar [Daniel Chennevière], French-American composer, author, and astrologist dies at 90
• Sep 15 (Charles) "Cootie" Williams, American jazz, jump-blues, and R&B trumpeter (Duke Ellington Orchestra, 1929-40 & 1962-74), dies of kidney problems at 74
• Sep 17 Laura Ashley, Welsh fashion designer, businesswoman and co-founder of Laura Ashley, dies by falling down the stairs of her daughter's home at 60
• Sep 18 Gerald Holtom, British artist and graphic designer (Nuclear Disarmament (ND) logo, which later became an international peace symbol), dies at 71

• Sep 19 Italo Calvino, Italian author (T-Zero, Mr Palomar), dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at 61
• Sep 21 Gu Long, Taiwanese writer of wuxia novels (b. 1937)
• Sep 22 Axel Springer, German newspaper magnate (Bild Zeitung), dies at 73
• Sep 22 Dickie Henderson, British comic and actor, dies of pancreatic cancer at 82
• Sep 23 Charles Phillips, British archaeologist who lead the Sutton Hoo excavation, dies at 84
• Sep 23 Mickey Simpson, American actor (Wagonmaster), dies of a heart attack at 72
• Sep 25 Albert Moeschinger, Swiss composer, dies at 88
• Sep 25 William Cumming Rose, American biochemist who discovered threonine (an amino acid), dies at 98
• Sep 27 Lloyd Nolan, American actor (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn; Peyton Place), dies of lung cancer at 83
• Sep 29 Benjamin Markarian, Armenian astrophysicist (Markarian galaxies), dies at 71
• Sep 30 Charles F. Richter, American physicist and seismologist (developed the Richter scale for measuring earthquake magnitude), dies at 85
• Sep 30 Helen MacInnes, Scottish-American spy writer (Agent in Place; The Salzburg Connection), dies of complications from a stroke at 77
• Sep 30 Herbert Bayer, Austrian-American Bauhaus trained graphic artist (invented Universal typeface), photographer and designer, dies at 85 [1]

• Oct 2 (Georgios) "George" Savalas, Greek-American actor (Kojak; Kelly's Heroes), dies of leukemia at 58

• Oct 2 Sidney Clute, American actor (Lou Grant; Cagney & Lacey), dies at 69
• Oct 3 Charles Collingwood, American news commentator (Chronicles), dies at 68
• Oct 3 Maurice Copeland, American actor (Ralph-Those Young Charmings), dies at 74
• Oct 5 Brian Keenan, American rock drummer (The Chamber Brothers), dies of a heart attack at 42
• Oct 5 Karl Menger, Austrian-American mathematician (dimension theory), dies at 83
• Oct 6 Nelson Riddle, American Grammy Award-winning bandleader, conductor, and orchestrator for Capitol Records (Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Judy Garland, Dean Martin), dies of complications from cirrhosis of the liver at 64
• Oct 7 Cemal Reşit Rey, Turkish composer, dies at 81
• Oct 8 Leon Klinghoffer, American murdered by hijackers of the Achille Lauro when they threw him off the boat at 69
• Oct 8 Malcolm Ross, American balloonist and atmospheric physicist, dies at 65
• Oct 8 Ricardo Bacchelli, Italian playwright and poet (Il malino del Po), dies at 94
• Oct 9 Emílio Garrastazu Médici, 28th President of Brazil (1969-74), dies at 79

