Deaths in 1980

The following is a list of notable deaths in 1980. Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:

Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship, reason for notability, cause of death, and reference.

Deaths in 1980

January

January 1
* Aldo Aimi, Italian footballer
* Adolph Deutsch, British-born American composer
* Pietro Nenni, Italian politician
* Frank Wykoff, American Olympic athlete
January 3
* Joy Adamson, Austrian conservationist, author of Born Free
* Amos Milburn, American R&B singer and pianist
* Ivan Triesault, Estonian-American actor
* Lucien Buysse, Belgian cyclist and champion of the Tour de France
January 4 - Tobie Goedewaagen, Dutch philosopher and Nazi collaborator
January 6
*Antonio Bilbao La Vieja, Argentine international rugby union footballer
*Piersanti Mattarella, President of Sicily
*Georgeanna Tillman, American singer and original member of the girl group the Marvelettes
January 7
*Irene Beasley, American singer
*Simonne Mathieu, French tennis champion
*Larry Williams, American rhythm and blues and rock and roll singer, songwriter, and pianist
*Sarah Selby, American actress
January 8
* John Mauchly, American physicist and inventor
* Oscar Ewing, American lawyer, social reformer, and politician
January 9 – Gaetano Belloni, Italian professional road racing cyclist
January 10 – George Meany, American labor leader
January 11
*Valentine Blomfield, Major-General in the British Army
*Barbara Pym, English novelist
January 12 – Finn Ronne, Norwegian-born American explorer
January 13
*Eric Aldwinckle, designer, illustrator and official Second World War artist
*Andre Kostelanetz, Russian conductor and arranger
January 14 – Robert Ardrey, American playwright, screenwriter and science writer
January 17 – Barbara Britton, American film and television actress
January 18 – Sir Cecil Beaton, English photographer
January 19
* Kwak Sang-hoon, Korean politician, independence activist
* Richard Franko Goldman, conductor, educator, author, music critic, and composer
* William O. Douglas, American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1939 to 1975
January 21 – Clyde Barnhart, American Major League Baseball player for the Pittsburgh Pirates
January 22 – Teresa Noce, Italian labour leader, activist and journalist
January 23
* Lil Dagover, German actress
* Shōjirō Iida, Japanese general
* Babs Gonzales, American bebop vocalist, poet, and self-published author
c. January 24 – Terry Anderson, English footballer, predominantly for Norwich City
January 25 – Queenie Watts, English actress and an occasional singer,
January 27 – Peppino De Filippo, Italian actor
January 28
* Kroger Babb, American film producer and showman
* Franco Evangelisti, Italian composer
January 29
*Ali Adbo, Iranian boxer and founder of Persepolis F.C.
*Jimmy Durante, American actor, singer and comedian
January 30 – Professor Longhair, American musician
January 31
*Jose Vasquez Aguilar, first Filipino recipient of the Ramon Magsaysay Award
*Lady Evelyn Beauchamp, first woman in modern times to enter the tomb of Tutankhamun
*Jacobus Duminy, South African academic who became principal and vice-chancellor of the University of Cape Town
January unknown date
* Don Albert, American jazz trumpeter and bandleader
* Nureddine Rifai, 25th Prime Minister of Lebanon

