Explore 6636 historical events from 1980–1989.
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
William Sampson Jr. was a Muscogee Nation painter, actor, and rodeo performer. He is best known for his performance as the apparently mute Chief Bromden in the 1975 film One Flew O…
Will Sampson, American actor and painter (born 1933)
Abdurrahman Cahit Zarifoğlu was a Turkish poet and writer.
Cahit Zarifoğlu, Turkish poet and author (born 1940)
Alexander Iolas was an Egyptian-born Greek-American art gallerist and significant collector of classical and modern art works, who advanced the careers of René Magritte, Andy Warho…
Alexander Iolas, Egyptian-American art collector (born 1907)
Mary Elizabeth Hartman was an American actress of stage and screen. She debuted in the popular film A Patch of Blue (1965), playing a blind girl named Selina D'Arcy, opposite Sidne…
Elizabeth Hartman, American actress (born 1943)
Geraldine Sue Page was an American actress. With a career which spanned four decades across film, stage, and television, Page was the recipient of numerous accolades, including an …
Geraldine Page, American actress (born 1924)
Stanisław Sylwester Bareja was a Polish filmmaker. Some of his films have reached cult status in Poland.
Stanisław Bareja, Polish actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1929)
Marguerite de Angeli was an American writer and illustrator of children's books including the 1950 Newbery Award winning book The Door in the Wall. She wrote and illustrated twenty…
Marguerite de Angeli, American author and illustrator (born 1889)
Richard Dalton Howser was an American Major League Baseball shortstop, coach, and manager who was best known as the manager of the Kansas City Royals during the 1980s and for guidi…
Dick Howser, American baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1936)
Margaret Carver Leighton was an American children's author.
Margaret Carver Leighton, American author (born 1896)
Earl William "Madman" Muntz was an American businessman and engineer who sold and promoted cars and consumer electronics in the United States from the 1930s until his death in 1987…
Madman Muntz, American engineer and businessman, founded the Muntz Car Company (born 1914)