List of Famous people who died at 80

Erle Stanley Gardner was an American lawyer and author. He is best known for the Perry Mason series of detective stories, but he wrote numerous other novels and shorter pieces and also a series of nonfiction books, mostly narrations of his travels through Baja California and other regions in Mexico.

Vincent M. Fennelly (1920–2000) was an American film and television producer. He worked as a sales manager for Monogram Pictures before graduating in 1950 to produce pictures for the studio and its sister company Allied Artists. He was closely involved in the production of western films, a large number of which the companies made each year.

Tania Fédor was a Monaco-born French actress who played a number of leading roles during the 1930s and early 1940s in films such as Fantômas (1932). She later settled in Canada and worked on French language productions there.

Carlito Joaquin Cenzon was a Filipino Roman Catholic bishop.

Demofilo Fidani was an Italian film director, set designer, painter, and a regarded medium and author.

Guy Gustave Arthur Ghislain Spitaels was a Belgian politician of the Socialist Party. He was the 7th Minister-President of Wallonia from 1992 to 1994 and president of his party for thirteen years, until he was succeeded by Philippe Busquin.