February

February 1 – Jack Bailey, American actor and daytime game show host
February 2 – William Howard Stein, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry
February 3
*Marnie Bassett, Australian historian, biographer and travel writer
*Hanna Rovina, Russian-Israeli actress
February 4 – Stojan Aralica, Serbian Impressionist painter and academic
February 5 – Nachman Aronszajn, Polish-American mathematician
February 6
* Sir William Abraham, British Army officer
* Albert Kotin, Russian-born American painter
February 7
*Rudolf Bosshard, Swiss rower and Olympic medalist
* Secondo Campini, Italian jet pioneer
*Sir Richard Williams, Royal Australian Air Force officer
February 8
* Princess Anna of Ysenburg and Büdingen, titular Princess consort of Lippe
*Erwin Friedrich Baumann, Swiss architect and sculptor
*Isadora Bennett, American theater manager and modern dance publicity agent
* Nikos Xilouris, Greek pop singer
* Francesco Zucchetti, French Olympic cyclist
February 9
* Charles Fowlkes, American baritone saxophonist, member of the Count Basie Orchestra
* Tom Macdonald, Welsh journalist and novelist
February 10 – Wally Wales, American film actor who specialized in westerns
February 11 – R. C. Majumdar, Indian historian
February 12 – Samuel D. Berger, American diplomat, United States Ambassador to Korea
February 13
* David Janssen, American actor
* Marian Rejewski, Polish mathematician and cryptologist
February 14
*Kitsuju Ayabe, general in Imperial Japanese Army in World War II
*Marie Besnard, French accused and acquitted serial poisoner
*Victor Gruen, Austrian-American architect and inventor of the shopping mall
February 15 – Sohn Won-yil, Korean naval vice admiral and Chief of Naval Operations
February 16 – Erich Hückel, German physicist and physical chemist
February 17
* Graham Sutherland, English artist
* Jerry Fielding, American jazz musician, arranger, band leader, and film composer
February 19
* Robert Morrison, British Olympic rower
* Bon Scott, Scottish-Australian rock singer
February 20
* Joseph Banks Rhine, American parapsychologist
* Alice Roosevelt Longworth, American writer and socialite
February 21
* Alfred Andersch, German writer, publisher, and radio editor
* Aldo Andreotti, Italian mathematician
*Gordon Boyd, Scotland international rugby union player
*Chester Lauck, comic actor who played the character of Lum Edwards on the American radio comedy, Lum and Abner
February 22
*Sadaaki Akamatsu, Japanese ace fighter pilot
*Oskar Kokoschka, Austrian painter and poet
*Dick Kallman, American actor
February 23 – Enrico Celio, Swiss politician, 49th President of the Swiss Confederation
February 24 – Clement Martyn Doke, South African linguist
February 26 – Mario Mattoli, Italian director and screenwriter
February 28 – Ian Peebles, cricketer who played for Oxford University, Middlesex, Scotland and England; later becoming a journalist on The Sunday Times
February 29 – Yigal Allon, Israeli politician and army general, acting Prime Minister of Israel

March

March 1
* Emmett Ashford, first African-American Major League Baseball umpire
* Wilhelmina Cooper, Dutch-American model and owner of model agency
* Dixie Dean, English footballer
March 2 – Roland Armontel, French actor
March 4
*Johannes Martin Bijvoet, Dutch chemist and crystallographer
*Vakhtang Ananyan, Armenian writer and journalist
March 5 – Jay Silverheels, Canadian actor
March 9
* Nikolay Bogolyubov, Soviet and Russian actor
* Olga Chekhova, Russian-German actress
March 10
* José Américo de Almeida, Brazilian writer, a politician, lawyer and teacher
* Herman Tarnower, American cardiologist and co-author of a bestselling diet book; would later be murdered by his wife
March 12
*Gerritdina Benders-Letteboer, member of the Dutch Resistance
*Roland Symonette, 1st Prime Minister of the Bahamas
March 14
*Henk Blomvliet, Dutch footballer, represented the Netherlands)
* Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente, Spanish naturalist and television presenter
* Mohammad Hatta, Indonesia's first vice president
* Anna Jantar, Polish singer
* Allard Lowenstein, American Democratic politician; served as a U.S. representative for the 5th congressional district of Nassau County, New York.
March 15
*Charles Austin (rugby union), American rugby union player, official, and coach
*Octávio Brandão, Brazilian pharmacist, politician and activist
March 17
* Boun Oum, 4th Prime Minister of Laos
* Rudolf George Escher, Dutch composer and music theorist
March 18
* Erich Fromm, German-American psychologist and philosopher
* Tamara de Lempicka, Polish painter
* Louise Lovely, Australian actress
*Herman Griffith, West Indian cricketer; played in West Indies' first Test match in their inaugural Test tour of England; was one of the leading bowlers on that tour
March 19 – Millen Brand, American writer and poet
March 21 – Marcel Boussac, thoroughbred race horse breeder
March 23 – S. W. Alexander, British journalist and political activist
March 24
*John Barrie, English actor
*Eric Bensted, Australian first-class cricketer
* Pierre Etchebaster, French real tennis player
* Óscar Romero, Salvadorian Roman Catholic archbishop
March 25
* Milton H. Erickson, American psychiatrist
* Erminio Macario, Italian actor
* Walter Susskind, Czech conductor
March 26 – Roland Barthes, French literary critic and writer
March 28
* Fenton Atkinson, British High Court judge, oversaw the trial of the Moors murderers
* Dick Haymes, Argentine actor and singer
March 30
* Natalio Bacalso, Filipino writer, newspaperman, radio broadcaster, filmmaker and Constitutional Convention delegate
* Mantovani, Anglo-Italian conductor and arranger
* Tôn Đức Thắng, 2nd President of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam
* Annunzio Mantovani, Italian British conductor, composer and light orchestra-styled entertainer
March 31
* Vladimír Holan, Czech poet
* Jesse Owens, American Olympic athlete

