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The following is a list of notable deaths in 1980 . Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference. Deaths in 1980 January Frank Wykoff Simonne Mathieu Cecil Beaton Jimmy Durante January 1 January 3 January 6 January 7 January 8 January 9 – Gaetano Belloni , Italian professional road racing cyclist (b. 1892)January 10 – George Meany , American labor leader (b. 1894)[6] January 11 January 13 January 14 – Robert Ardrey , American playwright, screenwriter and science writer (b. 1908)January 17 – Barbara Britton , American film and television actress (b. 1920)January 18 – Sir Cecil Beaton , English photographer (b. 1904)[8] January 19 January 21 – Clyde Barnhart , American Major League Baseball player for the Pittsburgh Pirates (b. 1895)January 23 c. January 24 – Terry Anderson , English footballer, predominantly for Norwich City (b. 1944) January 25 – Queenie Watts , English actress and an occasional singer, (b. 1923)January 27 – Peppino De Filippo , Italian actor (b. 1903)January 28 January 29 Ali Adbo , Iranian boxer and founder of Persepolis F.C. (b. 1928)Jimmy Durante , American actor, singer and comedian (b. 1893)[11] January 30 – Professor Longhair , American musician (b. 1918)[12] January 31 January unknown date – Don Albert , American jazz trumpeter and bandleader (b. 1900)February Richard Williams (RAAF officer) David Janssen Bon Scott Enrico Celio February 1 – Jack Bailey , American actor and daytime game show host (b. 1907)February 2 – William Howard Stein , American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry (b. 1911)[13] February 3 February 4 – Stojan Aralica , Serbian Impressionist painter and academic (b. 1883)February 5 – Nachman Aronszajn , Polish-American mathematician (b. 1907)February 6 – William Abraham , British Army officer who served in India and Burma during the Second World War (b. 1887)February 7 February 8 February 9 – Charlie Fowlkes , American baritone saxophonist who was a member of the Count Basie Orchestra (b. 1916)February 10 – Wally Wales , American film actor who specialized in westerns (b. 1895)February 11 – R. C. Majumdar , Indian historian (b. 1884)February 12 – Samuel D. Berger , American diplomat, United States Ambassador to Korea (b. 1911)February 13 February 14 Kitsuju Ayabe , general in Imperial Japanese Army in World War II (b. 1894)Marie Besnard , French accused and acquitted serial poisoner (b. 1896)February 16 – Erich Hückel , German physicist and physical chemist (b. 1896 )[15] February 17 February 19 February 20 February 21 February 22 February 23 – Enrico Celio , Swiss politician, 49th President of the Swiss Confederation (b. 1889)February 24 – Clement Martyn Doke , South African linguist (b. 1893)[20] February 26 – Mario Mattoli , Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1898)February 28 – Ian Peebles , cricketer who played for Oxford University , Middlesex , Scotland and England ; later becoming a journalist on The Sunday Times (b. 1908)February 29 – Yigal Allon , Israeli politician and army general, acting Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1918)March Emmett Ashford Mohammad Hatta Boun Oum Óscar Romero Jesse Owens April William Tolbert Jean-Paul Sartre Mario Bava Alfred Hitchcock April 2 – Dick Howorth , English cricketer (b. 1909)April 3 April 4 – Rita Romilly Benson , American stage actress and acting teacher (b. 1900)April 6 – Antony Balch , English film director and distributor (b. 1937)April 8 – Wilhelm Arwe , Swedish ice hockey player (b. 1898)April 10 – Kay Medford , American actress and singer (b. 1919)April 11 April 12 Ruggero Bonomi , Italian Air Force general during the Spanish Civil War and World War II (b. 1898)William Tolbert , 20th President of Liberia (b. 1913)April 13 – Frederick D. Alexander , American businessman, civil rights activist, and politician, first African American to serve on Charlotte City Council since the 1890s (b. 1910)April 14 – Tom Fadden , American actor; performed on the legitimate stage, vaudeville, in films and on television during his long career.April 15 Gerty Archimède , Guadeloupe politician, first female lawyer to pass the Guadeloupe Bar (b. 1909)Raymond Bailey , American actor comedian, best known as Milburn Drysdale in The Beverly Hillbillies (b. 1904)Jean-Paul Sartre , French philosopher and writer, Nobel laureate in Literature (b. 1905)[33] Marshall Reed , American actor who appeared in over 200 films between 1943 and 1978 (b. 1917)April 19 April 20 April 21 April 22 April 24 April 25 – Katia Mann , American actress and singer