page_title: 1985
section_title: March
hierarchical_section_title: 1985 / Deaths / March
caption_attribution_description: English: ქართული: კონსტანტინ ჩერნენკო
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: March 3 – Iosif Shklovsky, Soviet astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1916)
  March 7 – George Schick, Czechoslovakian conductor and music educator (b. 1908)
  March 8 – Edward Andrews, American stage, film and television actor (b. 1914)
  March 10
  Konstantin Chernenko, Soviet politician, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (b. 1911)
  Bob Nieman, American baseball player (b. 1927)
  March 11
  Tom Adams, Barbadosian politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Barbados (b. 1931)
  Nazem Akkari, Lebanese politician, 19th Prime Minister of Lebanon (b. 1902)
  March 12 – Eugene Ormandy, Hungarian-American conductor (b. 1899)
  March 13 – Mabel Alvarez, American painter (b. 1891)
  March 15 – Radha Krishna Choudhary, Indian historian (b. 1921)
  March 16 – Roger Sessions, American composer (b. 1896)
  March 21 – Sir Michael Redgrave, British actor (b. 1908)
  March 23
  Doctor Richard Beeching, Chairman of British Rail (b. 1913)
  Zoot Sims, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1925)
  March 28 – Marc Chagall, Russian-born painter (b. 1887)
  March 29
  The Singing Nun, Belgian nun and singer (b. 1933)
  Gerhard Stock, German Olympic athlete (b. 1911)
  March 30 – Shizuko Kasagi, Japanese singer (b. 1914)
  March 31
  Michel Georges-Michel, French painter, journalist, novelist (b. 1883)
  Richard McKeon, American philosopher (b. 1900)
caption: Konstantin Chernenko