Explore 6636 historical events from 1980–1989.
Ann Little, also known as Anna Little, was an American film actress whose career was most prolific during the silent film era of the early 1910s through the early 1920s. Today, mos…
Ann Little, American actress (born 1891)
Vincent James McMahon, also referred to as Vince McMahon Sr., was an American professional wrestling promoter. He is best known for running the Capitol Wrestling Corporation, later…
Vince McMahon Sr
Elizabeth Clow Peer Jansson was an American journalist who worked for Newsweek from 1958 until her death in 1984. She began her career at Newsweek as a copy girl, at a time when op…
Elizabeth Peer, American journalist (born 1936)
Vasilije Mokranjac was a Serbian composer, professor of composition at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade and a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He was one of the …
Vasilije Mokranjac, Serbian composer (born 1923)
Andrew Geoffrey Kaufman was an American entertainer and performance artist. He has sometimes been called an "anti-comedian". He disdained telling jokes and engaging in comedy as it…
Andy Kaufman, American actor, comedian, and screenwriter (born 1949)
Irwin Shaw was an American playwright, screenwriter, novelist, and short-story author whose written works have sold more than 14 million copies. He is best known for two of his nov…
Irwin Shaw, American playwright, screenwriter, novelist, and short story writer (born 1913)
Karl-August Fagerholm was a Finnish politician. Fagerholm served as Speaker of Parliament and three times as Prime Minister of Finland. Fagerholm became one of the leading politici…
Karl-August Fagerholm, Finnish politician, valtioneuvos, the Speaker of the Parliament and the Prime Minister of Finland
John Eric Bartholomew, known by his stage name Eric Morecambe, was an English comedian who together with Ernie Wise formed the double act Morecambe and Wise. The partnership lasted…
Eric Morecambe, English actor and comedian (born 1926)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)