The following is a list of notable deaths in October 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.
October 1980
1 István Angyal, 65, Hungarian Olympic swimmer (1936). Dorothy Blum, 56, American computer scientist, cancer.Dorothy T. Blum, 56, NSA Systems Analyst Harry Grey, 78, Russian-born American writer and mobster. Patrick E. Haggerty, 66, American engineer and businessman (Texas Instruments).P.E. Haggerty, 66, Dies in Dallas; Former Texas Instruments Head; Born in North Dakota Remembered As Fair-Minded Charles Harbidge, 89, English footballer. Edward Vason Jones, 71, American architect.Famed Architect Dies M. B. Mather, 81, British flying ace. Derek Mills-Roberts, 71, British soldier. Bud Schwenk, 63, American football player, lung cancer.Bud Schwenk Dies; Was Football Star Pedro Suinaga, 73, Mexican footballer. Pat Veltman, 74, American baseball player.
2 Bahman Akhundov, 69, Soviet Azerbaijani economist. Jakob Aleksič, 83, Slovenian theologian. Princess Alexandrine of Prussia, 65, German royal. R. E. Cooper Sr., 67, Bahamian Baptist minister. Louis Daquin, 72, French filmmaker and actor. Douglas Dold, 84, South African cricketer. Carlos García-Bedoya Zapata, 54, Peruvian diplomat. Eric Hass, 75, American politician, heart attack.Eric Hass, 75, Ran for President On Socialist Labor Party Ticket; Born in Nebraska J. David Jones, 68, American politician. Sir John Kotelawala, 83, Sri Lankan politician, prime minister (1953–1956), stroke.Sir John Kotelawala Adrian Lindsey, 85, American football player and coach.Ex-Buc dies Anders K. Orvin, 90, Norwegian geologist and explorer. Lina Pagliughi, 73, American-born Italian opera singer.Lina Pagliughi Pietro Pastorino, 79, Italian Olympic sprinter (1924). Yorick Smythies, 63, English philosopher. Arturs Sproģis, 76, Latvian soldier. Filipp Starikov, 83, Soviet general. Mel Stuessy, 79, American football player. Joseph F. Timilty, 85, American police officer and politician. Valentin Varlamov, 46, Soviet jet pilot and cosmonaut candidate.
3 Sir Conrad Corfield, 87, British civil servant and writer. Friedrich Karm, 73, Estonian footballer. Flemmie Pansy Kittrell, 75, American nutritionist and economist, cardiac arrest.Flemmie Kittrell Dies, Professor at Howard U. María Teresa Mora, 77, Cuban chess player. F. Kenneth Milne, 95, Australian architect. E. J. C. Neep, 79, British barrister and politician. Douglas Nixon, 82, New Zealand cricketer. Albéric O'Kelly de Galway, 69, Belgian chess player. Freddie Roach, 49, American organist, heart attack. Armand Swartenbroeks, 88, Belgian footballer. Melvin E. Thompson, 77, American politician, governor of Georgia (1947–1948).Melvin Thompson, 77, Once Georgia Governor E. J. Vass, 74–75, Singaporean badminton player, heart attack. Gustav Wagner, 69, Austrian Nazi commander and war criminal, suicide by stabbing.Gustav Wagner Jerzy Żurawlew, 93, Polish pianist, founder of the International Chopin Piano Competition.
4 Charme Allen, 89, American actress.Charme Allen Dies at 89; Pioneer Radio Actress Petras Būtėnas, 84, Lithuanian linguist. Kenneth Churchill, 69, American Olympic javelin thrower (1932). Charles Eisenmann, 77, French jurist. Si Green, 47, American basketball player, lung cancer.Sihugo Green, 47, Dies; Former Basketball Star Pyotr Masherov, 61, Soviet Belarusian politician, traffic collision.Pyotr Masherov, 62, Leader Of Byelorussian Communists Lenny McBrowne, 47, American jazz drummer. S. K. Ojha, 58, Indian film director. Genevieve Pitot, 79, American pianist and composer.Genevieve Pitot, Dance Composer László Szollás, 72, Hungarian Olympic ice skater (1932, 1936). Salah el-Dine Tarazi, 62, Syrian diplomat and lawyer, traffic collision.Juez internacional
5 Jack Baker, 66, American magician and film producer, heart attack.Jack Baker Sir Geoffrey Hawkins, 85, British naval admiral. William Macgregor, 92, Australian cricketer and veterinarian. Urinboy Rakhmonov, 70, Soviet Kyrgyz actor and theatre director. Richard S. Reynolds Jr., 72, American businessman.R.S. REYNOLDS JR., 72, IS DEAD IN VIRGINIA Wilhelm Schmid, 59, Austrian ice hockey player. Tobin Sorenson, 25, American rock climber, fall.One 'grey area' too many for this world-class climber John Sutcliffe, 67, English footballer. Xu Xu, 71, Chinese novelist.