who performed on stage, radio, and television despite chronic health problemsApril 26 – Dame Cicely Courtneidge , British actress (b. 1893)[37] April 27 – Mario Bava , Italian director, cinematographer, special effects artist and screenwriter (b. 1914)April 28 April 29 – Sir Alfred Hitchcock , British film director (b. 1899)[39] April 30 April unknown date – Herbert Bowman , American tennis player (b. 1897)May Clarrie Grimmett Josip Broz Tito Fatmawati May 2 May 4 Josip Broz Tito , Yugoslav communist military and political leader, 19th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia and 1st President of Yugoslavia (b. 1892)Kay Hammond , English stage and film actress (b. 1909)May 5 – Isabel Briggs Myers , American psychological theorist and co-creator of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (b. 1897)May 6 – María Luisa Bombal , Chilean novelist and poet (b. 1910)May 7 – Sigval Bergesen the Younger , Norwegian shipping magnate (b. 1893)May 8 – Sir Geoffrey Baker , British field marshal, Chief of the General StaffMay 12 – Lillian Roth , American actress (b. 1910)[43] May 13 – Elliott Arnold , American newspaper feature writer, novelist, and screenwriter (b. 1912)May 14 May 15 – Lela Bliss , American actress (b. 1896)May 16 – Marin Preda , Romanian writer (b. 1922)May 17 – Ernst Blum , German international footballer (b. 1904)May 18 May 21 – Ida Kamińska , Polish actress, playwright and translator (b. 1899)May 26 – Franz Bachelin , German art director (b. 1895)May 28 – Rolf Nevanlinna , Finnish mathematician (b. 1895)May 30 – Otome Amatsu , Japanese dancer and actress (b. 1905)May unknown date – Leo A. Berg , American politician, Mayor of Akron, Ohio (b. 1907)June Philip Guston Masayoshi Ōhira Henry Aurand Ignatius Jacob III June 1 – Rube Marquard , American left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball , had greatest success in the New York Giants (b. 1886) June 3 June 5 – Giorgio Amendola , Italian writer and politician (b. 1907)June 6 – Ruth Aarons , US table tennis player, vaudeville entertainer, and talent manager (b. 1918)June 7 June 8 June 12 June 13 – Walter Rodney , Guyanese historian and political figure (b. 1942)June 18 June 20 – Allan Pettersson , Swedish composer and violist considered one of the 20th century's most important Swedish composersJune 21 – Bert Kaempfert , German orchestra leader and songwriter (b. 1923)[47] June 23 June 24 June 26 June 27 – Barney Bigard , American jazz clarinetist known for his 15-year tenure with Duke Ellington (b. 1906)June 28 June 29 June 30 – Lester Brain , pioneer Australian aviator and airline executive (b. 1903)July Peter Sellers Vladimir Vysotsky Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi July 1 – C. P. Snow , British physicist and novelist (b. 1905)[48] July 2 – Tom Barry , guerrilla leader in the Irish Republican Army (b. 1897)July 3 July 4 – Gregory Bateson , British anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, semiotician and cyberneticist (b. 1904)[49] July 6 – Gail Patrick , American actress (b. 1911)[50] July 7 – Prince Dmitri Alexandrovich of Russia (b. 1901)July 8 – Don G. Abel , American attorney and Washington State Supreme Court Justice (b. 1894)July 9 July 10 – Komako Kimura , Japanese suffragist, actress, dancer, theater manager, and magazine editor (b. 1887)July 11 – Zygmunt Berling , Polish general and politician (b. 1896)July 12 – Donald Beatty , American aviator, explorer, and inventor (b. 1900)July 13 July 14 – Felix Berezin , Soviet Russian mathematician and physicist (b. 1931)July 16 – Robert Brackman , American artist and teacher, best known for large figural works, portraits, and still lifes . July 17 July 19 July 20 July 21 – Salah al-Din al-Bitar , Syrian politician, two-time Prime Minister of Syria (b. 1912)July 22 – Bob Bawden , Australian rules footballer with Richmond (b. 1917)July 23 – Mollie Steimer , Ukrainian anarchist activist; relocated multiple times for anarchist activities before becoming a photographer (b. 1897)July 24 July 25 – Vladimir Vysotsky , Soviet singer-songwriter, poet and actor (b. 1938)July 26 July 27 July 30 – Charles McGraw , American stage, film and television actor (b. 1914)July 31 – Pascual Jordan , German physicist (b. 1902)July unknown date – Herbert Best , British-American author of children's literature and science fiction (b. 1894)August Patrick Depailler Gabriel González Videla August 1 August 2 August 4 – Georg Aumann , German mathematician (b. 1906)August 5 – Harold Runnels , U.S. Representative from New Mexico (b. 1924)August 6 – Marino Marini , Italian