List of Famous people who died in 1980

Milton Hyland Erickson was an American psychiatrist and psychologist specializing in medical hypnosis and family therapy. He was founding president of the American Society for Clinical Hypnosis and a fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, the American Psychological Association, and the American Psychopathological Association. He is noted for his approach to the unconscious mind as creative and solution-generating. He is also noted for influencing brief therapy, strategic family therapy, family systems therapy, solution focused brief therapy, and neuro-linguistic programming.

Kanjūrō Arashi was a Japanese film actor. He entered the film industry in 1927 and came to fame playing Kurama Tengu, a character in the Bakumatsu era created by Jirō Osaragi in his novels. In the 1950s he portrayed the Emperor Meiji in several hit films and appeared in yakuza films in the 1960s. His nickname was "Arakan."

Hermann Flade was a German political scientist.

Akira Shima is a Japanese professional shogi player, ranked 9-dan. He was the first Ryūō title holder and is also a former managing director of the Japan Shogi Association.

Gerard Croiset born Gerard Boekbinder was a Dutch parapsychologist, psychometrist and psychic. He was often asked to help police detectives trace missing persons, though authenticated successes were few, and compared against the failures, his success rate was ruled no better than chance.

Harold Pedro Joseph "Bunnie" Phillips, was a British Army officer, holding the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the Coldstream Guards.

Ruth Hughes Aarons was a US table tennis player, vaudeville entertainer, and talent manager.

Peter, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, from 1965 Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, was the seventh Duke of Schleswig-Holstein and Head of the House of Oldenburg from 1965 until his death.

Georges Jean Painvin was a French geologist and industrialist, best known as the cryptanalyst who broke the ADFGX/ADFGVX cipher used by the Germans during the First World War.