* 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

* Pat Smear – guitar ( 1977 – 1980, 2005 – present )

Other Yale alumni who made serious bids for the Presidency during this period include Hillary Rodham Clinton ( 2008 ), Howard Dean ( 2004 ), Gary Hart ( 1984 and 1988 ), Paul Tsongas ( 1992 ), Pat Robertson ( 1988 ) and Jerry Brown ( 1976, 1980, 1992 ).

Pickens appeared in dozens of films, including Old Oklahoma Plains ( 1952 ), Down Laredo Way ( 1953 ), One-Eyed Jacks ( 1961 ) with Marlon Brando, Dr. Strangelove ( 1964 ), Major Dundee ( 1965 ) with Charlton Heston, the remake of Stagecoach ( 1966 ; Pickens played the driver, portrayed in the 1939 film by Andy Devine ), Never a Dull Moment ( 1968 ), The Cowboys ( 1972 ) with John Wayne, Ginger in the Morning ( 1974 ) with Fred Ward, Blazing Saddles ( 1974 ), Poor Pretty Eddy ( 1975 ), Rancho Deluxe ( 1975 ), The Getaway with Steve McQueen, Tom Horn ( 1980 ), also with McQueen, An Eye for an Eye ( 1966 ) and Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid ( 1973 ) in a small but memorable role.

Their immediate followups to " Good Lovin '", including " You Better Run " ( 1966 ; covered in 1980 by Pat Benatar ) and " Come On Up " were only modest hits.

The album was themed around the concept of " All ", which had been invented by Stevenson and friend Pat McCuistion during a fishing trip on Stevenson's boat Orca in 1980.

* The Lords of Discipline ( 1980 ) by Pat Conroy, supposedly about the integration of the first black cadets into The Citadel.

Managers Stump Merrill and Johnny Oates and future major leaguers such as Steve Balboni, Don Mattingly, Buck Showalter, Otis Nixon, Willie McGee, Pat Tabler, and Dan Pasqua helped lead Nashville to first or second-place divisional finishes from 1980 to 1984.

The Pat Metheny Group, which was founded in 1977, made both the jazz and pop charts with their second album, American Garage ( 1980 ).

By April 1980 Orion's first set of movie releases had yielded one hit — 10, starring Dudley Moore and Bo Derek — and a host of also-rans, including The Great Santini, based on a Pat Conroy novel about a Southern family, A Little Romance, and Promises in the Dark.

Early in the 1980 – 81 WHL season, Medicine Hat Tigers GM / Coach Pat Ginnell traded blows with a linesman during a bench clearing brawl against the Lethbridge Broncos.

As original characters began to leave the series ( Mum Brooks, Lynn Warner, Karen and Greg all appeared beyond the initial sixteen episodes, but had made their exits by the end of the 1979 season, with Greg leaving early 1980 ), new characters arrived: hulking husband-basher Monica Ferguson ( Lesley Baker ), sneering career criminal Noeline Burke ( Jude Kuring ), idealistic murderess Roslyn Coulson ( Sigrid Thornton ) and imprisoned mother Pat O ' Connell ( Monica Maughan ), as well as many shorter term inmates with briefer storylines.

Core members of the group are leader and founder, guitarist Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays ( piano, keyboards ) and Steve Rodby ( double and electric bass ) who joined in 1980.

Darby Crash ( born Jan Paul Beahm ) ( September 26, 1958 – December 7, 1980 ) was an American punk musician who, along with long-time friend Pat Smear ( born Georg Ruthenberg ), co-founded The Germs.

The Lords of Discipline is a 1980 novel by Pat Conroy.

Pat Lynch, then an NBC News reporter, stated that the Hunger Project carried out a four-month campaign to discredit her while she was preparing what eventually became an NBC Evening News segment in 1980.

* Pat Wilson ( 1977 – 1980 )

* Pat Stanton ( 1980 )

The core members of the group are guitarist and bandleader Pat Metheny, composer, keyboardist and pianist Lyle Mays ( who was part of the group's inception in 1977 ), and bassist and producer Steve Rodby ( joined in 1980 ).

The US patent for this game, Pat No. 4, 207, 087 was obtained in 1980 by patent counsel for Marvin Glass and Associates, Robert J. Schneider, a managing partner with the firm of Mason, Kolehmainen, Rathburn and Wyss.

**** " City of the Damned " ( with Pat Mills and John Wagner, in # 9-16, 1979 – 1980 )

**** " The Star Beast " ( with Pat Mills and John Wagner, in # 19-26, 1980 )

**** " The Dogs of Doom " ( with Pat Mills and John Wagner, in # 27-34, 1980 )

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