The following is a list of notable deaths in June 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.
June 1980
1 Murtada Said Abdel Baki al-Hadithi, 38–39, Iraqi politician and diplomat, assassination. Luther E. Barnhardt, 76, American politician, lieutenant governor of North Carolina (1957–1961).Luther E. Barnhardt Gerardo Caballero, 89, Spanish general. Gaston-François de Witte, 82, Belgian herpetologist. Julian Deryl Hart, 85, American academic administrator.Dr. Julian D. Hart, 85, Former Duke President John Jenkins, 44, Australian footballer. John MacDonald, 89, Scottish rugby player. Rube Marquard, 93, American baseball player.RUBE MARQUARD, 90; VICTOR OF 19 IN ROW; Hall of Fame Pitcher Established Mark With Giants in 1912-- Also Involved in Scandal No-Hit Game Guilty of Scalping George Marsden, 68, English boxer. Aaron Manasses McMillan, 84, American medical missionary and politician, member of the Nebraska Legislature (1929–1930). Arthur Nielsen, 82, American businessman (Nielsen Media Research) and electrical engineer.Arthur Nielsen Ninetta May Runnals, 95, American academic administrator.MISS NINETTA MAY RUNNALS Billy Stamps, 68, American football player and coach. Viktor Starčić, 79, Yugoslav Serbian actor. Ingvald Svinsås-Lo, 82, Norwegian politician. Hank Swasey, 87, American baseball player and coach.Swasey, 87, Dies; noted UNH coach Len Wickwar, 69, British boxer.
2 Frank Coe, 73, American government official and alleged double agent.Frank Coe, in Peking; Former U.S. Official Took Asylum in 50's Norman Hardy, 72, English cricketer. Robert H. McDowell, 86, American intelligence officer and historian.Robert McDowell Vasja Pirc, 72, Yugoslav chess player. Joseph Samachson, 73, American chemist and science fiction writer, complications from Parkinson's disease.
3 Naum Akhiezer, 79, Soviet mathematician. Fred Beir, 52, American actor, cancer. Lily Butters, 86, Canadian disability activist.BUTTERS, Lily Esther O.C. Oliver Harms, 78, American Lutheran leader.Rev. Oliver Harms Preston Holder, 72, American archaeologist and photographer, cancer. Fred Lieb, 92, American sportswriter and baseball historian.Sports Writer Fred Lieb Dies Monica Milne, 62, British civil servant.Wife Dies Aged 62 Jack Murrell, 78, Australian footballer. Hugh Wrigley, 88, Australian soldier.
4 Léonard Bron, 82, Swiss Olympic wrestler (1920). Arnold Gartmann, 75, Swiss Olympic bobsledder (1936). Delfín Jaranilla, 96, Filipino jurist, attorney general (1927–1932). Leopold Kielholz, 68, Swiss footballer. Charles Miller, 41, American saxophonist (War) and singer ("Low Rider"), stabbed. Fred Rodell, 73, American legal scholar.Fred Rodell of Yale, Expert on Constitutional Law Gloria Saunders, 52, American actress. Don Tarr, 70, Welsh rugby player and naval officer.
5 Giorgio Amendola, 72, Italian politician and writer, MEP (since 1979).Giorgio Amendola Marian Babirecki, 47, Polish Olympic equestrian (1960), drowned. Ron Davies, 60, Australian politician, MP (1958–1975), heart attack. Margret Dünser, 53, Austrian journalist. Johnny Jones, 87, American baseball player and manager. Thorsten V. Kalijarvi, 82, American diplomat.T. V. Kalijarvi, Ex-Ambassador, Official at State Jimmie Keenan, 81, American baseball player. Lauritz Lauritzen, 70, German politician.Lauritz Lauritzen William Seagrove, 81, British Olympic runner (1920, 1924). John Turnley, 44–45, Irish politician and activist, shot.Maverick Protestant politician shot dead
6 Ruth Aarons, 61, American table tennis player and talent manager, fall.Hollywood is mourning Laurie Apitz, 74, American football player and coach. Phillip Connell, 79, Australian politician. Gualtiero De Angelis, 80, Italian actor and dubber. Mick Flynn, 30, Australian rugby player, brain cancer.Aussie RU forward dies John Dove Isaacs, 67, American oceanographer, cancer. Saboo, c. 62–63, Indian footballer. William Francis Kynaston Thompson, 70, British journalist and soldier.
