Explore 6636 historical events from 1980–1989.
Gordon Barton McLendon was an American radio broadcaster. Nicknamed "the Maverick of Radio", McLendon is widely credited for perfecting, during the 1950s and 1960s, the commerciall…
Gordon McLendon, American broadcaster, founded the Liberty Broadcasting System (born 1921)
Darshan Singh Canadian was a Sikh trade union activist and communist organizer in Canada and India.
Darshan Singh Canadian, Indian-Canadian trade union leader and activist (born 1917)
Donald MacDonald was a Canadian social democratic politician and trade unionist who led the Nova Scotia Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and was elected as a member of the Nova…
Donald MacDonald, Canadian union leader and politician (born 1909)
Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov , sometimes Semenov, Semionov or Semenoff was a Soviet physicist and chemist. Semyonov was awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on t…
Nikolay Semyonov, Russian physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1896)
Hans Kamstrup Vogt was a Norwegian linguist who specialized in the Caucasian languages, especially Georgian. He also did significant early work on the Kalispel language and produce…
Hans Vogt, Norwegian linguist and academic (born 1909)
Clifford Lee Burton was an American musician who served as the bassist for the thrash metal band Metallica from 1982 until his death in 1986. He is renowned for his musicianship an…
Cliff Burton, American bass player and songwriter (born 1962)
Nicholas Kaldor, Baron Kaldor, born Káldor Miklós, was a Hungarian-born British economist. He developed the "compensation" criteria called Kaldor–Hicks efficiency for welfare compa…
Nicholas Kaldor, Hungarian-British economist (born 1908)
Vincent Paul DiMaggio was an American Major League Baseball center fielder. During a 10-year baseball career, he played for the Boston Bees (1937–1938), Cincinnati Reds (1939–1940)…
Vince DiMaggio, American baseball player and manager (born 1912)
Archie William League is generally considered the first air traffic controller in the United States. League had been a licensed pilot, and licensed engine and aircraft mechanic. He…
Archie League, American air traffic controller (born 1907)
Michael Trevor Burgmann was a Sydney accountant and racing car driver who was involved in a fatal accident at the 1986 James Hardie 1000 race held at the Mount Panorama Circuit in …
Mike Burgmann, Australian racing driver and accountant (born 1947)
Harold B. Wallis was an American film producer. He is best known for producing Casablanca (1942), The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), and True Grit (1969), along with many other m…
Hal B. Wallis, American film producer (born 1898)
James Hardy Wilkinson FRS was a prominent figure in the field of numerical analysis, a field at the boundary of applied mathematics and computer science particularly useful to phys…
James H. Wilkinson, English mathematician and computer scientist (born 1919)
Aleksandr Semyonovich Kronrod was a Soviet mathematician and computer scientist, best known for the Gauss–Kronrod quadrature formula which he published in 1964. Earlier, he worked …
Alexander Kronrod, Russian mathematician and computer scientist (born 1921)
Gleb Wataghin was an Italian theoretical and experimental physicist and a great scientific leader who gave a great impulse to the teaching and research on physics in two continents…
Gleb Wataghin, Ukrainian-Italian physicist and academic (born 1899)
Francis Xavier Aloysius James Jeremiah Keenan Wynn was an American character actor. Well-known for his highly expressive face, he was rarely cast as a leading actor, although he di…
Keenan Wynn, American actor (born 1916)
Takahiko Yamanouchi was a Japanese theoretical physicist, known for group theory in quantum mechanics first proposed by Yamanouchi in Japan.
Takahiko Yamanouchi, Japanese physicist (born 1902)
Dele Giwa was a Nigerian journalist, editor, and founder of Newswatch magazine.
Dele Giwa, Nigerian journalist, co-founded Newswatch Magazine (born 1947)
Lionel Keith Murphy was an Australian politician, barrister, and judge. He was a Senator for New South Wales from 1962 to 1975, serving as Attorney-General in the Whitlam governmen…
Lionel Murphy, Australian jurist and politician, 22nd Attorney-General of Australia (born 1922)
Norman Dalton Cash was an American Major League Baseball first baseman who spent almost his entire career with the Detroit Tigers. A power hitter, his 377 career home runs were the…
Norm Cash, American baseball player and sportscaster (born 1934)
Baron Arthur Grumiaux was a Belgian violinist, considered by some to have been "one of the few truly great violin virtuosi of the twentieth century". He has been noted for having a…
Arthur Grumiaux, Belgian violinist and pianist (born 1921)
Samora Moisés Machel was a Mozambican politician and revolutionary who served as the first President of Mozambique from the country's independence in 1975 until his death in the 19…
Samora Machel, Mozambican commander and politician, 1st President of Mozambique (born 1933)
Jane Carroll Dornacker was an American rock musician, comedian and traffic reporter. She gained fame as an associate songwriter for the San Francisco rock band The Tubes; she also …
Jane Dornacker, American musician, comedian, and reporter (born 1947)
Thorgeir Stubø was a Norwegian jazz guitarist and composer. He was the father of jazz guitarist Håvard Stubø, jazz singer Kjersti Stubø and theater director Eirik Stubø, and he was…
Thorgeir Stubø, Norwegian guitarist and composer (born 1943)
Ye Jianying was a Chinese Communist revolutionary leader and politician, one of the Ten Marshals of the People's Republic of China. He was the top military leader in the 1976 coup …
Ye Jianying, Chinese general and politician, Head of State of the People's Republic of China (born 1897)