1980 is a leap year starting on Tuesday.
Events
January-February
March
April
May-June
- May 4 - Yugoslavia's president for life Marshal Josip Broz Tito dies at age 77.
- May 7 - Paul Geidel, convicted of second-degree murder in 1911, is released from prison in Beacon, New York, after 68 years and 245 days - the longest-ever time served by an inmate
- May 9 - In Florida, a Liberian freighter named the Summit Venture hits the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay sending 35 people (most of whom were in a bus) to a watery death as a 1,400-foot section of the bridge collapsed
- May 18 - Mount St. Helens erupts in Washington killing 57 and causing US$ 3 billion in damage
- May 20 - Referendum in Quebec where the population rejects by a vote of 60% the proposal from its government to move towards independence from Canada.
- May 24 - The International Court of Justice calls for the release of U.S. embassy hostages in Tehran.
- June 1 - The Cable News Network, or CNN, is launched in the United States.
- June 1 - Comedian Richard Pryor is badly burned trying to freebase cocaine.
- June 3 - A series of deadly tornadoes strikes Grand Island, Nebraska, causing over $300m in damage, killing five people and injuring over 250.
- June 10 - Apartheid: The African National Congress in South Africa publishes a statement by their imprisoned leader Nelson Mandela which says in part 'UNITE! MOBILISE! FIGHT ON! BETWEEN THE ANVIL OF UNITED MASS ACTION AND THE HAMMER OF THE ARMED STRUGGLE WE SHALL CRUSH APARTHEID!'[1] (http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/mandela/64-90/anvil.html)
- June 23 - Sanjay Gandhi, son of Indira Gandhi, dies in an air crash
- June 25 – Muslim Brotherhood assassination attempt against Syrian president Hafez al-Assad fails. Assad retaliates by sending the army against them
- June 26 - The fascist NAR group places a bomb on a plane that crashes into the sea near Naples - 81 people dead
- June 29 - Vigdis Finnbogadottir becomes the president of Iceland
July-August
September-October
November
December
unknown dates
Year in topic
Births
January-June
- January 1 - Rebekah Teasdale, British model and journalist
- January 1 - Elin Nordegren, Swedish model
- January 2 - Michelle Clack, British model
- January 9 - Sergio García, Spanish golfer
- January 11 - Mike Williams, American football player
- January 14 - Cory Gibbs, American soccer player
- January 16 - Albert Pujols, baseball player
- January 20 - Jasmin Wagner, German pop singer
- January 22 - Christopher Masterson, actor (Malcolm in the Middle)
- January 25 - Christian Olsson, Swedish triple jumper
- February 10 - César Iztúris, baseball player
- February 11 - Natasha Bobo, actress
- February 11 - Matthew Lawrence, actor
- February 12 - Juan Carlos Ferrero, Spanish tennis player
- February 12 - Christina Ricci, actress
- February 16 - Ashley Lelie, American football player
- February 20 - Imanol Harinordoquy, French international rugby player
- February 27 - Chelsea Clinton, daughter of former President Bill Clinton
- March 16 - Todd Heap, American football player
- March 18 - Alexei Yagudin, figure skater
- March 21 - Ronaldinho, Brazilian soccer player
- April 17 - Brenda Villa, water polo player
- April 21 - Vincent Lecavalier, NHL hockey player
- May 8 - Nilay Koyunoglu, artist
- May 9 - Grant Hackett, Australian swimmer
- June 1 - Oliver James, British actor
- June 13 - Sarah Connor, German pop singer
- June 16 - Joey Yung, Hong Kong singer
- June 17 - Venus Williams, tennis player
- June 22 - Jade Marcela, erotic actress
- June 23 - Ramnaresh Sarwan, cricketer
- June 26 - Jason Schwartzman, actor
- June 26 - Michael Vick, football quarterback
July-December
- July 6 - Pau Gasol, Catalan NBA star
- July 7 - Michelle Kwan, figure skater
- July 8 - Robbie Keane, Irish international footballer
- July 10 - Adam Petty, NASCAR driver (d. 2000)
- July 10 - Jessica Simpson, singer
- July 22 - Kate Ryan, Belgian singer
- August 11 - Lee Suggs, American football player
- August 26 - Macaulay Culkin, actor
- September 7 - Mark Prior, baseball pitcher
- September 12 - Yao Ming, Chinese NBA star
- September 12 - Sean Burroughs, Major League Baseball player
- September 21 - Kareena Kapoor, Bollywood actress
- September 30 - Martina Hingis, Swiss tennis player
- October 13 - Ashanti, US pop music artist
- October 14 - Terrence McGee, American football player
- October 16 - Sue Bird, WNBA basketball star
- November 12 - Ryan Gosling, actor
- November 17 - Isaac Hanson, musician
- November 21 - Hank Blalock, baseball player
- December 10 - Alexa Rae, erotic actress
- December 18 - Christina Aguilera, pop singer
- December 19 - Jake Gyllenhaal, actor (The Day After Tomorrow)
- December 19 - Marla Sokoloff, actress (Full House, The Practice)
- December 30 - Eliza Dushku, actress
Deaths
January-May
- January 3 - Joy Adamson, conservationist and author of Born Free (killed by a servant in northern Kenya).
