page_title: 1980 in Michigan
section_title: Deaths
hierarchical_section_title: 1980 in Michigan / Deaths
caption_attribution_description: Português: Erich Fromm for PIFAL
context_page_description: Events from the year 1980 in Michigan.
  The Associated Press selected the top Michigan news stories in Michigan as follows:
  Record losses by the Big Three automakers and layoffs of 190,000 workers by year's end and production falling below the Japanese auto makers for the first time in history;
  Economic downturn in Michigan resulting in layoffs of state employees, increases in welfare rolls, and reductions in state services;
  A radical tax-cutting proposal from Shiawassee County Drain Commissioner Robert Tisch, known as the Tisch Amendment, was defeated in the November general election;
  Chrysler Corporation's struggle to avoid bankruptcy, including $1.47 billion in losses in the first nine months, the introduction of the K car, and its pursuit of additional federal loan guarantees;
  The 1980 Republican National Convention in Detroit nominating Ronald Reagan as its Presidential nominee;
  The 1980 Kalamazoo tornado of May 13 that killed five persons and injured 80;
  A compromise over oil drilling in the Pigeon River Country State Forest with new drilling to be permitted in the forest, but under heightened environmental safeguards;
context_section_description: January 6 – Georgeanna Tillman, singer and original member of The Marvelettes, at age 35 in Inkster
  January 6 – Joe Mendi II, a performing chimpanzee that entertained patrons at the Detroit Zoo since 1943, at age 40 in Detroit
  January 23 – Nate Shapero, owner of the Cunningham chain of pharmacies, in Palm Beach at age 87
  January 29 – Bruce Bromley, famed New York lawyer who was born in Pontiac and graduated from the University of Michigan, in New York City at age 86
  February 14 – Victor Gruen, designer of the Northland Mall in Detroit and the Kalamazoo Mall, the first pedestrian street mall, in Vienna at age 76
  February 14 – Ricky Knotts, NASCAR driver from Paw Paw, in a crash at Daytona at age 28
  February 16 – George Pierrot, television host and director of the Detroit Institute of Arts' World Adventure travelogue series for 46 years, in Detroit at age 82
  February 25 – Robert Hayden, poet and essayist, in Ann Arbor at age 66
  March 10 – James M. Hare, Michigan Secretary of State 1955 to 1970, in Venice, Florida
  March 16 – Tony Basso, aka "Raincoat Tony", "a Detroit legend" who directed traffic for more than 20 years while wearing an orange raincoat in front of the Book Cadillac Hotel, in Detroit at age 62
  March 18 – Erich Fromm, psychologist and philosopher, taught at Michigan State University (1957–1961), in Switzerland at age 79
  March 21 – Ralph Ulveling, librarian and advocate of intellectual freedom, in Boynton Beach, Florida, at age 77
  May 5 – Homer Stryker, medical equipment inventor and founder of Stryker Corporation, in Kalamazoo at age 85
  May 18 – Robert J. Dunne, American football player and coach and judge, in Winnetka, Illinois, at age 80
  May 23 - Terry Furlow, basketball player at Michigan State, in an automobile accident at Linndale, Ohio, at age 25
  July 16 - Herman Everhardus, American football halfback, in Okemos at age 67
  August 1 - Strother Martin, actor who competed as a diver at University of Michigan, in Thousand Oaks, California, at age 61
  August 16 - James Dallas Egbert III, student at Michigan State, in Dayton, Ohio, at age 17
  August 26 – Jimmy Forrest, jazz musician known for his #1 hit "Night Train", in Grand Rapids at age 60
  September 10 – William Clemens, film director, in Los Angeles at age 74
  September 13 – Josephine Hoffa, wife of Jimmy Hoffa, in Detroit at age 62
  October 8 – Pearl Kendrick, bacteriologist and co-developer of the whooping cough vaccine, in Grand Rapids at age 90
  October 9 – Theophil Henry Hildebrandt, mathematician, in Ann Arbor at age 92
  October 23 – Bob Westfall, American football fullback, in Adrian at age 61
  November 21 – A. J. M. Smith, poet and anthologist, taught at Michigan State 1936–1972, in East Lansing at age 78
  December 1 - Bob Irvin, editor of Autoweek and Automotive News, in Chicago at age 47
  December 15 – Angus Campbell, pioneer in political measurement and director of Institute for Social Research, in Ann Arbor at age 70
  December 22 – Karl Schlademan, track and field coach at Michigan State 1940–1958, in Fort Wayne, Indiana, at age 90
  December 26 – Bill Crouch, baseball pitcher and coach at Eastern Michigan University (1947–1969), in Howell at age 73
caption: Erich Fromm
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