List of Famous people who died at 80

James Merrill Jeffords was an American politician who served as a U.S. Senator from Vermont. Sworn into the Senate in 1989, he served as a Republican until 2001, when he left the party to become an independent and began caucusing with the Democrats. Jeffords retired from the Senate in 2007. Prior to serving in the Senate, he served as the U.S. Representative for Vermont's at-large congressional district from 1975 to 1989.

Finn Ronne was a Norwegian-born U.S. citizen and Antarctic explorer.

Ahmad al-Safi al-Najafi was an Iraqi poet, "a poet of extreme simplicity of style and a poetic diction that often approximates to ordinary speech".

Charles Grenzbach was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for two more in the same category. He worked on more than 130 films between 1956 and 1989.