Deaths in 1980

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January \- February \- March \- April \- May \- June \- July \- August \- September \- October \- November \- December

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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

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### January

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Frank Wykoff Simonne Mathieu Cecil Beaton Jimmy Durante

* January 1
* Aldo Aimi, Italian footballer (b. 1906)
* Adolph Deutsch, British-born American composer (b. 1897)
* Pietro Nenni, Italian politician (b. 1891)[1]
* Frank Wykoff, American Olympic athlete (b. 1909)[2]
* January 3
* Joy Adamson, Austrian conservationist, author of Born Free (b. 1910)[3]
* 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 4 - Tobie Goedewaagen, Dutch philosopher and Nazi collaborator (b. 1895)[4]
* January 6
* Antonio Bilbao La Vieja, Argentine international rugby union footballer (b. 1892)
* Piersanti Mattarella, President of Sicily (b. 1935)[5]
* 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)[6]
* 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)[7]
* January 11
* Valentine Blomfield, Major-General in the British Army (b. 1898)
* Barbara Pym, English novelist (b. 1913)[8]
* January 12 – Finn Ronne, Norwegian-born American explorer (b. 1899)[9]
* 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)[10]
* 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 22 – Teresa Noce, Italian labour leader, activist and journalist (b. 1900)[11]
* January 23
* Lil Dagover, German actress (b. 1887)[12]
* Shōjirō Iida, Japanese general (b. 1888)[13]
* 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)[14]
* January 30 – Professor Longhair, American musician (b. 1918)[15]
* 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)
* Nureddine Rifai, 25th Prime Minister of Lebanon (b. 1899)

### February

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Sir Richard Williams 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)[16]
* 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 – Sir 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)
* Secondo Campini, Italian jet pioneer (b. 1904)[17]
* 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)
* Isadora Bennett, American theater manager and modern dance publicity agent (b. 1900)
* Nikos Xilouris, Greek pop singer (b. 1936)
* Francesco Zucchetti, French Olympic cyclist (b. 1902)
* February 9
* Charles Fowlkes, American baritone saxophonist, member of the Count Basie Orchestra (b. 1916)
* Tom Macdonald, Welsh journalist and novelist (b. 1900)
* 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)[18]
* 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)
* Victor Gruen, Austrian-American architect and inventor of the shopping mall (b. 1903)[19]
* February 16 – Erich Hückel, German physicist and physical chemist (b. 1896)[20]
* February 17
* Graham Sutherland, English artist (b. 1903)[21]
* 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)[22]
* February 20
* Joseph Banks Rhine, American parapsychologist (b. 1895)[23]
* 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)[24]
* 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)[25]
* 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

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Emmett Ashford Mohammad Hatta Boun Oum Óscar Romero Jesse Owens

* 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)[26]
* March 9
* Nikolay Bogolyubov, Soviet and Russian actor (b. 1899)
* Olga Chekhova, Russian-German actress (b. 1897)[27]
* 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 12
* 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)[28]
* Tamara de Lempicka, Polish painter (b. 1898)[29]
* Louise Lovely, Australian actress (b. 1895)[30]
* 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)[31]
* March 25
* Milton H. Erickson, American psychiatrist (b.1901)[32]
* Erminio Macario, Italian actor (b. 1902)
* Walter Susskind, Czech conductor (b. 1913)[33]
* March 26 – Roland Barthes, French literary critic and writer (b. 1915)[34]
* 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)[35]
* March 29 – Mantovani, Anglo-Italian conductor and arranger (b. 1905)[36]
* 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)[37]

### April

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William Tolbert Jean-Paul Sartre Mario Bava Alfred Hitchcock

* 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)[38]
* 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)[39]
* 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)[40]
* Fritz Strassmann, German chemist (b. 1902)
* April 24
* James Buis, Dutch Roman Catholic prelate, vicar apostolic of Kota Kinabalu (b. 1902)[41]
* 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)[42]
* 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)[43]
* April 29 – Sir Alfred Hitchcock, British film director (b. 1899)[44]
* April 30
* Harold Robert Aaron, United States Army lieutenant general (b. 1921)[45]
* 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

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Clarrie Grimmett Josip Broz Tito Fatmawati

* May 2
* Clarrie Grimmett, New Zealand-born Australian cricketer (b. 1891)[46]
* George Pal, Hungarian-American animator and producer (b. 1908)[47]
* 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)
* Joe "Mr Piano" Henderson, Scottish pianist and composer[48]
* 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)[49]
* 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)[50]
* 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

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Philip Guston Masayoshi Ōhira Henry Aurand Ignatius Jacob III

* June 1 – Rube Marquard, American Major League Baseball pitcher (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)
* Gualtiero De Angelis, Italian actor (b. 1899)
* June 7
* Richard Bonelli, American operatic baritone (b. 1889)
* Philip Guston, American painter (b. 1913)[51]
* Henry Miller, American writer (b. 1891)[52]
* 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)[53]
* 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
* Herbie Faye, American actor (b. 1899)[54]
* José Iturbi, Spanish conductor and musician (b. 1895)[35]
* Helen Gahagan Douglas, American actress and politician (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

