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

* 1980 – Sabine Klaschka, German tennis player

* 1980 – Jens Hartwig, German actor

* 1980 – Jasmin Wöhr, German tennis player

The October 25, 1980 edition of the German paper Bild reported that Haley had a brain tumor.

He was the first leader of the CSU to be a candidate for the German chancellery, in 1980.

* 1980 – Manuel Wilhelm, German rugby player

* 1902 – Fritz Strassmann, German physicist ( d. 1980 )

* 1980 – Sebastian Kehl, German footballer

* 1980 – Angela Finger-Erben, German television presenter

" Fichte's ' Aenesidemus ' Review and the Transformation of German Idealism " The Review of Metaphysics 34 ( 1980 / 1 ) 545 – 68.

Alliance ' 90 / The Greens () is a green political party in Germany, formed from the merger of the German Green Party ( founded in West Germany in 1980 ) and Alliance 90 ( founded during the Revolution of 1989 – 1990 in East Germany ) in 1993.

* 1980 – Ifet Taljević, German footballer

* 1980 – Nina Dübbers, German tennis player

* 1980 – Sarah Connor, German singer-songwriter and dancer

* 1980 – Markus Winkelhock, German race car driver

* 1980 – Ernst Busch, German actor and singer ( b. 1900 )

* 1900 – Ernst Busch, German singer and actor ( d. 1980 )

* 1980 – Johanna Klum, German singer

* 1980 – Mirko Soltau, German footballer

Karl Dönitz (; 16 September 1891 – 24 December 1980 ) was a German naval commander during World War II.

* 1980 – Tim Borowski, German footballer

* 1889 – Otto Frank, German businessman and Holocaust victim, father of Anne Frank ( d. 1980 )

* 1980 – Tony Schmidt, German race car driver

* 1908 – Helmut Käutner, German actor and director ( d. 1980 )

* 1980 – Burney Lamar, American race car driver

* 1980 – Paul Menard, American race car driver

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

* 1980: Mercedes produced the first passenger car turbo-diesels ( Mercedes 300 SD ).

) The reason for the change from BR-549 to BR-1Z1Z was during the 1980 season, Junior gave up the car lot and became a " consumer advocate " whose job was to save the public from dishonest people like himself.

* 1980 – Adam Petty, American race car driver ( d. 2000 )

* 1980 – Andrew Jones, Australian race car driver

* 1980 – Katherine Legge, English race car driver

* 1980 – Scott Dixon, New Zealand race car driver

* 1980 – Giorgio Mondini, Italian race car driver

* 1980: Rover car production ends at Solihull with the transfer of SD1 production to Cowley, Oxford ; Solihull is now exclusively for Land Rover manufacture.

* 2000 – Adam Petty, American race car driver ( b. 1980 )

* 1956 – Markus Höttinger, Austrian race car driver ( d. 1980 )

* In one of Robert A. Heinlein's last novels, The Number of the Beast ( 1980 ), the heroes flee Earth in a car capable of flight in six dimensions and find several alternate versions of Mars, one which had been colonised by the British and another which is an improbable combination of Burroughs ' fabulous Barsoom with the home planet of the vicious Martians whose invasion of Earth was described by Wells.

* 1980 – Denny Hamlin, American race car driver

* 1980 – Hiroki Yoshimoto, Japanese race car driver

* 1980 – Tomas Scheckter, South African race car driver

* 1980 – Antônio Pizzonia, Brazilian race car driver

* 1980 – Dean Canto, Australian race car driver

From 1978 – 1980, the " endgame " described above was utilized, with the car and $ 5, 000 ( later $ 10, 000 ) as the two top prizes.

In 1980 Bon Scott, the lead singer of AC / DC, after a night's heavy drinking, was found lifeless in a car outside 67 Overhill Road, East Dulwich.

Back in the town's prime between 1900 and 1980 it had two gas stations, a hotel, 5-dime store, drug store, cafe, bar, grocery store, laundromat, hardware store, lawyer office, bank, doctor office, blacksmith, barber shop, beauty shop, fire station, arcade, movie theatre, two car dealers and farmers ' co-op.