Deaths in September 1980

The following is a list of notable deaths in September 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.

September 1980

1 Reg Bentley, 66, Canadian ice hockey player.Bentley dies Joseph E. Casey, 81, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1935–1943).Joseph E. Casey Dies, 4-Term Massachusetts Congressman, Attorney Arthur Greville Collins, 83, British-born American film director. Fritz Kiehn, 94, German politician and businessman. Frank LaManna, 61, American baseball player. Sten Lindroth, 65, Swedish historian.

2 C. K. Alexander, 57, Egyptian-American actor, director and composer.Illness fatal Hal Brill, 66, American football player. Marcel Ciampi, 89, French pianist and music teacher. Richard Hanke, 70, German footballer. Don Howard, 67, Australian footballer. Nina Kandinsky, 81, Russian-Swiss art collector and curator, strangled.Painter's widow found murdered Frederick Macartney, 92, Australian poet and literary critic.Frederick Macartney dies at 92 Claude Ménard, 73, French Olympic high jumper (1928). Rudolf Nuude, 71, Estonian actor. George Reginald Starr, 76, British secret agent and engineer. Carl Springer, 69, American Olympic speed skater (1932). Samuel Wainer, 69, Russian-born Brazilian journalist.O FIM TRANQUILO DE UM RENOVADOR DO JORNALISMO Josef Wendl, 73, German footballer.

3 J.-Eugène Bissonnette, 88, Canadian politician, MP (1958–1962).Deaths Juan Luis Boscio, 84, Puerto Rican politician, heart failure. Sir Russell Brock, Baron Brock, 76, British surgeon and life peer. Frederic E. Hammer, 71, American politician and jurist.Justice Frederic E. Hammer, 71, Of State Supreme Court Is Dead Percy Holloway, 80, Welsh lawn bowler. Car Norris, 87, New Zealand historian and lawyer. Barbara O'Neil, 70, American actress (All This, and Heaven Too, Gone with the Wind), heart attack.Barbara O'Neil, 70, an Actress, Played in 'Gone With the Wind' Dirch Passer, 54, Danish actor and comedian, cardiac arrest. Sir George Pickering, 76, English physician. Duncan Renaldo, 76, Romanian-born American actor (The Cisco Kid), lung cancer.Death takes TV cowboy Fabian von Schlabrendorff, 73, German jurist and World War II resistance member.Fabian von Schlabrendorff, Made Attempt on Hitler's Life in 1943; Involved in Another Attempt

4 Gaston Bonheur, 66, French journalist and writer. Lars Ehrnrooth, 83, Finnish Olympic equestrian (1924). Erast Garin, 77, Soviet actor and filmmaker. Wolfgang Gentner, 74, German nuclear physicist. Herman Fleischer Høst, 96, Norwegian physician. Walter Kaufmann, 59, German-American philosopher, translator and writer.Walter Kaufman, 59, of Princeton; Visting Fellow in Canberra Sir Edwin McCarthy, 84, Australian public servant and diplomat, brain aneurysm.Tribute to Sir Edwin McCarthy Julio Pinto Riquelme, 94, Chilean politician and civil engineer. Yuan Jiahua, 77, Chinese linguist. Ladislav Zívr, 71, Czech sculptor.

5 Don Banks, 56, Australian composer, chronic lymphocytic leukemia.Death of Don Banks Adrian Bell, 78, English journalist and crossword compiler. Eugène Colin, 81, French racing cyclist. Eric Cross, 74–77, Irish writer. Barbara Fallis, 56, American ballet dancer, cancer.Barbara Fallis, City Ballet Soloist And a Dance Teacher, Dies at 56; Joined Alonso Ballet in Havana Opened Own Studio Obrad Gluščević, 67, Croatian film director. Barbara Loden, 48, American actress (After the Fall, Splendor in the Grass) and director (Wanda), breast cancer.Barbara Loden, Actress, Writer, Director, and Wife of Kazan, Dies; Played Ill-Fated Wife 'Tough, Admirable Integrity' Jack Moriarty, 79, Australian footballer.Deaths: Moriarty Orfeo Paroli, 74, Italian Olympic rower (1932). Henryk Stenzel, 81, Polish-American paleontologist. Martin Sullivan, 70, New Zealand Anglican dean.Dr. Martin Sullivan, 69