April

April 2 – Dick Howorth, English cricketer
April 3
* Archie Benn, Australian Federal Senator
* Luella Gear, American actress
April 4 – Rita Romilly Benson, American stage actress and acting teacher
April 6 – Antony Balch, English film director and distributor
April 8 – Wilhelm Arwe, Swedish ice hockey player
April 9 – Kim Jae-gyu, Korean politician, soldier
April 10 – Kay Medford, American actress and singer
April 11
* Charley Borah, American athlete and Olympic gold medalist
* Florence Lake, American actress best known as the leading lady in most of the Edgar Kennedy comedy shorts
April 12
*Ruggero Bonomi, Italian Air Force general during the Spanish Civil War and World War II
*William Tolbert, 20th President of Liberia
April 13 – Frederick D. Alexander, American businessman, civil rights activist, and politician, first African American to serve on Charlotte City Council since the 1890s
April 14 – Tom Fadden, American actor; performed on the legitimate stage, vaudeville, in films and on television during his long career.
April 15
* Gerty Archimède, Guadeloupe politician, first female lawyer to pass the Guadeloupe Bar
*Raymond Bailey, American actor comedian, best known as Milburn Drysdale in The Beverly Hillbillies
* Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and writer, Nobel laureate in Literature
* Marshall Reed, American actor who appeared in over 200 films between 1943 and 1978
April 19
* Tony Beckley, English actor
* Charles Seel, American actor
* Ethel Wilson, Canadian writer of short stories and novels
April 20
*Günther Ballier, German actor
*Charles Stanley Blair, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland
* Helmut Käutner, German film director
* Katherine Kennicott Davis, American composer
April 21
*Dante Agostini, Italian-born French drummer
*Sohrab Sepehri, Persian poet and painter
*Aleksandr Oparin, Soviet biochemist notable for his theories about the origin of life; also studied the biochemistry of material processing by plants and enzyme reactions in plant cells
April 22
* Jane Froman, American singer and actress
* Fritz Strassmann, German chemist
April 24
* James Buis, Dutch Roman Catholic prelate, vicar apostolic of Kota Kinabalu
* Alejo Carpentier, Cuban writer
April 25 – Katia Mann, American actress and singer who performed on stage, radio, and television despite chronic health problems
April 26 – Dame Cicely Courtneidge, British actress
April 27 – Mario Bava, Italian director, cinematographer, special effects artist and screenwriter
April 28
* Andrija Anković, Croatian footballer and manager
* Thomas G. W. Settle, American record-setting balloonist and admiral
April 29 – Sir Alfred Hitchcock, British film director
April 30
*Harold Robert Aaron, United States Army lieutenant general
*Arthur Banner, English footballer
*Luis Muñoz Marín, Puerto Rican journalist, politician and statesman
April unknown date – Herbert Bowman, American tennis player

May

May 2
*Clarrie Grimmett, New Zealand-born Australian cricketer
* George Pal, Hungarian-American animator and producer
* Alioune Diop, Senegalese writer and editor, founder of the journal Présence Africaine, and a central figure in the Négritude movement
May 4
* Josip Broz Tito, Yugoslav communist military and political leader, 19th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia and 1st President of Yugoslavia
* Kay Hammond, English stage and film actress
* Joe "Mr Piano" Henderson, Scottish pianist and composer
May 5 – Isabel Briggs Myers, American psychological theorist and co-creator of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
May 6 – María Luisa Bombal, Chilean novelist and poet
May 7 – Sigval Bergesen the Younger, Norwegian shipping magnate
May 8 – Sir Geoffrey Baker, British field marshal, Chief of the General Staff
May 12 – Lillian Roth, American actress
May 13 – Elliott Arnold, American newspaper feature writer, novelist, and screenwriter
May 14
*Carl Ebert, German theatre and opera director
*Wilhelm Weismann, German composer and musicologist
*Hugh Griffith, Welsh actor
May 15 – Lela Bliss, American actress
May 16 – Marin Preda, Romanian writer
May 17 – Ernst Blum, German international footballer
May 18
* Reid Blackburn, American photojournalist, killed in the 1980 volcanic eruption
* Ian Curtis, English musician and singer
* David A. Johnston, American volcanologist
* Harry R. Truman, American businessman, bootlegger and prospector
May 21 – Ida Kamińska, Polish actress, playwright and translator
May 26 – Franz Bachelin, German art director
May 28 – Rolf Nevanlinna, Finnish mathematician
May 30 – Otome Amatsu, Japanese dancer and actress
May unknown date – Leo A. Berg, American politician, Mayor of Akron, Ohio

