* 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

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, screening of consecutive newborns for sex chromosome abnormalities was undertaken at seven centers worldwide: in Denver ( Jan 1964 – 1974 ), Edinburgh ( Apr 1967 – Jun 1979 ), New Haven ( Oct 1967 – Sep 1968 ), Toronto ( Oct 1967 – Sep 1971 ), Aarhus ( Oct 1969 – Jan 1974, Oct 1980 – Jan 1989 ), Winnipeg ( Feb 1970 – Sep 1973 ), and Boston ( Apr 1970 – Nov 1974 ).

* Audio recording of Mayday call made from the Sunshine Skyway Bridge Collapse, Tampa Bay, Florida, May 1980 ( MP3 format ) ( updated URI, Jun 29 2005 )

* 1st wall ( Aug 1980 – Jun 1982 ) surrounding the " useful triangle " of El Aaiún, Smara and the phosphate mines at Bu Craa ( c. 500 km.

( Jun 1980 ) “ Closed-loop control of force during electrical stimulation of muscle ”, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Vol.

As an actress, she has worked with directors including Akira Kurosawa ( Kagemusha, 1980 ), Tatsumi Kumashiro ( Seishun no Satetsu, 1974 ), Yoji Yamada ( The Yellow Handkerchief, 1977 and Otoko wa Tsuraiyo, 1979 ), Shohei Imamura ( Why Not ?, 1981 ), Shunji Iwai ( Swallowtail Butterfly, 1996 ), Jun Ichikawa ( Tokyo Yakyoku, 1997 ), Mitani Koki ( Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald, 1997 ), Yoshimitsu Morita ( Like Asura, 2003 ) and Takashi Miike ( IZO, Sukiyaki Western Django ).

* M. Obara, " Strip-Line Multichannel-Surface-Spark-Gap-Type Marx Generator for Fast Discharge Lasers ", IEEE Conference Record of the 1980 Fourteenth Pulse Power Modulator Symposium, USA, Jun.

* Sergio Cardinal Pignedoli ( 6 Mar 1973-15 Jun 1980 )

** George Jean Achache ( born 8 Jun 1980 )

* Jun Inui – drums 1980 – 1982, 1984 – 1985

** in production: Sep 1968 – Jun 1980

* Bōchan ( Jun. 1980 )

* 1980 – Lee Jin, South Korean actress

* 1980 – Ryu Seung-beom, South Korean actor

* Adrian Jacobs ( born 1980 ), South African rugby player

* 1980 – Hwangbo, South Korean singer, rapper, and actress ( Chakra )

* 1980 – Lee Hyun-il, South Korean badminton player

The Lions toured South Africa in 1980.

After performing for Queen Elizabeth II at a command performance in 1979, Haley made his final performances in South Africa in May and June 1980.

Prior to the South African tour, he was diagnosed with a brain tumor, and a planned tour of Germany in the fall of 1980 was canceled.

Ronald Reagan spoke at the school in 1980, although the Joneses supported his opponent, John Connally, in the South Carolina primary.

Clement Martyn Doke ( 16 May 1893 in Bristol, United Kingdom – 24 February 1980 in East London, South Africa ) was a South African linguist working mainly on African languages.

Hetzron ( 1980: 70ff ) and Ehret ( 1995 ) have suggested that the Rift languages ( South Cushitic ) are a part of Lowland East Cushitic, the only one of the six groups with much internal diversity.

* 1980 – Kang Sung Hoon, South Korean singer ( Sechs Kies )

* 1980 – Bada, South Korean singer

Stencil s by John Fekner: Charlotte Street Stencils, South Bronx, New York, 1980.

* 1980 – The African National Congress in South Africa publishes a call to fight from their imprisoned leader Nelson Mandela.

* 1980 – Billy Butlin, South African-English businessman, founded the Butlins Company ( b. 1899 )

* 1980 – Han Eun-jeong, South Korean actress

* 1980 – Roland Mark Schoeman, South African swimmer

* 1980 – Lim Soo-jung, South Korean actress

* 1980 – Lee Dong-gun, South Korean actor

By 1980 the firm had operations in southern Africa, Australia, China, Great Britain, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, as well as the United States, and employed 37, 000 people.

* 1980 – Tablo, South Korean rapper, producer, and actor ( Epik High )

The coin, produced by the South African Mint, proved popular and by 1980 the Krugerrand accounted for 90 % of the global gold coin market.

Although the change of government in Zimbabwe in 1980 removed this threat, the apartheid regime in South Africa continued to finance the destabilization of Mozambique.