Events
January
*
January 4 – U.S. President
Jimmy Carter proclaims a
grain embargo against the
USSR with the support of the
European Commission.
*
January 6 –
Global Positioning System
The Global Positioning System (GPS), originally Navstar GPS, is a satellite-based radionavigation system owned by the United States government and operated by the United States Space Force. It is one of the global navigation satellite sys ...
time
epoch begins at 00:00 UTC.
*
January 9 – In
Saudi Arabia, 63
Islamist insurgents are beheaded for their part in the
siege of the Great Mosque in
Mecca in November
1979
Events
January
* January 1
** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the ''International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the ''Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund, among them ABBA, who write the song ...
.
*
January 14
Events Pre-1600
*1236 – King Henry III of England marries Eleanor of Provence.
*1301 – Andrew III of Hungary dies, ending the Árpád dynasty in Hungary.
1601–1900
*1639 – The "Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, Fundamenta ...
–
Indira Gandhi returns to power as Prime Minister of India.
*
January 20
Events Pre-1600
* 250 – Pope Fabian is martyred during the Decian persecution.
* 649 – King Chindasuinth, at the urging of bishop Braulio of Zaragoza, crowns his son Recceswinth as co-ruler of the Visigothic Kingdom.
*1156 &ndash ...
– At least 200 people are killed when the Corralejas Bullring collapses at
Sincelejo
Sincelejo () is the capital and largest city of the Colombian department of Sucre. It is also the main city in the denominated '' Región Sabanas'' (Savannas Region), a subdivision of the Caribbean Region of Colombia, and the 23rd largest c ...
, Colombia.
*
January 21 – The
London Gold Fixing
The London Gold Fixing (or Gold Fix) is the setting of the price of gold that takes place via a dedicated conference line. It was formerly held on the London premises of Nathan Mayer Rothschild & Sons by the members of The London Gold Market Fixi ...
hits its highest price ever of $843 per
troy ounce ($2,249.50 in 2020 when adjusted for inflation).
*
January 22 –
Andrei Sakharov
Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov ( rus, Андрей Дмитриевич Сахаров, p=ɐnˈdrʲej ˈdmʲitrʲɪjevʲɪtɕ ˈsaxərəf; 21 May 192114 December 1989) was a Soviet nuclear physicist, dissident, nobel laureate and activist for n ...
,
Soviet
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nationa ...
scientist and human rights activist, is arrested in Moscow.
*
January 26 –
Israel and
Egypt establish diplomatic relations.
*
January 27
Events Pre-1600
* 98 – Trajan succeeds his adoptive father Nerva as Roman emperor; under his rule the Roman Empire will reach its maximum extent.
* 945 – The co-emperors Stephen and Constantine are overthrown and forced to beco ...
–
Canadian Caper
The "Canadian Caper" was the joint covert rescue by the Canadian government and the CIA of six American diplomats who had evaded capture during the seizure of the United States embassy in Tehran, Iran, on November 4, 1979, after the Iranian ...
: Six United States
diplomats, posing as Canadians, manage to escape from
Tehran,
Iran, as they board a flight to
Zürich, Switzerland, on
Swissair.
*
January 31
Events Pre-1600
* 314 – Pope Sylvester I is consecrated, as successor to the late Pope Miltiades.
* 1208 – The Battle of Lena takes place between King Sverker II of Sweden and his rival, Prince Eric, whose victory puts him on the ...
–
Burning of the Spanish Embassy in Guatemala: The Spanish Embassy in
Guatemala is invaded and set on fire, killing 36 people. In the United States, it is dubbed "Spain's own Tehran".
February
*
February 2 –
Abscam
Abscam (sometimes written ABSCAM) was an FBI sting operation in the late 1970s and early 1980s that led to the convictions of seven members of the United States Congress, among others, for bribery and corruption. The two-year investigation init ...
:
FBI
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States and its principal federal law enforcement agency. Operating under the jurisdiction of the United States Department of Justice, t ...
personnel target members of the
Congress of the United States
The United States Congress is the legislature of the federal government of the United States. It is bicameral, composed of a lower body, the House of Representatives, and an upper body, the Senate. It meets in the U.S. Capitol in Washin ...
in a sting operation.
*
February 2 –
3 – The
New Mexico State Penitentiary riot takes place; 33 inmates are killed and more than 100 inmates injured.
*
February 4 –
Abolhassan Banisadr
Seyyed Abolhassan Banisadr ( fa, سید ابوالحسن بنیصدر; 22 March 1933 – 9 October 2021) was an Iranian politician, writer, and political dissident. He was the first president of Iran after the 1979 Iranian Revolution abolis ...
is sworn in as the first
President of Iran
The president of Iran ( fa, رئیسجمهور ایران, Rayis Jomhur-e Irān) is the head of government of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The president is the second highest-ranking official of Iran after the Supreme Leader.
The president i ...
after winning the
January 25 presidential election.
*
February 13 – The
1980 Winter Olympics
The 1980 Winter Olympics, officially the XIII Olympic Winter Games and also known as Lake Placid 1980, were an international multi-sport event held from February 13 to 24, 1980, in Lake Placid, New York, United States.
Lake Placid was elected ...
open in
Lake Placid, New York
Lake Placid is a village in the Adirondack Mountains in Essex County, New York, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 2,303.
The village of Lake Placid is near the center of the town of North Elba, southwest of Plattsburgh ...
.
*
February 15 – In
Vanuatu, followers of
John Frum's
cargo cult
A cargo cult is an indigenist millenarian belief system, in which adherents perform rituals which they believe will cause a more technologically advanced society to deliver goods.
Causes, beliefs, and practices
Cargo cults are marked by a ...
on the island of
Tanna declare secession as the nation of
Tafea
Tafea is the southernmost of the six provinces of Vanuatu.
The name is an acronym for the five main islands that make up the province: Tanna, Aneityum, Futuna, Erromango and Aniwa.
History
Unlike the other provinces of Vanuatu, the territori ...
.
*
February 16 – A
total solar eclipse is seen in North Africa and West Asia. It was the 50th solar eclipse of
Solar Saros 130
Saros cycle series 130 for solar eclipse
A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby obscuring the view of the Sun from a small part of the Earth, totally or partially. Such an alignment occurs durin ...
.
*
February 23
Events Pre-1600
* 303 – Roman emperor Diocletian orders the destruction of the Christian church in Nicomedia, beginning eight years of Diocletianic Persecution.
* 532 – Byzantine emperor Justinian I lays the foundation stone of a ...
–
Ayatollah
Ayatollah ( ; fa, آیتالله, āyatollāh) is an honorific title for high-ranking Twelver Shia clergy in Iran and Iraq that came into widespread usage in the 20th century.
Etymology
The title is originally derived from Arabic word pr ...
Ruhollah Khomeini states that
Iran's parliament will decide the fate of the
American embassy hostages.
*
February 25 – A
coup in
Suriname ousts the government of
Henck Arron; leaders
Dési Bouterse
Desiré Delano "Dési" Bouterse (; born 13 October 1945) is a Surinamese military officer, politician, convicted murderer and drug trafficker who served as President of Suriname from 2010 to 2020. From 1980 to 1987, he was Suriname's ''de facto ...
and Roy Horb replace it with a National Military Council.
*
February 27 –
M-19 guerrillas begin the
Dominican embassy siege
Dominican may refer to:
* Someone or something from or related to the Dominican Republic ( , stress on the "mi"), on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles, in the Caribbean
** People of the Dominican Republic
** Demographics of the Domi ...
in
Colombia, holding 60 people hostage, including 14
ambassador
An ambassador is an official envoy, especially a high-ranking diplomat who represents a state and is usually accredited to another sovereign state or to an international organization as the resident representative of their own government or sov ...
s.
March
*
March 1
Events Pre-1600
* 509 BC – Publius Valerius Publicola celebrates the first triumph of the Roman Republic after his victory over the deposed king Lucius Tarquinius Superbus at the Battle of Silva Arsia.
* 293 – Emperor Diocletian ...
** The
Commonwealth Trade Union Council The Commonwealth Trade Union Group (abbreviated CTUG) is a London-based international alliance of trade union in the Commonwealth countries. It was previously known as the Commonwealth Trade Union Council (abbreviated CTUC). As of 2007, the combined ...
is established.
** The ''
Voyager 1'' probe confirms the existence of
Janus, a moon of
Saturn.
*
March 3
Events Pre-1600
* 473 – Gundobad (nephew of Ricimer) nominates Glycerius as emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
* 724 – Empress Genshō abdicates the throne in favor of her nephew Shōmu who becomes emperor of Japan.
* 1575 &nd ...
-
Pierre Trudeau returns to office as
Prime Minister of Canada.
*
March 4
Events Pre-1600
*AD 51 – Nero, later to become Roman emperor, is given the title '' princeps iuventutis'' (head of the youth).
* 306 – Martyrdom of Saint Adrian of Nicomedia.
* 852 – Croatian Knez Trpimir I issues a st ...
–
Robert Mugabe
Robert Gabriel Mugabe (; ; 21 February 1924 – 6 September 2019) was a Zimbabwean revolutionary and politician who served as Prime Minister of Zimbabwe from 1980 to 1987 and then as President from 1987 to 2017. He served as Leader of the ...
is elected Prime Minister of
Zimbabwe.
*
March 8 – The
Soviet Union's first
rock music festival
A rock festival is an open-air rock concert featuring many different performers, typically spread over two or three days and having a campsite and other amenities and forms of entertainment provided at the venue. Some festivals are singular even ...
starts.
*
March 14 –
LOT Polish Airlines Flight 007 crashes during an emergency landing near
Warsaw, Poland, killing a 14-man American
boxing team and 73 others.
*
March 18
Events Pre-1600
* 37 – Roman Senate annuls Tiberius' will and proclaims Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus ''(aka Caligula = Little Boots)'' emperor.Tacitus, ''Annals'' V.10.
*1068 – An earthquake in the Levant and the Arab ...
– Fifty people are killed at the
Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia, when a
Vostok-2M rocket explodes on its launch pad during a fueling operation.
*
March 19
Events Pre-1600
* 1277 – The Byzantine–Venetian treaty of 1277 is concluded, stipulating a two-year truce and renewing Venetian commercial privileges in the Byzantine Empire.
* 1279 – A Mongol victory at the Battle of Yamen end ...
–
20 – The , the ship housing
pirate radio
Pirate radio or a pirate radio station is a radio station that broadcasts without a valid license.
In some cases, radio stations are considered legal where the signal is transmitted, but illegal where the signals are received—especially ...
station
Radio Caroline
Radio Caroline is a British radio station founded in 1964 by Ronan O'Rahilly and Alan Crawford initially to circumvent the record companies' control of popular music broadcasting in the United Kingdom and the BBC's radio broadcasting monopoly. ...
, sinks off the English coast (the station returns aboard a new ship in
1983
The year 1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call.
Events January
* January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to TCP/IP is officially completed (this is considered to be the beginning ...
).
*
March 21
Events Pre-1600
* 537 – Siege of Rome: King Vitiges attempts to assault the northern and eastern city walls, but is repulsed at the Praenestine Gate, known as the '' Vivarium'', by the defenders under the Byzantine generals Bessas and ...
– U.S. President
Jimmy Carter announces that the United States will boycott the
1980 Summer Olympics
The 1980 Summer Olympics (russian: Летние Олимпийские игры 1980, Letniye Olimpiyskiye igry 1980), officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad (russian: Игры XXII Олимпиады, Igry XXII Olimpiady) and commo ...
in Moscow because of the
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
*
March 26 – A mine lift cage at the
Vaal Reefs
Vaal Reefs is a gold bearing reef which is mined near the town of Orkney in Dr Kenneth Kaunda District Municipality in the North West province of South Africa.
The town of Orkney is home to a large gold mining operation originally owned by Anglo ...
gold mine in South Africa falls , killing 23 workers.
*
March 27
Events Pre-1600
* 1309 – Pope Clement V imposes excommunication and interdiction on Venice, and a general prohibition of all commercial intercourse with Venice, which had seized on Ferrara, a papal fiefdom.
*1329 – Pope John XXII ...
– The Norwegian oil platform ''
Alexander L. Kielland'' collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212.
*
March 28
Events Pre-1600
*AD 37 – Roman emperor Caligula accepts the titles of the Principate, bestowed on him by the Senate.
* 193 – After assassinating the Roman Emperor Pertinax, his Praetorian Guards auction off the throne to Didiu ...
– The
Talpiot Tomb
The Talpiot Tomb (or Talpiyot Tomb) is a rock-cut tomb discovered in 1980 in the East Talpiot neighborhood, five kilometers (three miles) south of the Old City in East Jerusalem. It contained ten ossuaries, six inscribed with epigraphs, i ...
is discovered by construction workers in
Jerusalem.
April
*
April 1
Events Pre-1600
* 33 – According to one historian's account, Jesus Christ's Last Supper is held.
* 527 – Byzantine Emperor Justin I names his nephew Justinian I as co-ruler and successor to the throne.
* 1081 – Alexios I Ko ...
– The
Southern African Development Coordination Conference (SADCC) is formed in Lusaka, Zambia.
*
April 2
Events Pre-1600
*1513 – Having spotted land on March 27, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León comes ashore on what is now the U.S. state of Florida, landing somewhere between the modern city of St. Augustine and the mouth of the St. Joh ...
– The
St Pauls riot
The St Pauls riot occurred in St Pauls, Bristol, England on 2 April 1980 when police raided the Black and White Café on Grosvenor Road in the heart of the area. After several hours of disturbance in which fire engines and police cars were dam ...
breaks out in
Bristol
Bristol () is a city, ceremonial county and unitary authority in England. Situated on the River Avon, it is bordered by the ceremonial counties of Gloucestershire to the north and Somerset to the south. Bristol is the most populous city in ...
.
*
April 7
Events Pre-1600
* 451 – Attila the Hun captures Metz in France, killing most of its inhabitants and burning the town.
* 529 – First ''Corpus Juris Civilis'', a fundamental work in jurisprudence, is issued by Eastern Roman Empe ...
– The United States severs diplomatic relations with
Iran and imposes economic sanctions, following the taking of American hostages on November 4, 1979.
*
April 10
Events Pre-1600
* 428 – Nestorius becomes the Patriarch of Constantinople.
* 837 – Halley's Comet makes its closest approach to Earth at a distance equal to 0.0342 AU (5.1 million kilometres/3.2 million miles).
* 1407 ...
– In
Lisbon, Portugal, the governments of Spain and the United Kingdom agree to reopen the border between
Gibraltar
)
, anthem = "God Save the King"
, song = "Gibraltar Anthem"
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, map_alt = Location of Gibraltar in Europe
, map_caption = United Kingdom shown in pale green
, mapsize =
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and Spain in
1985
The year 1985 was designated as the International Youth Year by the United Nations.
Events January
* January 1
** The Internet's Domain Name System is created.
** Greenland withdraws from the European Economic Community as a result of a ...
, closed since
1969
This year is notable for Apollo 11's first landing on the moon.
Events January
* January 4 – The Government of Spain hands over Ifni to Morocco.
* January 5
**Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 701 crashes into a house on its approach to ...
.
*
April 12
Events Pre-1600
* 240 – Shapur I becomes co-emperor of the Sasanian Empire with his father Ardashir I.
* 467 – Anthemius is elevated to Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
* 627 – King Edwin of Northumbria is converted ...
**
1980 Liberian coup d'état
The 1980 Liberian coup d'état happened on April 12, 1980, when President William Tolbert was overthrown and murdered in a violent coup. The coup was staged by an indigenous Liberian faction of the Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL) under the comman ...
:
Samuel K. Doe overthrows the government of
Liberia in a violent ''
coup d'état'', assassinating President
William Tolbert
William Richard Tolbert Jr. (13 May 1913 – 12 April 1980) was a Liberian politician who served as the 20th president of Liberia from 1971 until 1980.
Tolbert was an Americo-Liberian and trained as a civil servant before entering the House of ...
and 26 other people and ending over 130 years of
democratic presidential succession in that country.
**
Terry Fox
Terrance Stanley Fox (July 28, 1958 June 28, 1981) was a Canadian athlete, humanitarian, and cancer research activist. In 1980, with one leg having been amputated due to cancer, he embarked on an east-to-west cross-Canada run to raise money ...
begins his
Marathon of Hope
Terrance Stanley Fox (July 28, 1958 June 28, 1981) was a Canadian athlete, humanitarian, and cancer research activist. In 1980, with one leg having been amputated due to cancer, he embarked on an east-to-west cross-Canada run to raise money ...
, a plan to run across Canada to raise money for cancer research, setting off from
St. Johns, Newfoundland and running westward.
*
April 14
Events Pre-1600
*43 BC – Legions loyal to the Roman Senate, commanded by Gaius Pansa, defeat the forces of Mark Antony in the Battle of Forum Gallorum.
* 69 – Vitellius, commanding Rhine-based armies, defeats Roman emperor Otho i ...
–
Iron Maiden
Iron Maiden are an English heavy metal band formed in Leyton, East London, in 1975 by bassist and primary songwriter Steve Harris. While fluid in the early years of the band, the lineup for most of the band's history has consisted of Harris ...
's debut self-titled album ''
Iron Maiden
Iron Maiden are an English heavy metal band formed in Leyton, East London, in 1975 by bassist and primary songwriter Steve Harris. While fluid in the early years of the band, the lineup for most of the band's history has consisted of Harris ...
'' is released in the U.K.
*
April 18
Events Pre-1600
* 796 – King Æthelred I of Northumbria is murdered in Corbridge by a group led by his ealdormen, Ealdred and Wada. The ''patrician'' Osbald is crowned, but abdicates within 27 days.
*1428 – Peace of Ferrara bet ...
–
Zimbabwe gains
de jure independence from the United Kingdom with
Robert Mugabe
Robert Gabriel Mugabe (; ; 21 February 1924 – 6 September 2019) was a Zimbabwean revolutionary and politician who served as Prime Minister of Zimbabwe from 1980 to 1987 and then as President from 1987 to 2017. He served as Leader of the ...
as its first Prime Minister.
*
April 24
Events Pre-1600
*1479 BC – Thutmose III ascends to the throne of Egypt, although power effectively shifts to Hatshepsut (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th dynasty).
* 1183 BC – Traditional reckoning of the Fall of Troy ma ...
–
25 –
Operation Eagle Claw, a commando mission in
Iran to rescue American embassy hostages, is aborted after mechanical problems ground the rescue helicopters. Eight United States troops are killed in a mid-air collision during the failed operation.
*
April 25
Events Pre-1600
* 404 BC – Admiral Lysander and King Pausanias of Sparta blockade Athens and bring the Peloponnesian War to a successful conclusion.
* 775 – The Battle of Bagrevand puts an end to an Armenian rebellion against th ...
–
Dan-Air Flight 1008
Dan-Air Flight 1008 was a fatal accident involving a Boeing 727-46 jet aircraft operated by Dan Air Services Limited on an unscheduled international passenger service from Manchester to Tenerife. The crash occurred on 25 April 1980 in a fores ...
crashes in
Tenerife, killing all 146 occupants; at the time it was the worst air disaster involving a British-registered aircraft in terms of loss of life.
*
April 26
Events Pre-1600
*1336 – Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) ascends Mont Ventoux.
*1348 – Czech king Karel IV founds the Charles University in Prague, which was later named after him and was the first university in Central Europe.
*147 ...
–
Louise and Charmian Faulkner disappear from outside their flat in
St Kilda, Victoria, Australia.
*
April 27
Events Pre-1600
* 247 – Philip the Arab marks the millennium of Rome with a celebration of the ''ludi saeculares''.
* 395 – Emperor Arcadius marries Aelia Eudoxia, daughter of the Frankish general Flavius Bauto. She becomes one of ...
– The
Dominican embassy siege
Dominican may refer to:
* Someone or something from or related to the Dominican Republic ( , stress on the "mi"), on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles, in the Caribbean
** People of the Dominican Republic
** Demographics of the Domi ...
in
Colombia ends with all remaining hostages released after the guerrillas are allowed to escape to
Cuba.
*
April 30
**
Iranian Embassy siege: Six Iranian-born terrorists take over the Iranian embassy in London, England.
SAS retakes the Embassy on May 5; one terrorist survives.
** Queen
Juliana of the Netherlands abdicates and her daughter
Beatrix
Beatrix is a Latin feminine given name, most likely derived from ''Viatrix'', a feminine form of the Late Latin name ''Viator'' which meant "voyager, traveller" and later influenced in spelling by association with the Latin word ''beatus'' or "bles ...
accedes to the throne.
May
*
May 1
Events Pre-1600
* 305 – Diocletian and Maximian retire from the office of Roman emperor.
