Deaths in 1980

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.

January

 * January 1
 * Aldo Aimi, Italian football player for Parma and Modena (b. 1906)
 * Adolph Deutsch, British-born American composer (b. 1897)
 * Pietro Nenni, Italian politician (b. 1891)
 * Frank Wykoff, American Olympic athlete (b. 1909)
 * January 3
 * Joy Adamson, Austrian conservationist, author of Born Free (b. 1910)
 * Amos Milburn, American R&B singer and pianist, (b. 1927)
 * Ivan Triesault, Estonian-American actor (b. 1898)
 * Lucien Buysse, Belgian cyclist and champion of the Tour de France (b. 1892)
 * January 6 – Tobie Goedewaagen, Dutch philosopher and Nazi collaborator (b. 1895)
 * January 6
 * Antonio Bilbao La Vieja, Argentine international rugby union footballer (b. 1892)
 * Piersanti Mattarella, President of Sicily (b. 1935)
 * Georgeanna Tillman, American singer and original member of the girl group the Marvelettes (b. 1944)
 * January 7
 * Irene Beasley, American singer (b. 1904)
 * Simonne Mathieu, French tennis champion (b. 1908)
 * Larry Williams, American rhythm and blues and rock and roll singer, songwriter, and pianist (b. 1935)
 * Sarah Selby, American actress (b.1905)
 * January 8
 * John Mauchly, American physicist and inventor (b. 1907)
 * Oscar Ewing, American lawyer, social reformer, and politician (b. 1889)
 * January 9 – Gaetano Belloni, Italian professional road racing cyclist (b. 1892)
 * January 10 – George Meany, American labor leader (b. 1894)
 * January 11
 * Valentine Blomfield, Major-General in the British Army (b. 1898)
 * Barbara Pym, English novelist (b. 1913)
 * January 13
 * Eric Aldwinckle, designer, illustrator and official Second World War artist (b. 1909)
 * Andre Kostelanetz, Russian conductor and arranger (b. 1901)
 * 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)
 * January 19
 * Richard Franko Goldman, conductor, educator, author, music critic, and composer (b. 1910)
 * William O. Douglas, American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1939 to 1975 (b. 1898)
 * January 21 – Clyde Barnhart, American Major League Baseball player for the Pittsburgh Pirates (b. 1895)
 * January 23
 * Lil Dagover, German actress (b. 1887)
 * Shōjirō Iida, Japanese general (b. 1888)
 * Babs Gonzales, American bebop vocalist, poet, and self-published author (b. 1919)
 * 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
 * Kroger Babb, American film producer and showman (b. 1906)
 * Franco Evangelisti, Italian composer (b. 1926)
 * January 29
 * Ali Adbo, Iranian boxer and founder of Persepolis F.C. (b. 1928)
 * Jimmy Durante, American actor, singer and comedian (b. 1893)
 * January 30 – Professor Longhair, American musician (b. 1918)
 * January 31
 * Jose Vasquez Aguilar, first Filipino recipient of the Ramon Magsaysay Award (b. 1900)
 * Lady Evelyn Beauchamp, first woman in modern times to enter the tomb of Tutankhamun (b. 1901)
 * Jacobus Duminy, South African academic who became principal and vice-chancellor of the University of Cape Town (b. 1897)
 * January unknown date – Don Albert, American jazz trumpeter and bandleader (b. 1900)