June

June 1 – Rube Marquard, American Major League Baseball pitcher
June 3
*Naum Akhiezer, Jewish-Soviet mathematician
*Fred Beir, American film and television actor
June 5
* Giorgio Amendola, Italian writer and politician
June 6
* Ruth Aarons, US table tennis player, vaudeville entertainer, and talent manager
* Gualtiero De Angelis, Italian actor
June 7
*Richard Bonelli, American operatic baritone
* Philip Guston, American painter
* Henry Miller, American writer
* Marian Spychalski, Polish architect and politician, former Polish head of State
June 8
* Alfredo Brilhante da Costa, Brazilian football player
* Ernst Busch, German singer and actor
June 12
* Lawrence Anionwu, Nigerian administrator and diplomat, Nigeria's first Ambassador to Italy
*Milburn Stone, 75, American actor
* Masayoshi Ōhira, Japanese politician, 43rd Prime Minister of Japan
* Billy Butlin, entrepreneur whose name is synonymous with the British Butlin holiday camp.
June 13 – Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian and political figure
June 18
* Henry Aurand, American Lieutenant General, served in WWI, WWII and the Korean War
*Cliff Bergere, American stuntman and racecar driver
*Maurice Bridgeman, English oilman
* Terence Fisher, British director
* André Leducq, French cyclist who won the 1930 and 1932 Tours de France and a gold medal at the 1924 Summer Olympics
June 20 – Allan Pettersson, Swedish composer and violist considered one of the 20th century's most important Swedish composers
June 21 – Bert Kaempfert, German orchestra leader and songwriter
June 23
* Vadim Berezinskii, Soviet physicist
* V. V. Giri, Indian politician and 4th President of India
* Clyfford Still, American painter
* John Laurie, Scottish stage, film, and television actor
* Sanjay Gandhi, Indian politician who was a member of parliament and Lok Sabha.
June 24
*Connie Mack Berry, American who played professional football, baseball, and basketball
*Boris Kaufman, Russian cinematographer
June 26
* Hal Aloma, Hawaiian steel guitarist, singer and bandleader
* Ignatius Jacob III, Patriarch of Antioch
June 27 – Barney Bigard, American jazz clarinetist known for his 15-year tenure with Duke Ellington
June 28
* Herbie Faye, American actor
* José Iturbi, Spanish conductor and musician
* Helen Gahagan Douglas, American actress and politician
June 29
* Filipp Agaltsov, Soviet Order of Lenin recipient
*Jorge Basadre, Peruvian historian
June 30 – Lester Brain, pioneer Australian aviator and airline executive

July

July 1 – C. P. Snow, British physicist and novelist
July 2 – Tom Barry, guerrilla leader in the Irish Republican Army
July 3
* Sir Adesoji Aderemi, Governor of Western Region, Nigeria
* Deng Hua, Chinese general
* Abdelhamid Sharaf, 51st Prime Minister of Jordan
July 4 – Gregory Bateson, British anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, semiotician and cyberneticist
July 6 – Gail Patrick, American actress
July 7
* Prince Dmitri Alexandrovich of Russia
* Dore Schary, American film writer, director and producer
July 8 – Don G. Abel, American attorney and Washington State Supreme Court Justice
July 9
*Nazario Belmar, Spanish footballer, film producer and lawyer
*Ian Botting, New Zealand international rugby union player
*Vinicius de Moraes, Brazilian writer, poet and diplomat
July 10
* Komako Kimura, Japanese suffragist, actress, dancer, theater manager, and magazine editor
* Leonidas Zervas, Greek organic chemist
July 11 – Zygmunt Berling, Polish general and politician
July 12 – Donald Beatty, American aviator, explorer, and inventor
July 13
*Joseph Brennan, Irish Fianna Fáil politician
*Sir Seretse Khama, 1st President of Botswana
July 14 – Felix Berezin, Soviet Russian mathematician and physicist
July 16 – Robert Brackman, American artist and teacher, best known for large figural works, portraits, and still lifes.
July 17
*Don "Red" Barry, American film and television actor
*Boris Delaunay, Russian mathematician
July 19
* Nihat Erim, Turkish politician and jurist, 30th Prime Minister of Turkey
* Hans Morgenthau, German-American jurist and political scientist who specialized in foreign relations; made landmark contributions to international relations theory and the study of international law
July 20
*William P. Battell, Major General of the US Marine Corps
*Piet Bouman, Dutch amateur footballer who played for his country
*Lado Gudiashvili, Soviet painter
July 21 – Salah al-Din al-Bitar, Syrian politician, two-time Prime Minister of Syria
July 22 – Bob Bawden, Australian rules footballer with Richmond
July 23 – Mollie Steimer, Ukrainian anarchist activist; relocated multiple times for anarchist activities before becoming a photographer
July 24
*J. S. Brenner, American politician in the state of Montana
*Peter Sellers, British comedian and actor
*Uttam Kumar, Indian film actor, producer, director, screenwriter, composer, and playback singer who predominantly worked in Bengali cinema
July 25 – Vladimir Vysotsky, Soviet singer-songwriter, poet and actor
July 26
*Peter René Oscar Bally, Swiss botanical illustrator, botanist and taxonomist
*Kenneth Tynan, English theatre critic
*Allen Hoskins, American child actor, who portrayed the character of Farina in 105 Our Gang short films from 1922 to 1931
*Ibn-e-Safi, fiction writer, novelist and poet of Urdu from Pakistan.
July 27
* Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran
* Rushdy Abaza, Egyptian film and television actor
July 30 – Charles McGraw, American stage, film and television actor
July 31 – Pascual Jordan, German physicist
July unknown date – Herbert Best, British-American author of children's literature and science fiction

