Deaths in March 1980

The following is a list of notable deaths in March 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 (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

March 1980

1

• Emmett Ashford, 65, American baseball umpire, heart attack.^[1]
• André Camel, 75, French rugby player.
• Wilhelmina Cooper, 40, Dutch-American model and modeling agent (Wilhelmina Models), lung cancer.^[2]
• Dixie Dean, 73, English footballer, heart attack.^[3]
• Dick Dillin, 51, American comic book artist, heart attack.
• Lucien Emerson, 89, American college sports coach.
• Arndt Jorgens, 74, Norwegian-born American baseball player.
• Daniil Khrabrovitsky, 56, Soviet filmmaker.
• Walter C. Klein, 75, American Episcopal prelate, cancer.
• John Jacob Niles, 87, American ballad composer and singer.^[4]
• Eric Oliver, 68, English racing cyclist.
• Henry Owl, 84, American historian and Native American activist.
• Dorothy Phillips, 90, American actress, pneumonia.
• William W. Stickney, 80, American general, heart failure.^[5]
• Anna Ticho, 85, Czech-born Israeli artist.
• Johnny Watwood, 74, American baseball player.

2

• Pierre Capdeville, 71–72, French entomologist.
• Ugo Capocchini, 79, Italian artist.
• Anne Cornwall, 83, American actress and singer, heart failure.
• Eddie Dunn, 64, American football and baseball coach.
• Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, 86, Polish poet and essayist.^[6]
• Joshua Kunitz, 83, Russian-American journalist and literary scholar.^[7]
• Arlie Schardt, 84, American Olympic runner (1920).^[8]
• Wilhelm Weber, 61, German Nazi official.
• Winfield Welch, 80, American baseball player and manager.

3

• Roger Davis, 96, American actor, cancer.
• Forrest C. Donnell, 95, American politician, member of the U.S. Senate (1945–1951), governor of Missouri (1941–1945).^[9]
• Sir Michael Duff, 3rd Baronet, 72, British socialite and hereditary peer.
• Royes Fernandez, 50, American ballet dancer, cancer.^[10]
• Manuel Garriga, 54, Algerian-born French footballer, blunt force trauma.
• Roger Hawkins, 64, Rhodesian politician.
• Wade Marlette, 80, American college sports coach.
• Roy Norman, 83, Australian Olympic sprinter (1924).
• Jerry Priddy, 60, American baseball player, heart attack.
• Avraham Rakanti, 91–92, Greek-Israeli politician, MK (1949–1951).
• Tayfur Sökmen, 87–88, Turkish politician, president of Hatay (1938–1939).

4

• Vakhtang Ananyan, 74, Soviet Armenian writer and journalist.
• Johannes Martin Bijvoet, 88, Dutch chemist and crystallographer.
• Colin Bishop, 76, English rugby player.
• Eric Kerfoot, 55, English footballer.
• J. F. A. McManus, 68, Canadian pathologist.
• Luis Piazzini, 74, Argentine chess player.
• Alfred Plé, 92, French Olympic rower (1920).
• Baptist Reinmann, 76, German footballer.
• David Howard Saunders, 89, American politician, member of the Florida House of Representatives (1945–1951).
• Alva Sibbetts, 79, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Alex Vetchinsky, 77, British art director and production designer.

5

• Amy Douglass, 77, American actress.^[11]
• Les Fleming, 64, American baseball player.
• Jack Gallagher, 60, English historian, heart and kidney failure.
• Wilhelm Hoegner, 92, German politician.^[12]
• Marc Edmund Jones, 91, American writer and astrologer.
• Ujitoshi Konomi, 67, Japanese Olympic sports shooter (1956).
• Michael Parker, 79, British Anglican prelate.
• William L. Patterson, 88, American political activist.^[13]
• John Raven, 65, English classical scholar.
• Abdullah Rimawi, 59–60, Jordanian politician.
• Stig Reuterswärd, 73, Swedish Olympic runner (1924).
• Sir Alfred Savage, 76, British colonial administrator.
• Jay Silverheels, 67, Canadian-American actor (The Lone Ranger), stroke.^[14]
• John Skeaping, 78, English sculptor.^[15]
• Winifred Wagner, 82, English-born German opera manager.^[16]
• Sir Douglas Waring, 75, British businessman.
• Albert Züblin, 74, Swiss soldier and lawyer.