6 Joe Bradford, 79, English footballer. Wilhelm von Tangen Hansteen, 84, Norwegian general. Bill Harwood, 59, Australian footballer. Sir Philip Hendy, 79, British art curator.Sir Philip Hendy Gus Ketchum, 83, American baseball player. Christopher Maltby, 89, British general. Hale Woodruff, 80, American painter.Top Harlem Renaissance Artist Woodruff, 80, Dies

7 Bessie A. Buchanan, 78, American politician, member of the New York State Assembly (1955–1962).BESSIE A. BUCHANAN, EX-STATE AIDE, DIES Joe Campbell, 55, Scottish footballer. Phayom Chulanont, 71, Thai politician and soldier. Ernst Cramer, 81, Swiss landscape architect. Billy Dunn, 69, Scottish footballer. Whitney Ellsworth, 71, American comic book editor and television producer (Adventures of Superman).Whitney Ellsworth, 71, Producer Of Superman Television Series Arvella Gray, 74, American blues, folk and gospel musician. Sir Reginald Manningham-Buller, 1st Viscount Dilhorne, 75, English politician, lord chancellor (1962–1964) and member of the House of Lords (since 1962). José Ortiz-Echagüe, 94, Spanish engineer and entrepreneur. Bobby Todd, 76, German actor.

8 Eddie Butcher, 80, Irish musician. Joseph Alexander Cain, 60, American artist and art critic. John Christie, 80, English academic administrator. Bruce Dooland, 56, Australian cricketer.Dooland dies, 56 Joseph Finnegan, 75, American cryptanalyst. Maurice Genevoix, 89, French author.Deces de Maurice Genevoix Sir Irvine Glennie, 88, British naval admiral. Bob Hassmiller, 63, American basketball player and coach. Robert M. Haverfield, 61, American jurist and politician, member of the Florida Senate (1965–1972).Deaths elsewhere Oleg Grigoriyevich Kononenko, 42, Soviet cosmonaut, plane crash. Willard Libby, 71, American chemist, developer of radiocarbon dating, Nobel Prize laureate (1960), pulmonary embolism.DR. WILLARD LIBBY, ATOM SCIENTIST, DIES; Won Nobel Prize for His Method of Dating Artifacts--He Helped Develop Nuclear Bomb Led 'Atoms for Peace' Majored in Chemistry Sir Geoffrey Shakespeare, 86, British politician, MP (1922–1923, 1929–1945). Charles Joseph Vogel, 81, American jurist.

9 Harold Clurman, 78, American theatre producer and critic, cancer.Harold Clurman, Stage Director, Critic and Author, Is Dead at 78 William M. Colmer, 90, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1933–1973).Ex-Rep. William Colmer Dies at 90 in Mississippi Richard Fogarty, 88, New Zealand rugby player. Fontana, 39, Brazilian footballer. John Howard Griffin, 60, American journalist, racial equality advocate and author (Black Like Me), complications from diabetes.John H. Griffin Dead; White Novelist Wrote Book 'Black Like Me' Eusebia Hunkins, 78, American composer. Manzoor Ali Khan, 57–58, Pakistani singer, heart attack. J. Craig Ruby, 84, American basketball player and coach.Sports In Brief Patrick W. Skehan, 70, American linguist and theologian.CU Professor Expert on Bible, Ancient Scrolls Sadashiva Tripathy, 70, Indian politician.

10 Aldo Beckman, 45, American journalist, cancer.BECKMAN, ALDO BRUCE Bernard Fein, 53, American actor (The Phil Silvers Show) and television producer (Hogan's Heroes). Friedrich Hossbach, 85, German general, author of the Hossbach Memorandum. Virginia Kirkus, 86, American literary critic and magazine publisher (Kirkus Reviews).Virginia Kirkus, Started Reviews Of New Books to Help Stores, 86; Began as a Teacher Lilla Leach, 94, American botanist. Honey Lott, 55, American baseball player. Wally McArthur, 68, English footballer. Ernest Neuhard, 76, French racing cyclist. Bob Perreault, 49, Canadian ice hockey player. Petre Rădulescu, 65, Romanian footballer. Hannes Torpo, 79, Finnish Olympic track and field athlete (1924).

11 Junius Bibbs, 69, American baseball player. Harry Ebding, 73, American football player. Josl Gstrein, 62, Austrian Olympic skier (1948). Sir Harwood Harrison, 73, British politician, MP (1951–1979). Sir Alexander Hood, 91, British general, physician and politician, governor of Bermuda (1949–1955). Harry Hulihan, 81, American baseball player. Garth Mann, 64, American baseball player. Christian Mergenthaler, 95, German politician. Ernie Ovitz, 94, American baseball player. Jim Parker, 83, New Zealand rugby player and businessman. Arturo Villanueva, 84, Mexican Olympic sports shooter (1932).