February



 * 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)
 * February 3
 * Marnie Bassett, Australian historian, biographer and travel writer (b. 1889)
 * Hanna Rovina, Russian-Israeli actress (b. 1888)
 * 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
 * Rudolf Bosshard, Swiss rower and Olympic medalist (b. 1890)
 * Sir Richard Williams, Royal Australian Air Force officer (b. 1890)
 * February 8
 * Princess Anna of Ysenburg and Büdingen, titular Princess consort of Lippe (b. 1886)
 * Erwin Friedrich Baumann, Swiss architect and sculptor (b. 1890)
 * Nikos Xilouris, Greek pop singer (b. 1936)
 * Francesco Zucchetti, French Olympic cyclist (b. 1902)
 * 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
 * David Janssen, American actor (b. 1931)
 * Marian Rejewski, Polish mathematician and cryptologist (b. 1905)
 * 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)
 * February 17
 * Graham Sutherland, English artist (b. 1903)
 * Jerry Fielding, American jazz musician, arranger, band leader, and film composer (b.1922)
 * February 19
 * Robert Morrison, British Olympic rower (b. 1902)
 * Bon Scott, Scottish-Australian rock singer (AC/DC) (b. 1946)
 * February 20
 * Joseph Banks Rhine, American parapsychologist (b. 1895)
 * Alice Roosevelt Longworth, American writer and socialite (b. 1884)
 * February 21
 * Alfred Andersch, German writer, publisher, and radio editor (b. 1914)
 * Aldo Andreotti, Italian mathematician (b. 1924)
 * Gordon Boyd, Scotland international rugby union player (b. 1905)
 * Chester Lauck, comic actor who played the character of Lum Edwards on the American radio comedy, Lum and Abner (b. 1902)
 * February 22
 * Sadaaki Akamatsu, Japanese ace fighter pilot (b. 1910)
 * Oskar Kokoschka, Austrian painter and poet (b. 1886)
 * Dick Kallman, American actor (b. 1933)
 * February 23 – Enrico Celio, Swiss politician, 49th President of the Swiss Confederation (b. 1889)
 * February 24 – Clement Martyn Doke, South African linguist (b. 1893)
 * 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

 * March 1
 * Emmett Ashford, first African-American Major League Baseball umpire (b. 1914)
 * Wilhelmina Cooper, Dutch-American model and owner of model agency (b. 1939)
 * Dixie Dean, English football player (b. 1907)
 * March 2 – Roland Armontel, French actor (b. 1901)
 * March 4
 * Johannes Martin Bijvoet, Dutch chemist and crystallographer (b. 1892)
 * Vakhtang Ananyan, Armenian writer and journalist (b. 1905)
 * March 5 – Jay Silverheels, Canadian actor (b. 1912)
 * March 9
 * Nikolay Bogolyubov, Soviet and Russian actor (b. 1899)
 * Olga Chekhova, Russian-German actress (b. 1897)
 * March 10
 * José Américo de Almeida, Brazilian writer, a politician, lawyer and teacher (b. 1887)
 * Herman Tarnower, American cardiologist and co-author of a bestselling diet book; would later be murdered by his wife (b. 1910)
 * March 13
 * Gerritdina Benders-Letteboer, member of the Dutch Resistance (b. 1909)
 * Roland Symonette, 1st Prime Minister of the Bahamas (b. 1898)
 * March 14
 * Henk Blomvliet, Dutch footballer, represented the Netherlands) (b. 1911)
 * Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente, Spanish naturalist and television presenter (b. 1928)
 * Mohammad Hatta, Indonesia's first vice president (b. 1902)
 * Anna Jantar, Polish singer (b. 1950)
 * Allard Lowenstein, American Democratic politician; served as a U.S. representative for the 5th congressional district of Nassau County, New York. (b. 1929)
 * March 15
 * Charles Austin (rugby union), American rugby union player, official, and coach (b. 1892)
 * Octávio Brandão, Brazilian pharmacist, politician and activist (b. 1896)
 * March 17
 * Boun Oum, 4th Prime Minister of Laos (b. 1911)
 * Rudolf George Escher, Dutch composer and music theorist (b. 1912)
 * March 18
 * Erich Fromm, German-American psychologist and philosopher (b. 1900)
 * Tamara de Lempicka, Polish painter (b. 1898)
 * Louise Lovely, Australian actress (b. 1895)
 * Herman Griffith, West Indian cricketer; played in West Indies' first Test match in their inaugural Test tour of England; was one of the leading bowlers on that tour (b.1893)
 * March 19 – Millen Brand, American writer and poet (b. 1906)
 * March 21 – Marcel Boussac, thoroughbred race horse breeder (b. 1889)
 * March 23 – S. W. Alexander, British journalist and political activist (b. 1895)
 * March 24
 * John Barrie, English actor (b. 1917)
 * Eric Bensted, Australian first-class cricketer (b. 1901)
 * Pierre Etchebaster, French real tennis player (b. 1893)
 * Óscar Romero, Salvadorian Roman Catholic archbishop (b. 1917)
 * March 25
 * Milton H. Erickson, American psychiatrist (b.1901)
 * Erminio Macario, Italian actor (b. 1902)
 * Walter Susskind, Czech conductor (b. 1913)
 * March 26 – Roland Barthes, French literary critic and writer (b. 1915)
 * March 28
 * Fenton Atkinson, British High Court judge, oversaw the trial of the Moors murderers (b. 1906)
 * Dick Haymes, Argentine actor and singer (b. 1918)
 * March 29 – Mantovani, Anglo-Italian conductor and arranger (b. 1905)
 * March 30
 * Natalio Bacalso, Filipino writer, newspaperman, radio broadcaster, filmmaker and Constitutional Convention delegate (b. 1908)
 * Tôn Đức Thắng, 2nd President of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (b. 1888)
 * Annunzio Mantovani, Italian British conductor, composer and light orchestra-styled entertainer (b.1905)
 * March 31
 * Vladimír Holan, Czech poet (b. 1905)
 * Jesse Owens, American Olympic athlete (b. 1913)

