People who died in the 1980s

882 notable people documented at Resting Places cemeteries died in the 1980s, according to Wikidata's death-date records. Listed by death year.

• Ahmet Berman (1931–1980), association football player · buried at Feriköy Cemetery
• Aleksander Jabłoński (1898–1980), physicist · buried at Powązki Cemetery
• Alexander Nesmeyanov (1899–1980), chemist · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Alexander Oparin (1894–1980), biochemist, chemist · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery (Saint Petersburg)
• Alexei Kosygin (1904–1980), politician, engineer · buried at Kremlin Wall Necropolis
• Alice Lee Roosevelt (1884–1980), autobiographer, socialite, writer · buried at Rock Creek Cemetery
• Allen Hoskins (1920–1980), film actor, actor · buried at Evergreen Cemetery (Oakland, California)
• Anastasio Somoza Debayle (1925–1980), politician · buried at Caballero Rivero Woodlawn Park North Cemetery and Mausoleum
• André Leducq (1904–1980), sport cyclist, journalist · buried at Cimetière parisien de Bagneux
• Andrei Amalrik (1938–1980), opinion journalist, human rights defender, journalist · buried at Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery
• Ary Abramovich Sternfeld (1905–1980), military flight engineer, mechanical engineer, astronomer · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Barbara Britton (1919–1980), film actor, television actor, actor · buried at Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York)
• Bon Scott (1946–1980), singer, composer · buried at Fremantle Cemetery
• Boris Delaunay (1890–1980), mountaineer, university teacher, mathematician · buried at Khovanskoye Cemetery
• Carmel Myers (1899–1980), film actor, actor · buried at Home of Peace Cemetery (Los Angeles)
• Colonel Sanders (1890–1980), brand ambassador, restaurateur, cook · buried at Cave Hill Cemetery
• David Janssen (1931–1980), film actor, television actor, dramaturge · buried at Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery
• David Marr (1945–1980), artificial intelligence researcher, neuroscientist, psychologist · buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery
• Dobriša Cesarić (1902–1980), linguist, translator, poet · buried at Mirogoj Cemetery
• Don "Red" Barry (1912–1980), film actor, television actor, film director · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)
• Dorothy Day (1897–1980), feminist, suffragist, autobiographer · buried at Cemetery of the Resurrection
• Dorothy Phillips (1889–1980), film actor, actor · buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
• Dorothy Stratten (1960–1980), model, Playboy Playmate, actor · buried at Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary
• Duke Pearson (1932–1980), jazz musician, recording artist, musician · buried at South-View Cemetery
• Edelmiro Julián Farrell (1887–1980), politician, military personnel · buried at La Chacarita Cemetery
• Elizebeth Smith Friedman (1892–1980), cryptographer, cryptanalyst, mathematician · buried at Arlington National Cemetery
• Elliott Nugent (1896–1980), film actor, television actor, director · buried at Gate of Heaven Cemetery (Hawthorne, New York)
• Erast Garin (1902–1980), film actor, director, theatre director · buried at Vagankovo Cemetery
• Erle C. Kenton (1896–1980), film actor, director, film director · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Ernő Gerő (1898–1980), spy, civil servant, economist · buried at Farkasréti Cemetery
• Ernst Ocwirk (1926–1980), association football player, association football coach · buried at Vienna Central Cemetery
• Euphemia Haynes (1890–1980), educator, mathematician · buried at Gate of Heaven Cemetery (Silver Spring, Maryland)
• Farrokhroo Parsa (1922–1980), feminist, politician, physician · buried at Behesht-e Zahra
• Filipp Golikov (1900–1980), military officer, politician · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Finn Ronne (1899–1980), explorer, military officer · buried at Arlington National Cemetery
• Franco Basaglia (1924–1980), existential therapist, anthropologist, neurologist · buried at San Michele Cemetery, Venice
• Gale Robbins (1921–1980), film actor, model, singer · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)
• George Pal (1908–1980), producer, manufacturer, director · buried at Holy Cross Cemetery (Culver City, California)
• George Raft (1901–1980), film actor, dancer, television actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)
• George Tobias (1901–1980), film actor, television actor, stage actor · buried at Mount Carmel Cemetery (Queens)
• Gianni Rodari (1920–1980), children's writer, journalist, pedagogue · buried at Campo Verano
• Giorgio Amendola (1907–1980), partisan, politician, writer · buried at Campo Verano
• Hanna Rovina (1888–1980), stage actor, actor · buried at Kiryat Shaul Cemetery
• Hattie Jacques (1922–1980), film actor, television actor, film producer · buried at Putney Vale Cemetery
• Hellmuth Walter (1900–1980), military flight engineer · buried at Mount Hebron Cemetery (Montclair, New Jersey)
• Helmut Käutner (1908–1980), film actor, director, film director · buried at Waldfriedhof Zehlendorf
• Hiroshi Inagaki (1905–1980), film producer, director, film director · buried at Yanaka Cemetery
• Hryhir Tiutiunnyk (1931–1980), journalist, writer, screenwriter · buried at Baikove Cemetery
• Ian Curtis (1956–1980), lyricist, guitarist, songwriter · buried at Macclesfield Cemetery
• Ida Kamińska (1899–1980), film actor, theatre director, stage actor · buried at Mount Hebron Cemetery (New York City)
• Jacob Talmon (1916–1980), historian of Modern Age, university teacher, pedagogue · buried at Har HaMenuchot
• Jacqueline Cochran (1906–1980), aircraft pilot, politician · buried at Coachella Valley Public Cemetery
• Jadwiga Jędrzejowska (1912–1980), tennis player · buried at Rakowicki Cemetery
• James McDonnell (1899–1980), military flight engineer, entrepreneur, engineer · buried at Bellefontaine Cemetery
• Jane Froman (1907–1980), film actor, television actor, musician · buried at Columbia Cemetery (Columbia, Missouri)
• Jean Lesage (1912–1980), Crown attorney, politician, lawyer · buried at Cimetière Notre-Dame-de-Belmont
• Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–1980), epistemologist, political writer, peace activist · buried at Montparnasse Cemetery
• Jesse Owens (1913–1980), long jumper, athletics competitor, sprinter · buried at Oak Woods Cemetery
• Jimmy Durante (1893–1980), jazz musician, film actor, television actor · buried at Holy Cross Cemetery (Culver City, California)
• Joe Dassin (1938–1980), musician, guitarist, singer-songwriter · buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
• John Hasbrouck Van Vleck (1899–1980), nuclear physicist, university teacher, physicist · buried at Forest Hill Cemetery (Madison, Wisconsin)
• John McEwen (1900–1980), head of government, diplomat, politician · buried at Springvale Botanical Cemetery
• John William McCormack (1891–1980), politician, lawyer · buried at St. Joseph Cemetery (West Roxbury, Massachusetts)
• Josep Iturbi Bàguena (1895–1980), musician, pianist, conductor · buried at Holy Cross Cemetery (Culver City, California)
• Justas Paleckis (1899–1980), journalist, translator, politician · buried at Antakalnis Cemetery
• Kazimierz Kuratowski (1896–1980), topologist, philosopher, university teacher · buried at Powązki Military Cemetery
• Kenneth Tynan (1927–1980), diarist, theatre critic, critic · buried at Holywell Cemetery
• Lado Gudiashvili (1896–1980), draftsperson, visual artist, painter · buried at Mtatsminda Pantheon
• Larry Williams (1935–1980), musician, singer-songwriter, pianist · buried at Inglewood Park Cemetery
• László Szollás (1907–1980), figure skating judge, figure skater · buried at Farkasréti Cemetery
• Lewis Milestone (1895–1980), director, film producer, film director · buried at Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary
• Lillian Randolph (1898–1980), film actor, television actor, voice actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)
• Luigi Longo (1900–1980), politician · buried at Campo Verano
• Mae West (1893–1980), film screenwriter, autobiographer, television actor · buried at Cypress Hills Cemetery
• Mantovani (1905–1980), conductor, composer · buried at Bournemouth North Cemetery and Bournemouth Crematorium
• Marcelo Caetano (1906–1980), university teacher, political scientist, head of government · buried at Cemitério de São João Batista
• María Luisa Bombal (1909–1980), short story writer, novelist, chronicler · buried at Santiago General Cemetery
• Marian Rejewski (1905–1980), cryptologist, inventor, mathematician · buried at Powązki Cemetery
• Marian Spychalski (1906–1980), architect, military officer, politician · buried at Powązki Military Cemetery
• Marie Under (1883–1980), journalist, archivist, translator · buried at Rahumäe Cemetery
• Mario Bava (1914–1980), special effects artist, producer, film screenwriter · buried at Campo Verano
• Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980), literary scholar, media scholar, opinion journalist · buried at Holy Cross Cemetery, Thornhill
• Maurice Genevoix (1890–1980), prose writer, essayist, Oberleutnant · buried at Passy Cemetery
• Max Alpert (1899–1980), photographer · buried at Rogozhskoye Cemetery
• Mia May (1884–1980), film actor, screenwriter · buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
• Mikhail Lavrentyev (1900–1980), university teacher, mathematician, physicist · buried at Yuzhnoye Cemetery (Novosibirsk)
• Milburn Stone (1904–1980), film actor, television actor, actor · buried at El Camino Memorial Park
• Miliza Korjus (1909–1980), film actor, opera singer, stage actor · buried at Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary
• Nadezhda Mandelstam (1899–1980), memoirist, linguist, lecturer · buried at Kuntsevo Cemetery
• Nasrollah Entezam (1900–1980), diplomat, politician · buried at Behesht-e Zahra
• Nihat Erim (1912–1980), journalist, university teacher, diplomat · buried at Zincirlikuyu Cemetery
• Nikolay Bogolyubov (1899–1980), film actor, actor · buried at Kuntsevo Cemetery
• Nikos Xilouris (1936–1980), songwriter, musician, singer · buried at First Cemetery of Athens
• Pascual Jordan (1902–1980), non-fiction writer, university teacher, mathematician · buried at Ohlsdorf Cemetery
• Pavel Kutakhov (1914–1980), aircraft pilot, military officer · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Peggy Knudsen (1923–1980), film actor, television actor, actor · buried at San Fernando Mission Cemetery
• Peppino De Filippo (1903–1980), writer, actor, screenwriter · buried at Campo Verano
• Pietro Nenni (1891–1980), head of government, journalist, resistance fighter · buried at Campo Verano
• Prince Dmitri Alexandrovich of Russia (1901–1980), aristocrat · buried at Gunnersbury Cemetery
• Rachel Roberts (1927–1980), film actor, stage actor · buried at Chapel of the Pines Crematory
• Rolf Nevanlinna (1895–1980), university teacher, mathematician · buried at Hietaniemi Cemetery
• Rosa Albach-Retty (1874–1980), film actor, stage actor, actor · buried at Vienna Central Cemetery
• Sam Levene (1905–1980), film actor, stage actor, singer · buried at Mount Carmel Cemetery (Queens)
• Sherm Clark (1899–1980), coxswain · buried at United States Naval Academy Cemetery
• Sol Lesser (1890–1980), producer, film producer, film director · buried at Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery
• Stanisława Walasiewicz (1911–1980), athletics competitor, sprinter · buried at Calvary Cemetery (Cleveland)
• Strother Martin (1919–1980), film actor, television actor, character actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)
• Tex Avery (1908–1980), storyboard artist, director, visual artist · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)
