* 1980 – Charlie David, Canadian actor

* 1980 – David Desrosiers, Canadian singer-songwriter and bass player ( Simple Plan and Reset )

* 1980 – David West, American basketball player

* 1980 – David Otunga, American wrestler and lawyer

Singer-songwriter Kim Carnes and her husband David Ellingson wrote and produced Kenny Rogers's 1980 album " Gideon ", which was based on the theme of a Texas cowboy.

Their work however met criticism from a number of writers, such as psychologists David Marks and Richard Kammann in their 1980 book The Psychology of the Psychic.

The most recent hurricanes of note were David and Frederic in August 1979 and Allen in August 1980.

* 1980 – John Lennon, an English musician ( former member of The Beatles ), and peace activist, is murdered by Mark David Chapman, a mentally unstable fan, in front of The Dakota apartment building in New York City.

David Janssen ( March 27, 1931 – February 13, 1980 ) was an American film and television actor who is best known for his starring role as Dr. Richard Kimble in the television series The Fugitive ( 1963 – 1967 ), the starring role in the 1950s hit detective series Richard Diamond, Private Detective ( 1957 – 60 ), and as Harry Orwell on Harry O.

* Brookner, Anita, Jacques-Louis David, Chatto & Windus ( 1980 )

* Schnapper, Antoine, David témoin de son temps, Office du Livre, Fribourg, ( 1980 )

* 1980 – David Gandy, British model

Chapman's memoir, A Liar's Autobiography, was published in 1980 and, unusually for a work of this type, had five authors: Chapman, his partner David Sherlock, Alex Martin, David Yallop and Douglas Adams.

Notable made-for-television productions of Hamlet include those starring Christopher Plummer ( 1964 ), Richard Chamberlain ( 1970 ; Hallmark Hall of Fame ), Derek Jacobi ( 1980 ; Royal Shakespeare Company, BBC ), Kevin Kline ( 1990 ), Campbell Scott ( 2000 ) and David Tennant ( 2009 ; Royal Shakespeare Company, BBC ).

For example, Jerry Fodor ( 1980 ) argues for narrow content ( although he comes to reject that view in his 1995 ), while David Chalmers ( 2002 ) argues for a two dimensional semantics according to which the contents of mental states can have both wide and narrow content.

* 1980 – David Giuntoli, American actor

* 1980 – David Rozehnal, Czech footballer

In the early 1980s, according to David Stockman, Kemp persuaded Reagan to make a 30 % across-the-board tax cut a central 1980 presidential campaign feature.

Grammer's personal life has been affected by several tragedies: in 1968, his estranged father, whom he had seen only twice since his parents ' divorce, was shot dead ; in 1975, his younger sister, Karen, was abducted, raped, and murdered by spree killer Freddie Glenn ; in 1980, his twin half-brothers died in a scuba diving accident ; and David Angell, close friend and producer of Frasier, died in the 9 / 11 attacks.

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

* Early Days ( David Storey, National Cottesloe Theatre, 1980 )

* 1980 – David Artell, English footballer

Tristan Gale ( born August 10, 1980 ) is an American skeleton racer who competed from 2001 to 2006.

Farmington Hills, Michigan: Thomson Gale, 1980.

* Mariah Gale ( born 1980 ), British-Australian actress

* Tristan Gale ( born 1980 ), American athlete

( Detroit, MI: Gale Research Co .), 1980. p. 289.

Something about the Author ( Volume 20 of Something about the Author: Facts and Pictures about Contemporary Authors and Illustrators of Books for Young People ), Gale Research, 1980, ISBN 0-8103-0053-2, ISBN 978-0-8103-0053-8

* Joseph Kagan, Baron Kagan, earlier ennobled by the Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson's notorious Lavender List ( 1976 ), was convicted of fraud ( 1980 )

* 1901 – Harold Clurman, American director and producer ( d. 1980 )

Psychiatrists August Piper and Harold Merskey have challenged the trauma hypothesis, arguing that correlation does not imply causation-the fact that people with DID report childhood trauma does not mean trauma causes DID — and point to the rareness of the diagnosis before 1980 as well as a failure to find DID as an outcome in longitudinal studies of traumatized children.

The script to Karel Reisz's movie The French Lieutenant's Woman ( 1980 ), written by Harold Pinter, is a film-within-a-film adaptation of John Fowles's book.

