Deaths in February 1980

The following is a list of notable deaths in February 1980. Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

February 1980 1 John Armitage, 69, British editor (Encyclopædia Britannica). Jack Bailey, 72, American actor and game show host, pneumonia.Jack Bailey, 72, Of Queen for Day Radio, TV Shows C. C. Cottrell, 84, American politician, member of the California State Assembly (1933–1939). Yolanda González, 19, Spanish student and communist activist, murdered.L'extreme-droite se venge au pays basque Sir Patrick Hancock, 65, British diplomat. Costante Maltoni, 64, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, cardiopulmonary arrest. Greg Mulleavy, 74, American baseball player, manager, and scout.Mulleavy dead at 74 after lengthy illness Gastone Nencini, 49, Italian racing cyclist. Sam Nunis, 76, American stock car racing promoter.Promoter Dies Rasiklal Umedchand Parikh, 69, Indian politician. Henry Reinholdt, 90, Norwegian footballer. Rube Ursella, 90, American football player and coach. Romolo Valli, 54, Italian actor, traffic collision.Fallecio el actor italo Romolo Valli Fred Walters, 67, American baseball player. 2 Joseph Fontanet, 58, French politician, shot.French politician slain Carmelo Larrea, 72, Spanish songwriter.Fallecio compositor de 'Camino verde' Sigurd Lersbryggen, 78, Norwegian politician. Tom Perko, 25, American football player, traffic collision.Perko, Ex-Packer, Killed in Car Crash Jack Rothrock, 74, American baseball player, heart attack.Gashouse Gang member dead at 74 William Howard Stein, 68, American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (1972), heart failure.Dr. William H. Stein Is Dead at 68; Shared a Nobel Prize in Chemistry; Editor of Scientific Journal Johnny Walker, 71, Australian footballer. Toshiko Yuasa, 70, Japanese-French nuclear physicist, cancer. 3 Marnie Bassett, 90, Australian historian and travel writer. Léon Destroismaisons, 89, Canadian organist and composer. Stephen Dunn, 85, American sound engineer. Ray Garrett Jr., 59, American lawyer and government official, SEC chair (1973–1975), cancer.Ray Garrett Jr., 59, Dies, Former SEC Chairman Ray Heindorf, 71, American songwriter.Ray Heindorf Rodney Holmes, 55, English cricketer, avalanche.Four Britons die as avalanche hits resort Kurt Harald Isenstein, 81, German sculptor. Ailsa O'Connor, 59, Australian artist. Hanna Rovina, 91, Russian-Israeli actress.Hanna Rovina Pedro Sabido, 85, Filipino politician and diplomat. Ludomila Alexandrowna Scheiwiler-von Schreyder, 91, Swiss women's rights activist. Margit Sielska-Reich, 79, Polish-Ukrainian painter. Amanda Snyder, 85, American artist. Betty Timms, 93, English writer. José Victor Toledo, 48, Puerto Rican jurist, cancer.Juez de Puerto Rico muere de cancer a los 48 4 Stojan Aralica, 96, Serbian painter and academic. Erich Bauer, 79, German SS commander and war criminal. Dud Branom, 82, American baseball player. Alfred Braunthal, 82, Austrian trade unionist. Camara Laye, 52, Guinean writer, kidney disease. Arthur MacMahon, 89, American political scientist, heart attack.Dr. Arthur Macmahon, 89, Dies; Taught at Columbia for 45 Years Leon P. Miller, 80, American lawyer and jurist.Judge Leon P. Miller, Former U.S. Attorney Here, Dies In W. Va. Vincent Pottier, 82, Canadian politician, MP (1935–1945). Edith Summerskill, 78, British politician and physician, MP (1938–1961) and member of the House of Lords (since 1961), heart attack.Fighter who couldn't KO boxing Hugh Watt, 67, New Zealand politician, MP (1953–1975) and acting prime minister (1974). David Whitaker, 51, English television writer (Doctor Who), cancer. 5 Nachman Aronszajn, 72, Polish-American mathematician.NACHMAN ARONSZAJN Carl Bødtker, 93, Norwegian engineer and radio personality. Charles Dowson, 90, British Olympic racewalker (1920). Roy Fosdahl, 68, Norwegian footballer. Lawrence Grassi, 89, Italian-Canadian miner and mountaineer.Mountaineering pioneer dies at 89 in Canmore James Campbell Haig, 70, Canadian politician.Senator Haig dead at age 70 Skinny Johnson, 68, American basketball player.Ex-KU star Johnson dies Jack Larscheid, 46, American football player. Sir Harold Parker, 84–85, English civil servant. Maurice Pouzieux, 59, French Olympic runner (1948). Master Gurbanta Singh, 75, Indian politician. Michel Sturdza, 93, Romanian nobleman, diplomat and war criminal. Petras Tarulis, 83, Lithuanian writer and journalist. 6 Sir William Abraham, 82, British general. John J. Britt, 79, American philatelist. Myrtle Cain, 85, American labor activist and politician, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives (1923–1925).Myrtle Cain, one of first women in Legislature, dies Elmer W. Cart, 88, American politician. George Decker, 77, American general, leukemia.Retired Gen. George Decker, 77, Dies, Army Chief of Staff in Early 1960s Bernhard Eichhorn, 75, German composer. József Galambos, 79, Hungarian Olympic runner (1928). Jalil Javadov, 61, Soviet Azerbaijani naval admiral. John Phuko Kgabi, 35, South African convicted serial killer, execution by hanging.PRETORIA Reinhard Kollak, 64, German flying ace. Albert Kotin, 72, Russian-born American painter, lung cancer. Ivan Matteo Lombardo, 77, Italian politician. Don Ross, 77, English music hall performer and theatre producer. Franz Schafheitlin, 84, German actor. 7 Rudolf Bosshard, 89–90, Swiss Olympic rower (1920, 1924, 1928). Secondo Campini, 75, Italian engineer. Eugen Dasović, 83, Croatian footballer. Katherine Emery, 73, American actress, lung disease.Katherine Emery, Actress, Dies; Created 'Children's Hour' Role; Acted in Films Lovie Gore, 76, American politician, member of the Mississippi House of Representatives (1952–1960).Lovie Gore Keith Virtue, 70, Australian aviator. Sir Richard Williams, 89, Australian air marshal.Sir Richard Williams