April

 * April 2 – Dick Howorth, English cricketer (b. 1909)
 * April 3
 * Archie Benn, Australian Federal Senator (b. 1897)
 * Luella Gear, American actress (b. 1897)
 * 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
 * Charley Borah, American athlete and Olympic gold medalist (b. 1905)
 * Florence Lake, American actress best known as the leading lady in most of the Edgar Kennedy comedy shorts (1904)
 * 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)
 * Marshall Reed, American actor who appeared in over 200 films between 1943 and 1978 (b. 1917)
 * April 19
 * Tony Beckley, English actor (b. 1929)
 * Charles Seel, American actor (b. 1897)
 * Ethel Wilson, Canadian writer of short stories and novels (b. 1888)
 * April 20
 * Günther Ballier, German actor (b. 1900)
 * Charles Stanley Blair, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland (b. 1927)
 * Helmut Käutner, German film director (b. 1908)
 * Katherine Kennicott Davis, American composer (b. 1892)
 * April 21
 * Dante Agostini, Italian-born French drummer (b. 1921)
 * Sohrab Sepehri, Persian poet and painter (b. 1928)
 * Aleksandr Oparin, Soviet biochemist notable for his theories about the origin of life; also studied the biochemistry of material processing by plants and enzyme reactions in plant cells (1894)
 * April 22
 * Jane Froman, American singer and actress (b. 1907)
 * Fritz Strassmann, German chemist (b. 1902)
 * April 24
 * James Buis, Dutch Roman Catholic prelate, vicar apostolic of Kota Kinabalu (b. 1902)
 * Alejo Carpentier, Cuban writer (b. 1904)
 * April 25 – Katia Mann, American actress and singer who performed on stage, radio, and television despite chronic health problems
 * April 26 – Dame Cicely Courtneidge, British actress (b. 1893)
 * April 27 – Mario Bava, Italian director, cinematographer, special effects artist and screenwriter (b. 1914)
 * April 28
 * Andrija Anković, Croatian footballer and manager (b. 1937)
 * Thomas G. W. Settle, American record-setting balloonist and admiral (b. 1895)
 * April 29 – Sir Alfred Hitchcock, British film director (b. 1899)
 * April 30
 * Harold Robert Aaron, United States Army lieutenant general (b. 1921)
 * Arthur Banner, English footballer (b. 1918)
 * Luis Muñoz Marín, Puerto Rican journalist, politician and statesman (b. 1898)
 * April unknown date – Herbert Bowman, American tennis player (b. 1897)