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Peter Sellers Vladimir Vysotsky Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi

* July 1 – C. P. Snow, British physicist and novelist (b. 1905)[55]
* July 2 – Tom Barry, guerrilla leader in the Irish Republican Army (b. 1897)
* July 3
* Sir 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)[56]
* July 6 – Gail Patrick, American actress (b. 1911)[57]
* 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)
* Leonidas Zervas, Greek organic chemist (b. 1902)[58]
* 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)[59]
* 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. (b. 1898)
* 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)[60]
* 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)[61]
* 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

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Patrick Depailler Gabriel González Videla General Yahya Khan, Martial Law Administrator Pakistan

* August 1
* Gardner Boultbee, Canadian sailor and Olympic medalist (b. 1907)
* Patrick Depailler, French racing driver (b. 1944)
* Strother Martin, American 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)
* Leo Soileau, American Cajun musician (b. 1904)[62]
* August 4 – Georg Aumann, German mathematician (b. 1906)
* August 5
* Joachim Hämmerling, German-born Danish biologist (b. 1901)
* Harold L. 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)[63]
* August 15 – William Hood Simpson, American general (b. 1888)[64]
* 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[65] (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)[66]
* Dame Lucy Sutherland, Australian-born British historian, academic and public servant (b. 1903)[67]
* 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)[68]
* 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)[69]
* 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)[70]
* 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

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Bill Evans Jean Piaget John Bonham

* September 1
* Reg Bentley, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1914)
* Frank LaManna, American baseball player (b. 1919)
* September 2 – C. K. Alexander, Egyptian actor, director, composer, and playwright (b. 1923)
* September 3
* Barbara O'Neil, American actress (b. 1909)[71]
* 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)[72]
* 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 (b. 1910)
* Harry Hulihan, American baseball player (b. 1899)
* Ernie Ovitz, American baseball player (b. 1885)
* Garth Mann, American baseball player (b. 1915)
* 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)[73]
* September 16 – Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologist (b. 1896)[74]
* September 17
* Harold Boas, Australian town planner and architect (b. 1883)
* Anastasio Somoza Debayle, President of Nicaragua (b. 1925)[75]
* 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)[76]
* 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

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John Kotelawala Edelmiro Julián Farrell Charles Adler Jr. Marcelo Caetano

* October 2
* Princess Alexandrine of Prussia, oldest daughter and fifth child of Wilhelm, German Crown Prince (b. 1915)
* Sir John Kotelawala, Sri Lankan soldier and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Ceylon (b. 1897)
* Valentin Varlamov, Russian jet pilot who was selected for Air Force Group 1 (b. 1934)
* October 3 – Flemmie Pansy Kittrell, American nutritionist (b. 1904)[77]
* 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)[78]
* 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)[79]
* Mikhail Lavrentyev, Soviet mathematician and hydrodynamicist
* October 16

Sergey Taboritsky, Russian ultranationalist and journalist (b. 1897)

* 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)[80]
* 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)[81]
* 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

[edit]

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
* 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)[82]
* 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. 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)
* Norah McGuinness, Irish painter and illustrator (b. 1901)
* 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)[83]
* 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)
* Babe London, American actress and comedian (b. 1901)

### December

[edit]

John Lennon Colonel Sanders Jose B. Lingad Alexei Kosygin Karl Dönitz

* December 1 – Frank Booth, American swimmer and Olympic medalist (b. 1910)
* December 2 – Romain Gary, Lithuanian-French writer (b. 1914)[84]
* December 3 – Sir Oswald Mosley, British fascist leader (b. 1896)[85]
* 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, Olympic champion (1932) (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, 40, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Beatles), murdered.[86]
* December 10 – Patriarch Benedict I of Jerusalem (b. 1892)
* December 11 – Hawayo Takata, Japanese-born American teacher and master practitioner of Reiki (b. 1900)[87]
* 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
* Sir 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)[88]
* Jose B. Lingad, Filipino lawyer and politician who served as governor and congressman from Pampanga (b. 1914)
* 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)[89]
* 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)[90]
* 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)[91]
* 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)[92]
* Raoul Walsh, American film director (b. 1887)
* J.W. Milam, American murderer and white supremacist (b. 1919)

### Unknown month

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* 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)
* Lily Eberwein, Sarawakian nationalist, women's rights activist (b. 1900)
* Asia Tawfiq Wahbi, Iraqi writer and social reformer (b. 1901)

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2023|

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2022|

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2021|

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2020|

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2011|

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2000|

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1999|

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1998|

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1997|

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1996|

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1995|

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1994|

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1993|

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1992|

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1991|

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1990|

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