Explore 4219 historical events from 1980–1989.
Jackie Keith Whitley was an American country music and bluegrass singer and songwriter. During his career, he released only two albums, but charted 12 singles on the Billboard coun…
Keith Whitley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1954)
Dominik Tatarka was a Slovak writer famous for his 1956 satirical text The Demon of Consent condemning Stalinism.
Dominik Tatarka, Slovak writer (born 1913)
John Waldo Green was an American songwriter, composer, musical arranger, conductor and pianist. He was given the nickname "Beulah" by colleague Conrad Salinger. His most famous son…
Johnny Green, American composer and conductor (born 1908)
Luc Lacourcière, CC was a Québécois writer and ethnographer, who established himself during his lifetime as a leading figure in folklore studies. Trained by Marius Barbeau, he in t…
Luc Lacourcière, Canadian ethnographer and author (born 1910)
Dorothy Ruth Pirone was the adopted daughter of the American baseball player George H. (Babe) Ruth and his mistress Juanita Jennings, born Juanita Grenandtz. She was adopted by B…
Dorothy Ruth, American horse breeder and author (born 1921)
Leila Kasra also known as Hedieh, was a prominent Iranian contemporary poet and lyricist who has written lyrics for notable artists including Ebi, Dariush, Sattar, Vigen, Moein, Ma…
Leila Kasra, Iranian poet and songwriter (born 1939)
Yiannis Papaioannou was a Greek composer and teacher of the Modern Era.
Yiannis Papaioannou, Greek composer and educator (born 1910)
Gilda Susan Radner was an American actress and comedian.
Gilda Radner, American actress and comedian (born 1946)
Steven De Groote was a South African classical pianist.
Steven De Groote, South African pianist and educator (born 1953)
Georgy Aleksandrovich Tovstonogov was a Russian-Georgian theatre director.
Georgy Tovstonogov, Russian director and producer (born 1915)
Karl Werner Lothar Koch was a German hacker in the 1980s, who called himself "hagbard", after Hagbard Celine. He was involved in a Cold War computer espionage incident.
Karl Koch, German computer hacker (born 1965)
Donald George Revie was an English football player and manager. He is best known for managing Leeds United from 1961 until 1974, winning the Football League First Division twice an…
Don Revie, English footballer and manager (born 1927)
Sir John Richard Hicks was a British economist. He is considered one of the most important and influential economists of the twentieth century. The most familiar of his many contri…
John Hicks, English economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1904)
Arseny Aleksandrovich Tarkovsky was a Soviet and Russian poet and translator. He was predeceased by his son, film director and screenwriter Andrei Tarkovsky.
Arseny Tarkovsky, Russian poet and translator (born 1907)
George Caspar Homans was an American sociologist, founder of behavioral sociology, the 54th president of the American Sociological Association, and one of the architects of social …
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Cyril Lionel Robert James, who sometimes wrote under the pen-name J. R. Johnson, was a Trinidadian historian, journalist, Trotskyist activist, and Marxist writer. His works are inf…
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Owen Lattimore was an American Orientalist and writer. He was an influential scholar of China and Central Asia, especially Mongolia. Although he never earned a college degree, in t…
Owen Lattimore, American author and academic (born 1900)
Aurelio Lampredi was an Italian automobile and aircraft engine designer.
Aurelio Lampredi, Italian engineer, designed the Ferrari Lampredi engine (born 1917)
Edward Lambert à Beckett was an Australian cricketer who played in four Test matches between 1928 and 1931. He played in 47 first-class matches for Victoria.
Ted a'Beckett, Australian cricketer and footballer (born 1907)
Ruhollah Mostafavi Musavi Khomeini was an Iranian politician and Shia cleric who served as the first supreme leader of Iran from 1979 until his death in 1989. He was the leader of …
Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian religious leader and politician, 1st Supreme Leader of Iran (born 1900)
Richard Arthur Allan Browne was an American cartoonist, best known for writing and drawing Hägar the Horrible and Hi and Lois.
Dik Browne, American cartoonist (born 1917)
George Wells Beadle was an American geneticist. In 1958 he shared one-half of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Edward Tatum for their discovery of the role of genes i…
George Wells Beadle, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1903)
Leslie Bruce Hamilton was an Australian senior public servant and head of the Department of Social Services between 1966 and 1973.
Bruce Hamilton, Australian public servant (born 1911)
Frances Helen Allison was an American television and radio comedienne, personality, and singer.
Fran Allison, American television personality and puppeteer (born 1907)