• October 6 - Hattie Jacques, Starr of Carry On Films (Heart Attack) (b. 1922)
• October 20 - Lady Isobel Barnett, British television personality (suicide following her conviction for shoplifting) (b. 1918)
• October 25 - Sahir Ludhianvi, Urdu/Hindustani poet and Hindi film lyricist (b. March 8, 1921)
• October 25 - Virgil Fox, American organist (b. 1912)
• October 25 - Victor Galindez, Argentine boxer (race car accident) (b. 1948)
• October 27 - Steve Peregrin Took, British musician (T. Rex) (b. 1949)
• October 27 - John Hasbrouck van Vleck, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
• November 4 - Elsie MacGill, Canadian aeronautical engineer (b. 1904)
• November 7 - Steve McQueen, American actor (b. 1930)
• November 9 - Gloria Guinness, Fashion icon (b. 1912)
• November 16 - Boris Aronson, renowned Russian set designer (b. 1898)
• November 17 - Shah Maghsoud Sadegh Angha, 41st master of the Oveyssi Sufi order (b. 1916)
• November 18 - Conn Smythe, NHL coach 1927-1931 (b. 1895)
• November 20 - John McEwen, eighteenth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1900)
• November 22 - Norah McGuinness, Northern Irish painter and illustrator (b. 1901)
• November 22 - Mae West, American actress (b. 1893)
• November 27 - F. Burrall Hoffman, American architect (b. 1882)
• November 29 - Dorothy Day, social progressive and founder of the Catholic Worker (b. 1897)
• December 2 - Romain Gary, Lithuanian-born writer (b. 1914)
• December 4 - Francisco Sá Carneiro, Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1934)
• December 4 - Stanislawa Walasiewicz, Polish-born runner (b. 1911)
• December 7 - Darby Crash, American songwriter, singer for The Germs (heroin overdose) (b. 1958)
• December 8 - John Lennon, British singer, songwriter, and guitarist (The Beatles) (b. 1940)
• December 16 - Harland Sanders, American fast food entrepreneur (b. 1890)
• December 16 - Hellmuth Walter, German engineer and inventor (b. 1900)
• December 24 - Karl Dönitz, President of Germany (b. 1891)
• December 24 - Siggie Nordstrom, model, actress, entertainer, socialite and lead singer of The Nordstrom Sisters (b. 1893)
• December 26 - Richard Chase, serial killer (b. 1950)
• December 29 - Tim Hardin, American musician (b. 1941)
• December 31 - Marshall McLuhan, Canadian author and professor (b. 1911)

Contents 1 Events of 1980 1.1 January 1.2 February 1.3 March 1.4 April 1.5 May 1.6 June 1.7 July 1.8 August 1.9 September 1.10 October 1.11 November 1.12 December 1.13 Undated 1.14 Ongoing 1.15 World population 2 Births 2.1 January-February 2.2 March-April 2.3 May-June 2.4 July-August 2.5 September-October 2.6 November-December 3 Deaths 3.1 January - March 3.2 April - June 3.3 July - September 3.4 October - December 4 Ship events 5 Nobel prizes 6 Templeton Prize 7 Right Livelihood Award 8 Notes 9 External links

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Ship events

• List of ship launches in 1980
• List of ship commissionings in 1980
• List of ship decommissionings in 1980
• List of shipwrecks in 1980

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Nobel prizes

• Physics - James Watson Cronin, Val Logsdon Fitch
• Chemistry - Paul Berg, Walter Gilbert, Frederick Sanger
• Medicine - Baruj Benacerraf, Jean Dausset, George D. Snell
• Literature - Czesław Miłosz
• Peace - Adolfo Pérez Esquivel
• Economics - Lawrence Klein

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Templeton Prize

• Prof. Ralph Burhoe

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Right Livelihood Award

The Right Livelihood Award was founded in 1980 by Jakob von Uexkull.

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Notes

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External links

• http://www.1980-games.com

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