August

August 1
*Gardner Boultbee, Canadian sailor and Olympic medalist
*Patrick Depailler, French racing driver
*Strother Martin, American actor
August 2
* Page Belcher, American Republican politician
* Verdun Scott, sportsman who represented New Zealand in both Test cricket and rugby league. As of 2022, he is the only player to have done so
* Leo Soileau, American Cajun musician
August 4 – Georg Aumann, German mathematician
August 5
* Joachim Hämmerling, German-born Danish biologist
* Harold L. Runnels, U.S. Representative from New Mexico
August 6 – Marino Marini, Italian sculptor and educator
August 7 – Albert Bittner, German conductor
August 8
* Arman, Iranian-Armenian actor
* Paul Triquet, Canadian captain in WWII and recipient of the Victoria Cross in WWII
* Oleg Grigoryevich Kononenko, member of Soviet cosmonaut group LII-1
* Kim Hong-il, Korean diplomat and politician, independence activist
August 9
* Jacqueline Cochran, American pilot
* Ruby Hurley, American civil rights activist
* Elliott Nugent, American actor, playwright, writer, and film director
August 10
* Gareth Evans, British philosopher
* Yahya Khan, Pakistani general and statesman, 3rd President of Pakistan
August 13 – Bogislaw von Bonin, Colonel in the German Wehrmacht
August 14 – Dorothy Stratten, Canadian actress and model
August 15 – William Hood Simpson, American general
August 16 – Kevin Blackwell, New Zealand road and track cyclist, Commonwealth Games medallist
August 17
*Harold Adamson, American lyricist
*Azaria Chamberlain, killed by a dingo leading to false imprisonment for murder for her mother
August 18 – Norman Cazden, American composer whose prime creative years were obscured by McCarthy-era political pressures
August 19 – Otto Frank, German father of Jewish diarist Anne Frank
August 20
* Astaman, Indonesian actor
*Naemi Briese, Swedish film actress
* Joe Dassin, American-French singer-songwriter
* Dame Lucy Sutherland, Australian-born British historian, academic and public servant
August 21 – Jack Cheetham, South African cricketer who played in 24 Test matches
August 22
*L. C. Bates, African-American civil rights activist
*Gabriel González Videla, 24th President of Chile
*Alfred Neubauer, racing manager of the Mercedes-Benz Grand Prix team from 1926 to 1955
*James Smith McDonnell, American aviator, engineer, and businessman.
August 24
*Andre Parrot, French archaeologist specializing in ancient Near East. He led excavations in Lebanon, Iraq and Syria
*Yootha Joyce, English actress
August 25
* Santos P. Amadeo, Puerto Rican attorney, law professor and Senator
* Gower Champion, American theatre director, choreographer and dancer
August 26
*Rosa Albach-Retty, Austrian film and stage actress, with Nazi sympathies
*Tex Avery, American animator, cartoonist, director, and voice actor
*Jimmy Forrest, American jazz musician who played tenor saxophone throughout his career
*Miliza Korjus, Polish-Estonian lyric coloratura soprano opera singer who appeared in classical American and Mexican sound films during the Golden Age of Hollywood
August 27 – Herman Beam, NASCAR Grand National Series driver and team owner
August 29
* Franco Basaglia, Italian psychiatrist, neurologist and professor
* Louis Darquier de Pellepoix, French Nazi collaborationist and Commissioner-General for Jewish Affairs under the Vichy Régime
August 30 – Big Brown, American street poet, performer, and recording artist
August 31 – Rodolfo Arena, Brazilian actor