* Caddyshack ( with Harold Ramis and Doug Kenney ) ( 1980 )

* Barnes, Harold, " Borodin, Alexander Porfir ' yevich ", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians ( London: Macmillian, 1980 ), 20 vols.

After leaving the Rank Organisation in the early 1960s, Bogarde abandoned his heart-throb image for more challenging parts, such as barrister Melville Farr in Victim ( 1961 ), directed by Basil Dearden ; decadent valet Hugo Barrett in The Servant ( 1963 ), which garnered him a BAFTA Award, directed by Joseph Losey and written by Harold Pinter ; The Mind Benders ( 1963 ), a film ahead of its times in which Bogarde plays an Oxford professor conducting sensory deprivation experiments at Oxford University ( precursor to Altered States ( 1980 )); the anti-war film King & Country ( 1964 ), playing an army lawyer reluctantly defending deserter Tom Courtenay, directed by Joseph Losey ; a television broadcaster-writer Robert Gold in Darling ( 1965 ), for which Bogarde won a second BAFTA Award, directed by John Schlesinger ; Stephen, a bored Oxford University professor, in Losey's Accident, ( 1967 ) also written by Pinter ; Our Mother's House ( 1967 ), an off-beat film-noir directed by Jack Clayton in which Bogarde plays an n ' er do well father who descends upon " his " seven children on the death of their mother, British entry at the Venice Film Festival ; German industrialist Frederick Bruckmann in Luchino Visconti's La Caduta degli dei, The Damned ( 1969 ) co-starring Ingrid Thulin ; as ex-Nazi, Max Aldorfer, in the chilling and controversial Il Portiere di notte, The Night Porter ( 1974 ), co-starring Charlotte Rampling, directed by Liliana Cavani ; and most notably, as Gustav von Aschenbach in Morte a Venezia, Death in Venice ( 1971 ), also directed by Visconti ; as Claude, the lawyer son of a dying, drunken writer ( John Gielgud ) in the well-received, multi-dimensional French film Providence ( 1977 ), directed by Alain Resnais ; as industrialist Hermann Hermann who descends into madness in Despair ( 1978 ) directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder ; and as Daddy in Bertrand Tavernier's Daddy Nostalgie, ( aka These Foolish Things ) ( 1991 ), co-starring Jane Birkin as his daughter, Bogarde's final film role.

) Janus was observed by Dan Pascu on February 19, 1980 (,) and then by John W. Fountain, Stephen M. Larson, Harold J. Reitsema and Bradford A. Smith on the 23rd (.

* December 10 – Harold Adamson, US lyricist ( died 1980 )

He first quit as Labour's spokesman on defence in 1972 in protest at the Labour leader Harold Wilson's attitude to the EEC ; he left the Labour Shadow cabinet over the same issue later ; and over unilateral disarmament in November 1980 when Michael Foot became Labour leader.

Caddyshack is a 1980 American sports comedy film directed by Harold Ramis and written by Brian Doyle-Murray, Ramis and Douglas Kenney.

A Dodgem ride, originally built by Max and Harold Stoeher of Methuen, operated at Salisbury Beach in one form or another from 1920 to 1980.

* Acton, Harold ( 1980 ).

* Acton, Harold ( 1980 ).

* Harold Rosenthal and John Warrack, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera ( Second Edition ), Oxford University Press, 1980, page 126.

* Harold Brown ( basketball ) ( 1923 – 1980 ), basketball player

The Duchy of Cornwall acquired Highgrove House from the MP Maurice Macmillan, son of former Tory Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in 1980.

* September 8 — Harold Connolly, journalist, newspaper editor, politician and Premier of Nova Scotia ( d. 1980 )

Harold Douglas Baines ( born March 15, 1959 in Easton, Maryland ) is a former right fielder and designated hitter in Major League Baseball who played for five American League teams from 1980 to 2001.

* Harold W. Kuhn ( 1925 –), American mathematician, 1980 John von Neumann Theory Prize winner, developer of Kuhn poker

In 1980, he played the character of Harold in the cult classic movie, Midnight Madness.

* James Lees-Milne, Harold Nicolson, A Biography, ( Chatto & Windus ), 1980, Vol.

* Republican Joe Skeen was elected as a write-in candidate to Congress in New Mexico in November 1980 after the incumbent Democrat, Harold Runnels, died in August of that year.

Harold Joseph Connolly ( September 8, 1901 – May 17, 1980 ) was a Nova Scotia journalist, newspaper editor, and politician who served as the province's 15th Premier in 1954.