List of Famous people who died in 1980

Hon. Sir Maurice Richard Bridgeman was a British businessman and civil servant.

Gregory Bateson was an English anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, visual anthropologist, semiotician, and cyberneticist whose work intersected that of many other fields. His writings include Steps to an Ecology of Mind (1972) and Mind and Nature (1979).

Petrus Kanisius Ojong, better known as P. K. Ojong, was an Indonesian journalist and businessman who was one of the founders of Kompas Gramedia Group, Indonesia's largest conglomerates and Kompas, one of Indonesia's most circulated daily newspapers, together with Jakob Oetama.

Major-General Sir Alexander Douglas Campbell KBE CB DSO MC was General Officer Commanding Aldershot District.

Reginald Edward Manningham-Buller, 1st Viscount Dilhorne,, known as Sir Reginald Manningham-Buller, Bt, from 1954 to 1962 and as The Lord Dilhorne from 1962 to 1964, was an English lawyer and Conservative politician. He served as Lord Chancellor from 1962 to 1964.

Tokuji Hayakawa was a Japanese businessman and the founder of Hayakawa Kinzoku Kōgyō. He invented and patented the “Tokubijō” belt buckle in 1912 and invented the "Ever Ready Sharp" mechanical pencil in 1915.

Juan García Oliver (1901–1980) was a Catalan anarcho-syndicalist revolutionary and Minister of Justice of the Second Spanish Republic. He was a leading figure of anarchism in Spain.