• Toyen (1902–1980), manufacturer, graphic artist, painter · buried at Batignolles Cemetery
• Vasiliy Grabin (1900–1980), politician, engineer, military personnel · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Victor Sen Yung (1915–1980), television actor, film actor, actor · buried at Greenlawn Memorial Park (Colma, California)
• Vladimir Vysotsky (1938–1980), prose writer, film actor, stage actor · buried at Vagankovo Cemetery
• William H. Simpson (1888–1980), military officer · buried at Arlington National Cemetery
• William O. Douglas (1898–1980), trade unionist, travel writer, university teacher · buried at Arlington National Cemetery
• William Richard Tolbert (1913–1980), politician · buried at Palm Grove Cemetery
• Władysław Tatarkiewicz (1886–1980), philosopher, art historian · buried at Powązki Cemetery
• Yakov Malik (1906–1980), diplomat · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Zygmunt Berling (1896–1980), military officer · buried at Powązki Military Cemetery
• Adele Astaire (1896–1981), dancer, stage actor, singer · buried at Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery
• Agniya Barto (1901–1981), children's writer, radio personality, wood turner · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Aleksandra Beļcova (1892–1981), graphic artist, painter · buried at Forest Cemetery, Riga
• Alexander Kotov (1913–1981), non-fiction writer, chess player · buried at Kuntsevo Cemetery
• Alexander Radó (1899–1981), spy, cartographer, resistance fighter · buried at Farkasréti Cemetery
• Alexey Okladnikov (1908–1981), prehistorian, archaeologist, anthropologist · buried at Yuzhnoye Cemetery (Novosibirsk)
• Allan Dwan (1885–1981), director, film producer, film director · buried at San Fernando Mission Cemetery
• Allyn Joslyn (1901–1981), film actor, television actor, stage actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)
• Ann Harding (1902–1981), film actor, television actor, stage actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)
• Antonio Berni (1905–1981), muralist, printmaker, sculptor · buried at La Chacarita Cemetery
• Ariel Durant (1898–1981), historian, writer · buried at Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary
• Arthur O'Connell (1908–1981), film actor, television actor, stage actor · buried at Calvary Cemetery (Queens)
• Benjamin Sheares (1907–1981), gynecologist, politician, physician · buried at Kranji State Cemetery
• Big Walter Horton (1921–1981), musician · buried at Restvale Cemetery
• Bobby Sands (1954–1981), activist, Karosseriebauer, animator · buried at Milltown Cemetery
• Boris Polevoy (1908–1981), journalist, writer · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Boris Sagal (1923–1981), director, film director, television director · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)
• Bruce Fraser, 1st Baron Fraser of North Cape (1888–1981), politician, military personnel · buried at Highgate Cemetery
• Cahide Sonku (1919–1981), film director, film producer, actor · buried at Zincirlikuyu Cemetery
• Carl Vinson (1883–1981), jurist, politician, lawyer · buried at Memory Hill Cemetery
• Christy Brown (1932–1981), autobiographer, painter, poet · buried at Glasnevin Cemetery
• Curtis Bernhardt (1899–1981), director, film producer, film director · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Edith Head (1897–1981), fashion designer, costume designer, art director · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Edvard Kocbek (1904–1981), essayist, linguist, opinion journalist · buried at Žale
• Efim Dzigan (1898–1981), theatre director, film director, actor · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Ella Hall (1897–1981), film actor, stage actor, actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Ferruccio Parri (1890–1981), journalist, partisan, politician · buried at Monumental Cemetery of Staglieno
• George Jessel (1898–1981), television writer, film screenwriter, film actor · buried at Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery
• Glauber Rocha (1938–1981), film critic, director, film producer · buried at Cemitério de São João Batista
• Gloria Grahame (1923–1981), film actor, television actor, stage actor · buried at Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery
• Harry Harlow (1905–1981), ethologist, university teacher, psychologist · buried at Forest Hill Cemetery (Madison, Wisconsin)
• Harry Warren (1893–1981), film score composer, lyricist, songwriter · buried at Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary
• Hazel Scott (1920–1981), jazz musician, television presenter, pianist · buried at Flushing Cemetery
• Heinz Kohut (1913–1981), psychoanalyst, academic, psychiatrist · buried at Forest Home Cemetery
• Hilda Dresen (1896–1981), radio operator, Esperantist, translator · buried at Pärnamäe Cemetery
• Ivan Udodov (1924–1981), weightlifter · buried at Northern Cemetery, Rostov-on-Don
• János Pilinszky (1921–1981), literary translator, librettist, playwright · buried at Farkasréti Cemetery
• Jean Eustache (1938–1981), film editor, film actor, director · buried at Cimetière parisien de Bagneux
• Jim Davis (1909–1981), film actor, television actor, actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Joe Louis (1914–1981), professional wrestler, boxer, athlete · buried at Arlington National Cemetery
• John S. McCain, Jr. (1911–1981), submariner, military officer · buried at Arlington National Cemetery
• Juan Trippe (1899–1981), entrepreneur · buried at Green-Wood Cemetery
• Karl Struss (1886–1981), camera operator, cinematographer, photographer · buried at Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York)
• Kazimierz Kordylewski (1903–1981), university teacher, astronomer · buried at Rakowicki Cemetery
• Lazar Lyusternik (1899–1981), topologist, university teacher, mathematician · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Lev Atamanov (1905–1981), film director, director, animator · buried at Moscow Armenian Cemetery
• Louise Lorraine (1901–1981), film actor, actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)
• Margaret Lindsay (1910–1981), film actor, actor · buried at Holy Cross Cemetery (Culver City, California)
• Mark Donskoy (1901–1981), director, film director, actor · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Mary Lou Williams (1910–1981), jazz pianist, recording artist, music arranger · buried at Calvary Catholic Cemetery (Pittsburgh)
• Mauri Rose (1906–1981), Formula One driver, racing automobile driver · buried at White Chapel Memorial Cemetery
• Mike Bloomfield (1943–1981), blues musician, guitarist, pianist · buried at Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery
• Mikhail Zharov (1899–1981), film actor, director, theatre director · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Miroslav Krleža (1893–1981), prose writer, essayist, journalist · buried at Mirogoj Cemetery
• Mohammad Beheshti (1928–1981), akhoond, theologian, ayatollah · buried at Behesht-e Zahra
• Mohammad Javad Bahonar (1933–1981), Islamic theologian, politician, teacher · buried at Behesht-e Zahra
• Mostafa Chamran (1932–1981), military officer, physicist, politician · buried at Behesht-e Zahra
• Nahum Eitingon (1899–1981), spy, military personnel · buried at Donskoye Cemetery
• Natalie Wood (1938–1981), film actor, television actor, child actor · buried at Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary
• Nelson Algren (1909–1981), novelist, writer · buried at Oakland Cemetery (Sag Harbor, New York)
• Nikolai Morozov (1916–1981), association football player, association football coach · buried at Kuntsevo Cemetery
• Oleg Dahl (1941–1981), presenter, television presenter, playwright · buried at Vagankovo Cemetery
• Omar Bradley (1893–1981), official, military officer · buried at Arlington National Cemetery
• Özdemir Asaf (1923–1981), poet · buried at Aşiyan Asri Cemetery
• Paddy Chayefsky (1923–1981), science fiction writer, novelist, film producer · buried at Kensico Cemetery
• Patsy Kelly (1910–1981), film actor, television actor, dancer · buried at Calvary Cemetery (Queens)
• Paul Green (1894–1981), librettist, playwright, writer · buried at Old Chapel Hill Cemetery
• Paul Hörbiger (1894–1981), film actor, musician, actor · buried at Vienna Central Cemetery
• Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone (1883–1981), art collector, aristocrat, politician · buried at Royal Burial Ground, Frogmore
• Princess Marina Petrovna of Russia (1892–1981), aristocrat, nurse · buried at Russian Orthodox Cemetery, Nice
• Raimundo Rolón (1903–1981), politician · buried at Recoleta Cemetery, Asuncion
• Rasul Rza (1910–1981), linguist, prose writer, editor-in-chief · buried at Alley of Honor
• René Clair (1898–1981), film actor, film editor, director · buried at Neuilly-sur-Seine Old Communal Cemetery
• Rensis Likert (1903–1981), statistician, sociologist, psychologist · buried at Forest Hill Cemetery (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
• Rino Gaetano (1950–1981), recording artist, musician, singer-songwriter · buried at Campo Verano
• Robert Moses (1888–1981), independent politician, urban planner, engineer · buried at Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York)
• Robert Russell Bennett (1894–1981), music arranger, musician, pianist · buried at Green-Wood Cemetery
• Roman Rudenko (1907–1981), public prosecutor general, jurist, politician · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Rosa Ponselle (1897–1981), opera singer, musician, singer · buried at Druid Ridge Cemetery
• Ross Martin (1920–1981), film actor, television actor, stage actor · buried at Mount Sinai Memorial Park
• Samuel Barber (1910–1981), musicologist, musician, pianist · buried at Oaklands Cemetery
• Sergio Amidei (1904–1981), film producer, screenwriter · buried at Campo Verano
• Shovkat Mammadova (1897–1981), music educator, opera singer, singer · buried at Alley of Honor
• Stanisław Mazur (1905–1981), mathematician · buried at Powązki Military Cemetery
• Stymie Beard (1925–1981), film actor, television actor, actor · buried at Evergreen Cemetery (Los Angeles)
• Suat Hayri Ürgüplü (1903–1981), diplomat, jurist, politician · buried at Edirnekapı Martyr's Cemetery
• Tadeusz Baird (1928–1981), music educator, musicologist, university teacher · buried at Powązki Cemetery
• Tadeusz Kotarbiński (1886–1981), philosopher, university teacher · buried at Powązki Military Cemetery
• Tiny Thompson (1903–1981), ice hockey player, ice hockey coach · buried at Burnsland Cemetery
• Uri Zvi Grinberg (1896–1981), opinion journalist, journalist, politician · buried at Mount of Olives Jewish Cemetery
• Valeri Kharlamov (1948–1981), ice hockey player · buried at Kuntsevo Cemetery
• Wanda Hendrix (1928–1981), film actor, television actor, actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)
• Will Durant (1885–1981), philosopher, historian, writer · buried at Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary
• William Saroyan (1908–1981), novelist, songwriter, playwright · buried at Ararat Cemetery
• William Wyler (1902–1981), film actor, director, film producer · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Yury Trifonov (1925–1981), prose writer, editing staff, poet · buried at Kuntsevo Cemetery
• Zoya Fyodorova (1909–1981), actor · buried at Vagankovo Cemetery
• Adam Ważyk (1905–1982), librettist, essayist, narrator · buried at Powązki Military Cemetery
• Albert Soboul (1914–1982), French resistance fighter, historian · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Alexander Vasilyevich Belyakov (1897–1982), aircraft pilot, politician · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Anatoly Solonitsyn (1934–1982), actor · buried at Vagankovo Cemetery
• Anna German (1936–1982), singer-songwriter, singer, composer · buried at Evangelical Reformed Cemetery, Warsaw
