* 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

For example, in 1980, a company called " Don't Ask Software ", founded by Randy Simon, created a version called " Abuse " for the Apple II, Atari, and Commodore PCs, which verbally abused the user based on the user's input.

according to ( Reed and Simon, 1980 ).

Julian L. Simon and Paul Ehrlich entered in a famous scientific wager in 1980, betting on a mutually agreed-upon measure of resource scarcity over the decade leading up to 1990.

In 1980, Julian Simon repeatedly challenged environmental scientists to bet against him on trends in prices of commodities, asserting that humanity would never run out of anything ... Paul and the other scientists knew that the five metals in the proposed wager were not critical indicators and said so at the time ...

So per the terms of the wager, Ehrlich paid Simon the difference in price between the same quantity of metals in 1980 and 1990 ( which was $ 576. 07 ).

* 1980 – Simon Little, English bass player ( The Divine Comedy

* Jon Freeman, The Complete Book of Wargames, Simon and Schuster 1980.

The company had its head office redomiciled to Bermuda in 1984 under the tenure of Simon Keswick to maintain control after nearly being taken over by Chinese tycoon Li Ka-shing of Cheung Kong after a hostile raid in 1980.

Ian Brown ( at the time the bassist ) and guitarist John Squire, who knew each other from Altrincham Grammar School for Boys, formed a short-lived Clash-inspired band called The Patrol in 1980 along with singer / guitarist Andy Couzens and drummer Simon Wolstencroft.

According to Simon ( 1980 ), jurors approach their responsibilities as decision makers much in the same way as a court judge – with great seriousness, a lawful mind, and a concern for consistency that is evidence-based.

Simon also wrote and starred in the film One-Trick Pony ( 1980 ) and co-wrote the Broadway musical The Capeman ( 1998 ) with the poet Derek Walcott.

* Simon ( 1980 ) as Maj. Gen. Korey

< 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 >

In 1980, she founded the Jennifer Jones Simon Foundation For Mental Health And Education after her daughter's suicide.

Many earlier predictions of resource depletion, such as Thomas Malthus ' 1798 predictions about approaching famines in Europe, The Population Bomb ( 1968 ), Limits to Growth ( 1972 ), and the Simon – Ehrlich wager ( 1980 ) did not materialize, nor has diminished production of most resources occurred so far, one reason being that advancements in technology and science have allowed some previously unavailable resources to be produced.

Simon Keynes in 1980 showed that it belongs to the so-called Orthodoxorum group of charters, so named after the initial word of their proem, which he concluded were forgeries based on a charter of Æthelred II's reign.

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In the spring of 1980 he appeared as Simon Bliss alongside Constance Cummings — as Sorel Bliss — in a production of Noël Coward's 1920s play Hay Fever.

The original group ( Sebastian, Yanovsky, Butler and Boone ) reunited briefly in 1979 for a show at the Concord Hotel in the Catskills for an appearance in the Paul Simon film One Trick Pony, which was released in 1980.

Among the best-known Jewish ossuaries of this period are: an ossuary inscribed ' Simon the Temple builder ' in the collection of the Israel Museum, another incribed ' Elisheba wife of Tarfon ', one inscribed ' Yehohanan ben Hagkol ' that contained an iron nail in a heel bone suggesting crucifixion, another inscribed ' James son of Joseph, brother of Jesus ', the authenticity of which is suspect, and ten ossuaries recovered from the Talpiot Tomb in 1980, several of which are reported to have names from the New Testament.

They also performed at the Heatwave festival ( billed as the " New Wave Woodstock ") in Toronto, Canada in August 1980 ; and appeared in the Paul Simon film One Trick Pony.

Always politically active, Simon and James Taylor were part of the concerts which later became a documentary and concert film, No Nukes ( 1980 ) as well as a live album of the same name ( 1979 ).

" Vengeance " earned Simon a Grammy nomination for Best Rock Vocal Performance Female in early 1980 — the first year to feature the new category.

In 1980, Simon signed with Elektra's sibling label Warner Bros. Records.