Famous People Who Died in 1985

• Boon, D.

  Guitarist and singer for punk band Minutemen

• Fossey, Dian

  The author of Gorillas in the Mist

• Graves, Robert

  Author of I, Claudius

• Hamilton, Margaret

  The wicked witch in The Wizard of Oz

• Hudson, Rock

  The star of the film Giant

• Maris, Roger

  The man who broke Babe Ruth's single-season home run record

• Murray, Pauli

  The Civil Rights Era hero who became an Episcopalian priest

• Orkin, Ruth

  Photographer of An American Girl in Italy

• Quinlan, Karen Ann

  Controversial coma patient of the 1970s

• Richter, Charles F.

   The seismologist who created the earthquake scale

• Soucek, Karel

  The Niagara Falls daredevil who died in the Astrodome

• Sturgeon, Theodore

  The science fiction author of 'More Than Human'

• Welles, Orson

  The man who made Citizen Kane

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