page_title: 1980
section_title: August
hierarchical_section_title: 1980 / Deaths / August
caption_attribution_description: English: President of Pakistan Yahya Khan
context_page_description: 1980 was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1980th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 980th year of the 2nd millennium, the 80th year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 1980s decade.
context_section_description: August 1
  Patrick Depailler, French racing driver (b. 1944)
  Strother Martin, American actor (b. 1919)
  August 2 – Donald Ogden Stewart, American writer (b. 1894)
  August 4 –
  Susan G. Komen, 36, American model for whom The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation is named.(b. 1943)
  Ioan Arhip, Romanian general (b. 1890)
  August 9
  Harry Bell, Australian footballer (b. 1897)
  Jacqueline "Jackie" Cochran, American pilot (b. 1906)
  Elliott Nugent, American actor (b. 1896)
  August 10
  Gareth Evans, British philosopher (b. 1946)
  Yahya Khan, Pakistani general and statesman, 3rd President of Pakistan (b. 1917)
  August 14 – Dorothy Stratten, Canadian actress and model (b. 1960)
  August 15 – William Hood Simpson, American general (b. 1888)
  August 18 – Arman, Iranian-born Soviet actor (b. 1921)
  August 19 – Otto Frank, German father of Jewish diarist Anne Frank (b. 1889)
  August 20 – Joe Dassin, American-born French singer-songwriter (b. 1938)
  August 22 – Norman Shelley, British actor (b. 1903)
  August 24 – Yootha Joyce, British actress (b. 1927)
  August 25 – Gower Champion, American theatre director, choreographer and dancer (b. 1919)
  August 26 – Tex Avery, American animator and director (b. 1908)
  August 27 – Douglas Kenney, comedy writer and author (b. 1946)
caption: Yahya Khan
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