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.

	Contents
January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December
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Deaths in 1980

January

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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
  • 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

• 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)