Famous People Who Died in 1980

• Adamson, Joy

  Author of Born Free

• Avery, Tex

  Co-creator of Bugs Bunny

• Cochran, Jacqueline

  The aviator who headed women pilots in World War II

• Day, Dorothy

  Laywoman who co-founded The Catholic Worker

• Durante, Jimmy

  Big-nosed comedian of 20th-century radio and TV

• Evans, Bill

  One of the all-time greats on jazz piano

• Hitchcock, Alfred

  The director of the classic suspense film Psycho

• Joy Division

  Post-punk English band who did "She's Lost Control"

• Kenney, Douglas

  Co-founder of National Lampoon

• Led Zeppelin

  Legendary rock performers of "Stairway to Heaven"

• Lennon, John

  One of the songwriters from The Beatles

• McQueen, Steve

  Supercool star of Bullitt

• Miller, Henry

  Author of Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn

• Owens, Jesse

  The black sprinter who won four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics

• Piaget, Jean

  Swiss psychologist who studied childhood cognition

• Porter, Katherine Anne

  Short story writer and the author of Ship of Fools

• Sanders, Colonel Harland

  Founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken

• Sarte, Jean-Paul

  The existentialist author of Being and Nothingness

• Sellers, Peter

  Inspector Clouseau in the Pink Panther comedies

• Shah of Iran

  The Shah of Iran, 1941-1979

• Stratten, Dorothy

  Playboy model and girlfriend of director Peter Bogdanovich

• Tito, Josip Broz

   The leader of Yugoslavia, 1943-80

• Walsh, Stella

  The female Olympic sprinter who turned out to be a man

• West, Mae

  Early Hollywood sex symbol

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