May

 * May 2
 * Clarrie Grimmett, New Zealand-born Australian cricketer (b. 1891)
 * George Pal, Hungarian-American animator and producer (b. 1908)
 * Alioune Diop, Senegalese writer and editor, founder of the journal Présence africaine, and a central figure in the Négritude movement (b. 1910)
 * 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 Staff
 * May 12 – Lillian Roth, American actress (b. 1910)
 * May 13 – Elliott Arnold, American newspaper feature writer, novelist, and screenwriter (b. 1912)
 * May 14
 * Carl Ebert, German theatre and opera director (b. 1887]
 * Fatmawati, inaugural First Lady of Indonesia (b. 1923)
 * Wilhelm Weismann, German composer and musicologist (b. 1900)
 * Hugh Griffith, Welsh actor (b. 1912)
 * 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
 * Reid Blackburn, American photojournalist, killed in the 1980 volcanic eruption (b. 1952)
 * Ian Curtis, English musician and singer (b. 1956)
 * David A. Johnston, American volcanologist (b. 1949)
 * Harry R. Truman, American businessman, bootlegger and prospector (b. 1896)
 * 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

 * June 1 – Rube Marquard, American left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball, had greatest success in the New York Giants (b. 1886)
 * June 3
 * Naum Akhiezer, Jewish-Soviet mathematician (b. 1901)
 * Fred Beir, American film and television actor (b. 1927)
 * 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
 * Richard Bonelli, American operatic baritone (b. 1889)
 * Philip Guston, American painter (b. 1913)
 * Henry Miller, American writer (b. 1891)
 * Marian Spychalski, Polish architect and politician, former Polish head of State (b. 1908)
 * June 8
 * Alfredo Brilhante da Costa, Brazilian football player (b. 1904)
 * Ernst Busch, German singer and actor (b. 1900)
 * June 12
 * Lawrence Anionwu, Nigerian administrator and diplomat, Nigeria's first Ambassador to Italy (b. 1921)
 * Milburn Stone, 75, American actor (b. 1904)
 * Masayoshi Ōhira, Japanese politician, 43rd Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1910)
 * Billy Butlin, entrepreneur whose name is synonymous with the British Butlin holiday camp.
 * June 13 – Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian and political figure (b. 1942)
 * June 18
 * Henry Aurand, American Lieutenant General, served in WWI, WWII and the Korean War (b. 1894)
 * Cliff Bergere, American stuntman and racecar driver (b. 1896)
 * Maurice Bridgeman, English oilman (b. 1904)
 * Terence Fisher, British director (b. 1904)
 * André Leducq, French cyclist who won the 1930 and 1932 Tours de France and a gold medal at the 1924 Summer Olympics (b. 1904)
 * June 20 – Allan Pettersson, Swedish composer and violist considered one of the 20th century's most important Swedish composers
 * June 21 – Bert Kaempfert, German orchestra leader and songwriter (b. 1923)
 * June 23
 * Vadim Berezinskii, Soviet physicist (b. 1935)
 * V. V. Giri, Indian politician and 4th President of India (b. 1894)
 * Clyfford Still, American painter (b. 1904)
 * John Laurie, Scottish stage, film, and television actor (b. 1897)
 * Sanjay Gandhi, Indian politician who was a member of parliament and Lok Sabha.
 * June 24
 * Connie Mack Berry, American who played professional football, baseball, and basketball (b. 1915)
 * Boris Kaufman, Russian cinematographer (b. 1897)
 * June 26
 * Hal Aloma, Hawaiian steel guitarist, singer and bandleader (b. 1908)
 * Ignatius Jacob III, Patriarch of Antioch (b. 1912)
 * June 27 – Barney Bigard, American jazz clarinetist known for his 15-year tenure with Duke Ellington (b. 1906)
 * June 28
 * José Iturbi, Spanish conductor and musician (b. 1895)
 * Helen Gahagan Douglas, American actress and politician; was on Broadway, toured as a opera singer, and was in Hollywood films; she was the third woman and first Democratic woman elected to Congress from California (b. 1900)
 * June 29
 * Filipp Agaltsov, Soviet Order of Lenin recipient (b. 1900)
 * Jorge Basadre, Peruvian historian (b. 1903)
 * June 30 – Lester Brain, pioneer Australian aviator and airline executive (b. 1903)

