page_title: 1980
section_title: January
hierarchical_section_title: 1980 / Deaths / January
caption_attribution_description: English: Associate Justice William O Douglas
context_page_description: 1980 is the 81st year of the 20th century and the 1st year of the 1980s.
context_section_description: January 1
  Adolph Deutsch, American composer (b. 1897)
  Frank Wykoff, American Olympic athlete (b. 1909)
  January 2 – Alessandro Bruschetti, Italian artist (b. 1910)
  January 3 – Joy Adamson, Austrian-born conservationist and author (b. 1910)
  January 7 – Simonne Mathieu, French tennis champion (b. 1908)
  January 8 – John Mauchly, American physicist and inventor (b. 1907)
  January 10
  Bo Rein, American football coach (b. 1945)
  George Meany, American labor leader (b. 1894)
  January 11 – Barbara Pym, English novelist (b. 1913)
  January 13 – Andre Kostelanetz, Russian conductor and arranger (b. 1901)
  January 17 – Barbara Britton, American actress (b. 1919)
  January 18 – Sir Cecil Beaton, English photographer (b. 1904)
  January 19 – William O. Douglas, American Supreme Court Justice (b. 1898)
  January 21 – Georges Painvin, French cryptographer (b. 1886)
  January 22
  Walter Pym, Australian actor (b. 1905)
  Teresa Noce, Italian labor leader, activist, and journalist (b. 1900)
  January 23 – Leonard Strong, American actor (b. 1908)
  January 24 – Lil Dagover, German actress (b. 1887)
  January 25 – David Newell, American actor (b. 1905)
  January 27
  Hans Aeschbacher, Swiss sculptor (b. 1906)
  Peppino De Filippo, Italian actor (b. 1903)
  Eric Wyndham White, British administrator and economist, first Director-General of the GATT (b. 1913)
  January 28 – Franco Evangelisti, Italian composer (b. 1926)
  January 29 – Jimmy Durante, American actor, singer and comedian (b. 1893)
  January 30
  Maria Bolognesi, Italian Roman Catholic laywoman, mystic and blessed (b. 1924)
  Professor Longhair, American musician (b. 1918)
  January 31 – Eduardo Cáceres, Guatemalan politician (b. 1906)
caption: William O. Douglas
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