Deaths in July 1980

The following is a list of notable deaths in July 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.

July 1980

1 Horma Ould Babana, 68, Mauritanian politician. Curtis Coleman, 93, American baseball player.Curtis Coleman Tom Farmer, 59, American football player.Former Iowa QB Tom Farmer dead William Hartston, 75, English physician. Jack Laybourne, 53, English footballer. Henry W. Lever, 96, American college sports coach, traffic collision.Madras man killed by car Hilmar Reksten, 82, Norwegian shipping magnate.Hilmar Reksten Slugger Ann, 74, American bar owner. C. P. Snow, 74, English novelist (Strangers and Brothers) and chemist.C.P. Snow Dies at 74; Scientist Who Wrote Novels About Power Tadao Takayama, 76, Japanese footballer. Shields Warren, 82, American pathologist.Shields Warren, 82, Pathologist And Pioneer in Radiation Effects; 'No Pretension Whatever' Position on Nuclear Bomb Tests

2 Tom Barry, 83, Irish guerrilla leader (Irish Republican Army).Tom Barry Arnold Campbell, 73, New Zealand educationalist. Consetta Caruccio-Lenz, 61, American Olympic gymnast (1936, 1948). William Dauber, 45, American mobster, murdered.Billy Dauber, Wife Executed Sir Alan Hitchman, 76, English civil servant. Michael Isaacs, 3rd Marquess of Reading, 64, British banker and hereditary peer. Julião Menezes, 70, Indian writer and nationalist activist. Daniel Gillette Olney, 70, American sculptor. Elias Pereira, 63–64, Singaporean educationalist. Burt Procter, 79, American painter.Artist Burt Procter, 79, Dies After Short Illness Ruth Tappe Scruggs, 86, American clubwoman. Tim Trevaskis, 77, Australian footballer. Amos White, 90, American jazz trumpeter. Khun Wichitmatra, 82, Thai government official, writer and filmmaker.

3 Sir Adesoji Aderemi, 90, Nigerian politician and Yoruba ruler. Buster Bennett, 66, American blues musician. Charles Benstead, 84, English cricketer and academic administrator. Robert Bestwick, 80, English cricketer. Deng Hua, 73, Chinese general. Virgil Harris, 68, American baseball player. Zdzisław Krasnodębski, 75, Polish pilot. Walter Ladengast, 80, Austrian actor. Abdelhamid Sharaf, 40, Jordanian politician, prime minister (since 1979), heart attack.Jordanian high official dead at 41 Bertha Fanning Taylor, 96, American painter. Yuri Terapiano, 87, Russian-French writer, poet and literary critic. J. V. Wilson, 83, American soldier and songwriter ("Aggie War Hymn").Aggie War Hymn Writer Dies

4 Gregory Bateson, 76, English anthropologist.Gregory Bateson Dies on Coast; Anthropologist and Philosopher Erich Dethleffsen, 75, German general. Gerd Frickhöffer, 66, German actor. Jascha Gopinko, 88, Russian-Australian violinist. Maurice Grevisse, 84, Belgian linguist. Edward Hald, 96, Swedish sculptor. Willem Louw, 59, South African general. Jack Martin, 93, American baseball player, heart attack.Old Yank dead at 93 Alberto Nicasio, 77, Argentine artist. Pedro Vallana, 82, Spanish-Uruguayan football player and manager. Charles Van Enger, 89, American cinematographer.

5 Bernard J. Bischoff, 49, American politician, drowned. John Keller, 70, Canadian Olympic boxer (1932). Don Nicholl, 54, English-American screenwriter, cancer.Don Nicholl, British-Born Writer And Producer of TV Comedies A. J. Potter, 61, Irish composer. Stuart Rigold, 60, British archaeologist and photographer. Sir James Ross, 1st Baronet, 85, British surgeon and life peer. Luis Sandrini, 75, Argentine actor and film producer.En medio del duelo popular Sandrini fue sepultado ayer Ary Abramovich Sternfeld, 75, Polish-Soviet aerospace engineer. Ben Tincup, 87, American baseball player, heart attack.Services scheduled for baseball's Tincup Thaddäus Troll, 66, German journalist and poet, suicide by drug overdose. Archie Young, 73, Scottish footballer. William Gould Young, 77, American chemist and academic administrator.