6

• Hikmet Bayur, 88–89, Turkish politician.
• Harry Becker, 87, British politician, MP (1922–1924).
• Otto Busse, 78, German World War II resistance member and humanitarian.
• Noel Croucher, 88, British businessman and philanthropist.
• Willem de Vries Lentsch, 93, Dutch Olympic sailor (1928, 1936).
• James Dickson, 80, Swedish politician.
• Bobby Jones, 51, American jazz saxophonist, emphysema.
• Jim Moodie, 74, Australian footballer.
• Norman Preston, 76, English sports journalist.
• James C. Shannon, 83, American politician, governor (1948–1949) and lieutenant governor of Connecticut (1947–1948).^[17]
• E. A. Underwood, 80, Scottish physician and public health official.
• Robert Wilson, 57, English cricketer.

7

• Gladys Calthrop, 85, British stage designer.
• Sara Christian, 61, American racing driver.
• John Illingworth, 76, English yacht designer.^[18]
• August Kasvand, 89, Soviet Estonian mathematician.
• Marcel Mazeyrat, 73, French racing cyclist.
• Eugene Condell Leonard Parkinson, 74, Jamaican politician.
• Jack Sack, 78, American football player and coach.^[19]
• Rudolf Schmidt, 85, Austrian sculptor.
• Vaughn Waddell, 69, Canadian-born American basketball player.
• John Watson, 69, English cricketer.

8

• Caroline Lexow Babcock, 98, American suffragist and activist.
• Graham Dadds, 68, British Olympic field hockey player (1952).
• Fernand Gillet, 97, French-American oboist.
• Ben T. Gunter Jr., 77, American politician, member of the Virginia Senate (1944–1952).
• Eileen Guppy, 76, British geologist.
• Friedrich Hecht, 76, Austrian chemist.
• Josef Kroll, 90, German philologist.
• Frank McDonald, 80, American film and television director.
• Max Miedinger, 69, Swiss typeface designer (Helvetica).
• J. Irving Whalley, 77, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1960–1973), heart attack.^[20]

9

• Tom Baker, 45, American baseball player.
• Nikolay Bogolyubov, 80, Soviet actor.
• Olga Chekhova, 82, Russian-German actress.^[21]
• Noël Dorion, 75, Canadian politician, MP (1958–1962).^[22]
• Don Floyd, 41, American football player, heart attack.^[23]
• Heinz Linge, 66, German Nazi official, valet for Adolf Hitler, heart failure.^[24]
• Giuseppe Mojoli, 74, Italian Roman Catholic prelate.
• Shinzō Ōya, 85, Japanese politician.

10

• José Américo de Almeida, 93, Brazilian politician.^[25]
• Emeel S. Betros, 48, American politician and lawyer, lung cancer.^[26]
• Frank Callaghan, 88, New Zealand agriculturalist.
• Melville Henry Cane, 100, American poet and lawyer.
• Werner Coninx, 68, Swiss artist and art collector.
• Euan Dickson, 87, British-born New Zealand flying ace.
• Lutz Gerresheim, 21, German footballer.
• Subodh Ghosh, 70, Indian author.
• Sheldon Glueck, 83, Polish-born American criminologist.^[27]
• Alexander S. Gross, 63, American rabbi.
• James M. Hare, 69, American politician, Michigan secretary of state (1955–1970).
• Francis Kelly, 86, Australian politician.
• William Kroll, 79, American violinist and composer.^[28]
• Walter Lock, 72, English cricketer.
• Adrien Pouliot, 84, Canadian mathematician.^[29]
• Herman Tarnower, 69, American cardiologist, shot.^[30]
• Zhang Fakui, 83, Chinese general.

