Explore 4219 historical events from 1980–1989.
Shankar–Jaikishan, consisting of Shankar Singh Ram Singh Raghuvanshi and Jaikishan Dayabhai Panchal, also known as S-J, were an Indian composer duo of the Hindi film industry, who …
Shankar, Indian composer and conductor (born 1922)
John Ernest Silkin was a British left-wing Labour politician and solicitor.
John Silkin, English lawyer and politician, Shadow Leader of the House of Commons (born 1923)
Benjamin Ernest Linder, was an American engineer. While working on a small hydroelectric dam in rural northern Nicaragua, Linder and two of his colleagues, Pablo Rosales and Sergio…
Ben Linder, American engineer and activist (born 1959)
Iolanda Cristina Gigliotti, professionally known as Dalida, was an Italian naturalized French singer and actress. Throughout her international career, Dalida sold more than 140 mil…
Dalida, Italian singer, actress, dancer, and model (born 1933)
Paul Vaughn Butterfield was an American blues harmonica player, singer, and bandleader. After early training as a classical flautist, he developed an interest in blues harmonica. H…
Paul Butterfield, American singer and harmonica player (born 1942)
Cathryn Lee Damon was an American actress known for her roles in sitcoms in the 1970s and 1980s. She was best known as Mary Campbell in Soap, for which she was nominated three time…
Cathryn Damon, American actress (born 1930)
William Joseph Casey was an American lawyer who was the Director of Central Intelligence from 1981 to 1987. In this capacity he oversaw the entire United States Intelligence Commun…
William J
Colin George Edward Blakely was a Northern Irish stage and screen actor. He was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his performance in Sidney Lumet'…
Colin Blakely, Northern Irish actor (born 1930)
Paul Graham Popham was an American gay rights activist who was a founder of the Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC) and served as its president from 1981 until 1985. He also helped foun…
Paul Popham, American soldier and activist, co-founded Gay Men's Health Crisis (born 1941)
Doris May Fisher Stokes, born Doris Sutton, was a British spiritualist, professional medium, and author. Her public performances, television appearances, and memoirs made her a hou…
Doris Stokes, English psychic and author (born 1920)
Obafemi Jeremiah Oyeniyi Awolowo was a Nigerian politician and statesman who served as the first Premier of the Western region of Nigeria. He was known as one of the key figure tow…
Obafemi Awolowo, Nigerian lawyer and politician (born 1909)
James Jesus Angleton was an American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer who served as chief of the counterintelligence department of the CIA from 1954 to 1975. According to …
James Jesus Angleton, CIA counterintelligence leader (born 1917)
Rita Hayworth was an American actress, dancer, and pin-up girl. She achieved fame in the 1940s as one of the top stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood, and appeared in 61 films over…
Rita Hayworth, American actress and dancer (born 1918)
Vitomil Zupan was a post-World War II modernist Slovene writer and Gonars concentration camp survivor. Because of his detailed descriptions of sex and violence, he was dubbed the S…
Vitomil Zupan, Slovenian poet and playwright (born 1914)
Hassan Abdullah Hamdan, more commonly known by his pseudonym Mahdi Amel, was a Lebanese Marxist philosopher, historian and militant in the second half of the 20th century.
Mahdi Amel, Lebanese journalist, poet, and academic (born 1936)
Alice Bradley Sheldon, better known as James Tiptree Jr., was an American science fiction and fantasy author. It was not publicly known until 1977 that James Tiptree Jr. was a pen …
James Tiptree, Jr
John Howard Northrop was an American biochemist who, with James Batcheller Sumner and Wendell Meredith Stanley, won the 1946 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The award was given for these…
John Howard Northrop, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1891)
John Abraham was an Indian filmmaker, short story writer and screenwriter who worked mainly in Malayalam cinema. His film Amma Ariyan (1986) was the only South Indian feature film …
John Abraham, Indian director and screenwriter (born 1937)
Karl Gunnar Myrdal was a Swedish economist and sociologist. In 1974, he received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences along with Friedrich Hayek for "their pioneering work…
Gunnar Myrdal, Swedish economist, sociologist, and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1898)
Chaudhary Charan Singh was an Indian politician, peasant leader, author and an independence activist who briefly served as the prime minister of India from July 1979 to January 198…
Charan Singh, Indian politician, 5th Prime Minister of India (born 1902)
Rashid Karami was a Lebanese statesman. He is considered one of the most important political figures in Lebanon for more than 30 years, including during much of the Lebanese Civil …
Rashid Karami, Lebanese lawyer and politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Lebanon (born 1921)
Anthony de Mello, also known as Tony de Mello, was an Indian Jesuit priest and psychotherapist. A teacher and public speaker, de Mello wrote several books on spirituality and hoste…
Anthony de Mello, Indian-American priest and psychotherapist (born 1931)
Sammy Kaye was an American bandleader and songwriter, whose tag line, "Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye", became one of the most famous of the Big Band Era. The expression springs fr…
Sammy Kaye, American bandleader and songwriter (born 1910)
Andrés Segovia Torres, 1st Marquis of Salobreña, was a Spanish virtuoso classical guitarist. Many professional classical guitarists were either students of Segovia or students of S…
Andrés Segovia, Spanish guitarist (born 1893)