Roland Gérard Barthes (; 12 November 1915 – 25 March 1980 ) was a French literary theorist, philosopher, critic, and semiotician.

* 1980 Les Charlots Contre Dracula, directed by Jean-Pierre Desagnat & Jean-Pierre Vergne, with Gérard Rinaldi, Jean Sarrus and Gérard Filipelli.

20 December 1980 saw the formation in Paris of the International Association on the Political Use of Psychiatry ( IAPUP ) whose first secretary was Gérard Bles of France.

* 1980: Une semaine de vacances with Nathalie Baye, Gérard Lanvin

* Une semaine de vacances ( One Week of the Holidays ) ( 1980 ) by Bertrand Tavernier with Nathalie Baye, Gérard Lanvin

Recipients were: Louise Dechêne ( 1980 ), Michael Bliss ( 1985 ), John M. Beattie ( 1990 ), Joy Parr ( 1995 ), Gérard Bouchard ( 2000 ), Timothy Brook ( 2005 ), John C. Weaver ( 2010 )

Winners were: Louise Dechêne ( 1980 ), Michael Bliss ( 1985 ), John M. Beattie ( 1990 ), Joy Parr ( 1995 ), Gérard Bouchard ( 2000 ), Timothy Brook ( 2005 ), John C. Weaver ( 2010 )

* Gérard de Sède, Saint-Émilion insolite ( Saint-Émilion: Office de tourisme-syndicat d ' initiative, 1980 ).

* Les surdoués de la première compagnie ( 1980 ), directed by Michel Gérard starring Bernard Lavalette, Hubert Deschamps

After the mid-1960s, he became much less prolific, but his later work — including his final two epics, Kagemusha ( 1980 ) and Ran ( 1985 )— continued to win awards, including the Palme d ' Or for Kagemusha, though more often abroad than in Japan.

* 1980 – Samuel Doe takes control of Liberia in a coup d ' état, ending over 130 years of minority Americo-Liberian rule over the country.

* 1912 – Gloria Guinness, Mexican writer and editor ( d. 1980 )

* 1907 – László Heller, Hungarian engineer ( d. 1980 )

* 1896 – Erich Hückel, German physicist ( d. 1980 )

* 1896 – Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologist ( d. 1980 )

* 1899 – Alfred Hitchcock, English director and producer ( d. 1980 )

* 1907 – Albert Kotin, American painter ( d. 1980 )

* 1917 – Óscar Romero, Salvadoran archbishop ( d. 1980 )

* 1894 – George Meany, American labor leader ( d. 1980 )

* 1929 – Bill Evans, American pianist and composer ( d. 1980 )

* 1902 – Mohammad Hatta, Indonesian politician, 1st Vice President of Indonesia ( d. 1980 )

* 1910 – Paul Triquet, Canadian military officer ( d. 1980 )

* 1927 – Kenneth Tynan, English critic and writer ( d. 1980 )

* 1980 – Ricky Hendrick, American race car driver ( d. 2004 )

* 1904 – Secondo Campini, Italian engineer ( d. 1980 )

* 1980 – Justin Levens, American mixed martial artist ( d. 2008 )

La Longue Marche à travers la théorie de Galois Long March Through Galois Theory is an approximately 1600-page handwritten manuscript produced by Grothendieck during the years 1980 – 1981, containing many of the ideas leading to the Esquisse d ' un programme ( see below, and also a more detailed entry ), and in particular studying the Teichmüller theory.

* 1952 – Reid Blackburn, American photographer ( d. 1980 )

* 1894 – V. V. Giri, Indian politician ( d. 1980 )

* 1913 – Robert Hayden, American poet ( d. 1980 )

* 1931 – Felix Berezin, Russian mathematician ( d. 1980 )

* 1980 – Karen Asrian, Armenian chess player ( d. 2008 )

First it was the Democratic-Republican Party ( 1963 ~ 1980 ); its head was Park Chung-hee who seized power in a 1961 military coup d ' état and ruled as an unelected military strongman until his formal election as president in 1963.

In this instance, there was a dosage of 562 during the first two hours and a total dosage of 1980 for the four-hour period, a four-fold increase.

He was followed by Jean Picker Firstenberg who held the position of President and CEO from 1980 to 2007.

The opening instrumental was largely done away with by 1980 ; no later Project album except Eye in the Sky featured one ( although every album includes at least one instrumental somewhere in the running order ).

* 1980 – Azaria Chamberlain disappears, probably taken by a dingo, leading to what was then the most publicized trial in Australian history.

* 1980 – After two weeks of nationwide strikes, the Polish government was forced to sign the Gdańsk Agreement, allowing for the creation of the trade union Solidarity.

In September 1980, Abadan was almost overrun during a surprise attack on Khuzestan by Iraq, marking the beginning of the Iran – Iraq War.

AIX / 370 was IBM's third attempt to offer Unix-like functionality for their mainframe line, specifically the System / 370 ( the prior versions were a TSS / 370 based Unix system developed jointly with AT & T c. 1980, and VM / IX a VM / 370 based system developed jointly with Interactive Systems Corporation c. 1984 ).

She was admitted to the District of Columbia Bar in 1980 and began her law career as an associate with the Washington, D. C. firm of Wald, Harkrader & Ross.

By 1980, the way the game was played had changed dramatically due to innovative coaching tactics, with the phasing out of many of the game's kicking styles and the increasing use of handball ; whilst presentation was influenced by television.

In the fall of 1980, she transferred to Vanderbilt University, where she was a member of the sorority Kappa Alpha Theta.

Being behind the technological curve was not entirely surprising ; the chipset used in the 400 and 800 was designed because they were aware the 2600 would be obsolete by the 1980 time frame.

Sakharov was arrested on January 22, 1980, following his public protests against the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, and was sent to internal exile in the city of Gorky, now Nizhny Novgorod, a city that was off-limits to foreigners.

Between 1980 to 1986, Sakharov was kept under tight Soviet police surveillance.

Sakharov was named the 1980 Humanist of the Year by the American Humanist Association.

* 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.

In 1980, Sakharov was stripped of all Soviet awards for " anti-Soviet activities ".

Rabbi Steinsaltz's classic work of Kabbalah, The Thirteen Petalled Rose, was first published in 1980 and now appears in eight languages.

Ahmed Ibrahim al-Haznawi (, ) ( October 11, 1980 – September 11, 2001 ) was one of four hijackers of United Airlines Flight 93 as part of the September 11 attacks.

They later married on October 11, 1975, and their only child, Chelsea, was born on February 27, 1980.

Seretse Khama, a leader in the independence movement and the legitimate claimant to the Ngwato chiefship, was elected as the first president, re-elected twice, and died in office in 1980.