September

September 1
* Reg Bentley, Canadian ice hockey player
* Frank LaManna, American baseball player
September 2 – C. K. Alexander, Egyptian actor, director, composer, and playwright
September 3
* Barbara O'Neil, American actress
* Dirch Passer, Danish actor
* Duncan Renaldo, Romanian-born American actor
* Fabian von Schlabendorff, German jurist, soldier, and member of the German resistance against Adolf Hitler
September 4 – Wolfgang Gentner, German experimental nuclear physicist
September 5
* Don Banks, Australian composer of concert, jazz, and commercial music
* Barbara Loden, American actress and director of film and theater
September 6 – Joe Bradford, English professional international footballer
September 8
* Willard Libby, American chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry
* Bruce Dooland, Australian cricketer who played in three Test matches for the Australian national cricket team
September 9
* Harold Clurman, American theatre director and drama critic
* John Howard Griffin, American journalist and author who wrote about racial equality
September 11
* Junius "Rainey" Bibbs, American baseball player
* Harry Hulihan, American baseball player
* Ernie Ovitz, American baseball player
* Garth Mann, American baseball player
September 12
* Lillian Randolph, American actress
* André Chéron, French chess player, endgame theorist, and a composer of endgame studies
September 13 – Fred D. Beans, brigadier general of the US Marine Corps,
September 14 – Domingo Acedo, Spanish football player
September 15 – Bill Evans, American jazz pianist
September 16 – Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologist
September 17
*Harold Boas, Australian town planner and architect
*Anastasio Somoza Debayle, President of Nicaragua
September 18
* Frank Anderson, Canadian chess master and writer
* Katherine Anne Porter, American author
September 19 – Sol Lesser, American film producer
September 20
*Marie Bremner, Australian soprano, remembered for performances in Gilbert and Sullivan operas
*Clifford Bricker, Canadian long-distance runner
September 21 – Eberhard von Breitenbuch, German cavalry officer who took part in the military-based conspiracy against Adolf Hitler
September 23
* Jim Fouché, 5th President of South Africa
* Alan Strode Campbell Ross, British academic specializing in linguistics
September 24 – Bill Ayers, American baseball player
September 25
*Richard Reeve Baxter, American jurist
* John Bonham, British rock drummer
* Lewis Milestone, American film director
* Marie Under, Estonian poet
September 26
*Princess Anne of Denmark,
*Albert C. Bostwick Jr., American steeplechase jockey, thoroughbred racehorse owner, breeder and trainer
September 29
*Juxon Barton, British colonial administrator, Governor of Fiji, High Commissioner for the Western Pacific
*Harold F. Blum, physiologist who explored the interaction of light and chemicals on cells
*Bindo Maserati, Italian automotive engineer and businessman, known as the manager of Maserati and one of the Maserati Brothers

October

October 2
* Princess Alexandrine of Prussia, oldest daughter and fifth child of Wilhelm, German Crown Prince
* Sir John Kotelawala, Sri Lankan soldier and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Ceylon
* Valentin Varlamov, Russian jet pilot who was selected for Air Force Group 1
October 3 – Flemmie Pansy Kittrell, American nutritionist
October 6
*Sir Edric Bastyan, British Army officer, Governor of South Australia and Governor of Tasmania
*Hattie Jacques, British actress
*Jean Robic, French road racing cyclist who won the 1947 Tour de France
October 8
* Suzanne Bertillon, French WWII resistance fighter, awarded the Legion of Honour
* Maurice Martenot, French cellist, radio telegrapher during the first World War, and an inventor
October 10
* Carlo Annovazzi, Italian footballer
* Elizabeth Rummel, German-Canadian mountaineer and environmental activist
October 12 – Alberto Demicheli, Uruguayan political figure, former president of Uruguay
October 14
* Lawrence Baker, American tennis administrator and player, US Davis Cup captain
* Oscar Alemán, Argentine jazz guitarist, singer, and dancer
October 15
*John Henry Balch, United States Naval Reserve officer who received the Medal of Honor for his actions in World War I
*Prince Peter of Greece and Denmark
*Mikhail Lavrentyev, Soviet mathematician and hydrodynamicist
October 16