* 880 – The Nea Ekklesia is inaugurated in Constantinople, setting the model for all later cross-in-square Orthodox churches.
* 1169 &ndas ...
– "About that Urban Renaissance...", an article by journalist Dan Rottenberg in ''
Chicago'', contains the first recorded use of the word "
yuppie".
*
May 2
Events Pre-1600
* 1194 – King Richard I of England gives Portsmouth its first Royal Charter.
*1230 – William de Braose is hanged by Prince Llywelyn the Great.
* 1536 – Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, is arrested and impris ...
–
Referendum on system of government held in Nepal.
*
May 4
Events Pre-1600
* 1256 – The Augustinian monastic order is constituted at the Lecceto Monastery when Pope Alexander IV issues a papal bull ''Licet ecclesiae catholicae''.
* 1415 – Religious reformers John Wycliffe and Jan Hus ar ...
–
Yugoslav President
Josip Broz Tito dies. The largest state funeral in history is organized, with state delegations from 128 different countries out of 154 UN members at the time.
*
May 7
Events Pre-1600
* 351 – The Jewish revolt against Constantius Gallus breaks out after his arrival at Antioch.
* 558 – In Constantinople, the dome of the Hagia Sophia collapses, twenty years after its construction. Justinian I im ...
–
Paul Geidel
Paul Geidel Jr. (April 21, 1894 – May 1, 1987) was the longest-serving prison inmate in the United States whose sentence ended with his parole, a fact that earned him a place in Guinness World Records.
After being convicted of second-degre ...
, convicted of second-degree murder in
1911
A notable ongoing event was the race for the South Pole.
Events January
* January 1 – A decade after federation, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory are added to the Commonwealth of Australia.
* ...
, is released from prison in
Beacon, New York
Beacon is a city located in Dutchess County, New York, United States. The 2020 census placed the city total population at 13,769. Beacon is part of the Poughkeepsie– Newburgh– Middletown, New York Metropolitan Statistical Area as wel ...
, after 68 years and 245 days (the longest-ever time served by an inmate).
*
May 8 – Global eradication of
smallpox certified by the
World Health Organization.
*
May 9
Events Pre-1600
* 328 – Athanasius is elected Patriarch of Alexandria.
* 1009 – Lombard Revolt: Lombard forces led by Melus revolt in Bari against the Byzantine Catepanate of Italy.
*1386 – England and Portugal formally r ...
** In
Florida, United States, the Liberian freighter ''
Summit Venture'' hits the
Sunshine Skyway Bridge
The Bob Graham Sunshine Skyway Bridge, often referred to as the Sunshine Skyway Bridge or the Sunshine Skyway, consists of a pair of long beam bridges with a central cable-stayed bridge that spans Lower Tampa Bay to connect St. Petersburg, Fl ...
over
Tampa Bay. A section of the bridge collapses and 35 people (most in a bus) are killed.
**
James Alexander George Smith "Jags" McCartney the
Turks and Caicos Islands' first
chief minister, is killed in a plane crash over
New Jersey.
*
May 14 – The
Sumpul River massacre
The Sumpul River massacre ( es, masacre del Sumpul) took place in Chalatenango, El Salvador on May 13, 1980 during the Salvadoran Civil War. Salvadoran Armed Forces and pro-government paramilitaries launched an offensive to disrupt the activiti ...
occurs in
Chalatenango, El Salvador
Chalatenango is a municipality located in the Department of Chalatenango, in the north of El Salvador.
The municipality
Chalatenango is a department, a municipality, and a city (the capital of the Department of Chalatenango), located in the N ...
.
*
May 17 –
Internal conflict in Peru: On the eve of presidential elections,
Maoist
Maoism, officially called Mao Zedong Thought by the Chinese Communist Party, is a variety of Marxism–Leninism that Mao Zedong developed to realise a socialist revolution in the agricultural, pre-industrial society of the Republic of Chi ...
guerrilla group
Shining Path
The Shining Path ( es, Sendero Luminoso), officially the Communist Party of Peru (, abbr. PCP), is a communist guerrilla group in Peru following Marxism–Leninism–Maoism and Gonzalo Thought. Academics often refer to the group as the Commu ...
attacks a polling location in the town of
Chuschi
Chuschi is a town in the Chuschi District of the Cangallo Province of the Ayacucho Region of Peru. On May 17, 1980, Shining Path guerrillas began their war against the Peruvian state by burning ballot boxes in Chuschi. On March 14, 1991, gover ...
,
Ayacucho
Ayacucho (, qu, Ayak'uchu) is the capital city of Ayacucho Region and of Huamanga Province, Ayacucho Region, Peru.
During the Inca Empire and Viceroyalty of Peru periods the city was known by the name of Huamanga (Quechua: Wamanga), and it co ...
.
*
May 18 – The
1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens
On March 27, 1980, a series of volcanic explosions and pyroclastic flows began at Mount St. Helens in Skamania County, Washington, United States. A series of phreatic blasts occurred from the summit and escalated until a major explosive e ...
volcano in
Washington (state) kills 57 and causes US$3 billion in damage.
*
May 18 –
27 –
Gwangju Uprising
The Gwangju Uprising was a popular uprising in the city of Gwangju, South Korea, from May 18 to May 27, 1980, which pitted local, armed citizens against soldiers and police of the South Korean government. The event is sometimes called 5·18 ( ...
: Students in
Gwangju, South Korea, begin demonstrations, calling for democratic reforms.
*
May 20 –
1980 Quebec referendum
The 1980 Quebec independence referendum was the first referendum in Quebec on the place of Quebec within Canada and whether Quebec should pursue a path toward sovereignty. The referendum was called by Quebec's Parti Québécois (PQ) government, whi ...
: Voters in
Quebec reject by a vote of 60%, a proposal to seek independence from Canada.
*
May 22
Events Pre-1600
* 192 – Dong Zhuo is assassinated by his adopted son Lü Bu.
* 760 – Fourteenth recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.
* 853 – A Byzantine fleet sacks and destroys undefended Damietta in Egypt.
*11 ...
–
Pac-Man, the highest-earning
arcade game
An arcade game or coin-op game is a coin-operated entertainment machine typically installed in public businesses such as restaurants, bars and amusement arcades. Most arcade games are presented as primarily games of skill and include arcade ...
of all time, is released in Japan.
*
May 24
** The
International Court of Justice calls for the release of U.S. Embassy hostages in
Tehran.
** The
New York Islanders win their first
Stanley Cup, on a goal by
Bobby Nystrom in Game 6 overtime of the
1980 Stanley Cup Finals
The 1980 Stanley Cup Finals was the championship series of the National Hockey League's (NHL) 1979–80 season, and the culmination of the 1980 Stanley Cup playoffs. It was contested by the New York Islanders in their first-ever Finals appeara ...
over the
Philadelphia Flyers
The Philadelphia Flyers are a professional ice hockey team based in Philadelphia. The Flyers compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Metropolitan Division in the Eastern Conference. The team plays its home games in Wel ...
.
*
May 25
Events Pre-1600
*567 BC – Servius Tullius, the king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victory over the Etruscans.
* 240 BC – First recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.
* 1085 – Alfonso VI of Castile takes Toled ...
–
Indianapolis 500
The Indianapolis 500, formally known as the Indianapolis 500-Mile Race, and commonly called the Indy 500, is an annual automobile race held at Indianapolis Motor Speedway (IMS) in Speedway, Indiana, United States, an enclave suburb of Indianap ...
:
Johnny Rutherford
John Sherman "Johnny" Rutherford III (born March 12, 1938), also known as "Lone Star JR", is an American former automobile racing driver. During an Indy Car career that spanned more than three decades, he scored 27 wins and 23 pole positions in ...
wins for a third time in car owner
Jim Hall's revolutionary
ground effect Chaparral car; the victory is Hall's second as an owner.
*
May 26
Events Pre-1600
* 17 – Germanicus celebrates a triumph in Rome for his victories over the Cherusci, Chatti, and other German tribes west of the Elbe.
* 451 – Battle of Avarayr between Armenian rebels and the Sasanian Empire tak ...
**
John Frum supporters in
Vanuatu storm government offices on the island of
Tanna. Vanuatu government troops land the next day and drive them away.
** In South Korea, military government forces and pro-
democracy protesters clash; 2,000 protesters die.
*
May 28 – A fiery bus crash near the small village of
Webb, Saskatchewan
Webb ( 2021 population: ) is a village in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan within the Rural Municipality of Webb No. 138 and Census Division No. 8.
History
Webb incorporated as a village on June 18, 1910.
Demographics
In the 2021 ...
, Canada, claims 22 lives.
June
*
June 1
Events Pre-1600
*1215 – Zhongdu (now Beijing), then under the control of the Jurchen ruler Emperor Xuanzong of Jin, is captured by the Mongols under Genghis Khan, ending the Battle of Zhongdu.
* 1252 – Alfonso X is proclaimed king ...
– The first 24-hour news channel,
Cable News Network
CNN (Cable News Network) is a multinational cable news channel headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by the ...
(CNN) is launched.
*
June 3
Events Pre-1600
* 350 – The Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, proclaims himself Roman emperor, entering Rome at the head of a group of gladiators.
* 713 – The Byzantine emperor Philippicus is blinded, depo ...
–
1980 Grand Island tornado outbreak
The 1980 Grand Island tornado outbreak, also known as The Night of the Twisters, was a tornado outbreak that produced a series of destructive tornadoes that affected the city of Grand Island, Nebraska, on Tuesday, June 3, 1980. Seven tornadoes t ...
: A series of deadly
tornadoes strikes
Grand Island, Nebraska
Grand Island is a city in and the county seat of Hall County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 53,131 at the 2020 census.
Grand Island is the principal city of the Grand Island metropolitan area, which consists of Hall, Merrick ...
, causing over $300m in damage, killing five people and injuring over 250.
*
June 10 –
Apartheid
Apartheid (, especially South African English: , ; , "aparthood") was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia) from 1948 to the early 1990s. Apartheid wa ...
: The
African National Congress
The African National Congress (ANC) is a social-democratic political party in South Africa. A liberation movement known for its opposition to apartheid, it has governed the country since 1994, when the first post-apartheid election installe ...
in South Africa publishes a statement by their imprisoned leader
Nelson Mandela.
*
June 23
Events Pre-1600
* 229 – Sun Quan proclaims himself emperor of Eastern Wu.
* 1266 – War of Saint Sabas: In the Battle of Trapani, the Venetians defeat a larger Genoese fleet, capturing all its ships.
*1280 – The Spanish Re ...
–
September 6
Events Pre-1600
* 394 – Battle of the Frigidus: Roman emperor Theodosius I defeats and kills Eugenius the usurper. His Frankish ''magister militum'' Arbogast escapes but commits suicide two days later.
*1492 – Christopher Colu ...
– The
1980 United States heat wave The 1980 United States heat wave was a period of intense heat and drought that wreaked havoc on much of the Midwestern United States and Southern Plains throughout the summer of 1980. It was among the most destructive, and most lethal natural disast ...
claims 1,700 lives.
*
June 23
Events Pre-1600
* 229 – Sun Quan proclaims himself emperor of Eastern Wu.
* 1266 – War of Saint Sabas: In the Battle of Trapani, the Venetians defeat a larger Genoese fleet, capturing all its ships.
*1280 – The Spanish Re ...
**
Sanjay Gandhi
Sanjay Gandhi (14 December 1946 23 June 1980) was an Indian politician and the younger son of Indira Gandhi and Feroze Gandhi. He was a member of parliament, Lok Sabha and the Nehru–Gandhi family. During his lifetime, he was widely expected ...
, the politically influential son of prime minister Indira Gandhi, is killed in a plane crash.
**
Tim Berners-Lee
Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee (born 8 June 1955), also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web. He is a Professorial Fellow of Computer Science at the University of Oxford and a profess ...
begins work on
ENQUIRE, the system that will eventually lead to the creation of the
World Wide Web
The World Wide Web (WWW), commonly known as the Web, is an information system enabling documents and other web resources to be accessed over the Internet.
Documents and downloadable media are made available to the network through web se ...
in autumn 1990.
*
June 25 – A
Muslim Brotherhood
The Society of the Muslim Brothers ( ar, جماعة الإخوان المسلمين'' ''), better known as the Muslim Brotherhood ( ', is a transnational Sunni Islamist organization founded in Egypt by Islamic scholar and schoolteacher Hassan ...
assassination attempt against
Syrian president
Hafez al-Assad fails. Assad retaliates by sending the army against them.
*
June 27
Events Pre-1600
* 1358 – The Republic of Ragusa is founded.
* 1497 – Cornish rebels Michael An Gof and Thomas Flamank are executed at Tyburn, London, England.
* 1499 – Americo Vespucci, on Spanish financed trip, sights coas ...
**
Itavia Flight 870
On 27 June 1980, Itavia Flight 870 (IH 870, AJ 421), a McDonnell Douglas DC-9 passenger jet en route from Bologna to Palermo, Italy, crashed into the Tyrrhenian Sea between the islands of Ponza and Ustica, killing all 81 people on board. Known ...
crashes into the sea near
Ustica
Ustica (; scn, Ùstica) is a small Italian island in the Tyrrhenian Sea. It is about across and is situated north of Capo Gallo, Sicily. Roughly 1,300 people live in the '' comune'' (municipality) of the same name. There is a regular ...
island, Italy, killing all 81 people on board. The cause of the accident remains unclear.
** U.S. President
Jimmy Carter signs
Proclamation 4771, requiring 18- to 25-year-old males to register for a peacetime
military draft, in response to the
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
*
June 29
Events Pre-1600
* 226 – Cao Rui succeeds his father as emperor of the Kingdom of Wei.
*1149 – Raymond of Poitiers is defeated and killed at the Battle of Inab by Nur ad-Din Zangi.
*1194 – Sverre is crowned King of Norway, ...
–
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir is elected
President of Iceland
The president of Iceland ( is, Forseti Íslands) is the head of state of Iceland. The incumbent is Guðni Thorlacius Jóhannesson, who is now in his second term as president, elected in 2016 and re-elected in 2020.
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir ...
, making her the first woman democratically elected as head of state.
July
*
July 8
Events Pre-1600
* 1099 – Some 15,000 starving Christian soldiers begin the siege of Jerusalem by marching in a religious procession around the city as its Muslim defenders watch.
* 1283 – Roger of Lauria, commanding the Aragonese ...
– A
wave of strikes begins in
Lublin
Lublin is the ninth-largest city in Poland and the second-largest city of historical Lesser Poland. It is the capital and the center of Lublin Voivodeship with a population of 336,339 (December 2021). Lublin is the largest Polish city east of ...
,
Poland.
*
July 9
Events Pre-1600
* 118 – Hadrian, who became emperor a year previously on Trajan's death, makes his entry into Rome.
* 381 – The end of the First Council of Christian bishops convened in Constantinople by the Roman Emperor Theodos ...
–
Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II ( la, Ioannes Paulus II; it, Giovanni Paolo II; pl, Jan Paweł II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła ; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his ...
visits
Brazil; seven people are crushed to death in a crowd waiting to see him at afternoon Mass at the stadium in
Fortaleza
Fortaleza (, locally , Portuguese for ''Fortress'') is the state capital of Ceará, located in Northeastern Brazil. It belongs to the Metropolitan mesoregion of Fortaleza and microregion of Fortaleza. It is Brazil's 5th largest city and the tw ...
.
*
July 16 – Former
California Governor and actor
Ronald Reagan is nominated for U.S. president, at the
1980 Republican National Convention
The 1980 Republican National Convention convened at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, Michigan, from July 14 to July 17, 1980. The Republican National Convention nominated retired Hollywood actor and former Governor Ronald Reagan of California for p ...
in
Detroit. Influenced by the
Religious Right, the convention also drops its long-standing support for the
Equal Rights Amendment, dismaying moderate Republicans.
*
July 19
Events Pre-1600
*AD 64 – The Great Fire of Rome causes widespread devastation and rages on for six days, destroying half of the city.
* 484 – Leontius, Roman usurper, is crowned Eastern emperor at Tarsus (modern Turkey). He is r ...
– Former
Turkish Prime Minister Nihat Erim
İsmail Nihat Erim (30 November 1912 – 19 July 1980) was a Turkish politician and jurist. He served as the 13th Prime Minister of Turkey for almost 14 months after the 1971 Turkish military memorandum. He was assassinated by the Revolutionary ...
is killed by two gunmen in Istanbul,
Turkey.
*
July 19
Events Pre-1600
*AD 64 – The Great Fire of Rome causes widespread devastation and rages on for six days, destroying half of the city.
* 484 – Leontius, Roman usurper, is crowned Eastern emperor at Tarsus (modern Turkey). He is r ...
–
August 3
Events Pre-1600
* 8 – Roman Empire general Tiberius defeats the Dalmatae on the river Bosna.
* 435 – Deposed Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Nestorius, considered the originator of Nestorianism, is exiled by Roman Emperor ...
– The
1980 Summer Olympics
The 1980 Summer Olympics (russian: Летние Олимпийские игры 1980, Letniye Olimpiyskiye igry 1980), officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad (russian: Игры XXII Олимпиады, Igry XXII Olimpiady) and commo ...
are held in Moscow,
Soviet Union. 82 countries boycott the Games, athletes from 16 of them participate under a neutral flag.
*
July 25
Events Pre-1600
* 306 – Constantine I is proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops.
* 315 – The Arch of Constantine is completed near the Colosseum in Rome to commemorate Constantine I's victory over Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge ...
– The album ''
Back in Black
''Back in Black'' is the seventh studio album by Australian rock band AC/DC. It was released on 25 July 1980 by Albert Productions and Atlantic Records. It is the band's first album to feature lead singer Brian Johnson, following the death of ...
'' is released by the Australian band
AC/DC
AC/DC (stylised as ACϟDC) are an Australian rock band formed in Sydney in 1973 by Scottish-born brothers Malcolm and Angus Young. Their music has been variously described as hard rock, blues rock, and heavy metal, but the band calls it s ...
.
*
July 27 –
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, deposed Shah of
Iran, dies in
Cairo
Cairo ( ; ar, القاهرة, al-Qāhirah, ) is the capital of Egypt and its largest city, home to 10 million people. It is also part of the largest urban agglomeration in Africa, the Arab world and the Middle East: The Greater Cairo metro ...
.
*
July 30
Events Pre-1600
* 762 – Baghdad is founded.
*1419 – First Defenestration of Prague: A crowd of radical Hussites kill seven members of the Prague city council.
*1502 – Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay Island ...
**
Vanuatu gains
independence
Independence is a condition of a person, nation, country, or state in which residents and population, or some portion thereof, exercise self-government, and usually sovereignty, over its territory. The opposite of independence is the st ...
.
**
Israel's
Knesset
The Knesset ( he, הַכְּנֶסֶת ; "gathering" or "assembly") is the unicameral legislature of Israel. As the supreme state body, the Knesset is sovereign and thus has complete control of the entirety of the Israeli government (with th ...
passes the
Jerusalem Law.
August
*
August 1
Events Pre-1600
*30 BC – Octavian (later known as Augustus) enters Alexandria, Egypt, bringing it under the control of the Roman Republic.
*AD 69 – Batavian rebellion: The Batavians in Germania Inferior (Netherlands) revolt under ...
–
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir becomes the 4th
President of Iceland
The president of Iceland ( is, Forseti Íslands) is the head of state of Iceland. The incumbent is Guðni Thorlacius Jóhannesson, who is now in his second term as president, elected in 2016 and re-elected in 2020.
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir ...
, the world's first democratically directly elected female president.
*
August 2
Events Pre-1600
* 338 BC – A Macedonian army led by Philip II defeated the combined forces of Athens and Thebes in the Battle of Chaeronea, securing Macedonian hegemony in Greece and the Aegean.
* 216 BC – The Carthaginian ...
–
Strage di Bologna: A terrorist bombing at the
Bologna Centrale railway station
Bologna Centrale is a railway station in Bologna, Italy. The station is situated at the northern edge of the city centre. It is located at the southern end of the Milan-Bologna high-speed line, which opened on 13 December 2008, and the north ...
in Italy kills 85 people and wounds more than 200.
*
August 4
Events Pre-1600
* 598 – Goguryeo-Sui War: In response to a Goguryeo (Korean) incursion into Liaoxi, Emperor Wéndi of Sui orders his youngest son, Yang Liang (assisted by the co-prime minister Gao Jiong), to conquer Goguryeo during t ...
–
Hurricane Allen
Hurricane Allen was a rare and extremely powerful Cape Verde hurricane that affected the Caribbean, eastern and northern Mexico, and southern Texas in August 1980. The first list of named tropical cyclones, named storm and second tropical cyclon ...
