List of Famous people who died at 80

Kit West was a British special effects artist who was most known for his work in Raiders of the Lost Ark, Return of the Jedi and Dune.

Lawrence Edward Watkin was an American writer and film producer. He has become known especially as a scriptwriter for a series of 1950s Walt Disney films.

Melvin Lax was a distinguished Professor of Physics at City College of New York and was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1983, and notable for his contributions to research of random processes in physics. He was the chairman of the Theoretical Physics Department at Bell Labs from 1962 to 1964. He was also a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Optical Society of America.

Heinz Adolf Lowenstam was a German-born, Jewish-American paleoecologist celebrated for his discoveries in biomineralization: that living organisms manufacture substances such as the iron-containing mineral magnetite within their bodies. He is also renowned for his pioneering research on coral reefs and their influence on biologic processes in the geologic record.

Gustav Heinrich Eduard Moog was a German actor. He appeared in more than seventy films from 1943 to 1989.

Mitsu Yashima was an artist, children's book author, and civic activist.