Deaths in August 1980

The following is a list of notable deaths in August 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.

August 1980

1 Editha Olga Bailey, 77, English-Australian philanthropist. Gardner Boultbee, 73, Canadian Olympic sailor (1932). Patrick Depailler, 35, French racing driver, racing crash.Patrick Depailler Dies In Car Training Crash Bob Godwin, 69, American boxer. Guan Linzheng, 75, Chinese general. Daniel Hogan, 80–81, Irish politician, TD (1938–1943). M. V. Krishnappa, 62, Indian politician. Strother Martin, 61, American actor (Hawkins, Cool Hand Luke), heart attack.Strother Martin, Actor In Western Movies And 'Luke' Warden Frode Sørensen, 68, Danish Olympic cyclist (1932, 1936). Jacob Wallenberg, 87, Swedish banker and businessman.Jacob Wallenberg

2 Fred Abel, 77, American football player. Guy Arkins, 91, Australian politician.ARKINS Ramkinkar Baij, 74, Indian sculptor and painter. Gigi Ballista, 61, Italian actor.Exterior Page Belcher, 81, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1951–1973).Page Belcher, congressman, dies at 81 David Braden, 62, American football player. Hsu Shih, 60, Taiwanese composer, heart disease. Herbert Koschel, 58, German Olympic javelin thrower (1952, 1956). Peter O'Grady, 77, Irish hurler. Austin Prokop, 59, American Olympic fencer (1948). Verdun Scott, 64, New Zealand cricketer and rugby player.CRICKET Serengdongrub, 86, Chinese politician. Cully Simon, 62, Canadian ice hockey player. Rudolf Soenning, 75, German Olympic bobsledder (1928). Leo Soileau, 76, American Cajun fiddler. Donald Ogden Stewart, 85, American writer and screenwriter, heart attack.DONALD O. STEWART, SCREENWRITER, DIES; Writer of Screenplay for the Movie 'Philadelphia Story' Was Also Well Known for Parodies 'I Want to Have Bite' Shared Oscar With Trumbo Alumnus of Exeter and Yale Gene Weltfish, 77, American anthropologist.Prof. Gene Weltfish Dead at 78; Was a Target of Anti-Red Drives

3 Arthur Greenup, 78, Australian politician and trade unionist, MP (1953–1955).Arthur Greenup, MP and unionist Bill Hubbell, 83, American baseball player. Dionýz Ilkovič, 73, Czechoslovak physicist. Erich Schneider, 85, German general.

4 Ioan Arhip, 90, Romanian general. Joseph Ashbrook, 62, American astronomer. Georg Aumann, 73, German mathematician. Willis D. Crittenberger, 89, American general.General Willis D. Crittenberger; A Leader of Allied Forces in Italy; Born in Baltimore Vicente de la Mata, 62, Argentine football player and manager.De La Mata morre na Argentina Dorice Fordred, 77, South African-English actress. Pietro Genovesi, 78, Italian football player and manager. Mario Gutiérrez, 62, Bolivian politician. Lefty Jamerson, 80, American baseball player. Irving P. Mehigan, 82, American politician, member of the Wisconsin Senate (1925–1935), cancer.Former senator dies Duke Pearson, 47, American jazz musician, multiple sclerosis.Duke Pearson, 47 Dies; Jazzman and Producer Pekka Pöyry, 40, Finnish jazz and rock musician, suicide. Édouard Ramonet, 71, French politician. H. P. Ruffell Smith, 69, British pilot and physician.H P RUFFELL SMITH

5 Arturo Carvajal Acuña, 71, Chilean politician. Norman Fulton, 71, English composer. Joachim Hämmerling, 79, German-born Danish biologist. Rosa Lee Ingram, 78, American sharecropper and civil rights case subject. Geoffrey Hugo Lampe, 67, British theologian. William Perrett Mead, 90, New Zealand engineer and writer. José María Puig, 76, Spanish Olympic water polo player (1924, 1928). Vladimir Razuvayev, 80, Soviet diplomat. Harold L. Runnels, 56, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (since 1971), respiratory failure.Rep. Harold Runnels, 5-Term Congressman In New Mexico, Dies Carlo Tamberlani, 81, Italian actor. Warren A. Taylor, 89, American politician, member of the Alaska House of Representatives (1959–1967) Ella Winter, 82, Australian-British journalist and activist, stroke.Activist Ella Winter Stewart dies three days after husband