(category 5) pounds
Haiti, where it kills more than 200 people.
*
August 7
Events Pre-1600
* 461 – Roman Emperor Majorian is beheaded near the river Iria in north-west Italy following his arrest and deposition by the ''magister militum'' Ricimer.
* 626 – The Avar and Slav armies leave the siege of Co ...
–
31 –
Lech Wałęsa leads the first of many strikes at the
Gdańsk Shipyard
The Gdańsk Shipyard ( pl, Stocznia Gdańska, formerly Lenin Shipyard) is a large Polish shipyard, located in the city of Gdańsk. The yard gained international fame when Solidarity () was founded there in September 1980. It is situated on the w ...
in the
Polish People's Republic
The Polish People's Republic ( pl, Polska Rzeczpospolita Ludowa, PRL) was a country in Central Europe that existed from 1947 to 1989 as the predecessor of the modern Republic of Poland. With a population of approximately 37.9 million near ...
.
*
August 17
Events Pre-1600
*309/ 310 – Pope Eusebius is banished by the Emperor Maxentius to Sicily, where he dies, possibly from a hunger strike.
* 682 – Pope Leo II begins his pontificate.
* 986 – Byzantine–Bulgarian wars: Battle ...
– In Australia, baby
Azaria Chamberlain disappears from a campsite at Ayers Rock (
Uluru
Uluru (; pjt, Uluṟu ), also known as Ayers Rock ( ) and officially gazetted as UluruAyers Rock, is a large sandstone formation in the centre of Australia. It is in the southern part of the Northern Territory, southwest of Alice Spring ...
), reportedly taken by a
dingo
The dingo (''Canis familiaris'', ''Canis familiaris dingo'', ''Canis dingo'', or ''Canis lupus dingo'') is an ancient ( basal) lineage of dog found in Australia. Its taxonomic classification is debated as indicated by the variety of scient ...
.
*
August 19
Events Pre-1600
*295 BC – The first temple to Venus, the Roman goddess of love, beauty and fertility, is dedicated by Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges during the Third Samnite War.
*43 BC – Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, later known ...
– In one of aviation's worst disasters, 301 people are killed when
Saudia Flight 163
Saudia Flight 163 was a scheduled Saudia passenger flight departing from Quaid-E-Azam Airport in Karachi, Pakistan bound for Kandara Airport in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia via Riyadh International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia that caught fire af ...
catches fire in
Riyadh,
Saudi Arabia.
*
August 31
Events Pre-1600
*1056 – After a sudden illness a few days previously, Byzantine Empress Theodora dies childless, thus ending the Macedonian dynasty.
* 1057 – Abdication of Byzantine Emperor Michael VI Bringas after just one year. ...
– Victory of the strike in
Gdańsk Shipyard
The Gdańsk Shipyard ( pl, Stocznia Gdańska, formerly Lenin Shipyard) is a large Polish shipyard, located in the city of Gdańsk. The yard gained international fame when Solidarity () was founded there in September 1980. It is situated on the w ...
, Poland. The
Gdańsk Agreement
The Gdańsk Agreement (or ''Gdańsk Social Accord(s)'' or ''August Agreement(s)'', pl, Porozumienia sierpniowe) was an accord reached as a direct result of the strikes that took place in Gdańsk, Poland. Workers along the Baltic went on strike i ...
is signed, opening a way to start the first free (i.e. not state-controlled) trade union in the
communist bloc
The Eastern Bloc, also known as the Communist Bloc and the Soviet Bloc, was the group of socialist states of Central and Eastern Europe, East Asia, Southeast Asia, Africa, and Latin America under the influence of the Soviet Union that existed du ...
, "
Solidarity" (''Solidarność'').
September
*
September 1 –
Terry Fox
Terrance Stanley Fox (July 28, 1958 June 28, 1981) was a Canadian athlete, humanitarian, and cancer research activist. In 1980, with one leg having been amputated due to cancer, he embarked on an east-to-west cross-Canada run to raise money ...
is forced to end his Marathon of Hope run outside of
Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, after finding out that the cancer has spread to his lungs.
*
September 2
Events
Pre-1600
*44 BC – Pharaoh Cleopatra VII of Egypt declares her son co-ruler as Ptolemy XV Caesarion.
* 44 BC – Cicero launches the first of his '' Philippicae'' (oratorical attacks) on Mark Antony. He will make 14 of t ...
–
Ford Europe launches the
Escort MK3, a new front-wheel drive hatchback.
*
September 3
Events Pre-1600
*36 BC – In the Battle of Naulochus, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, admiral of Octavian, defeats Sextus Pompey, son of Pompey, thus ending Pompeian resistance to the Second Triumvirate.
* 301 – San Marino, one of t ...
–
Zimbabwe breaks diplomatic and consular relations with South Africa, even though it maintains a commercial mission in
Johannesburg.
*
September 5
Events Pre-1600
* 917 – Liu Yan declares himself emperor, establishing the Southern Han state in southern China, at his capital of Panyu.
*1367 – Swa Saw Ke becomes king of Ava
*1590 – Alexander Farnese's army forces Hen ...
– The
Gotthard Road Tunnel opens in Switzerland as the world's longest highway tunnel at , stretching from
Göschenen to
Airolo
Airolo (''Airöö'' in Lombard, in rm, italic=yes, ) is a municipality in the district of Leventina in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.
Geography
Airolo is located in Leventina valley and the Lepontine Alps, on the southern flank of the ...
beneath the Gotthard Pass.
*
September 12
Events Pre-1600
*490 BC – Battle of Marathon: The conventionally accepted date for the Battle of Marathon. The Athenians and their Plataean allies defeat the first Persian invasion force of Greece.
* 372 – Sixteen Kingdoms: Jin ...
–
Kenan Evren
Ahmet Kenan Evren (; 17 July 1917 – 9 May 2015) was a Turkish politician and military officer, who served as the seventh President of Turkey from 1980 to 1989. He assumed the post by leading the 1980 military coup.
On 18 June 2014, a Turkis ...
stages a
military coup in Turkey. It stops political gang violence, but begins stronger state violence leading to the execution of many young activists.
*
September 17
Events Pre-1600
*1111 – Highest Galician nobility led by Pedro Fróilaz de Traba and the bishop Diego Gelmírez crown Alfonso VII as "King of Galicia".
*1176 – The Battle of Myriokephalon is the last attempt by the Byzantine Emp ...
– After weeks of strikes at the Lenin Shipyard in
Gdańsk,
Poland, the nationwide independent trade union
Solidarity is established.
*
September 21
Events Pre-1600
* 455 – Emperor Avitus enters Rome with a Gallic army and consolidates his power.
*1170 – The Kingdom of Dublin falls to Norman invaders.
*1217 – Livonian Crusade: The Estonian leader Lembitu and Livonian lead ...
–
Bülent Ulusu, ex admiral, forms the new government of
Turkey (44th government, composed mostly of technocrats).
*
September 22 – The command council of
Iraq orders its army to "deliver its fatal blow on
Iranian military targets", initiating the
Iran–Iraq War.
*
September 26
Events
Pre-1600
*46 BC – Julius Caesar dedicates a temple to Venus Genetrix, fulfilling a vow he made at the Battle of Pharsalus.
* 715 – Ragenfrid defeats Theudoald at the Battle of Compiègne.
* 1087 – William II is c ...
**
Oktoberfest bombing
The Oktoberfest bombing (german: Oktoberfest-Attentat) was a far-right terrorist attack. On 26 September 1980, 13 people were killed (including the perpetrator) and more than 200 injured by the explosion of an improvised explosive device (IED) at ...
: 13 people are killed and 211 injured in a right-wing terror attack in
Munich (West Germany).
** The
Mariel boatlift
The Mariel boatlift () was a mass emigration of Cubans who traveled from Cuba's Mariel Harbor to the United States between 15 April and 31 October 1980. The term "" (plural "Marielitos") is used to refer to these refugees in both Spanish and E ...
in Cuba officially ends.
*
September 30 –
Digital Equipment Corporation,
Intel and
Xerox introduce the
DIX
DIX or Dix may refer to:
Computing
* Danish Internet Exchange Point, in Copenhagen
* Data Integrity Extensions, data corruption error-handling field in data storage technology
* Device Independent X, part of the 2D graphics device driver in ...
standard for
Ethernet, which is the first implementation outside of Xerox and the first to support 10 Mbit/s speeds.
October
*
October 5
Events Pre-1600
* 610 – Heraclius arrives at Constantinople, kills Byzantine Emperor Phocas, and becomes emperor.
* 816 – King Louis the Pious is crowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by the Pope.
* 869 – The Fourth Co ...
** The Elisabeth
blast furnace
A blast furnace is a type of metallurgical furnace used for smelting to produce industrial metals, generally pig iron, but also others such as lead or copper. ''Blast'' refers to the combustion air being "forced" or supplied above atmospheric ...
is demolished at
Bilston
Bilston is a market town, ward, and civil parish located in Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England. It is close to the borders of Sandwell and Walsall. The nearest towns are Darlaston, Wednesbury, and Willenhall. Historically in Staffordshire ...
Steelworks, marking the end of iron and steel production in the
Black Country
The Black Country is an area of the West Midlands county, England covering most of the Metropolitan Boroughs of Dudley, Sandwell and Walsall. Dudley and Tipton are generally considered to be the centre. It became industrialised during its rol ...
region of the UK.
**
British Leyland
British Leyland was an automotive engineering and manufacturing conglomerate formed in the United Kingdom in 1968 as British Leyland Motor Corporation Ltd (BLMC), following the merger of Leyland Motors and British Motor Holdings. It was partly ...
launches its new
Metro, a three-door entry-level hatchback which is designed as the eventual replacement for the
Mini
The Mini is a small, two-door, four-seat car, developed as ADO15, and produced by the British Motor Corporation (BMC) and its successors, from 1959 through 2000. Minus a brief hiatus, original Minis were built for four decades and sold during ...
. It gives BL a long-awaited modern competitor for the likes of the
Ford Fiesta
The Ford Fiesta is a supermini car marketed by Ford since 1976 over seven generations. Over the years, the Fiesta has mainly been developed and manufactured by Ford's European operations, and has been positioned below the Escort (later the ...
and
Vauxhall Chevette.
*
October 10
Events Pre-1600
* 680 – The Battle of Karbala marks the Martyrdom of Husayn ibn Ali.
* 732 – Charles Martel's forces defeat an Umayyad army near Tours, France.
*1471 – Sten Sture the Elder, the Regent of Sweden, with the ...
– The 7.1
El Asnam earthquake shakes northern
Algeria
)
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, map_caption =
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, capital = Algiers
, coordinates =
, largest_city = capital
, relig ...
with a maximum
Mercalli intensity
The Modified Mercalli intensity scale (MM, MMI, or MCS), developed from Giuseppe Mercalli's Mercalli intensity scale of 1902, is a seismic intensity scale used for measuring the intensity of shaking produced by an earthquake. It measures the eff ...
of X (''Extreme''), killing 2,633–5,000 and injuring 8,369–9,000.
*
October 14
Events Pre-1600
*1066 – The Norman conquest of England begins with the Battle of Hastings.
*1322 – Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats King Edward II of England at the Battle of Old Byland, forcing Edward to accept Scotland's ...
** The
Staggers Rail Act
The Staggers Rail Act of 1980 is a United States federal law that deregulated the American railroad industry to a significant extent, and it replaced the regulatory structure that had existed since the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887.
Backgroun ...
is enacted, deregulating American railroads.
** The
6th Congress of the Workers' Party ended, having anointed North Korean President
Kim Jong-il's son
Kim Jong-il as his successor.
*
October 15
Events Pre-1600
* 1066 – Following the death of Harold II at the Battle of Hastings, Edgar the Ætheling is proclaimed King of England by the Witan; he is never crowned, and concedes power to William the Conqueror two months later.
* 121 ...
–
James Callaghan announces his resignation as leader of the British
Labour Party.
*
October 18 –
1980 Australian federal election
The 1980 Australian federal election was held in Australia on 18 October 1980. All 125 seats in the House of Representatives and 34 of the 64 seats in the Senate were up for election. The incumbent Liberal–NCP coalition government, led by Prim ...
:
Malcolm Fraser's
Liberal
Liberal or liberalism may refer to:
Politics
* a supporter of liberalism
** Liberalism by country
* an adherent of a Liberal Party
* Liberalism (international relations)
* Sexually liberal feminism
* Social liberalism
Arts, entertainment and ...
/
National Country Coalition Government is re-elected with a substantially reduced majority, defeating the
Labor Party led by
Bill Hayden
William George Hayden (born 23 January 1933) is an Australian politician who served as the 21st governor-general of Australia from 1989 to 1996. He was Leader of the Labor Party and Leader of the Opposition from 1977 to 1983, and served as ...
. The Government also loses control of the Senate, with the
Australian Democrats
The Australian Democrats is a centrist political party in Australia. Founded in 1977 from a merger of the Australia Party and the New Liberal Movement, both of which were descended from Liberal Party dissenting splinter groups, it was Austral ...
winning the balance of power.
*
October 20
** Greece rejoins the
NATO military structure.
** In continuous production since 1962, the last
MG MGB roadster rolls off the assembly line at the
Abingdon-on-Thames
Abingdon-on-Thames ( ), commonly known as Abingdon, is a historic market town and civil parish in the ceremonial county of Oxfordshire, England, on the River Thames. Historically the county town of Berkshire, since 1974 Abingdon has been admi ...
(England) factory, ending production for the
MG Cars marque.
*
October 21
Events Pre-1600
*1096 – A Seljuk Turkish army successfully fights off the People's Crusade.
* 1097 – First Crusade: Crusaders led by Godfrey of Bouillon, Bohemund of Taranto, and Raymond IV, Count of Toulouse, begin the Siege of ...
– In
Major League Baseball, The
Philadelphia Phillies of the
National League
The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs, known simply as the National League (NL), is the older of two leagues constituting Major League Baseball (MLB) in the United States and Canada, and the world's oldest extant professional team s ...
defeat the
Kansas City Royals of the
American League
The American League of Professional Baseball Clubs, known simply as the American League (AL), is one of two leagues that make up Major League Baseball (MLB) in the United States and Canada. It developed from the Western League, a minor league ...
, 4–1, in Game Six of the
World Series
The World Series is the annual championship series of Major League Baseball (MLB) in the United States and Canada, contested since 1903 between the champion teams of the American League (AL) and the National League (NL). The winner of the Wor ...
to win the championship.
*
October 25
Events Pre-1600
* 285 (or 286) – Execution of Saints Crispin and Crispinian during the reign of Diocletian, now the patron saints of leather workers, curriers, and shoemakers.
* 473 – Emperor Leo I acclaims his grandson Leo II ...
– Proceedings on the
conclude at
The Hague.
*
October 27
Events Pre-1600
* 312 – Constantine is said to have received his famous Vision of the Cross.
* 1275 – Traditional founding of the city of Amsterdam.
* 1524 – French troops lay siege to Pavia.
* 1553 – Condemned as a ...
– Six
Provisional Irish Republican Army
The Irish Republican Army (IRA; ), also known as the Provisional Irish Republican Army, and informally as the Provos, was an Irish republicanism, Irish republican paramilitary organisation that sought to end British rule in Northern Ireland, fa ...
prisoners in
Maze prison
Her Majesty's Prison Maze (previously Long Kesh Detention Centre, and known colloquially as The Maze or H-Blocks) was a prison in Northern Ireland that was used to house alleged paramilitary prisoners during the Troubles from August 1971 to ...
in Northern Ireland refuse food and demand status as
political prisoners; the
hunger strike lasts until December.
*
October 30
Events Pre-1600
* 637 – Arab–Byzantine wars: Antioch surrenders to the Rashidun Caliphate after the Battle of the Iron Bridge.
* 758 – Guangzhou is sacked by Arab and Persian pirates.
* 1137 – Ranulf of Apulia defeats R ...
–
El Salvador and
Honduras sign a peace treaty to put the border dispute fought over in
1969
This year is notable for Apollo 11's first landing on the moon.
Events January
* January 4 – The Government of Spain hands over Ifni to Morocco.
* January 5
**Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 701 crashes into a house on its approach to ...
's
Football War
The Football War ( es, La guerra del fútbol; colloquial: Soccer War), also known as the Hundred Hours' War or 100 Hour War, was a brief military conflict fought between El Salvador and Honduras in 1969. Existing tensions between the two coun ...
before the
International Court of Justice.
*
October 31
Events Pre-1600
* 475 – Romulus Augustulus is proclaimed Western Roman Emperor.
* 683 – During the Siege of Mecca, the Kaaba catches fire and is burned down.
* 802 – Empress Irene is deposed and banished to Lesbos. Consp ...
** The
Polish government recognizes
Solidarity.
**
Reza Pahlavi Reza Pahlavi may refer to:
* Reza Shah (1878–1944), Reza Shah Pahlavi, Shah of Iran from 1925 until 1941
* Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (1919–1980), Shah of Iran from 1941 to 1979, son of Reza Shah
* Reza Pahlavi, Crown Prince of Iran
Reza P ...
, eldest son of
the Shah
Shah (; fa, شاه, , ) is a royal title that was historically used by the leading figures of Iranian monarchies.Yarshater, EhsaPersia or Iran, Persian or Farsi, ''Iranian Studies'', vol. XXII no. 1 (1989) It was also used by a variety of ...
of
Iran, proclaims himself the rightful successor to the
Peacock Throne
The Peacock Throne ( Hindustani: ''Mayūrāsana'', Sanskrit: मयूरासन, Urdu: تخت طاؤس, fa, تخت طاووس, ''Takht-i Tāvūs'') was a famous jewelled throne that was the seat of the emperors of the Mughal Empire in India ...
.
November
*
November 4
Events Pre-1600
*1429 – Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War: Joan of Arc liberates Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier.
*1493 – Christopher Columbus reaches Leeward Island and Puerto Rico.
* 1501 – Catherine of Aragon (later Henry VIII's ...
–
1980 United States presidential election
The 1980 United States presidential election was the 49th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 4, 1980. Republican nominee Ronald Reagan defeated incumbent Democratic President Jimmy Carter in a landslide victory ...
:
Republican challenger and former Governor
Ronald Reagan of
California defeats incumbent
Democratic President
Jimmy Carter and was elected the 40th President of the United States.
*
November 10
Events Pre-1600
* 474 – Emperor Leo II dies after a reign of ten months. He is succeeded by his father Zeno, who becomes sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire.
* 937 – Ten Kingdoms: Li Bian usurps the throne and deposes Emperor Yan ...
–
12 –
Voyager program: The
NASA space probe ''
Voyager I
''Voyager 1'' is a space probe launched by NASA on September 5, 1977, as part of the Voyager program to study the outer Solar System and interstellar space beyond the Sun's heliosphere. Launched 16 days after its twin ''Voyager 2'', ''Voya ...
'' makes its closest approach to
Saturn, when it flies within of the planet's cloud-tops and sends the first high resolution images of the world back to scientists on Earth.
*
November 20
Events Pre-1600
* 284 – Diocletian is chosen as Roman emperor.
* 762 – During the An Shi Rebellion, the Tang dynasty, with the help of Huihe tribe, recaptures Luoyang from the rebels.
*1194 – Palermo is conquered by Henr ...
– The
Gang of Four trial begins in China.
*
November 21
Events Pre-1600
* 164 BCE – Judas Maccabeus, son of Mattathias of the Hasmonean family, rededicates the Temple in Jerusalem, an event is commemorated each year by the festival of Hanukkah. (25 Kislev 3597 in the Hebrew calendar.)
* 23 ...
** A
fire at the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino on the
Las Vegas Strip
The Las Vegas Strip is a stretch of Las Vegas Boulevard South in Clark County, Nevada, that is known for its concentration of resort hotels and casinos. The Strip, as it is known, is about long, and is immediately south of the Las Vegas city ...
kills 85 people.
** A record number of viewers on this date (for an entertainment program) tune into the U.S. television show ''
Dallas'' to learn who shot lead character
J. R. Ewing
John Ross "J.R." Ewing Jr. is a fictional character in the American television series ''Dallas'' (1978–1991) and its spin-offs, including the revived ''Dallas'' series (2012–2014). The character was portrayed by Larry Hagman from the series ...
. The "
Who shot J.R.?" event is an international obsession.
*
November 23 – The 6.9
Irpinia earthquake shakes southern Italy with a maximum
Mercalli intensity
The Modified Mercalli intensity scale (MM, MMI, or MCS), developed from Giuseppe Mercalli's Mercalli intensity scale of 1902, is a seismic intensity scale used for measuring the intensity of shaking produced by an earthquake. It measures the eff ...
of X (''Extreme''). Officially, there were 2,483 people killed and 8,934 injured, though the deaths may have been as high as 4,900.