8 Princess Anna of Ysenburg and Büdingen, 93, German royal. Erwin Friedrich Baumann, 89, Swiss architect and sculptor. Art Beaumont, 75, Australian footballer. Isadora Bennett, 79, American publicity agent and theater manager. Geoffrey E. Blackman, 76, British agronomist. E. P. Bottley, 76, English geologist and businessman. Ivan Gošnjak, 70, Yugoslav politician and general. Zezé Procópio, 66, Brazilian footballer. Andreas Strand, 84, Norwegian entomologist. Leopold Suhodolčan, 51, Yugoslav Slovenian writer. Joe Sulaitis, 58, American football player, heart attack.Sulaitis dies Sir Miles Thomas, 82, Welsh businessman.Thomas revitalized airline Leslie Welch, 72, British entertainer.Memory man Leslie Welch dies Nikos Xilouris, 43, Greek singer and songwriter, lung cancer. Francesco Zucchetti, 77, Italian Olympic racing cyclist (1924).

9 Rostislav Alexeyev, 63, Soviet vehicle designer, plane crash. Heron Carvic, 67, English actor and writer, pneumonia. Clyde T. Ellis, 71, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1939–1943), stroke.Former Congressman Clyde T. Ellis Dies Charles Fowlkes, 63, American saxophonist. John C. Goodchild, 81, Australian artist. Renée Houston, 77, Scottish actress. William Henderson Kelly, 77, American anthropologist, cancer. John Kennedy, 57, British cellist, liver disease. Tom Macdonald, 79, Welsh journalist and novelist. Nikolay Psurtsev, 80, Soviet politician and general. Kitty Shiva Rao, 76, Austrian-Indian teacher and activist. Shalibai, 40, Indian actor, singer and composer. Ludwig Waldmann, 66, German physicist.

10 Loren M. Berry, 91, American advertising executive.Loren M. Berry Arthur Burlton, 79, Indian-born English cricketer. Sir Edwin Chapman-Andrews, 76, British diplomat. Signe Danning, 101, Norwegian actress. Wels Eicke, 86, Australian footballer. Abe Gubegna, 46, Ethiopian novelist, playwright and poet. George Hoellering, 82, Australian filmmaker. Norman W. Marsh, 81, American cartoonist (Dan Dunn). Albert Murray, Baron Murray of Gravesend, 50, British politician, MP (1964–1970) and member of the House of Lords (since 1976). Corina Novelino, 67, Brazilian writer and philanthropist. Louis W. Sauer, 94, American pediatrician and vaccine developer, pneumonia and heart failure.Dr. Louis Sauer, 94, Developer Of Whooping Cough Vaccine Friedrich Smend, 86, German theologian. Rezső Soó, 76, Hungarian botanist. Suren Tovmasyan, 70, Soviet Armenian diplomat and politician. Wally Wales, 84, American actor, complications from a stroke.

