February1980 Calendar- Feb 1 Gastone Nencini, Italian road cyclist (Giro d'Italia 1957, Tour de France 1960), dies at 49
- Feb 1 Jack Bailey, American actor and TV host (Queen for a Day), dies at 72
- Feb 1 Romolo Valli, Italian actor (Boom, La Viaccia), dies at 54
- Feb 2 William H. Stein, American biochemist (Nobel 1972), dies at 68
- Feb 7 Ernst Kunz, Swiss composer, dies at 88
- Feb 7 Katherine Emery, American actress (Maze, Isle of the Dead), dies at 73
- Feb 7 Secondo Campini, Italian jet engine pioneer, dies at 75
- Feb 8 Nikos Xilouris, Greek folk singer-songwriter, dies of lung and brain cancer at 43
- Feb 9 Antoine Pompe, Belgian architect, dies at 106
- Feb 9 Charlie Fowlkes, American baritone saxophonist (Count Basie Orchestra, 1953-80), dies at 63
- Feb 9 Tom Macdonald, Welsh journalist and writer (The White Lanes of Summer), dies at 79
- Feb 12 Muriel Rukeyser, American poet (The Book of the Dead), dies at 66
- Feb 12 Wally Wales [Floyd Taliaferro Alderson], American actor (Crossing Trails), dies at 84
- Feb 13 David Janssen, American actor (The Fugitive, Harry O), dies at 49
- Feb 13 Marian Rejewski, Polish mathematician and cryptologist (1st to break German Enigma code), dies at 74
- Feb 14 Luitkonwar Rudra Baruah, Assamese composer and actor
- Feb 16 Erich Hückel, German physicist and physical chemist, dies at 83
- Feb 17 Graham Sutherland, English artist (official WWII war artist), dies at 76
- Feb 17 Jerry Fielding, American jazz musician and composer (Lively Ones, Hogan's Heroes), dies at 57
- Feb 18 Gale Robbins [Betty Gale Murphy], American singer and actress (Fuller Brush Girl, Mr Hex), dies of lung cancer at 58
- Feb 19 (Clarence) "Shorty" Cherock, American swing jazz and big band trumpeter (Jimmy Dorsey; Gene Krupa; Nelson Riddle), dies at 64
- Feb 19 (Ronald) "Bon" Scott, Australian rock musician, singer, and lyricist (AC/DC -"It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll)"), dies of acute alcohol poisoning at 33
- Feb 20 Alice Longworth Roosevelt, youngest daughter of Theodore, dies at 96
- Feb 20 Joseph Banks Rhine, American parapsychologist (Extra-Sensory Perception), dies at 84
- Feb 21 Chester Lauck, American actor (Dreaming Out Loud, 2 Weeks to Live), dies at 78
- Feb 21 Janet Vogel, American doo-wop soprano (Skyliners - “Since I Don’t Have You”), takes her own life at 37
- Feb 22 Alfred Andersch, German writer (Red Head), dies at 66
- Feb 22 Dick Kallman, American actor (Born to Be Loved, Verboten!), murdered in his New York apartment at 46
- Feb 22 Oskar Kokoschka, Austria-British painter and graphic artist, dies at 93
- Feb 23 Enrico Celio, Swiss lawyer and President of Switzerland (1943), dies at 90
- Feb 23 Robert Vandekerckhove, Belgian politician, dies at 62
- Feb 27 George Tobias, American actor (Bewitched), dies at 78
- Feb 28 Dinorá de Carvalho, Brazilian pianist, conductor, music educator and composer (Missa Profundis), dies at 75 (or 85, year of birth disputed)
- Feb 28 Ian Alexander Ross Peebles, cricketer (45 wkts for England), dies
- Feb 29 Gil Elvgren, American illustrator and commercial artist (Brown & Bigelow pin-up calendars), dies of cancer at 65
- Feb 29 Yigal Allon (né Peikowitz) Israeli politician (Deputy Prime Minister, 1968-74), dies of heart failure at 61
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