List of Famous people who died in 1980
Elli Schmidt
Elli Schmidt was a German communist political activist with links to Moscow, where as a young woman she spent most of the war years. She returned in 1945 to what later became the German Democratic Republic where she pursued a successful political career till her fall from grace: that came as part of a wider clear out of comrades critical of the national leadership in the aftermath of the 1953 uprising. She was formally rehabilitated on 29 July 1956, but never returned to mainstream politics.
Sir Randle John Baker Wilbraham, 7th Bt.
Bernard Fergusson, Baron Ballantrae
Brigadier Bernard Edward Fergusson, Baron Ballantrae, was a British Army officer, a military historian and the last British-born Governor-General of New Zealand.
Ralph John Hamilton Pollock
Robert Henry Pelham
Boris Kaufman
Boris Abelevich Kaufman, A.S.C. was a Russian-American cinematographer and the younger brother of filmmakers Dziga Vertov and Mikhail Kaufman.