page_title: 1980
section_title: April
hierarchical_section_title: 1980 / Deaths / April
caption_attribution_description: English: Jimmy Carter and Cyrus Vance attend a luncheon hosted by William Tolbert, 04/03/1978.
context_page_description: 1980 is the 81st year of the 20th century and the 1st year of the 1980s.
context_section_description: April 2 – Stanley Forman Reed, American Supreme Court Justice (b. 1884)
  April 4 – Red Sovine, American country and folk singer-songwriter (b. 1917)
  April 6
  John Collier, English writer (b. 1901)
  Nils Ericson, Swedish actor (b. 1906)
  April 8 – Bill Eastman, British army officer (b. 1911)
  April 10 – Kay Medford, American actress and singer (b. 1919)
  April 11 – Ümit Kaftancıoğlu, Turkish writer (b. 1935)
  April 12
  Clark McConachy, New Zealand snooker and billiards player (b. 1895)
  William R. Tolbert Jr., 20th President of Liberia (b. 1913)
  April 13 – Karl Stegger, Danish actor (b. 1913)
  April 15
  Raymond Bailey, American actor (b. 1904)
  Marshall Reed, American film and television actor (b. 1917)
  Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
  April 18 – Antonio Caponigro, American gangster (b. 1912)
  April 19
  Charles Seel, American actor (b. 1897)
  Tony Beckley, English character actor (b. 1927)
  April 20
  Katherine Kennicott Davis, American composer (b. 1892)
  Helmut Käutner, German director (b. 1908)
  April 21 – Sohrab Sepehri, Persian poet and painter (b. 1928)
  April 22
  Jane Froman, American singer and actress (b. 1907)
  Fritz Strassmann, German chemist (b. 1902)
  April 24 – Alejo Carpentier, Cuban writer (b. 1904)
  April 26 – Cicely Courtneidge, British actress (b. 1893)
  April 27
  Mario Bava, Italian director (b. 1914)
  John Culshaw, British recording producer and musicologist (b. 1924)
  April 28 – Thomas G. W. Settle, American record-setting balloonist and admiral (b. 1895)
  April 29 – Alfred Hitchcock, British suspense film director (b. 1899)
  April 30 – Luis Muñoz Marín, Puerto Rican poet, journalist and politician (b. 1898)
caption: William R. Tolbert Jr.
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