6 Aino Bach, 78, Estonian artist. Leslie Hilton Brown, 62, British agriculturalist and ornithologist. Rodolfo Crespi, 58–59, Argentine actor. Marino Marini, 79, Italian sculptor.MARINO MARINI DIES; A SCULPTOR IN ITALY; Helped Bring About a Renaissance With His Portrayals of Nudes and Men on Horseback 'Symbols of Anguish' Studied in Paris Nikolaus Müller, 88, German politician. Bronté Woodard, 39, American screenwriter (Grease, Can't Stop the Music), liver failure.Bronte Woodard, Screenwriter

7 Clare Annesley, 87, British peace activist and politician. Albert Bittner, 79, German conductor. Henry Everard, 83, British-Rhodesian politician, acting president (1975–1976, 1978, 1979). Kathleen Fidler, 80, English children's author. Hilde Goldschmidt, 82, German painter. John Graham Hearn, 50, British Olympic speed skater (1952, 1956). Lan Rongyu, 65, Chinese politician and general. Harold Loukes, 68, British academic administrator.

8 Mirta Aguirre, 67, Cuban poet and novelist. Arman, 59, Iranian actor. Ivan Buresh, 94, Bulgarian biologist. Romano Caneva, 75, Italian Olympic boxer (1928). Chua Jim Neo, 73, Singaporean chef and cookbook writer. Allan Collamore, 93, American baseball player. Henry Henderson, 75, American baseball player. Kim Hong-il, 81, South Korean diplomat, politician and general. Simon Lack, 66, Scottish actor.McALPINE David Mercer, 52, English playwright and screenwriter, heart attack.David Mercer, a British Writer Of Plays and Movies, Dies at 52 François Moreels, 76, Belgian racing cyclist. Anna Piasecka, 98, Polish politician and educator. Paula Rueß, 78, German political activist. Paul Triquet, 70, Canadian general.VC winner Triquet dies Erzsébet Metzker Vass, 65, Hungarian politician. Laska Winter, 74, American actress.

9 Nazeer Abbasi, 27, Pakistani politician, torture murder. Harry Bell, 83, Australian footballer. Blackbear Bosin, 59, American artist, heart failure. Jacqueline Cochran, 74, American pilot and business executive, first woman to exceed the speed of sound.Jacqueline Cochran Odlum Dies at 73 George Dahm, 64, American Olympic rower (1936). Saraswati Devi, 67–68, Indian music director and composer. Denis Glover, 67, New Zealand poet, bronchopneumonia. Ruby Hurley, 70, American civil rights activist.RUBY HURLEY, AT 70; CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER Audrey Jeans, 51, English singer and comedian, traffic collision. Mel Kerr, 77, Canadian-born American baseball player. Philip Lee, 75, Australian cricketer. Sam Mark, 83, American soccer executive. J. K. Mehta, 78, Indian philosopher and economist. Elliott Nugent, 83, American actor, playwright and film director.ELLIOTT NUGENT, 83, ACTOR-WRITER, DIES; 'The Male Animal' His Biggest Hit --Director and Producer of Both Films and Plays 'Animal' Had Two Runs Cor van Nus, 75, Dutch footballer. Horace Waring, 69, English-Australian zoologist.

10 Gareth Evans, 34, British philosopher, cancer. Peter Fick, 66, American Olympic swimmer (1936). Yahya Khan, 63, Pakistani general and politician, president (1969–1971), stroke.GEN. YAHYA KHAN, 63; EX-PAKISTANI RULER; He Was Forced to Quit After India Helped Bangladeshis Win War for Independence in 1971 Election Was Disaster Freddy Koch, 64, Danish actor. Isac Peltz, 81, Romanian writer and journalist. William J. Sebald, 78, American diplomat, emphysema.William Sebald, 78, Dies

11 Joan Coggin, 82, British novelist. Willi Forst, 77, Austrian actor, singer and filmmaker.Willi Forst est mort Sir Mostyn Hanger, 72, Australian jurist. Verner Emil Hoggatt Jr., 59, American mathematician. José Lascar, 62, Chilean politician. Erika Leuchtag, 71, German physiotherapist. Erna Pomerantseva, 81, Soviet folklorist. Paul Robert, 69, French lexicographer. Jacques Singer, 70, Polish-born American violinist and conductor, cancer.Jacques Singer, 70, Dies; Led Orchestras in West Edmund Stinnes, 84, German-born American industrialist. Vimy, 27–28, French Thoroughbred racehorse. Mikhail Vodopyanov, 80, Soviet pilot and general.Mikhail Vodopyanov Dies at 80; Pioneered Soviet Arctic Aviation Ranny Williams, 67, Panamanian-born Jamaican comedian and actor. Billy Wrigglesworth, 67, English footballer.