Sergey Taboritsky, Russian ultranationalist and journalist

October 17 – Narciso J. Alegre, Filipino civil liberties advocate, and a founder of Young Philippines
October 18
* Hans Ehard, German lawyer and politician
* Song Yo-chan, Korean prime minister
October 19 – Bobby Bauld, Scottish professional footballer
October 20 – Isobel Barnett, Scottish radio and television personality
October 21
* Hans Asperger, Austrian pediatrician after whom Asperger syndrome was named
* Kanjūrō Arashi, Japanese film actor
*Élie-Oscar Bertrand, Canadian businessman and House of Commons representative
* Valko Chervenkov, Bulgarian Communist leader and statesman, 34th Prime Minister of Bulgaria
* Edelmiro Julián Farrell, Argentine general, 28th President of Argentina
October 22 – Sammy Angott, American boxer, World Lightweight champion
October 23
* Charles Adler Jr., American engineer and inventor
* Mariano Suárez, Ecuadorian politician, 27th President of Ecuador
October 25
* Virgil Fox, American organist
* Víctor Galíndez, Argentine boxer
* Sahir Ludhianvi, Urdu/Hindustani poet and Hindi film lyricist
October 26 – Marcelo Caetano, Portuguese politician and scholar, 101st Prime Minister of Portugal
October 27
* Judy LaMarsh, Canadian politician, lawyer, author and broadcaster
* Steve Peregrin Took, British rock musician
* John Hasbrouck Van Vleck, American physicist, Nobel Laureate in Physics
October 29 – Giorgio Borġ Olivier, Maltese politician and statesman, 7th Prime Minister of Malta
October 31
* Elizebeth Smith Friedman, American cryptographer
* Jan Werich, Czech actor, playwright and writer
October unknown date – Dorothy Blum, American computer scientist and cryptanalyst, worked for the National Security Agency

November

November 2 – Willie Sutton, American bank robber
November 3 – Ludwig Hohl, Swiss writer writing in the German language
November 4
*Sir Kenneth Blackburne, British colonial official, first governor-general of Jamaica
*Elsie MacGill, Canadian engineer, the first woman in the world to earn an aeronautical engineering degree, and the first woman in Canada to receive a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering
*Johnny Owen, Welsh professional boxer
November 5
*Louis Alter, American pianist, songwriter and composer
*Caroline Brady, American philologist
November 6 – Aedy Moward, Indonesian actor
November 7
* Steve McQueen, American actor
* Wolfgang Weyrauch, German writer, journalist, and actor
November 8
*Gordon Robert Archibald, Scottish painter
*Claudio Bincaz, Argentine international football and rugby union player
November 9 – Victor Sen Young, 65, American character actor
November 10 – Marion Allnutt, welfare worker, commanding officer of the NGO, Women's Australian National Services
November 11 – Renato Barbieri, Italian rower and Olympic medalist
November 12 – Andrei Amalrik, Soviet writer and dissident
November 16
*Nikolaus Biewer, German international footballer
*Imogen Hassall, English actress
November 18
* Arthur S. Adams, President of the University of New Hampshire
* Conn Smythe, Canadian businessman, soldier and sportsman in ice hockey and horse racing
November 19
*Margaret Aitken, Canadian author, columnist, journalist, and politician
*E. J. Bowen, British physical chemist
November 20
*Hans von Boineburg-Lengsfeld, German general in the Wehrmacht
* Avtandil Gogoberidze, Soviet football player
* Sir John McEwen, Australian politician, 18th Prime Minister of Australia
November 21 – Sara García, Mexican actress
November 22
*Leonard Barr, American stand-up comedian, film actor, and dancer
*Norah McGuinness, Irish painter and illustrator
*Mae West, American actress
November 23 – R. Allatini, Austrian-British novelist who wrote under the pseudonyms R. Allatini, A.T. Fitzroy, Mrs Cyril Scott, Lucian Wainwright, and Eunice Buckley
*Herbert Agar, American journalist and Pulitzer Prize recipient
*George Raft, American actor
November 25
* George Amsberg, Australian barrister and judge
* Herbert Flam, American tennis player
November 26
* Rachel Roberts, British actress
* Pete DePaolo, American racing driver who is remembered as one of the greatest racers of his generation
November 29
* Dorothy Day, American journalist and social activist
* Babe London, American actress and comedian

