Deaths in February 1980
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The following is a list of notable deaths in February 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.
February 1980
1
- John Armitage, 69, British editor (Encyclopædia Britannica).
- Jack Bailey, 72, American actor and game show host, pneumonia.[1]
- C. C. Cottrell, 84, American politician, member of the California State Assembly (1933–1939).
- Yolanda González, 19, Spanish student and communist activist, murdered.[2]
- Sir Patrick Hancock, 65, British diplomat.
- Costante Maltoni, 64, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, cardiopulmonary arrest.
- Greg Mulleavy, 74, American baseball player, manager, and scout.[3]
- Gastone Nencini, 49, Italian racing cyclist.
- Sam Nunis, 76, American stock car racing promoter.[4]
- Rasiklal Umedchand Parikh, 69, Indian politician.
- Henry Reinholdt, 90, Norwegian footballer.
- Rube Ursella, 90, American football player and coach.
- Romolo Valli, 54, Italian actor, traffic collision.[5]
- Fred Walters, 67, American baseball player.
2
- Joseph Fontanet, 58, French politician, shot.[6]
- Carmelo Larrea, 72, Spanish songwriter.[7]
- Sigurd Lersbryggen, 78, Norwegian politician.
- Tom Perko, 25, American football player, traffic collision.[8]
- Jack Rothrock, 74, American baseball player, heart attack.[9]
- William Howard Stein, 68, American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (1972), heart failure.[10]
- Johnny Walker, 71, Australian footballer.
- Toshiko Yuasa, 70, Japanese-French nuclear physicist, cancer.
3
- Marnie Bassett, 90, Australian historian and travel writer.
- Léon Destroismaisons, 89, Canadian organist and composer.
- Stephen Dunn, 85, American sound engineer.
- Ray Garrett Jr., 59, American lawyer and government official, SEC chair (1973–1975), cancer.[11]
- Ray Heindorf, 71, American songwriter.[12]
- Rodney Holmes, 55, English cricketer, avalanche.[13]
- Kurt Harald Isenstein, 81, German sculptor.
- Ailsa O'Connor, 59, Australian artist.
- Hanna Rovina, 91, Russian-Israeli actress.[14]
- Pedro Sabido, 85, Filipino politician and diplomat.
- Ludomila Alexandrowna Scheiwiler-von Schreyder, 91, Swiss women's rights activist.
- Margit Sielska-Reich, 79, Polish-Ukrainian painter.
- Amanda Snyder, 85, American artist.
- Betty Timms, 93, English writer.
- José Victor Toledo, 48, Puerto Rican jurist, cancer.[15]
4
- Stojan Aralica, 96, Serbian painter and academic.
- Erich Bauer, 79, German SS commander and war criminal.
- Dud Branom, 82, American baseball player.
- Alfred Braunthal, 82, Austrian trade unionist.
- Camara Laye, 52, Guinean writer, kidney disease.
- Arthur MacMahon, 89, American political scientist, heart attack.[16]
- Leon P. Miller, 80, American lawyer and jurist.[17]
- Vincent Pottier, 82, Canadian politician, MP (1935–1945).
- Edith Summerskill, 78, British politician and physician, MP (1938–1961) and member of the House of Lords (since 1961), heart attack.[18]
- Hugh Watt, 67, New Zealand politician, MP (1953–1975) and acting prime minister (1974).
- David Whitaker, 51, English television writer (Doctor Who), cancer.
5
- Nachman Aronszajn, 72, Polish-American mathematician.[19]
- Carl Bødtker, 93, Norwegian engineer and radio personality.
- Charles Dowson, 90, British Olympic racewalker (1920).
- Roy Fosdahl, 68, Norwegian footballer.
- Lawrence Grassi, 89, Italian-Canadian miner and mountaineer.[20]
- James Campbell Haig, 70, Canadian politician.[21]
- Skinny Johnson, 68, American basketball player.[22]
- Jack Larscheid, 46, American football player.
- Sir Harold Parker, 84–85, English civil servant.
- Maurice Pouzieux, 59, French Olympic runner (1948).
- Master Gurbanta Singh, 75, Indian politician.
- Michel Sturdza, 93, Romanian nobleman, diplomat and war criminal.
- Petras Tarulis, 83, Lithuanian writer and journalist.
6
- Sir William Abraham, 82, British general.
- John J. Britt, 79, American philatelist.
- Myrtle Cain, 85, American labor activist and politician, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives (1923–1925).[23]
- Elmer W. Cart, 88, American politician.
- George Decker, 77, American general, leukemia.[24]
- Bernhard Eichhorn, 75, German composer.
- József Galambos, 79, Hungarian Olympic runner (1928).
- Jalil Javadov, 61, Soviet Azerbaijani naval admiral.
- John Phuko Kgabi, 35, South African convicted serial killer, execution by hanging.[25]
- Reinhard Kollak, 64, German flying ace.
- Albert Kotin, 72, Russian-born American painter, lung cancer.
- Ivan Matteo Lombardo, 77, Italian politician.
- Don Ross, 77, English music hall performer and theatre producer.
- Franz Schafheitlin, 84, German actor.