* 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 – Michael Todd, American bass player ( Coheed and Cambria )

The Jacksons ( previously The Jackson 5 ) did many disco songs from 1975 to 1980, including " Shake Your Body ( Down to the Ground )" ( 1978 ), " Blame it on the Boogie " ( 1978 ), and " Can You Feel It " ( 1980 )— all sung by Michael Jackson, whose 1979 solo album, Off the Wall, included several disco hits, including the album's title song, " Rock with You ", " Workin ' Day and Night ", and his second chart-topping solo hit in the disco genre, " Don't Stop ' til You Get Enough ".

After a year honing his inquisitorial skills, he joined the front bench in November 1980 as a Scottish affairs spokesman when Michael Foot became party leader.

The Golden Turkey Awards is a 1980 book by film critic Michael Medved and his brother Harry Medved.

* 1980 – Michael Vick, American football player

* 1980 – Michael Rupp, American ice hockey player

In 1969, Caron married Michael Laughlin, best known as producer of the film Two-Lane Blacktop ; they divorced in 1980.

From 1974 to 1980 he wrote, designed, narrated and presented the children's television programme Michael Bentine's Potty Time and made one-off comedy specials.

* 1980 – Michael Ryder, Canadian ice hockey player

He remained as Education spokesman following the resignation of Callaghan as party leader and the election of Michael Foot as his successor in late 1980.

Michael J. Flynn views the first RISC system as the IBM 801 design which began in 1975 by John Cocke, and completed in 1980.

In 1980 Richman again formed a new Modern Lovers, with Keranen, drummer Michael Guardabascio and backing singers Ellie Marshall and Beth Harrington.

* Michael Dempsey ( formerly of The Cure )-bass guitar ( 1980 – 1982 )

— Foreword, in Conservation Biology, Michael Soulé and Bruce Wilcox, 1980.

After attending a Queen concert in Los Angeles, Michael Jackson suggested to Mercury backstage that " Another One Bites the Dust " be released as a single, and in October 1980 it spent three weeks at number one.

* 1980: The Congo River is featured in a chapter of Michael Crichton's novel Congo ( published in 1980 ), as well as in the 1995 film based on the book.

The film is based on the 1980 novel of the same name by Michael Crichton.

It was only in 1980 that Klaus von Klitzing, working with samples developed by Michael Pepper and Gerhard Dorda, made the unexpected discovery that the Hall conductivity was exactly quantized.

# Michael Langhorne Astor ( 1916 – 1980 )

In 1980, physicist Luis Alvarez ; his son, geologist Walter Alvarez ; and nuclear chemists Frank Asaro and Helen V. Michael from the University of California, Berkeley discovered unusually high concentrations of iridium in a specific layer of rock strata in the Earth's crust.

< center > The Blake's 7 cast in series 3 ( 1980 ): Steven Pacey ( Tarrant ); Josette Simon ( Dayna ); Michael Keating ( Vila ); Jan Chappell ( Cally ) and Paul Darrow ( Avon ).</ center >

* The 1980 Blue Öyster Cult song " Black Blade " on the Cultosaurus Erectus album was created as a collaboration between Eric Bloom and Michael Moorcock.