December

December 1 – Frank Booth, American swimmer and Olympic medalist
December 2 – Romain Gary, Lithuanian-born French writer
December 3 – Sir Oswald Mosley, British fascist leader
December 4
* Snu Abecassis, Danish-Portuguese publisher
* Adelino Amaro da Costa, Portuguese politician
* Hamilton Shirley Amerasinghe, Sri Lankan diplomat and civil servant, High Commissioner to India, Ambassador to Nepal and Afghanistan, President of United Nations General Assembly
*Joe Birch, English professional footballer
*Jenő Brandi, Hungarian water polo player and Olympic medalist
* Francisco de Sá Carneiro, Portuguese lawyer, 109th Prime Minister of Portugal
* Stanisława Walasiewicz, Polish runner, Olympic champion
December 6 – Margot Bennett, Scottish-born screenwriter and author of crime and thriller novels
December 7
*Beechi, humorist in the Kannada language
*Darby Crash, American rock songwriter, singer
December 8
*Theo Breuer, German international footballer
*John Lennon, 40, English singer-songwriter and guitarist, murdered.
December 10 – Patriarch Benedict I of Jerusalem
December 11 – Hawayo Takata, Japanese-born American teacher and master practitioner of Reiki
December 12 – Jean Lesage, Canadian lawyer and premier from Quebec
December 13 – Fleming Alexander, American minister, businessman, and newspaper publisher, founded the Roanoke Tribune
December 14
*Sir Hugh Beadle, Rhodesian lawyer, politician, judge, Chief Justice of Southern Rhodesia
*Nichita Smochină, Moldovan activist
*Elston Howard, American professional baseball player who was a catcher and a left fielder
December 16
* Peter Collinson, British film director
* Colonel Sanders, American fast-food entrepreneur
* Jose B. Lingad, Filipino lawyer and politician who served as governor and congressman from Pampanga
* Hellmuth Walter, German engineer and inventor
December 17 – Ahmet Berman, Turkish international footballer
December 18
* Héctor José Cámpora, Argentine Peronist politician, 38th President of Argentina
* Frances Fuller, American actress
* Alexei Kosygin, Soviet politician, Premier of the Soviet Union
* Sir Albert Margai, 2nd Prime Minister of Sierra Leone
December 21
*Philip Lemont Barbour, American linguist, historian and radio broadcaster
*Marc Connelly, American playwright
December 22 – Miriam Battista, American actress known principally for her early career as a child star in silent films
December 24
*Caroline van Hook Bean, American Impressionist painter
* Karl Dönitz, German admiral and 4th President of Germany
* Heikki Liimatainen, Finnish Olympic athlete
* Siggie Nordstrom, American model, actress, entertainer, socialite and lead singer of The Nordstrom Sisters
December 25 – Fred Emney, English character actor and comedian
December 26
*Edward Ajado, Nigerian sprinter and Empire Games medal winner
*Giuseppe Balbo, Italian painter
*Richard Chase, American serial killer & cannibal
December 28
*James N. Bloodworth, justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama
*Amir Elahi, Indian-Pakistani test cricketer who represented both countries
*Sam Levene, Russian-American Broadway, films, radio, and television actor and director
December 29 – Tim Hardin, American musician
December 30
*Frank Baker, Australian-American actor and stuntman
*George Beel, English footballer
December 31
* Alan Bellhouse, Australian mathematician, teacher, musician, founder of North Sydney Symphony Orchestra
* Bob Shawkey, American baseball pitcher who played fifteen seasons in Major League Baseball
*Dalbir Bindra, Canadian neuropsychologist
*Abdelhafid Boussouf, Algerian nationalist and a leader of the National Liberation Front during the Algerian War of Independence
* Marshall McLuhan, Canadian author and professor
* Raoul Walsh, American film director
* J.W. Milam, American murderer and white supremacist

Unknown month

Justicia Acuña, first woman to become a civil engineer in Chile
M. P. Alladin, Trinidad and Tobago artist, poet, writer, teacher and public servant
María Álvarez de Guillén, Salvadoran businesswoman, writer and women's rights activist
Lev Balandin, Soviet swimmer and European Championships medalist
Margaret Ballinger, South African politician, first President of the Liberal Party of South Africa
Robert Barbour, Scottish airman and flying ace of World War I
Archie Bayes, English football goalkeeper
Juan Besuzzo, Uruguayan international footballer
Frank Bielby, English professional rugby league footballer
Lily Eberwein, Sarawakian nationalist, women's rights activist
Asia Tawfiq Wahbi, Iraqi writer and social reformer