11

• Simone Chapoteau, 77, Haitian-born French athlete.
• Julio de Caro, 80, Argentine composer and bandleader.^[31]
• Jack Evans, 74, American football player.
• Chandra Bhanu Gupta, 77, Indian politician.
• Yūnosuke Itō, 60, Japanese actor.
• Mikhail Kaufman, 82–83, Soviet cinematographer.
• Stan Klopp, 69, American baseball player.
• Maud Hart Lovelace, 87, American author.
• Saad Nadim, 60, Egyptian documentarian.
• Phillip Rahoi, 83, American politician, member of the Michigan Senate (1955–1966).
• Koshiro Ueki, 80, Japanese politician.

12

• Jay Anson, 58, American author (The Amityville Horror), complications from heart surgery.^[32]
• Gerritdina Benders-Letteboer, 70, Dutch humanitarian and World War II resistance member.
• Renée Brock, 67, Belgian writer, heart attack.
• Ernő Gerő, 81, Hungarian politician, heart attack.^[33]
• Latif Imanov, 57, Soviet Azerbaijani physicist.
• Gustav Laabs, 77, German Nazi official and war criminal.
• Renée Lamberet, 78, French historian and anarchist activist.
• Eugeniu Ștefănescu-Est, 98, Romanian poet and lawyer.
• Sir Roland Theodore Symonette, 81, Bahamian politician, premier (1964–1967).^[34]

13

• René Bernatchez, 66, Canadian politician.
• Burton Howard Camp, 99, American mathematician.^[35]
• Jean Davey, 70, Canadian physician.
• Norman DePoe, 62, American-born Canadian news broadcaster.^[36]
• E. Urner Goodman, 88, American scouting leader, pneumonia.^[37]
• Sir William Mallalieu, 71, British politician, MP (1945–1979).
• Paul Molyneux, 74, English cricketer.
• Lillian Ngoyi, 68, South African anti-Apartheid activist and politician.^[38]
• Tauno Pylkkänen, 61, Finnish composer.
• Frank Spilling, 67, Australian footballer.
• Harlan Warde, 62, American actor.
• Alonzo L. Waters, 86, American politician, member of the New York State Assembly (1949–1965).^[39]

14

• Corrado Ardizzoni, 64, Italian Olympic racing cyclist (1936).
• Henri Bellivier, 89, French Olympic racing cyclist (1920).
• Henk Blomvliet, 69, Dutch footballer.
• Win Brockmeyer, 72, American football coach.
• Manlio Brosio, 82, Italian politician and diplomat, secretary general of NATO (1964–1971).^[40]
• Bob Davis, 65, American football player.
• Robert Dennison, 78, American naval admiral, pulmonary embolism.^[41]
• Ray Ednie, 52, Australian footballer.
• Mohammad Hatta, 77, Indonesian politician, prime minister (1948–1950) and vice president (1945–1956).^[42]
• Gustavus Kelly, 78, Irish cricketer.
• Allard K. Lowenstein, 51, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1969–1971), shot.^[43]
• Gerhard W. Menzel, 58, German writer.
• Eddie Mosscrop, 87, English footballer.
• Dudley Maurice Newitt, 85, British chemical engineer.
• Eric Orr, 70, Australian footballer.
• Peter Renzulli, 84, American soccer player.
• Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente, 52, Spanish naturalist and broadcaster, plane crash.^[44]
• David Sheehama, 46, Namibian businessman and philanthropist, shot.
• Gladys Guggenheim Straus, 84, American nutritionist.^[45]
• Vere Temple, 82, British artist.
• Al Wickland, 92, American baseball player.^[46]
• Notable victims of the LOT Polish Airlines Flight 007 crash:
  • Anna Jantar, 29, Polish singer^[47]
  • Alan P. Merriam, 56, American ethnomusicologist^[48]
  • Lemuel Steeples, 23, American boxer^[49]