6 Frank Cordell, 62, British composer and conductor. Walt Craddock, 48, American baseball player, heart attack.EX-PITCHER DIES Katherine Whitney Curtis, 83, American swimmer and swim instructor, developer of synchronized swimming. Jeanie Dicks, 86, British electrical engineer. George Eash, 69, American electrical engineer, intestinal disease.Cartridge Inventor George Eash Dead Chananya Yom Tov Lipa Goldman, 72–75, Hungarian-American rabbi and publisher. Mary Hignett, 64, British actress, complications from hip surgery. Herman Mattson, 79, New Zealand rugby player. Gail Patrick, 69, American actress and television producer (Perry Mason), leukemia.Gail Patrick, Actress Who Gave Up Movies To Produce TV Series; The Violence Was Off-Screen Mart Raud, 76, Estonian poet and playwright. Sir Ralph Windham, 75, British jurist and colonial official.

7 John Anundson, 88, American politician, member of the South Dakota House of Representatives (1949–1954).John Anundson Tull Considine, 81, Irish hurler and footballer. Prince Dmitri Alexandrovich, 78, Russian royal. Reginald Gardiner, 77, English actor, heart attack.Reginald Gardiner, Comedian, 77; Appeared in Nearly 100 Films; Hollywood Debut in 1936 Praised for Role Gorham Getchell, 59, American basketball and football player. Gedaliah Aharon Koenig, 59, Israeli rabbi. Johannes Meintjes, 57, South African writer and artist. John Morley, 37, Irish footballer and detective, shot.Two Policemen Die as IRA Robs Bank M. Aloysius Peach, 87, American poet and nun. Dore Schary, 74, American playwright, film director (Act One) and producer.Film Producer Dore Schary, 74, Dies Chink Taylor, 82, American baseball player.Chink Taylor Dies Dan White, 72, American actor. Wilhelm Zoepf, 72, German Nazi official.

8 Don G. Abel, 85, American jurist. Allen M. Burdett Jr., 58, American general, cancer.Gen. A. M. Burdett Dies, Saw Combat in 3 Wars Rudolf Creutz, 84, Austrian Nazi official. Wenty Ford, 33, Bahamian baseball player, traffic collision. Dan Healy, 85, American police detective.Police Hero Healy Dies Erich Marckhl, 78, Austrian composer and musicologist. Gertrude Morgan, 80, American artist and preacher. Hans-Joachim Schoeps, 71, German religious historian. Paddy Whannel, 57, British academic. Katrina Zepps, 61, Russian-born Australian nurse.

9 Nazario Belmar, 60, Spanish footballer and film producer. Ian Botting, 58, New Zealand rugby player, traffic collision. Vinicius de Moraes, 66, Brazilian poet, playwright and lyricist ("The Girl from Ipanema").De Moraes, 66, Lyricist Of 'Girl From Ipanema' Norris Graham, 74, American Olympic rower (1932). Arend Heyting, 82, Dutch mathematician. Juan Larrea, 85, Spanish poet and essayist. Synnøve Lie, 71, Norwegian speed skater. Leo Mohn, 55, American politician, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly (1971–1979), heart attack.Obituary for Leo O. Mohn Peter Strausfeld, 69, German-born British artist, illustrator and animator. John E. Volkmann, 74–75, American architect and sound engineer.

10 Doris Fleischman, 88, American feminist, public relations executive and writer, stroke.Doris Fleischman Bernays Dead; Pioneer Public Relations Counsel Komako Kimura, 92, Japanese suffragist, magazine editor, and theater manager. Joseph Krumgold, 72, American writer and screenwriter.Joseph Krumgold, Screenwriter And Author of Children's Books Grigory Novak, 61, Soviet Olympic weightlifter (1952), heart attack. Gerard Pappa, 36, American mobster (Genovese crime family), shot.PAPPA Francisco Rebolo, 77, Brazilian painter and footballer. Alfredo Sivocci, 89, Italian racing cyclist. Leonidas Zervas, 78, Greek chemist.

11 Zygmunt Berling, 84, Polish general and politician. Skipper Heard, 81, American college athletics director. Peggy Knudsen, 57, American actress, cancer. Jake Lawlor, 72, American football player and coach, cancer.Former coach dies Jack Mann, 60, Canadian ice hockey player. Shellie McMillon, 44, American basketball player.Shellie McMillon obituary Arsène Mersch, 66, Luxembourgish racing cyclist. Léon Tallon, 72, French Olympic swimmer (1928).

