List of Famous people who died at 80

Robert Erickson was an American composer.

Alton Asa Lennon of Wilmington, New Hanover County, N.C., was a Democratic U.S. senator from the state of North Carolina between 1953 and 1954, and later, a member of the U.S. House of Representatives representing North Carolina's 7th congressional district from 1957 to 1973. Lennon was one of the very few former United States Senators in modern times to be elected to the House after their Senate careers.

Daniel Willem Stuyvenberg was Archbishop of Honiara, Solomon Islands.

Rodolfo Ignacio Quezada Toruño was a Guatemalan cardinal of the Catholic Church. He was Archbishop of Guatemala City, having previously served as Bishop of Zacapa y Santo Cristo de Esquipulas from 1980 to 2001. He was elevated to the cardinalate in 2003.

Margaret O'Rene "Peggy" Ryan was an American dancer and actress, best known for starring in a series of movie musicals at Universal Pictures with Donald O'Connor and Gloria Jean.

Marlene Johanna Norst was an Australian linguist, pedagogue and philanthropist of Austrian heritage. Her main areas of work were German language and literature studies, language pedagogy, English as a second language, socio-linguistics and children’s literature.

Sidney Harmon was a film producer and screenwriter. Harmon was nominated for the 1942 Academy Award for Best Story for the film The Talk of the Town. He began his career working as a writer on radio and in the theater in the 1930s. Harmon produced Sidney Kingsley's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Men in White.

Joseph Marie Louis Duval was the French Roman Catholic Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Rouen.

Robert Fiske Bradford was an American lawyer and politician who served one term as the 57th Governor of Massachusetts, from 1947 to 1949.

Raymond Loucheur was a French composer.