List of Famous people who died at 80

Boris Nikolayevich Lisanevich, a.k.a. Boris Lissanevitch, Ukrainian: Борис Миколайович Лисаневич, Russian: Борис Николаевич Лисаневич, was a ballet dancer, a hotelier and a restaurateur. He helped pave the way for tourism in Nepal, when he opened the country's first hotel, the Hotel Royal, and later when he created the Yak & Yeti Hotel and Restaurant.

Isabel Garcés Cerezal (1901–1981) was a Spanish stage and film actress.

Ryokichi Minobe was a Japanese politician who served as Governor of Tokyo from 1967 to 1979. He is one of the best known socialist figures in modern Japanese history.

Jacques Marie Émile Lacan was a French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist who has been called "the most controversial psycho-analyst since Freud". Giving yearly seminars in Paris from 1953 to 1981, Lacan’s work has marked the French and international intellectual landscape, having made a significant impact on continental philosophy and cultural theory in areas such as post-structuralism, critical theory, feminist theory and film theory as well as on psychoanalysis itself.

Clive John Derby-Lewis was a South African politician, who was involved first in the National Party and then, while serving as a member of parliament, in the Conservative Party. In 1993 he was convicted of conspiracy to murder South African Communist Party leader Chris Hani and sentenced to life imprisonment. Derby-Lewis was described as a "right-wing extremist" by The Daily Telegraph; and as someone who "even by South African standards...has acquired over the years a reputation as a rabid racist" by journalist and South Africa commentator John Carlin.

Igor Mikhailovich Luchenok was a Belarusian composer, People's Artist of the Byelorussian SSR, and chairman of the Belarusian Union of Composers.

Lamia Al-Gailani Werr was an Iraqi archaeologist specialising in ancient Mesopotamian antiquities.

Michiko "Miki" Suwa Gorman was an American marathon runner of Japanese ancestry. Gorman did not begin running competitively until she was in her mid-30s, but rapidly emerged as one of the elite marathoning women of the mid-1970s. She is the only woman to win both the Boston and New York City marathons twice and is the first of only two woman runners to win both marathons in the same year.

Herbert "Happi" Prikopa was an Austrian television presenter, conductor, operatic tenor, actor, composer, writer, pianist and cabaret artist.

Alan Curtis was an American harpsichordist, musicologist, and conductor of baroque opera.