sculptor and educator (b. 1901)August 7 – Albert Bittner , German conductor (b. 1900)August 8 August 9 August 10 Gareth Evans , British philosopher (b. 1946)Yahya Khan , Pakistani general and statesman, 3rd President of Pakistan (b. 1917)August 13 – Bogislaw von Bonin , Colonel in the German Wehrmacht (b. 1908)August 14 – Dorothy Stratten , Canadian actress and model (b. 1960)[54] August 15 – William Hood Simpson , American general (b. 1888)[55] August 16 – Kevin Blackwell , New Zealand road and track cyclist, Commonwealth Games medallist (b. 1955-56)August 17 August 18 – Norman Cazden , American composer whose prime creative years were obscured by McCarthy-era political pressures[56] (b. 1914)August 19 – Otto Frank , German father of Jewish diarist Anne Frank (b. 1889)August 20 August 21 – Jack Cheetham , South African cricketer who played in 24 Test matches (b. 1920)August 22 August 24 August 25 August 26 August 27 – Herman Beam , NASCAR Grand National Series driver and team owner (b. 1929)August 29 August 30 – Big Brown , American street poet, performer, and recording artist (b. 1920)August 31 – Rodolfo Arena , Brazilian actor (b. 1910)September Bill Evans Jean Piaget John Bonham September 1 September 2 – C. K. Alexander , Egyptian actor, director, composer, and playwright (b. 1923)September 3 September 4 – Wolfgang Gentner , German experimental nuclear physicist (b. 1906)September 5 Don Banks , Australian composer of concert, jazz, and commercial music (b. 1923)Barbara Loden , American actress and director of film and theater (b. 1932)September 6 – Joe Bradford , English professional international footballer (b. 1901)September 8 September 9 September 11 September 12 September 13 – Fred D. Beans , brigadier general of the US Marine Corps, (b. 1906)September 14 – Domingo Acedo , Spanish football player (b. 1898)September 15 – Bill Evans , American jazz pianist (b. 1929)[63] September 16 – Jean Piaget , Swiss psychologist (b. 1896)[64] September 17 September 18 September 19 – Sol Lesser , American film producer (b. 1890)September 20 Marie Bremner , Australian soprano, remembered for performances in Gilbert and Sullivan operas (b. 1904)Clifford Bricker , Canadian long-distance runner (b. 1904)September 21 – Eberhard von Breitenbuch , German cavalry officer who took part in the military-based conspiracy against Adolf Hitler (b. 1910)September 23 September 24 – Bill Ayers , American baseball playerSeptember 25 September 26 September 29 Juxon Barton , British colonial administrator, Governor of Fiji, High Commissioner for the Western Pacific (b. 1891)Harold F. Blum , physiologist who explored the interaction of light and chemicals on cells (b. 1899)Bindo Maserati , Italian automotive engineer and businessman, known as the manager of Maserati and one of the Maserati Brothers (b. 1883)October John Kotelawala Edelmiro Julián Farrell Charles Adler Jr. Marcelo Caetano October 2 October 6 October 8 October 10 October 12 – Alberto Demicheli , Uruguayan political figure, former President of Uruguay (de facto) (b. 1896)October 14 Lawrence Baker , American tennis administrator and player, US Davis Cup captain (b. 1890)Oscar Alemán , Argentine jazz guitarist, singer, and dancer (b. 1909)October 15 October 16 – Shirley Booth , American actress (b. 1898)October 17 – Narciso J. Alegre , Filipino civil liberties advocate, and a founder of Young Philippines (b. 1911)October 18 – Hans Ehard , German lawyer and politician (b. 1887)October 19 – Bobby Bauld , Scottish professional footballer (b. 1902)October 20 – Isobel Barnett , Scottish radio and television personality (b. 1918)October 21 October 22 – Sammy Angott , American boxer, World Lightweight champion (b. 1915)October 23 October 25 October 26 – Marcelo Caetano , Portuguese politician and scholar, 101st Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1906)October 27 October 29 – Giorgio Borġ Olivier , Maltese politician and statesman, 7th Prime Minister of Malta (b. 1911)October 31 October unknown date – Dorothy Blum , American computer scientist and cryptanalyst, worked for the National Security Agency (b. 1924)November Steve McQueen John McEwen Mae West November 2 – Willie Sutton , American bank robber (b. 1901)November 3 – Ludwig Hohl , Swiss writer writing in the German language (b. 1904) November 4 November 5 Louis Alter , American pianist, songwriter and composer (b. 1902)Caroline Brady , American philologist who specialised in Old English and Old Norse works (b. 1905)November 6 – Aedy Moward , Indonesian actor (b. 1929)November 7 November 8 November 9 – Victor Sen Young , 65, American