Approximately 139,154 people died worldwide on December 10, 1980.

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Natural disasters in 1980

  • Grand Island, Nebraska Tornado Outbreak
  • Kalamazoo Tornado of 1980
  • "More Trees Down" Derecho
  • 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens
  • 1980 United States heat wave
  • Western Wisconsin Derecho

People who died on December 10 (various years)

  • 2006 - Augusto Pinochet, military president of Chile
  • 2005 - Richard Pryor, American comedian and actor
  • 2005 - Eugene J. McCarthy, U.S. Senator
  • 2002 - Andres Küng, Swedish-Estonian politician, journalist
  • 2001 - Ashok Kumar, Indian actor
  • 2000 - Marie Windsor, American film actress
  • 1999 - Franjo Tuđman, President of Croatia
  • 1999 - Rick Danko, Canadian bassist and singer (The Band)
  • 1996 - Faron Young, American singer
  • 1994 - Keith Joseph, British politician
  • 1994 - Alexander Wilson, Canadian and Notre Dame athlete
  • 1992 - Dan Maskell, English tennis commentator
  • 1991 - Headman Shabalala, South African singer and member of Ladysmith Black Mambazo
  • 1991 - Greta Kempton, American artist
  • 1990 - Armand Hammer, American industrialist and art collector
  • 1987 - Jascha Heifetz, Russian-born violinist
  • 1986 - Susan Cabot, American actress (murdered)
  • 1982 - Freeman F. Gosden, American actor
  • 1979 - Ann Dvorak, American film actress
  • 1978 - Edward D. Wood, Jr., American filmmaker
  • 1969 - Carlos Marighella, Brazilian politician
  • 1968 - George Forrest, Northern Irish MP
  • 1968 - Karl Barth, Swiss theologian
  • 1968 - Thomas Merton, American monk and author
  • 1967 - Otis Redding, American soul singer
  • 1953 - Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Indian-born scholar and translator
  • 1951 - Algernon Blackwood, British writer
  • 1946 - Damon Runyon, American writer
  • 1946 - Walter Johnson, American baseball player
  • 1945 - Theodor Dannecker, SS officer
  • 1944 - John Henry Cound Brunt, Victoria Cross holder
  • 1941 - Colin Kelly, American pilot
  • 1938 - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk ,the founder of the Republic of Turkey and its first President
  • 1936 - Luigi Pirandello, Italian writer and Nobel Prize laureate
  • 1936 - Bobby Abel, English test cricketer
  • 1928 - Charles Rennie Mackintosh, British architect, designer, and illustrator
  • 1920 - Horace Elgin Dodge, American automobile manufacturing pioneer
  • 1917 - Sir Mackenzie Bowell, fifth Prime Minister of Canada
  • 1911 - Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, British botanist
  • 1896 - Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor and founder of the Nobel Prize
  • 1865 - King Léopold I of Belgium
  • 1850 - François Sulpice Beudant, French mineralogist and geologist
  • 1831 - Thomas Seebeck, Baltic German physicist
  • 1736 - António Manoel de Vilhena, Portuguese ruler of Malta
  • 1665 - Tarquinio Merula, Italian composer
  • 1626 - Edmund Gunter, English mathematician
  • 1618 - Giulio Caccini, Italian composer
  • 1603 - William Gilbert, English scientist (plague)
  • 1508 - René II, Duke of Lorraine
  • 1198 - Averroes, Arab physician and philosopher
  • 1041 - Michael IV, Byzantine Emperor
  • 949 - Herman I, Duke of Swabia

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