December
*
December 2
Events Pre-1600
* 1244 – Pope Innocent IV arrives at Lyon for the First Council of Lyon.
* 1409 – The University of Leipzig opens. 1601–1900
*1697 – St Paul's Cathedral, rebuilt to the design of Sir Christopher Wren followi ...
– A missionary (
Jean Donovan
Jean Marie Donovan (April 10, 1953 – December 2, 1980) was an American lay missionary who was beaten, raped, and murdered along with three fellow missionaries— Ita Ford, Maura Clarke and Dorothy Kazel—by members of the military of El Salv ...
) and three Roman Catholic nuns (
Maura Clarke
Maura Clarke (January 13, 1931 – December 2, 1980), was an American Catholic Maryknoll sister who served as a missionary in Nicaragua and El Salvador. She worked with the poor and refugees in Central America from 1959 until her murder in 1980. ...
,
Ita Ford,
Dorothy Kazel), all Americans, are murdered by a military
death squad in
El Salvador while doing charity work during that country's
civil war
A civil war or intrastate war is a war between organized groups within the same state (or country).
The aim of one side may be to take control of the country or a region, to achieve independence for a region, or to change government policie ...
.
*
December 8
Events Pre-1600
* 395 – Later Yan is defeated by its former vassal Northern Wei at the Battle of Canhe Slope.
* 757 – The poet Du Fu returns to Chang'an as a member of Emperor Xuanzong's court, after having escaped the city duri ...
–
Murder of John Lennon
On the evening of 8 December 1980, English musician John Lennon, formerly of the Beatles, was shot and fatally wounded in the archway of the Dakota, his residence in New York City. The killer was Mark David Chapman, an American Beatles fan wh ...
:
Mark David Chapman
Mark David Chapman (born May 10, 1955) is an American man who Murder of John Lennon, murdered former The Beatles, Beatles member John Lennon in New York City on December 8, 1980. As Lennon walked into the archway of his apartment building at The ...
is arrested following the murder of English musician
John Lennon, formerly of
the Beatles, outside his New York City apartment building,
The Dakota
The Dakota, also known as the Dakota Apartments, is a cooperative apartment building at 1 West 72nd Street on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, United States. The Dakota was constructed between 1880 and 1884 in the Renaissance ...
.
*
December 14
Events Pre-1600
* 557 – Constantinople is severely damaged by an earthquake, which cracks the dome of Hagia Sophia.
* 835 – Sweet Dew Incident: Emperor Wenzong of the Tang dynasty conspires to kill the powerful eunuchs of the T ...
– Four people are murdered and four others are injured by two armed robbers at
Bob's Big Boy
Bob's Big Boy is a restaurant chain founded by Bob Wian in Southern California in 1936, originally named Bob's Pantry. It is now part of Big Boy Restaurants, Big Boy Restaurant Group, the current primary trademark owner and franchisor of the Big ...
on
La Cienega Boulevard
La Cienega Boulevard is a major north–south arterial road that runs between El Segundo Boulevard in Hawthorne, California on the south and the Sunset Strip/Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood to the north. It was named for Rancho Las Cienegas ...
in Los Angeles, in what is one of the city's most brutal crimes ever.
*
December 15
Events Pre-1600
* 533 – Vandalic War: Byzantine general Belisarius defeats the Vandals, commanded by King Gelimer, at the Battle of Tricamarum.
* 687 – Pope Sergius I is elected as a compromise between antipopes Paschal and Theodo ...
– The
Academia de la Llingua Asturiana
The Academia de la Llingua Asturiana or Academy of the Asturian Language (ALLA) is an Official Institution of the Government of the Principality of Asturias that promotes and regulates the Asturian language, a language of the Spanish autonomous ...
(Academy of the
) is created.
*
December 16
Events Pre-1600
* 714 – Pepin of Herstal, mayor of the Merovingian palace, dies at Jupille (modern Belgium). He is succeeded by his infant grandson Theudoald, while his widow Plectrude holds actual power in the Frankish Kingdom.
* ...
– During a summit on the island of
Bali
Bali () is a province of Indonesia and the westernmost of the Lesser Sunda Islands. East of Java and west of Lombok, the province includes the island of Bali and a few smaller neighbouring islands, notably Nusa Penida, Nusa Lembongan, and N ...
,
OPEC decides to raise the price of
petroleum by 10%.
Date unknown
* The
Right Livelihood Award
The Right Livelihood Award is an international award to "honour and support those offering practical and exemplary answers to the most urgent challenges facing us today." The prize was established in 1980 by German-Swedish philanthropist Jakob ...
is founded by
Jakob von Uexkull
Jakob may refer to:
People
* Jakob (given name), including a list of people with the name
* Jakob (surname), including a list of people with the name
Other
* Jakob (band), a New Zealand band, and the title of their 1999 EP
* Max Jakob Memorial A ...
.
Hassan Fathy
Hassan Fathy ( arz, حسن فتحي; March 23, 1900 – November 30, 1989) was a noted Egyptians, Egyptian architect who pioneered appropriate technology for building in Egypt, especially by working to reestablish the use of adobe and traditiona ...
and
Plenty International/
Stephen Gaskin are its first winners.
* The
World Hockey Association and NHL merge, adding teams in
Hartford,
Quebec City,
Edmonton and
Winnipeg to the league. Accompanying the newly added
Edmonton Oilers as the first team in Alberta, the
Atlanta Flames
The Atlanta Flames were a professional ice hockey team based in Atlanta from 1972 until 1980. They played home games in the Omni Coliseum and were members of the West and later Patrick divisions of the National Hockey League (NHL). Along with ...
move to
Calgary.
World population
Births
January
*
January 1 –
Richie Faulkner
Richard Ian Faulkner (born 1 January 1980) is an English musician best known as one of the lead guitarists for the heavy metal band Judas Priest since 2011, replacing original member K. K. Downing. Faulkner has also performed with Lauren Harri ...
, British rock guitarist
*
January 4 –
Greg Cipes
Gregory Michael Cipes (born January 4, 1980) is an American actor. He was a cast member in the reality television program '' Twentyfourseven'' and had recurring roles in ''MDs'' and ''Peacemakers''. His voice acting roles include Beast Boy in ...
, American voice, film and television actor
*
January 7 –
Hele Kõrve
Hele Kõrve (until 2009, Hele Kõre; born 7 January 1980) is an Estonian stage, television, film and voice actress and singer.
Early life and education
Hele Kõrve was born Hele Kõre in 1980 in the town of Jõgeva, in Jõgeva County. She graduat ...
, Estonian actress and singer
*
January 8
**
Adam Goodes
Adam Roy Goodes (born 8 January 1980) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Sydney Swans in the Australian Football League (AFL). Goodes holds an elite place in VFL/AFL history as a dual Brownlow Medallist, d ...
,
Australian rules footballer
Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an oval field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by ...
**
Rachel Nichols, American actress
*
January 9 –
Sergio García
Sergio García Fernández (; born 9 January 1980) is a Spanish professional golfer. He has played on the European Tour, PGA Tour and LIV Golf Invitational Series. García has won 36 international tournaments as a professional, most notably th ...
, Spanish golfer
*
January 10 –
Sarah Shahi
Aahoo Jahansouzshahi ( fa, آهو جهانسوز شاهی; born ), known professionally as Sarah Shahi (), is an American actress and former model. She played Carmen on ''The L Word'' in 2005, Kate Reed in the USA Network legal drama ''Fairly Le ...
, American actress
*
January 11 –
Lovieanne Jung, American softball player
*
January 12 –
Amerie
Amerie Mi Marie Nicholson ( Rogers; born January 12, 1980) is an American singer. Born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, she gained an appreciation of the classical arts from her mother Mi Suk Rogers and of music from her father Charles Rogers, and ...
, American singer
*
January 13 –
María de Villota, Spanish racing driver (d.
2013
File:2013 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: Edward Snowden becomes internationally famous for leaking classified NSA wiretapping information; Typhoon Haiyan kills over 6,000 in the Philippines and Southeast Asia; The Dhaka garment fa ...
)
*
January 14
Events Pre-1600
*1236 – King Henry III of England marries Eleanor of Provence.
*1301 – Andrew III of Hungary dies, ending the Árpád dynasty in Hungary.
1601–1900
*1639 – The "Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, Fundamenta ...
**
Carlos Alvarado Quesada
Carlos Andrés Alvarado Quesada (; born 14 January 1980) is a Costa Rican politician, writer, journalist and political scientist who served as the 48th president of Costa Rica from 8 May 2018 to 8 May 2022. A member of the Citizens' Action ...
, Costa Rican politician, 48th
President of Costa Rica
**
Monika Kuszyńska
Monika Kuszyńska (born 14 January 1980) is a Polish singer and songwriter. She represented Poland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 with the song " In the Name of Love" and was previously the lead singer of the Polish pop rock band Varius Man ...
, Polish singer and songwriter
*
January 16
Events Pre-1600
* 27 BC – Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus is granted the title Augustus by the Roman Senate, marking the beginning of the Roman Empire.
* 378 – General Siyaj K'ak' conquers Tikal, enlarging the domain of King Sp ...
**
Albert Pujols
José Alberto Pujols Alcántara () (); born January 16, 1980) is a Dominican-American former professional baseball first baseman, designated hitter and third baseman who played 22 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). Nicknamed "The Machine", ...
, Dominican
Major League Baseball player
**
Michelle Wild, Hungarian actress
**
Lin-Manuel Miranda, Puerto Rican-American actor, composer and writer
*
January 17
**
Zooey Deschanel, American actress, singer and musician
**
Maksim Chmerkovskiy
Maksim "Maks" Aleksandrovich Chmerkovskiy ( uk, Максим Олександрович Чмерковський ; born January 17, 1980) is a Ukrainian-American Latin–ballroom dance champion, choreographer, and instructor. He is widely known ...
, Ukrainian-American dance champion, choreographer and instructor
*
January 18
Events Pre-1600
* 474 – Seven-year-old Leo II succeeds his maternal grandfather Leo I as Byzantine emperor. He dies ten months later.
* 532 – Nika riots in Constantinople fail.
* 1126 – Emperor Huizong abdicates the Chine ...
**
Estelle, British singer
**
Jason Segel, American actor and comedian
*
January 19
**
Luke Macfarlane
Thomas Luke Macfarlane (born January 19, 1980) is a Canadian-American actor and former singer. He is known for playing Scotty Wandell on the ABC television drama '' Brothers & Sisters'' (2006–2011), RAC Agent D'avin Jaqobis on the Space tele ...
, Canadian actor and singer
**
Jenson Button
Jenson Alexander Lyons Button (born 19 January 1980) is a British racing driver. He won the 2009 Formula One World Championship when he drove for the Brawn GP team. After his F1 career, he became champion of the 2018 season of the Super GT ...
, British racing driver
**
Arvydas Macijauskas
Arvydas Macijauskas (born January 19, 1980) is a Lithuanian former professional basketball player. Standing at tall, he played at the shooting guard position. He was one of the greatest Lithuanian players of the 2000s, as he won numerous individua ...
, Lithuanian basketball player
*
January 20
Events Pre-1600
* 250 – Pope Fabian is martyred during the Decian persecution.
* 649 – King Chindasuinth, at the urging of bishop Braulio of Zaragoza, crowns his son Recceswinth as co-ruler of the Visigothic Kingdom.
*1156 &ndash ...
**
Philippe Cousteau Jr.
Philippe-Pierre Jacques-Yves Arnault Cousteau Jr. (born January 20, 1980) is an American oceanographer and environmental activist, the son of Philippe Cousteau and the grandson of Jacques Cousteau. Cousteau has continued the work of his father ...
, American-French oceanographer
**
Philippe Gagnon, Canadian Paralympic swimmer
**
Kim Jeong-hoon
Kim Jeong-hoon (born January 20, 1980), also known by his stage name John Hoon, is a South Korean singer and actor. He initially rose to fame as a member of South Korean duo UN debuting with the single ''Voice Mail'' in 2000. After the duo disb ...
, South Korean singer and actor
**
Brigitte Olivier, Belgian martial artist
**
Matthew Tuck
Matthew Tuck (born 20 January 1980) is a Welsh musician, best known as the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the metal band Bullet for My Valentine. He is also a singer and guitarist in the supergroup AxeWound, which was formed in 2012.
...
, Welsh singer and guitarist
*
January 21 –
Nana Mizuki
is a Japanese voice actress, singer and narrator from Niihama, Ehime. She is represented by the agency StarCrew. Mizuki was trained as an enka singer, releasing one single under her birth name, Nana Kondō, in 1993 and made her debut as a voice ...
, Japanese voice actress and singer
*
January 22 –
Christopher Masterson
Christopher Kennedy Masterson (born January 22, 1980) is an American actor and disc jockey known best for his role as Malcolm's oldest brother Francis on the Fox sitcom ''Malcolm in the Middle''. He is the younger brother of Danny Masterson, and ...
, American actor and disc jockey
*
January 24
Events Pre-1600
* 41 – Claudius is proclaimed Roman emperor by the Praetorian Guard after they assassinate the previous emperor, his nephew Caligula.
* 914 – Start of the First Fatimid invasion of Egypt.
*1438 – The Counc ...
**
Nyncke Beekhuyzen, Dutch actress
**
Suzy, Portuguese singer
*
January 25
**
Christian Olsson
Christian Olsson (born 25 January 1980) is a former Swedish athlete competing in high jump and triple jump. He won an Olympic gold medal, one gold and one silver medal in the World Championships and two gold medals in the European Championshi ...
, Swedish athlete
**
Xavi
Xavier Hernández Creus (born 25 January 1980), known as Xavi is a Spanish professional football manager and former player who is the manager of La Liga club Barcelona. Widely considered one of the greatest midfielders of all time, Xavi wa ...
, Spanish footballer
**
Michelle McCool
Michelle Leigh Calaway (née McCool; born January 25, 1980) is an American retired professional wrestler. She is best known for her time with WWE, where she is a former two-time WWE Divas Champion and a two-time WWE Women's Champion.
McCool ...
, American professional wrestler
*
January 27
Events Pre-1600
* 98 – Trajan succeeds his adoptive father Nerva as Roman emperor; under his rule the Roman Empire will reach its maximum extent.
* 945 – The co-emperors Stephen and Constantine are overthrown and forced to beco ...
–
Marat Safin, Russian tennis player
*
January 28 –
Nick Carter, American pop singer (
Backstreet Boys
Backstreet Boys (often abbreviated as BSB) are an American vocal group consisting of Nick Carter, Howie Dorough, AJ McLean, and cousins Brian Littrell and Kevin Richardson. Lou Pearlman formed the group in 1993 in Orlando, Florida.
The gr ...
)
*
January 29
**
Yael Bar Zohar
Yael Bar Zohar ( he, יעל בר זוהר; ) is an Israeli television host, model, singer and actress.
Early life and career
Bar Zohar was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, to a Jewish family. Her Polish-born father Menachem Bar Zohar immigrated to Is ...
, Israeli actress and model
**
Jason James Richter
Jason James Richter (born January 29, 1980) is an American actor and musician. He is best known for his role in the ''Free Willy'' film series as Jesse, the boy who befriends Willy the orca.
Early life
Richter was born on January 29, 1980, in M ...
, American actor
February
*
February 2 –
Nina Zilli
Maria Chiara Fraschetta (born 2 February 1980), better known by her stage name Nina Zilli (), is an Italian singer-songwriter. After releasing her debut single "50mila", she achieved commercial success with the album '' Sempre lontano'', released ...
, Italian singer-songwriter
*
February 5
Events Pre-1600
* 62 – Earthquake in Pompeii, Italy.
* 1576 – Henry of Navarre abjures Catholicism at Tours and rejoins the Protestant forces in the French Wars of Religion.
* 1597 – A group of early Japanese Christians ...
–
Robin Vik
Robin Vik (born 5 February 1980 in Hradec Králové) is a Czech professional tennis player.
Vik turned professional in 1995 and he reached a career high ranking of World No. 57 in January 2006. Career highlight runs are reaching the semifinals ...
,
Czech
Czech may refer to:
* Anything from or related to the Czech Republic, a country in Europe
** Czech language
** Czechs, the people of the area
** Czech culture
** Czech cuisine
* One of three mythical brothers, Lech, Czech, and Rus'
Places
* Czech ...
tennis player
*
February 6 –
Ryan Parmeter, American professional wrestler
**
Mamiko Noto, Japanese actress and singer
*
February 8 –
Yang Wei, Chinese gymnast
*
February 10
**
César Izturis
César David Izturis (; born February 10, 1980) is a Venezuelan former professional baseball shortstop. He is the half-brother of shortstop Maicer Izturis.
Career
Toronto Blue Jays
Signed by the Toronto Blue Jays as an amateur free agent in 1 ...
, Venezuelan
Major League Baseball player
**
Steve Tully
Stephen Richard Tully (born 10 February 1980) is an English footballer, who is last player-manager at Truro City. He was born in Paignton, Devon.
He began his career as a fullback with his local side Torquay United, turning professional in Au ...
, English footballer
*
February 11 –
Matthew Lawrence, American actor
*
February 12
**
Juan Carlos Ferrero
Juan Carlos Ferrero Donat (; born 12 February 1980) is a Spanish former world No. 1 tennis player. He won the men's singles title at the 2003 French Open, and in September of that year became the 21st player to hold the top ranking, which he ...
, Spanish tennis player
**
Christina Ricci
Christina Ricci ( ; born February 12, 1980) is an American actress. Known for playing unusual characters with a dark edge, Ricci predominantly works in independent productions, but has also appeared in numerous box office hits. She has receive ...
, American actress
**
Gucci Mane
Radric Delantic Davis (born February 12, 1980), known professionally as Gucci Mane, is an American rapper and record executive. He helped pioneer the hip hop subgenre of trap music alongside fellow Atlanta-based rappers T.I. and Young Jeezy ...
, American rapper
*
February 15 –
Petr Elfimov
Petr Petrovich Elfimov ( be, Пётр Ялфімаў, ''Piotr Jalfimaŭ'', russian: Пётр Елфимов, ''Pyotr Yelfimov'') is a singer from Belarus who represented his nation at the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 in Moscow, Russia. He won t ...
, Belarusian singer
*
February 17
Events Pre-1600
*1370 – Northern Crusades: Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Teutonic Knights meet in the Battle of Rudau.
* 1411 – Following the successful campaigns during the Ottoman Interregnum, Musa Çelebi, one of the sons o ...
–
Jason Ritter
Jason Morgan Ritter (born February 17, 1980) is an American actor and producer. He is known for his roles as Kevin Girardi in the television series ''Joan of Arcadia'', Ethan Haas in '' The Class'', Sean Walker in the NBC series ''The Event'', ...
, American actor and producer
*
February 18 –
Regina Spektor, Russian-American singer-songwriter
*
February 19
**
Mike Miller, American basketball player
**
Ma Lin, Chinese table-tennis player
*
February 20
**
Imanol Harinordoquy
Imanol Harinordoquy, . (born 20 February 1980) is a French former rugby union player. He typically played as a number 8 for Stade Toulousain at club level in the Top 14 and for France internationally. Before signing with Biarritz ahead of the ...
, French rugby player
**
Artur Boruc
Artur Boruc (; born 20 February 1980) is a Polish former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
He began his career in the Polish third division with hometown club Pogoń Siedlce. He joined Ekstraklasa team Legia Warsaw in 1999 a ...
, Polish football (soccer) goalkeeper
*
February 21
**
Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck,
King of Bhutan
The Druk Gyalpo (; 'Dragon King') is the head of state of the Kingdom of Bhutan. In the Dzongkha language, Bhutan is known as ''Drukyul'' which translates as "The Land of the Thunder Dragon". Thus, while kings of Bhutan are known as ''Druk ...
*
February 22 –
Jeanette Biedermann
Jeanette Biedermann (born Jean Biedermann, 22 February 1980) is a German singer, actress, and television personality. Born and raised in the greater Berlin area, Biedermann began performing as a member of a troupe of acrobats in a children's circ ...
, German singer and actress
*
February 24
**
Emma Johnson, Australian swimmer
**
Shinsuke Nakamura
is a Japanese professional wrestler currently signed to WWE, where he performs on the SmackDown brand.
Nakamura is known for his time in New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where he is a former three-time IWGP Heavyweight Champion, with his firs ...
, Japanese professional wrestler
*
February 26 –
Júlio César da Silva e Souza, Brazilian footballer
*
February 27
**
Chelsea Clinton
Chelsea Victoria Clinton (born February 27, 1980) is an American writer and global health advocate. She is the only child of former U.S. President Bill Clinton and former U.S. Secretary of State and 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clin ...