July

 * July 1 – C. P. Snow, British physicist and novelist (b. 1905)
 * July 2 – Tom Barry, guerrilla leader in the Irish Republican Army (b. 1897)
 * July 3
 * Adesoji Aderemi, Governor of Western Region, Nigeria (b. 1889)
 * Deng Hua, Chinese general (b. 1910)
 * Abdelhamid Sharaf, 51st Prime Minister of Jordan (b. 1939)
 * July 4 – Gregory Bateson, British anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, semiotician and cyberneticist (b. 1904)
 * July 6 – Gail Patrick, American actress (b. 1911)
 * 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
 * Nazario Belmar, Spanish footballer, film producer and lawyer (b. 1919)
 * Ian Botting, New Zealand international rugby union player (b. 1922)
 * Vinicius de Moraes, Brazilian writer, poet and diplomat (b. 1913)
 * 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
 * Joseph Brennan, Irish Fianna Fáil politician (b. 1913)
 * Seretse Khama, 1st President of Botswana (b. 1921)
 * 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
 * Don "Red" Barry, American film and television actor (b. 1912)
 * Boris Delaunay, Russian mathematician (b. 1890)
 * July 19
 * Nihat Erim, Turkish politician and jurist, 30th Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1912)
 * Hans Morgenthau, German-American jurist and political scientist who specialized in foreign relations; made landmark contributions to international relations theory and the study of international law (b. 1904)
 * July 20
 * William P. Battell, Major General of the US Marine Corps (b.1906)
 * Piet Bouman, Dutch amateur footballer who played for his country (b. 1892)
 * Lado Gudiashvili, Soviet painter (b. 1896)
 * 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
 * J. S. Brenner, American politician in the state of Montana (b. 1911)
 * Peter Sellers, British comedian and actor (b. 1925)
 * Uttam Kumar, Indian film actor, producer, director, screenwriter, composer, and playback singer who predominantly worked in Bengali cinema (b. 1926)
 * July 25 – Vladimir Vysotsky, Soviet singer-songwriter, poet and actor (b. 1938)
 * July 26
 * Peter René Oscar Bally, Swiss botanical illustrator, botanist and taxonomist (b. 1895)
 * Kenneth Tynan, English theatre critic (b. 1927)
 * Allen Hoskins, American child actor, who portrayed the character of Farina in 105 Our Gang short films from 1922 to 1931 (b. 1920)
 * Ibn-e-Safi, fiction writer, novelist and poet of Urdu from Pakistan.
 * July 27
 * Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran (b. 1919)
 * Rushdy Abaza, Egyptian film and television actor (b. 1926)
 * 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