12 Magdalena Aebi, 82, Swiss philosopher. János Balogh, 88, Hungarian-Romanian chess player, namesake of the Balogh Defense. André Chéron, 84, French chess player and endgame theorist. Sir Rupert Cross, 68, English legal scholar. Hans Trier Hansen, 87, Danish Olympic gymnast (1912). Edward Francis Lynch, 83, Australian soldier and memoirist. Dušan Matić, 82, Serbian poet. Ole Olsen, 86, American baseball player.Arthur Ole Olsen, 86, Struck Out Babe Ruth Lillian Randolph, 81, American actress (The Onion Field, Tom and Jerry, It's a Wonderful Life), cancer.Lillian Randolph, 65; Movie and TV Actress Sam Ross, 79, American racing driver.

13 Hoti Lal Agarwal, 79, Indian politician, MP (1952–1957). Fred D. Beans, 73, American general, heart attack.Marine Corps Brig. Gen. Fred D. Beans Dies at 73 Alexander Fridlender, 74, Soviet pianist and composer. Franco Giuseppucci, 33, Italian criminal leader (Banda della Magliana), shot. Martin Hedmark, 83, Swedish architect. Pete Matevich, 60, American soccer player. Lillian Molieri, 55, Nicaraguan actress and dancer. Salvador Monroy, 75, Chilean politician. Charlie Pechous, 83, American baseball player. Joseph Suder, 87, German composer.

14 Domingo Acedo, 82, Spanish footballer. Maxwell Bates, 73, Canadian painter and architect.Modernist Alberta painter Maxwell Bates dies after illness Beverly Briley, 66, American politician and attorney, bladder cancer.Former Mayor Briley Dies Gérald Fauteux, 79, Canadian jurist, chief justice of Canada (1970–1973). Dorothy Boulding Ferebee, 81, American obstetrician and civil rights activist, heart failure. Vern Mullen, 80, American football player. Attilia Radice, 65–66, Italian ballerina. Alison Settle, 89, British fashion journalist. Col Stokes, 74, Australian footballer. Lars Erik Tirén, 79, Swedish Olympic pole vaulter (1920). Inga-Bodil Vetterlund, 66, Swedish actress. Bror Vingren, 74, Swedish Olympic wrestler (1932). Jim Willis, 89, Australian footballer.

15 Olle Axelsson, 66, Swedish Olympic bobsledder (1952, 1956). Bill Evans, 51, American jazz musician, peptic ulcer disease.Bill Evans, Jazz Pianist Praised For Lyricism and Structure, Dies; 'In Touch With His Feelings' Trouble With Scales Virginia Faulkner, 67, American writer. Roberto Moscatelli, 85, Italian Olympic sailor (1924). Manuel Nieto, 88, Filipino politician, diplomat and footballer. Rodrigo Prats, 71, Cuban musician.Murio autor de la melodia 'Amalia Batista Hans Schweitzer, 79, German artist and Nazi propagandist. Gudrun Slettengren-Fernholm, 71, Swedish sculptor. Gladys Nelson Smith, 90, American painter.Gladys N. Smith, Still-Life Artist Displayed Here Jimmy Steele, 70, American football player and coach. Jim Tyrer, 41, American football player, suicide by gunshot.Former All-Pro Kills Wife, Self Wally Webster, 85, English footballer. Sir Harry Wigley, 67, New Zealand pilot and tourism entrepreneur, heart attack.

16 Joseph Anthony, 54–55, Indian footballer. Ludmila Červinková, 72, Czech opera singer. Chuck Elliott, 58, American football player.Ex-Eugenean dies at 58 after years in athletics Everard Endt, 87, Dutch-American Olympic sailor (1952). Julio Franco Arango, 66, Colombian Roman Catholic prelate.En Duitama seran las exequias de monsenor Franco A. Norbert Gajda, 46, Polish footballer. Frank Huffman, 65, American football player, heart attack.Huffman Rites Held Ernie McCoy, 76, American basketball player and college athletic director.Ernest B. McCoy, 76; Director of Athletics, Dean at Penn State Georgina McCready, 91, Australian nurse. Abbas Mirza, 62, Bangladeshi footballer.