, daughter of U.S. President
Bill Clinton and U.S. Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton
**
Don Diablo, Dutch DJ and producer
*
February 28
Events Pre-1600
* 202 BC – Liu Bang is enthroned as the Emperor of China, beginning four centuries of rule by the Han dynasty.
* 870 – The Fourth Council of Constantinople closes.
*1525 – Aztec king Cuauhtémoc is execute ...
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Tayshaun Prince, American basketball player
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Piotr Giza
Piotr Giza (born February 28, 1980) is a Polish former footballer who played as a central midfielder or attacking midfielder.
Career
Cracovia
Born in Kraków, Giza moved to Cracovia during the 2002–03 season and made his Polish League debut ...
, Polish footballer
March
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March 1
Events Pre-1600
* 509 BC – Publius Valerius Publicola celebrates the first triumph of the Roman Republic after his victory over the deposed king Lucius Tarquinius Superbus at the Battle of Silva Arsia.
* 293 – Emperor Diocletian ...
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Shahid Afridi
Sahibzada Mohammad Shahid Khan Afridi ( ur, شاہد افریدی, ps, شاهد افریدی; born 1 March 1977), known as Shahid Afridi, is a Pakistani former cricketer and captain of the Pakistan national cricket team. He is current ...
, Pakistani cricketer
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March 2
Events Pre-1600
* 537 – Siege of Rome: The Ostrogoth army under king Vitiges begins the siege of the capital. Belisarius conducts a delaying action outside the Flaminian Gate; he and a detachment of his '' bucellarii'' are almost cut ...
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Rebel Wilson, Australian actress
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March 3
Events Pre-1600
* 473 – Gundobad (nephew of Ricimer) nominates Glycerius as emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
* 724 – Empress Genshō abdicates the throne in favor of her nephew Shōmu who becomes emperor of Japan.
* 1575 &nd ...
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Katherine Waterston
Katherine Boyer Waterston (born March 3, 1980) is a British-American actress. She made her feature film debut in '' Michael Clayton'' (2007). She had supporting roles in films including ''Robot & Frank,'' '' Being Flynn'' (both 2012) and ''The ...
, American actress
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March 4
Events Pre-1600
*AD 51 – Nero, later to become Roman emperor, is given the title '' princeps iuventutis'' (head of the youth).
* 306 – Martyrdom of Saint Adrian of Nicomedia.
* 852 – Croatian Knez Trpimir I issues a st ...
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Omar Bravo
Omar Bravo Tordecillas (born 4 March 1980) is a Mexican former professional footballer who played as a striker. He is Guadalajara's all-time leading scorer in all matches.
Club career Club Deportivo Guadalajara
Omar Bravo has scored 132 goals ...
, Mexican footballer
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March 5 –
Jessica Boehrs
Jessica Boehrs (born 5 March 1980) is a German actress and singer. She is best known as the singer of the Eurodance project Novaspace between 2002 and 2006, and for her role in the 2004 American comedy film '' EuroTrip''.
Career
Boehrs started ...
, German singer and actress
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March 7
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Murat Boz, Turkish singer and actor
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Laura Prepon
Laura Helene Prepon (born March 7, 1980) is an American actress. She rose to fame with her role as Donna Pinciotti in the Fox sitcom ''That '70s Show'' (1998–2006). She is also known for portraying Alex Vause in the Netflix comedy-drama serie ...
, American actress
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Mart Toome, Estonian actor
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March 10 –
Chingy
Howard Earl Bailey Jr. (born March 9, 1980), known professionally as Chingy, is an American rapper. Chingy grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, and began rapping in his late teens. He toured as an opening act with Nelly in the summer of 2002 and then ...
, American rapper, singer and actor
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March 11
Events Pre-1600
* 222 – Roman emperor Elagabalus is murdered alongside his mother, Julia Soaemias. He is replaced by his 14-year old cousin, Severus Alexander.
* 843 – Triumph of Orthodoxy: Empress Theodora II restores the ven ...
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Gabriela Pichler, Swedish film director and screenwriter
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March 12 –
Juliana Silveira, Brazilian actress
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March 13 –
Caron Butler
James Caron Butler (born March 13, 1980) is an American professional basketball coach and former player who is an assistant coach for the Miami Heat of the National Basketball Association (NBA). During a 14-year career he played for the Miami Hea ...
, American basketball player
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March 14 –
Aaron Brown, English footballer
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March 18
Events Pre-1600
* 37 – Roman Senate annuls Tiberius' will and proclaims Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus ''(aka Caligula = Little Boots)'' emperor.Tacitus, ''Annals'' V.10.
*1068 – An earthquake in the Levant and the Arab ...
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Alexei Yagudin
Alexei Konstantinovich Yagudin ( rus, Алексей Константинович Ягудин, , ɐlʲɪˈksʲeɪ̯ kənstɐnʲˈtʲinəvʲɪt͡ɕ ɪ̯ɪˈɡudʲɪn, Ru-Alexei Konstantinovich Yagudin.ogg; 18 March 1980) is a Russian former co ...
, Russian figure skater
*
March 19
Events Pre-1600
* 1277 – The Byzantine–Venetian treaty of 1277 is concluded, stipulating a two-year truce and renewing Venetian commercial privileges in the Byzantine Empire.
* 1279 – A Mongol victory at the Battle of Yamen end ...
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Johan Olsson, Swedish cross country skier
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March 20 –
Hamada Helal
Mohamed Abdel-Fatah Mohamed Abdulaziz Helal ( ar, محمد عبد الفتاح محمد عبد العزيز هلال; born March 20, 1980), better known as Hamada Helal ( ar, حمادة هلال), is an Egyptian singer, actor, and composer who w ...
, Egyptian singer
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March 21
Events Pre-1600
* 537 – Siege of Rome: King Vitiges attempts to assault the northern and eastern city walls, but is repulsed at the Praenestine Gate, known as the '' Vivarium'', by the defenders under the Byzantine generals Bessas and ...
**
Ronaldinho
Ronaldo de Assis Moreira (born 21 March 1980), commonly known as Ronaldinho Gaúcho () or simply Ronaldinho, is a Brazilian retired professional footballer who played mostly as an attacking midfielder, but was also deployed as a winger. Wide ...
, Brazilian footballer
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Marit Bjørgen
Marit Bjørgen (born 21 March 1980) is a former Norwegian cross-country skier. She is ranked first in the all-time Cross-Country World Cup rankings with 114 individual victories. Bjørgen is also the most successful sprinter in Cross-Country Wo ...
, Norwegian cross-country skier
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March 30
Events Pre-1600
* 598 – Balkan Campaign: The Avars lift the siege at the Byzantine stronghold of Tomis. Their leader Bayan I retreats north of the Danube River after the Avaro- Slavic hordes are decimated by the plague.
* 1282 &nda ...
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Yalın
Hüseyin Yalın (born 30 March 1980), better known by his surname Yalın, is a Turkish pop singer and songwriter. He achieved success with the song "Zalim" in 2004.
Early life
Hüseyin Yalın was born on 30 March 1980 in Nişantaşı, Istanbu ...
, Turkish pop singer and songwriter
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March 31
Events Pre-1600
* 307 – After divorcing his wife Minervina, Constantine marries Fausta, daughter of the retired Roman emperor Maximian.
* 1146 – Bernard of Clairvaux preaches his famous sermon in a field at Vézelay, urging the ...
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Maaya Sakamoto, Japanese voice actress and singer
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Chien-Ming Wang
Chien-Ming Wang (; born March 31, 1980) is a Taiwanese former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees, Washington Nationals, Toronto Blue Jays and Kansas City Royals. He also played for ...
, Taiwanese
Major League Baseball player
April
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April 1
Events Pre-1600
* 33 – According to one historian's account, Jesus Christ's Last Supper is held.
* 527 – Byzantine Emperor Justin I names his nephew Justinian I as co-ruler and successor to the throne.
* 1081 – Alexios I Ko ...
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Randy Orton, American professional wrestler and actor
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April 4
Events Pre-1600
*503 BC – Roman consul Agrippa Menenius Lanatus celebrates a triumph for a military victory over the Sabines.
* 190 – Dong Zhuo has his troops evacuate the capital Luoyang and burn it to the ground.
* 611 – ...
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Björn Wirdheim
Björn Karl Michael Wirdheim (born 4 April 1980) is a Swedish professional racing driver. He is the son of Örnulf Wirdheim, also a racing driver. Björn began racing karts, competing in his first race, at the age of 10. His main achievement to ...
, Swedish racing driver
*
April 9
Events Pre-1600
* 193 – The distinguished soldier Septimius Severus is proclaimed emperor by the army in Illyricum.
* 475 – Byzantine Emperor Basiliscus issues a circular letter (''Enkyklikon'') to the bishops of his empire, su ...
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Arlen Escarpeta
Arlen Alexander Escarpeta is a Belizean-born American actor. He is best known for his roles in the films ''Friday the 13th'', '' Brotherhood'', ''Final Destination 5'', '' Into the Storm'' (2014), and most notably, his portrayal of Bobby Brown i ...
, Belizean actor
*
April 10
Events Pre-1600
* 428 – Nestorius becomes the Patriarch of Constantinople.
* 837 – Halley's Comet makes its closest approach to Earth at a distance equal to 0.0342 AU (5.1 million kilometres/3.2 million miles).
* 1407 ...
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Charlie Hunnam
Charles Matthew Hunnam (; born 10 April 1980) is an English actor. He is best known for his roles as Pete Dunham in ''Green Street Hooligans'' (2005) and as Jax Teller in the FX series ''Sons of Anarchy'' (2008–2014). For the latter, he was ...
, English actor
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Andy Ram
Andreas "Andy" Ram ( he, אנדי רם; born April 10, 1980) is a retired Israeli professional tennis player. He was primarily a doubles player, and competed in three Olympics.
He is the first Israeli tennis player to win a senior Grand Slam ...
, Israeli tennis player
*
April 12
Events Pre-1600
* 240 – Shapur I becomes co-emperor of the Sasanian Empire with his father Ardashir I.
* 467 – Anthemius is elevated to Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
* 627 – King Edwin of Northumbria is converted ...
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Brian McFadden
Brian Nicholas McFadden (born 12 April 1980) is an Irish pop singer and television presenter who rose to fame in 1998 as a member of the Irish boy band Westlife. Following his departure from the group in 2004, McFadden released his debut solo ...
, Irish pop singer
*
April 15
Events Pre-1600
* 769 – The Lateran Council ends by condemning the Council of Hieria and anathematizing its iconoclastic rulings.
*1071 – Bari, the last Byzantine possession in southern Italy, is surrendered to Robert Guiscard.
...
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Willie Mason
Viliami William Marshall Mason (born 15 April 1980), also nicknamed "Big Willie", is a former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 2000s and 2010s. An Australia and Tonga international and New South Wales State of Origin re ...
, New Zealand-Australian rugby league player
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April 16
Events Pre-1600
* 1457 BC – Battle of Megido - the first battle to have been recorded in what is accepted as relatively reliable detail.
* 69 – Defeated by Vitellius' troops at Bedriacum, Otho commits suicide.
* 73 – Masad ...
**
Samir Javadzadeh, Azerbaijani singer
**
Paul London
Paul Michael London (born April 16, 1980) is an American professional wrestler and actor. He is best known for his time with WWE.
After being trained at the Texas Wrestling Academy, London began competing for Ring of Honor where his high risk ...
, American professional wrestler
*
April 17
Events Pre-1600
*1080 – Harald III of Denmark dies and is succeeded by Canute IV, who would later be the first Dane to be canonized.
* 1349 – The rule of the Bavand dynasty in Mazandaran is brought to an end by the murder of Has ...
**
Brenda Villa
Brenda Villa (born April 18, 1980) is an accomplished American water polo player. She is the most decorated athlete in the world of women’s water polo. Villa was named Female Water Polo Player of the Decade for 2000-2009 by the FINA Aquatics Wo ...
, American water polo player
**
Kiril Petkov, Prime Minister of Bulgaria
**
Lee Hyun-il
Lee Hyun-il ( ko, 이현일; born 17 April 1980) is a former badminton player from South Korea. He is a former World and Asian Championships bronze medalist, and was part of South Korean team that won the 2003 Sudirman Cup as well the gold medal ...
, South Korean badminton player
*
April 20
Events Pre-1600
*1303 – The Sapienza University of Rome is instituted by a bull of Pope Boniface VIII.
1601–1900
*1653 – Oliver Cromwell dissolves England's Rump Parliament.
*1657 – English Admiral Robert Blake destroys a ...
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Vibeke Skofterud
Vibeke Westbye Skofterud (20 April 1980 – 29 July 2018) was a Norwegian cross-country skier. She won gold in the 4 × 5 km relay at Vancouver in 2010. Her best individual finish at the Winter Olympics was eighth in the 30 km event at S ...
, Norwegian cross country skier (d.
2018
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)
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Jasmin Wagner, German singer
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Waylon, Dutch singer
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April 22
Events Pre-1600
*1500 – Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral lands in Brazil.
*1519 – Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés establishes a settlement at Veracruz, Mexico.
*1529 – Treaty of Zaragoza divides the eastern hem ...
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Nicolas Douchez
Nicolas Douchez (born 22 April 1980) is a French former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
Club career
Toulouse
In 2005, Douchez signed for Toulouse FC. He played 86 league games for the club before signing with Rennes.
Rennes ...
, French footballer
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April 23
Events Pre-1600
* 215 BC – A temple is built on the Capitoline Hill dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Lake Trasimene.
* 599 – Maya king Uneh Chan of Calakmul attacks rival city-state Palenque in sout ...
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Małgorzata Socha, Polish actress
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Taio Cruz, British singer
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April 24
Events Pre-1600
*1479 BC – Thutmose III ascends to the throne of Egypt, although power effectively shifts to Hatshepsut (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th dynasty).
* 1183 BC – Traditional reckoning of the Fall of Troy ma ...
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Austin Nichols
Austin Nichols (born April 24, 1980) is an American actor and director, known for his role as Julian Baker in The CW drama series '' One Tree Hill''. He is also known for his roles in the films ''The Day After Tomorrow'' and '' Wimbledon''. He ...
, American actor
**
Karen Asrian
Karen Asrian ( hy, Կարեն Ասրյան; 24 April 1980 – 9 June 2008) was an Armenian chess player. Awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1998, he was a three-time Armenian champion. Asrian was a member of the gold medal-winning Arm ...
, Armenian chess Grandmaster (d.
2008
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)
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April 26
Events Pre-1600
*1336 – Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) ascends Mont Ventoux.
*1348 – Czech king Karel IV founds the Charles University in Prague, which was later named after him and was the first university in Central Europe.
*147 ...
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Jordana Brewster, American actress and model
**
Marlon King
Marlon Francis King (born 26 April 1980) is a Jamaican former professional footballer who played as a striker.
Born and raised in south London, he started his career in non-League football with Dulwich Hamlet. He played for Barnet, Gillingha ...
, Jamaican footballer
**
Channing Tatum
Channing Matthew Tatum (born April 26, 1980) is an American actor. Tatum made his film debut in the drama ''Coach Carter'' (2005), and had his breakthrough role in the 2006 dance film '' Step Up''. He gained wider attention for his leading rol ...
, American actor, producer and dancer
*
April 27
Events Pre-1600
* 247 – Philip the Arab marks the millennium of Rome with a celebration of the ''ludi saeculares''.
* 395 – Emperor Arcadius marries Aelia Eudoxia, daughter of the Frankish general Flavius Bauto. She becomes one of ...
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Zayed Khan
Zayed Abbas Khan (born 5 July 1980) is a former Indian actor and producer who appeared in Hindi films. The son of Bollywood actor Sanjay Khan, he has received a Filmfare Award nomination.
After graduating in Business Management at the Montg ...
, Indian actor
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April 28
Events Pre-1600
* 224 – The Battle of Hormozdgan is fought. Ardashir I defeats and kills Artabanus V effectively ending the Parthian Empire.
* 357 – Emperor Constantius II enters Rome for the first time to celebrate his victory o ...
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Josh Howard, American basketball player
*
April 29
Events Pre-1600
*1091 – Battle of Levounion: The Pechenegs are defeated by Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos.
*1386 – Battle of the Vikhra River: The Principality of Smolensk is defeated by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and beco ...
**
Kian Egan
Kian John Francis Egan (born 29 April 1980) is an Irish pop singer, songwriter and musician, best known as a member of pop group Westlife. Westlife has released twelve albums, embarked on thirteen world tours, and won numerous awards, becoming ...
, Irish singer (
Westlife)
**
Emmad Irfani
Emmad Irfani () is a Pakistani model and actor.
As an actor he has done lead roles in many TV serials from Geo TV, ARY Digital and Hum TV while as a fashion model he has worked with national and international brands.
Early life and career
Of ...
, Pakistani model and TV actor
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April 30 –
Luis Scola
Luis Alberto Scola Balvoa (born April 30, 1980) is an Argentine former professional basketball player and current executive who currently serves as the chief executive officer for the Italian Lega Basket Serie A (LBA) team Pallacanestro Varese. ...
, Argentine basketball player
May
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May 1
Events Pre-1600
* 305 – Diocletian and Maximian retire from the office of Roman emperor.
* 880 – The Nea Ekklesia is inaugurated in Constantinople, setting the model for all later cross-in-square Orthodox churches.
* 1169 &ndas ...
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Ana Claudia Talancón
Ana Claudia Talancón (born Ana Claudia Talancón Ortiz Tirado; 1 May 1980), is a Mexican actress, TV host, and philanthropist. She first started acting in her home town, Cancún, Quintana Roo.
Early life and career
Talancón first started st ...
, Mexican actress
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May 2
Events Pre-1600
* 1194 – King Richard I of England gives Portsmouth its first Royal Charter.
*1230 – William de Braose is hanged by Prince Llywelyn the Great.
* 1536 – Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, is arrested and impris ...
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Tim Borowski
Tim Borowski (born 2 May 1980) is a German football assistant manager of Werder Bremen and a former professional midfielder.
Borowski spent 11 years of his 12-year professional career with Werder Bremen, amassing Bundesliga totals of 236 games a ...
, German footballer
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Ellie Kemper, American actress and comedian
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May 5
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Maia Hirasawa
Maia Hirasawa (born May 5, 1980) is a Swedish singer-songwriter of Swedish and Japanese parentage.
She was born and raised in Sollentuna Municipality, Sollentuna, Stockholm, Sweden but has lived for many years in Gothenburg. Maia became known th ...
, Swedish pop singer
**
Yossi Benayoun
Yossi Shai Benayoun ( he, יוסי שי בניון; born 5 May 1980) is an Israeli former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He spent most of his career in England and captained the Israel national team. Born in Dimona, he is s ...
, Israeli footballer
*
May 6
Events Pre-1600
*1527 – Spanish and German troops sack Rome; many scholars consider this the end of the Renaissance.
*1536 – The Siege of Cuzco commences, in which Incan forces attempt to retake the city of Cuzco from the Spani ...
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Dimitris Diamantidis
Dimitris Diamantidis ( el, Δημήτρης Διαμαντίδης ; born May 6, 1980) is a retired Greek professional basketball player, who spent the last twelve seasons of his EuroLeague career with Panathinaikos, where he last served as the ...
, Greek basketball player
*
May 7
Events Pre-1600
* 351 – The Jewish revolt against Constantius Gallus breaks out after his arrival at Antioch.
* 558 – In Constantinople, the dome of the Hagia Sophia collapses, twenty years after its construction. Justinian I im ...
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Johan Kenkhuis
Johan Kenkhuis (born 7 May 1980 in Vriezenveen, Overijssel) is an Olympic medal winning Dutch swimmer.
From a young age, Kenkhuis had a strong interest in swimming. In 1998, he won gold medals in both the 100 meter and 200 meter freestyle event ...
, Dutch swimmer
*
May 9
Events Pre-1600
* 328 – Athanasius is elected Patriarch of Alexandria.
* 1009 – Lombard Revolt: Lombard forces led by Melus revolt in Bari against the Byzantine Catepanate of Italy.
*1386 – England and Portugal formally r ...
**
Grant Hackett
Grant George Hackett OAM (born 9 May 1980) is an Australian swimmer, most famous for winning the men's 1500 metres freestyle race at both the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney and the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. This achievement has led him t ...
, Australian swimmer
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Carolin Kebekus
Carolin Kebekus (born 9 May 1980) is a German comedian and television personality.
Biography
Born in Bergisch Gladbach, Kebekus grew up as daughter of a social education worker and a banker in Köln-Ostheim. Her younger Brother David Kebe is ...
