List of Famous people who died at 80

Maurice Clifford Rootes was a British film editor.

Lionel White was an American journalist and crime novelist, several of whose dark, noirish stories were made into films. His books include The Snatchers, The Money Trap, Clean Break, and Obsession and by the Finnish director Seppo Huunonen for the 1974 film The Hair (Karvat) and Rafferty, adapted by 1980 Soviet Lenfilm production of the same title.

Arrigo Pola was an Italian tenor who had an active international performance career during the 1940s through the 1960s. After, he embarked on a second career, as a celebrated voice teacher in both Italy and Japan. Among his notable pupils were tenors Luciano Pavarotti, Giuliano Bernardi, Vincenzo La Scola and bass Michele Pertusi. He also served as the Artistic Director of the Fujiwara Opera from 1957 to 1965.

Yisrael Kargman was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Mapai and its successors between 1957 and 1977.

Henry Gahagen "Hank" Saperstein was an American film producer and distributor. Saperstein inherited his father's cinema chain in Chicago before moving into television distribution. In 1955, he moved to Hollywood and purchased United Productions of America in 1960. At UPA, Saperstein produced the Mister Magoo television series and its spinoff television specials. He co-produced three Toho kaiju films from 1965 to 1966 and arranged for American actors Nick Adams and Russ Tamblyn to appear in the films. Saperstein would go on to work with Toho in the 1970s and 1980s and attempt to put together several Godzilla projects which never materialized. During the early 1990s, Saperstein was involved in negotiations with Hollywood studios for the production of a Hollywood Godzilla film. At the age of 80, he died of cancer in Beverly Hills on June 24, 1998.

Ernst Witt was a German mathematician, one of the leading algebraists of his time.