* 1980 – Jeroen Verhoeven, Dutch footballer

* 1980 – Rachel Kramer, Dutch singer

* 1980 – Piet Rooijakkers, Dutch cyclist

In April 1980, the track " Crying ” from the album began picking up airplay on Dutch radio stations and McLean was called to Europe to appear on several important musical variety shows to plug the song and support its release as a single by EMI.

* 1980 – Pascal Bosschaart, Dutch footballer

The 1980 album Wait a Minute ... is a minor success, but the follow-up albums Modern Times Revive ( 1981 ) and Frisz & Sympatisz ( 1982 ) fail to make the Dutch album charts.

* 1980 – Melvin Holwijn, Dutch footballer

* 1980 – Tjerk Smeets, Dutch baseball player

* 1980 – Dirk Kuyt, Dutch footballer

* 1980 – Kelly van der Veer, Dutch actress and singer

* 1980 – Johan Kenkhuis, Dutch swimmer

* 1980 – Johannes Martin Bijvoet, Dutch chemist and crystallographer ( b. 1892 )

* 1980 – Marcel Meeuwis, Dutch footballer

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

Dutch motorcycle importer and manufacturer van Veen produced small quantities of their dual rotor Wankel-engined OCR-1000 between 1978 and 1980, using surplus Comotor engines.

Feyenoord won their fifth Dutch Cup in 1980 by beating Ajax 3 – 1 in the final.

* Dutch — Bonnie St. Claire: " Pierrot " ( 1980 ).

Some Dutch films have received international distribution and recognition, such as Turkish Delight (" Turks Fruit ") ( 1973 ), Soldier of Orange (" Soldaat van Oranje ") ( 1975 ), Spetters ( 1980 ) and The Fourth Man (" De Vierde Man ") ( 1983 ) by director Paul Verhoeven.

In 1980, Denver and his father, Lt. Col. “ Dutch ” Deutschendorf, co-hosted an award winning television special, " The Higher We Fly: the History of Flight.

It was also the setting for the Dutch cult classic, Spetters, filmed by noted director Paul Verhoeven there in 1980.

The Bloomingburg Reformed Protestant Dutch Church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

The Dutch Language Union, founded in 1980 by the Netherlands and Belgium, is now the source of official reforms, and in 1995 issued the " Green Booklet " reform.

* Rudolf George Escher ( 1912 − 1980 ), a Dutch composer and music theoretician ( the Dutch Wikipedia article )

* Edith Bosch ( born 1980 ), Dutch Judoka

Similarly, in Avery Corman's book The Old Neighborhood ( 1980 ), an upper-middle class white protagonist returns to his birth neighborhood ( Fordham Road and the Grand Concourse ), and learns that even though the folks are poor, Hispanic and African-American, they are good people.

* 1980 – The 1980 Grand Island tornado outbreak.

Some major works composed during this period include Wavemaker ( 1977 ), Phrygian Gates for solo piano ( 1977 ), Shaker Loops ( 1978 ), Common Tones in Simple Time ( 1979 ), Harmonium ( 1980 – 81 ), Grand Pianola Music ( 1982 ), Light Over Water ( 1983 ), Harmonielehre ( 1984 – 85 ), The Chairman Dances ( 1985 ), Short Ride in a Fast Machine ( 1986 ), and Nixon in China ( 1985 – 87 ).

The series was the first winner of the Animage Anime Grand Prix prize, in 1979 and the first half of 1980.

* 1980 – A deadly fire breaks out at the MGM Grand Hotel in Paradise, Nevada ( now Bally's Las Vegas ).

The German motorcycle Grand Prix was held for the last time on the old ' Ring in 1980, also permanently moving to Hockenheim.

In 1980, the former NSEIT campus on Grand Lake Road was expanded as the institution consolidated at this location.

The RX7 won the IMSA Grand Touring Under Two Liter ( GTU ) championship each year from 1980 through 1987, inclusive.

Howard made his directorial debut with the 1977 comedy Grand Theft Auto, and left Happy Days in 1980 to focus on directing.

Before leaving Happy Days in 1980, Howard made his directing debut with the 1977 low-budget comedy / action film Grand Theft Auto.

* 1980: Grand Austrian State Prize for Visual Arts

Anime created by Sunrise that have won the Animage Anime Grand Prix prize are Mobile Suit Gundam in 1979 and the first half of 1980, Space Runaway Ideon in the second half of 1980, Crusher Joe ( co-production ) in 1983, Dirty Pair in 1985, Future GPX Cyber Formula in 1991, Gundam SEED in 2002, Gundam SEED Destiny in 2004 and 2005, Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion in 2006 and 2007 and Code Geass R2 in 2008.

* Grand Cross of the Order of Charles III ( 1980, Spain )

* Cannes Film Festival: 1980 Grand Prix, for Mon oncle d ' Amérique ; and 2009, Lifetime achievement award.

After his inauguration, Bouterse immediately honoured all nine still living conspirators, who together with Bouterse were involved in the violent 1980 Surinamese coup d ' état, with the Grand Cordon of the Honorary Order of the Yellow Star, the highest honour of Suriname.

Mackinac Island is home to the famed Grand Hotel, where the 1980 movie Somewhere in Time was filmed.

Three former elementary schools were closed in June 1980: Prospect School was torn down, along with the former Baldwin Junior High School and former Baldwin Senior High School which were combined in one building in the 1980s to make way for a housing complex ; Coolidge School on Grand Avenue has been converted to condominiums ; Harbor Elementary School on Hastings Street is now the school district office building.

It has hosted nearly every type of road racing, from the Formula One United States Grand Prix ( 1961 – 1980 ), to one of the few races in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series not conducted on an oval speedway.

* 1980 Grand Prix New York-IFBB, Winner

* 1980 Grand Prix Miami-IFBB, Winner

* 1980 Grand Prix Louisiana-IFBB, 2nd

* 1980 Grand Prix California-IFBB, Winner

*: Grand Cross of the Order of St. Gregory the Great ( 1980 )