, German comedian and actress
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May 17 –
Alistair Overeem
Alistair Cees Overeem (born 17 May 1980) is a Dutch professional heavyweight mixed martial artist and kickboxer, currently competing in the heavyweight division of Glory. He is a former Strikeforce Heavyweight Champion, Dream Heavyweight Cha ...
, Dutch mixed martial artist and kickboxer
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May 18 –
Ali Zafar
Ali Zafar ( pa, ; born 18 May 1980) is a Pakistani singer-songwriter, model, actor, producer, screenwriter and painter. Zafar started out on Pakistani television before becoming a popular musician. He later also established a career in Bo ...
, Pakistani music composer, singer-songwriter, painter and actor
*
May 19
Events
Pre-1600
* 639 – Ashina Jiesheshuai and his tribesmen assaulted Emperor Taizong at Jiucheng Palace.
* 715 – Pope Gregory II is elected.
* 1051 – Henry I of France marries the Rus' princess, Anne of Kiev.
* 1445 ...
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Dean Heffernan, Australian footballer
*
May 21 –
Gotye, Belgian-Australian multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter
*
May 22
Events Pre-1600
* 192 – Dong Zhuo is assassinated by his adopted son Lü Bu.
* 760 – Fourteenth recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.
* 853 – A Byzantine fleet sacks and destroys undefended Damietta in Egypt.
*11 ...
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Evelin Võigemast
Evelin Võigemast (until 2007, Evelin Pang; born 22 May 1980) is an Estonian stage, film television and voice actress and singer.
Early life and education
Born Evelin Pang in Tallinn, her parents were Valdur Pang and Eda Pang (''née'' Taska). Sh ...
, Estonian actress and singer
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May 24 –
Cecilia Cheung
Cecilia Cheung Pak-chi (in Chinese 張栢芝, born 24 May 1980) is a Hong Kong actress and cantopop singer. Cheung is considered a " Sing girl"—an actress who first received media attention through starring alongside Stephen Chow, and later ...
, Hong Kong actress
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May 28
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Mark Feehily
Markus "Mark" Michael Patrick Feehily (born 28 May 1980) is an Irish singer and one of the two lead vocalists of the pop vocal group Westlife. Westlife has released twelve albums, embarked on thirteen world tours and won several awards, becomin ...
, Irish singer
**
Jørgen Strickert, Norwegian comedian
*
May 29 –
Michael Stasko, Canadian actor
*
May 30
Events Pre-1600
* 70 – Siege of Jerusalem: Titus and his Roman legions breach the Second Wall of Jerusalem. Jewish defenders retreat to the First Wall. The Romans build a circumvallation, cutting down all trees within fifteen kilometre ...
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Steven Gerrard
Steven George Gerrard (born 30 May 1980) is an English professional football manager and former player, who most recently managed club Aston Villa. Described by pundits and fellow professionals as one of his generation's greatest players, ...
, English footballer
June
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June 1
Events Pre-1600
*1215 – Zhongdu (now Beijing), then under the control of the Jurchen ruler Emperor Xuanzong of Jin, is captured by the Mongols under Genghis Khan, ending the Battle of Zhongdu.
* 1252 – Alfonso X is proclaimed king ...
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Damien Fahey
Damien Richard Fahey (; born June 1, 1980) is an American writer, voice actor, DJ, television host, comedian, drummer, and former video jockey. He is known for his work on ''Family Guy'' as a voice actor, writer, and producer, and formerly working ...
, American MTV VJ, television host and drummer
*
June 3
Events Pre-1600
* 350 – The Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, proclaims himself Roman emperor, entering Rome at the head of a group of gladiators.
* 713 – The Byzantine emperor Philippicus is blinded, depo ...
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Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani,
Emir of Qatar
*
June 6
Events Pre-1600
* 913 – Constantine VII, the eight-year-old illegitimate son of Leo VI the Wise, becomes nominal ruler of the Byzantine Empire under the regency of a seven-man council headed by Patriarch Nicholas Mystikos, appointed ...
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Mmusi Maimane
Mmusi Aloysias Maimane (born 6 June 1980) is a South African politician, businessman, and Leader of Build One South Africa, a political party. Maimane is also the former Leader of South Africa's opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) political ...
, South African politician
*
June 8 –
David Holoubek
David Holoubek (born 8 June 1980) is a Czech football manager who is currently the manager of Czech Republic U19.
Career Early career
In his player career he played in 3rd Czech league.
His manager career started in Humpolec. He moved to Pragu ...
, Czech football manager
*
June 10
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Matuzalém
Matuzalém Francelino da Silva (born 10 June 1980), commonly known as just Matuzalém, is a Brazilian football manager and former player, who played as a midfielder.
Club career Early career
Matuzalém began his career at Salvador-based Vit� ...
, Brazilian footballer
**
Wang Yuegu
Wang Yuegu (, ; born 10 June 1980) is a retired Chinese-born Singaporean table tennis player who was ranked among the top ten players in the world. Wang made her inaugural appearance as a Singaporean table tennis player on the International T ...
, Singaporean Olympic table tennis player
*
June 13
Events Pre-1600
* 313 – The decisions of the Edict of Milan, signed by Constantine the Great and co-emperor Valerius Licinius, granting religious freedom throughout the Roman Empire, are published in Nicomedia.
*1325 – Ibn Battu ...
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Sarah Connor, German singer
**
Juan Carlos Navarro, Spanish basketball player
*
June 16
**
Brad Gushue
Bradley Raymond Gushue, ONL ( ; born June 16, 1980) is a Canadian curler from St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. Gushue, along with teammates Russ Howard, Mark Nichols, Jamie Korab and Mike Adam, represented Canada in curling at the 2006 ...
, Canadian curler
**
Joey Yung, Hong Kong singer
*
June 17
Events Pre-1600
* 653 – Pope Martin I is arrested and taken to Constantinople, due to his opposition to monothelitism.
*1242 – Following the Disputation of Paris, twenty-four carriage loads of Jewish religious manuscripts were bur ...
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Venus Williams, American tennis player
*
June 21
Events Pre-1600
* 533 – A Byzantine expeditionary fleet under Belisarius sails from Constantinople to attack the Vandals in Africa, via Greece and Sicily (approximate date).
* 1307 – Külüg Khan is enthroned as Khagan of the Mo ...
**
Richard Jefferson
Richard Allen Jefferson Jr. (born June 21, 1980) is an American former professional basketball player who is a sports analyst on ESPN. He played college basketball with the Arizona Wildcats. Jefferson was drafted in the first round of the 20 ...
, American basketball player
**
Branko Bošković
Branko Bošković ( sr-Cyrl, Бранко Бошковић, ; born 21 June 1980) is a Montenegrin retired footballer, who is best known for playing for his legendary performances with DC United, Red Star Belgrade, Paris Saint-Germain and Rapid W ...
, Montenegrin footballer
*
June 22
Events Pre-1600
* 217 BC – Battle of Raphia: Ptolemy IV Philopator of Egypt defeats Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid kingdom.
*168 BC – Battle of Pydna: Romans under Lucius Aemilius Paullus defeat Macedonian King Perseus ...
–
Ilya Bryzgalov, Russian ice hockey player
*
June 23
Events Pre-1600
* 229 – Sun Quan proclaims himself emperor of Eastern Wu.
* 1266 – War of Saint Sabas: In the Battle of Trapani, the Venetians defeat a larger Genoese fleet, capturing all its ships.
*1280 – The Spanish Re ...
**
Erick Elías
Erick Elías Rabinovitz (born June 23, 1980) is a Mexican actor. Elías began acting with a screen debut in '' DKDA: Sueños de juventud'' (2000), followed by roles in '' Amigos x siempre'' (2000). He became known in the reality show '' Protagon ...
, Mexican actor
**
Mark Greaney, Irish singer and guitarist
**
Ramnaresh Sarwan
Ramnaresh Ronnie Sarwan (born 23 June 1980) is a cricketer of Indo-Guyanese origin who played as a batsman. He is a former member and former captain of the West Indies cricket team, in all formats. Sarwan went on to average over 40 in both the ...
, West Indian cricketer
**
Manus Boonjumnong
Manus Boonjumnong ( th, มนัส บุญจำนงค์; , born June 23, 1980) is a Thai boxer who won the Olympics at Light Welterweight (60–64 kg) at the 2004 Summer Olympics. He is the older brother of Non Boonj ...
, Thai boxer
**
Niusila Opeloge, Samoan weightlifter
**
Melissa Rauch
Melissa Ivy Rauch (born June 23, 1980) is an American actress, model and comedian. She is known for playing Bernadette Rostenkowski-Wolowitz on the CBS sitcom '' The Big Bang Theory'', for which she was nominated for the Critics' Choice Telev ...
, American actress
*
June 24
**
Minka Kelly
Minka Kelly (born June 24, 1980) is an American actress and model. Her first starring role was in the NBC drama series '' Friday Night Lights'' (2006–2009) and she has also appeared on the shows '' Parenthood'' (2010–2011), ''Charlie's Ange ...
, American actress
**
Cicinho
Cícero João de Cézare (born 24 June 1980), nicknamed Cicinho (), is a Brazilian retired professional footballer who played as a right back.
He had his breakthrough at São Paulo, where he was named in the 2005 Bola de Prata as the team won ...
, Brazilian footballer
*
June 25 –
Philippe Lacheau
Philippe Lacheau (; born 25 June 1980) is a French actor, director and writer.
Career
From 2002 to 2010, Philippe Lacheau worked on French television for several TV Show like the "Casting Live" (2002), "Total Fun" (2003) and "Pour le meilleur ...
, French actor, director and writer
*
June 26 –
Rafiz Abu Bakar, Malaysian footballer
*
June 27
Events Pre-1600
* 1358 – The Republic of Ragusa is founded.
* 1497 – Cornish rebels Michael An Gof and Thomas Flamank are executed at Tyburn, London, England.
* 1499 – Americo Vespucci, on Spanish financed trip, sights coas ...
–
Kevin Pietersen
Kevin Peter Pietersen (born 27 June 1980) is a cricket commentator, conservationist, and former England international cricket player. He is a right-handed batsman and occasional off spin bowler who played in all three formats for England bet ...
, South African-English cricketer
*
June 29
Events Pre-1600
* 226 – Cao Rui succeeds his father as emperor of the Kingdom of Wei.
*1149 – Raymond of Poitiers is defeated and killed at the Battle of Inab by Nur ad-Din Zangi.
*1194 – Sverre is crowned King of Norway, ...
–
Katherine Jenkins, Welsh soprano
*
June 30
Events Pre-1600
* 296 – Pope Marcellinus begins his papacy.
* 763 – The Byzantine army of emperor Constantine V defeats the Bulgarian forces in the Battle of Anchialus.
* 1422 – Battle of Arbedo between the duke of Milan ...
**
Adil Annani, Moroccan long-distance runner
**
Ryan ten Doeschate
Ryan Neil ten Doeschate (; born 30 June 1980) is a former Dutch–South African cricketer who played for the Netherlands national cricket team in One Day International (ODI) and Twenty20 International (T20I) cricket. Ten Doeschate was named IC ...
, Dutch cricketer
**
Alireza Vahedi Nikbakht
Alireza Vahedi Nikbakht ( fa, علیرضا واحدی نیکبخت; born 30 June 1980) is an Iranian football coach and former player.
He has played for Aboomoslem, Esteghlal, Al-Wasl, Persepolis, Steel Azin, Saba Qom, Paykan, Damash Gila ...
, Iranian footballer
**
Nelbert Omolon
Nelbert Omolon (born June 30, 1980 in Talakag, Bukidnon) is a Filipino retired professional basketball player. He last played for the San Miguel Beermen of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). He was drafted 8th overall in the 2004 PBA ...
, Filipino professional basketball player
July
*
July 1
Events Pre-1600
* 69 – Tiberius Julius Alexander orders his Roman legions in Alexandria to swear allegiance to Vespasian as Emperor.
* 552 – Battle of Taginae: Byzantine forces under Narses defeat the Ostrogoths in Italy, and the ...
**
Nelson Cruz
Nelson Ramón Cruz Martínez Jr. (born July 1, 1980) is a Dominican-American professional baseball designated hitter and right fielder who is currently a free agent. He has played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Milwaukee Brewers, Texas ...
, Dominican baseball player
**
Shon Seung-mo
Shon Seung-mo (Hangul: 손승모; born 1 July 1980 in Milyang, Gyeongsangnam-do) is a badminton player from South Korea. In 2004, he won the silver medal at the Athens Summer Olympics.
Career
Olympic Games
He competed at the 2000 and 2004 Su ...
, South Korean badminton player
*
July 3
Events Pre-1600
* 324 – Battle of Adrianople: Constantine I defeats Licinius, who flees to Byzantium.
* 987 – Hugh Capet is crowned King of France, the first of the Capetian dynasty that would rule France until the French Revolu ...
**
Olivia Munn
Lisa Olivia Munn (born July 3, 1980) is an American actress and former television host. After an internship at a news station in Tulsa, she moved to Los Angeles where she began her professional career as a television host for the gaming network ...
, American actress and model
**
Harbhajan Singh
Harbhajan Singh (born 3 July 1980) is a member of parliament in Rajya Sabha and an Indian retired cricketer and cricket commentator, who played for the Indian national cricket team from 1998 - 2016. Singh was a right-arm spin bowler. In India ...
, Indian international cricketer
*
July 5
**
Zayed Khan
Zayed Abbas Khan (born 5 July 1980) is a former Indian actor and producer who appeared in Hindi films. The son of Bollywood actor Sanjay Khan, he has received a Filmfare Award nomination.
After graduating in Business Management at the Montg ...
, Indian actor and producer
**
Fabián Ríos, Colombian actor and model
*
July 6
**
Pau Gasol
Pau Gasol Sáez (, ; born July 6, 1980) is a Spanish former professional basketball player. He was a six-time NBA All-Star and a four-time All-NBA team selection, twice on the second team and twice on the third team. Gasol won two NBA champion ...
, Spanish basketball player
**
Eva Green
Eva Gaëlle Green (, ; born ) is a French actress and model. The daughter of actress Marlène Jobert, she began her career in theatre before making her film debut in Bernardo Bertolucci's '' The Dreamers'' (2003). She achieved international reco ...
, French actress and model
*
July 7
Events Pre-1600
*1124 – The city of Tyre falls to the Venetian Crusade after a siege of nineteen weeks.
*1456 – A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her execution.
* 1520 – Spanish ''conquistado ...
**
Gerti Bogdani
Gerti Jusuf Bogdani (born 7 July 1980) is a former member of the Assembly of the Republic of Albania for the Democratic Party of Albania.
Background
Bogdani was born in Tirana and followed the "Harry Fultz" high school. After high school he fol ...
, Albanian politician
**
Marika Domińczyk
Marika Domińczyk ( ) (born 1980) is a Polish-American actress who became best known in the United States for her role as Dr. Eliza Minnick on ''Grey's Anatomy,'' which she originated in its 13th season.
Personal life
Marika Domińczyk is one o ...
, Polish American actress
**
Michelle Kwan, American figure skater
*
July 8
Events Pre-1600
* 1099 – Some 15,000 starving Christian soldiers begin the siege of Jerusalem by marching in a religious procession around the city as its Muslim defenders watch.
* 1283 – Roger of Lauria, commanding the Aragonese ...
–
Robbie Keane
Robert David Keane (born 8 July 1980) is an Irish professional football coach and former player who played as a striker. Keane served as captain of the Republic of Ireland from March 2006 until his international retirement in August 2016. Kean ...
, Irish footballer
*
July 10
Events Pre-1600
*138 – Emperor Hadrian of Rome dies of heart failure at his residence on the bay of Naples, Baiae; he is buried at Rome in the Tomb of Hadrian beside his late wife, Vibia Sabina.
* 645 – Isshi Incident: Prince ...
** Cláudia Leitte, Brazilian singer
** Jessica Simpson, American singer
* July 11 – Mathias Boe, Danish badminton player
* July 12 – Kristen Connolly, American actress
* July 13 – Pejman Nouri, Iranian football player
* July 15
** JW-Jones, Canadian blues musician
** Julia Perez, Indonesian singer and actress (d. 2017)
*
July 16
** Svetlana Feofanova, Russian pole-vaulter
** Adam Scott (golfer), Adam Scott, Australian golfer
* July 17
** Brett Goldstein, British actor, comedian and writer
** Rashid Ramzi, Moroccan-Bahraini athlete
* July 18
** Kristen Bell, American actress
** David Blu (born David Bluthenthal), American–Israeli basketball player
*
July 19
Events Pre-1600
*AD 64 – The Great Fire of Rome causes widespread devastation and rages on for six days, destroying half of the city.
* 484 – Leontius, Roman usurper, is crowned Eastern emperor at Tarsus (modern Turkey). He is r ...
** Yeoh Kay Bin, Malaysian badminton player
** Mark Webber (actor), Mark Webber, American actor
* July 20
** Gisele Bündchen, Brazilian supermodel
** Jin Goo, South Korean actor
* July 21 – CC Sabathia, American baseball player
* July 22
** Dirk Kuyt, Dutch footballer
** Kate Ryan, Belgian singer-songwriter
* July 26 – Jacinda Ardern, 40th Prime Minister of New Zealand
*
July 27 – Dolph Ziggler, Nick Nemeth, American professional wrestler
* July 29 – Fernando González, Chilean tennis player
August
*
August 3
Events Pre-1600
* 8 – Roman Empire general Tiberius defeats the Dalmatae on the river Bosna.
* 435 – Deposed Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Nestorius, considered the originator of Nestorianism, is exiled by Roman Emperor ...
– Nadia Ali (singer), Nadia Ali, Pakistani-American singer-songwriter
* August 5 – Wayne Bridge, English footballer
* August 6 – Will Pan, American-Taiwanese singer-songwriter and actor
* August 9 – Dominic Tabuna, Nauruan politician
* August 11 – Monika Pyrek, Polish pole vaulter
* August 16
** Julien Absalon, French mountain biker
** Vanessa Carlton, American singer
*
August 17
Events Pre-1600
*309/ 310 – Pope Eusebius is banished by the Emperor Maxentius to Sicily, where he dies, possibly from a hunger strike.
* 682 – Pope Leo II begins his pontificate.
* 986 – Byzantine–Bulgarian wars: Battle ...
– Lene Marlin, Norwegian singer and musician
* August 18 – Damion Stewart, Jamaican footballer
* August 21 – Paul Menard, American race car driver
* August 23 – Rex Grossman, American football player
* August 26
** Macaulay Culkin, American actor
** Chris Pine, American actor
* August 29
** William Levy (actor), William Levy, Cuban-American actor
** David West (basketball), David West, American basketball player
September
*
September 3
Events Pre-1600
*36 BC – In the Battle of Naulochus, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, admiral of Octavian, defeats Sextus Pompey, son of Pompey, thus ending Pompeian resistance to the Second Triumvirate.
* 301 – San Marino, one of t ...
** Jennie Finch, American softball player
** Jason McCaslin, Canadian Guitarist
** Polina Smolova, Belarusian singer
*
September 6
Events Pre-1600
* 394 – Battle of the Frigidus: Roman emperor Theodosius I defeats and kills Eugenius the usurper. His Frankish ''magister militum'' Arbogast escapes but commits suicide two days later.
*1492 – Christopher Colu ...
** Samuel Peter, Nigerian boxer and heavyweight champion
** Joseph Yobo, Nigerian footballer
* September 7
** Nigar Jamal, Azerbaijani singer, Eurovision Song Contest 2011 winner
** Gabriel Milito, Argentine footballer
* September 9 – Michelle Williams (actress), Michelle Williams, American actress
* September 10 – Mikey Way, American musician (My Chemical Romance)
* September 11 – Mike Comrie, Canadian ice hockey player
*
September 12
Events Pre-1600
*490 BC – Battle of Marathon: The conventionally accepted date for the Battle of Marathon. The Athenians and their Plataean allies defeat the first Persian invasion force of Greece.
* 372 – Sixteen Kingdoms: Jin ...
** Yao Ming, Chinese basketball player
** Hiroyuki Sawano, Japanese composer
* September 13 – Ben Savage, American actor
* September 15
** Jolin Tsai, Taiwanese singer
** Faiz Khaleed, Malaysian astronaut
*
September 21
Events Pre-1600
* 455 – Emperor Avitus enters Rome with a Gallic army and consolidates his power.
*1170 – The Kingdom of Dublin falls to Norman invaders.
*1217 – Livonian Crusade: The Estonian leader Lembitu and Livonian lead ...
