People who died in 1885
Victor Hugo
1802
– 1885
· Age 83
Deceased
Ulysses S. Grant
1822
– 1885
· Age 63
Deceased
Alfonso XII of Spain
1857
– 1885
· Age 27
Deceased
Rosalía de Castro
1837
– 1885
· Age 48
Deceased
Schuyler Colfax
1823
– 1885
· Age 61
Deceased
Thomas A. Hendricks
1819
– 1885
· Age 66
Deceased
Peter Christen Asbjørnsen
1812
– 1885
· Age 72
Deceased
Louis Riel
1844
– 1885
· Age 41
Deceased
Carl Spitzweg
1808
– 1885
· Age 77
Deceased
Muhammad Ahmad ibn ʿAbdallah
1844
– 1885
· Age 40
Deceased
Charles George Gordon
1833
– 1885
· Age 51
Deceased
George Brinton McClellan
1826
– 1885
· Age 58
Deceased
Ferdinand II of Portugal
1816
– 1885
· Age 69
Deceased
Jens Peter Jacobsen
1847
– 1885
· Age 38
Deceased
Edmond François Valentin About
1828
– 1885
· Age 56
Deceased
Jules Vallès
1832
– 1885
· Age 52
Deceased
Nikolai Severtzov
1827
– 1885
· Age 57
Deceased
Nicolás Avellaneda
1837
– 1885
· Age 48
Deceased
Henri Milne-Edwards
1800
– 1885
· Age 84
Deceased
Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle
1809
– 1885
· Age 75
Deceased
Alexander Karađorđević, Prince of Serbia
1806
– 1885
· Age 78
Deceased
Gustav Hermann Nachtigal
1834
– 1885
· Age 51
Deceased
Iwasaki Yatarō
1835
– 1885
· Age 50
Deceased
Ferdinand Hiller
1811
– 1885
· Age 73
Deceased
Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia
1828
– 1885
· Age 57
Deceased