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• 1885–1977Alice PaulAmerican activistJanuary 11
• 1885–1981Will DurantAmerican historian, philosopher and writerNovember 5
• 1885–1966Hedda HopperAmerican gossip columnist and actressMay 2
• 1885–1957Erich von StroheimAustrian-American actor and directorSeptember 22
• 1885–1971György LukácsHungarian philosopher and criticApril 13
• 1885–1982Bess TrumanFirst Lady of the United States from 1945 to 1953February 13
• 1885–1946Tomoyuki YamashitaJapanese officer and war criminalNovember 8
• 1885–1977Clementine ChurchillWife of Winston Churchill and life peerApril 1
• 1885–1948Hugo BossGerman businessmanJuly 8
• 1885–1970Heinrich BrüningChancellor of Germany from 1930 to 1932November 26
• 1885–1945John CurtinPrime Minister of Australia from 1941 to 1945January 8
• 1885–1925Mikhail FrunzeSoviet army officerFebruary 2
• 1885–1924Giacomo MatteottiItalian politicianMay 22
• 1885–1955Hermann WeylGerman mathematicianNovember 9
• 1885–1977Ernst BlochGerman Marxist philosopherJuly 8
• 1885–1945Jerome KernAmerican composerJanuary 27
• 1885–1935Alban BergAustrian composerFebruary 9
• 1885–1970François MauriacFrench authorOctober 11
• 1885–1968Edna FerberAmerican novelist and playwrightAugust 15
• 1885–1957Heinrich HoffmannGerman photographerSeptember 12
• 1885–1953Hugo SperrleGerman military aviator and generalFebruary 7
• 1885–1941Robert DelaunayFrench painterApril 12
• 1885–1951Ben ChifleyPrime Minister of Australia from 1945 to 1949September 22
• 1885–1966George de HevesyHungarian radiochemistAugust 1
• 1885–1973Otto KlempererConductor and composerMay 14
• 1885–1957Sacha GuitryFrench actor, director, screenwriter, and playwrightFebruary 21
• 1885–1965Sydney ChaplinEnglish actorMarch 16
• 1885–1945Ernst BuschGerman field marshalJuly 6
• 1885–1978Umberto NobileItalian explorer and engineerJanuary 21
• 1885–1967André MauroisFrench authorJuly 26
• 1885–1970Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-HolsteinDuchess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha from 1905 to 1918December 31
• 1885–1939Stanisław Ignacy WitkiewiczPolish writer and artistFebruary 24
• 1885–1972Harlow ShapleyAmerican scientist and political activistNovember 2
• 1885–1948Malcolm CampbellBritish racing driver and speed record holderMarch 11
• 1885–1922Velimir KhlebnikovRussian playwright, poet and futuristNovember 9
• 1885–1957Soemu ToyodaJapanese admiralMay 22
• 1885–1944Christian WirthNazi German police chief and extermination camp commandantNovember 24
• 1885–1959Sisavang VongKing of LaosJuly 14
• 1885–1978Duncan GrantScottish painter and designerJanuary 21
• 1885–1948Uzeyir HajibeyovAzerbaijani composer and musicologistSeptember 18
• 1885–1948Egon KischAustrian-Czechoslovak writer and journalistApril 29
• 1885–1960St John PhilbyBritish ArabistApril 3
• 1885–1974Otto KrugerAmerican actorSeptember 6
• 1885–1950George MinotAmerican medical researcherDecember 2
• 1885–1930Jules PascinAmerican, Jewish painterMarch 31
• 1885–1936Dezső KosztolányiHungarian writer, journalist and translatorMarch 29
• 1885–1933Ring LardnerAmerican writerMarch 6
• 1885–1972Jules RomainsFrench poet and writerAugust 26
• 1885–1962André LhoteFrench sculptor and painterJuly 5
• 1885–1981Allan DwanAmerican film director & screenwriterApril 3
• 1885–1961Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy34th Prime Minister of the NetherlandsApril 13
• 1885–1940Gunnar AsplundSwedish architectSeptember 22
• 1885–1952Keith MurdochAustralian journalistAugust 12
• 1885–1952Pierre RenoirFrench actorMarch 21
• 1885–1969Aleksandras StulginskisLithuanian politicianFebruary 26
• 1885–1954Theodor KaluzaGerman mathematician and physicistNovember 9
• 1885–1944Liviu RebreanuRomanian novelist, playwright, short story writer, and journalistNovember 27
• 1885–1948Sigrid HjerténSwedish modernist painterOctober 27
• 1885–1940DuBose HeywardAmerican dramatistAugust 31
• 1885–1962Milan VidmarSlovenian chess grandmasterJune 22