12 Siegfried Borries, 68, German violinist. Birthe Bovin, 74, Danish painter. Vojo Dimitrijević, 70, Yugoslav painter. Clement Eaton, 82, American historian. Billy Hartill, 75, English footballer. F. S. Platou, 76, Norwegian architect. Whitey Rawl, 75, American football player and coach. Jan Frederik Schouten, 70, Dutch physicist. Leopold Spinner, 74, Austrian-born British composer. Masaaki Tachihara, 54, Japanese novelist, esophageal cancer. Manuel Tato, 73, Argentine Roman Catholic prelate. Luis Uribe Barra, 83, Chilean politician and physician. Jan Wessel, 76, Norwegian radio engineer. Witold Zawadowski, 92, Polish radiologist.

13 Otto Mønsted Acthon, 62, Danish Olympic equestrian (1948, 1952). Purushottam Bhaskar Bhave, 70, Indian writer. Bogislaw von Bonin, 72, German soldier and journalist. Eqrem Çabej, 72, Albanian linguist. James Duggan, 76, Canadian politician. George Haslam, 82, English footballer. Leonas Juozapaitis, 79, Lithuanian footballer. Tom Miller, 83, American baseball player. Ya'akov Mizrahi, 60–61, Israeli politician, MK (1972–1974), heart attack. Kolbjørn Varmann, 75, Norwegian politician. Bill Whittaker, 96, New Zealand lawn bowler.

14 Ronald Brooks, 81, English cricketer. Diego Fabbri, 69, Italian playwright. Raymond Hakim, 70, Egyptian-born French film producer. Chick Hannan, 79, American actor and rodeo performer.Chick Hannan John Lord, 70, Australian footballer. Henri Marquet, 72, French screenwriter. Cyril Gordon Martin, 88, English soldier. Paul Snider, 29, Canadian nightclub owner, suicide by gunshot.Playmate found slain Dorothy Stratten, 20, Canadian model (Playboy) and actress, shot. Robert S. Travis, 71, American politician.ROBERT S. TRAVIS SR. Earle Cathers Westwood, 70, Canadian politician. Zezinho, 50, Brazilian footballer. Marion Zinderstein, 84, American tennis player.

15 Giovanni Astegiano, 39, Italian Olympic biathlete (1972), avalanche. Gilles Bellemare, 47, Canadian politician. Hans Berg, 78, Norwegian politician. Aage Bertelsen, 78, Danish humanitarian. Alice Willson Broughton, 91, American civic leader, first lady of North Carolina (1941–1945), heart attack.Ex-governor's widow dies Glenn B. Hamm, 44, American artist, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Murray Linton, 76, New Zealand politician. José Antonio Mayobre, 66, Venezuelan economist. Saeed Mehdiyoun, 52, Iranian fighter pilot, participant in the Nojeh coup plot, execution by hanging. Sigrun Otto, 84, Norwegian actress. Ronald Park, 85, New Zealand soldier. Imru Haile Selassie, 87, Ethiopian politician, nobleman and diplomat. William Hood Simpson, 92, American general.GEN. W.H. SIMPSON DEAD AT 92 IN TEXAS; Led the Ninth Army in World War II and Joined Pershing in Pursuit of Pancho Villa in Mexico Regarded as a Genius Beverly M. Vincent, 90, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1937–1945). Alan Welch, 69, Australian footballer.

16 Justicia Acuña, 87, Chilean civil engineer. Kevin Blackwell, 24, New Zealand racing cyclist.Cyclist dies James Dallas Egbert III, 17, American former missing persons case, suicide by gunshot.A Brilliant Student's Troubled Life and Early Death; First Suicide Attempt Family Established Fund Finished High School at 14 Attracted to Tolkien Detective Got Instructions Also Wrote Poetry 'Caricature of a Whiz Kid' Antonio Fayenz, 80, Italian footballer. Thomas Kiely Gorman, 87, American Roman Catholic prelate.Thomas Gorman Dead; Retired Bishop of Dallas John Greenwood, 11, English unsolved murder victim, bludgeoned.Buried together Robert Kirsch, 57, American literary critic, cancer.Robert Kirsch