* 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 – 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

Others, such as 1980 Hungarian film, Kojak Budapesten ( not to be confused with the 1986 comedy by the same name ) create their own scenarios involving Christie's criminal skill.

* 1980 – Michelle Wild, Hungarian model

The Hungarian neuroscientist László Seress ' 1980 preparation of the human hippocampus and fornix compared with a seahorse.

In 1980, he was elected honorary member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

In the meantime, between 1972 and 1980 he was on the staff of the Hungarian Academy's Institute of Politics and Law, and from 1978 until 1985 he held the post of director of the Institute of Civil Sciences.

Waves of Caribbean, Vietnamese, Filipino, Tamil, Chinese, Tibetan, Hungarian and Roma immigrants have marked Parkdale in different times between 1980 till present.

* Portraits of a Marriage ( 1941 & 1980, published in English in 2011 ), Hungarian titles: Iz igazi ( 1941 ) and Judit ... és az utóhang ( 1980 ) ISBN 978-1-4000-9667-1

Ernő Gerő ( born Ernő Singer ; July 8, 1898-March 12, 1980 ) was a Hungarian Communist Party leader in the period after World War II and briefly in 1956 the most powerful man in Hungary as first secretary of its ruling communist party.

Boyd subsequently founded the Hannibal Records label in 1980 ( later absorbed into Rykodisc ), which released albums by Richard Thompson and many recordings of world music, including Hungarian band Muzsikás.

In 1980 with Lajos Tichy as coach and a squad that included Imre Garaba, Honvéd won their first Hungarian League title in twenty five years.

Suspicions this was originally to be a Hungarian / Soviet flight were confirmed in 1980 when press releases for an upcoming joint mission were still dated June 1979.

Soyuz 36 was launched 26 May 1980 with Valery Kubasov and Hungarian cosmonaut Bertalan Farkas, headed to the Salyut 6 space station where Leonid Popov and Valery Ryumin, launched aboard Soyuz 35, were resident.

Some important players playing at Austria Wien in the successful era 1975 – 1976 till 1985 – 1986: Herbert " Schneckerl " Prohaska ( 1972 – 1980, 1983 – 1989 ), Felix Gasselich ( 1974 – 1983 ) who played afterwards at AFC Ajax Amsterdam July 1983 till November 1985, Thomas Parits ( 1964 – 1970, 1977 – 1979 ), Walter Schachner ( 1978 – 1981 ), Thomas Pfeiler ( 1978 – 1983 ), Gerhard Steinkogler ( 1980 – 1986 ), Alfred Drabits ( 1981 – 1988 ) ( nowadays youth-coach at Austria Wien ), Toni Polster ( 1982 – 1987 ), the Hungarian ex-international Tibor Nyilasi ( 1983 – 1988 ).

* Lukács Tihamér ( 1980 ), Hungarian footballer

* The Heiresses, a 1980 Hungarian drama film

After 1980, the nationalist ideology adopted by the PCR progressively targeted the Hungarian community as a whole, based on suspicions of its allegiance to Hungary, whose policies had become diametrically opposed to the methods of Romanian leaders ( see Goulash Communism ).

* Márton Vas ( born 1980 ), Hungarian ice hockey player

* Rita Drávucz ( b. 1980 ), Hungarian water polo player

But their intention was to create a Europe-wide movement, and by summer 1980 it had been endorsed by an impressive list of supporters, mainly in western Europe but with a smattering from the Soviet bloc, among them former Hungarian prime minister Andras Hegedus and Russian dissident Roy Medvedev.

Angel Sanz Briz ( Zaragoza, September 28, 1910-Rome, June 11, 1980 ) was a Spanish diplomat during World War II who helped save many Hungarian Jews from Nazi persecution.

In the 1970s the state of the building prompted the Hungarian State to order a major renovation which eventually began in 1980 and lasted till 1984.