15

• Gerald Abrahams, 72, English chess player and barrister.
• Roland Armontel, 78, French actor.
• Charles Austin, 87, American rugby player and coach.
• Octávio Brandão, 83, Brazilian politician.^[50]
• Daisy Earles, 72, German-born American entertainer (The Doll Family) and actress (Freaks, The Wizard of Oz).
• Marta Ehrlich, 69, Croatian painter.
• Frank Foulkes, 80, British trade unionist.
• Abram Grushko, 61, Soviet painter.
• Sir Cyril Harrison, 78, British businessman.
• Léon Jomaux, 58, Belgian racing cyclist.
• Émile Pladner, 73, French boxer.^[51]
• Sir Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi, 86, Indian politician and civil servant.
• Les Witherspoon, 53, American baseball player.

16

• Neville D'Souza, 47, Indian footballer, stroke.
• Leroy Goldsworthy, 73, American-born Canadian ice hockey player.^[52]
• Kimura Susumu, 88, Japanese naval admiral.
• Charles William Morrow, 82, Canadian politician.
• Alfred Reul, 70, Polish Olympic cyclist (1928).

17

• Alex W. Bealer, 59, American craftsman and historian.
• George Boas, 88, American philosopher.
• Boun Oum, 68, Laotian politician and royal, prime minister (1948–1950, 1960–1962).^[53]
• Rose Conway, 79–80, American political aide.^[54]
• Farciot Edouart, 85, American special effects artist.^[55]
• Rudolf Escher, 68, Dutch composer and music theorist.
• Cyril Hamnett, Baron Hamnett, 73, British politician and journalist.
• Bob Hooper, 57, Canadian-born American baseball player, heart attack.
• P. M. Hubbard, 69, British writer.
• Al Jochim, 77, German-born American Olympic gymnast (1932).
• Jan Krásl, 80, Czech Olympic ice hockey player (1924, 1928).
• Mary Alice McWhinnie, 57, American biologist, brain cancer.
• Rafael Paasio, 76, Finnish politician, prime minister (1966–1968, 1972).^[56]
• William Prager, 76, German-born American mathematician.
• John M. Slack Jr., 64, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (since 1959), heart attack.^[57]
• Hans Nikolai Stavrand, 86, Norwegian politician.
• Bice Valori, 52, Italian actress and comedian, cancer.

18

• Jerzy Bułanow, 75, Russian-born Polish footballer.
• Orval R. Cook, 81, American general, heart attack.^[58]
• Jessica Dragonette, 80, American singer, heart attack.^[59]
• Erich Fromm, 79, German-American psychoanalyst.^[60]
• Elsa Goveia, 54, Guyanese historian.
• Herman Griffith, 86, Trinidadian cricketer.^[61]
• Sir Ludwig Guttmann, 80, German-British neurologist and disability activist.^[62]
• Evelyn Hodges, 92, Irish Anglican prelate.
• George Clayton Kennedy, 60, American botanist, cancer.
• Tamara de Lempicka, 85, Polish painter.^[63]
• Louise Lovely, 85, Australian actress.^[64]
• Norm Robinson, 79, Australian rugby player and coach.
• Luis Saura, 89, Spanish footballer.
• John Timms, 73, English cricketer.
• Grigor Vachkov, 47, Bulgarian actor.

