page_title: 1980
section_title: December
hierarchical_section_title: 1980 / Deaths / December
caption_attribution_description: English: John Lennon rehearses Give Peace A Chance by Roy Kerwood.
context_page_description: 1980 is the 81st year of the 20th century and the 1st year of the 1980s.
context_section_description: December 2
  Jean Donovan, American Roman Catholic missionary (b. 1953)
  Murder of the Three American Roman Catholic fellow missionaries by Salvadorian military:
  Maura Clarke (b. 1931)
  Ita Ford (b. 1940)
  Dorothy Kazel (b. 1939)
  Romain Gary, Lithuanian-born writer (b. 1914)
  December 3 – Sir Oswald Mosley, British fascist leader (b. 1896)
  December 4
  Francisco de Sá Carneiro, Portuguese lawyer, 109th Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1934)
  Stanisława Walasiewicz, Polish-born runner (b. 1911)
  December 7 – Darby Crash, American rock songwriter, singer  (b. 1958)
  December 8 – John Lennon, British singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1940)
  December 9 – Patriarch Benedict I of Jerusalem (b. 1892)
  December 11 – Dorothy West, American actress (b. 1891)
  December 12
  Bruno Bartolozzi, Italian composer (b. 1911)
  Erich Jantsch, Austrian astrophysicist (b. 1929)
  Severino Montano, Filipino actor, director and playwright (b. 1915)
  December 14 – Elston Howard, American baseball player (b. 1929)
  December 16
  Colonel Sanders, American fast-food entrepreneur (b. 1890)
  Hellmuth Walter, German engineer and inventor (b. 1900)
  Peter Collinson, British film director (b. 1936)
  December 17 – Chiang Kuei, Chinese novelist (b.  1908)
  December 18
  Frances Fuller, American actress (b. 1907)
  Alexei Kosygin, Soviet politician, Premier of the Soviet Union (b. 1904)
  Sir Albert Margai, 2nd Prime Minister of Sierra Leone (b. 1910)
  December 19 – Héctor José Cámpora, Argentine Peronist politician, 38th President of Argentina (b. 1909)
  December 21 – Marc Connelly, American playwright (b. 1890)
  December 23 – Frank Norman, English novelist, playwright and autobiographer (b. 1930)
  December 24
  Karl Dönitz, German admiral and 4th President of Germany (b. 1891)
  Heikki Liimatainen, Finnish Olympic athlete (b. 1894)
  Siggie Nordstrom, American model, actress, entertainer, socialite and lead singer (b. 1893)
  December 25 – Victoria Drummond, first woman marine engineer in Britain (b. 1894)
  December 28
  Alfredo Barrera Vásquez, Mexican anthropologist (b. 1900)
  Sam Levene, American actor (b. 1905)
  December 29 – Tim Hardin, American musician (b. 1941)
  December 30 – Giuseppe Carraro, Italian Roman Catholic bishop and venerable (b. 1899)
  December 31
  Marshall McLuhan, Canadian author and professor (b. 1911)
  Raoul Walsh, American film director (b. 1887)
caption: John Lennon
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