Famous Deaths for December 1980
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Months in 1980: January February March April May June July August September October November
Results 1 - 31 of 31
1st - Sam Levene, actor (Purple Heart, Designing Women), dies at 75
2nd - Romain Gary, Lithuanian-born French writer (b. 1914)
3rd - Oswald Mosley, British politician (b. 1896)
4th - Stella Walsh-S-Walasiewicz, sprinter (Olympic-gold-1932), shot at 69
5th - Don Taylor, cricketer (3 Tests for NZ 1947-56, 159 runs), dies
7th - Darby Crash, rocker, dies at 22
8th - John Lennon, assassinated in NY by Mark David Chapman at 40
12th - Jean Lesage, politician, premier of Quebec (b. 1912)
13th - Harm van Riel, Dutch Liberal Party politician, dies at 73
14th - Elston Howard, MVP catcher (NY Yankees), dies at 59
16th - Harland "Colonel" Sanders, founder Kentucky Fried Chicken, dies at 90
16th - Hellmuth Walter, German engineer and inventor (b. 1900)
18th - Alexei N Kosygin, Soviet PM (1964-80), suffers heart attack at 76
21st - Marc Connelly, playwright (One Minute Please), dies at 90
22nd - Dick Kallman, actor (Hank Dearborn-Hank), murdered at 47
24th - Alec Lafayette Chew Wilder, composer, dies at 73
24th - Karl Dönitz, German naval admiral, and last leader of Nazi Germany (b. 1891)
24th - Siggie Nordstrom, model, actress, entertainer, socialite and lead singer of The Nordstrom Sisters (b. 1893)
25th - Fred Emney, actor (Adventures of a Private Eye), dies at 80
25th - Louis Neefs, Belgian singer, dies at 43
25th - Oscar Romero, archbishop of El Salvador, murdered
26th - Tony Smith, American sculptor (b. 1912)
28th - Amir Elahi, cricketer, 1st Pakistani Test cricketer to die
28th - Jersey calf, lived 222 days with an artificial heart
29th - Roy Engle, actor (Police Chief-My Favorite Martian), dies at 67
29th - Tim Hardin, US singer (Bird on a Wire), dies of a drug overdose at 39
29th - Tim Hardin, American musician (b. 1941)
29th - Nadezhda Mandelstam, Russian writer (b. 1899)
31st - Arthur Wellard, cricketer (2 Tests for Eng, legendary 6-hitter), dies
31st - Marshall McLuhan, Canadian cultural philosopher, dies at 69
31st - Raoul Walsh, US director (High Sierra), dies at about 88