• Art Pepper (1925–1982), jazz musician, saxophonist, clarinetist · buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
• Ayn Rand (1905–1982), science fiction writer, essayist, novelist · buried at Kensico Cemetery
• Boris Andreyev (1915–1982), film actor, actor · buried at Vagankovo Cemetery
• Boris Bazhanov (1900–1982), personal assistant, politician, secretary · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Boris Chirkov (1901–1982), pedagogue, politician, actor · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Cal Tjader (1925–1982), recording artist, vibraphonist, jazz musician · buried at The Italian Cemetery (Colma, California)
• Cevdet Sunay (1899–1982), politician, military personnel · buried at Turkish State Cemetery
• Clyde King (1898–1982), rower, military officer · buried at Golden Gate National Cemetery
• Curd Jürgens (1915–1982), bass singer, film actor, television actor · buried at Vienna Central Cemetery
• Dick Lane (1899–1982), film actor, television actor, announcer · buried at Pacific View Memorial Park
• Dominique Dunne (1959–1982), actor · buried at Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary
• Eduard Tubin (1905–1982), conductor, composer · buried at Metsakalmistu
• Eduardo Frei Montalva (1911–1982), jurist, politician, lawyer · buried at Santiago General Cemetery
• Edvard Westerlund (1901–1982), amateur wrestler · buried at Hietaniemi Cemetery
• Eleanor Powell (1912–1982), film actor, television actor, dancer · buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
• Elio Petri (1929–1982), film screenwriter, film critic, film director · buried at Campo Verano
• Fazlur Khan (1929–1982), civil engineer, structural engineer, engineer · buried at Graceland Cemetery
• Fernando Lamas (1915–1982), film actor, television actor, director · buried at Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery
• Gábor Szabó (1936–1982), recording artist, jazz musician, jazz guitarist · buried at Farkasréti Cemetery
• Gara Garayev (1918–1982), music educator, university teacher, film score composer · buried at Alley of Honor
• Gershom Scholem (1897–1982), bibliophile, bibliographer, philosopher · buried at Sanhedria Cemetery
• Glenn Gould (1932–1982), music publicist, harpsichordist, opinion journalist · buried at Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto
• Harold Sakata (1920–1982), professional wrestler, weightlifter, television actor · buried at National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific
• Harry Jerome (1940–1982), athletics competitor · buried at Mountain View Cemetery (Vancouver)
• Helena Syrkus (1900–1982), university teacher, urban planner, architect · buried at Powązki Military Cemetery
• Hugh Marlowe (1911–1982), film actor, television actor, stage actor · buried at Ferncliff Cemetery
• Ida Barney (1886–1982), university teacher, mathematician, astronomer · buried at Grove Street Cemetery
• Isa Miranda (1905–1982), film actor, stage actor, poet · buried at Campo Verano
• Ivan Bagramyan (1897–1982), military officer · buried at Kremlin Wall Necropolis
• Jack Swigert (1931–1982), military flight engineer, aircraft pilot, military officer · buried at Mount Olivet Cemetery (Wheat Ridge, Colorado)
• Jack Webb (1920–1982), film actor, television actor, film producer · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)
• Jakov Gotovac (1895–1982), musician, conductor, composer · buried at Mirogoj Cemetery
• Jean Girault (1924–1982), director, film director, screenwriter · buried at Cimetière parisien de Bagneux
• John Alexander (1897–1982), television actor, film actor, stage actor · buried at Kensico Cemetery
• John Cody (1907–1982), Catholic bishop, Catholic priest · buried at Mount Carmel Cemetery (Hillside, Illinois)
• Karl Bruckner (1906–1982), science fiction writer, children's writer, writer · buried at Vienna Central Cemetery
• Karl Hein (1908–1982), hammer thrower, athletics competitor, athlete · buried at Ohlsdorf Cemetery
• Karol Borsuk (1905–1982), topologist, philosopher, university teacher · buried at Powązki Cemetery
• Kenneth More (1914–1982), television actor, film actor, stage actor · buried at Putney Vale Cemetery
• Lee Patrick (1901–1982), film actor, television actor, stage actor · buried at Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary
• Lee Strasberg (1901–1982), film actor, theatre director, director · buried at Westchester Hills Cemetery
• Leonid Brezhnev (1906–1982), film actor, surveyor, politician · buried at Kremlin Wall Necropolis
• Leonid Kogan (1924–1982), violinist · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Leonid Utyosov (1895–1982), jazz musician, singer, conductor · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Leopold Trepper (1904–1982), communist, opinion journalist, spy · buried at Har HaMenuchot
• Leroy Grumman (1895–1982), military flight engineer, aircraft pilot, inventor · buried at Locust Valley Cemetery
• Maria Jeritza (1887–1982), film actor, opera singer, concert singer · buried at Holy Cross Cemetery (North Arlington, New Jersey)
• Marietta Shaginyan (1888–1982), philologist, science fiction writer, musicologist · buried at Moscow Armenian Cemetery
• Marty Feldman (1934–1982), film actor, television actor, director · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)
• Mikhail Suslov (1902–1982), university teacher, economist, politician · buried at Kremlin Wall Necropolis
• Mohammed Helmy (1901–1982), physician · buried at Friedhof Heerstraße
• Nahum Goldmann (1894–1982), editor, poet lawyer, politician · buried at Mount Herzl
• Nathan Farragut Twining (1897–1982), aircraft pilot, military officer · buried at Arlington National Cemetery
• Nikolai Kamanin (1908–1982), aircraft pilot, politician, military personnel · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Nikolay Pilyugin (1908–1982), military flight engineer, politician, scientist · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Pavel Rotmistrov (1901–1982), military officer · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Raisa Aronova (1920–1982), soldier, aircraft pilot, air force · buried at Kuntsevo Cemetery
• Reta Shaw (1912–1982), film actor, television actor, stage actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)
• Ricardo Pérez Godoy (1905–1982), military officer, politician · buried at Cementerio Presbítero Matías Maestro
• Roman Jakobson (1896–1982), literary scholar, slavist, philologist · buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery
• Satchel Paige (1906–1982), professional baseball player, athlete · buried at Forest Hill Calvary Cemetery
• Sue Carol (1906–1982), film actor, talent agent, actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Thelonious Monk (1917–1982), jazz musician, recording artist, musician · buried at Ferncliff Cemetery
• Tom Drake (1918–1982), film actor, television actor, musician · buried at Holy Cross Cemetery (Culver City, California)
• Ulla Jacobsson (1929–1982), film actor, actor · buried at Vienna Central Cemetery
• Valerio Zurlini (1926–1982), film editor, director, film director · buried at Campo Verano
• Varlam Shalamov (1907–1982), prose writer, journalist, poet · buried at Kuntsevo Cemetery
• Victor Buono (1938–1982), film actor, television actor, stage actor · buried at Greenwood Memorial Park (San Diego)
• Viktor Glushkov (1923–1982), university teacher, mathematician, engineer · buried at Baikove Cemetery
• Virginia Fox (1902–1982), film actor, actor · buried at Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary
• Virginia Hall (1906–1982), spy, SOE agent, intelligence analyst · buried at Druid Ridge Cemetery
• Vladimir K. Zworykin (1888–1982), electrical engineer, inventor, physicist · buried at Princeton Cemetery
• W. R. Burnett (1899–1982), novelist, writer, screenwriter · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• William Bernbach (1911–1982), art director, economist, entrepreneur · buried at Green-Wood Cemetery
• Władysław Gomułka (1905–1982), trade unionist, politician · buried at Powązki Military Cemetery
• Yevdokiya Bershanskaya (1913–1982), military personnel · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Yury Kazakov (1927–1982), short story writer, prose writer, writer · buried at Vagankovo Cemetery
• Alan Moorehead (1910–1983), journalist, war correspondent, writer · buried at Hampstead Cemetery
• Aleksandr Alov (1923–1983), director, film director, lecturer · buried at Vagankovo Cemetery
• Alice White (1904–1983), film actor, actor · buried at Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery
• Ángel Amadeo labruna (1918–1983), association football player, association football coach · buried at La Chacarita Cemetery
• Anna Seghers (1900–1983), novelist, resistance fighter, writer · buried at Dorotheenstadt Cemetery
• Anthony Blunt (1907–1983), spy, art historian, university teacher · buried at Putney Vale Cemetery
• Arvīds Pelše (1899–1983), revolutionary, historian, politician · buried at Kremlin Wall Necropolis
• Bear Bryant (1913–1983), American football coach, American football player, military officer · buried at Elmwood Cemetery (Birmingham, Alabama)
• Bernard Vukas (1927–1983), association football player · buried at Mirogoj Cemetery
• Billy Fury (1940–1983), rock singer, musician, singer-songwriter · buried at Mill Hill Cemetery
• Bronisław Kaper (1902–1983), film score composer, lyricist, musician · buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
• Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983), diarist, designer, philosopher · buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery
• Christopher George (1931–1983), film actor, television actor, model · buried at Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary
• Earl Hines (1903–1983), jazz musician, bandleader, musician · buried at Evergreen Cemetery (Oakland, California)
• Eric Hoffer (1902–1983), philosopher, sociologist, psychologist · buried at Holy Cross Cemetery (Colma, California)
• Eubie Blake (1887–1983), bandleader, pianist, musician · buried at Cypress Hills Cemetery
• Felix Pappalardi (1939–1983), guitarist, songwriter, musician · buried at Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York)
• Frank Forde (1890–1983), head of government, diplomat, politician · buried at Toowong Cemetery
• George Balanchine (1904–1983), dancer, scenographer, choreographer · buried at Oakland Cemetery (Sag Harbor, New York)
• George Cukor (1899–1983), producer, director, theatre director · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• George Halas (1895–1983), American football player, American football coach, baseball player · buried at St. Adalbert Cemetery
• George Hodgson (1893–1983), swimmer · buried at Mount Royal Cemetery
• Georges Auric (1899–1983), choreographer, film score composer, composer · buried at Montparnasse Cemetery
• Grigori Aleksandrov (1903–1983), film director, university teacher, pedagogue · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Grigori Roshal (1899–1983), theatre director, film director, screenwriter · buried at Kuntsevo Cemetery
• Gyula Illyés (1902–1983), literary translator, editing staff, translator · buried at Farkasréti Cemetery
• Higinio Morínigo (1897–1983), politician · buried at Recoleta Cemetery, Asuncion
• Idris I of Libya (1889–1983), politician · buried at Al-Baqi Cemetery
• Ira Gershwin (1896–1983), librettist, lyricist, songwriter · buried at Westchester Hills Cemetery
• Ivan Vinogradov (1891–1983), university teacher, mathematician · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• James Jamerson (1936–1983), pop musician, double-bassist, bassist · buried at Woodlawn Cemetery (Detroit)
• Jānis Ivanovs (1906–1983), music educator, film score composer, conductor · buried at Forest Cemetery, Riga
• Jean Rey (1902–1983), jurist, politician, lawyer · buried at Brussels Cemetery
• Jerzy Andrzejewski (1909–1983), novelist, journalist, playwright · buried at Powązki Cemetery
