* 1980 – Roy Williams, American football player

In early times, horror films such as My Bloody Valentine ( 1981 ), Halloween ( 1978 ), and Friday the 13th ( 1980 ) pertained mostly to a male audience in order to " feed the fantasies of young men ".< ref name = Nowell > Their main focus was to express the fear of women and show them as monsters ; however, this ideal is no longer prevalent in horror films .< ref name = Williams > Women have become not only the main audience and fans of horror films but also the main protagonists of contemporary horror films.

* 1980 – Venus Williams, American tennis player

* 1980 – Mike Williams, American football player

* 1980 – Demorrio Williams, American football player

* 1980 – Michelle Williams, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress ( Destiny's Child )

Williams first single for Skyhooks, " Over the Border ", reached the top 40 in April, and their fifth studio album, Hot for the Orient, appeared in May 1980, but failed to peak into the top 50.

* Tony Williams – lead vocals ( 1978 – 1980 )

* Venus Williams ( born 1980 ), professional tennis player

In 1980, he directed the musical Popeye, based on the comic strip / cartoon of the same name, which starred the comedian Robin Williams in his big-screen debut.

Tennessee Williams, Plays 1957 – 1980 ( Library of America, 2000 ) ISBN 978-1-883011-87-1.

They were Rachel, Rachel ( 1968 ), based on Margaret Laurence's A Jest of God, the screen version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds ( 1972 ), the television screen version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Shadow Box ( 1980 ), and a screen version of Tennessee Williams ' The Glass Menagerie ( 1987 ).

While the influence of the Christian right is typically traced to the 1980 Presidential election, David K. Williams argues in God's Own Party that it had actually been involved in politics for most of the twentieth century.

After the breakup of The Alpha Band, Soles released two solo albums, Promise in 1980, and 1982's Walk by Love, and went on to produce or perform on albums by Dylan, Burnett, The Washington Squares, Peter Case, Elvis Costello, Roger McGuinn, Don McLean, The Monkees, The 77s, Olivia Newton-John, Roy Orbison, Tonio K, Victoria Williams, Steve Scott and others.

* Robert Pete Williams ( 1914 – 1980 ), blues musician

By 1980 they were ready to record again, this time bringing in producer Pip Williams.

Film composer John Williams succeeded Fiedler as the conductor of the Pops from 1980 to 1993.

* Williams, Peter ( 1980 ).

* John Williams ( cricketer ) ( born 1980 ), former English cricketer

* 1980 The Guitar Music of John Williams ( C ) ( Tellydisc )

Venus Ebony Starr Williams ( born June 17, 1980 ), is an American professional tennis player who is a former World No. 1 and is ranked World No. 41 as of September 24, 2012 in singles.

The show featured the voices of Marshall and Williams playing Laverne and Shirley in the Army ( much like they had been during their 1979 – 1980 season ) with a talking piglet Drill Sergeant named " Squealy " ( voiced by Welcome Back Kotter alum Ron Palillo ).

* Larry Williams ( 1935 – 1980 ), singer and actor

* Paul Williams ( 1894 – 1980 ), architect

Senator Harrison " Pete " Williams ( D-NJ ) was indicted on October 30, 1980 and convicted on May 1, 1981 on nine counts of bribery and conspiracy to use his office to aid in business ventures.

He was part of the Euro 1980 and 1982 World Cup squad in Spain as understudy to Gaetano Scirea, but did not play.

Nicknamed " The Wizard " for his defensive brilliance, Smith set major league records for career assists ( 8, 375 ) and double plays ( 1, 590 ) by a shortstop ( the latter since broken by Omar Vizquel ), as well as the National League ( NL ) record with 2, 511 career games at the position ; Smith won the NL Gold Glove Award for play at shortstop for 13 consecutive seasons ( 1980 – 1992 ).

* Raku tea bowls play an important part in Rituals, a 1980 novel by the Dutch author Cees Nooteboom.

Before 1980, more than 25 SU baseball players went on to play professionally in both the major and minor leagues.

" and in 1980 " It cannot be denied that the CPDH continues to play an important role in the protection of human rights, and that a good number of people who consider that their human rights have been ignored by the Government are constantly coming to it.

In 1980, David Jones revived the play for the RSC ; the production was in general a disappointment, although Judi Dench as Imogen received reviews that rivalled Ashcroft's.

Minnie Miñoso was the last Negro league player to play in a Major League game when he appeared in two games for the Chicago White Sox in 1980.

The play premiered on Broadway in 1980 with Ian McKellen as Salieri, Tim Curry as Mozart, and Jane Seymour as Constanze.

In the 1980 federal elections, Kohl had to play second fiddle, when CSU-leader Franz Josef Strauß became the CDU / CSU's candidate for chancellor.

He returned to appearing in critically reviled films like The Medusa Touch ( 1978 ), Circle of Two ( 1980 ), and the title role in Wagner ( 1983 ), a role he said he was born to play, after his success in Equus.

In a 1980 stage play by Royce Ryton, Motherdear, she was portrayed by Margaret Lockwood in her last acting role.

In 1980, the BBC produced a version of the play for their BBC Shakespeare series, directed by Jonathan Miller and starring John Cleese and Sarah Badel.

Ryan got his third taste of postseason play in 1980, but the Astros were stopped one game short of the World Series.

Squeeze re-formed to play a one night charity gig in 1985, with all five members from the 1980 Argybargy period — Difford, Tilbrook, Holland, Lavis, and Bentley.

* Shear Madness, a long-running play that opened in 1980.

Since 1980, the Hawks have drafted a grand total of three players who have ever been chosen to play in an All-Star game ( Doc Rivers, Kevin Willis, and Al Horford ; Dominique Wilkins was actually selected by the Utah Jazz and traded to the Hawks a few months after the draft ).

Kiki Vandeweghe of UCLA was drafted by the Mavs with the 11th pick of the 1980 NBA Draft, but Vandeweghe refused to play for the expansion Mavericks and staged a holdout that lasted a month into the team's inaugural season.

* Per Olov Enquist, Till Fedra ( 1980 ), a Swedish play

Bennett wrote the play Enjoy in 1980.

In the fall of 1980, after all original SNL cast members departed from the show, Radner starred opposite Sam Waterston in the Jean Kerr play, Lunch Hour, as a pair whose spouses are having an affair, and in response invent one of their own, consisting of trysts on their lunch hour.

After the group disbanded in 1980, Mick Talbot went on to play with Dexys Midnight Runners, The Bureau, and The Style Council.

He went on to play piano for a Broadway show called The Magic Show in 1974, then became a member of the house band on NBC's popular Saturday Night Live ( SNL ) television program from 1975 to 1980 ( except for a brief departure in 1977 ).

The Dresser is a successful 1980 West End and Broadway play by Ronald Harwood, which tells the story of an aging actor's personal assistant, who struggles to keep his charge's life together.