The following is a list of notable deaths in November 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.
November 1980
1 Alphonse Bellier, 94, French auctioneer. Frans Detiège, 70, Belgian politician. Stick Elliott, 46, American racing driver, cryptococcosis.Race Driver Daves Dies Sherri Jarvis, 14, American unsolved murder victim, strangled. Prudent Joye, 66, French Olympic track and field athlete (1936). Don Palmer, 52–53, Australian Olympic rower (1952). Shorty Price, 59, American lawyer and perennial political candidate, traffic collision.'Shorty' Price dies in auto accident Vance Randolph, 88, American folklorist.Ozark lore buff dies at 88 Henri Romans-Petit, 83, French World War II resistance member. Arnold Schmitz, 87, German musicologist. Frederick C. Schroeder, 70, American politician, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly (1965–1977). Edward Wilfred Taylor, 89, British optician.
2 Hervé Cras, 70, French military historian. Piotr Gołębiowski, 78, Polish Roman Catholic prelate. Otto Adolf Wenzel Kade, 53, German linguist and translator. Yamakawa Kikue, 89, Japanese feminist activist, stroke.Pioneer dies Willie Sutton, 79, American bank robber, namesake of Sutton's law.Willie Sutton Is Dead at 79; Bank Robber Got $2 Million B. G. L. Swamy, 64, Indian botanist. Ivy Tresmand, 81, English actress.
3 Gordie Bell, 55, Canadian ice hockey player. Dennis Burgess, 54, British actor, heart attack. Théo Cremnitz, 91, French Olympic rower (1924). Rae Crowther, 77, American football player. Lyubov Dobrzhanskaya, 74, Soviet singer and actress. Ludwig Hohl, 76, Swiss author. Bronisław Knaster, 87, Polish mathematician. Sir David Lowe, 81, Scottish horticulturalist. Hans Ruin, 89, Finnish-Swedish philosopher and writer.
4 Sir Kenneth Blackburne, 72, British colonial administrator, governor (1957–1962) and governor-general of Jamaica (1962). Rosalind Cassidy, 85, American physical educator. Paul Kaye, 46, British radio broadcaster. Noel Langley, 68, South African-born American playwright, novelist and screenwriter (The Wizard of Oz).Playwright dies Elsie MacGill, 75, Canadian aeronautical engineer. Tadao Nagahama, 48, Japanese anime director (Robot Romance Trilogy), hepatitis. Elisa Nelson, 10, American murder victim, bludgeoned.Nelson Murder Antonio G. Olivieri, 39, American politician, member of the New York State Assembly (1971–1974), brain cancer.ANTONIO G. OLIVIERI, COUNCILMAN, IS DEAD Johnny Owen, 24, Welsh boxer, injuries sustained in a boxing match.Final bell for young boxer Armand Sylvestre, 70, Canadian politician and jurist.Judge Armand Sylvestre Elena Zharkova, 27, Soviet ice dancer.
5 Mildred Adams, 86, American journalist, translator and writer, heart attack.Mildred A. Kenyon, Author Who Wrote As Mildred Adams Louis Alter, 78, American pianist and songwriter ("Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?", "Manhattan Serenade"), pneumonia.Deaths Caroline Brady, 75, American philologist. Jim Brady, 67, British boxer.Ex-Champ Dies Fred Cahill, 82, Australian politician. Rupe Lowell, 87, Australian footballer.Lowell Betty Mack, 78, American actress. Hermann Niehoff, 83, German general. Sydney Pope, 82, British flying ace. Mohammed Salim, 75–76, Indian footballer. J. C. Wetsel, 70, American football player and coach.
