The following is a list of notable deaths in April 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.

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  1. DESFOSSES, Joseph Romeo
  2. Cricket ace dies
  3. Ex-Justice Stanley Reed, 95, Dead; On Supreme Court From '38 to '57; Rail Seizure and Communists Declined Rights Appointment
  4. LOUIS B. SELTZER, 82 RETIRED EDITOR, DIES; Led Successes at Cleveland Press and Was Called 'Mr. Cleveland' for Promoting Rebuilding
  5. Herbert L. Bowman Dies at 82; Won State Tennis Title 3 Times
  6. EDWARD BULLARD, GEOPHYSICIST, DEAD; Briton Pioneered Theory That the Continents Were Once Joined as Single Supercontinent Theory Widely Accepted Studied at Cambridge
  7. Luella Gear
  8. Character actress Mary McCarty, 56
  9. Trowbridge Dies At 49
  10. Rita Romilly Benson Dead at 79; Actress Taught at Arts Academy
  11. Maurice Gusman, 91, of Miami; Ukraine Emigre Built a Fortune; First Job at $3 a Week
  12. Ray Lawson dies in Miami
  13. "María Teresa Pinto". Artistas Visuales Chilenos (in Spanish). Santiago, Chile: Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts. Retrieved May 5, 2026.
  14. Seuphor, Michel (1959). The Sculpture of this Century: Dictionary of Modern Sculpture. Translated by Chevalier, Haakon. Neuchâtel, Switzerland: Éditions du Griffon. p. 319. Retrieved May 5, 2026.
  15. Alice Orme Smith, 91, A Landscape Architect
  16. Woodrow Wilson (Red) Sovine, Country Singer, Dies After Crash
  17. Bell I. Wiley Dead at 72; A Historian of Civil War
  18. TV Nutritionist Dies
  19. RALPH SILVERSTEIN
  20. Ex-coach, athletic chief Roy Stewart, 70, is dead
  21. JOHN COLLIER DEAD; SHORT STORY WRITER; Author, 78, Also Wrote Films and Novels Collaborated on 'The African Queen' Uncle Was a Writer Source of a Sondheim Musical
  22. MALCOLM BRALY, 50; WRITER ON PRISONS; Spent 20 Years in Institutions Author of 'On the Yard' and San Quentin Memoirs Talents Are Discovered
  23. Jakob Rosenberg, 86, Authority On Works of Rembrandt, Dead; Joined Harvard Faculty Popular Undergraduate Teacher
  24. Michael Gottlieb, 79, a Bridge Star; An Early Culbertson Partner
  25. Services for Nihon held in Nassau
  26. Kathleen Burke dead at 66
  27. Howard Harpster, 72; Football Star in College
  28. KAY MEDFORD, 59, STAGE, FILM COMIC; Best Known for Roles as Mamma in 'Birdie' and 'Funny Girl'
  29. Writer Dies
  30. Sidney Dickinson, 89; A Painter and Teacher
  31. Deaths
  32. Movies' First 'Alice' Dies
  33. Colleagues mourn 'a man of rare wit'
  34. LITIF
  35. BILLIARDS GREAT DIES, 84
  36. Artist Dies
  37. SIDORIK
  38. Liberia's Tolbert reported ousted, slain by sergeant
  39. Frederick D. Alexander, North Carolina Official
  40. EARL BROWN IS DEAD; FORMER COUNCILMAN; Headed City's Human Rights Panel --Harlem Leader Had Been Reporter and Editor, Too A Frequent Maverick Played Semipro Baseball
  41. Frank Crowley
  42. ROSECRANS, HAROLD E., Brig. Gen. USMC Ret.
  43. Murio "Pepino" Toledo (in Spanish)
  44. Death frees Vardy of extradition
  45. Jewish comic dies
  46. Tom Fadden
  47. Ontario Tory R. Myers
  48. Actor Raymond Bailey dies at 75
  49. Jean-Paul Sartre, 74, Dies in Paris
  50. Verne Lewellen Is Dead at 78; Green Bay Player and Executive
  51. Morris Stoloff, Composer Won 3 Academy Awards for Scores
  52. Dead men from crime family, police say
  53. Vice Adm. Leo Thebaud, 90; Led a Cruiser Division
  54. Tony Beckley Dies in L.A.; British Actor
  55. JOSEPH BREUER, 98; RABBI EVADED NAZIS; Spiritual Leader Was a Teacher and Counselor More Than 40 Years in Washington Heights Grandson of Frankfurt Rabbi
  56. Retired Bishop Vander Horst Dies
  57. C. Stanley Blair, 52, Dies
  58. KATHERINE DAVIS, COMPOSER, AT 87, MEMORIAL SERVICE AT WHEATON
  59. Former UK High Commissioner
  60. Exterior (in Portuguese)
  61. Grateful goodbye to a special Church worker
  62. Public servants, but in different ways
  63. Alexander Oparin
  64. Joe Page swaggers on to Yank heaven
  65. French soccer player dies
  66. Singer Jane Froman dies at age 72
  67. Deaths
  68. New regime executes 13 in Liberia
  69. GEORGE J. HECHT, 84, PUBLISHER, IS DEAD; Founder of Parents' Magazine and Children's Digest Was Once Owner of F.A.O. Schwarz Added Toy Store Branches Origin of Parents' Magazine
  70. A lovable man of rare quality
  71. Murio Carpentier (in Spanish)
  72. Murio vieja gloria del boxeo venezolano (in Spanish)
  73. T. K. Finletter Dies
  74. Gunmen kill leader of controversial sect
  75. SERGE SEMENENKO, FINANCIER, IS DEAD; Ex-Bank Executive in Boston and Investment Counselor Was 76 Helped Acquire Film Companies
  76. Arlin Turner, Specialist In Literature of South
  77. Katharina Mann, 97, Widow of Novelist
  78. Cicely Courtneidge
  79. Irene Ward Dies; British Politician
  80. John Culshaw
  81. Former OSU president Strand dies
  82. WOODS, Dr. John Grieve
  83. Tommy Caldwell
  84. Porterfield Dead At 55
  85. Vice Adm. Thomas Settle, Early Balloon Pilot, Dies
  86. 'Last mountain man' dead
  87. Alfred Hitchcock Dies
  88. Louis Kronenberger, 75, Critic, Author and Anthologist, Is Dead; High Comedy and Musicals Intrigue and Grandes Dames Taught at Brandeis
  89. Thomas McMillan
  90. Luis Munoz Marin Is Dead at 82; Began Puerto Rico's Fight on Poverty; Politician and Poet Wrote Freelance Articles Father Was Commissioner Advocate of Independence A Quarrelsome Alliance Commonwealth Proclaimed

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