List of Famous people who died in 1980
Gerard De Geer
Erminio Macario
Erminio Macario, best known as Macario, was an Italian film actor and comedian. He appeared in 42 films between 1933 and 1975.
Dorothy Phillips
Dorothy Phillips was an American stage and film actress. She is known for her emotional performances in melodramas, having played a number of "brow beaten" women on screen, but had a pleasant demeanor off. She garnered little press for anything outside of her work.
Takechiyo Matsuda
Marcello Pagliero
Marcello Pagliero was an Italian film director, actor, and screenwriter.
Franco Evangelisti
Franco Evangelisti was an Italian composer specifically interested in the scientific theories behind sound.
Edward Lewis
Sir Edward Roberts Lewis was a British businessman, best known for leading the Decca recording and technology group for five decades from 1929. He built the company up from nothing to one of the major record labels of the world.
Kon'ichi Nakaoka
Nina Nikolajewna Andreevskaja
Andrée Vaurabourg
Andrée Vaurabourg, also known as Andrée Vaurabourg-Honegger, was a French pianist and teacher. She was the wife of Swiss-French composer Arthur Honegger (1892–1955), whom she met at the Paris Conservatoire in 1916. Honegger married her in 1926 on the condition that they live in separate apartments because he required solitude for composing. They lived apart for the duration of their marriage, with the exception of living together in 1935 during which Honegger cared for her during her recuperation from an automobile accident, which lasted less than a year, and the last year of Honegger's life, when he could no longer live alone. They had one daughter, Pascale, born in 1932.