IONA ( Islands of the North Atlantic ) is an acronym suggested in 1980 by Sir John Biggs-Davison to refer to a loose linkage of the United Kingdom, Ireland, the Isle of Man and Channel Islands, similar to the present day British-Irish Council.

However, his government lost a vote of confidence in 1980 and was replaced by a new cabinet headed by Sir Julius Chan as prime minister.

Sir Rodney: Cover of a 1980 Australia n collection of strips

Sir John " Black Jack " McEwen, GCMG, CH ( 29 March 1900 – 20 November 1980 ), was an Australian politician and the 18th Prime Minister of Australia.

Sir John McEwen died in 1980, in Melbourne, aged 80, by which time Malcolm Fraser's government was abandoning McEwenite trade policies.

* C. J. Lloyd, ' McEwen, Sir John ( 1900 – 1980 )', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Vol.

* Sir John Summerson ( rev 1980 ) The Classical Language of Architecture ISBN 978-0-500-20177-0.

* Sir John Summerson, The Classical Language of Architecture Revised edition, 1980 ( W. W. Norton )

* Chief Constable Sir John Hermon, from January 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.

Earlier Prime Ministerial advisers had appeared from time to time in episodes of Yes Minister, including Daniel Moynihan as Daniel Hughes in " The Writing on the Wall " ( 1980 ) and Nigel Stock as Sir Mark Spencer in " Bed of Nails " ( 1982 ).

* Yes Minister ( 1980 – 1984 ) … Sir Humphrey Appleby, Permanent Secretary

The play was first presented on 6 March 1980 at The Royal Exchange Theatre and then opened at the Queen's Theatre in London on 30 April 1980, with Freddie Jones as " Sir " and Tom Courtenay as Norman.

PolyGram acquired the remains of Decca UK within days of Sir Edward Lewis's death in January 1980.

* Sir Michael Hordern played Prospero in a 1980 production for BBC television.

* 1980 Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 6 in A major – Sir Georg Solti, conductor ( London )

A sepia-tinted black and white film version ( recently released on DVD ), starring Trevor Howard as Sir Henry, and Stanshall as Hubert, followed in 1980.

One of his strangest films, and one he took great delight in, was Vivian Stanshall's 1980 Sir Henry at Rawlinson End in which he played the title role.

* Sir Henry at Rawlinson End ( 1980 )

He was succeeded in 1980 by Sir Francis Graham-Smith, followed by Professor Rod Davies around 1990 and Professor Andrew Lyne in 1999.

* Jill Freud ( born 1927 ), actress ( and wife of Sir Clement Freud MP for Isle of Ely 1973-87 ) founded ' Jill Freud and Company ' whilst working with the Angles Theatre in 1980.

* Sir Michael Thompson ( 1980 – 1986 )

* 1891 – Henry Miller, American writer ( d. 1980 )

In the 1970s and 1980s, new concerti included Nino Rota's Divertimento for Double Bass and Orchestra ( 1973 ), Jean Françaix's Concerto ( 1975 ), Einojuhani Rautavaara's Angel Of Dusk ( 1980 ), Gian Carlo Menotti's Concerto ( 1983 ), Christopher Rouse's Concerto ( 1985 ), and Henry Brant's Ghost Nets ( 1988 ).

* 1980 – Henry Miller, American writer ( b. 1891 )

They include Last House on Dead End Street ( 1977 ), Paul Schrader's film Hardcore ( 1979 ), Sidney Sheldon's Bloodline ( 1979 ), the Ruggero Deodato film Cannibal Holocaust ( 1980 ), David Cronenberg's Videodrome ( 1983 ), the Nine Inch Nails film The Broken Movie ( 1993 ), the film Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer ( 1986 ), the Alejandro Amenábar film Tesis ( 1996 ), the film Strange Days ( 1995 ), the Anthony Waller film Mute Witness ( 1994 ), the Johnny Depp film The Brave ( 1997 ), the Joel Schumacher film 8mm ( 1999 ), the John Ottman film, Urban Legends: Final Cut ( 2000 ), and Fred Vogel's film August Underground ( 2001 ) and its sequels.

* December 26 – Henry Miller, American writer ( d. 1980 )

The film also features, as " witnesses ," interviews with the 98-year old radical educator and peace activist Scott Nearing ( 1883 – 1983 ), author Dorothy Frooks ( 1896 – 1997 ), reporter and author George Seldes ( 1890 – 1995 ), civil liberties advocate Roger Baldwin ( 1884 – 1981 ), and the American writer Henry Miller ( 1891 – 1980 ), among others.

* 1980: William A. Henry III, Boston Globe, " for critical writing about television.

Norm Phelps writes that the case followed the highly publicized campaign of Henry Spira in 1976 against experiments on cats being performed at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, and Spira's subsequent campaign in April 1980 against the Draize test.

Henry Valentine Miller ( December 26, 1891 – June 7, 1980 ) was an American writer and painter.

* UbuWeb Sound: Henry Miller ( 1891 – 1980 ), with links to MP3 files of " An Interview with Henry Miller " ( 1964 ), " Life As I See It " ( 1956 / 1961 ), and " Henry Miller Recalls and Reflects " ( 1957 )

* Henry Thomas ( Wales, 1980 )

His status was such that People magazine placed him on their " 25 Most Intriguing People of the Year " list for 1980, dubbing him " the Japanese Henry Ford.

Other major screen roles include the obsessed Nazi Colonel in The Train ( 1964 ), Strether in a 1977 TV adaptation of Henry James's novel The Ambassadors, Tobias in A Delicate Balance ( 1973 ), Professor Moroi in the film of János Nyíri's If Winter Comes ( 1980 ), for BBC Television, Mark Van Doren in Robert Redford's film Quiz Show ( 1994 ), and Thomas Danforth in Nicholas Hytner's film adaptation ( 1996 ) of Arthur Miller's The Crucible.

* Ockham's Theory of Propositions: Part II of the Summa Logicae, translated by Alfred J. Freddoso and Henry Schuurman and introduced by Alfred J. Freddoso, University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame, IN, 1980.

Henry Rojas performed for the Suns from the Gorilla's inception in 1980 until the end of the 1987-88 NBA season.

In 1980, he had a memorable role as future Justice Abe Fortas, to whom he bore a strong resemblance, in the made-for-television film version of Anthony Lewis ' Gideon's Trumpet, opposite Henry Fonda in an Emmy-nominated performance as Clarence Earl Gideon.

* Joe Henry Cooper ( 1920 – 1980 ) state representative

Henry Nelson House was listed in 1980 and Drummine Farm in 1987.

John Henry Bonham ( 31 May 1948 – 25 September 1980 ) was an English musician and songwriter, best known as the drummer of Led Zeppelin.