7 Richard Bonelli, 91, American opera singer. Gunnar Bråthen, 83, Norwegian politician and trade unionist. Elizabeth Craig, 97, Scottish journalist and cookbook author.Death of Scotland's 'Mrs Beeton' at 97 Idwal Davies, 80, Welsh footballer. Lillian Dean, 81, Australian politician and photographer. Salvator Gotta, 93, Italian writer.Exterior Philip Guston, 66, Canadian-born American painter, heart attack.Philip Guston, Painter, 66, Dead; An Abstract Expressionist Leader; Cartoonlike Imagery Stirred Some Ire in 1970 Gustav Hentschel, 83, American Olympic cyclist (1924). Henry Miller, 88, American novelist (Tropic of Cancer), heart failure.Henry Miller, 88, Dies in California; A Credo of Hedonism Adalgisa Nery, 74, Brazilian journalist, poet and politician.ADALGISA NERY Sir Charles Orde, 95, British diplomat. Tom Pickett, 73, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1945–1952). Marian Spychalski, 73, Polish politician, head of state (1968–1970).Ex-Polish president Spychalski
8 Guus Albregts, 79, Dutch politician and economist. Brilhante, 75, Brazilian footballer. Ernst Busch, 80, German singer and actor.Murio actor aleman Graham Delbridge, 63, Australian Anglican prelate, traffic collision.Bishop dies in smash Bob Hoskins, 34, American football player, heart attack.49ers' Hoskins eulogized by friends Majid Kalakani, 40–41, Afghan politician, executed.Students Gassed, Fighting Reported in Kabul Mary Meillon, 60, Australian politician.Followed father as State MP Síle Ní Chinnéide, 79, Irish historian. Greta Schröder, 87, German actress (Nosferatu). Helen S. Willard, 86, American occupational therapist and writer.
9 Miguel Capuccini, 76, Uruguayan footballer. Virgilio N. Cordero Jr., 87, Puerto Rican general. Dharmsinh Desai, 63, Indian politician, MP (1971–1977). Sir Derrick Dunlop, 78, Scottish physician and pharmacologist. Odell Hale, 71, American baseball player, complications from a stroke. Shyam Kumari Khan, 75, Indian politician and lawyer. Louis de Loczy, 89, Hungarian-Brazilian geologist.PROFESSOR LOUIS DE LOCZy Patrick J. McDonough, 69, American politician, member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives (1941–1947), cancer.McDonough dies; veteran politician Cvjetko Popović, 84, Bosnian militant involved in the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.Cvjetko Popovic, 84, Was Jailed In '14 Killing of Austria Archduke Llewellyn Ivor Price, 74, Brazilian paleontologist. Keith Whitehead, 48, Australian Olympic water polo player (1956, 1960).WHITEHEAD Carmelo Zito, 80, Italian-American journalist.
10 Edmond Brazès, 86–87, French writer. Antonio Cetti, 80, Italian footballer. Floyd Ebaugh, 66, American basketball player. Denis Hanley, 76, British politician, MP (1931–1935). Joseph Graeme Humble, 66, British haematologist, leukemia. Lubomír Linhart, 73, Czech film historian and critic. John McDowell, 85, Canadian politician. Heinrich Schrader, 86, Australian cricketer and footballer.SCHRADER Aloysius Michael Sullivan, 83, American poet. Charles Young, 74, Australian footballer.
11 Wolfgang Ehrl, 68, German Olympic wrestler (1932, 1936). William J. E. Jessop, 77, Irish politician and academic. Eino Kujanpää, 76, Finnish politician. Şäyxi Mannur, 75, Soviet poet, journalist and translator. Rube Marshall, 89, American baseball player. Frank Murphy, 90, American Olympic pole vaulter (1912).Former Olympic Vaulter Dies Noel Pharazyn, 86, New Zealand trade unionist. Ángel Sanz Briz, 69, Spanish diplomat and humanitarian. Michal Schmuck, 71, Czechoslovak Olympic water polo player (1928, 1936). Andrew P. Torrence, 59, American academic administrator.Dr. Torrence is dead Bolesław Woytowicz, 80, Polish pianist and composer.