** Kareena Kapoor, Indian actress
** Autumn Reeser, American actress
* September 24 – Victoria Pendleton, English cyclist
* September 25 – T.I., African-American rap artist, film and music producer, actor and author
*
September 26
Events
Pre-1600
*46 BC – Julius Caesar dedicates a temple to Venus Genetrix, fulfilling a vow he made at the Battle of Pharsalus.
* 715 – Ragenfrid defeats Theudoald at the Battle of Compiègne.
* 1087 – William II is c ...
– Daniel Sedin, Daniel and Henrik Sedin, Swedish ice hockey players
* September 29 – Zachary Levi, American actor and singer
*
September 30
** Martina Hingis, Swiss tennis player
** Guillermo Rigondeaux, Cuban boxer
October
* October 4
** Me'Lisa Barber, American athlete
** Tomáš Rosický, Czech footballer
*
October 5
Events Pre-1600
* 610 – Heraclius arrives at Constantinople, kills Byzantine Emperor Phocas, and becomes emperor.
* 816 – King Louis the Pious is crowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by the Pope.
* 869 – The Fourth Co ...
** James Toseland, English motorcycle racer
** Joakim Brodén, Swedish-Czech Singer
* October 8
** The Miz, Michael Mizanin, American professional wrestler
** Nick Cannon, American comedian, rapper, and television host
*
October 10
Events Pre-1600
* 680 – The Battle of Karbala marks the Martyrdom of Husayn ibn Ali.
* 732 – Charles Martel's forces defeat an Umayyad army near Tours, France.
*1471 – Sten Sture the Elder, the Regent of Sweden, with the ...
** Sherine, Egyptian singer
** Lynn Hung, Hong Kong actress
* October 12 – Ledley King, English footballer
* October 13
** Ashanti (singer), Ashanti, American singer, songwriter, record producer, model, dancer, and actress
** Scott Parker, English footballer
*
October 14
Events Pre-1600
*1066 – The Norman conquest of England begins with the Battle of Hastings.
*1322 – Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats King Edward II of England at the Battle of Old Byland, forcing Edward to accept Scotland's ...
– Ben Whishaw, English actor
*
October 15
Events Pre-1600
* 1066 – Following the death of Harold II at the Battle of Hastings, Edgar the Ætheling is proclaimed King of England by the Witan; he is never crowned, and concedes power to William the Conqueror two months later.
* 121 ...
– Tom Boonen, Belgian cyclist
* October 16 – Sue Bird, Israeli-American basketball player
* October 17 – Yekaterina Gamova, Russian volleyball player
*
October 18 – Reetinder Singh Sodhi, Indian cricket player
* October 19 – José Bautista, Dominican baseball player
*
October 21
Events Pre-1600
*1096 – A Seljuk Turkish army successfully fights off the People's Crusade.
* 1097 – First Crusade: Crusaders led by Godfrey of Bouillon, Bohemund of Taranto, and Raymond IV, Count of Toulouse, begin the Siege of ...
– Kim Kardashian, American socialite and television personality
* October 24
** Monica (singer), Monica, American singer, songwriter, actress, and businesswoman
** Casey Wilson, American actress and comedian
November
* November 5
** Luke Hemsworth, Australian actor
** Christoph Metzelder, German footballer
* November 6 – Anri Jokhadze, Georgian pop singer
** Pål Sverre Hagen, Norwegian actor
* November 7 – Gervasio Deferr, Spanish gymnast
* November 9 – Vanessa Lachey, American television personality, fashion model, and beauty queen
*
November 10
Events Pre-1600
* 474 – Emperor Leo II dies after a reign of ten months. He is succeeded by his father Zeno, who becomes sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire.
* 937 – Ten Kingdoms: Li Bian usurps the throne and deposes Emperor Yan ...
– Calvin Chen, Taiwanese pop singer
* November 12 – Ryan Gosling, Canadian actor and musician
* November 13 – Stalin González, Venezuelan lawyer and politician
* November 15 – Kevin Staut, French equestrian
* November 16 – Kayte Christensen, American basketball player
* November 18 – François Duval, Belgian rally driver
*
November 21
Events Pre-1600
* 164 BCE – Judas Maccabeus, son of Mattathias of the Hasmonean family, rededicates the Temple in Jerusalem, an event is commemorated each year by the festival of Hanukkah. (25 Kislev 3597 in the Hebrew calendar.)
* 23 ...
** Hiroyuki Tomita, Japanese gymnast
** Elaine Yiu, Hong Kong actress
* November 26 – Satoshi Ohno, Japanese singer
* November 28 – Lisa Middelhauve, German singer (Xandria)
* November 29
** Janina Gavankar, American actress and musician
** Ilias Kasidiaris, Greek politician
December
* December 3 – Anna Chlumsky, American actress
* December 5 – Ibrahim Maalouf, Lebanese-born French trumpeter
* December 7 – John Terry, English footballer
* December 9 – Simon Helberg, American actor, comedian and musician
* December 10 – Sarah Chang, American violinist
* December 13 – Bosco Wong, Hong Kong actor
* December 18
** Christina Aguilera, American singer, songwriter, actress and television personality
** Mark Essien, Nigerian entrepreneur, founder of Hotels.ng
* December 19 – Jake Gyllenhaal, American actor
* December 20 – Ashley Cole, English footballer
* December 21 – Stefan Liv, Swedish ice hockey player
* December 31 – Richie McCaw, New Zealand rugby player
Deaths
January
*
January 1
** Adolph Deutsch, American composer (b. 1897)
** Pietro Nenni, Italian politician (b. 1891)
** Frank Wykoff, American Olympic athlete (b. 1909)
* January 2 – Alessandro Bruschetti, Italian artist (b. 1910)
* January 3 – Joy Adamson, Austrian-born conservationist and author (b. 1910; murdered)
*
January 6 – Piersanti Mattarella, President of Sicily (b. 1935; assassinated)
*
January 7 – Simonne Mathieu, French tennis champion (b. 1908)
*
January 8 – John Mauchly, American physicist and inventor (b. 1907)
*
January 11 – Barbara Pym, English novelist (b. 1913)
*
January 13 – Andre Kostelanetz, Russian conductor and arranger (b. 1901)
*
January 18
Events Pre-1600
* 474 – Seven-year-old Leo II succeeds his maternal grandfather Leo I as Byzantine emperor. He dies ten months later.
* 532 – Nika riots in Constantinople fail.
* 1126 – Emperor Huizong abdicates the Chine ...
– Sir Cecil Beaton, English photographer (b. 1904)
*
January 21 – Georges Painvin, French cryptographer (b. 1886)
*
January 22
** Walter Pym (actor), Walter Pym, Australian actor (b. 1905)
** Teresa Noce, Italian labor leader, activist, and journalist (b. 1900)
*
January 24
Events Pre-1600
* 41 – Claudius is proclaimed Roman emperor by the Praetorian Guard after they assassinate the previous emperor, his nephew Caligula.
* 914 – Start of the First Fatimid invasion of Egypt.
*1438 – The Counc ...
– Lil Dagover, German actress (b. 1887)
*
January 27
Events Pre-1600
* 98 – Trajan succeeds his adoptive father Nerva as Roman emperor; under his rule the Roman Empire will reach its maximum extent.
* 945 – The co-emperors Stephen and Constantine are overthrown and forced to beco ...
** Hans Aeschbacher, Swiss sculptor (b. 1906)
** Peppino De Filippo, Italian actor (b. 1903)
*
January 28 – Franco Evangelisti (composer), Franco Evangelisti, Italian composer (b. 1926)
*
January 29 – Jimmy Durante, American actor, singer and comedian (b. 1893)
* January 30
** Maria Bolognesi, Italian Roman Catholic laywoman, mystic and blessed (b. 1924)
** Professor Longhair, American musician (b. 1918)
*
January 31
Events Pre-1600
* 314 – Pope Sylvester I is consecrated, as successor to the late Pope Miltiades.
* 1208 – The Battle of Lena takes place between King Sverker II of Sweden and his rival, Prince Eric, whose victory puts him on the ...
– Eduardo Cáceres, Guatemalan politician (b. 1906)
February
*
February 2
** Hanna Rovina, Russian-born Israeli actress (b. 1889)
** William Howard Stein, American chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1911
A notable ongoing event was the race for the South Pole.
Events January
* January 1 – A decade after federation, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory are added to the Commonwealth of Australia.
* ...
)
* February 7 – Richard Williams (RAAF officer), Sir Richard Williams, Royal Australian Air Force officer (b. 1890)
*
February 8
** Nikos Xilouris, Greek pop singer (b. 1936)
** Francesco Zucchetti, French Olympic cyclist (b. 1902)
*
February 10 – Wels Eicke, Australian rules football player (b. 1893)
*
February 11 – R. C. Majumdar, Indian historian (b. 1884)
*
February 13 – David Janssen, American actor (b. 1931)
* February 14 – Rudra Baruah, Luitkonwar Rudra Baruah, Assamese people, Assamese composer and actor (b. 1926)
*
February 17
Events Pre-1600
*1370 – Northern Crusades: Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Teutonic Knights meet in the Battle of Rudau.
* 1411 – Following the successful campaigns during the Ottoman Interregnum, Musa Çelebi, one of the sons o ...
– Graham Sutherland, English artist (b. 1903)
*
February 19
** Robert Morrison (rower), Robert Morrison, British Olympic rower (b. 1902)
** Bon Scott, Scottish-born Australian rock singer (
AC/DC
AC/DC (stylised as ACϟDC) are an Australian rock band formed in Sydney in 1973 by Scottish-born brothers Malcolm and Angus Young. Their music has been variously described as hard rock, blues rock, and heavy metal, but the band calls it s ...
) (b. 1946)
*
February 20 – Alice Roosevelt Longworth, American writer and socialite (b. 1884)
*
February 21 – Aldo Andreotti, Italian mathematician (b. 1924)
*
February 22 – Oskar Kokoschka, Austrian painter and poet (b. 1886)
*
February 23
Events Pre-1600
* 303 – Roman emperor Diocletian orders the destruction of the Christian church in Nicomedia, beginning eight years of Diocletianic Persecution.
* 532 – Byzantine emperor Justinian I lays the foundation stone of a ...
– Enrico Celio, Swiss politician, 49th President of the Swiss Confederation (b. 1889)
*
February 24
** Michael Browne (bishop of Galway), Michael Browne, Irish Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1895)
** Clement Martyn Doke, South African linguist (b. 1893)
*
February 26 – Mario Mattoli, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1898)
*
February 27 – Shin'ichi Hisamatsu, Japanese philosopher (b. 1889)
* February 29 – Yigal Allon, Israeli politician and army general (b. 1918)
March
*
March 1
Events Pre-1600
* 509 BC – Publius Valerius Publicola celebrates the first triumph of the Roman Republic after his victory over the deposed king Lucius Tarquinius Superbus at the Battle of Silva Arsia.
* 293 – Emperor Diocletian ...
** Dixie Dean, English football player (b. 1907)
** Daniil Khrabrovitsky, Soviet film director (b. 1923)
** Wilhelmina Cooper, Wilhelmina, Dutch-born American high-fashion model and owner of model agency (b. 1940)
*
March 5 – Jay Silverheels, Canadian actor (b. 1912)
* March 6 – Barbara Brukalska, Polish architect (b. 1899)
* March 9
** Nikolay Bogolyubov (actor), Nikolay Bogolyubov, Soviet and Russian actor (b. 1899)
** Olga Chekhova, Russian-German actress (b. 1897)
*
March 13 – Roland Symonette, 1st Prime Minister of the Bahamas, Premier of the Bahamas (b. 1898)
*
March 14
** Anna Jantar, Polish singer (b. 1950)
** Mohammad Hatta, Indonesia's first vice president (b. 1902)
** Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente, Spanish naturalist and television presenter (b. 1928)
* March 17 – Boun Oum, 4th Prime Minister of Laos (b.
1911
A notable ongoing event was the race for the South Pole.
Events January
* January 1 – A decade after federation, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory are added to the Commonwealth of Australia.
* ...
)
*
March 18
Events Pre-1600
* 37 – Roman Senate annuls Tiberius' will and proclaims Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus ''(aka Caligula = Little Boots)'' emperor.Tacitus, ''Annals'' V.10.
*1068 – An earthquake in the Levant and the Arab ...
** Elsa Goveia, Guyanese-born Jamaican scholar (b. 1925)
** Erich Fromm, German-born psychologist and philosopher (b. 1900)
** Louise Lovely, Australian actress (b. 1895)
** Tamara de Lempicka, Polish-born painter (b. 1898)
* March 24
** Pierre Etchebaster, French real tennis player (b. 1893)
** Óscar Romero, Salvadorian Roman Catholic archbishop (b. 1917)
* March 25
** Erminio Macario, Italian actor (b. 1902)
** Walter Susskind, Czech conductor (b. 1913)
** Milton H. Erickson, American psychiatrist (b.1901)
*
March 26 – Roland Barthes, French literary critic and writer (b. 1915)
*
March 28
Events Pre-1600
*AD 37 – Roman emperor Caligula accepts the titles of the Principate, bestowed on him by the Senate.
* 193 – After assassinating the Roman Emperor Pertinax, his Praetorian Guards auction off the throne to Didiu ...
** Helena Bochořáková-Dittrichová, Czechoslovak illustrator (b. 1894)
** Dick Haymes, Argentine actor and singer (b. 1918)
* March 29 – Mantovani, Italian-born conductor and arranger (b. 1905)
*
March 30
Events Pre-1600
* 598 – Balkan Campaign: The Avars lift the siege at the Byzantine stronghold of Tomis. Their leader Bayan I retreats north of the Danube River after the Avaro- Slavic hordes are decimated by the plague.
* 1282 &nda ...
– Tôn Đức Thắng, 2nd President of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) (b. 1888)
*
March 31
Events Pre-1600
* 307 – After divorcing his wife Minervina, Constantine marries Fausta, daughter of the retired Roman emperor Maximian.
* 1146 – Bernard of Clairvaux preaches his famous sermon in a field at Vézelay, urging the ...
** Vladimír Holan, Czech poet (b. 1905)
** Jesse Owens, American Olympic athlete (b. 1913)
April
* April 6 – Nils Ericson (actor), Nils Ericson, Swedish actor (b. 1906)
*
April 10
Events Pre-1600
* 428 – Nestorius becomes the Patriarch of Constantinople.
* 837 – Halley's Comet makes its closest approach to Earth at a distance equal to 0.0342 AU (5.1 million kilometres/3.2 million miles).
* 1407 ...
– Kay Medford, American actress and singer (b. 1919)
* April 11 – Ümit Kaftancıoğlu, Turkish writer (b. 1935)
*
April 12
Events Pre-1600
* 240 – Shapur I becomes co-emperor of the Sasanian Empire with his father Ardashir I.
* 467 – Anthemius is elevated to Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
* 627 – King Edwin of Northumbria is converted ...
** Clark McConachy, New Zealand snooker and billiards player (b. 1895)
**
William Tolbert
William Richard Tolbert Jr. (13 May 1913 – 12 April 1980) was a Liberian politician who served as the 20th president of Liberia from 1971 until 1980.
Tolbert was an Americo-Liberian and trained as a civil servant before entering the House of ...
, 20th President of Liberia (b. 1913)
* April 13 – Karl Stegger, Danish actor (b. 1913)
*
April 15
Events Pre-1600
* 769 – The Lateran Council ends by condemning the Council of Hieria and anathematizing its iconoclastic rulings.
*1071 – Bari, the last Byzantine possession in southern Italy, is surrendered to Robert Guiscard.
...
– Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and writer, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
*
April 20
Events Pre-1600
*1303 – The Sapienza University of Rome is instituted by a bull of Pope Boniface VIII.
1601–1900
*1653 – Oliver Cromwell dissolves England's Rump Parliament.
*1657 – English Admiral Robert Blake destroys a ...
– Helmut Käutner, German director (b. 1908)
* April 21 – Sohrab Sepehri, Persian poet and painter (b. 1928)
*
April 22
Events Pre-1600
*1500 – Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral lands in Brazil.
*1519 – Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés establishes a settlement at Veracruz, Mexico.
*1529 – Treaty of Zaragoza divides the eastern hem ...
** Jane Froman, American singer and actress (b. 1907)
** Fritz Strassmann, German chemist (b. 1902)
*
April 24
Events Pre-1600
*1479 BC – Thutmose III ascends to the throne of Egypt, although power effectively shifts to Hatshepsut (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th dynasty).
* 1183 BC – Traditional reckoning of the Fall of Troy ma ...
– Alejo Carpentier, Cuban writer (b. 1904)
*
April 26
Events Pre-1600
*1336 – Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) ascends Mont Ventoux.
*1348 – Czech king Karel IV founds the Charles University in Prague, which was later named after him and was the first university in Central Europe.
*147 ...
– Cicely Courtneidge, British actress (b. 1893)
*
April 27
Events Pre-1600
* 247 – Philip the Arab marks the millennium of Rome with a celebration of the ''ludi saeculares''.
* 395 – Emperor Arcadius marries Aelia Eudoxia, daughter of the Frankish general Flavius Bauto. She becomes one of ...
– Mario Bava, Italian director (b. 1914)
*
April 29
Events Pre-1600
*1091 – Battle of Levounion: The Pechenegs are defeated by Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos.
*1386 – Battle of the Vikhra River: The Principality of Smolensk is defeated by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and beco ...
– Alfred Hitchcock, British film director (b. 1899)
*
April 30 – Luis Muñoz Marín, the first elected Governor of Puerto Rico (1949 to 1965) (b. 1898)
May
*
May 2
Events Pre-1600
* 1194 – King Richard I of England gives Portsmouth its first Royal Charter.
*1230 – William de Braose is hanged by Prince Llywelyn the Great.
* 1536 – Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, is arrested and impris ...
** George Pal, Hungarian-born animator and producer (b. 1904)
*
May 4
Events Pre-1600
* 1256 – The Augustinian monastic order is constituted at the Lecceto Monastery when Pope Alexander IV issues a papal bull ''Licet ecclesiae catholicae''.
* 1415 – Religious reformers John Wycliffe and Jan Hus ar ...
** Kay Hammond, English actress (b. 1909)
**
Josip Broz Tito, Yugoslav communist military and political leader, 19th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia and 1st President of Yugoslavia (b. 1892)
*
May 5 – Isabel Briggs Myers, American psychological theorist and co-creator of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (b. 1897)
*
May 9
Events Pre-1600
* 328 – Athanasius is elected Patriarch of Alexandria.
* 1009 – Lombard Revolt: Lombard forces led by Melus revolt in Bari against the Byzantine Catepanate of Italy.
*1386 – England and Portugal formally r ...
** Prince Himalaya of Nepal (b. 1921)
** Kate Molale, South African anti-apartheid activist (b. 1928)
* May 12 – Lillian Roth, American actress (b. 1910)
*
May 14
**Carl Ebert, German theatre and opera director (b. 1887)
**Hugh Griffith, Welsh actor (b. 1912)
**Fatmawati, inaugural First Spouses of Indonesia, First Lady of Indonesia (b. 1923)
* May 16 – Marin Preda, Romanian writer (b. 1922)
*
May 18
** David A. Johnston, American volcanologist (b. 1949) (killed by 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens, eruption of Mount St. Helens)
** Ian Curtis, English musician and singer (b. 1956)
** Reid Blackburn, photojournalist for National Geographic (magazine), National Geographic (b. 1952; also killed by 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens, eruption of Mount St. Helens)
** Harry R. Truman, owner/operator of Mt. St. Helens Lodge (b. 1896; killed by 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens, eruption of Mount St. Helens)
*
May 20 – Jack Walsh (cricketer), Jack Walsh, Australian cricketer (b. 1912)
*
May 21 – Ida Kamińska, Polish-born Jewish actress, playwright and translator (b. 1899)
*
May 28 – Rolf Nevanlinna, Finnish mathematician (b. 1895)
June
*
June 1
Events Pre-1600
*1215 – Zhongdu (now Beijing), then under the control of the Jurchen ruler Emperor Xuanzong of Jin, is captured by the Mongols under Genghis Khan, ending the Battle of Zhongdu.
* 1252 – Alfonso X is proclaimed king ...
– Rube Marquard, American baseball player (New York Giants (MLB), New York Giants) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1886)
* June 2 – Stanley Forman Reed, American lawyer and politician (b. 1884)
*
June 6
Events Pre-1600
* 913 – Constantine VII, the eight-year-old illegitimate son of Leo VI the Wise, becomes nominal ruler of the Byzantine Empire under the regency of a seven-man council headed by Patriarch Nicholas Mystikos, appointed ...
