* 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 – Nicholas Tse, Hong Kong singer-songwriter and actor

* 1980 – Thomas Ian Nicholas, American actor

* Nicholas Palmer, The Best of Board Wargaming, Hippocrene Books, Inc. New York, NY 1980.

Nicholas Temperley writes in the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians ( 1980 ) that Bruckner

* Eckert, J. Presper, The ENIAC ( in Nicholas Metropolis, J. Howlett, Gian-Carlo Rota, ( editors ), A History of Computing in the Twentieth Century, Academic Press, New York, 1980, pp. 525 – 540 )

* Mauchly, John, The ENIAC ( in Metropolis, Nicholas, J. Howlett, Gian-Carlo Rota, 1980, A History of Computing in the Twentieth Century, Academic Press, New York, ISBN 0-12-491650-3, pp. 541 – 550, " Original versions of these papers were presented at the International Research Conference on the History of Computing, held at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, 10 – 15 June 1976.

Other major screen roles include the obsessed Nazi Colonel in The Train ( 1964 ), Strether in a 1977 TV adaptation of Henry James's novel The Ambassadors, Tobias in A Delicate Balance ( 1973 ), Professor Moroi in the film of János Nyíri's If Winter Comes ( 1980 ), for BBC Television, Mark Van Doren in Robert Redford's film Quiz Show ( 1994 ), and Thomas Danforth in Nicholas Hytner's film adaptation ( 1996 ) of Arthur Miller's The Crucible.

The film was adapted by James Dearden and Nicholas Meyer from an earlier short film by Dearden for British television, Diversion ( 1980 ).

* The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby adapted for the stage by David Edgar, world premiere directed by Trevor Nunn and John Caird ( 1980 ), winner of a Drama Desk Special Award in 1982

Nicholas Scott " Nick " Cannon ( born October 8, 1980 ) is an American actor, comedian, rapper, and radio / television personality.

* 1980 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Director-The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

Instead, Nicholas Ridley was sent back to the Islands in November 1980 to try to persuade Islanders to accept a proposal for ' leaseback ' whereby nominal sovereignty would be given to Argentina but British administration would be maintained for a fixed number of years until the final handover.

* James H. Wilkinson, Turing's Work at the National Physical Laboratory and the Construction of Pilot ACE, DEUCE and ACE ( in Nicholas Metropolis, J. Howlett, Gian-Carlo Rota, ( editors ), A History of Computing in the Twentieth Century, Academic Press, New York, 1980 )

* 1980 — Works by Tim Head and Nicholas Pope.

* Nicholas Tse (, born 1980 ), Hong Kong singer and actor.

Together the Carradines played the Younger brothers in The Long Riders ( 1980 ) along with three other sets of acting brothers: Stacy and James Keach, Dennis and Randy Quaid, and Christopher and Nicholas Guest.

Andrew Nicholas Buckmaster ( b. 1980 )

* James H. Wilkinson, Turing's Work at the National Physical Laboratory and the Construction of Pilot ACE, DEUCE and ACE ( in Nicholas Metropolis, J. Howlett, Gian-Carlo Rota, ( editors ), A History of Computing in the Twentieth Century, Academic Press, New York, 1980 )

Nicholas Tse ( aka Tse Ting-fung,, born 29 August 1980 ) is a Hong Kong singer and songwriter, musician, actor and entrepreneur.

Nicholas Daniel won the BBC Young Musician of the Year Competition in 1980 and was awarded the 2011 Queen's Medal for Music.

* Nicholas Penny ( 1980 )

* Captain Nicholas J. S. Hunt: October 1978-June 1980

Other than Guys and Dolls, his most noted theatre productions are of Hamlet ( twice ), with Jonathan Pryce at the Royal Court in 1980 and Daniel Day-Lewis in 1989 ; Richard III with Ian McKellen ; King Lear with Ian Holm ; Tennessee Williams ' Night of the Iguana and Sweet Bird of Youth ; Eduardo De Filippo's Napoli Milionaria and Le Grande Magia ; John Gabriel Borkman with Paul Scofield, Vanessa Redgrave and Eileen Atkins ; Hedda Gabler with Eve Best, and numerous new plays by David Hare, Tom Stoppard, Trevor Griffiths, Howard Brenton, Alan Bennett, Christopher Hampton and Nicholas Wright.

Thomas Ian Nicholas ( born July 10, 1980 ) is an American film actor, singer, musician, producer, director, and writer.