Explore 6636 historical events from 1980–1989.
Fabian Hambüchen is a retired German gymnast who was an Olympic champion on horizontal bar in Rio 2016, World champion in Stuttgart 2007 on the same apparatus, as well as six times…
Fabian Hambüchen, German gymnast
Guillaume Franke is a German international rugby union player, playing for RC Orléans in the Fédérale 1 and the German national rugby union team. He is the brother of Matthieu Fran…
Guillaume Franke, French-German rugby player
Frank Ocean is an American singer and songwriter. His accolades include two Grammy Awards and a Brit Award. He has been credited by several music critics as a pioneer of the altern…
Frank Ocean, American singer-songwriter
Andrew Gregory Dalton is an American professional football quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League (NFL). Nicknamed "the Red Rifle", he played college f…
Andy Dalton, American football player
Jessica Dubé is a Canadian former competitive figure skater who is best known for her pairs career with Bryce Davison. They are the 2008 World bronze medallists, the 2009 Four Cont…
Jessica Dubé, Canadian figure skater
Ebba Tove Elsa Nilsson, known professionally as Tove Lo, is a Swedish singer-songwriter. She is known for her raw, grunge-influenced take on pop music. Referring to her autobiograp…
Tove Lo, Swedish singer
Makoto Ogawa is a Japanese singer and actress, best known as a former member of Japanese girl group Morning Musume. She joined the group in August 2001 along with fellow fifth gen…
Makoto Ogawa, Japanese singer and actress
Danielle Fong is a Canadian scientist and entrepreneur. She was the co-founder and chief scientist of LightSail Energy, and as of late 2025 is working at another startup, LightCell…
Danielle Fong, Canadian entrepreneur, co-founder and chief scientist of LightSail Energy
Ashley Graham Ervin is an American model and television presenter. She made her debut on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue in 2016. A year later, she published her…
Ashley Graham, American model
Alexandra Lowe Riley is a former professional footballer who played as a defender. Born in the United States, she represented the New Zealand national team. She captained both her …
Ali Riley, New Zealand footballer
Cecil Harmsworth King was Chairman of Daily Mirror Newspapers, Sunday Pictorial Newspapers and the International Publishing Corporation (1963–1968) and a director at the Bank of En…
Cecil Harmsworth King, English publisher (born 1901)
Dick Shawn was an American actor. He played a wide variety of supporting roles and was a prolific character actor. During the 1960s, he played small roles in madcap comedies, usual…
Dick Shawn, American actor (born 1923)
Gustav Bergmann was an Austrian-American philosopher. He studied at the University of Vienna and was a member of the Vienna Circle. Bergmann was influenced by the philosophers Mori…
Gustav Bergmann, Austrian-American philosopher from the Vienna Circle (born 1906)
Erika Nõva née Volberg was an Estonian architect, remembered mainly for her farmhouse designs. She was the first woman to graduate as an architect in Estonia.
Erika Nõva, Estonian architect (born 1905)
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)
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)