6 Sir Edric Bastyan, 77, British-Australian general and politician.Former Governor served two States Lincoln Chase, 54, American songwriter ("The Name Game"). Maurie Fleming, 77–78, Australian football executive. Leslie Grange, 86, New Zealand soil scientist and geologist. Hattie Jacques, 58, English actress (Carry On, Sykes), heart attack.Hattie Jacques Miriam Laufer, 61, American artist, stroke. Louis Martin-Chauffier, 86, French journalist. Denys Morkel, 74, South African cricketer. Thomas A. Mutch, 49, American geologist, planetary scientist and mountain climber.Thomas Mutch, Was NASA Space Science Official Robert Don Oliver, 85, British naval admiral. Ferenc Pelvássy, 69, Hungarian Olympic cyclist (1936). Jean Robic, 59, French racing cyclist, traffic collision.Robic's last ride Isobel Schenk, 82, Australian missionary. Felix Slavik, 68, Austrian politician, mayor of Vienna (1970–1973). Shigemaru Takenokoshi, 74, Japanese football player and manager, stroke. Wilburn Tucker, 60, American football and baseball player and coach.Services For Tucker Scheduled Tomorrow Ray Walker, 76, American actor.
7 Ernst Alm, 80, Swedish Olympic skier (1924). Jan Cox, 61, Dutch-Belgian painter, suicide. Robert Brocklesby Davis, 68, British-American psychiatrist, coronary thrombosis. Carl Frederick Falkenberg, 83, Canadian flying ace. Bruce Alva Gimbel, 67, American businessman (Gimbels), heart attack.BRUCE A. GIMBEL, 67, OF STORE CHAIN DIES Rostam Giv, 91–92, Iranian politician and philanthropist. Araksia Gyulzadyan, 73, Armenian folk musician. Zigmas Jukna, 45, Lithuanian Olympic rower (1960, 1964, 1968), brain cancer. Jim Lewis, 71, Welsh footballer. Sir Gordon Russell, 88, English furniture designer. Santiago Urcelay, 65, Chilean politician. Randy Wood, 50, American record company executive (Vee-Jay Records).L.A. Rites For Vee Jay's Wood
8 David I. Arkin, 73, American songwriter ("Black and White") and painter, cancer.TODAY Suzanne Bertillon, 89, French World War II resistance member. John Dollard, 80, American psychologist and social scientist.Dr. John Dollard, 80, Psychologist, Is Dead; A Teacher and Writer; 'Gets Beneath the Surface' George Selwyn English, 68, Australian composer, cancer. Gordon R. Fisher, 85, American college sports coach.Gordon R. Fisher Lloyd Johnson, 69, American baseball player. Jimmy Joyce, 73, Australian footballer. Pearl Kendrick, 90, American bacteriologist, co-developer of the whooping cough vaccine, cancer.Vaccine discoverer dies George Levis, 85, American basketball player and coach.Former UW cager star George W. Levis dies John Logan, 68, English footballer. Maurice Martenot, 81, French cellist and musician, inventor of the ondes Martenot.Deces de l'inventeur des Ondes Martenot Frank Vigor Morley, 81, American mathematician and publishing executive, complications from surgery.Frank V. Morley, 81, an Author And Publishing House Founder Donald Scott, 85, American Olympic runner (1920, 1924). Arvo Turtiainen, 76, Finnish writer and translator. Meier Tzelniker, 86, Romanian-British actor.
9 Julia Averkieva, 73, Soviet anthropologist. Leo Glans, 69, Surinamese painter. Carlisle W. Higgins, 90, American jurist and politician, member of the North Carolina House of Representatives (1925–1926) and Senate (1929–1930).Justice C.W. Higgins Died Thursday At 92 Theophil Henry Hildebrandt, 92, American mathematician.Math department's Hildebrandt dies Adam Henry Robson, 88, British RAF officer and educator. Filippo Scelzo, 80, Italian actor. Hinrich Warrelmann, 76, German general. Emily Hood Westacott, 70, Australian tennis player.
