List of Famous people who died at 80

Hugo Wilhelm Friedhofer was an American composer and cellist best known for his motion picture scores.

Erich Schellow (1915–1995) was a German stage, film and television actor. In the late 1960s he portrayed Sherlock Holmes in a series of adaptations of Arthur Conan Doyle's stories for German television, alongside Paul Edwin Roth as Dr. Watson.

Ernest Archer was a British art director. He won an Oscar and was nominated for another in the category Best Art Direction.

Seth Henry Neddermeyer was an American physicist who co-discovered the muon, and later championed the Implosion-type nuclear weapon while working on the Manhattan Project at the Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II.

George Reginald Turner was an Australian writer and critic, best known for the science fiction novels written in the later part of his career. His first science fiction story and novel appeared in 1978, when he was in his early sixties. By this point, however, he had already achieved success as a mainstream novelist, including a Miles Franklin Award, and as a literary critic.

Lee Garmes, A.S.C. was an American cinematographer. During his career, he worked with directors Howard Hawks, Max Ophüls, Josef von Sternberg, Alfred Hitchcock, King Vidor, Nicholas Ray and Henry Hathaway, whom he had met as a young man when the two first came to Hollywood in the silent era. He also co-directed two films with legendary screenwriter Ben Hecht: Angels Over Broadway and Actor's and Sin.

Michio Morishima was a Japanese heterodox economist and public intellectual who was the Sir John Hicks Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics from 1970–88. He was also professor at Osaka University and member of the British Academy. In 1976 he won the Order of Culture.

Robert Emhardt was an American character actor who worked on stage, in film and on television. The portly Emhardt was frequently cast as a villain, often a crooked businessman or corrupt politician.

Borhane Alaouié was a Lebanese film director. He directed ten films since 1975. His debut film Kafr kasem was entered into the 9th Moscow International Film Festival where it won a Diploma. His 1981 film Beyroutou el lika was entered into the 32nd Berlin International Film Festival.