* 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

* 1980 – Chris Simms, American football player

Another early commercial model was the six-button Microwriter, designed by Cy Endfield and Chris Rainey, and first sold in 1980.

* 1980 – Chris Carmack, American actor

* 1980 – Chris Shelton, American baseball player

* 1980 – Chris Leben, American mixed martial artist

* 1980 – Chris Gethard, American actor, comedian, and writer

* 1980 – Chris Barker, American bassist ( Anti-Flag )

Pirsig discusses this incident in an afterword to subsequent editions of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, writing that he and his second wife, Kimball, decided not to abort the child she conceived in 1980, because he had come to believe that this unborn child was a continuation of the life pattern that Chris had occupied.

* 1980 – Chris Riggott, English footballer

* 1980 – Chris Tarrant, Australian footballer

* 1980 – Miami Mustangs club formation ( founder: Chris Phillips )

* Chris Hayes ( born Christopher John Hayes, November 24, 1957, in Great Lakes, Illinois ) – guitar, backing vocals ( 1980 – 2001 )

* Chris O ' Dowd ( born 1980 )-an Irish actor born in Boyle, County Roscommon.

* City ( 1980 ) ( with Chris Hillman, featuring Gene Clark )

* Chris Denorfia ( born 1980 ) Baseball player

* Chris Simms ( born 1980 ), NFL quarterback.

Gene Palmer, Randle Walker ; 1971, Mike Buchanan, Lindsey Roberts ; 1972, Rueben Bussey, Bobby Price, Avery Downing ; 1973, Maurice Jones ; 1974, Coach Ben Pannel, Roy Green, Bobby Hunt, Stanley Lawrence ; 1975, James Brack, Bobby Mowrey, Jerry Malone ; 1976, Pres Young, Rex Scroggins, Dick Ford ; 1977, Robert Knight ; 1979, Jackie Walker, Gregg McNeal ; 1980, Windy Haggard, Syd Keasler, Zell Roberts, Wilber Ingram ; 1981, Kenny Rowe, Martin Luther King Jr, Danny Malone ; 1982, Jimmy Killion, Gene Grammer ; 1983, David Powell, Jerry Bunt ; 1984, Doug Floyd, Ken Jones ; 1985, Mike Trice, Scooter Taylor ; 1986, Brian Koechel, Bryon Lawrence ; 1987, Donald Taylor ; 1988, Jimmie Tallant ; 1989, Tommy Roberts ; 1990, Chris Shafer, Larry Gideon ; 1991, Randy Clark, Clifford Shaw ; 1992, Jimmy Lynn Grimes, Ricky Lawrence ; 1993, Linty Ingram ; 1995, Jeff Brownlee, Ron Gideon ; 1996, John Martin ; 1997, Rob Floyd ; 1998, Steve Green, Patrick Gill ; 1999, J. B. Rodgers ; 2000, Les Langley ; 2001, Rodney Flake ; 2002, Donnie Muckleroy

In the 1980 Mr. Olympia he placed fourth ( in a tie with Boyer Coe ) behind Arnold Schwarzenegger, Chris Dickerson and Frank Zane.

* Word Sound and Power ( Chris Hinze, 1980 )

Thompson himself was not expelled from the House of Representatives because he lost his re-election campaign in 1980 to Republican Chris Smith, a relatively unknown GOP candidate who in 1978 had run against Thompson as a sacrificial lamb candidate.

Tessa first appeared in The X-Men # 132 ( April 1980 ), and was created by Chris Claremont and John Byrne.

* 1980: The second ascent of the West Pillar was completed in May by John Roskelley ( summit ), Chris Kopczynski, James States and Kim Momb, without Sherpa support and without bottled oxygen.

Despite a few nagging injures late in the season, Charboneau played 131 games in 1980 and won the American League Rookie of the Year award, the first Indian to claim the award since Chris Chambliss in 1971.

Chris Mullin first visited Cambodia in 1973, and again in 1980 ; in 1989 and 1990, he was outspoken on the British Government's record in Cambodia, being a leading voice in some of the first protracted debates on Britain's provision of military support to the Khmer Rouge, and attributing increasing public interest in the issue to the documentary films of John Pilger.