* 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 – 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

* Charles Villiers ( 1976 – 1980 )

The mountain was the setting for a children's story, The Old Man of Lochnagar, told originally by Prince Charles to his younger brothers, Andrew and Edward, and published in 1980 with royalties accruing to The Prince's Trust.

His bands have included Watt 4 ( 1980 ), in which he played keyboards and provided voice, Craig Charles and the Beat Burglars ( 1989 ), The Sons of Gordon Gekko ( 1989 ), where he wrote lyrics and also composed tunes for the band, and The Eye ( 2000 – 01 ), with whom he released the rock album " Giving You The Eye, Live at the Edinburgh Festival ".

It was replaced after the 1980 elections by a government led by the Dominica Freedom Party under Prime Minister Eugenia Charles, the Caribbeans first female prime minister.

Four years later Mountbatten secured an invitation for himself and Amanda to accompany Charles on his planned 1980 tour of India.

* Stations of the Elevated ( 1980 ), the earliest documentary about subway graffiti in New York City, with music by Charles Mingus

Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (; ; 21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980 ) was a French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic.

* Fry, Plantagenet Somerset, The David & Charles Book of Castles, David & Charles, 1980, p. 249.

* 1980: Charles Saxon, Advertising

* 1980 Charles M. Schulz

* Gould, Tony: In Limbo: The Story of Stanley's Rear Column, David & Charles 1980 ISBN 0-241-10125-5

* Robert Charles Bell ( 1980 ).

Other notable people born in or associated with Newcastle include: engineer and industrialist Lord Armstrong, engineer and father of the modern steam railways George Stephenson, his son, also an engineer, Robert Stephenson, engineer and inventor of the steam turbine Sir Charles Parsons, inventor of the incandescent light bulb Sir Joseph Swan, modernist poet Basil Bunting, Lord Chief Justice Peter Taylor, the Portuguese writer Eça de Queiroz who was a diplomat in Newcastle from late 1874 until April 1879 — his most productive literary period, The Prime Minister of Thailand Abhisit Vejjajiva, singers Eric Burdon, Sting and Brian Johnson, lead singer of AC / DC from 1980 to the present, actors Charlie Hunnam multiple circumnavigator David Scott Cowper, Neil Tennant, Alan Hull, Mark Knopfler, Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch, Cheryl Cole, entertainers Ant and Dec, and international footballers Peter Beardsley, Michael Carrick, Andy Carroll, Paul Gascoigne and Alan Shearer.

EchoStar was formed in 1980 by its chairman and chief executive officer, Charles Ergen along with colleagues Candy Ergen and Jim Defranco, as a distributor of C band satellite television systems.

* Grand Cross of the Order of Charles III ( 1980, Spain )

* Great Forgers and Famous Fakes by Charles Hamilton, Crown Publishers, 1980, 278 pages.

Charles Percy Snow, Baron Snow of the City of Leicester CBE ( 15 October 1905 – 1 July 1980 ) was an English chemist and novelist who also served in several important positions in the British Civil Service and briefly in the UK government.

* Charles S. Dewey ( 1880 – 1980 ), American politician

* Charles Wiley, Republican Congressional political candidate who ran against incumbent Edward J. Patten in 1980.

* Fry, Plantagenet Somerset, The David & Charles Book of Castles, David & Charles, 1980.

His children from the first marriage were John Stephen Chennault ( 1913 – 1977 ), Max Thompson Chennault ( 1914 – 2001 ), Charles Lee Chennault ( 1918 – 1967 ), Peggy Sue Chennault Lee ( born 1919 ), Claire Patterson Chennault ( November 24, 1920 – October 3, 2011 ), David Wallace Chennault ( 1923 – 1980 ), Robert Kenneth Chennault ( 1925 – 2006 ), and Rosemary Louise Chennault Simrall ( born 1928 ).

Stanley Sadie, " Koechlin, Charles ", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians ( London: Macmillian, 1980 ), 20 vols.