* 1980 – Charles McCarthy, American mixed martial artist

* Charles Villiers ( 1976 – 1980 )

The mountain was the setting for a children's story, The Old Man of Lochnagar, told originally by Prince Charles to his younger brothers, Andrew and Edward, and published in 1980 with royalties accruing to The Prince's Trust.

His bands have included Watt 4 ( 1980 ), in which he played keyboards and provided voice, Craig Charles and the Beat Burglars ( 1989 ), The Sons of Gordon Gekko ( 1989 ), where he wrote lyrics and also composed tunes for the band, and The Eye ( 2000 – 01 ), with whom he released the rock album " Giving You The Eye, Live at the Edinburgh Festival ".

It was replaced after the 1980 elections by a government led by the Dominica Freedom Party under Prime Minister Eugenia Charles, the Caribbeans first female prime minister.

Four years later Mountbatten secured an invitation for himself and Amanda to accompany Charles on his planned 1980 tour of India.

* Stations of the Elevated ( 1980 ), the earliest documentary about subway graffiti in New York City, with music by Charles Mingus

Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (; ; 21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980 ) was a French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic.

* Fry, Plantagenet Somerset, The David & Charles Book of Castles, David & Charles, 1980, p. 249.

* 1980: Charles Saxon, Advertising

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

* Robert Charles Bell ( 1980 ).

Other notable people born in or associated with Newcastle include: engineer and industrialist Lord Armstrong, engineer and father of the modern steam railways George Stephenson, his son, also an engineer, Robert Stephenson, engineer and inventor of the steam turbine Sir Charles Parsons, inventor of the incandescent light bulb Sir Joseph Swan, modernist poet Basil Bunting, Lord Chief Justice Peter Taylor, the Portuguese writer Eça de Queiroz who was a diplomat in Newcastle from late 1874 until April 1879 — his most productive literary period, The Prime Minister of Thailand Abhisit Vejjajiva, singers Eric Burdon, Sting and Brian Johnson, lead singer of AC / DC from 1980 to the present, actors Charlie Hunnam multiple circumnavigator David Scott Cowper, Neil Tennant, Alan Hull, Mark Knopfler, Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch, Cheryl Cole, entertainers Ant and Dec, and international footballers Peter Beardsley, Michael Carrick, Andy Carroll, Paul Gascoigne and Alan Shearer.

EchoStar was formed in 1980 by its chairman and chief executive officer, Charles Ergen along with colleagues Candy Ergen and Jim Defranco, as a distributor of C band satellite television systems.

* Grand Cross of the Order of Charles III ( 1980, Spain )

* Great Forgers and Famous Fakes by Charles Hamilton, Crown Publishers, 1980, 278 pages.

Charles Percy Snow, Baron Snow of the City of Leicester CBE ( 15 October 1905 – 1 July 1980 ) was an English chemist and novelist who also served in several important positions in the British Civil Service and briefly in the UK government.

* Charles S. Dewey ( 1880 – 1980 ), American politician

* Charles Wiley, Republican Congressional political candidate who ran against incumbent Edward J. Patten in 1980.

* Fry, Plantagenet Somerset, The David & Charles Book of Castles, David & Charles, 1980.

His children from the first marriage were John Stephen Chennault ( 1913 – 1977 ), Max Thompson Chennault ( 1914 – 2001 ), Charles Lee Chennault ( 1918 – 1967 ), Peggy Sue Chennault Lee ( born 1919 ), Claire Patterson Chennault ( November 24, 1920 – October 3, 2011 ), David Wallace Chennault ( 1923 – 1980 ), Robert Kenneth Chennault ( 1925 – 2006 ), and Rosemary Louise Chennault Simrall ( born 1928 ).

Stanley Sadie, " Koechlin, Charles ", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians ( London: Macmillian, 1980 ), 20 vols.

" presentation by Leo M. Jacobs, 1980.

* During the 1980s, the block of 16th Street NW between L and M streets, in front of the Soviet embassy, in Washington, D. C. was renamed " Andrei Sakharov Place " as a form of protest against his 1980 arrest and detention.

Probably the first novel to depict cyberspace and combat within it was John M. Ford's Web of Angels ( 1980 ).

* Marsden ; George M. ( 1980 ).

Although his career in computing spanned more than two decades, he is mainly remembered in connection with IBM's unsuccessful attempt in 1980 to license CP / M for the IBM PC.

IBM approached Digital Research in 1980, at Bill Gates ' suggestion, to negotiate the purchase of a forthcoming version of CP / M called CP / M-86 for the IBM PC.

* Lakoff, G. & Johnson, M. Metaphors We Live By ( IL: University of Chicago Press, 1980 ), Chapters 1 – 3.

* Pitts, M W, On the Road to Stonehenge: Report on Investigations beside the A344 in 1968, 1979 and 1980 ( Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 48, 1982 )

* 1980 – Jason McCaslin, Canadian singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer ( Sum 41 and The Operation M. D.

* Kennedy, David M., Over Here: The First World War and American Society ( New York: Oxford University Press, 1980 )

* Wiley C. Prewitt, " The Best of All Breathing: Hunting and Environmental Change in Mississippi, 1900 – 1980 " M. A.

However, her attempt to block the election of Richard M. Daley, the son of her late mentor, to the prominent position of Cook County States ' Attorney ( chief local prosecutor ) in 1980 failed as Daley defeated Byrne's candidate, 14th Ward Alderman Ed Burke in the Democratic Primary and GOP incumbent Bernard Carey in the general election.

* DeFleur, M. L. & Plax, T. G. ( 1980 ).

* Prestwich, M., The Three Edwards: War and State in England, 1272 – 1277, 1980.

* Prestwich, M., The Three Edwards: War and State in England, 1272 – 1377, 1980

Since Led Zeppelin dissolved in 1980 with the death of Bonham, Jones has collaborated with a number of artists, including Diamanda Galás, R. E. M., Jars of Clay, Heart, Ben E. King, Peter Gabriel, Foo Fighters, Lenny Kravitz, Cinderella, The Mission, La Fura dels Baus, Brian Eno, the Butthole Surfers and Uncle Earl.

The Silicon Disk was launched in 1980, initially for the CP / M operating system and later for MS-DOS.

In 1980, Rodney left Island Records, and set up the Burning Spear label, which he signed to EMI, debuting on the label with Hail H. I. M., recorded at Marley's Tuff Gong studio and co-produced by Aston Barrett.

In the 1980 book entitled The Tribune Tower Competition published by Rizzoli, authors Robert A. M. Stern, Stanley Tigerman as well as Bruce Abbey and other architects jokingly submitted " late entries " in Volume II of the work.

* Marsden ; George M. ( 1980 ).

* Gleason, J. Berko, Goodglass, H, Obler, L., Green, E., Hyde, M. R., & Weintraub, S. ( 1980 ).

* Louis-Ferdinand Céline by M. Thomas ( 1980 )

In 1882 the county seat was moved to Eureka, which was later renamed Indianola ( Hemphill, Marie M. 1980.

* Michael Hoeg M. B. E 1980 – 2010