• Joan Hackett (1934–1983), film actor, television actor, stage actor · buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
• John Fante (1909–1983), novelist, writer, screenwriter · buried at Holy Cross Cemetery (Culver City, California)
• Joseph Ruttenberg (1889–1983), journalist, photojournalist, cinematographer · buried at Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery
• Josephine Dunn (1906–1983), film actor, Ziegfeld girl, actor · buried at Valley Oaks Memorial Park
• József Vértesy (1901–1983), water polo player, swimmer, coach · buried at Farkasréti Cemetery
• Karandash (1901–1983), circus performer, circus, actor · buried at Kuntsevo Cemetery
• Karen Carpenter (1950–1983), jazz musician, drummer, singer · buried at Valley Oaks Memorial Park
• Kazimiera Iłłakowiczówna (1892–1983), prose writer, philosopher, translator · buried at Powązki Cemetery
• Lamberto Maggiorani (1909–1983), film actor, stage actor, actor · buried at Campo Verano
• Lynn Fontanne (1887–1983), film actor, television actor, stage actor · buried at Forest Home Cemetery
• Marcel Dalio (1899–1983), cabaret performer, film actor, television actor · buried at Cimetière parisien de Bagneux
• Marian Nixon (1904–1983), film actor, television actor, dancer · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Marie Mosquini (1899–1983), film actor · buried at San Fernando Mission Cemetery
• Mieczysław Jastrun (1903–1983), literary scholar, essayist, translator · buried at Powązki Cemetery
• Miron Białoszewski (1922–1983), opinion journalist, playwright, poet · buried at Powązki Cemetery
• Muddy Waters (1913–1983), blues musician, street artist, guitarist · buried at Restvale Cemetery
• Mykhailo Stelmakh (1912–1983), playwright, politician, poet · buried at Baikove Cemetery
• Mykola Bazhan (1904–1983), translator of William Shakespeare, opinion journalist, journalist · buried at Baikove Cemetery
• Mykola Pidhornyi (1903–1983), statesperson, politician, engineer · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Necip Fazıl Kısakürek (1904–1983), conspiracy theorist, philosopher, poet · buried at Eyüp Cemetery
• Ninoy Aquino (1932–1983), jurisprudence, journalist, politician · buried at Manila Memorial Park – Sucat
• Norma Shearer (1902–1983), film actor, model, stage actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Pál Kadosa (1903–1983), classical pianist, music educator, music teacher · buried at Fiume Road Graveyard
• Pat O'Brien (1899–1983), film actor, stage actor, actor · buried at Holy Cross Cemetery (Culver City, California)
• Paul Fix (1901–1983), film actor, television actor, actor · buried at Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery (Santa Monica, California)
• Pedro Quartucci (1905–1983), television actor, boxer, actor · buried at La Chacarita Cemetery
• Princess Isabelle d’Orléans (1900–1983), aristocrat · buried at Montparnasse Cemetery
• Ralph Richardson (1902–1983), film actor, television actor, stage actor · buried at Highgate Cemetery
• Raymond Aron (1905–1983), opinion journalist, sociologist, philosopher · buried at Montparnasse Cemetery
• Rebecca West (1892–1983), prose writer, essayist, opinion journalist · buried at Brookwood Cemetery
• Richard Loo (1903–1983), film actor, television actor, actor · buried at San Fernando Mission Cemetery
• Robert Aldrich (1918–1983), film director · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)
• Sabin Carr (1904–1983), athletics competitor · buried at Santa Barbara Cemetery
• Salo Flohr (1908–1983), chess organiser, chess theoretician, chess player · buried at Vagankovo Cemetery
• Saloma (1935–1983), singer, actor · buried at Jalan Ampang Muslim Cemetery
• Semyon Ignatyev (1904–1983), politician · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Tennessee Williams (1911–1983), novelist, playwright, poet · buried at Calvary Cemetery (St. Louis)
• Vladimir Bakarić (1912–1983), economist, jurist, political commissar · buried at Mirogoj Cemetery
• William Demarest (1892–1983), film actor, television actor, stage actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• William E. Miller (1914–1983), politician, lawyer · buried at Arlington National Cemetery
• Willie Bobo (1934–1983), jazz musician, percussionist, musician · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)
• Yuri Levitan (1914–1983), radio employee, radio personality, journalist · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Adam Malik (1917–1984), art collector, journalist, diplomat · buried at Kalibata Heroes' Cemetery
• Agnes von Kurowsky (1892–1984), novelist, nurse, writer · buried at United States Soldiers' and Airmen's Home National Cemetery
• Alberta Hunter (1895–1984), jazz musician, musician, nurse · buried at Ferncliff Cemetery
• Andrea Leeds (1914–1984), film actor, actor · buried at Desert Memorial Park
• Andy Kaufman (1949–1984), professional wrestler, film actor, dancer · buried at Beth David Cemetery
• Ann Little (1891–1984), film actor, actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Anna Świrszczyńska (1909–1984), children's writer, dramaturge, playwright · buried at Rakowicki Cemetery
• Arkhip Lyulka (1908–1984), military flight engineer, design engineer · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Azar Andami (1926–1984), vaccinologist, bacteriologist, university teacher · buried at Behesht-e Zahra
• Bess Flowers (1898–1984), film actor, actor · buried at Chapel of the Pines Crematory
• Big Mama Thornton (1926–1984), songwriter, musician, singer · buried at Inglewood Park Cemetery
• Bob Clampett (1913–1984), director, puppeteer, film producer · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)
• Boris Souvarine (1895–1984), journalist, historian, politician · buried at Neuilly-sur-Seine Old Communal Cemetery
• Brassaï (1899–1984), sculptor, illustrator, painter · buried at Montparnasse Cemetery
• Byron Haskin (1899–1984), director, film director, film producer · buried at Santa Barbara Cemetery
• Carl Ferdinand Cori (1896–1984), pharmacologist, researcher, biochemist · buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery
• Carl Joachim Friedrich (1901–1984), university teacher, political scientist · buried at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery (Concord, Massachusetts)
• Chuck Cooper (1926–1984), basketball player · buried at Homewood Cemetery
• Dmitriy Ustinov (1908–1984), military officer, politician, engineer · buried at Kremlin Wall Necropolis
• Edith Massey (1918–1984), film actor, singer, actor · buried at Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary
• Eduardo De Filippo (1900–1984), librettist, director, film director · buried at Campo Verano
• Estelle Winwood (1883–1984), film actor, stage actor · buried at Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary
• Esther Phillips (1935–1984), soul musician, jazz musician, musician · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)
• Faina Ranevskaya (1896–1984), film actor, stage actor, actor · buried at Donskoye Cemetery
• Fikret Amirov (1922–1984), music educator, film score composer, composer · buried at Alley of Honor
• François Truffaut (1932–1984), film screenwriter, producer, film actor · buried at Montmartre Cemetery
• George Gallup (1901–1984), social scientist, statistician, journalist · buried at Princeton Cemetery
• Grigori Kromanov (1926–1984), director, theatre director, film director · buried at Pärnamäe Cemetery
• H. Bruce Humberstone (1901–1984), director, film director, actor · buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
• Isaak Kikoin (1908–1984), inventor, mathematician, physicist · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Jack La Rue (1902–1984), film actor, stage actor, actor · buried at Holy Cross Cemetery (Culver City, California)
• Jackie Coogan (1914–1984), film actor, television actor, stage actor · buried at Holy Cross Cemetery (Culver City, California)
• Jakub Berman (1901–1984), jurist, politician · buried at Powązki Military Cemetery
• Janet Gaynor (1906–1984), film actor, television actor, stage actor · buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
• Jeanne Cagney (1919–1984), film actor, television actor, stage actor · buried at Pacific View Memorial Park
• Johnnie Parsons (1918–1984), Formula One driver, racing automobile driver · buried at Inglewood Park Cemetery
• Jon-Erik Hexum (1957–1984), film actor, television actor, model · buried at Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery
• Joseph Losey (1909–1984), film screenwriter, producer, film director · buried at Putney Vale Cemetery
• Julio Cortázar (1914–1984), writer · buried at Montparnasse Cemetery
• Karl-August Fagerholm (1901–1984), foreign minister, journalist, head of government · buried at Hietaniemi Cemetery
• Kazuo Hasegawa (1908–1984), kabuki actor, director, actor · buried at Yanaka Cemetery
• Kim Il (1910–1984), partisan, politician · buried at Revolutionary Martyrs' Cemetery
• Klavdiya Shulzhenko (1906–1984), singer, actor · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Konstantin Badigin (1910–1984), seafarer, explorer, writer · buried at Kuntsevo Cemetery
• Lee Krasner (1908–1984), printmaker, painter, illustrator · buried at Green River Cemetery
• Leo Robin (1900–1984), librettist, film score composer, lyricist · buried at Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery
• Lilla Brignone (1913–1984), film actor, stage actor · buried at Campo Verano
• Luke Kelly (1940–1984), guitarist, banjoist, singer · buried at Glasnevin Cemetery
• Luther Adler (1903–1984), film actor, television actor, theatre director · buried at Mount Carmel Cemetery (Queens)
• Manès Sperber (1905–1984), essayist, publisher, humanist · buried at Montparnasse Cemetery
• Marcel Janco (1895–1984), designer, sculptor, painter · buried at Kiryat Shaul Cemetery
• Marnix Gijsen (1899–1984), dancer, performing artist, politician · buried at Schoonselhof cemetery
• Martin Luther King Sr. (1899–1984), religious leader, Christian minister, parson · buried at South-View Cemetery
• May McAvoy (1899–1984), film actor, actor · buried at Holy Cross Cemetery (Culver City, California)
• Moshé Feldenkrais (1904–1984), judo coach, judoka, physiologist · buried at Nahalat Yitzhak Cemetery
• Murray Alper (1904–1984), actor · buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
• Nikolai Shchelokov (1910–1984), economist, politician, engineer · buried at Vagankovo Cemetery
• Nikolai Tomsky (1900–1984), designer, sculptor, painter · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Nina Khrushcheva (1900–1984), First Lady · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Niyazi (1912–1984), film score composer, musician, conductor · buried at Alley of Honor
• Nodar Dumbadze (1928–1984), short story writer, prose writer, novelist · buried at Mtatsminda Pantheon
• Norman Krasna (1909–1984), film screenwriter, director, film producer · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)
• Oleg Antonov (1906–1984), aerospace engineer, university teacher, flight instructor · buried at Baikove Cemetery
• Panteleimon Ponomarenko (1902–1984), diplomat, politician · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Paolo Marella (1895–1984), Catholic bishop, Catholic priest · buried at Campo Verano
• Pascale Ogier (1958–1984), film actor, costume designer, actor · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Paul Ben-Haim (1897–1984), music educator, musician, pianist · buried at Har HaMenuchot
• Pavel Batitsky (1910–1984), military officer, politician · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Peter Lawford (1923–1984), manufacturer, film actor, television actor · buried at Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary
