* 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 – Tony Romo, American football player

* 1980 – Tony, French-born Portuguese footballer

Subsequent remakes include Sorrowful Jones ( 1949 ; Bob Hope, Lucille Ball ), 40 Pounds of Trouble ( 1962 ; Tony Curtis ), and Little Miss Marker ( 1980 ; Walter Matthau, Julie Andrews, Bob Newhart, Tony Curtis ).

* 1980 – Tony Schmidt, German race car driver

* 1980: Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical-Evita

* Evita ( 1979 ) – Che ( Tony Award, 1980 )

* 1912 – Tony Smith, American sculptor ( d. 1980 )

* Tony Williams – lead vocals ( 1978 – 1980 )

* October 7 – Tony Beckley, English character actor ( d. 1980 )

* Gould, Tony: In Limbo: The Story of Stanley's Rear Column, David & Charles 1980 ISBN 0-241-10125-5

Pfeiffer's early acting appearances included television roles in Fantasy Island, Delta House and BAD Cats, and small film roles in Falling in Love Again ( 1980 ) with Susannah York, The Hollywood Knights ( 1980 ) opposite Tony Danza, and Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen ( 1981 ), none of which met with much critical or box office success.

In 1980, when Meco was there recording Christmas in the Stars: The Star Wars Christmas Album, Tony Bongiovi recommended him for the song " R2-D2 We Wish You A Merry Christmas.

Brett's 1980 batting average of. 390 is second only to Tony Gwynn's average of. 394 ( Gwynn played in 110 games and had 419 at-bats in the strike-shortened season, compared to Brett's 449 at bats in 1980 ) for the highest single season batting average since 1941.

The film was remade in 1949 as Sorrowful Jones with Bob Hope and Lucille Ball and again as Little Miss Marker in 1980 with Walter Matthau, Julie Andrews, Tony Curtis, Bob Newhart, Brian Dennehy, and Lee Grant.

in 1980, as well as his designs for the 1977 Broadway production of Dracula, for which he won a Tony Award for Best Costume Design.

* Tony Judt, FBA — former Fellow ( 1980 — 1987 ), author, historian, and public intellectual, later the director of the Erich Maria Remarque Institute at NYU and contributor to the New York Review of Books.

On stage he appeared in both straight and musical roles, and has been nominated for five Tony Awards, winning one for Barnum when, in 1980, the New York Times cited him as " The Toast of Broadway ", also winning the second of four Drama Desk Awards.

* June 11 = Michelle Pfeiffer appears in her first leading role, in Grease 2, the sequel to the top grossing film of 1978 ( her film debut had come as Tony Danza's character's girlfriend in the 1980 movie The Hollywood Knights ).

Manager Tony Hiller set up his own record company in 1980, Dazzle Records.

* Tony Beckley ( 1927 – 1980 ), actor

* Ashworth, Tony Trench Warfare 1914 – 1918: The Live and Let Live System ( 1980 ).