Famous People Who Died In 1980
Discover the most famous people died who died in the year 1980. This list includes people like John Lennon, Colonel Sanders, Alfred Hitchcock, Peter Sellers, John Bonham and many more. This list of celebrities is loosely sorted by popularity. People featured on this list, include political leaders, philosophers, soldiers and artists who died in 1980. This list includes people from United States, United Kingdom, Germany & India and many more countries.
John Lennon09 October 1940, British
Co-founder of 'The Beatles'
Colonel Sanders09 September 1890, American
Founder of KFC
Alfred Hitchcock13 August 1899, British
Film Director and Producer
Peter Sellers08 September 1925, British
John Bonham31 May 1948, British
Drummer of Rock Band Led Zeppelin
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi26 October 1919, Iranian
Last Shah of Iran
Bon Scott09 July 1946, Australian, British, Scottish
Josip Broz Tito07 May 1892, Yugoslav
Jean-Paul Sartre21 June 1905, French
Philosopher
Jesse Owens12 September 1913, American
Karl Dönitz16 September 1891, German
Naval Officer
Oswald Mosley16 November 1896, French
British Politician
Mae West17 August 1893, American
Actress
Mohammed Rafi24 December 1924, Indian
Jean Piaget09 August 1896, Swiss
Otto Frank12 May 1889, Swiss, German, Dutch
Father of Anne Frank
Dorothy Stratten28 February 1960, Canadian
Model, Actress
Bill Evans16 August 1929, American
Marshall McLuhan21 July 1911, Canadian
Philosopher
Alice Roosevelt Longworth12 February 1884, American
Writer
Jimmy Durante10 February 1893, American
Actor, Comedian, Singer, Pianist
David Janssen27 March 1931, American
Actor
Strother Martin26 March 1919, American
Actor
Roland Barthes12 November 1915, French
French Literary Theorist & Philosopher
V. V. Giri10 August 1894, Indian
Fourth President of India
Dorothy Day08 November 1897, American
George Raft26 September 1895, American
Actor
Willie Sutton30 June 1901, American
Bank Robber
Alexei Kosygin20 February 1904, Russian, Russian
Former Premier of the Soviet Union
Romain Gary21 May 1914, French
Diplomat
Cecil Beaton14 January 1904, British
Photographer
Hans Asperger18 February 1906, Austrian
Paediatrician
Katherine Anne Porter15 May 1890, American
Journalist, Essayist, Writer, Novelist
Willard Libby17 December 1908, American
Physical Chemist
Robert Hayden04 August 1913, American
Poet, Essayist, Educator
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John Hasbrouck Van Vleck13 March 1899, American
Physicist, Mathematician
James Wright13 December 1927, American
Poet
Steven McQueen24 March 1930, American
Actor
Óscar Romero15 August 1917, Salvadoran
Archbishop of San Salvador
William Howard Stein25 June 1911, American
Biochemist
André-Marie Mbida01 January 1917, Cameroonian
Statesman
George Reginald Starr06 April 1904, British
Secret agent during World War II
Sanjay Gandhi14 December 1948, Indian
politician
Ian Curtis15 July 1956, British
Singer-songwriter
Seretse Khama01 July 1921, Botswanan
President
Erich Fromm23 March 1900, German
Psychologist, Philosopher, University teacher,
Yahya Khan04 February 1917, Pakistani
Diplomat
Tex Avery26 February 1908, American
Animator
Joe Dassin07 November 1938, French
Singer-songwriter
Angelo Bruno21 May 1910, Italian
Dick Haymes13 September 1918, Argentinian
Actor, Musician, Singer
Professor Longhair19 December 1918, American
pianist, street artist,musician, singer
Anastasio Somoza Debayle05 December 1925, Nicaraguan
Politician
Paul Snider15 April 1951, Canadian
Photographer
Tamara de Lempicka16 May 1898, Polish, American
Painter
Sahir Ludhianvi08 March 1921, Indian
Poet, Lyricist, Songwriter
Tim Hardin23 December 1941, American
Singer-songwriter, Singer, Composer
Vladimir Vysotsky25 January 1938, Russian
Singer-songwriter
Gregory Bateson09 May 1904, British, American
Anthropologist, Philosopher, Sociologist,
Wilhelmina Cooper01 May 1939, Dutch, American
Model, Model agent
Milton H. Erickson05 December 1901, American
Psychotherapist, Hypnotist, Hypnotherapist,
Hans Morgenthau17 February 1904, German
Judge, Political scientist, Writer, Philosopher,
Graham Sutherland24 August 1903, British
Painter, Artist
Oskar Kokoschka01 March 1886, Austrian, British
Painter, Playwright, Writer, Poet, University
Heinz Linge23 March 1913, German
Painter
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Hugh Griffith30 May 1912, British
Actor, Stage actor
Bert Kaempfert16 October 1923, German
Composer, Conductor, Record producer, Film score
Bette Nesmith Graham23 March 1924, American
Inventor, Entrepreneur
Mohammad Hatta12 August 1902, Indonesian
Politician
Gustav Wagner18 July 1911, Austrian
Nazi concentration camp commandant
Mario Bava31 July 1914, Italian
Film director, Screenwriter, Cinematographer,
John McEwen29 March 1900, Australian
Politician, Diplomat
Marian Rejewski16 August 1905, Polish
Mathematician, Cryptologist
Steve Peregrin Took28 July 1949, British
Singer-songwriter, Songwriter, Guitarist,
Kenneth Tynan02 April 1927, British
Diarist, Theatre critic, Screenwriter
Yigal Allon10 October 1918, Israeli
Politician, Military personnel
Gene Markey11 December 1895, American
Officer, Screenwriter
Marcelo Caetano17 August 1906, Portuguese
Politician, University teacher, Lawyer, Historian
Len Lye05 June 1901, New Zealander
artist, film director, sculptor
Vinicius de Moraes19 October 1913, Brazilian
Poet, Singer, Composer, Journalist, Diplomat,
Clyfford Still30 November 1904, American
Painter
Philip Guston27 June 1913, American
Painter
Erich Bauer26 March 1900, German
Machinist
Maria Martinez1887 AD, American
potter
Alejo Carpentier26 December 1904, Swiss, Cuban
Writer, Journalist, Essayist, Musicologist,
Gloria Guinness27 August 1912, Mexican
Socialite
Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff27 March 1905, German
Military personnel
Johnny Owen07 January 1956, British
Boxer
Dietrich von Saucken16 May 1892, German
Officer
Victor Gruen18 July 1903, Austrian
Architect, Writer
Lewis Milestone30 September 1895, Russian
Director
Alexander Oparin02 March 1894, Russian
biologist, biochemist, chemist
K. B. Sundarambal11 October 1908, Indian
Actor, Singer
Pascual Jordan18 October 1902, German
Physicist, Politician, Academic, University
Sohrab Sepehri07 October 1928, Iranian
Painter, Poet, Writer