19

• Ivan Bolshakov, 77, Soviet bureaucrat.
• Millen Brand, 74, American writer and poet.^[65]
• Neva "Aunt Sap" Brasfield, 91, American comedian.
• Greta Carlsson, 81, Swedish Olympic swimmer (1912).
• Arvid Emanuelsson, 66, Swedish footballer.
• Nilo Franzen, 77, Brazilian Olympic rower (1936).
• Frederick Atwood Greeley, 83, American astronomer.
• Francisco Jerman, 59, Slovenian-Argentine Olympic skier (1960).
• Børge Minerth, 59, Danish Olympic gymnast (1948, 1952).
• Reginald Smith-Rose, 85, English physicist.
• Bedrettin Tuncel, 69–70, Turkish politician and educator.
• Constantin Vasiliu-Rășcanu, 92, Romanian general and politician.
• Jack Walsh, 62, Australian rugby player.
• Charles Wood, 2nd Earl of Halifax, 67, British politician and hereditary peer, MP (1937–1945).
• Ernest Yates, 65, British Olympic figure skater (1936).

20

• Alun Davies, 63–64, Welsh historian, cancer.
• Floyd Draper, 86, American jurist.^[66]
• Barbara Massalska, 53, Polish artist.
• Ernst Schiffner, 76, German actor and director.
• Marcel Tremblay, 64, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Angela Trindade, 70, Indian-American painter.

21

• M. Mariappa Bhat, 73, Indian linguist and lexicographer.
• Marcel Boussac, 90, French businessman and Thoroughbred racehorse breeder.^[67]
• Barbara Brooke, 54, New Zealand art dealer.
• Angelo Bruno, 69, Italian-born American mobster (Philadelphia crime family), shot.^[68]
• Hans Dichgans, 72, German politician.
• Luís Espinal Camps, 48, Spanish journalist, shot.
• George Hyde Fallon, 77, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1945–1971).^[69]
• Sam Ferris, 79, British Olympic runner (1932).
• Russell G. Lloyd Sr., 47, American politician, shot.^[70]
• Ian Murray Mackerras, 81, Australian zoologist.
• Edward F. McNulty, 74, American politician.
• Herm Schaefer, 61, American basketball player and coach.^[71]
• Peter Stoner, 91, American writer and academic administrator.
• Joseph Stuart, 75, Irish sports administrator.
• Astolfo Tapia, 68, Chilean politician.
• Ralph Ulveling, 77, American librarian.^[72]
• Livia Veloz, 87, Dominican writer and feminist activist.

22

• Raymond Thayer Birge, 93, American physicist.
• Ray Foley, 73, American baseball player.
• Maurice Gillis, 82, Belgian footballer.
• Georges Groussard, 88, French soldier and World War II resistance member.
• Gerald W. Johnson, 89, American writer and journalist, pneumonia.^[73]
• Sir Harold Kinahan, 86, British naval admiral.
• Ed Lynch, 50, American Olympic cyclist (1948).
• Erich Nelson, 82, German botanist and artist.
• Hélio Oiticica, 42, Brazilian artist and filmmaker, stroke.
• Evelyn Procter, 82, British historian and academic administrator.

23

• S. W. Alexander, 84, British journalist and political activist.
• Tom Djäwa, 74–75, Australian artist.
• Lou Knerr, 58, American baseball player.
• Isabel Rockefeller Lincoln, 77, American socialite.
• Alekos Livaditis, 65–66, Greek actor.
• Grace Lumpkin, 89, American novelist (To Make My Bread).^[74]
• Sir Henry McCall, 84, British naval admiral.
• Jacob Miller, 27, Jamaican reggae musician (Inner Circle), traffic collision.
• Arthur Melvin Okun, 51, American economist, heart attack.^[75]
• Charles Pannell, 77, British politician, MP (1949–1974).
• Eugene Allison Smith, 57, American politician, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives (1971–1973), heart attack.
• Henning Throne-Holst, 84, Norwegian-born Swedish businessman.
• Joan Whittington, 73, English nurse.

