Famous People Who Died at Age 80

From the Who2 database of 4,809 musicians, actors, historical figures, and other celebrities:

• Dewey, Melvil (died of a stroke at 80 years 16 days on December 26, 1931)

• Moore, Mary Tyler (at 80 years 27 days on January 25, 2017)

• Chisholm, Shirley (at 80 years 32 days on January 1, 2005)

• Adams, Henry (at 80 years 39 days on March 27, 1918)

• Blackstone, Harry Sr. (at 80 years 40 days on November 6, 1965)

• Munch, Edvard (at 80 years 42 days on January 23, 1944)

• Comfort, Alex (at 80 years 45 days on March 26, 2000)

• Ellison, Ralph (died of pancreatic cancer at 80 years 46 days on April 16, 1994)

• Shavitz, Burt (at 80 years 51 days on July 5, 2015)

• Brennan, Walter (died of emphysema at 80 years 59 days on September 21, 1974)

• Rice, Anne (died of complications from stroke at 80 years 68 days on December 11, 2021)

• DeLorean, John (died of a stroke at 80 years 72 days on March 19, 2005)

• L'Amour, Louis (died of cancer at 80 years 80 days on June 10, 1988)

• Messerschmitt, Willy (at 80 years 81 days on September 15, 1978)

• Watts, Charlie (at 80 years 83 days on August 24, 2021)

• Brando, Marlon (died of lung failure at 80 years 89 days on July 1, 2004)

• Trebek, Alex (died of pancreatic cancer at 80 years 109 days on November 8, 2020)

• Annan, Kofi (at 80 years 132 days on August 18, 2018)

• Lewis, John (died of pancreatic cancer at 80 years 147 days on July 17, 2020)

• Fonda, Peter (died of lung cancer at 80 years 174 days on August 16, 2019)

• Colson, Charles "Chuck" (died of complications from brain surgery at 80 years 188 days on April 21, 2012)

• Meir, Golda (died of cancer at 80 years 219 days on December 8, 1978)

• Burr, Aaron (at 80 years 221 days on September 14, 1836)

• Adams, John Quincy (at 80 years 227 days on February 23, 1848)

• Salk, Jonas (at 80 years 238 days on June 23, 1995)

• Fontana, D.C. (at 80 years 252 days on December 2, 2019)

• Buck, Pearl S. (died of cancer at 80 years 253 days on March 6, 1973)

• Hitchcock, Alfred (natural causes at 80 years 259 days on April 28, 1980)

• Barnum, P. T. (at 80 years 276 days on April 7, 1891)

• Sarnoff, David (at 80 years 288 days on December 12, 1971)

• Mesmer, Franz Anton (at 80 years 296 days on March 15, 1815)

• Schumacher, Joel (died of cancer at 80 years 298 days on June 22, 2020)

• Earp, Wyatt (at 80 years 300 days on January 13, 1929)

• Heinlein, Robert A. (at 80 years 306 days on May 8, 1988)

• Darrow, Clarence (at 80 years 329 days on March 13, 1938)

• Rehnquist, William (died of thyroid cancer at 80 years 337 days on September 3, 2005)

• Morse, Samuel F. B. (at 80 years 341 days on April 2, 1872)

• Trudeau, Pierre (prostate cancer / Parkinson's disease at 80 years 346 days on September 28, 2000)

• Lancaster, Burt (at 80 years 352 days on October 20, 1994)

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