10 Carlo Annovazzi, 55, Italian footballer. Bill Brown, 66, Australian footballer. Francis Carroll, 68, Northern Irish Roman Catholic prelate. Sheldon Warren Cheney, 94, American author and art critic, stroke.Sheldon Warren Cheney Is Dead; Theater Critic and Art Historian Bridgetta Clark, 89, American actress.Obituaries: Bridgetta Lobanoff Clarrie Clowe, 87, Australian footballer. Gordon Crisp, 70, Australian footballer. Evelyn Emmet, Baroness Emmet of Amberley, 81, British politician, MP (1955–1965). Tameichi Hara, 79, Japanese naval captain and writer. Sir Wilfred Hill-Wood, 79, English financier and cricketer. Walter Keeton, 75, English cricketer. Cyril Nott, 81, Australian footballer. Elizabeth Rummel, 83, German-Canadian environmentalist and mountaineer.Guide, 83, ran resort Johan Simonsen, 63, Faroese politician. Billie "Buckwheat" Thomas, 49, American actor (Our Gang) and film editor, heart attack.William Thomas, 49, who played Buckwheat in 89 'Our... Auguste Veuillet, 70, French racing driver and vehicle importer. Zhao Dan, 65, Chinese actor.
11 Maxwell M. Geffen, 84, American publisher.Maxwell M. Geffen Is Dead at 84; Publisher of Specialty Magazines; Began Physicians' Magazine Gracyn Wheeler Kelleher, 66, American tennis player. Stephen Kuffler, 67, Hungarian-American neuroscientist.Stephen W. Kuffler, 67; Harvard Neurobiologist Jim Moscrip, 67, American football player, heart attack. Marlene Oakes, 25, American murder victim, shot. Russo, 65, Brazilian footballer. Cassie Walmer, 92, British singer, dancer and comedian.
12 Zenon Baranowski, 49, Polish Olympic sprinter (1956). Brita Bigum, 59, Norwegian actress. Alberto Demicheli, 84, Uruguayan politician, interim president (1976). Antoine Goléa, 74, French musicologist. Billy Kettle, 82, English footballer. Ambrosine Phillpotts, 68, British actress. Louis W. Staudenmaier, 74, American lawyer and politician.Staudenmaier, Attorney Lewis W. Zdzisław Stieber, 77, Polish linguist.
13 Maurice Cacheux, 67, French racing cyclist. Derek Foster, 73, English cricketer. Donald F. Holmes, 70, American chemist and inventor. Dewey Luster, 81, American football player and coach.Dewey "Snorter" Luster Joan Meredith, 73, American actress. Gabby Pahinui, 59, American guitarist, stroke.Musician dies Seamus Quaid, 42, Irish police officer, shot.Irish Hunting IRA Suspect In Cop Slaying Steytler Thwaits, 69, South African cricketer. Annie Constance Tocker, 91, New Zealand minister, librarian and nurse.
14 Jean-François Adam, 44, French actor and director, suicide by gunshot.MORT DU CINÉASTE JEAN-FRANÇOIS ADAM Oscar Alemán, 71, Argentine jazz musician, stroke.Oscar Aleman, jazz guitarist Lawrence Baker, 90, American tennis player and administrator.Lawrence Baker, 90, Former Tax Lawyer And Tennis Executive Shute Banerjee, 69, Indian cricketer. Kibet Boit, 45–46, Kenyan Olympic sprinter (1956). Nicholas Llewelyn Davies, 72, British publisher. Louis Guilloux, 81, French writer. Clinton E. Knox, 72, American diplomat.KNOX, AMBASSADOR CLINTON E. Lester Leitl, 81, American football player and coach.LESTER LEITL Jack Moran, 73, American football player and coach.Moran, ex-editor of NEWS, dies at 74 Mary O'Hara, 95, American author (My Friend Flicka), screenwriter and composer, arteriosclerosis.Mary O'Hara Alsop Dead at 95; Wrote Novel 'My Friend Flicka'; Also a Television Series Arthur Pearson, 83, British politician, MP (1938–1970). Francesco Pricolo, 89, Italian aviator.
15 Preston Anderson, 29, American football player.Preston Anderson John Henry Balch, 84, American naval officer, Medal of Honor recipient. Katharine Mary Briggs, 81, British folklorist. Ronnie Bunting, 32, Irish Official IRA militant, shot.Gunmen Kill Two Party Leaders Tommy Croombs, 73, English motorcycle racer. Frederick Dobson, 82, English cricketer.