24

• John Barrie, 62, English actor (Sergeant Cork, Z-Cars).
• Reginald Bell, 78, Canadian politician and jurist.^[76]
• Eric Bensted, 79, Australian cricketer.
• Piatrus Brouka, 74, Soviet Belarusian poet.
• Beanie Ebert, 77, American football player and coach.
• Pierre Etchebaster, 86, French real tennis player.^[77]
• Ernst John von Freyend, 70, German Nazi official.
• Sid Goodwin, 65, Australian rugby player.
• Robert Martin, 88, American cinematographer.
• François Person, 57, French racing cyclist.
• Óscar Romero, 62, Salvadoran Roman Catholic prelate, shot.^[78]
• Donald Slade, 91, English footballer.
• Elisabeth Wendt, 74, German actress.

25

• Milton H. Erickson, 78, American psychiatrist and psychologist.^[79]
• Émile Gardetto, 72, Monegasque Olympic rower (1928).
• Phyllis Hynes, 83, English-born New Zealand botanist.
• Erminio Macario, 77, Italian actor and comedian.^[80]
• Edna McGriff, 44, American R&B musician, lymphoma.
• Henry Orth, 82, American football player.
• Enid Riddell, 77, British racing driver and socialite.
• Holger Schön, 69, Swedish Olympic skier (1932).
• Walter Susskind, 66, Czech-born British pianist and conductor.^[81]
• James Wright, 52, American poet, tongue cancer.^[82]

26

• Roland Barthes, 64, French literary theorist, injuries sustained from a traffic collision.^[83]
• John Edward Blair, 80, American bacteriologist.
• Les Boyne, 80, Australian footballer.
• Basil Coad, 73, British general.
• Richard W. Farrell, 69, American film editor.
• Dragutin Friedrich, 83, Croatian footballer.
• Mike Katrishen, 57, American football player.
• Zofia Lissa, 71, Polish musicologist.
• H. G. Merriam, 96, American literary critic.
• John Poulos, 32, American drummer (The Buckinghams), heart failure.

27

• Philip W. Anderson, 64, American film editor.
• Jorge Aspée, 78, Chilean politician.
• Steve Fisher, 67, American author and screenwriter.
• Gus Haenschen, 90, American pianist and composer.
• G. Maurice Hann, 94, British trade unionist.
• Franz J. Ingelfinger, 69, German-born American physician and journalist, esophageal cancer.^[84]
• Idris Jamma', 58, Sudanese poet.
• Warren Marrison, 83, Canadian engineer and inventor (quartz clock).
• Humberto Monteiro, 32, Brazilian footballer.
• Roger Spong, 73, English rugby player.
• William Thomas Straith, 85, Canadian politician and lawyer.
• Wang Dazhi, 76, Chinese educator.

28

• William Stafford Anderson, 96, Canadian politician.
• Sir Fenton Atkinson, 74, British jurist (Moors murders trial).
• Flavia Blois, 65, British painter.
• Helena Bochořáková-Dittrichová, 85, Czech painter and graphic novelist.
• Jack Dunstone, 78, Australian footballer.
• James Hayes, 91, American-Filipino Roman Catholic prelate.
• Dick Haymes, 61, Argentine-American singer and actor, lung cancer.^[85]
• George Owen Johnson, 84, Canadian air marshal and flying ace.
• Branko Pleše, 65, Croatian footballer.
• Kristian Vilhelm Koren Schjelderup Jr., 86, Norwegian theologian.

29

• William Gemmell Cochran, 70, Scottish-born American statistician.
• Peter De Greef, 57, British actor.
• Harold David London, 73, New Zealand public servant and historian.
• Vicente López Carril, 37, Spanish racing cyclist, heart attack.^[86]
• Einar Nilsen, 78, Norwegian Olympic boxer (1920).
• Alfred Rodenbücher, 79, German Nazi official.
• Kilby Snow, 74, American folk musician.
• Leslie Francis Stokes Upton, 48, English-Canadian historian, cancer.^[87]
• George W. Watt, 69, American chemist.^[88]

