Did any major world leaders die during the 80s?
I guess the joke answer is most of the Soviet Politburo. Here is your list: 1980 1) September 17 – Anastasio Somoza Debayle, former President of Nicaragua (assassinated) (b. 1925) 2) November 20 – John McEwen, eighteenth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1900) 3) December 4 – Francisco Sá Carneiro, Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1934) 1981 1) February 27 – Jacob H. Gilbert, American politician (b. 1920) 2) September 2 – Enid Lyons, Australia politician (b. 1897) 3) September 9 – Sir Robert (Bob) Askin, Premier of New South Wales (b. 1907) 4) September 28 – Sir Edward Boyle, Baron Boyle of Handsworth, British Conservative cabinet minister (b. 1923) 5) November 14 – Robert Bradford, Northern Irish footballer and politician (b. 1941) 1982 1) January 26 – Mikhail Suslov, Soviet politician and Politburo member (b. 1902) 2) June 2 – Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, President of Pakistan (b. 1904) 3) August 21 – King Sobhuza II of Swaziland, at the time the longest reigning living monarch (b. 1899) 4) Sep