– Gualtiero De Angelis, Italian actor and voice actor (b. 1899)
* June 7
** Lillian Dean, Australian photographer and local politician (b. c.1899)
** Philip Guston, American painter (b. 1913)
** Henry Miller, American writer (b. 1891)
** Marian Spychalski, Polish architect and politician, former Polish Council of State, head of State (b. 1908)
*
June 8
** Ernst Busch (actor), Ernst Busch, German singer and actor (b. 1900)
** Alfredo Brilhante da Costa, Brazilian football player (b. 1904)
* June 9 – Shyam Kumari Khan, Indian lawyer (b. 1904)
* June 12
** Billy Butlin, South African-born Canadian founder of Butlins, Butlins Holiday Camps (b. 1899)
** Masayoshi Ōhira, Japanese politician, 43rd Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1910)
*
June 13
Events Pre-1600
* 313 – The decisions of the Edict of Milan, signed by Constantine the Great and co-emperor Valerius Licinius, granting religious freedom throughout the Roman Empire, are published in Nicomedia.
*1325 – Ibn Battu ...
– Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian and political figure (b. 1942)
* June 14 – Sante Spessotto, Italian Roman Catholic priest and saint (b. 1923)
* June 18 – Terence Fisher, British director (b. 1904)
*
June 21
Events Pre-1600
* 533 – A Byzantine expeditionary fleet under Belisarius sails from Constantinople to attack the Vandals in Africa, via Greece and Sicily (approximate date).
* 1307 – Külüg Khan is enthroned as Khagan of the Mo ...
– Bert Kaempfert, German orchestra leader and songwriter (b. 1923)
*
June 23
Events Pre-1600
* 229 – Sun Quan proclaims himself emperor of Eastern Wu.
* 1266 – War of Saint Sabas: In the Battle of Trapani, the Venetians defeat a larger Genoese fleet, capturing all its ships.
*1280 – The Spanish Re ...
** Clyfford Still, American painter (b. 1904)
** V. V. Giri, Indian politician and 4th President of India (b. 1894)
*
June 24 – Boris Kaufman, Russian cinematographer (b. 1897)
*
June 26 – List of Syriac Orthodox Patriarchs of Antioch, Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch Ignatius Jacob III (b. 1912)
* June 28 – José Iturbi, Spanish conductor and musician (b. 1895)
*
June 29
Events Pre-1600
* 226 – Cao Rui succeeds his father as emperor of the Kingdom of Wei.
*1149 – Raymond of Poitiers is defeated and killed at the Battle of Inab by Nur ad-Din Zangi.
*1194 – Sverre is crowned King of Norway, ...
– Jorge Basadre, Peruvian historian (b. 1903)
July
*
July 1
Events Pre-1600
* 69 – Tiberius Julius Alexander orders his Roman legions in Alexandria to swear allegiance to Vespasian as Emperor.
* 552 – Battle of Taginae: Byzantine forces under Narses defeat the Ostrogoths in Italy, and the ...
– C. P. Snow, British physicist and novelist (b. 1905)
*
July 3
Events Pre-1600
* 324 – Battle of Adrianople: Constantine I defeats Licinius, who flees to Byzantium.
* 987 – Hugh Capet is crowned King of France, the first of the Capetian dynasty that would rule France until the French Revolu ...
** Deng Hua, Chinese general (b. 1910)
** Abdelhamid Sharaf, 51st Prime Minister of Jordan (b. 1939)
* July 4 – Gregory Bateson, British anthropologist, anthropology, anthropologist, social sciences, social scientist, linguistics, linguist, semiotics, semiotician and cybernetics, cyberneticist (b. 1904)
*
July 6 – Gail Patrick, American actress (b.
1911
A notable ongoing event was the race for the South Pole.
Events January
* January 1 – A decade after federation, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory are added to the Commonwealth of Australia.
* ...
)
*
July 7
Events Pre-1600
*1124 – The city of Tyre falls to the Venetian Crusade after a siege of nineteen weeks.
*1456 – A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her execution.
* 1520 – Spanish ''conquistado ...
– Prince Dmitri Alexandrovich of Russia (b. 1901)
*
July 8
Events Pre-1600
* 1099 – Some 15,000 starving Christian soldiers begin the siege of Jerusalem by marching in a religious procession around the city as its Muslim defenders watch.
* 1283 – Roger of Lauria, commanding the Aragonese ...
– Rudolf Creutz, Austrian criminal (b. 1896)
*
July 9
Events Pre-1600
* 118 – Hadrian, who became emperor a year previously on Trajan's death, makes his entry into Rome.
* 381 – The end of the First Council of Christian bishops convened in Constantinople by the Roman Emperor Theodos ...
– Vinicius de Moraes, Brazilian writer, poet and diplomat (b. 1913)
*
July 10
Events Pre-1600
*138 – Emperor Hadrian of Rome dies of heart failure at his residence on the bay of Naples, Baiae; he is buried at Rome in the Tomb of Hadrian beside his late wife, Vibia Sabina.
* 645 – Isshi Incident: Prince ...
– Leonidas Zervas, Greek organic chemist (b. 1902)
* July 13 – Seretse Khama, 1st President of Botswana (b. 1921)
* July 17 – Boris Delaunay, Russian mathematician (b. 1890)
*
July 19
Events Pre-1600
*AD 64 – The Great Fire of Rome causes widespread devastation and rages on for six days, destroying half of the city.
* 484 – Leontius, Roman usurper, is crowned Eastern emperor at Tarsus (modern Turkey). He is r ...
–
Nihat Erim
İsmail Nihat Erim (30 November 1912 – 19 July 1980) was a Turkish politician and jurist. He served as the 13th Prime Minister of Turkey for almost 14 months after the 1971 Turkish military memorandum. He was assassinated by the Revolutionary ...
, Turkish politician and jurist, 30th Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1912)
* July 20 – Lado Gudiashvili, Soviet painter (b. 1896)
* July 21 – Salah al-Din al-Bitar, Syrian politician, 2-time Prime Minister of Syria (b. 1912)
* July 22 – Hans-Georg Bürger, German racing driver (b. 1952)
* July 24 – Peter Sellers, British comedian and actor (b. 1925)
*
July 25
Events Pre-1600
* 306 – Constantine I is proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops.
* 315 – The Arch of Constantine is completed near the Colosseum in Rome to commemorate Constantine I's victory over Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge ...
– Vladimir Vysotsky, Soviet singer-songwriter, poet and actor (b. 1938)
* July 26 – Kenneth Tynan, English theatre critic (b. 1927)
*
July 27 –
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Pahlavi dynasty, Shah of Iran (b. 1919)
* July 28 – Maria Luisa Monteiro da Cunha, Brazilian librarian (b. 1908)
*
July 30
Events Pre-1600
* 762 – Baghdad is founded.
*1419 – First Defenestration of Prague: A crowd of radical Hussites kill seven members of the Prague city council.
*1502 – Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay Island ...
– Lucien Dalsace, French actor (b. 1893)
* July 31 – Pascual Jordan, German physicist (b. 1902)
August
*
August 1
Events Pre-1600
*30 BC – Octavian (later known as Augustus) enters Alexandria, Egypt, bringing it under the control of the Roman Republic.
*AD 69 – Batavian rebellion: The Batavians in Germania Inferior (Netherlands) revolt under ...
– Patrick Depailler, French racing driver (b. 1944)
*
August 4
Events Pre-1600
* 598 – Goguryeo-Sui War: In response to a Goguryeo (Korean) incursion into Liaoxi, Emperor Wéndi of Sui orders his youngest son, Yang Liang (assisted by the co-prime minister Gao Jiong), to conquer Goguryeo during t ...
– Ioan Arhip, Romanian general (b. 1890)
* August 9
** Harry Bell (Australian footballer), Harry Bell, Australian footballer (b. 1897)
** Jacqueline Cochran, Jacqueline "Jackie" Cochran, American pilot (b. 1906)
* August 10
** Gareth Evans (philosopher), Gareth Evans, British philosopher (b. 1946)
** Yahya Khan, Pakistani general and statesman, 3rd President of Pakistan (b. 1917)
* August 14 – Dorothy Stratten, Canadian actress and model (b. 1960)
* August 18 – Arman (actor), Arman, Iranian-born Soviet actor (b. 1921)
*
August 19
Events Pre-1600
*295 BC – The first temple to Venus, the Roman goddess of love, beauty and fertility, is dedicated by Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges during the Third Samnite War.
*43 BC – Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, later known ...
– Otto Frank, German father of Jewish diarist Anne Frank (b. 1889)
* August 20 – Joe Dassin, American-born French singer-songwriter (b. 1938)
* August 22 – Gabriel González Videla, 24th President of Chile (b. 1898)
* August 25 – Gower Champion, American theatre director, choreographer and dancer (b. 1919)
* August 26 – Tex Avery, American animator and director (b. 1908)
* August 29 – Franco Basaglia, Italian psychiatrist and professor (b. 1924)
September
*
September 3
Events Pre-1600
*36 BC – In the Battle of Naulochus, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, admiral of Octavian, defeats Sextus Pompey, son of Pompey, thus ending Pompeian resistance to the Second Triumvirate.
* 301 – San Marino, one of t ...
** Barbara O'Neil, American actress (b. 1909)
** Dirch Passer, Danish actor (b. 1926)
* September 4
** Pepe Abad, Spanish-born Chilean television presenter and radio host (b. 1932)
** George Murray Burnett, British mathematician and chemist (b. 1921)
*
September 5
Events Pre-1600
* 917 – Liu Yan declares himself emperor, establishing the Southern Han state in southern China, at his capital of Panyu.
*1367 – Swa Saw Ke becomes king of Ava
*1590 – Alexander Farnese's army forces Hen ...
– Don Banks, Australian composer (b. 1923)
* September 8 – Willard Libby, American chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)
* September 9 – Manzoor Ali Khan, Pakistani classical singer (b. 1922)
*
September 12
Events Pre-1600
*490 BC – Battle of Marathon: The conventionally accepted date for the Battle of Marathon. The Athenians and their Plataean allies defeat the first Persian invasion force of Greece.
* 372 – Sixteen Kingdoms: Jin ...
– Lillian Randolph, American actress (b. 1898)
* September 14 – Domingo Acedo, Spanish football player (b. 1898)
* September 15 – Bill Evans, American jazz pianist (b. 1929)
* September 16 – Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologist (b. 1896)
*
September 17
Events Pre-1600
*1111 – Highest Galician nobility led by Pedro Fróilaz de Traba and the bishop Diego Gelmírez crown Alfonso VII as "King of Galicia".
*1176 – The Battle of Myriokephalon is the last attempt by the Byzantine Emp ...
– Anastasio Somoza Debayle, President of Nicaragua 1967–72, 1974-79 (b. 1925)
* September 18 – Katherine Anne Porter, American author (b. 1890)
* September 19 – Sol Lesser, American film producer (b. 1890)
* September 23 – Jacobus Johannes Fouché, 5th President of South Africa (b. 1898)
* September 25
** John Bonham, British rock drummer (Led Zeppelin) (b. 1948)
** Lewis Milestone, American film director (b. 1895)
** Marie Under, Estonian poet (b. 1883)
October
* October 2 – John Kotelawala, Sri Lanka soldier and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Ceylon (b. 1895)
* October 6 – Hattie Jacques, British actress (b. 1922)
* October 7 – Sydney Gordon Russell, English designer and craftsman (b. 1892)
*
October 10
Events Pre-1600
* 680 – The Battle of Karbala marks the Martyrdom of Husayn ibn Ali.
* 732 – Charles Martel's forces defeat an Umayyad army near Tours, France.
*1471 – Sten Sture the Elder, the Regent of Sweden, with the ...
– Elizabeth Rummel, German-Canadian mountaineer and environmental activist (b. 1897)
* October 12 – Alberto Demicheli, Uruguayan political figure, former president of Uruguay (de facto) (b. 1896)
*
October 15
Events Pre-1600
* 1066 – Following the death of Harold II at the Battle of Hastings, Edgar the Ætheling is proclaimed King of England by the Witan; he is never crowned, and concedes power to William the Conqueror two months later.
* 121 ...
– Prince Peter of Greece and Denmark (b. 1908)
*
October 18 – Hans Ehard, German lawyer and politician (b. 1887)
*
October 21
Events Pre-1600
*1096 – A Seljuk Turkish army successfully fights off the People's Crusade.
* 1097 – First Crusade: Crusaders led by Godfrey of Bouillon, Bohemund of Taranto, and Raymond IV, Count of Toulouse, begin the Siege of ...
** Hans Asperger, Austrian pediatrician after whom Asperger syndrome was named (b. 1906)
** Valko Chervenkov, Bulgarian Communist leader and statesman, 34th Prime Minister of Bulgaria (b. 1900)
** Edelmiro Julián Farrell, Argentine general, 28th President of Argentina (b. 1887)
* October 23
**Tibor Rosenbaum, Hungarian-born Swiss rabbi and businessman (b. 1923)
**Mariano Suárez, Ecuadorian politician, 27th President of Ecuador (b. 1897)
*
October 25
Events Pre-1600
* 285 (or 286) – Execution of Saints Crispin and Crispinian during the reign of Diocletian, now the patron saints of leather workers, curriers, and shoemakers.
* 473 – Emperor Leo I acclaims his grandson Leo II ...
**Virgil Fox, American organist (b. 1912)
** Víctor Galíndez, Argentine boxer (b. 1948)
** Sahir Ludhianvi, Urdu/Hindustani poet and Hindi film lyricist (b. 1921)
* October 26 – Marcelo Caetano, Portuguese politician and scholar, 101st Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1906)
*
October 27
Events Pre-1600
* 312 – Constantine is said to have received his famous Vision of the Cross.
* 1275 – Traditional founding of the city of Amsterdam.
* 1524 – French troops lay siege to Pavia.
* 1553 – Condemned as a ...
** Steve Peregrin Took, British rock musician (b. 1949)
** John Hasbrouck Van Vleck, American physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
* October 29 – Giorgio Borġ Olivier, Maltese politician and statesman, 7th Prime Minister of Malta (b.
1911
A notable ongoing event was the race for the South Pole.
Events January
* January 1 – A decade after federation, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory are added to the Commonwealth of Australia.
* ...
)
*
October 31
Events Pre-1600
* 475 – Romulus Augustulus is proclaimed Western Roman Emperor.
* 683 – During the Siege of Mecca, the Kaaba catches fire and is burned down.
* 802 – Empress Irene is deposed and banished to Lesbos. Consp ...
– Jan Werich, Czech actor, playwright and writer (b. 1905)
November
*
November 4
Events Pre-1600
*1429 – Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War: Joan of Arc liberates Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier.
*1493 – Christopher Columbus reaches Leeward Island and Puerto Rico.
* 1501 – Catherine of Aragon (later Henry VIII's ...
** Elsie MacGill, Canadian aeronautical engineer (b. 1904)
** Johnny Owen, Welsh professional boxer (b. 1956)
* November 7 – Steve McQueen, American actor (b. 1930)
* November 9
** Gloria Guinness, Mexican-born American fashion icon (b. 1912)
*
November 10
Events Pre-1600
* 474 – Emperor Leo II dies after a reign of ten months. He is succeeded by his father Zeno, who becomes sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire.
* 937 – Ten Kingdoms: Li Bian usurps the throne and deposes Emperor Yan ...
– Marion Ellen Lea Allnutt, Marion Allnutt, welfare worker and full-time secretary and commanding officer of the NGO, Women's Australian National Services (WANS) (b. 1896)
* November 16
** Boris Aronson, Russian set designer (b. 1898)
** Imogen Hassall, English actress (b. 1942)
* November 18 – Conn Smythe, Canadian NHL coach (b. 1895)
*
November 20
Events Pre-1600
* 284 – Diocletian is chosen as Roman emperor.
* 762 – During the An Shi Rebellion, the Tang dynasty, with the help of Huihe tribe, recaptures Luoyang from the rebels.
*1194 – Palermo is conquered by Henr ...
** Avtandil Gogoberidze, Soviet football player (b. 1922)
** John McEwen, Sir John McEwen, Australian politician, 18th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1900)
*
November 21
Events Pre-1600
* 164 BCE – Judas Maccabeus, son of Mattathias of the Hasmonean family, rededicates the Temple in Jerusalem, an event is commemorated each year by the festival of Hanukkah. (25 Kislev 3597 in the Hebrew calendar.)
* 23 ...
– Sara García, Mexican actress (b. 1895)
* November 22
** Norah McGuinness, Northern Irish painter and illustrator (b. 1901)
** Mae West, American actress (b. 1893)
** Leonard Barr, American stand-up comic, actor, and dancer (b. 1903)
* November 24
**George Raft, American actor (b. 1901)
**Molly Reilly, Canadian aviator (b. 1922)
* November 25 – Herbert Flam, American tennis player (b. 1928)
* November 26 – Rachel Roberts (actress), Rachel Roberts, British actress (b. 1927)
* November 27 – F. Burrall Hoffman, American architect (b. 1882)
* November 29
** Dorothy Day, American journalist, activist, Roman Catholic convert and Servant of God (b. 1897)
** Babe London, American actress and comedian (b. 1901)
December
*
December 2
Events Pre-1600
* 1244 – Pope Innocent IV arrives at Lyon for the First Council of Lyon.
* 1409 – The University of Leipzig opens. 1601–1900
*1697 – St Paul's Cathedral, rebuilt to the design of Sir Christopher Wren followi ...
– Romain Gary, Lithuanian-born writer (b. 1914)
* December 3 – Sir Oswald Mosley, British fascist leader (b. 1896)
* December 4
** Francisco de Sá Carneiro, Portuguese lawyer, 109th Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1934)
** Stanisława Walasiewicz, Polish-born runner (b.
1911
A notable ongoing event was the race for the South Pole.
Events January
* January 1 – A decade after federation, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory are added to the Commonwealth of Australia.
* ...
)
* December 7 – Darby Crash, American rock songwriter, singer (b. 1958)
*
December 8
Events Pre-1600
* 395 – Later Yan is defeated by its former vassal Northern Wei at the Battle of Canhe Slope.
* 757 – The poet Du Fu returns to Chang'an as a member of Emperor Xuanzong's court, after having escaped the city duri ...
–
John Lennon, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1940)
* December 10 – Patriarch Benedict I of Jerusalem (b. 1892)
* December 12 – Bruno Bartolozzi, Italian composer (b.
1911
A notable ongoing event was the race for the South Pole.
Events January
* January 1 – A decade after federation, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory are added to the Commonwealth of Australia.
* ...
)
*
December 14
Events Pre-1600
* 557 – Constantinople is severely damaged by an earthquake, which cracks the dome of Hagia Sophia.
* 835 – Sweet Dew Incident: Emperor Wenzong of the Tang dynasty conspires to kill the powerful eunuchs of the T ...
– Nichita Smochină, Moldovan activist (b. 1894)
*
December 16
Events Pre-1600
* 714 – Pepin of Herstal, mayor of the Merovingian palace, dies at Jupille (modern Belgium). He is succeeded by his infant grandson Theudoald, while his widow Plectrude holds actual power in the Frankish Kingdom.
* ...
** Colonel Sanders, American fast-food entrepreneur (b. 1890)
** Hellmuth Walter, German engineer and inventor (b. 1900)
** Peter Collinson (film director), Peter Collinson, British film director (b. 1936)
* December 18
** Alexei Kosygin, Soviet politician, Premier of the Soviet Union (b. 1904)
** Sir Albert Margai, 2nd Prime Minister of Sierra Leone (b. 1910)
* December 19 – Héctor José Cámpora, Argentine Peronist politician, 38th President of Argentina (b. 1909)
* December 21 – Marc Connelly, American playwright (b. 1890)
* December 24
** Karl Dönitz, German admiral and 4th President of Germany (b. 1891)
** Heikki Liimatainen (athlete), Heikki Liimatainen, Finnish Olympic athlete (b. 1894)
* December 29 – Tim Hardin, American musician (b. 1941)
* December 31
** Marshall McLuhan, Canadian author and professor (b.
1911
A notable ongoing event was the race for the South Pole.
Events January
* January 1 – A decade after federation, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory are added to the Commonwealth of Australia.
* ...
)
** Raoul Walsh, American film director (b. 1887)
Date unknown
* Nureddine Rifai, 25th Prime Minister of Lebanon (b. 1899)
Nobel Prizes
* Nobel Prize in Physics, Physics – James Watson Cronin, Val Logsdon Fitch
* Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Chemistry – Paul Berg, Walter Gilbert, Frederick Sanger
* Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Medicine – Baruj Benacerraf, Jean Dausset, George D. Snell
* Nobel Prize in Literature, Literature – Czesław Miłosz
* Nobel Peace Prize, Peace – Adolfo Pérez Esquivel
* Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, Economics – Lawrence Klein
References
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