11 Bud Boeringer, 76, American football player. Vella Eacharan, 61, Indian politician, heart attack. Hubert Giesen, 82, German pianist. Richard Harrington Levet, 86, American judge.Richard Levet R. C. Majumdar, 91, Indian historian. Yakov Malik, 73, Soviet diplomat.YAKOV A. MALIK, 73; EX-SOVIET U.N. AIDE Udell H. Stallings, 80, American football and baseball player and coach.Udell H. Stallings, was teacher, coach Red Torphy, 88, American baseball player. Paavo Yrjölä, 77, Finnish Olympic track and field athlete (1928).

12 Vittorio Bachelet, 53, Italian politician and judge, shot.Red Brigades kills Catholic activist Hasan M. Balyuzi, 71, Iranian-British Baháʼí official and historian. Samuel D. Berger, 68, American diplomat, cancer.Samuel Berger, Was U.S. Envoy In Seoul and High Aide in Saigon Joe De Medici, 59, Australian footballer. Alice Henson Ernst, 99, American playwright and anthropologist. Clara Lazar Geroe, 79, Hungarian-Australian psychoanalyst. Einar Hille, 85, American mathematician.Dr. Einar Hille, 85, Dies; Ex-Yale Math Professor Carl Howard, 75, American baseball player. Biff Jones, 84, American football player and coach.Lawrence (Biff) Jones, 84 Football Star, Coach Dies Norman Keenan, 63, American jazz bassist. Francis D. Lee, 68, American politician, member of the Nebraska Legislature (1966–1967). Sylvia Leith-Ross, 95, English anthropologist. Anatoliy Lure, 78, Soviet engineer and mathematician. Howdy Myers, 69, American football and lacrosse coach, heart failure.Howdy Myers Donald C. Rubel, 79, American politician and banker. Muriel Rukeyser, 66, American poet, stroke.Muriel Rukeyser, Poet of Protest, Dies Edward Seymour, 74, Irish cricketer. Jørgen Stubberud, 96, Norwegian polar explorer. Jacques Tauraa, 60, French Polynesian politician. Georgia Vasileiadou, 82–83, Greek actress.

13 Eric O. Anderson, 74, American politician, member of the Washington House of Representatives (1961–1975).Former Solon Dies After Being Honored Hugh DeHaven, 84, American pilot and safety pioneer.Hugh DeHaven, Led in Research On Plane and Automotive Safety Abe Espinosa, 91, American golfer and golf course designer. Paul R. Hays, 76, American judge. Alfred Jackson, 84, British Olympic boxer (1928). David Janssen, 48, American actor (The Fugitive), heart attack.DAVID JANSSEN, 49; TV AND MOVIE ACTOR Moultrie Kelsall, 75, Scottish actor.Moultrie Kelsall: vigorous pioneer of Scottish theatre Jo Meynen, 78, Dutch politician. Stjepan Mohorovičić, 89, Croatian physicist and meteorologist. Mike Monroney, 77, American politician, member of the U.S. Senate (1951–1969) and House of Representatives (1939–1951).A.S. Mike Monroney Dead at 77; Spearheaded Reforms in Congress Peter Douglas Herbert Raymond Pelly, 75, British naval admiral. Marian Rejewski, 74, Polish mathematician and cryptologist, heart attack. Leonard Patrick Walsh, 75, American judge.

14 Kitsuju Ayabe, 85, Japanese general. Marie Besnard, 83, French accused and acquitted serial poisoner, bone cancer.Marie Besnard Gunnar Björk, 89, Swedish Olympic racing cyclist (1912). R. L. Brohier, 87, Sri Lankan surveyor and writer. Norman Carton, 72, Russian-born American artist, heart attack.Norman Carton, Painter, Is Dead; Taught at New School 18 Years Victor Gruen, 76, Austrian-American architect, popularized shopping malls.VICTOR GRUEN, 76, ARCHITECT, IS DEAD Frank Holmes, 95, American Olympic track and field athlete (1908).