Famous Deaths for December 1985
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◄ 1984 1985 1986► | ||||||
Months in 1985: January February March April May June July August September October November
Results 1 - 30 of 30
2nd - Alex Courtney, actor (Sword of Justice), dies
2nd - Philip Larkin, [hermit of Hull], English poet, dies at 63
2nd - Aniello Dellacroce, American gangster (b. 1914)
3rd - Sam Gillman, actor (Sam-Shane), dies at 70
4th - Marcel Boereboom, Belgian musicologist, dies at 83
6th - Burleigh Grimes, US baseball pitcher, dies at 92
6th - Burr Tillstrom, puppeteer (Kukla Fran & Ollie), dies at 68
7th - Potter Stewart, 94th Supreme Court Justice (1958-81), dies in NH at 70
7th - Robert Graves, English writer/poet (King Jesus), dies at 90
12th - Anne Baxter, actress (Myra-Marcus Welby, Victoria-Hotel), dies at 62
12th - Ian Stewart, keyboardist/road mgr (Rolling Stones), dies at 47
12th - Ian Stewart, Scottish musician (b. 1938)
14th - Roger Maris, HR hitter (61 in 61, NY Yankees), dies of cancer at 51
14th - Stanley G[rauman] Weinbaum, US, sci-fi author (Red Peri), dies at 85
14th - Catherine Doherty, social justice activist (b. 1896)
16th - Dick Pollard, cricketer (England fast-medium bowler 1946-48), dies
16th - Merv Waite, cricketer (2 Tests for Aust 1938, 1 wkt avg 190), dies
16th - Paul Castellano, Organized-crime chief, shot dead at a NYC restaurant
16th - Thomas Bilotti, American mafioso (b. 1940)
17th - Otto Gotsche, writer, dies
18th - Xuân Diệu, Vietnamese poet (b. 1916)
22nd - D. Boon, American singer and guitarist (The Minutemen) (b. 1958)
23rd - James Vance (20) & Raymond Belknap (18), commit suicide, sparking their families to sue rock group Judas Priest for subliminal messages
25th - George Rhodes, orch leader (Sammy Davis Jr Show), dies at 66
26th - Dian Fossey, zoologist (Gorillas in the Mist), murdered at 53
26th - Harold P. Warren, American movie director (d. 1928)
27th - Dian Fossey, US naturalist (Gorillas in Mist), found dead in Rwanda
31st - Alexander Matheson, cricketer (2 wickets/2 Tests for NZ 1930-31), dies
31st - Rick Nelson, singer/actor (Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet), dies at 45
31st - Sam Spiegel, Academy Award winning producer (Betrayal), dies at 84
