Explore 6636 historical events from 1980–1989.
Joseph Paul Lash was an American radical political activist, journalist, and writer. A close friend of Eleanor Roosevelt, Lash won both the Pulitzer Prize for Biography and the Nat…
Joseph P. Lash, American author and journalist (born 1909)
Didier Joseph Louis Pironi was a French racing driver and offshore powerboat racer, who competed in Formula One from 1978 to 1982. Pironi was runner-up in the Formula One World Dri…
Didier Pironi, French race car and boat driver (born 1952)
John Douglas Claude Goddard OBE was a cricketer from Barbados who captained the West Indies in 22 of his 27 Tests between 1948 and 1957.
John Goddard, Barbadian-English cricketer and manager (born 1919)
Rudolf Walter Richard Hess was a German politician, convicted war criminal, and a leading member of the Nazi Party in Germany. Appointed Deputy to the Führer in 1933, Hess held tha…
Rudolf Hess, German soldier and politician, convicted Nuremberg war criminal (born 1894)
Malcolm Kirk was an English professional wrestler who went by the ring name of "King Kong" Kirk as well as Kojak Kirk, Killer Kirk and "Mucky" Mal Kirk. He started as a professiona…
Malcolm Kirk, English rugby player and wrestler (born 1936)
Georg Wittig was a German chemist who reported a method for synthesis of alkenes from aldehydes and ketones using compounds called phosphonium ylides in the Wittig reaction. He sha…
Georg Wittig, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1897)
John Marcellus Huston was an American and Irish filmmaker and actor. In a career spanning five decades, he wrote the screenplays for many of the 37 feature films he directed, many …
John Huston, Irish actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1906)
Archie Campbell was an American comedian, writer, and star of Hee Haw, a country-flavored network television variety show. He was also a recording artist with several hits for RCA …
Archie Campbell, American actor and screenwriter (born 1914)
Lamont Warren Marvin Jr., known as Lee Marvin, was an American film and television actor. Known for his bass voice and prematurely white hair, he is best remembered for playing har…
Lee Marvin, American actor (born 1924)
Brian Joseph 'Poppa' Clay (1935–1987) was an Australian rugby league footballer who played in the 1950s and 1960s. He was a five-eighth with the St. George Dragons during their 11-…
Brian Clay, Australian rugby league player (born 1935)
William Eric Bowes was an English professional cricketer active from 1929 to 1947 who played in 372 first-class matches as a right arm fast bowler and a right-handed tail end batsm…
Bill Bowes, English cricketer and coach (born 1908)
Boris Rõtov was a Russian-Estonian chess player who won the Estonian Chess Championship (1978).
Boris Rõtov, Estonian chess player (born 1937)
Lorne Hyman Greene was a Canadian actor, singer, and radio personality. His notable roles include Ben Cartwright in the Western television series Bonanza and Commander Adama in the…
Lorne Greene, Canadian actor (born 1915)
Peter Tosh was a Jamaican musician and reggae singer. Along with Bob Marley and Bunny Wailer, he was one of the core members of the band the Wailers (1963–1976), after which he est…
Peter Tosh, Jamaican singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1944)
Mahadevi Varma was an Indian Hindi-language poet, essayist, and short-story writer. She is regarded as one of the four major pillars of the Chhayavaad movement in Hindi literature.
Mahadevi Varma, Indian poet and educator (born 1907)
Morton Feldman was an American composer. A major figure in 20th-century classical music, Feldman was an important exponent of indeterminacy in music, a development associated with …
Morton Feldman, American composer and educator (born 1926)
John Qualen was a Canadian-American character actor of Norwegian heritage who specialized in Scandinavian roles.
John Qualen, Canadian-American actor (born 1899)
Mervyn LeRoy was an American film director and producer. During the 1930s, he was one of the two great practitioners of economical and effective film directing at Warner Brothers s…
Mervyn LeRoy, American actor, director, and producer (born 1900)
Arthur Christopher John Soames, Baron Soames, was a British Conservative politician who served as a European Commissioner and the last Governor of Southern Rhodesia. He was previou…
Christopher Soames, English soldier and politician, Governor of Southern Rhodesia (born 1920)
Américo de Deus Rodrigues Tomás was a Portuguese Navy officer and politician who served as the president of Portugal from 1958 to 1974. He was the last president of the authoritari…
Américo Tomás, Portuguese admiral and politician, 14th President of Portugal (born 1894)
Einar Henry Gerhardsen was a Norwegian politician who served as the prime minister of Norway from 1945 to 1951, 1955 to 1963 and 1963 to 1965. With a total of 17 years in office, h…
Einar Gerhardsen, Norwegian civil servant and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Norway (born 1897)
Michael Stewart was an American playwright and dramatist, librettist, lyricist, screenwriter and novelist.
Michael Stewart, American playwright and composer (born 1924)
John Francis Anthony Pastorius III, also known as Jaco Pastorius, was an American jazz bassist, composer, and producer. Widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential …
Jaco Pastorius, American bass player, composer, and producer (born 1951)
Hákun Djurhuus was the prime minister of the Faroe Islands from 1963 to 1967. He was born in Tórshavn.
Hákun Djurhuus, Faroese educator and politician, 4th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (born 1908)