List of Famous people who died in 1980
Florence Garth
Gavriil Abdulov
Jacques Coomans
Jacques Coomans was a Belgian racing cyclist who finished sixth in the 1919 Tour de France. He also rode in the 1919 Tour de France. Coomans was born in Magnée and died in Liège.
Albert Hörrmann
Orsino Orsini
Grace Ellinor Smith
Glenda Spooner
Glenda Spooner (1897–1981), née Graham, was a journalist and author writing about horses. She was the founder, Chairman and Organising Secretary of the Ponies of Britain Club. She is well known as a pony breeder and for her involvement with pony and horse welfare. She established the Glenda Spooner Horse rescue farm, which was later taken over by the International League for the Protection of Horses (ILPH) renamed in 2008 as World Horse Welfare (WHW).
Benedict I of Jerusalem
Patriarch Benedict of Jerusalem, also Benediktos I of Jerusalem, born Vasileios Papadopoulos was the Patriarch of Jerusalem of the Greek Orthodox Church of Jerusalem from 1957 to 1980.