30

• Francis Douglas, 1st Baron Douglas of Barloch, 90, British politician and journalist, MP (1940–1946).
• Ferdinand Friebe, 86, Australian Olympic runner (1924).
• Cornelis Jacobus Gorter, 72, Dutch physicist.
• Jim Hammond, 72, British trade unionist.
• Lauri Härö, 80, Finnish Olympic runner (1924).
• Mantovani, 74, Italian-born British composer and conductor.^[89]
• Henry Poulaille, 83, French writer.
• David Sharpe, 70, American actor and stunt performer, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.^[90]
• Joseph Tarka, 47, Nigerian politician.
• Tôn Đức Thắng, 91, Vietnamese politician, president (since 1969), cardiopulmonary arrest.^[91]

31

• Frank Courtnay, 76, Australian politician, MP (1958–1969).
• Vladimír Holan, 74, Czech poet.
• Otto Husted, 77, Danish Olympic field hockey player (1928).
• Alexander Hamilton McDonald, 61, Canadian politician.
• John Nightingale, 37, British actor, cancer.
• Jesse Owens, 66, American Olympic track and field athlete (1936), four-time gold medalist, lung cancer.^[92]

References

1. ^ Major league's 1st black ump, Ashford, dies
2. ^ Wilhelmina, High-Fashion Model And Agency Owner, Is Dead at 40; Rival of Ford Agency
3. ^ Dixie dies
4. ^ JOHN JACOB NILES; FOLK SINGER WAS 87
5. ^ William W. Stickney Dies
6. ^ Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz, 86, Dies; Was a Leading Writer in Poland
7. ^ Dr. Joshua Kunitz Is Dead at 84; Authority on Russian Literature
8. ^ Arlie Schardt, America's oldest Olympic gold medalist
9. ^ F. C. Donnell, GOP Missouri Senator in 1940s, Dies
10. ^ ROYES FERNANDEZ, DANCER, 50, IS DEAD; Ballet Theater Principal Known for Lyricism, Style and Virtuosity --Praised for Siegfried Lauded by Critics
11. ^ Character Actress Spanned 4 Decades
12. ^ Wilhelm Hoegner
13. ^ William Patterson dies, Communist Party activist
14. ^ Jay Silverheels, Tonto in "Lone Ranger", dies at 62
15. ^ John Skeaping
16. ^ Now Bayreuth lady's breathed her last
17. ^ James Shannon, 83; A Connecticut Judge And an Ex-Governor; Appointed by Governor Lodge
18. ^ Yachtsman dies
19. ^ Jack Sack, Ex-Pitt Star Athlete
20. ^ John Irving Whalley, 77, Ex-GOP Representative
21. ^ Olga Chekhova
22. ^ Noel Dorian left footnotes on history
23. ^ Former Grid Star Dies at 41
24. ^ Hitler's butler dies in Hamburg hospital
25. ^ Paraiba de luto enterra Jose Americo hoje as 10h (in Portuguese)
26. ^ E.S. Betros, Member Of the Assembly Who Won Ban on Smoking; Had Private Law Practice
27. ^ Sheldon Glueck of Harvard Dies; Studied the Roots of Delinquency
28. ^ William Kroll, Violinist
29. ^ Quebec's Adrien Pouliot dies at 84
30. ^ Tarnower Was a Busy Physician, Too; Sportsman and Dinner Host A Veteran of World War II
31. ^ Fallecio el compositor Julio de Caro (in Spanish)
32. ^ Jay Anson, 58, Writer Of 'Amityville Horror,' Is Dead on West Coast; Introduced to the Lutzes Had Journalistic Background
33. ^ Erno Gero of Hungary; Was Overthrown in '56
34. ^ Roland Symonette
35. ^ BURTON HOWARD CAMP
36. ^ Norman DePoe dies