• Pierre Emmanuel (1916–1984), French resistance fighter, journalist, poet · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Pyotr Kapitsa (1894–1984), inventor, physicist, professor · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Randall Thompson (1899–1984), music educator, musicologist, conductor · buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery
• Ray Kroc (1902–1984), restaurateur, salesperson, entrepreneur · buried at El Camino Memorial Park
• Recha Freier (1892–1984), resistance fighter, educator, poet · buried at Har HaMenuchot
• Richard Basehart (1914–1984), television actor, film actor, stage actor · buried at Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary
• Richard Benedict (1920–1984), film actor, television actor, film director · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)
• Rostislav Zakharov (1907–1984), ballet teacher, ballet director, opinion journalist · buried at Vagankovo Cemetery
• Sam Jaffe (1891–1984), film actor, television actor, film producer · buried at Eden Memorial Park Cemetery
• Sergei Salnikov (1925–1984), association football player, association football coach · buried at Kuntsevo Cemetery
• Shelly Manne (1920–1984), jazz drummer, recording artist, drummer · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)
• Stanisław Ulam (1909–1984), university teacher, mathematician, physicist · buried at Montparnasse Cemetery
• Stanley Milgram (1933–1984), social psychologist · buried at Riverside Cemetery (Saddle Brook, New Jersey)
• Sybil Seely (1900–1984), film actor, actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Tex Gibbons (1907–1984), basketball player · buried at Rose Hills Memorial Park
• Tigran Petrosian (1929–1984), chess player, athlete, journalist · buried at Moscow Armenian Cemetery
• Tito Gobbi (1913–1984), film actor, director, opera singer · buried at Campo Verano
• Truman Capote (1924–1984), autobiographer, novelist, playwright · buried at Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary
• Viktor Shklovsky (1893–1984), literary scholar, film screenwriter, literary historian · buried at Kuntsevo Cemetery
• Vladimir Chelomey (1914–1984), military flight engineer, university teacher, physicist · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Vladimir Tendryakov (1923–1984), writer, screenwriter · buried at Kuntsevo Cemetery
• William Keighley (1889–1984), director, theatre director, film director · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• William Powell (1892–1984), film actor, television actor, stage actor · buried at Desert Memorial Park
• Yigael Yadin (1917–1984), anthropologist, archaeologist, military officer · buried at Mount Herzl
• Yılmaz Güney (1937–1984), film editor, film director, poet · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Yuri Andropov (1914–1984), diplomat, politician · buried at Kremlin Wall Necropolis
• Yuri Vizbor (1934–1984), prose writer, short story writer, mountaineer · buried at Kuntsevo Cemetery
• Afet İnan (1908–1985), sociologist, university teacher, historian · buried at Cebeci Asri Cemetery
• Aleksandra Khokhlova (1891–1985), film screenwriter, film actor, director · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Alexander Mikulin (1895–1985), military flight engineer, design engineer, engineer · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Alexander Pokryshkin (1913–1985), aircraft pilot, fighter pilot, politician · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Angela Vode (1892–1985), feminist, defectologist, opinion journalist · buried at Žale
• Carlos P. Romulo (1899–1985), journalist, diplomat, politician · buried at Libingan ng mga Bayani
• Cemal Reşit Rey (1904–1985), pianist, conductor, composer · buried at Edirnekapı Martyr's Cemetery
• Clarence Nash (1904–1985), dub actor, film actor, voice actor · buried at San Fernando Mission Cemetery
• Dan White (1946–1985), politician · buried at Golden Gate National Cemetery
• Dmitry Konstantinovich Belyayev (1917–1985), behavior geneticist, geneticist, zoologist · buried at Yuzhnoye Cemetery (Novosibirsk)
• Edmond O'Brien (1915–1985), film actor, television actor, film producer · buried at Holy Cross Cemetery (Culver City, California)
• Emil Gilels (1916–1985), music educator, musician, pianist · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Emílio Garrastazu Médici (1905–1985), politician, military personnel · buried at Cemitério de São João Batista
• Evgeny Lifshitz (1915–1985), non-fiction writer, theoretical physicist, university teacher · buried at Kuntsevo Cemetery
• Fernand Braudel (1902–1985), university teacher, historian · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Franco Ferrara (1911–1985), music educator, film score composer, bandleader · buried at Campo Verano
• Frank Faylen (1905–1985), film actor, television actor, actor · buried at San Fernando Mission Cemetery
• Galina Dzhunkovskaya (1922–1985), military officer, teacher, writer · buried at Kuntsevo Cemetery
• George Chandler (1898–1985), trade unionist, film actor, television actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• George London (1920–1985), opera singer · buried at Ferncliff Cemetery
• George Pólya (1887–1985), university teacher, mathematician · buried at Alta Mesa Memorial Park
• George Savalas (1924–1985), film actor, television actor, actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)
• Géza Toldi (1909–1985), association football player, association football coach · buried at Farkasréti Cemetery
• Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (1902–1985), journalist, diplomat, military officer · buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery
• Henry Hathaway (1898–1985), producer, director, film producer · buried at Holy Cross Cemetery (Culver City, California)
• Hua Luogeng (1910–1985), mathematician, politician · buried at Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery
• Ilka Gedő (1921–1985), graphic artist, painter · buried at Kozma Street Cemetery
• Ina Claire (1893–1985), film actor, Ziegfeld girl, stage actor · buried at Mount Olivet Cemetery (Salt Lake City)
• James Craig (1912–1985), film actor, television actor, actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Janusz Ślązak (1907–1985), rower · buried at Powązki Cemetery
• Jean-Paul Le Chanois (1909–1985), film actor, director, film director · buried at Cimetière parisien de Thiais
• Jerzy Skolimowski (1907–1985), coxswain, painter, architect · buried at Powązki Cemetery
• Jetta Goudal (1891–1985), film actor, stage actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• John Davis Lodge (1903–1985), film actor, stage actor, researcher · buried at Arlington National Cemetery
• John Sparkman (1899–1985), farmer, professor, politician · buried at Maple Hill Cemetery (Huntsville, Alabama)
• Julian Beck (1925–1985), director, theatre director, stage actor · buried at Cedar Park Cemetery, New Jersey
• Karl Menger (1902–1985), philosopher, university teacher, mathematician · buried at Graceland Cemetery
• Kirby Grant (1911–1985), film actor, television actor, rancher · buried at Missoula Cemetery
• Kirill Moskalenko (1902–1985), politician, military personnel, writer · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Konstantin Chernenko (1911–1985), politician · buried at Kremlin Wall Necropolis
• Lloyd Nolan (1902–1985), film actor, television actor, actor · buried at Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary
• Louise Brooks (1906–1985), autobiographer, film actor, model · buried at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery (Rochester, New York)
• Manuel Machuca (1924–1985), association football player · buried at Santiago General Cemetery
• Margo (1917–1985), film actor, television actor, dancer · buried at Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary
• Marion Byron (1911–1985), film actor, actor · buried at Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery
• Marion Martin (1909–1985), film actor, stage actor, actor · buried at Holy Cross Cemetery (Culver City, California)
• Mary MacLaren (1896–1985), film actor, stage actor, actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Maya Kristalinskaya (1932–1985), translator, singer · buried at Donskoye Cemetery
• Michel Audiard (1920–1985), film actor, director, dialogue writer · buried at Montrouge Cemetery
• Mikhail Gromov (1899–1985), powerlifter, aircraft pilot, university teacher · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Nazlı Ecevit (1900–1985), painter · buried at Cebeci Asri Cemetery
• Nelson Riddle (1921–1985), orchestrator, music arranger, film score composer · buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
• Nikolai Gulayev (1918–1985), aircraft pilot · buried at Kuntsevo Cemetery
• Patricia Harris (1924–1985), human rights defender, diplomat, politician · buried at Rock Creek Cemetery
• Paul Castellano (1915–1985), godfather, criminal, businessperson · buried at Moravian Cemetery
• Pavel Batov (1897–1985), soldier, military officer, politician · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Phil Silvers (1911–1985), film actor, television actor, musical theatre actor · buried at Mount Sinai Memorial Park
• Potter Stewart (1915–1985), politician, judge · buried at Arlington National Cemetery
• Ricky Nelson (1940–1985), recording artist, television actor, guitarist · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)
• Sam Spiegel (1901–1985), producer, film producer · buried at Beth Olam Cemetery
• Scott Brady (1924–1985), boxer, film actor, television actor · buried at Holy Cross Cemetery (Culver City, California)
• Sergei Gerasimov (1906–1985), film actor, film director, pedagogue · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Sergei Yutkevich (1904–1985), director, theatre director, film director · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Simon Kuznets (1901–1985), statistician, economist · buried at Sharon Memorial Park, Massachusetts
• Simone Signoret (1921–1985), film actor, stage actor, tutor · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Spencer W. Kimball (1895–1985), businessperson, prophet · buried at Salt Lake City Cemetery
• Stepin Fetchit (1902–1985), film actor, comedian, actor · buried at Calvary Cemetery (Los Angeles)
• Tapio Wirkkala (1915–1985), handicrafter, designer, glass artist · buried at Hietaniemi Cemetery
• Uku Masing (1909–1985), philologist, linguist, philosopher · buried at Raadi cemetery
• Vasyl Stus (1938–1985), opinion journalist, literary critic, journalist · buried at Baikove Cemetery
• Viktor Makeyev (1924–1985), university teacher, inventor, politician · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Vladimir Kokkinaki (1904–1985), soldier, aircraft pilot, test pilot · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Wellington Koo (1888–1985), diplomat, jurist, ambassador · buried at Ferncliff Cemetery
• Wolfgang Kieling (1924–1985), dub actor, film actor, television actor · buried at Ohlsdorf Cemetery
• Zarifa Alieva (1923–1985), ophthalmologist · buried at Alley of Honor
• Adolph Caesar (1933–1986), film actor, stage actor · buried at Ferncliff Cemetery
• Aleksei Arbuzov (1908–1986), director, playwright, dramaturge · buried at Kuntsevo Cemetery
• Alexander Akimov (1953–1986), technician, Chernobyl liquidator · buried at Mitinskoe Cemetery
• Alfred Vohrer (1914–1986), film actor, voice actor, director · buried at Waldfriedhof Dahlem
• Andrei Tarkovsky (1932–1986), film screenwriter, film actor, film editor · buried at Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery
• Anna Neagle (1904–1986), film actor, stage actor, singer · buried at City of London Cemetery and Crematorium
• Béla Szepes (1903–1986), javelin thrower, cross-country skier, ski jumper · buried at Farkasréti Cemetery
• Bernard Malamud (1914–1986), novelist, university teacher, writer · buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery
• Boris Slutsky (1919–1986), translator, poet, writer · buried at Pyatnitskoye Cemetery
