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Celebrity Deaths 1980-1989

Paying tribute to the stars we've lost from 1980-1989 – in memoriam
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Last updated: November 12, 2021
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Director of Psycho, North by Northwest and Rear Window
1980
Alfred Hitchcock
Actor who played in Dr. Strangelove and Pink Panther
1980
Peter Sellers
Former President of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
1980
Josip Broz Tito
Founder, co-songwriter, co-lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the Beatles
1980
John Lennon
Jamaican singer, considered one of the pioneers of reggae
1981
Bob Marley
Actress who starred in West Side Story
1981
Natalie Wood
Egyptian president who signed the Camp David accords in 1978
1981
Anwar Sadat
American actress who became Princess of Monaco
1982
Grace Kelly
American film and stage actor and the father of Jane and Peter
1982
Henry Fonda
Swedish actress and mother of Isabella Rossellini
1982
Ingrid Bergman
Actor and former Olympic swimmer who played Tarzan
1984
Johnny Weissmuller
Actor who was married to Elizabeth Taylor twice
1984
Richard Burton
American novelist who wrote Breakfast at Tiffany's
1984
Truman Capote
Daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, the 1st Prime minister of India
1984
Indira Gandhi
Actor whose first film was Citizen Kane
1985
Orson Welles
Russian-American actor known for his shaved head
1985
Yul Brynner
Argentine short-story writer who wrote Fictions and The Aleph
1986
Jorge Luis Borges
Mountaineer, one of the first two individuals known to reach Mount Everest
1986
Tenzing Norgay
Actor who starred in The Barkleys of Broadway with Ginger Rogers
1987
Fred Astaire
American artist, a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art
1987
Andy Warhol
Actress known for her performance in the film noir Gilda, opposite Glenn Ford
1987
Rita Hayworth
American professional basketball player known as Pistol Pete
1988
Pete Maravich
Actress who played the youngest child in Poltergeist
1988
Heather O'Rourke
American singer who performed the song 'Oh, Pretty Woman'
1988
Roy Orbison
Spanish surrealist artist renowned for his technical skill
1989
Salvador Dali
Multi-voiced actor who breathed life into characters Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck
1989
Mel Blanc
Actor who won an Oscar for Hamlet and who was married to Vivien Leigh
1989
Laurence Olivier
Irish novelist whose best-known work is his 1953 play Waiting for Godot
1989
Samuel Beckett
Romanian communist politician and dictator
1989
Nicolae Ceausescu
Emperor of Japan during World War II
1989
Hirohito
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