6 Ali Benouna, 73, Algerian footballer. Ilia Braunstein, 72, Belgian philatelist. Edner Brutus, 69, Haitian diplomat. Nevill Coghill, 81, British-Irish literary scholar.Translator of Chaucer dies at 81 Ted Davey, 83, Australian footballer. Rankin Fite, 64, American politician, member of the Alabama House of Representatives (1950–1974), heart attack.Rankin Fite dies at age 64 Per Gjersøe, 72, Norwegian actor and film director. Thomas Hughes, 88, Australian politician. Cecil Jenkinson, 89, English cricketer. John D. Jernegan, 69, American diplomat. Aedy Moward, 50, Indonesian actor. Larry Sartori, 63, American football player and coach. Mead Schaeffer, 82, American illustrator, heart attack.Mead Schaeffer Wilbur Schu, 57, American basketball player, heart attack.Schu Services Set Lionel Smith, 60, English footballer. Theodore Veale, 87, British soldier. Pierre Villon, 79, French politician. Charles T. Wright, 69, American jurist, complications from diabetes.Washington Supreme Court Justice Charles Wright, 69 Milton Yakus, 62, American songwriter ("Old Cape Cod"), heart attack.'Old Cape Cod' writer dies
7 Aimée Batier, 72, French politician. Emilio Cigoli, 70, Italian actor. Frank Duff, 91, Irish author and Roman Catholic organizer (Legion of Mary).Frank Duff; Founded Legion Of Mary İlhan Erdost, 35, Turkish publisher, bludgeoned.Soldiers arrested Fubuki Koshiji, 56, Japanese actress and singer, stomach cancer.Fubuki Koshiji Norman Marshall, 78, English theatre director. Steve McQueen, 50, American actor (The Sand Pebbles, Bullitt, The Towering Inferno), heart attack.Steve McQueen, 50, Is Dead of a Heart Attack After Surgery for Cancer; Family Was at Bedside Established His Stardom In 'Bullitt' and 'Papillon' Friend Suggested Acting 'Don't Cap Me Up' Al Ulbrickson Sr., 77, American rower and rowing coach.Al Ulbrickson Wolfgang Weyrauch, 76, German journalist and writer.
8 Gordon Robert Archibald, 75, Scottish painter. Claudio Bincaz, 83, Argentine footballer and rugby player. Sherm Clark, 80, American Olympic rower (1920). Darpan, 51–52, Pakistani actor. Friedo Dörfel, 65, German footballer. Dale Jones, 61, American baseball player. Lulu Latsky, 79, South African zoologist. Valerie Myerscough, 38, British astrophysicist. Sir James Turner, 1st Baron Netherthorpe, 72, British agriculturalist and life peer.
9 Patrick Campbell, 3rd Baron Glenavy, 67, British journalist and hereditary peer. Gloria Guinness, 68, Mexican socialite and magazine editor, heart attack.Gloria Guinness, 67, Trend-Setter In Fashion and Hospitality, Dead Hoàng Thị Cúc, 90, Vietnamese royal. Charles B. Hoeven, 85, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1943–1965).Charles B. Hoeven, 85; Ex-Iowa Representative Pearl Jephcott, 80, English social researcher. Puran Chand Joshi, 73, Indian politician, heart attack.Puran Joshi Arvīds Ķibilds, 85, Latvian Olympic athlete (1924). Carmel Myers, 81, American actress, heart attack.Silent Screen 'Vamp' Dies Claudia Olsen, 84, Norwegian politician. Victor Sen Yung, 65, American actor (Charlie Chan, Bonanza) and chef, carbon monoxide poisoning.Former Television Actor Found Dead (body discovered on this date) Jindřich Severa, 71, Czech sculptor. Toyen, 78, Czech artist. Andreas Paul Weber, 87, German artist.
10 Marion Ellen Lea Allnutt, 84, Australian welfare worker. Dame Jacobena Angliss, 84, Australian philanthropist.Angliss widow dies Carlos Izquierdo Edwards, 84, Chilean politician. John Moyney, 85, Irish soldier. Karol Pniak, 70, Polish flying ace. James Priddey, 64, English artist. Sir Samuel Isidore Salmon, 80, British politician and philanthropist. Bruno Sterzi, 57–58, Italian racing driver. Kristian Strøm, 87, Norwegian speed skater. Milan Vidmar Jr., 70, Yugoslavian chess player. Helmut Winkler, 65, German geologist.
