In the year 1985
512 Notable deaths
George Devereux
Ethnologist.
Born September 13th, 1908 in Lugoj.
Died May 28th, 1985 at 76 years old in Paris. [ref]
Tom Adams
Prime minister of barbados.
Born September 24th, 1931 in Barbados.
Died March 11th, 1985 at 53 years old in Barbados (myocardial infarction).
Monroe Beardsley
American philosopher.
Born December 10th, 1915 in Bridgeport. [ref]
Died October 18th, 1985 at 69 years old in Philadelphia. [ref]
Zoran Radmilović
Serbian actor (1933-1985).
Born May 11th, 1933 in Zaječar.
Died July 21st, 1985 at 52 years old in Belgrade (colorectal cancer).
Gaston Rébuffat
French mountaineer.
Born May 7th, 1921 in Marseille. [ref]
Died May 31st, 1985 at 64 years old in Bobigny (cancer).
Iosif Shklovsky
Soviet astronomer.
Born July 1st, 1916 in Hlukhiv.
Died March 3rd, 1985 at 68 years old in Moscow.
Tatiana Proskouriakoff
American mayanist scholar (1909-1985).
Born January 23rd, 1909 in Tomsk.
Died August 30th, 1985 at 76 years old in Watertown (Alzheimer's disease).
Fred Uhlman
German-english writer, painter and lawyer of jewish origin (1901-1985).
Born January 19th, 1901 in Stuttgart.
Died April 11th, 1985 at 84 years old in London.
Paul Peter Ewald
German physicist.
Born January 23rd, 1888 in Berlin.
Died August 22nd, 1985 at 97 years old in Ithaca.
Germaine Krull
German photographer.
Born November 20th, 1897 in Poznań. [ref]
Died July 31st, 1985 at 87 years old in Wetzlar. [ref]
Deaths 241 to 250 of 512
Every exit is an entry somewhere else. Tom Stoppard