- January 8 - John Mauchly, co-inventor of the ENIAC computer
- January 10 - George Meany, labor leader
- January 18 - Sir Cecil Beaton, fashion designer
- January 29 - Jimmy Durante, actor, singer, comedian, vaudevillian
- January 30 - Professor Longhair, King of New Orleans music
- February 7 - Secondo Campini, Italian jet pioneer
- February 13 - David Janssen, actor
- February 19 - Bon Scott, lead singer for AC/DC
- March 5 - Jay Silverheels, actor
- March 16 - Tamara de Lempicka, Art Deco painter
- March 25 - Walter Susskind, Czech conductor (b. 1913)
- March 29 - Mantovani, musician
- March 31 - Jesse Owens, American athlete
- April 4 - Red Sovine, country music entertainer
- April 12 - Clark McConachy, snooker and billiards player
- April 29 - Alfred Hitchcock, British film director (b. 1899)
- May 4 - Josip Broz Tito, president of Yugoslavia (born 1892)
- May 18 - Ian Curtis, band member of Joy Division
- May 28 - Rolf Nevanlinna, mathematician (born 1895)
June-November
- June 7 - Henry Miller, writer
- June 12 - Milburn Stone, actor
- June 13 - Walter Rodney, historian, political figure
- June 21 - Bert Kaempfert, German orchestra leader and songwriter
- June 23 - Clyfford Still, painter
- July 7 - Dore Schary, stage/motion picture personality
- July 17 - Muhammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran
- July 17 - Boris Delaunay, Soviet/Russian mathematician
- July 24 - Peter Sellers, actor
- July 26 - Kenneth Tynan, theatre critic, b. 1927.
- August 7 - Jacqueline Cochran, American aviatrix
- August 10 - Yahya Khan, President of Pakistan
- August 14 - Dorothy Stratten, Playboy playmate (murdered)
- August 24 - Yootha Joyce, British actress
- September 25 - John Bonham, drummer of Led Zeppelin
- October 25 - Victor Galindez, boxing light heavyweight world champion, in car race accident.
- November 4 - Elsie MacGill, aeronautical engineer, "Queen of the Hurricanes"
- November 7 - Steve McQueen, actor
- November 20 - John McEwen, eighteenth Prime Minister of Australia
- November 22 - Mae West, actress
December
- December 2 - Romain Gary, writer
- December 4 - Francisco Sá Carneiro, Prime Minister of Portugal (died in office).
- December 4 - Stanislawa Walasiewicz, Polish-American sprinter
- December 8 - John Lennon, musician, founding member of The Beatles
- December 16 - Harland Sanders, founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken (born 1890)
- December 16 - Hellmuth Walter, engineer and inventor
- December 24 - Karl Dönitz, former President of Germany.
- December 29 - Tim Hardin, musician
- December 31 - Marshall McLuhan, Canadian author and professor
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