Deaths Date 1980 December | History by KabAstro

Oswald Mosley (1896-1980)

Dec 3 British politician and founder of British Union of Fascists, dies at 84

Dec 4 Francisco Sá Carneiro, 109th Prime Minister of Portugal, dies at 46
Dec 4 Stanislawa Walasiewicz [Stella Walsh], Polish-born American athlete (Olympic gold 100m 1932), dies when shot during an armed robbery, at 69
Dec 7 Darby Crash, American Punk rocker (Germs), dies of an overdose at 22

Dec 8 British musician, pop star and member of The Beatles (Imagine), shot and murdered outside of his home in NYC by Mark David Chapman at 40

Dec 11 Ignacio Prieto [Arrizubieta], Spanish composer, dies at 80
Dec 12 Jean Lesage, Canadian politician (19th Premier of Quebec, 1960-66), dies of throat cancer at 68

Dec 14 American baseball catcher (12 × MLB All-Star; 6 × World Series; AL MVP 1963; first African-American NY Yankee), dies from myocarditis at 51

Dec 14 Richard Gurley Drew, American inventor (created masking tape and cellophane at 3M), dies at 81
Dec 15 Angus Campbell, American psychologist (Elections & Political Order), dies at 70
Dec 15 Rudolph Cleveringa, Dutch anti-nazi lawyer and professor of Law at Leiden University, dies at 86

Dec 16 American founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken, dies at 90

Dec 18 Soviet statesman and Premier of the Soviet Union (1964-80), dies of a heart attack at 76

Dec 21 American playwright (One Minute Please), dies at 90

Dec 24 Alec Wilder, American classical, jazz, and pop music composer (The Churkendoose), and musicologist (American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900-1950), dies at 73 [1]

Dec 24 German naval admiral and last leader of Nazi Germany, dies of a heart attack at 89

Dec 24 Siggie Nordstrom, American singer (The Nordstrom Sisters), dies at 87
Dec 25 (Ludwig) "Louis" Neefs, Belgian pop singer (Eurovision, 1967 & 1969), dies, along with his wife, in a car accident at 43
Dec 25 Fred Emney, British actor (Let the People Sing; Adventures of a Private Eye; Lilac Domino), dies at 80
Dec 26 (John) "Peck" Kelley, American jazz pianist and bandleader (Peck's Bad Boys), dies from complications of Parkinson's disease at 82
Dec 26 Tony Smith, American sculptor (b. 1912)
Dec 28 Amir Elahi, Pakistani cricket spin bowler (1 Test India, 5 Tests Pakistan), at 72
Dec 28 Jersey calf, lived 222 days with an artificial heart
Dec 29 Nadezhda Mandelstam, Russian writer (b. 1899)
Dec 29 Roy Engle, American writer and actor (The Man from Planet X, The Wild Wild West, My Favorite Martian), dies from meningitis at 67
Dec 29 Tim Hardin, American singer (If I Were a Carpenter, Reason to Believe), dies of a drug overdose at 39
Dec 31 Arthur Wellard, English cricket all-rounder (2 Tests, 7 wickets, BB 4/81; Somerset CCC), dies at 78
Dec 31 Bob Shawkey, American baseball pitcher (World Series 1923, 27; AL ERA leader 1920, New York Yankees), dies at 90