• Oct 11 Alex La Guma, South African novelist (A Walk in the Night), and anti-apartheid activist (1956 Treason Trial), dies of a heart attack at 61
• Oct 11 Tex Williams, American country-western singer, dies of cancer at 68
• Oct 12 Johnny Olson, American radio personality and television announcer (The Price is Right), dies at 75
• Oct 12 Ricky Wilson, American rock guitarist (B-52's - "Love Shack"), dies of AIDS at 32
• Oct 13 Francesca Bertini, Italian actress (Odette; Assunta Spina), dies at 93
• Oct 13 Jack Wilson, Australian cricket spin bowler (1 Test; 43 wickets on England Tour 1956), dies at 64
• Oct 14 Emil Gilels, Soviet concert pianist (Brussels Competition - 1st prize, 1938), dies at 68
• Oct 15 Meret Oppenheim, German born Swiss surrealist artist and photographer (Object: Le Déjeuner en fourrure), dies at 72
• Oct 15 Ted Steele, American orchestra leader (Cavalcade of Stars), dies at 68
• Oct 16 Claude Stroud, American actor (Breakfast at Tiffany's; Ted Knight Show; Duke), dies at 78
• Oct 17 Joseph Rosenstock, American conductor (NY City Opera), dies at 90
• Oct 18 Benjamin Moloisi, South African poet/Anc'er, hanged at 30
• Oct 19 Alfred Rouleau, French Canadian businessman (b. 1915)
• Oct 22 Viorica Ursuleac, Romanian operatic soprano, dies at 91
• Oct 24 Lásló Jósef Bíró, Hungarian inventor (ballpoint pen), dies at 86
• Oct 24 Maurice Roy, Archbishop of Quebec, (b. 1905)
• Oct 24 Richie Evans, American auto racer (9 x NASCAR Modified Champion 1973, 78-85), dies in practice accident at 44
• Oct 25 (John) Morton Downey, American pop tenor, known as "The Irish Nightengale", songwriter, radio and television host, dies at 83
• Oct 25 Elsa Moranet, writer, dies at 67
• Oct 26 Bob Scheffing, American baseball catcher (Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Reds), manager (Chicago Cubs, Detroit Tigers) and executive (GM NY Mets 1970-74), dies at 72
• Oct 26 Karel Kupka, Czech composer and choirmaster, dies at 58
• Oct 29 John Lodge, American actor (Witchmaker) and politician (79th Governor of Connecticut), dies at 82
• Oct 30 Kirby Grant, American actor (Rustlers Round-Up, Yukon Gold, Sky King), dies in an auto accident at 74
• Oct 31 Anton Christoforidis, Greek boxer (NBA light heavyweight title 1941), dies of a heart attack at 68
• Oct 31 Nikos Engonopoulos, Greek surrealist painter and poet (Do Not Distract the Driver), dies of a heart attack at 78
• Oct 31 Poul Reichhardt, Danish actor (Soldaten og Jenny, Det gælder os alle), dies at 72
• Nov 1 Arnold Pihlak, Estonian soccer forward (44 caps; FK Austria Wien), dies at 83