• Christa McAuliffe (1948–1986), teacher, astronaut · buried at Arlington National Cemetery
• Coluche (1944–1986), film actor, film director, radio personality · buried at Montrouge Cemetery
• Dan Pagis (1930–1986), literary scholar, university teacher, translator · buried at Har HaMenuchot
• Dick Scobee (1939–1986), military officer, astronaut · buried at Arlington National Cemetery
• Ding Ling (1904–1986), playwright, politician, writer · buried at Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery
• Donna Reed (1921–1986), peace activist, film actor, television actor · buried at Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary
• Elio de Angelis (1958–1986), Formula One driver, racing automobile driver, motorcycle racer · buried at Campo Verano
• Ella Josephine Baker (1903–1986), women's rights activist, activist, civil rights advocate · buried at Flushing Cemetery
• Ellison Onizuka (1946–1986), engineer, military officer, astronaut · buried at Arlington National Cemetery
• Elsa Lanchester (1902–1986), film actor, television actor, dancer · buried at Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery
• Éva Ruttkai (1927–1986), film actor, stage actor, child actor · buried at Farkasréti Cemetery
• Flo Hyman (1954–1986), volleyball player, beach volleyball player · buried at Inglewood Park Cemetery
• Floyd Gottfredson (1905–1986), draftsperson, comics artist, illustrator · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)
• Forrest Tucker (1919–1986), film actor, television actor, stage actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)
• Fumiko Enchi (1905–1986), novelist, playwright, writer · buried at Yanaka Cemetery
• Gaston Defferre (1910–1986), French resistance fighter, jurist, politician · buried at Cimetière Saint-Pierre (Marseille)
• Gedeon Barcza (1911–1986), chess player, journalist, coach · buried at Fiume Road Graveyard
• Géza von Radványi (1907–1986), director, film producer, film director · buried at Farkasréti Cemetery
• Gordon MacRae (1921–1986), film actor, television actor, stage actor · buried at Wyuka Cemetery
• Gregory Jarvis (1944–1986), payload specialist, military officer, engineer · buried at Arlington National Cemetery
• Hal B. Wallis (1899–1986), television actor, art collector, film producer · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Hank Greenberg (1911–1986), baseball player · buried at Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery
• Hank Mobley (1930–1986), recording artist, jazz musician, saxophonist · buried at Eden Cemetery (Collingdale, Pennsylvania)
• Harold Arlen (1905–1986), film producer, music arranger, film score composer · buried at Ferncliff Cemetery
• Heather Angel (1909–1986), television actor, film actor, stage actor · buried at Santa Barbara Cemetery
• Helen B. Taussig (1898–1986), cardiologist, physician · buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery
• Helen Mack (1913–1986), film actor, actor · buried at Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary
• Helmut Qualtinger (1928–1986), cabaret performer, film actor, television actor · buried at Vienna Central Cemetery
• Herschel Bernardi (1923–1986), film actor, television actor, voice actor · buried at Mount Sinai Memorial Park
• Hyman G. Rickover (1900–1986), submariner, military officer, admiral · buried at Arlington National Cemetery
• Ivan Papanin (1894–1986), polar explorer, geographer, politician · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Jacob Javits (1904–1986), lecturer, salesperson, author · buried at Linden Hill Jewish Cemetery
• James Cagney (1899–1986), trade unionist, film actor, dancer · buried at Gate of Heaven Cemetery (Hawthorne, New York)
• Jean Cassou (1897–1986), literary scholar, literary critic, art critic · buried at Cimetière parisien de Thiais
• Jerry Colonna (1904–1986), voice actor, musician, singer-songwriter · buried at San Fernando Mission Cemetery
• John W. Bricker (1893–1986), baseball player, jurist, governor · buried at Green Lawn Cemetery (Columbus, Ohio)
• Jorge Alessandri (1896–1986), civil engineer, entrepreneur, politician · buried at Santiago General Cemetery
• Judith Resnik (1949–1986), engineer, astronaut · buried at Arlington National Cemetery
• Käthe Haack (1897–1986), film actor, stage actor, actor · buried at Friedhof Heerstraße
• Keenan Wynn (1916–1986), film actor, television actor, voice actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Le Duan (1907–1986), politician · buried at Mai Dịch Cemetery
• Len Bias (1963–1986), basketball player · buried at Lincoln Memorial Cemetery (Suitland, Maryland)
• Leonid Kantorovich (1912–1986), university teacher, economist, mathematician · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Leonid Toptunov (1960–1986), Chernobyl liquidator, engineer · buried at Mitinskoe Cemetery
• Lilli Palmer (1914–1986), cabaret performer, autobiographer, film actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Lothar Bolz (1903–1986), journalist, resistance fighter, politician · buried at Dorotheenstadt Cemetery
• Lurene Tuttle (1907–1986), film actor, television actor, voice actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Lyudmila Pakhomova (1946–1986), ice dancer, figure skating coach · buried at Vagankovo Cemetery
• Marguerite Courtot (1897–1986), film actor, actor · buried at Riverside National Cemetery
• Mary Eristavi (1888–1986), lady-in-waiting · buried at Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery
• Michael J. Smith (1945–1986), naval officer, test pilot, astronaut · buried at Arlington National Cemetery
• Mircea Eliade (1907–1986), mythographer, religious studies scholar, Indologist · buried at Oak Woods Cemetery
• Moshe Feinstein (1895–1986), philosopher, theologian, rabbi · buried at Har HaMenuchot
• Natalia Uzhviy (1898–1986), actor · buried at Baikove Cemetery
• Nikolay Semyonov (1896–1986), chemist, physicist, professor · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Oleg Goncharenko (1931–1986), speed skater · buried at Kuntsevo Cemetery
• Olive Deering (1918–1986), film actor, television actor, stage actor · buried at Kensico Cemetery
• Oscar Zariski (1899–1986), university teacher, mathematician · buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery
• Otto Preminger (1905–1986), film actor, television actor, film producer · buried at Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York)
• Phil Lynott (1949–1986), rock musician, guitarist, bassist · buried at St. Fintan's Cemetery, Sutton
• Robert Alda (1914–1986), film actor, television actor, stage actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Roger C. Carmel (1932–1986), television actor, voice actor, actor · buried at Mount Carmel Cemetery (Queens)
• Ronald McNair (1950–1986), saxophonist, karateka, physicist · buried at Arlington National Cemetery
• Roy Cohn (1927–1986), biographer, jurist, politician · buried at Union Field Cemetery
• Scatman Crothers (1910–1986), jazz musician, dub actor, film actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)
• Serge Lifar (1905–1986), dancer, choreographer, ballet master · buried at Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery
• Sergei Gavrilovich Simonov (1894–1986), inventor · buried at Kuntsevo Cemetery
• Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986), diarist, philosophy teacher, feminist · buried at Montparnasse Cemetery
• Susan Cabot (1927–1986), film actor, television actor, stage actor · buried at Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery
• Ted Knight (1923–1986), television actor, voice actor, actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Tommy Douglas (1904–1986), ecclesiastic, Christian minister, printer · buried at Beechwood Cemetery
• Urho Kekkonen (1900–1986), athletics competitor, foreign minister, sprinter · buried at Hietaniemi Cemetery
• Valentin Kataev (1897–1986), short story writer, science fiction writer, novelist · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Valerian Zorin (1902–1986), diplomat, civil servant · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Vasily Ignatenko (1961–1986), Chernobyl liquidator, firefighter · buried at Mitinskoe Cemetery
• Viktor Khokhryakov (1913–1986), theatre director, drama teacher, actor · buried at Vagankovo Cemetery
• Vincente Minnelli (1903–1986), producer, director, theatre director · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Vitaly Abalakov (1906–1986), explorer, mountaineer, chemical engineer · buried at Kuntsevo Cemetery
• Vladimir Pravik (1962–1986), Chernobyl liquidator, firefighter · buried at Mitinskoe Cemetery
• Vyacheslav Molotov (1890–1986), diplomat, politician · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Wallis Simpson (1896–1986), collector, aristocrat, socialite · buried at Royal Burial Ground, Frogmore
• Yakima Canutt (1895–1986), rodeo rider, film actor, film director · buried at Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery
• Yaşar Erkan (1911–1986), amateur wrestler · buried at Merkezefendi Cemetery
• Adile Naşit (1930–1987), film actor, voice actor, stage actor · buried at Karacaahmet Cemetery
• Alessandro Blasetti (1900–1987), film editor, director, film director · buried at Campo Verano
• Alfredo Oscar Saint Jean (1926–1987), politician, military personnel · buried at La Chacarita Cemetery
• Alice Terry (1899–1987), film actor, film director, actor · buried at Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery
• Anatoli Papanov (1922–1987), stage actor, actor, film actor · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Anatoly Efros (1925–1987), director, theatre director, film director · buried at Kuntsevo Cemetery
• Andrei Mironov (1941–1987), presenter, film actor, television presenter · buried at Vagankovo Cemetery
• Andrey Kolmogorov (1903–1987), statistician, university teacher, mathematician · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Andy Warhol (1928–1987), printmaker, diarist, installation artist · buried at St. John the Baptist Byzantine Catholic Cemetery
• Arkady Raikin (1911–1987), humorist, theatre director, film director · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Arthur Lake (1905–1987), film actor, television actor, actor · buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
• Behice Boran (1910–1987), sociologist, politician · buried at Zincirlikuyu Cemetery
• Buddy Rich (1917–1987), jazz drummer, session musician, bandleader · buried at Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary
• Clarence Brown (1890–1987), producer, manufacturer, film editor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Dalida (1933–1987), dancer, film actor, model · buried at Montmartre Cemetery
• Danny Kaye (1911–1987), film actor, television actor, chef · buried at Kensico Cemetery
• Dean Paul Martin (1951–1987), tennis player, television actor, aircraft pilot · buried at Los Angeles National Cemetery
• Della H. Raney (1912–1987), military nurse · buried at Arlington National Cemetery
• Dmitri Kabalevsky (1904–1987), classical composer, musicologist, music educator · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Dmitry Lelyushenko (1901–1987), military officer, politician · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Donn F. Eisele (1930–1987), aircraft pilot, test pilot, military officer · buried at Arlington National Cemetery
• Edward Lansdale (1908–1987), spy, soldier, airman · buried at Arlington National Cemetery
• Ervin Nyiregyházi (1903–1987), musician, pianist, composer · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Fahri Korutürk (1903–1987), naval officer, diplomat, politician · buried at Turkish State Cemetery
• Franjo Wölfl (1918–1987), technician, association football player, association football coach · buried at Mirogoj Cemetery
• Fred Astaire (1899–1987), film actor, television actor, percussionist · buried at Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery
