List of Famous people who died at 80

Abby Mann was an American film writer and producer.

Monette Dinay (1906–1986) was a French film actress.

Michel Jeury was a French science fiction writer, reputed in the 1970s. He also used the pseudonym of Albert Higon.

Gary Owens was an American radio announcer, personality, disc jockey, voice actor and actor. His polished baritone speaking voice generally offered deadpan recitations of total nonsense, which he frequently demonstrated as the announcer on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In. Owens was equally proficient in straight or silly assignments and was frequently heard on television and radio as well as in commercials.

Fernand Girard was an Independent member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Saint-Cyriac, Quebec and became a journalist, including editor of Le Réveil de Jonquière.

Fernand Cazenave was a former French rugby union international and national coach.

Pierre Chatenet was a French politician born 6 March 1917 in Paris and died 4 September 1997 in Tafers. He served as French Interior Minister from 1959 to 1961. From 1962 he became the last President of the Commission of the European Atomic Energy Community, until the body was merged with the European Economic Community in 1967.