1980 deaths

President of Liberia 1971–1980 (1913–1980)

German physicist and politician (1902-1980)

American animator and director (1908-1980)

American film director and actor (1887–1980)

English footballer (1907–1980)

Indian politician (1946-1980)

Soviet marshal (1900-1980)

American actor, comedian and singer (1893–1980)

father of Holocaust diarist Anne Frank (1889–1980)

Polish Olympic champion

Italian director, screenwriter, special effects artist and cinematographer (1914–1980)

President of North Vietnam (1888–1980)

daughter of Kaiser Wilhelm II (1892–1980)

American ecologist (1920–1980)

Italian politician (1891–1980)

prosaist, short story writer, publisher, and radio editor (1914-1980)

Iranian poet and painter (1928-1980)

American psychiatrist (1901–1980)

president of Argentina from May to July 1973

American aviator and businesswoman (1906–1980)

Chilean politician (1898–1980)

Polish actress (1899-1980)

Austrian-British naturalist, painter, writer, collector and illustrator (1910–1980)

Portuguese politician (1934–1980)

British actress (1927-1980)

former First Secretary of the Hungarian Working People's Party

American actor (1931–1980)

British photographer, designer, socialite, writer (1904–1980)

Australian politician, 18th Prime Minister of Australia (1900-1980)

13th Prime Minister of the Republic of Turkey (1912–1980)

Finnish mathematician (1895–1980) known for his research in complex analysis

actress (1910-1980)

German actor (1900-1980)

German actress (1887–1980)

Polish writer (1894–1980)

Syrian politician (1912-1980)

23rd President of Argentina (1887–1980)

Finnish politician (1903-1980)

Wife of Siegfried Wagner (1897–1980)

Swedish film director (1903-1980)

SS officer; valet for German dictator Adolf Hitler (1913–1980)

US Supreme Court justice from 1939 to 1975

American athlete (1909–1980)

Italian politician (1900-1980)

German general (1895–1980)

Russian writer and dissident (1938-1980)

Holocaust perpetrator (1911-1980)

French writer (1890-1980)

Palestinian politician (1908-1980)

American artist (1913-1980)

Austrian footballer (1926-1980)

Iraqi Shia cleric, philosopher, and the ideological founder of the Islamic Dawa Party (1935-1980)(55 yrs)

Italian politician, lawyer, and diplomat; NATO Secretary General (1897-1980)

Italian sculptor (1901-1980)

Czech poet and translator (1905-1980)

South African politician (1898–1980)

Uruguayan footballer (1904-1980)

German physical chemist known for the Debye-Hückel Theory and the Hückel method

American physicist (1907-1980)

American actress and politician (1900–1980)