11 Renato Barbieri, 77, Italian Olympic rower (1932). Vince Gair, 79, Australian politician.Mr Vincent Gair, turbulent Qld politician dies, aged 78 Sixto Ibáñez, 71, Argentine Olympic racewalker (1948). Connie Lewcock, 86, British women's rights activist. Anna Maslovskaya, 60, Soviet World War II partisan. Sister Matilda, 93, American artist and Roman Catholic nun.Services Are Held For Sister Matilda Benode Behari Mukherjee, 76, Indian artist. Shag Sheard, 81, American football player and coach.Alfred (Shag) Sheard Robert Lee Wolff, 64, American historian, heart attack.Robert Lee Wolff, 64, a Historian
12 Andrei Amalrik, 42, Soviet writer and dissident, traffic collision.Soviet dissident Andrei Amalrik, who predicted the end of... John Chetwynd-Talbot, 21st Earl of Shrewsbury, 66, British hereditary peer. Harold Dash, 63, American Olympic water polo player (1948). Maxim Grabovenko, 57, Soviet Ukrainian soldier. Frank Hoddinott, 85, Welsh footballer. Robert Nickle, 61, American artist. Jim Prior, 57, Irish hurler. Vicente Rubi, 77, Filipino musician, prostate cancer. Jaroslav Štork, 71, Czechoslovak Olympic racewalker (1936). Daniel Thuayre, 56, French racing cyclist. Valide Tutayuq, 66, Azerbaijani botanist. Haya van Someren, 54, Dutch politician, cancer. Georgy Vinogradov, 71, Soviet singer. Semyon Volfkovich, 84, Soviet chemist. Alexander Voormolen, 85, Dutch composer. Susan Wood, 32, Canadian literary critic.
13 Johannes Bernhardt, 83, Spanish-German general and businessman. Patricia Cubbage, 22, American police informant, stabbed.Virginia News Briefs Dorothy Grafly, 84, American journalist and art curator. Elbridge Ross, 71, American ice hockey player.Elbridge Ross Anna Skeide, 70, Norwegian songwriter and poet.
14 Nick Dennis, 76, Greek-born American actor (Ben Casey, Kojak, A Streetcar Named Desire), myasthenia gravis and cancer.Obituaries Maksim Gaspari, 97, Slovenian painter. Adolphe Graedel, 78, Swiss trade unionist. Beb Guérin, 38, French jazz musician. Jeanne Halbwachs, 90, French peace activist. Arnold Haskell, 77, British dance critic.Arnold Lionel Haskell, English Authority on Ballet Johnny Horan, 47, American basketball player, complications from surgery.John Horan Ralph Hubbard, 94, American novelist and cultural preservationist. C. Gardner Mallonee, 77, American football and lacrosse player, coach and Olympian (1928). Takuro Shintani, 37, Japanese mathematician, suicide. Hunter P. Wharton, 80, American trade unionist.Hunter Wharton, 80; Long a Union Leader In Construction Field; Advocate of Safety Rules
15 Joan Fleming, 72, British novelist. Harri Larva, 74, Finnish Olympic runner (1928, 1932). Richard Law, 1st Baron Coleraine, 79, British politician, MP (1931–1954).Lord Coleraine; In Churchill Cabinet Bill Lee, 64, American singer (The Mellomen) and voice actor (The Jungle Book), brain cancer. Bob Mathouser, 54, American racing driver. Henry Muller, 78, French writer and journalist. Emilio Pujol, 94, Spanish guitarist and composer. Theodore Saloutos, 70, American historian.
16 Boris Aronson, 82, Russian-American set designer.Boris Aronson, Stage Designer With 6 Tonys, Is Dead; Did Not Want 'a System' Early Artistic Talent Other Early Credits Bridge From West to East Nikolaus Biewer, 58, German footballer. Frank Billham, 84, Guyanese-born British cricketer. John Cade, 68, Australian psychologist, esophageal cancer.World renowned psychiatrist dies of cancer Don Crabtree, 68, American experimental archaeologist.Archaeologist Crabtree dies Ben Doig, 76, Australian politician.DOIG, Benjamin Cochrane Wolfgang Feger, 42, Liechtensteiner politician, cancer. Imogen Hassall, 38, English actress, suicide by drug overdose.Former star dies Jayan, 41, Indian actor and stuntman, helicopter crash. Frank Luther, 81, American country musician.Frank Luther, Author, Songwriter and Singer Hélène Rytmann, 70, French sociologist, strangled. J. R. Temple, 80, American politician, mayor of Dallas (1947–1949). O. V. Wright, 41, American singer ("That's How Strong My Love Is"), heart attack.O.V. Wright
17 Jean Ballantyne, 74, New Zealand ballet teacher and choreographer. Eppie Barnes, 79, American baseball player and executive. Alec Bright, 82, American Olympic skier (1936). Ern Elliott, 80, Australian footballer. Robert W. Hayler, 89, American naval admiral, pneumonia.Vice Adm. R.W. Hayler, Navy Hero, Dies David Marr, 35, British physiologist and computer scientist, leukemia. Hersh Martin, 71, American baseball player and scout. Benjamin A. Rogge, 60, American economist. Paul Smith, 74, American animator. S. Venkataraman, 77, Indian politician, MP (1952–1962).