page_title: 1985
section_title: August
hierarchical_section_title: 1985 / Deaths / August
caption_attribution_description: English: Private photograph from my own collection. Photograph taken in 1961-62
context_page_description: 1985 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1985th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 985th year of the 2nd millennium, the 85th year of the 20th century, and the 6th year of the 1980s decade.
  The year 1985 was designated as the International Youth Year by the United Nations.
context_section_description: August 1 – D. H. Turner, British art historian and museum curator (b. 1931)
  August 2 – Frank Faylen, American actor (b. 1905)
  August 5 – Arnold Horween, Harvard Crimson and NFL football player (b. 1898)
  August 6
  Forbes Burnham, Guyanese political leader, 1st Prime Minister of Guyana and 2nd President of Guyana (b. 1923)
  John Harmon, American actor (b. 1905)
  August 8 – Louise Brooks, American actress (b. 1906)
  August 9 – Clive Churchill, Australian rugby league player and coach (b. 1927)
  August 10 – Kenny Baker, American actor and singer (b. 1912)
  August 11 – Hector Grey, Scottish street trader and company director (b. 1904)
  August 12
  Kyu Sakamoto, Japanese singer (b. 1941)
  Manfred Winkelhock, German race car driver (b. 1951)
  August 14 – Gale Sondergaard, American actress (b. 1899)
  Lina Heydrich, Wife of Reinhard Heydrich (b. 1911)
  August 15 – Lester Cole, American screenwriter, one of the Hollywood Ten (b. 1904)
  August 20 – Donald O. Hebb, Canadian neuropsychologist (b. 1904)
  August 22 – Paul Peter Ewald, German-born American crystallographer and physicist (b. 1888)
  August 24 – Morrie Ryskind, American dramatist (b. 1895)
  August 25
  Paul Harris, American actor (b. 1917)
  Samantha Smith, American schoolgirl activist (b. 1972)
  August 28
  Ruth Gordon, American actress, screenwriter, and playwright (b. 1896)
  Miguel Otero Silva, Venezuelan writer (b. 1908)
  August 29
  Evelyn Ankers, British actress (b. 1918)
  Patrick Barr, British actor (b. 1908)
  August 30 – Taylor Caldwell, Anglo-American writer (b. 1900)
  August 31 – Macfarlane Burnet, Australian biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1899)
caption: Kyu Sakamoto
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