List of Famous people who died in 1980

Piersanti Mattarella was an Italian politician. He was assassinated by the Mafia while he held the position of President of the Regional Government of Sicily. He was the brother of Sergio Mattarella, who has been the President of Italy since February, 2015.

Harald Heide Steen was a Norwegian film actor. He appeared in 32 films between 1933 and 1977. He was the father of actor Harald Heide-Steen Jr.

Lieutenant Colonel Sir John Reginald Noble Graham, 3rd Baronet was a British businessman, army officer and a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He received the award "for most conspicuous bravery, coolness and resource when in command of a Machine Gun Section" during the Samarrah Offensive in 1917, during the First World War.

Collier Hudson Young was an American film producer and writer, who worked on many films in the 1950s, before becoming a television producer for such shows as NBC's Ironside and CBS's The Wild, Wild West, as well as the supernatural anthology series One Step Beyond (1959–61).