Deaths in April 1980

The following is a list of notable deaths in April 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.

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  1. ↑ DESFOSSES, Joseph Romeo
  2. ↑ Cricket ace dies
  3. ↑ Ex-Justice Stanley Reed, 95, Dead; On Supreme Court From '38 to '57; Rail Seizure and Communists Declined Rights Appointment
  4. ↑ LOUIS B. SELTZER, 82 RETIRED EDITOR, DIES; Led Successes at Cleveland Press and Was Called 'Mr. Cleveland' for Promoting Rebuilding
  5. ↑ Herbert L. Bowman Dies at 82; Won State Tennis Title 3 Times
  6. ↑ EDWARD BULLARD, GEOPHYSICIST, DEAD; Briton Pioneered Theory That the Continents Were Once Joined as Single Supercontinent Theory Widely Accepted Studied at Cambridge
  7. ↑ Luella Gear
  8. ↑ Character actress Mary McCarty, 56
  9. ↑ Trowbridge Dies At 49
  10. ↑ Rita Romilly Benson Dead at 79; Actress Taught at Arts Academy
  11. ↑ Maurice Gusman, 91, of Miami; Ukraine Emigre Built a Fortune; First Job at $3 a Week
  12. ↑ Ray Lawson dies in Miami
  13. ↑ "María Teresa Pinto". Artistas Visuales Chilenos (in Spanish). Santiago, Chile: Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts. Retrieved May 5, 2026.
  14. ↑ Seuphor, Michel (1959). The Sculpture of this Century: Dictionary of Modern Sculpture. Translated by Chevalier, Haakon. Neuchâtel, Switzerland: Éditions du Griffon. p. 319. Retrieved May 5, 2026.
  15. ↑ Alice Orme Smith, 91, A Landscape Architect
  16. ↑ Woodrow Wilson (Red) Sovine, Country Singer, Dies After Crash
  17. ↑ Bell I. Wiley Dead at 72; A Historian of Civil War
  18. ↑ TV Nutritionist Dies
  19. ↑ RALPH SILVERSTEIN
  20. ↑ Ex-coach, athletic chief Roy Stewart, 70, is dead
  21. ↑ JOHN COLLIER DEAD; SHORT STORY WRITER; Author, 78, Also Wrote Films and Novels Collaborated on 'The African Queen' Uncle Was a Writer Source of a Sondheim Musical
  22. ↑ MALCOLM BRALY, 50; WRITER ON PRISONS; Spent 20 Years in Institutions Author of 'On the Yard' and San Quentin Memoirs Talents Are Discovered
  23. ↑ Jakob Rosenberg, 86, Authority On Works of Rembrandt, Dead; Joined Harvard Faculty Popular Undergraduate Teacher
  24. ↑ Michael Gottlieb, 79, a Bridge Star; An Early Culbertson Partner
  25. ↑ Services for Nihon held in Nassau
  26. ↑ Kathleen Burke dead at 66
  27. ↑ Howard Harpster, 72; Football Star in College
  28. ↑ KAY MEDFORD, 59, STAGE, FILM COMIC; Best Known for Roles as Mamma in 'Birdie' and 'Funny Girl'
  29. ↑ Writer Dies
  30. ↑ Sidney Dickinson, 89; A Painter and Teacher
  31. ↑ Deaths
  32. ↑ Movies' First 'Alice' Dies
  33. ↑ Colleagues mourn 'a man of rare wit'
  34. ↑ LITIF
  35. ↑ BILLIARDS GREAT DIES, 84
  36. ↑ Artist Dies
  37. ↑ SIDORIK
  38. ↑ Liberia's Tolbert reported ousted, slain by sergeant
  39. ↑ Frederick D. Alexander, North Carolina Official
  40. ↑ EARL BROWN IS DEAD; FORMER COUNCILMAN; Headed City's Human Rights Panel --Harlem Leader Had Been Reporter and Editor, Too A Frequent Maverick Played Semipro Baseball
  41. ↑ Frank Crowley
  42. ↑ ROSECRANS, HAROLD E., Brig. Gen. USMC Ret.
  43. ↑ Murio "Pepino" Toledo (in Spanish)
  44. ↑ Death frees Vardy of extradition
  45. ↑ Jewish comic dies
  46. ↑ Tom Fadden
  47. ↑ Ontario Tory R. Myers
  48. ↑ Actor Raymond Bailey dies at 75
  49. ↑ Jean-Paul Sartre, 74, Dies in Paris
  50. ↑ Verne Lewellen Is Dead at 78; Green Bay Player and Executive
  51. ↑ Morris Stoloff, Composer Won 3 Academy Awards for Scores
  52. ↑ Dead men from crime family, police say
  53. ↑ Vice Adm. Leo Thebaud, 90; Led a Cruiser Division
  54. ↑ Tony Beckley Dies in L.A.; British Actor
  55. ↑ JOSEPH BREUER, 98; RABBI EVADED NAZIS; Spiritual Leader Was a Teacher and Counselor More Than 40 Years in Washington Heights Grandson of Frankfurt Rabbi
  56. ↑ Retired Bishop Vander Horst Dies
  57. ↑ C. Stanley Blair, 52, Dies
  58. ↑ KATHERINE DAVIS, COMPOSER, AT 87, MEMORIAL SERVICE AT WHEATON
  59. ↑ Former UK High Commissioner
  60. ↑ Exterior (in Portuguese)
  61. ↑ Grateful goodbye to a special Church worker
  62. ↑ Public servants, but in different ways
  63. ↑ Alexander Oparin
  64. ↑ Joe Page swaggers on to Yank heaven
  65. ↑ French soccer player dies
  66. ↑ Singer Jane Froman dies at age 72
  67. ↑ Deaths
  68. ↑ New regime executes 13 in Liberia
  69. ↑ GEORGE J. HECHT, 84, PUBLISHER, IS DEAD; Founder of Parents' Magazine and Children's Digest Was Once Owner of F.A.O. Schwarz Added Toy Store Branches Origin of Parents' Magazine
  70. ↑ A lovable man of rare quality
  71. ↑ Murio Carpentier (in Spanish)
  72. ↑ Murio vieja gloria del boxeo venezolano (in Spanish)
  73. ↑ T. K. Finletter Dies
  74. ↑ Gunmen kill leader of controversial sect
  75. ↑ SERGE SEMENENKO, FINANCIER, IS DEAD; Ex-Bank Executive in Boston and Investment Counselor Was 76 Helped Acquire Film Companies
  76. ↑ Arlin Turner, Specialist In Literature of South
  77. ↑ Katharina Mann, 97, Widow of Novelist
  78. ↑ Cicely Courtneidge
  79. ↑ Irene Ward Dies; British Politician
  80. ↑ John Culshaw
  81. ↑ Former OSU president Strand dies
  82. ↑ WOODS, Dr. John Grieve
  83. ↑ Tommy Caldwell
  84. ↑ Porterfield Dead At 55
  85. ↑ Vice Adm. Thomas Settle, Early Balloon Pilot, Dies
  86. ↑ 'Last mountain man' dead
  87. ↑ Alfred Hitchcock Dies
  88. ↑ Louis Kronenberger, 75, Critic, Author and Anthologist, Is Dead; High Comedy and Musicals Intrigue and Grandes Dames Taught at Brandeis
  89. ↑ Thomas McMillan
  90. ↑ Luis Munoz Marin Is Dead at 82; Began Puerto Rico's Fight on Poverty; Politician and Poet Wrote Freelance Articles Father Was Commissioner Advocate of Independence A Quarrelsome Alliance Commonwealth Proclaimed

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