List of Famous people who died at 80
Enric Bernat
Enric Bernat Fontlladonosa was the founder of the Chupa Chups lollipop company.
Norbert Callens
Norbert Callens was a former Belgian professional road bicycle racer. He was a professional from 1945 to 1952. His victories include one stage win in the Tour de France and the 1945 edition of the Tour of Belgium. In the 1949 Tour de France, Callens was leading the general classification after he won stage 3, finishing in Boulogne-sur-Mer. Unfortunately for Callens, the truck with the jerseys had broken down and there was no yellow jersey available. The next stage, Callens started with an unofficial yellow jersey, and lost the lead to Jacques Marinelli. In 1994, the Tour de France had a stage finish in Boulogne-sur-Mer again. Callens was invited there, and finally got his yellow jersey, 45 years late.
Steven Franken
Stephen Robert Franken was an American actor who appeared on screen and television for a half century.
Miquel Asins Arbó
Miquel Asins Arbó was a Spanish composer. He composed in a variety of genres but is particularly known for his popular songs in the Valencian music tradition and for the more than 70 sound tracks which he composed for Spanish films and television.
Marcelle Rivier
Hideo Kobayashi
Hideo Kobayashi was a Japanese author, who established literary criticism as an independent art form in Japan.
Amédée Fournier
Amédée Fournier was a French professional road bicycle racer. He won a silver medal at the 1932 Summer Olympics in the team pursuit event.
John Patrick Neil Graham
George Martin
George N. Martin was an American television, stage, and movie actor who is known for his role as the hotel receptionist in Léon: The Professional. A regular at Providence's Trinity Repertory Company, he was nominated for a Tony Award in 1983 for his role in David Hare's Plenty. He was born on August 15, 1929 in New York City, New York.
Feng Yong
Feng Yong was a Chinese educator, military leader and politician. The eldest son of the warlord Feng Delin, Feng Yong was a member of the Standing Committee of the Northeast Administrative Committee. Feng and Zhang Xueliang were born in the same year and grew up together. Theirs fathers were both strong warlords. Zhang Xueliang would become the “Young Marshal”, while Feng chose to set up a Western-style university in China.