37. ^ E. Urner Goodman Is Dead at 88; Official of Boy Scouts of America
38. ^ Lillian Ngoyi
39. ^ Alonzo Waters, Retired Publisher
40. ^ Manlio Brosio, Ex-Chief of NATO; Mettle Tested in Cyprus Crisis Guest of Groups in U.S.
41. ^ Adm. Robert Lee Dennison Dies; Was Atlantic Fleet's Commander; Naval Aide to Truman
42. ^ Mohammad Hatta
43. ^ EX-REP. LOWENSTEIN KILLED BY A GUNMAN; Antiwar Leader Shot at Law Office
44. ^ Movie crew dies in air crash
45. ^ GLADYS G. STRAUS, 84, A NUTRITION EXPERT; Guggenheim Family Member Was Also Occupied With Medical and Foundation Affairs
46. ^ Wickland
47. ^ Divers Search for More Crash Wreckage
48. ^ Anthropology authority is crash victim
49. ^ Premonition Given Mother
50. ^ OCTAVIO BRANDAO (in Portuguese)
51. ^ Ex-champ dies
52. ^ All-round athlete Goldsworthy dies
53. ^ Prince Boun Oum, 68, First Laotian Premier And Anti-Communist; Driven From Power in 1950
54. ^ Rose A. Conway Dead; Was Truman's Secretary
55. ^ Deaths
56. ^ Rafael Paasio, Served As Finland's Premier And Socialist Leader
57. ^ West Virginia Rep. John Slack, Served in House Since 1959
58. ^ AF Gen. Orval R. Cook, U.S. Deputy in Europe
59. ^ Jessica Dragonette, Singer, Dies; Popular Early-Radio Performer; Began Career on Stage Decorated by Pope Plus XII
60. ^ Psychoanalyst and Philosopher Erich Fromm Dies
61. ^ PACE GREAT DIES
62. ^ Sir Ludwig Guttmann
63. ^ Tamara de Lempicka, Portraitist; Celebrated Self Portrait Her View of Her Work
64. ^ Curtain down for Louise Lovely
65. ^ Millen Brand, Writer and Editor Known for Works on Psychiatry
66. ^ Former justice Floyd Draper dies at home
67. ^ Marcel Boussac, 'King of Cotton' In France for Decades, Dead at 91; Rivals Took Over Markets Debts Grew to $150 Million
68. ^ Atlantic City casino feud killed mob boss Bruno
69. ^ George Fallon, Ex-Congressman
70. ^ Former Mayor Dies After Handgun Attack
71. ^ Herm Schaefer
72. ^ Librarian Ulveling dies
73. ^ Gerald W. Johnson Dies, Former Editorial Writer For Baltimore Newspapers
74. ^ MISS GRACE LUMPKIN
75. ^ Arthur Okun, 51, Dies in Capital; Led Council of Economic Advisers
76. ^ Deaths
77. ^ PIERRE ETCHEBASTER
78. ^ El Salvador Bishop Assassinated While Celebrating Mass
79. ^ M.H. ERICKSON DIES; HYPNOSIS AUTHORITY
80. ^ Erminio Macario
81. ^ Walter Susskind
82. ^ James Wright, Poet, Is Dead at 52; Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in '72
83. ^ ROLAND BARTHES, 64, WRITER AND CRITIC; French Intellectual Was Regarded as Brilliantly Discursive
84. ^ F.J. Ingelfinger, 69, Medical Editor; Progress at the Journal
85. ^ Dick Haymes, 61, Dies; Singer in Big Band Era
86. ^ Cyclist Dies Playing Soccer
87. ^ Funeral Service Slated For History Professor
88. ^ Joe Watt's Father Dies at 69
89. ^ Annunzio Paolo Mantovani Dies; Conductor of Popular Orchestras
90. ^ Actor Dead
91. ^ Ton Duc Thang, Leader In Vietnam Since 1969
92. ^ Jesse Owens Dies of Cancer at 66; Hero of the 1936 Berlin Olympics

External links

• List of March 1980 deaths at IMDb