12 William Armstrong, Baron Armstrong of Sanderstead, 65, British banker, civil servant and life peer. Donald Beatty, 80, American aviator, explorer and inventor. John Warren Davis, 92, American academic administrator and civil rights activist, heart attack.Black educator John Davis dies Pedro García, 52, Peruvian Olympic sports shooter (1960). William N. McQueen, 71, American attorney and politician, Alabama attorney general (1943–1947).Former state AG dies Mario Medda, 37, Italian Olympic pentathlete (1968, 1972, 1976). Bill Morrow, 91, Australian politician and trade unionist. Bea Orpen, 67, Irish painter. Charles Payne, 74, Irish rugby player. Geert Pijnenburg, 83, Belgian poet and writer. Bachubhai Ravat, 82, Indian newspaper editor and art critic. Pierre Satre, 71, French aerospace engineer (Concorde).Pierre Satre

13 Werner Betz, 67, German linguist and historian. Joseph Brennan, 67, Irish politician, TD (since 1951). Gösta Ehrensvärd, 70, Swedish chemist. Robert MacLaren Fowler, 73, Canadian lawyer.Robert MacLaren Fowler Alf Jewett, 80, English footballer. Sir Seretse Khama, 59, Botswanan politician, president (since 1966), pancreatic cancer.Seretse Khama Is Dead of Cancer; Botswana's President Since 1966; Faced With a Long Drought Hariprasad Vyas, 71, Indian author and humorist.

14 Felix Berezin, 49, Soviet mathematician and physicist, drowned. Joseph Berthet, 80, French Olympic rower (1928). Hans Binder, 70, Austrian Olympic rower (1936). Aneirin Talfan Davies, 71, Welsh poet, literary critic and broadcaster. Ford Quint Elvidge, 87, American politician, governor of Guam (1953–1956).Former governor dies Kristian Kristiansen, 70, Norwegian author. Carlos López Moctezuma, 70, Mexican actor.Muy sentida la muerte del "villano" Lopez Moctezuma Len Reynolds, 56, Australian politician, MP (1958–1966, 1969–1975).Labor politician and teacher Norman Shelton, 75, New Zealand politician, MP (1954–1972), heart disease. Nadia Sibirskaïa, 78, French actress. Klemens Stefan Sielecki, 76, Polish engineer. Alan Valentine, 79, American academic administrator, government official and Olympic rugby player (1924).ALAN VALENTINE, 79 A SCHOLAR, IS DEAD; Olympic Medalist Led a University, Served as Marshall Plan Aide and Wrote History Books Official of Marshall Plan Gold Medalist in 1924

15 Diego Cisneros, 68, Cuban-born Venezuelan businessman (Grupo Cisneros).Fallecio un industrial venezolano Sven Helleberg, 51, Norwegian politician. Henri Martelli, 85, French composer. Ben Selvin, 82, American musician, bandleader and record producer, heart attack.Benjamin B. Selvin, 82; Longtime Band Leader Paul Valcke, 66, Belgian Olympic fencer (1948). Eda Warren, 76, American film editor. Seyyed Javad Zabihi, 48–49, Iranian muezzin, murdered.

16 Robert Brackman, 81, American artist, cancer.Portrait painter succumbs at 81 Arthur Daer, 74, English cricketer. Jeanna Falk, 78, Swedish dancer and dance teacher. Eddie Jackson, 84, American vaudeville performer, stroke.Eddie Jackson, Durante buddy, dies Wednesday Hubert Jedin, 80, German historian and theologian. William O. Mehrtens, 75, American jurist, complications from heart surgery.William O. Mehrtens, U.S. district judge in Miami Dick Romey, 75, American football player. Vadim Tikunov, 59, Soviet politician and diplomat. Maria Elizabeth van Ebbenhorst Tengbergen, 95, Dutch composer and organist. Ernie Vick, 80, American football and baseball player.Vick Dies

17 Don "Red" Barry, 70, American actor (Adventures of Red Ryder), suicide by gunshot.Donald (Red) Barry, 69, Film Actor, Is a Suicide James Cabell Bruce, 87, American banker and diplomat.James Cabell Bruce Is Dead at 88; An Envoy, Banker and Politician; Became an Army Major Frank Collymore, 87, Barbadian writer.