• Hannelore Schroth (1922–1987), film actor, television actor, stage actor · buried at Friedhof Heerstraße
• Hayden Rorke (1910–1987), film actor, television actor, stage actor · buried at Holy Cross Cemetery (Culver City, California)
• Hermione Gingold (1897–1987), film actor, television actor, stage actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Igor Ilyinsky (1901–1987), director, theatre director, film director · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Igor Newerly (1903–1987), prose writer, opinion journalist, literary critic · buried at Powązki Military Cemetery
• Ira Clarence Eaker (1896–1987), aircraft pilot, journalist, military officer · buried at Arlington National Cemetery
• Ivan Ivanov-Vano (1900–1987), director, film director, painter · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Ivan Mykolaichuk (1941–1987), film screenwriter, film actor, director · buried at Baikove Cemetery
• Jackie Fields (1908–1987), boxer · buried at Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery
• Jacqueline du Pré (1945–1987), cellist · buried at Golders Green Jewish Cemetery
• James Baldwin (1924–1987), gay fiction writer, essayist, social critic · buried at Ferncliff Cemetery
• John Huston (1906–1987), film screenwriter, producer, film actor · buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
• John Qualen (1899–1987), television actor, film actor, actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Joseph Campbell (1904–1987), documentary participant, historian of religion, short story writer · buried at Oʻahu Cemetery
• Joseph Lawton Collins (1896–1987), military personnel · buried at Arlington National Cemetery
• Kent Taylor (1906–1987), film actor, television actor, actor · buried at Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary
• Konstantinos Tsatsos (1899–1987), essayist, philosopher, university teacher · buried at First Cemetery of Athens
• Kristjan Palusalu (1908–1987), amateur wrestler, athlete, civil servant · buried at Metsakalmistu
• László Pusztai (1946–1987), association football player · buried at Farkasréti Cemetery
• Lee Marvin (1924–1987), film actor, television actor, stage actor · buried at Arlington National Cemetery
• Liberace (1919–1987), autobiographer, film actor, television actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)
• Lorne Greene (1915–1987), film actor, television actor, radio personality · buried at Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery
• Louis de Broglie (1892–1987), physicist · buried at Neuilly-sur-Seine Old Communal Cemetery
• Louis Scutenaire (1905–1987), jurist, poet, writer · buried at Brussels Cemetery
• Luis Federico Leloir (1906–1987), biochemist, university teacher, chemist · buried at La Recoleta Cemetery
• Mark Mitin (1901–1987), philosopher, journalist, historian · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Mary Astor (1906–1987), film actor, television actor, novelist · buried at Holy Cross Cemetery (Culver City, California)
• Maxwell D. Taylor (1901–1987), soldier, diplomat, military personnel · buried at Arlington National Cemetery
• Mervyn LeRoy (1900–1987), costume designer, writer, actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Naji al-Ali (1937–1987), caricaturist, journalist, cartoonist · buried at Brookwood Cemetery
• Pak Yung-sun (1956–1987), table tennis player · buried at Patriotic Martyrs' Cemetery
• Pál Gábor (1932–1987), director, film director, screenwriter · buried at Farkasréti Cemetery
• Pola Negri (1897–1987), film actor, dancer, stage actor · buried at Calvary Cemetery (Los Angeles)
• Priscilla Dean (1896–1987), film actor, actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Raquel Torres (1908–1987), film actor, television actor, actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Ray Bolger (1904–1987), vaudeville performer, film actor, dancer · buried at Holy Cross Cemetery (Culver City, California)
• Richard Egan (1921–1987), film actor, university teacher, actor · buried at Holy Cross Cemetery (Culver City, California)
• Richard Marquand (1937–1987), director, film producer, film director · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)
• Rita Hayworth (1918–1987), producer, film actor, television actor · buried at Holy Cross Cemetery (Culver City, California)
• Rouben Mamoulian (1897–1987), director, theatre director, film director · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Tuvia Bielski (1906–1987), partisan · buried at Har HaMenuchot
• Veriko Anjaparidze (1896–1987), film actor, drama teacher, theatre director · buried at Mtatsminda Pantheon
• Verree Teasdale (1903–1987), film actor, stage actor, actor · buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
• Viktor Nekrasov (1911–1987), short story writer, director, journalist · buried at Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery
• Viola Dana (1897–1987), film actor, television actor, stage actor · buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
• Vladimir Basov (1923–1987), director, lecturer, film director · buried at Kuntsevo Cemetery
• William J. Casey (1913–1987), diplomat, jurist, politician · buried at Cemetery of the Holy Rood
• Woody Herman (1913–1987), recording artist, jazz musician, saxophonist · buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
• Yakov Zeldovich (1914–1987), astrophysicist, university teacher, chemist · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Adela Rogers St. Johns (1894–1988), essayist, novelist, journalist · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• África de las Heras Gavilán (1909–1988), spy · buried at Khovanskoye Cemetery
• Alan Napier (1903–1988), dub actor, film actor, television actor · buried at Chapel of the Pines Crematory
• Aleksei Losev (1893–1988), classical philologist, music educator, philologist · buried at Vagankovo Cemetery
• Alphaeus Philemon Cole (1876–1988), etcher, painter · buried at Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York)
• Andy Gibb (1958–1988), stage actor, television presenter, songwriter · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)
• Anna Mahler (1904–1988), sculptor, painter, artist · buried at Highgate Cemetery
• Anne Ramsey (1929–1988), film actor, television actor, stage actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Omaha, Nebraska)
• Bluma Zeigarnik (1900–1988), university teacher, psychologist, psychiatrist · buried at Vagankovo Cemetery
• Bob Steele (1907–1988), film actor, television actor, actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)
• Bonita Granville (1923–1988), film actor, television actor, film producer · buried at Holy Cross Cemetery (Culver City, California)
• Branko Zebec (1929–1988), association football player, association football coach · buried at Mirogoj Cemetery
• Camilla Ravera (1889–1988), editing staff, politician · buried at Campo Verano
• Charles Hawtrey (1914–1988), film actor, television actor, stage actor · buried at Mortlake Crematorium
• Chet Baker (1929–1988), jazz musician, trumpeter, bandleader · buried at Inglewood Park Cemetery
• Christopher Connelly (1941–1988), film actor, television actor, actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)
• Clifford D. Simak (1904–1988), science fiction writer, prose writer, novelist · buried at Lakewood Cemetery
• Colin Higgins (1941–1988), film actor, director, theatre director · buried at Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery
• Daws Butler (1916–1988), dub actor, voice actor, actor · buried at Holy Cross Cemetery (Culver City, California)
• Duane Jones (1936–1988), film actor, stage actor, actor · buried at Westview Cemetery
• Edgar Faure (1908–1988), legal historian, diplomat, politician · buried at Passy Cemetery
• Endre Palócz (1911–1988), fencer, coach · buried at Farkasréti Cemetery
• Eric Larson (1905–1988), draftsperson, character animator, film director · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)
• Erich Fried (1921–1988), translator of William Shakespeare, English–German translator, essayist · buried at Kensal Green Cemetery
• Ernst Ruska (1906–1988), university teacher, electrical engineer, inventor · buried at Waldfriedhof Zehlendorf
• Eva Novak (1898–1988), film actor, actor · buried at San Fernando Mission Cemetery
• Ferenc Pataki (1917–1988), artistic gymnast · buried at Farkasréti Cemetery
• Ferit Melen (1906–1988), politician · buried at Cebeci Asri Cemetery
• Frederick Loewe (1901–1988), songwriter, pianist, composer · buried at Desert Memorial Park
• Georgy Malenkov (1902–1988), politician · buried at Kuntsevo Cemetery
• Giacinto Scelsi (1905–1988), musician, poet, composer · buried at Campo Verano
• Giorgio Almirante (1914–1988), journalist, politician · buried at Campo Verano
• Giuseppe Saragat (1898–1988), diplomat, politician · buried at Campo Verano
• Harold Rosson (1895–1988), camera operator, cinematographer · buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
• Heather O'Rourke (1975–1988), film actor, television actor · buried at Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary
• Henry Armstrong (1912–1988), boxer, athlete, writer · buried at Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery
• Hilda Gobbi (1913–1988), philanthropist, actor · buried at Farkasréti Cemetery
• Hillel Slovak (1962–1988), guitarist, songwriter, musician · buried at Mount Sinai Memorial Park
• Hokuma Gurbanova (1913–1988), actor · buried at Alley of Honor
• Ilona Elek (1907–1988), fencer · buried at Farkasréti Cemetery
• Iosif Grigulevich (1913–1988), ethnographer, spy, army scout · buried at Donskoye Cemetery
• Irene Rich (1891–1988), film actor, stage actor, actor · buried at Calvary Cemetery (Los Angeles)
• Isidor Isaac Rabi (1898–1988), theoretical physicist, nuclear physicist, university teacher · buried at Riverside Cemetery (Saddle Brook, New Jersey)
• János Németh (1906–1988), water polo player, coach · buried at Farkasréti Cemetery
• Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960–1988), painter, illustrator, musician · buried at Green-Wood Cemetery
• Jean-Pierre Ponnelle (1932–1988), theatre designer, designer, director · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Joe Besser (1907–1988), film actor, television actor, voice actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• John N. Mitchell (1913–1988), military officer, jurist, politician · buried at Arlington National Cemetery
• Joseph Karakis (1902–1988), preservationist, university teacher, pedagogue · buried at Baikove Cemetery
• Judith Barsi (1978–1988), actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)
• Julanne Johnston (1900–1988), film actor, actor · buried at Chapel of the Pines Crematory
• Kenneth Williams (1926–1988), diarist, trade unionist, film actor · buried at East Finchley Cemetery
• Kim Philby (1912–1988), spy, intelligence officer, opinion journalist · buried at Kuntsevo Cemetery
• Kurt Raab (1941–1988), autobiographer, film actor, television actor · buried at Ohlsdorf Cemetery
• Leonard Matlovich (1943–1988), military personnel · buried at Congressional Cemetery
• Lev Pontryagin (1908–1988), university teacher, mathematician · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Lois Wilson (1894–1988), beauty pageant contestant, film actor, television actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Louis L'Amour (1908–1988), television writer, film screenwriter, science fiction writer · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Lyman Lemnitzer (1899–1988), military personnel · buried at Arlington National Cemetery
• Marcel Bozzuffi (1929–1988), dub actor, film actor, television actor · buried at Montparnasse Cemetery
• Maria Ulfah Santoso (1911–1988), women's rights activist, human rights defender, politician · buried at Kalibata Heroes' Cemetery
