* Nominated: Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, Archie Bunker's Place ( 1980 )

1980 Nominated for " Outstanding Actor in a Daytime Drama Series

* 1980 – Matthew Carey, American actor

* 1980 – Tommi Evilä, Finnish long jumper

* 1980 – Tanja Poutiainen, Finnish ski racer

* 1980 – Samuel Doe takes control of Liberia in a coup d ' état, ending over 130 years of minority Americo-Liberian rule over the country.

* 1980 – Terry Fox begins his " Marathon of Hope " at St. John's, Newfoundland.

* 1980 – Brian McFadden, Irish singer-songwriter ( Westlife )

* 1980 – Erik Mongrain, Canadian composer and guitarist

* 1980 – Accession of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.

* 1980 – Jeroen Verhoeven, Dutch footballer

* 1980 – Luis Scola, Argentinean basketball player

* 1912 – Gloria Guinness, Mexican writer and editor ( d. 1980 )

* 1980 – Neha Dhupia, Indian model and actress

* 1980 – Kyle Lowder, American actor

* 1907 – László Heller, Hungarian engineer ( d. 1980 )

* 1980 – Danny Collins, Welsh footballer

* 1980 – Monique Ganderton, Canadian actress and stunt-woman

* 1980 – András Horváth, Hungarian footballer

* 1980 – Charles McCarthy, American mixed martial artist

* 1980 – Wilber Pan, American-Taiwanese singer, producer, and actor

* 1980 – Seneca Wallace, American football player

* 1896 – Erich Hückel, German physicist ( d. 1980 )

* 1896 – Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologist ( d. 1980 )

* 1980 – Texas Battle, American actor

* 1980 – Nuria Cabanillas, Canadian-Spanish gymnast

* 1980 – Charlie David, Canadian actor

After the mid-1960s, he became much less prolific, but his later work — including his final two epics, Kagemusha ( 1980 ) and Ran ( 1985 )— continued to win awards, including the Palme d ' Or for Kagemusha, though more often abroad than in Japan.

Of the older generation of directors, Akira Kurosawa directed Kagemusha ( 1980 ), which won the Palme d ' Or at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival, and Ran ( 1985 ).

The film won the Palme d ' Or at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival.

Among Paul Schrader's films in the 1980s were American Gigolo ( 1980 ), his 1982 remake of Cat People, Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters ( 1985, again co-written with Leonard Schrader, with Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas serving as executive producers ), for which he was nominated for the Palme d ' Or prize at that year's Cannes Film Festival, and Patty Hearst ( 1988 ), about the kidnapping and transformation of the Hearst Corporation heiress.

It competed for the Palme d ' Or at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival.

At the 1980 Cannes Film Festival, Kagemusha shared the Palme d ' Or with All That Jazz.

The film Jaguar ( 1979 ) was nominated for the Palme d ' Or at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival.

Their film Kagemusha ( 1980 ) was nominated for a Best Foreign Film Oscar and took the Palme d ' Or at Cannes.

* In 1980, Gérard d ' Aboville was the first man to cross the Atlantic Ocean rowing solo.

* 1899 – Alfred Hitchcock, English director and producer ( d. 1980 )

* 1907 – Albert Kotin, American painter ( d. 1980 )

* 1917 – Óscar Romero, Salvadoran archbishop ( d. 1980 )

* 1894 – George Meany, American labor leader ( d. 1980 )

* 1929 – Bill Evans, American pianist and composer ( d. 1980 )

* 1902 – Mohammad Hatta, Indonesian politician, 1st Vice President of Indonesia ( d. 1980 )

* 1910 – Paul Triquet, Canadian military officer ( d. 1980 )

* 1927 – Kenneth Tynan, English critic and writer ( d. 1980 )

* 1980 – Ricky Hendrick, American race car driver ( d. 2004 )

* 1904 – Secondo Campini, Italian engineer ( d. 1980 )

* 1980 – Justin Levens, American mixed martial artist ( d. 2008 )

La Longue Marche à travers la théorie de Galois Long March Through Galois Theory is an approximately 1600-page handwritten manuscript produced by Grothendieck during the years 1980 – 1981, containing many of the ideas leading to the Esquisse d ' un programme ( see below, and also a more detailed entry ), and in particular studying the Teichmüller theory.

* 1952 – Reid Blackburn, American photographer ( d. 1980 )

* 1894 – V. V. Giri, Indian politician ( d. 1980 )

* 1913 – Robert Hayden, American poet ( d. 1980 )

* 1931 – Felix Berezin, Russian mathematician ( d. 1980 )

* 1980 – Karen Asrian, Armenian chess player ( d. 2008 )

First it was the Democratic-Republican Party ( 1963 ~ 1980 ); its head was Park Chung-hee who seized power in a 1961 military coup d ' état and ruled as an unelected military strongman until his formal election as president in 1963.