List of Famous people who died at 80

Karl Anton Wolf

First Name Karl
Last Name Wolf
Born on September 8, 1908
Died on March 9, 1989 (aged 80)
Born in Austria
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Karl Dietrich Erdmann

First Name Karl
Last Name Erdmann
Born on April 29, 1910
Died on June 23, 1990 (aged 80)
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Robin Herd

First Name Robin
Last Name Herd
Born on March 23, 1939
Died on June 4, 2019 (aged 80)

Robert John "Robin" Herd was an English engineer, designer and businessman.

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Carol Henning

First Name Carol
Last Name Henning
Born on February 27, 1902
Died on February 8, 1983 (aged 80)
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Mehtap Anıl

First Name Mehtap
Born on January 1, 1940
Died on August 31, 2020 (aged 80)
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Klaus Bungert

First Name Klaus
Last Name Bungert
Born on February 18, 1926
Died on November 24, 2006 (aged 80)
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Klaus Tiedemann

First Name Klaus
Last Name Tiedemann
Born on April 1, 1938
Died on July 25, 2018 (aged 80)
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Gregor Wentzel

First Name Gregor
Last Name Wentzel
Born on February 17, 1898
Died on August 12, 1978 (aged 80)

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.

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Aristid von Grosse

First Name Aristid
Born on January 4, 1905
Died on July 21, 1985 (aged 80)
Born in Latvia

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.

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Horst Pehnert

First Name Horst
Last Name Pehnert
Born on November 3, 1932
Died on April 1, 2013 (aged 80)
Born in Germany, Saxony

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.

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