• Näcip Cihanof (1911–1988), music educator, politician, composer · buried at Arskoe Cemetery
• Nataša Gollová (1912–1988), film actor, stage actor, actor · buried at Vyšehrad Cemetery
• Oktay Rifat (1914–1988), poet lawyer, poet, lawyer · buried at Karacaahmet Cemetery
• Pál Titkos (1908–1988), sports official, association football coach, association football player · buried at Farkasréti Cemetery
• Paolo Stoppa (1906–1988), film actor, voice actor, stage actor · buried at Campo Verano
• Pappy Boyington (1912–1988), autobiographer, aircraft pilot, military officer · buried at Arlington National Cemetery
• Pavel Kadochnikov (1915–1988), film screenwriter, theatre director, director · buried at Serafimovskoe Cemetery
• Ralph Meeker (1920–1988), film actor, television actor, film producer · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)
• Raúl Landini (1909–1988), boxer · buried at La Chacarita Cemetery
• Ray Eames (1912–1988), lithographer, designer, production designer · buried at Calvary Cemetery (St. Louis)
• Robert Livingston (1904–1988), film actor, actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Roy Buchanan (1939–1988), guitarist, musician · buried at Columbia Gardens Cemetery
• Roy Kinnear (1934–1988), film actor, television actor, stage actor · buried at East Sheen Cemetery
• Roy Orbison (1936–1988), vocalist, bandleader, guitarist · buried at Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary
• Sándor Bíró (1911–1988), association football player, association football coach · buried at Farkasréti Cemetery
• Seán MacBride (1904–1988), journalist, barrister, diplomat · buried at Glasnevin Cemetery
• Sergey Gorshkov (1910–1988), naval officer, admiral, politician · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Sylvester (1947–1988), singer, composer · buried at Inglewood Park Cemetery
• Timothy Patrick Murphy (1959–1988), film actor, television actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)
• Valery Legasov (1936–1988), Chernobyl liquidator, university teacher, chemist · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• William Cagney (1905–1988), producer, film producer, actor · buried at Pacific View Memorial Park
• Ye Shengtao (1894–1988), children's writer, journalist, writer · buried at Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery
• Yevgeny Mravinsky (1903–1988), music educator, pianist, conductor · buried at Bogoslovskoe Cemetery
• Yuli Daniel (1925–1988), science fiction writer, prose writer, translator · buried at Vagankovo Cemetery
• Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou (1930–1989), academic staff, economist, politician · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Aileen Pringle (1895–1989), film actor, actor · buried at Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York)
• Albert Wedemeyer (1897–1989), military personnel · buried at Arlington National Cemetery
• Alexandr Yakovlev (1906–1989), aircraft designer, military flight engineer, memoirist · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Alvin Ailey (1931–1989), choreographer, artistic director, ballet dancer · buried at Rose Hills Memorial Park
• Andrei Gromyko (1909–1989), agricultural economist, memoirist, diplomat · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Bernard Blier (1916–1989), film actor, television actor, stage actor · buried at Cimetière parisien de Thiais
• Bernard-Marie Koltès (1948–1989), director, author, playwright · buried at Montmartre Cemetery
• Bette Davis (1908–1989), autobiographer, film actor, television actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)
• Betti Alver (1906–1989), novelist, translator, poet · buried at Raadi cemetery
• Billy Martin (1928–1989), baseball player, screenwriter · buried at Gate of Heaven Cemetery (Hawthorne, New York)
• Chrissie White (1895–1989), film actor, actor · buried at Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary
• Cornel Wilde (1912–1989), film actor, director, film director · buried at Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary
• Doug Harvey (1924–1989), ice hockey player, ice hockey coach · buried at Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery
• Edoardo Amaldi (1908–1989), university teacher, physicist · buried at Campo Verano
• Edvin Laine (1905–1989), theatre director, film director, writer · buried at Hietaniemi Cemetery
• Edward Ochab (1906–1989), politician · buried at Powązki Military Cemetery
• Elaine de Kooning (1918–1989), printmaker, art critic, graphic artist · buried at Green River Cemetery
• Elisabeth Bykova (1913–1989), non-fiction writer, chess player · buried at Khovanskoye Cemetery
• Ernesto Civardi (1906–1989), theologian, Catholic bishop, Catholic priest · buried at Campo Verano
• Ernie Morrison (1912–1989), film actor, television actor, stage actor · buried at Inglewood Park Cemetery
• Ferdinand Marcos (1917–1989), politician · buried at Libingan ng mga Bayani
• Franklin J. Schaffner (1921–1989), trade unionist, director, film director · buried at Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary
• Georges Schehadé (1905–1989), dramaturge, playwright, poet · buried at Montparnasse Cemetery
• Georgy Tovstonogov (1915–1989), Theaterintendant, director, theatre director · buried at Tikhvin Cemetery
• György Kulin (1905–1989), science fiction writer, astronomer · buried at Farkasréti Cemetery
• Henri Sauguet (1901–1989), film score composer, composer · buried at Montmartre Cemetery
• Hirohito (1901–1989), scientific collector, marine biologist, aristocrat · buried at Musashi Imperial Graveyard
• Hubert Beuve-Méry (1902–1989), French resistance fighter, journalist, jurist · buried at Montparnasse Cemetery
• Huey P. Newton (1942–1989), philosopher, sociologist, human rights defender · buried at Evergreen Cemetery (Oakland, California)
• Imre Németh (1917–1989), hammer thrower, athletics competitor, politician · buried at Farkasréti Cemetery
• Irving Berlin (1888–1989), film screenwriter, musical theatre composer, film score composer · buried at Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York)
• János Farkas (1942–1989), association football player · buried at Farkasréti Cemetery
• János Kádár (1912–1989), economist, politician · buried at Fiume Road Graveyard
• Jeff Richards (1924–1989), baseball player, television actor, actor · buried at Riverside National Cemetery
• Jim Backus (1913–1989), film actor, television actor, voice actor · buried at Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary
• Joe Spinell (1936–1989), television actor, film actor, character actor · buried at Calvary Cemetery (Queens)
• John Cassavetes (1929–1989), film screenwriter, producer, film actor · buried at Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary
• John Ogdon (1937–1989), musician, pianist, composer · buried at Gunnersbury Cemetery
• Joris Ivens (1898–1989), film editor, film producer, director · buried at Montparnasse Cemetery
• Józef Cyrankiewicz (1911–1989), politician · buried at Powązki Military Cemetery
• Kaj Franck (1911–1989), textile artist, designer, visual artist · buried at Hietaniemi Cemetery
• Kazimierz Deyna (1947–1989), soldier, association football player, military personnel · buried at Powązki Military Cemetery
• Kazimierz Sabbat (1913–1989), jurist, entrepreneur, politician · buried at Gunnersbury Cemetery
• Kirill Mazurov (1914–1989), politician · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• László Papp (1905–1989), weightlifter, amateur wrestler, athlete · buried at Farkasréti Cemetery
• Lee Van Cleef (1925–1989), film actor, television actor, dancer · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)
• Li Keran (1907–1989), painter, artist · buried at Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery
• Lucille Ball (1911–1989), producer, film studio executive, television actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)
• Luis Carlos Galán Sarmiento (1943–1989), journalist, diplomat, economist · buried at Central Cemetery of Bogotá
• Marc Daniels (1912–1989), theatre director, director, film producer · buried at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery (Concord, Massachusetts)
• Marion Mack (1902–1989), silent film actor, film actor, screenwriter · buried at Pacific View Memorial Park
• Māris Liepa (1936–1989), ballet teacher, dancer, ballet master · buried at Vagankovo Cemetery
• Mel Blanc (1908–1989), radio drama actor, dub actor, film actor · buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
• Merab Kostava (1939–1989), opinion journalist, musician, dissident · buried at Mtatsminda Pantheon
• Michał Rola-Żymierski (1890–1989), soldier, military officer, politician · buried at Powązki Military Cemetery
• Nara Leão (1942–1989), jazz musician, musician, singer · buried at Cemitério de São João Batista
• Nikolai Grinko (1920–1989), film actor, actor · buried at Baikove Cemetery
• Nikolai Patolichev (1908–1989), functionary, politician, writer · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Oleksiy Fedorov (1901–1989), major general, politician, writer · buried at Baikove Cemetery
• Oscar Alfredo Gálvez (1913–1989), Formula One driver, racing automobile driver, engineer · buried at La Chacarita Cemetery
• Otar Taktakishvili (1924–1989), music educator, film score composer, concertmaster · buried at Didube Pantheon
• Pavel Kurochkin (1900–1989), veteran, military officer, politician · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Rashid Behbudov (1915–1989), film actor, opera singer, musician · buried at Alley of Honor
• Richard Quine (1920–1989), film actor, director, film producer · buried at Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary
• Robert Mapplethorpe (1946–1989), collagist, art photographer, film director · buried at St. John Cemetery (Queens)
• Rostislav Plyatt (1908–1989), television actor, actor · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• S. David Griggs (1939–1989), military officer, astronaut · buried at Arlington National Cemetery
• Sammy Fain (1902–1989), film score composer, songwriter, composer · buried at Cedar Park Cemetery, New Jersey
• Samuel Beckett (1906–1989), French resistance fighter, video artist, cricketer · buried at Montparnasse Cemetery
• Sándor Weöres (1913–1989), librettist, children's writer, translator · buried at Farkasréti Cemetery
• Sergei Sobolev (1908–1989), university teacher, mathematician · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Stella Gibbons (1902–1989), science fiction writer, novelist, journalist · buried at Highgate Cemetery
• Sugar Ray Robinson (1921–1989), boxer, film actor · buried at Inglewood Park Cemetery
• Suleyman Rustam (1906–1989), linguist, opinion journalist, editor-in-chief · buried at Alley of Honor
• Süreyya Ağaoğlu (1903–1989), author, jurist, lawyer · buried at Feriköy Cemetery
• Valentin Glushko (1908–1989), aerospace engineer, physicist, politician · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Veniamin Kaverin (1902–1989), short story writer, novelist, editor · buried at Vagankovo Cemetery
• Vladimir Kasatonov (1910–1989), admiral, politician, military personnel · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• William Shockley (1910–1989), university teacher, inventor, physicist · buried at Alta Mesa Memorial Park
• Wolfdietrich Schnurre (1920–1989), diarist, short story writer, novelist · buried at Waldfriedhof Zehlendorf
• Yacine Kateb (1929–1989), essayist, theatre director, journalist · buried at El Alia Cemetery
• Yan Frenkel (1924–1989), film score composer, pianist, singer · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Yuliya Solntseva (1901–1989), director, film director, actor · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Yuri Bogatyryov (1947–1989), actor · buried at Vagankovo Cemetery
• Zinka Milanov (1906–1989), music educator, opera singer, singer · buried at Mirogoj Cemetery