Explore 6636 historical events from 1980–1989.
Brigadier Henry Bachtold, was an Australian soldier and railway engineer. He fought during the First World War as an engineer with the 1st Field Company at the Gallipoli Campaign, …
Henry Bachtold, Australian soldier and railway engineer (born 1891)
Zenna Chlarson Henderson was an American elementary school teacher and science fiction and fantasy author. Her first story was published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fictio…
Zenna Henderson, American writer (born 1917)
Albert Claude was a Belgian-American cell biologist and medical doctor who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1974 with Christian de Duve and George Emil Palade. H…
Albert Claude, Belgian biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1899)
Erna Scheffler was a German senior judge.
Erna Scheffler, German lawyer and justice of the Federal Constitutional Court (born 1893)
Ahmet Necip Fazıl Kısakürek was a Turkish poet, novelist, playwright, Islamist ideologue, and conspiracy theorist. He is also known simply by his initials NFK. He was noticed by th…
Necip Fazıl Kısakürek, Turkish author, poet, and playwright (born 1904)
Idris was King of Libya from 24 December 1951 until his ousting in the 1 September 1969 coup d'état. He ruled over the United Kingdom of Libya from 1951 to 1963, after which the co…
Idris of Libya (born 1889)
Erastus Corning 2nd was an American businessman and Democratic Party politician who served as the 72nd mayor of Albany, New York from 1942 to 1983, when Albany County was controlle…
Erastus Corning 2nd, American soldier and politician, 72nd Mayor of Albany (born 1909)
Arvīds Pelše was a Latvian Soviet politician, functionary, and historian.
Arvīds Pelše, Latvian-Russian historian and politician (born 1899)
William Harrison "Jack" Dempsey, nicknamed Kid Blackie and The Manassa Mauler, was an American boxer who competed from 1914 to 1927, and was world heavyweight champion from 1919 to…
Jack Dempsey, American boxer and lieutenant (born 1895)
John Sherratt Stewart was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who was a defenceman for 12 National Hockey League (NHL) seasons for the Detroit Red Wings and Chicago Black Haw…
Jack Stewart, Canadian-American ice hockey player (born 1917)
Prince Charles, Count of Flanders was a member of the Belgian royal family who served as regent of Belgium from 1944 until 1950, while a judicial commission investigated his elder …
Prince Charles, Count of Flanders (born 1903)
Anna Reiling, known by the pen name Anna Seghers, was a German writer. She was notable for exploring and depicting the moral experience of the Second World War. Born into a Jewish …
Anna Seghers, German writer (born 1900)
Stanley Allison Rogers was a Canadian folk musician and songwriter who sang traditional-sounding songs frequently inspired by Canadian history and the working people's daily lives,…
Stan Rogers, Canadian singer-songwriter (born 1949)
Raymond Ernest Stehr was an Australian rugby league footballer, a state and national representative player whose club career was played at Sydney's Eastern Suburbs club. He has bee…
Ray Stehr, Australian rugby league player and coach (born 1913)
Hans Leip was a German novelist, poet and playwright, best remembered as the lyricist of Lili Marleen.
Hans Leip, German author, poet, and playwright who wrote the lyrics of Lili Marleen (born 1893)
Ghanshyam Das Birla was an Indian businessman and member of the Birla Family.
Ghanshyam Das Birla, Indian businessman and politician (born 1894)
Edith Norma Shearer was a Canadian-American actress who was active on film from 1919 through 1942. Shearer often played spunky, sexually liberated women. She appeared in adaptation…
Norma Shearer, Canadian-American actress (born 1902)
Peter Mennin was a prominent American composer, teacher and administrator. In 1958, he was named Director of the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, and in 1962 became President of …
Peter Mennin, American composer and educator (born 1923)
Alberto Evaristo Ginastera was an Argentine composer of classical music. He is considered to be one of the most important 20th-century classical composers of the Americas.
Alberto Ginastera, Argentinian pianist and composer (born 1916)
Alf Francis was a motor racing mechanic and racing car constructor.
Alf Francis, German-English motor racing mechanic and racing car constructor (born 1918)
Harry Haag James was an American musician who is best known as a trumpet-playing band leader who led a big band to great commercial success from 1939 to 1946. He broke up his band …
Harry James, American trumpet player and actor (born 1916)
Richard Buckminster Fuller Jr. was an American architect, systems theorist, writer, designer, inventor, philosopher, and futurist. He styled his name as R. Buckminster Fuller in hi…
Buckminster Fuller, American architect, designed the Montreal Biosphère (born 1895)
Kenneth Millar, known mainly by the pseudonym Ross Macdonald, was an American-Canadian writer of crime fiction. He is best known for his series of hardboiled novels set in Southern…
Ross Macdonald, American-Canadian author (born 1915)
Christopher Gordon Blandford Wood was a British rock musician, best known as a founding member of the rock band Traffic, along with Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi and Dave Mason.
Chris Wood, English saxophonist (born 1944)