List of Famous people who died at 80
Karl Anton Wolf
Karl Dietrich Erdmann
Robin Herd
Robert John "Robin" Herd was an English engineer, designer and businessman.
Carol Henning
Mehtap Anıl
Klaus Bungert
Klaus Tiedemann
Gregor Wentzel
Gregor Wentzel was a German physicist known for development of quantum mechanics. Wentzel, Hendrik Kramers, and Léon Brillouin developed the Wentzel–Kramers–Brillouin approximation in 1926. In his early years, he contributed to X-ray spectroscopy, but then broadened out to make contributions to quantum mechanics, quantum electrodynamics, and meson theory.
Aristid von Grosse
Aristid von Grosse was a German nuclear chemist. During his work with Otto Hahn, he got access to waste material from radium production, and with this starting material he was able in 1927 to isolate protactinium oxide and was later able to produce metallic protactinium by decomposition of protactinium iodide.
Horst Pehnert
Horst Pehnert was an East German journalist and party official who in 1976 became a long-standing deputy Minister for Culture - effectively the minister for film and cinema.