Explore 3174 historical events from 1980–1989.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, sometimes credited as R. W. Fassbinder, was a German filmmaker, dramatist and actor. He is widely regarded as one of the major figures and catalysts of th…
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1945)
Howard Radclyffe Roberts Jr. was an American entomologist known for his work on grasshoppers. His 1941 University of Pennsylvania Ph.D. dissertation was an early work highlighting …
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Ian John McKay, VC was a British Army soldier and a posthumous recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to Brit…
Ian McKay, English sergeant, Victoria Cross recipient (born 1953)
Karl Ritter von Frisch was a German-Austrian ethologist who received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1973, along with Nikolaas Tinbergen and Konrad Lorenz.
Karl von Frisch, Austrian-German ethologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1886)
James Honeyman-Scott was an English guitarist, songwriter and founding member of the rock band the Pretenders.
James Honeyman-Scott, English guitarist and songwriter (born 1956)
Roberto Calvi was an Italian banker, dubbed "God's Banker" by the press because of his close business dealings with the Holy See. He was a native of Milan and was chairman of Banco…
Roberto Calvi, Italian banker (born 1920)
Djuna Barnes was an American artist, illustrator, journalist, and writer who is perhaps best known for her novel Nightwood (1936), a cult classic of lesbian fiction and an importan…
Djuna Barnes, American novelist, journalist, and playwright (born 1892)
Curd Gustav Andreas Gottlieb Franz Jürgens was a German-Austrian stage and film actor. He was usually billed in English-speaking films as Curt Jurgens. He was best known for playin…
Curd Jürgens, German-Austrian actor and director (born 1915)
John William Cheever was an American short story writer and novelist. He is sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs". His fiction is mostly set on the Upper East Side of Manha…
John Cheever, American novelist and short story writer (born 1912)
Alexander Harbord Mitscherlich was a German psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.
Alexander Mitscherlich, German psychiatrist and psychoanalyst (born 1908)
Pierre Alexandre Claudius Balmain was a French fashion designer and founder of leading post-war fashion house Balmain. Known for sophistication and elegance, he described the art o…
Pierre Balmain, French fashion designer, founded Balmain (born 1914)
Henry King was an American actor and film director. Widely considered one of the finest and most successful filmmakers of his era, King was nominated for two Academy Awards for Bes…
Henry King, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1886)
Bhakti Hridaya Bon, also known as Swami Bon, was a disciple of Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati and a guru in the Gaudiya Math following the philosophy of bhakti, specifically that of Cai…
Bon Maharaja, Indian guru and religious writer (born 1901)
Kenneth Gilbert More was an English actor.
Kenneth More, English actor (born 1914)
William Everett Justis Jr. was an American pioneer rock and roll musician, composer, and musical arranger, best known for his 1957 Grammy Hall of Fame song, "Raunchy". As a songwri…
Bill Justis, American saxophonist, songwriter, and producer (born 1926)
Charles Robberts Swart, nicknamed "Blackie", was a South African politician who served as the last governor-general of the Union of South Africa from 1959 to 1961 and the first sta…
Charles Robberts Swart, South African lawyer and politician, 1st State President of South Africa (born 1894)
Roman Osipovich Jakobson was a Russian linguist and literary theorist. A pioneer of structural linguistics, Jakobson was one of the most celebrated and influential linguists of the…
Roman Jakobson, Russian–American linguist and theorist (born 1896)
Harold Rudolf Foster was a Canadian-American comic strip artist and writer best known as the creator of the comic strip Prince Valiant. His drawing style is noted for its high leve…
Hal Foster, Canadian-American author and illustrator (born 1892)
Toshiyuki Sakata , known as Harold Sakata, was an American Olympic weightlifter, professional wrestler, and film actor. He won a silver medal at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London …
Harold Sakata, American wrestler and actor (born 1920)
Vladimir Kosma Zworykin was a Russian-American inventor, engineer, and pioneer of television technology. Zworykin invented a television transmitting and receiving system employing …
Vladimir K. Zworykin, Russian-American engineer, invented the Iconoscope (born 1889)
Hugh Everett III was an American physicist who proposed the relative state interpretation of quantum mechanics. This influential approach later became the basis of the many-worlds …
Hugh Everett III, American physicist and mathematician (born 1930)
David Cunningham Garroway was an American radio and television host on NBC. He was the host of Garroway at Large from 1949 to 1951, the founding host and anchor of Today from 1952 …
Dave Garroway, American journalist and actor (born 1913)
Victor Harry Morrow was an American actor. Active on screen for over three decades, he made his debut in the drama film Blackboard Jungle (1955). Morrow came to prominence as one o…
Vic Morrow, American actor (born 1929)
Keith Gordon Green was an American pianist, singer, songwriter, and musician. Originally from Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, New York, Green is known as a pioneer in the Christian conte…
Keith Green, American singer-songwriter and pianist (born 1953)