character actor (b. 1915)November 10 – Marion Allnutt , welfare worker, commanding officer of the NGO, Women's Australian National Services (b. 1896)November 11 – Renato Barbieri , Italian rower and Olympic medalist (b. 1903)November 12 – Andrei Amalrik , Soviet writer and dissident (b. 1938)November 16 November 18 Arthur S. Adams , President of the University of New Hampshire (b. 1896)Conn Smythe , Canadian businessman, soldier and sportsman in ice hockey and horse racing (b. 1895)November 19 November 20 November 21 – Sara García , Mexican actress (b. 1895)November 22 Leonard Barr , American stand-up comedian, film actor, and dancer (b. 1903)Mae West , American actress (b. 1893)November 23 – R. Allatini , Austrian-British novelist who wrote under the pseudonyms R. Allatini, A.T. Fitzroy, Mrs Cyril Scott, Lucian Wainwright, and Eunice Buckley (b. 1890]November 24 November 25 November 26 November 29 – Dorothy Day , American journalist and social activist (b. 1897)December John Lennon Colonel Sanders Alexei Kosygin Karl Dönitz December 1 – Frank Booth , American swimmer and Olympic medalist (b. 1910)December 2 – Romain Gary , Lithuanian-French writer (b. 1914)[73] December 3 – Sir Oswald Mosley , British fascist leader (b. 1896)[74] December 4 Snu Abecassis , Danish-Portuguese publisher (b. 1940)Adelino Amaro da Costa , Portuguese politician (b. 1943)Hamilton Shirley Amerasinghe , Sri Lankan diplomat and civil servant, High Commissioner to India, Ambassador to Nepal and Afghanistan, President of United Nations General Assembly (b. 1913)Joe Birch , English professional footballer (b. 1904)Jenő Brandi , Hungarian water polo player and Olympic medalist (b. 1913)Francisco de Sá Carneiro , Portuguese lawyer, 109th Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1934)Stanisława Walasiewicz , Polish runner (b. 1911)December 6 – Margot Bennett , Scottish-born screenwriter and author of crime and thriller novels (b. 1912)December 7 Beechi , humorist in the Kannada language (b. 1913)Darby Crash , American rock songwriter, singer (b. 1958)December 8 December 10 – Patriarch Benedict I of Jerusalem (b. 1892)December 12 – Jean Lesage , Canadian lawyer and premier from Quebec (b. 1912)December 13 – Fleming Alexander , American minister, businessman, and newspaper publisher, founded the Roanoke Tribune (b. 1888)December 14 December 16 December 17 – Ahmet Berman , Turkish international footballer (b. 1932)December 18 Alexei Kosygin , Soviet politician, Premier of the Soviet Union (b. 1904)Sir Albert Margai , 2nd Prime Minister of Sierra Leone (b. 1910) December 19 – Héctor José Cámpora , Argentine Peronist politician, 38th President of Argentina (b. 1909)December 21 December 22 – Miriam Battista , American actress known principally for her early career as a child star in silent films (b. 1912)December 24 December 25 – Fred Emney , English character actor and comedian (b. 1900)December 26 December 28 James N. Bloodworth , justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama (b. 1921)Amir Elahi , Indian-Pakistani test cricketer who represented both countries (b. 1908)Sam Levene , Russian-American Broadway , films, radio, and television actor and director (b. 1905)December 29 – Tim Hardin , American musician (b. 1941)[79] December 30 December 31 Alan Bellhouse , Australian mathematician, teacher, musician, founder of North Sydney Symphony Orchestra (b. 1914)Bob Shawkey , American baseball pitcher who played fifteen seasons in Major League Baseball (b. 1890)Dalbir Bindra , Canadian neuropsychologist (b. 1922)Abdelhafid Boussouf , Algerian nationalist and a leader of the National Liberation Front (FLN) during the Algerian War of Independence (b. 1926)Marshall McLuhan , Canadian author and professor (b. 1911)[80] Raoul Walsh , American film director (b. 1887)J.W. Milam , American murderer and white supremacist (b. 1919)Unknown month 1980 Justicia Acuña , first woman to become a civil engineer in Chile (b. 1893)M. P. Alladin , Trinidad and Tobago artist, poet, writer, teacher and public servant (b. 1919)María Álvarez de Guillén , Salvadoran businesswoman, writer and women's rights activist (b. 1889)Lev Balandin , Soviet swimmer and European Championships medalist (b. 1934)Margaret Ballinger , South African politician, first President of the Liberal Party of South Africa (b. 1894)Robert Barbour , Scottish airman and flying ace of World War I (b. 1895)Archie Bayes , English football goalkeeper (b. 1896)Juan Besuzzo , Uruguayan international footballer (b. 1913)Frank Bielby , English professional rugby league footballer (b. 1897)References