• Nov 2 Fred Enke, American College basketball coach (University of Arizona 1925–1961, record 522–344), dies at 88
• Nov 5 Arnold Chikobava, Georgian linguist (b. 1898)
• Nov 6 Joel Crothers, American actor (EThe dge of Night), dies of a heart attack at 44
• Nov 6 Sanjeev Kumar [Harihar Jariwala], Indian Bollywood actor (Angoor, Dastak, Koshish), dies of a heart attack at 47
• Nov 8 Masten Gregory, American auto racer (24 Hours of Le Mans 1961, 65 [Jochen Rindt]), dies at 53
• Nov 8 Nicolas Frantz, Luxembourgish road cyclist (Tour de France 1927-28), dies at 86
• Nov 9 Helen Rose, costume designer, dies at 81
• Nov 9 Mary MacLaren, actress (Black Swan), dies at 85 of respiratory probs
• Nov 11 Pelle Lindbergh, Swedish NHL goaltender, 1981-86, Vezina Award winner (Philadelphia Flyers), dies after drunk driving collision between his Porsche and wall at 26
• Nov 13 G. Robert Vincent, American sound recording pioneer (Edison Laboratories; Armed Forces Radio Service; Nuremberg Trials; National Voice Library), dies at 87
• Nov 15 Spencer W. Kimball, American 12th President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (1973-1985), dies at 90
• Nov 16 John Sparkman, American politician (Sen-D-Alabama 1946-79, Rep-D-Alabama 1937-46), dies at 85
• Nov 16 Stuart Chase, American writer and economist (The Tragedy of Waste), dies at 97
• Nov 17 Jimmy Ritz [Samuel Joachim], American vaudevillian, actor and comedian (Ritz Brothers - The Gorilla;, Hi'ya, Chum; Straight, Place and Show), dies of heart failure at 81
• Nov 19 Lall Singh, Indian cricketer (Test for India 1932), dies at 75
• Nov 19 Stepin Fetchit [Lincoln Perry], American actor (Miracle in Harlem) 1st African American film star, dies of pneumonia 83
• Nov 21 Ramnath Kenny, Indian cricketer (5 Tests for India 1958-60), dies at 55
• Nov 24 "Big" Joe Turner, American blues and R&B singer ("Shake, Rattle and Roll"), dies of heart failure at 74
• Nov 24 Cees Buddingh', Dutch poet/writer/interpreter/translator, dies at 67
• Nov 24 Maurice Podoloff, American attorney, professional sports administrator (AHL President, 1936-52; NBA President, 1946-63), and namesake of NBA regular season MVP Award, dies at 95
• Nov 25 Elsa Morante, Italian writer, dies at 73
• Nov 25 Franz Hildebrandt, German Theologian(b. 1909)
• Nov 25 Ray Jablonski, American baseball player (b. 1926)
• Nov 26 Ransom Sherman, American comedian (Father of Bride), dies at 87
• Nov 26 Sylvain Poons, Dutch stage actor and singer (Blue Jackets), dies at 89
• Nov 27 Allan Ramsey, American rock bassist (Gary Lewis & the Playboys,1964-65 - "This Diamond Ring"), dies in a plane crash at 42
• Nov 27 Harry Harvey Sr, American actor (It's a Man's World), dies at 84
• Nov 28 Fernand Braudel, French historian (Civilization & Capitalism), dies at 83
• Nov 28 Johnny "Blood" McNally, American Pro Football HOF halfback (NFL C'ship 1929-31, 36; Green Bay Packers), dies from a stroke at 82
• Nov 29 Bill Scott, American voice actor, producer and writer (Mr Peabody, Bullwinkle), dies of a heart attack at 65
• Nov 29 Rik Jacobs, Flemish stage manager, dies at 71
• Nov 30 Phil Tucker, American film director (Robot Monster), dies at 58
• Dec 2 Alex Courtney, American actor (Sword of Justice), dies at 74
• Dec 2 Aniello Dellacroce, American gangster, dies of cancer at 71
• Dec 2 Philip Larkin, English poet and writer (North Ship, Jill), dies at 63
• Dec 3 Sam Gillman, actor (Sam-Shane), dies at 70
• Dec 4 Frederick Boland, Irish diplomat (President of the UN General Assembly), dies at 81
• Dec 4 Marcel Boereboom, Belgian pianist, critic, educator, and musicologist (Handbook of Music History), dies at 83
• Dec 6 Burleigh Grimes, American Baseball HOF pitcher (World Series 1931 St. Louis Cardinals; NL wins leader 1921, 28; NL strikeout leader 1921 Brooklyn Robins, Pittsburgh Pirates), dies at 92
• Dec 6 Burr Tillstrom, American puppeteer (Kukla, Fran & Ollie), dies at 68
• Dec 7 Potter Stewart, 94th Supreme Court Justice (1958-81), dies in NH at 70
• Dec 7 Robert Graves, English writer and poet (King Jesus), dies at 90
• Dec 12 Anne Baxter, American actress (The Razor's Edge; All About Eve), and singer, dies of a stroke at 62
• Dec 12 Ian Stewart, Scottish keyboardist, road manager, and co-founder of the Rolling Stones, dies of a heart attack at 47
• Dec 14 Catherine Doherty, Russian-born Canadian activist, dies at 89
• Dec 14 Charlie Bachman, American College Football Hall of Fame guard and coach (Notre Dame, Florida, Michigan State), dies at 93

• Dec 15 Forrest C. Shaklee, American chiropractor and founder (Shaklee Products), dies at 91
• Dec 16 Dick Pollard, cricketer (England fast-medium bowler 1946-48), dies
• Dec 16 Paul Castellano, American organized-crime chief, shot dead at a NYC restaurant at 70
• Dec 16 Thomas Bilotti, American mafioso (b. 1940)
• Dec 17 Otto Gotsche, writer, dies
• Dec 18 Xuân Diệu, Vietnamese poet (b. 1916)
• Dec 21 Kamatari Fujiwara, Japanese film actor (Seven Samurai, The Hidden Fortress, Yojimbo), dies of a heart attack at 80
• Dec 22 (Dennes) D. Boon, American punk rock singer and guitarist (The Minutemen), dies in a van accident at 27
• Dec 23 James Vance (20) and Raymond Belknap (18) attempt suicide (Belknap dies). Their families later sue rock group Judas Priest for subliminal messages in song "Better By You, Better Than Me".
• Dec 24 Ferhat Abbas, Algerian politician and President of the National Constituent Assembly of Algeria (1962-63), dies at 86
• Dec 25 George Rhodes, American pianist, composer, arranger, and music director (Sammy Davis, Jr. Show), dies of a heart attack at 66

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