# 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:

## Deaths in 1980
### January

* January 1
** Aldo Aimi, Italian footballer (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 4 – 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 12 – Finn Ronne, Norwegian-born American explorer (b. 1899)
* 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 22 – Teresa Noce, Italian labour leader, activist and journalist (b. 1900)
* 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)
** Nureddine Rifai, 25th Prime Minister of Lebanon (b. 1899)

### 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 – 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)
** 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)
** 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 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)
** 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 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)
** 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
** Herbie Faye, American actor (b. 1899)
** José Iturbi, Spanish conductor and musician (b. 1895)
** 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

* 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
** 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)
* 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
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)
* 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)
** Babe London, American actress and comedian (b. 1901)

### 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, 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, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1940)
* December 10 – Patriarch Benedict I of Jerusalem (b. 1892)
* December 11 – Hawayo Takata, Japanese-born American teacher and master practitioner of Reiki (b. 1900)
* 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

* 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)