 * August 1
 * Gardner Boultbee, Canadian sailor and Olympic medalist (b. 1907)
 * Patrick Depailler, French racing driver (b. 1944)
 * Strother Martin, 61, American television and movie actor (b. 1919)
 * August 2
 * Page Belcher, American Republican politician (b. 1899)
 * Verdun Scott, sportsman who represented New Zealand in both Test cricket and rugby league. As of 2022, he is the only player to have done so (b. 1916)
 * 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
 * Arman, Iranian-Armenian actor (b. 1921)
 * Paul Triquet, Canadian captain in WWII and recipient of the Victoria Cross in WWII (b. 1910)
 * Oleg Grigoryevich Kononenko, member of Soviet cosmonaut group LII-1
 * August 9
 * Jacqueline Cochran, American pilot (b. 1906)
 * Elliott Nugent, American actor, playwright, writer, and film director (b. 1896)
 * 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)
 * August 15 – William Hood Simpson, American general (b. 1888)
 * August 16 – Kevin Blackwell, New Zealand road and track cyclist, Commonwealth Games medallist (b. 1955-56)
 * August 17
 * Harold Adamson, American lyricist (b. 1906)
 * Azaria Chamberlain, killed by a dingo leading to false imprisonment for murder for her mother (b. 1980)
 * August 18 – Norman Cazden, American composer whose prime creative years were obscured by McCarthy-era political pressures (b. 1914)
 * August 19 – Otto Frank, German father of Jewish diarist Anne Frank (b. 1889)
 * August 20
 * Astaman, Indonesian actor (b. 1900)
 * Naemi Briese, Swedish film actress (b. 1908)
 * Joe Dassin, American-French singer-songwriter (b. 1938)
 * August 21 – Jack Cheetham, South African cricketer who played in 24 Test matches (b. 1920)
 * August 22
 * L. C. Bates, African-American civil rights activist (b. 1904)
 * Gabriel González Videla, 24th President of Chile (b. 1898)
 * Alfred Neubauer, racing manager of the Mercedes-Benz Grand Prix team from 1926 to 1955 (b. 1891)
 * James Smith McDonnell, American aviator, engineer, and businessman. (b. 1899)
 * August 24
 * Andre Parrot, French archaeologist specializing in ancient Near East. He led excavations in Lebanon, Iraq and Syria (b. 1901)
 * Yootha Joyce, English actress (b. 1927)
 * August 25
 * Santos P. Amadeo, Puerto Rican attorney, law professor and Senator (b. 1902)
 * Gower Champion, American theatre director, choreographer and dancer (b. 1919)
 * August 26
 * Rosa Albach-Retty, Austrian film and stage actress, with Nazi sympathies (b. 1874)
 * Tex Avery, American animator, cartoonist, director, and voice actor (b. 1908)
 * Jimmy Forrest, American jazz musician who played tenor saxophone throughout his career (b. 1920)
 * Miliza Korjus, Polish-Estonian lyric coloratura soprano opera singer who appeared in classical American and Mexican sound films during the Golden Age of Hollywood (b. 1909)
 * August 27 – Herman Beam, NASCAR Grand National Series driver and team owner (b. 1929)
 * August 29
 * Franco Basaglia, Italian psychiatrist, neurologist and professor (b. 1924)
 * Louis Darquier de Pellepoix, French Nazi collaborationist and Commissioner-General for Jewish Affairs under the Vichy Régime
 * August 30 – Big Brown, American street poet, performer, and recording artist (b. 1920)
 * August 31 – Rodolfo Arena, Brazilian actor (b. 1910)

September

 * September 1
 * Reg Bentley, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1914)
 * Frank LaManna, American baseball player
 * September 2 – C. K. Alexander, Egyptian actor, director, composer, and playwright (b. 1923)
 * September 3
 * Barbara O'Neil, American actress (b. 1909)
 * Dirch Passer, Danish actor (b. 1926)
 * Duncan Renaldo, Romanian-born American actor (b. 1904)
 * Fabian von Schlabendorff, German jurist, soldier, and member of the German resistance against Adolf Hitler (b. 1907)
 * 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
 * Willard Libby, American chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry (b. 1908)
 * Bruce Dooland, Australian cricketer who played in three Test matches for the Australian national cricket team (b. 1923)
 * September 9
 * Harold Clurman, American theatre director and drama critic (b. 1901)
 * John Howard Griffin, American journalist and author who wrote about racial equality (b.1920)
 * September 11
 * Junius "Rainey" Bibbs, American baseball player
 * Harry Hulihan, American baseball player
 * Ernie Ovitz, American baseball player
 * Garth Mann, American baseball player
 * September 12
 * Lillian Randolph, American actress (b. 1898)
 * André Chéron, French chess player, endgame theorist, and a composer of endgame studies (b. 1895)
 * 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)
 * September 16 – Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologist (b. 1896)
 * September 17
 * Harold Boas, Australian town planner and architect (b. 1883)
 * Anastasio Somoza Debayle, President of Nicaragua (b. 1925)
 * September 18
 * Frank Anderson, Canadian chess master and writer (b. 1928)
 * Katherine Anne Porter, American author (b. 1890)
 * 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
 * Jim Fouché, 5th President of South Africa (b. 1898)
 * Alan Strode Campbell Ross, British academic specializing in linguistics (b. 1907)
 * September 24 – Bill Ayers, American baseball player
 * September 25
 * Richard Reeve Baxter, American jurist (b. 1921)
 * John Bonham, British rock drummer (Led Zeppelin) (b. 1948)
 * Lewis Milestone, American film director (b. 1895)
 * Marie Under, Estonian poet (b. 1883)
 * September 26
 * Princess Anne of Denmark, (b. 1917)
 * Albert C. Bostwick Jr., American steeplechase jockey, thoroughbred racehorse owner, breeder and trainer (b. 1901)
 * 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