12 Lawrence Anionwu, 59, Nigerian diplomat, stroke. Gerónimo Arnedo Álvarez, 82, Argentine politician.Geronimo Arnedo Sir Billy Butlin, 80, British holiday camp entrepreneur, pneumonia.Billy Butlin the holiday camp king dies Sjraar Cuijpers, 78, Dutch architect. James A. FitzPatrick, 86, American journalist, film producer and narrator.Pioneer travel movie producer dies at 86 Ernie Godfrey, 88, American football player and coach, heart attack.Ernie Godfrey Jim Kennedy, 71, Australian footballer. Stu Martin, 42, American jazz drummer, heart attack. Masayoshi Ōhira, 70, Japanese politician, prime minister (since 1978), heart attack.Japan's Prime Minister Ohira Dies At 70 as a Critical Election Nears Egon Pearson, 84, British statistician. Carl Ivar Ståhle, 66, Swedish linguist. Milburn Stone, 75, American actor (Gunsmoke), heart attack.Milburn Stone, Character Actor, a 'Gunsmoke' Star; Always a Supporting Actor Danny Thomas, 29, American baseball player, suicide by hanging.Ex-Indian suicide victim Victoria Vinton, 67, American actress, suicide. Fannie C. Williams, 98, American educator.
13 Maryla Falk, 73, Polish Indologist and religious scholar. Caetano Xavier Furtado, 82, Indian botanist. Rex Grossman Sr., 56, American football player. Dudley Helfrich, 68, South African cricketer. Eric Howroyd, 80, Australian politician. Frederik Koopman, 92, Dutch Olympic rower (1920). Herbert Lee, 93, British Olympic racing cyclist (1920, 1924). Julio Londoño Londoño, 79, Colombian historian and general.Murio el general Londono Nicolae Mărgineanu, 74, Romanian psychologist. William A. Patterson, 80, American airline executive (United Airlines).William A. Patterson, Aviation Pioneer, Dies at 80; Honolulu to San Francisco First Airliner for Passengers Ludwig Raiser, 75, German legal scholar. Walter Rodney, 38, Guyanese political activist and historian, assassination by bomb.Explosives Expert To Investigate Rodney Death Bill Sewell, 79, Australian politician. Paul Althaus Smith, 80, American mathematician.PAUL ALTHAUS SMITH, EX-PROFESSOR, DEAD; Taught Mathematics at Columbia and Barnard for Half-Century --a Pioneer in Topology
14 Herman Autrey, 75, American jazz trumpeter. Bernard Jacob Bamberger, 76, American rabbi and theologian, heart attack.Rabbi Bernard J. Bamberger, 76; Became Rabbi in 1926 James Blue, 49, American filmmaker, cancer.James Blue, film maker, dies of cancer Andrew Donaldson, 93, Scottish footballer. Yahya El Mashad, 48, Egyptian nuclear scientist, assassinated. Johnny Hodapp, 74, American baseball player.Johnny Hodapp Francis MacCarthy Willis Bund, 75, British Anglican prelate and academic administrator. Stanley Marshall, 53, American football player and coach. Ike Owens, 60, American football player. Jim Paltridge, 88, English footballer. Gladwell Richardson, 76, American novelist. Cosma Spessotto, 57, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, shot.
15 Lettie Allen, 78, New Zealand public servant and politician. Ivan L. Bennett, 88, American general and army chaplain.Maj. Gen. Ivan Bennett, Chief of Army Chaplains Fred Bohanan, 72, American film editor (Giant). John Rood Cunningham, 88, American academic administrator.Church Leader Dead At 88 Chick Farr, 66, British footballer. Ehrhardt Heller, 70, Canadian ice hockey player. George Hurdalek, 72, German screenwriter (The Trapp Family). Wilfred Judson, 77, Canadian jurist.JUDSON, Wilfred, O.C., Q.C. Jocelyn Lee, 77, American actress. James Leslie, 71, Scottish footballer. Omer Mahy, 84, Belgian racing cyclist. Sergio Pignedoli, 70, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal, pulmonary embolism.CARDINAL PIGNEDOLI DIES IN ITALY AT 70; Diplomat Was a Leading Contender in the Last 2 Papal Elections
16 Henri Catelan, 84, French racing cyclist. Leontios Chatziapostolou, 85–86, Greek politician and lawyer. Tillie Ehringhaus, 89, American civic leader, first lady of North Carolina (1933–1937). Benoît Faure, 81, French racing cyclist. Feliks Góralczyk, 30, Polish ice hockey player.