* 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

* 1928 – Sohrab Sepehri, Persian poet and painter ( d. 1980 )

** Sohrab Sepehri, Persian poet and painter ( d. 1980 )

Sohrab Sepehri () ( October 7, 1928-April 21, 1980 ) was a notable modern Persian poet and a painter.

* October 7-Sohrab Sepehri, Persian poet and a painter ( d. 1980 ).

Following the fall of the Shah of Iran and the Iran Hostage Crisis in 1979 – 1980, the West became concerned with ensuring the flow of oil from the Persian Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz, and the US received permission for a $ 400 million expansion of the military facilities on Diego Garcia consisting of two parallel runways, expansive parking aprons for heavy bombers, 20 new anchorages in the lagoon, a deep water pier, port facilities for the largest naval vessels in the US or British fleet, aircraft hangars, maintenance buildings and an air terminal, a fuel storage area, and billeting and messing facilities for thousands of sailors and support personnel.

The Iran – Iraq War ( also known as the First Persian Gulf War ) was an armed conflict between Iraq and Iran lasting from September 1980 to August 1988, making it the longest conventional war of the 20th century.

* 1980 – Iran – Iraq War: Operation Morvarid – Over 70 % of Iraqi Navy was destroyed by Iranian Navy in The Persian Gulf.

The Persian Gulf was the focus of the 1980 – 1988 Iran-Iraq War, in which each side attacked the other's oil tankers.

* Iran – Iraq War ( 1980 – 1988 ), the numbering of conflicts in Persian Gulf depends on whether this is called the First Gulf War, which would make the 1990 war the Second and the 2003 war the Third.

The Carter Doctrine was a policy proclaimed by President of the United States Jimmy Carter in his State of the Union Address on January 23, 1980, which stated that the United States would use military force if necessary to defend its national interests in the Persian Gulf region.

Following the transition to independent Zimbabwe in 1980, some Special Branch members were incorporated within the South African security services, while others found ready employment in the Persian Gulf states.

* Weaver of Tales: Persian Picture Rugs ( 1980 ) ( with Karl Schlamminger )

The term has been described by Frenchman Félix Buffière in 1980 and Pakistani scholar Tariq Rahman, who argued that " ephebophilia " should be used in preference to " homosexuality " when describing the aesthetic and erotic interest of adult men in adolescent boys in classical Persian, Turkish or Urdu literature.

** Iran – Iraq War ( 1980 – 1988 ), also known as the Persian Gulf War or the First Gulf War

* HMS Liverpool is a Type 42 destroyer launched in 1980 and deployed to the Persian Gulf during the Iraq War ( Operation Telic ).

The Carter Doctrine was a policy proclaimed by President of the United States Jimmy Carter in his State of the Union Address on January 23, 1980, which stated that the United States would use military force if necessary to defend its national interests in the Persian Gulf region.

Revolutionary Command Council Decree 666, which in 1980 banned citizenship in Iraq for Iraqis of Persian origin, is explicitly annulled.

He was among the IUCN team who rediscovered the Persian Fallow Deer in 1957 and he was secretary general of the IUCN from 1980 to 1983.

* Joseph Ghougassian, 1980, Chairman, Persian Gulf Consultants, former Deputy Senior Advisor for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq, former US Ambassador to Qatar

This statement was followed-up in Carter's 1980 State of the Union address when he announced that any attempt by a foreign power to gain control of the Persian Gulf and surrounding area would be regarded as an attack on the vital interests of the United States, and be stopped by all means necessary including the use of military force.

A series of purges and forced retirements, as a consequence of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, resulted in the manpower of the service being halved between February 1979 and July 1980, leaving the IRIAF ill-prepared for the Iran – Iraq War ( also called the " 1st Persian Gulf War ").

on this vast subject are many and deep and as they refer positively in various places to five tongues-Arabic, English, Esperanto, Persian and Spanish-one can easily accept why the very next sentence of that 1980 letter explains: “ It is not possible now to see how this will come about …” What requires little intellectual discussion is how often and pleadingly ‘ Abdu ’ l-Baha asked ‘ every one of us to study Esperanto ’ whether or not it becomes universal and how Shoghi Effendi interpreted all that as ‘ repeated and emphatic admonitions of ‘ Abdu ’ l-Bahá ’.

Ramona Rina Amiri ( Persian: رامونا امیری, born April 16, 1980 in Montreal, Quebec ) is an Iranian Canadian woman of Aramäer and Persian heritage who won the Miss World Canada contest in 2005.