Explore 4219 historical events from 1980–1989.
D'Urville Martin was an American actor in both film and television. He appeared in numerous 1970s movies in the blaxploitation genre. He also appeared in two unaired pilots of what…
D'Urville Martin, American actor and director (born 1939)
Manuel Buendía Tellezgirón was a Mexican journalist and political columnist who last worked for the daily Excélsior, one of the most-read newspapers in Mexico City. His direct repo…
Manuel Buendía, Mexican journalist and political columnist (born 1926)
Gordon Percival Septimus Jacob CBE was an English composer and teacher. He was a professor at the Royal College of Music in London from 1924 until his retirement in 1966, and publi…
Gordon Jacob, English composer and academic (born 1895)
Helen Hardin was a Tewa Native American painter. She started making and selling paintings, participated in the University of Arizona's Southwest Indian Art Project and was featured…
Helen Hardin, American painter (born 1943)
Halide Nusret Zorlutuna was a Turkish poet and novelist.
Halide Nusret Zorlutuna, Turkish author and poet (born 1901)
Enrico Berlinguer was an Italian politician and statesman who was the most popular leader of the Italian Communist Party (PCI). He led the PCI as the national secretary from 1972 u…
Enrico Berlinguer, Italian politician (born 1922)
Robert Reiniger Meredith Willson was an American flautist, composer, conductor, musical arranger, bandleader, playwright, and writer.
Meredith Willson, American playwright, composer, and conductor (born 1902)
Lewis P. Andreas was an American football and basketball coach and college athletics administrator. He was the head coach for Syracuse University's men's basketball and football pr…
Lew Andreas, American football player and coach (born 1895)
Erni Krusten was an Estonian writer. He was born Ernst Krustein in Muraste, Harku Parish, in a gardening family, and he worked as a gardener himself. He was the brother of the writ…
Erni Krusten, Estonian author and poet (born 1900)
Lenore "Lee" Krasner was an American painter and visual artist active primarily in New York whose work has been associated with the Abstract Expressionist movement.
Lee Krasner, American painter and educator (born 1908)
António Joaquim Rodrigues Ribeiro was a Portuguese singer and songwriter. Despite his short-lived career due to his premature death at the age of thirty-nine, using the stage name …
António Variações, Portuguese singer-songwriter (born 1944)
Alan Harrison Berg was a Jewish-American talk radio show host in Denver, Colorado. He had outspoken atheistic and liberal views and a confrontational interview style. Berg was assa…
Alan Berg, American lawyer and radio host (born 1934)
Estelle Winwood was an English actress who moved to the United States mid-career and became celebrated for her wit and longevity, starring in film and TV roles until her nineties.
Estelle Winwood, English actress (born 1883)
Joseph Walton Losey III was an American film and theatre director, producer, and screenwriter. Born in Wisconsin, he studied in Germany with Bertolt Brecht and then returned to the…
Joseph Losey, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1909)
Clarence Sutherland Campbell was a Canadian ice hockey executive and referee, and soldier. He refereed in the National Hockey League (NHL) during the 1930s, served in the Canadian …
Clarence Campbell, Canadian businessman (born 1905)
Paul-Michel Foucault was a French historian of ideas and philosopher, who was also an author, literary critic, political activist, and teacher. Foucault's theories primarily addres…
Michel Foucault, French historian and philosopher (born 1926)
Yigael Yadin was an Israeli archeologist, soldier and politician. He was the second Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces and Deputy Prime Minister from 1977 to 1981.
Yigael Yadin, Israeli archaeologist, general, and politician (born 1917)
Moshé Pinchas Feldenkrais was an Israeli engineer and physicist, known as the founder of the Feldenkrais method.
Moshé Feldenkrais, Ukrainian-Israeli physicist and academic (born 1904)
Jimmie Andrew Spheeris was an American singer-songwriter who released four albums in the 1970s on the Columbia Records and Epic Records labels. Spheeris died in 1984, at the age of…
Jimmie Spheeris, American singer-songwriter (born 1949)
Charles Myron "Chic" Murray was a Canadian politician who served as the second Mayor of the Town of Mississauga, before it amalgamated with several surrounding towns to form the cu…
Chic Murray, Canadian politician, 2nd Mayor of Mississauga (born 1914)
George Oppen was an American poet, best known as one of the members of the Objectivist group of poets. He abandoned poetry in the 1930s for political activism and moved to Mexico i…
George Oppen, American poet and author (born 1908)
Lillian Florence Hellman was an American playwright, prose writer, memoirist, and screenwriter known for her success on Broadway as well as her communist views and political activi…
Lillian Hellman, American author and playwright (born 1905)
Edna Ernestine Kramer Lassar, born Edna Ernestine Kramer, was an American mathematician and author of mathematics books.
Edna Ernestine Kramer, American mathematician (born 1902)
Ernest Ralph Tidyman was an American author, journalist, and screenwriter, best known for his novels featuring the African-American detective John Shaft. His screenplay for the 197…
Ernest Tidyman, American author and screenwriter; Academy Award winner for The French Connection (born 1928)