 * October 2
 * Princess Alexandrine of Prussia, oldest daughter and fifth child of Wilhelm, German Crown Prince (b. 1915)
 * Sir John Kotelawala, Sri Lanka soldier and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Ceylon (b. 1895)
 * Valentin Varlamov, Russian jet pilot who was selected for Air Force Group 1 (b. 1934)
 * October 6
 * Sir Edric Bastyan, British Army officer, Governor of South Australia and Governor of Tasmania (b. 1903)
 * Hattie Jacques, British actress (b. 1922)
 * Jean Robic, French road racing cyclist who won the 1947 Tour de France
 * October 8
 * Suzanne Bertillon, French WWII resistance fighter, awarded the Legion of Honour (b. 1891)
 * Maurice Martenot, French cellist, radio telegrapher during the first World War, and an inventor (b. 1898)
 * October 10
 * Carlo Annovazzi, Italian footballer (b. 1925)
 * Elizabeth Rummel, German-Canadian mountaineer and environmental activist (b. 1897)
 * 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
 * John Henry Balch, United States Naval Reserve officer who received the Medal of Honor for his actions in World War I (b. 1896)
 * Prince Peter of Greece and Denmark (b. 1908)
 * Mikhail Lavrentyev, Soviet mathematician and hydrodynamicist
 * 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
 * Hans Asperger, Austrian pediatrician after whom Asperger syndrome was named (b. 1906)
 * Kanjūrō Arashi, Japanese film actor (b. 1903)
 * Élie-Oscar Bertrand, Canadian businessman and House of Commons representative (b. 1894)
 * Valko Chervenkov, Bulgarian Communist leader and statesman, 34th Prime Minister of Bulgaria (b. 1900)
 * Edelmiro Julián Farrell, Argentine general, 28th President of Argentina (b. 1887)
 * October 22 – Sammy Angott, American boxer, World Lightweight champion (b. 1915)
 * October 23
 * Charles Adler Jr., American engineer and inventor (b. 1899)
 * Mariano Suárez, Ecuadorian politician, 27th President of Ecuador (b. 1897)
 * October 25
 * Virgil Fox, American organist (b. 1912)
 * Víctor Galíndez, Argentine boxer (b. 1948)
 * Sahir Ludhianvi, Urdu/Hindustani poet and Hindi film lyricist (b. 1921)
 * October 26 – Marcelo Caetano, Portuguese politician and scholar, 101st Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1906)
 * October 27
 * Judy LaMarsh, Canadian politician, lawyer, author and broadcaster (b. 1924)
 * Steve Peregrin Took, British rock musician (b. 1949)
 * John Hasbrouck Van Vleck, American physicist, Nobel Laureate in Physics (b. 1899)
 * October 29 – Giorgio Borġ Olivier, Maltese politician and statesman, 7th Prime Minister of Malta (b. 1911)
 * October 31
 * Elizebeth Smith Friedman, American cryptographer (b. 1892)
 * Jan Werich, Czech actor, playwright and writer (b. 1905)
 * October unknown date – Dorothy Blum, American computer scientist and cryptanalyst, worked for the National Security Agency (b. 1924)

