List of Famous people who died in 1980

Alfred Hellmuth Andersch was a German writer, publisher, and radio editor. The son of a conservative East Prussian army officer, he was born in Munich, Germany and died in Berzona, Ticino, Switzerland. Martin Andersch, his brother, was also a writer.

Egon Sharpe Pearson was one of three children and, like his father Karl Pearson, a leading British statistician.

Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan NePl, widely known as Yahya Khan, was a Pakistani general who served as the third President of Pakistan, serving in this post from 25 March 1969 until turning over his presidency in December 1971.

Cornelis Jacobus (Cor) Gorter was a Dutch experimental and theoretical physicist. Among other work, he discovered paramagnetic relaxation and was a pioneer in low temperature physics.

Alexander Nikolaevich Nesmeyanov was a prominent Soviet chemist and academician (1943) specializing in organometallic chemistry.

Hugh Milburn Stone was an American actor, best known for his role as "Doc" on the CBS Western series Gunsmoke.

Nadezhda Yakovlevna Mandelstam was a Russian Jewish writer and educator, and the wife of the poet Osip Mandelstam who died in 1938 in a transit camp to the gulag of Siberia. She wrote two memoirs about their lives together and the repressive Stalinist regime: Hope Against Hope (1970) and Hope Abandoned (1974), both first published in the West in English, translated by Max Hayward.