List of Famous people who died at 80

Jeanne Herviale was a French actress. She appeared in 85 films and television shows between 1946 and 1989.

Ian Barry Brickell was a New Zealand potter, writer, conservationist and founder of Driving Creek Railway.

Tadahiro Sekimoto was a Japanese electronics engineer, a recipient of the IEEE Medal of Honor (2004), chairman of Japan's Institute for International Socio-Economic Studies (IISE), and former chairman of the Board of Councilors of the Japan Federation of Economic Organizations (Keidanren) who served as president and later chairman of Japan's NEC Corporation (NEC). Born in Hyōgo, Japan, Sekimoto earned his BS in physics in 1948 and his Doctor of Engineering degree in 1962 at the University of Tokyo.

Eduard Nikolaevich Burdzhalov (1906–1985) was a Soviet historian.

Robert Porter was an American record producer, discographer, writer, and radio presenter. He was responsible for reissuing many classic blues and jazz recordings, and in 2009 was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame.

Friedrich Diedrich was a German Roman Catholic theologian and Old Testament scholar. He lived in Buer.

Enn Vetemaa was an Estonian writer sometimes referred to as a "forgotten classic", as well as "the unofficial master of the Estonian Modernist short novel".

Mehmet Nejat Ferit Eczacıbaşı was a chemist, industrialist, entrepreneur and philanthropist, and a second-generation member of the notable Turkish Eczacıbaşı family.

Fritz Hakl was an Austrian actor with the honorary title Kammerschauspieler.

Marcelo Luis Manuel Moren Brito was a Chilean retired Army colonel and former agent of the Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional (DINA), the defunct Chilean secret police, during the Pinochet dictatorship from 1973 to 1990. During the rule of Dictator Augusto Pinochet, Moren Brito, who was nicknamed "el Coronta" and "el Ronco," was the chief of operations at DINA, as well as the head of the Villa Grimaldi, DINA's feared detention center in Peñalolén, where thousands of political prisoners were interrogated and tortured. He was a member of a death squad of Chilean Army officers who carried out the 1973 Caravan of Death, in which at least 75 individuals in military custody were executed, including the singer Víctor Jara.