November

 * November 2 – Willie Sutton, American bank robber (b. 1901)
 * November 3 – Ludwig Hohl, Swiss writer writing in the German language (b. 1904)
 * November 4
 * Sir Kenneth Blackburne, British colonial official, first governor-general of Jamaica (b. 1907)
 * Elsie MacGill, Canadian engineer, the first woman in the world to earn an aeronautical engineering degree, and the first woman in Canada to receive a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering (b. 1905)
 * Johnny Owen, Welsh professional boxer (b. 1956)
 * 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
 * Steve McQueen, American actor (b. 1930)
 * Wolfgang Weyrauch, German writer, journalist, and actor (b. 1904)
 * November 8
 * Gordon Robert Archibald, Scottish painter (b. 1905)
 * Claudio Bincaz, Argentine international football and rugby union player (b. 1897)
 * 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
 * Nikolaus Biewer, German international footballer (b. 1922)
 * Imogen Hassall, English actress (b. 1942)
 * 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
 * Margaret Aitken, Canadian author, columnist, journalist, and politician (b. 1906)
 * E. J. Bowen, British physical chemist (b. 1898)
 * November 20
 * Hans von Boineburg-Lengsfeld, German general in the Wehrmacht (b. b. 1889)
 * Avtandil Gogoberidze, Soviet football player (b. 1922)
 * Sir John McEwen, Australian politician, 18th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1900)
 * 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
 * George Aarons, Russian-American sculptor (b. 1896)
 * Herbert Agar, American journalist and Pulitzer Prize recipient (b. 1897)
 * George Raft, American actor (b. 1901)
 * November 25
 * George Amsberg, Australian barrister and judge (b. 1905)
 * Herbert Flam, American tennis player (b. 1928)
 * November 26
 * Rachel Roberts, British actress (b. 1927)
 * Pete DePaolo, American racing driver who is remembered as one of the greatest racers of his generation (b. 1898)
 * November 29 – Dorothy Day, American journalist and social activist (b. 1897)

December

 * December 1 – Frank Booth, American swimmer and Olympic medalist (b. 1910)
 * December 2 – Romain Gary, Lithuanian-French writer (b. 1914)
 * December 3 – Sir Oswald Mosley, British fascist leader (b. 1896)
 * 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
 * Theo Breuer, German international footballer (b. 1909)
 * John Lennon, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1940)
 * 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
 * Hugh Beadle, Rhodesian lawyer, politician, judge, Chief Justice of Southern Rhodesia (b. 1905)
 * Nichita Smochină, Moldovan activist (b. 1894)
 * Elston Howard, American professional baseball player who was a catcher and a left fielder (b. 1929)
 * December 16
 * Peter Collinson, British film director (b. 1936)
 * Colonel Sanders, American fast-food entrepreneur (b. 1890)
 * Hellmuth Walter, German engineer and inventor (b. 1900)
 * 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
 * Philip Lemont Barbour, American linguist, historian and radio broadcaster (b. 1898)
 * Marc Connelly, American playwright (b. 1890)
 * December 22 – Miriam Battista, American actress known principally for her early career as a child star in silent films (b. 1912)
 * December 24
 * Caroline van Hook Bean, American Impressionist painter (b. 1879)
 * Karl Dönitz, German admiral and 4th President of Germany (b. 1891)
 * Heikki Liimatainen, Finnish Olympic athlete (b. 1894)
 * Siggie Nordstrom, American model, actress, entertainer, socialite and lead singer of The Nordstrom Sisters (b. 1893)
 * December 25 – Fred Emney, English character actor and comedian (b. 1900)
 * December 26
 * Edward Ajado, Nigerian sprinter and Empire Games medal winner (b. 1929)
 * Giuseppe Balbo, Italian painter (b. 1902)
 * Richard Chase, American serial killer & cannibal (b. 1950)
 * 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)
 * December 30
 * Frank Baker, Australian-American actor and stuntman (b. 1892)
 * George Beel, English footballer (b. 1900)
 * 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)
 * 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)