Explore 3174 historical events from 1980–1989.
Francis Joseph Sean Hughes was a volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) from Bellaghy, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. Hughes was the most wanted man in Nor…
Francis Hughes, Irish Republican, died on hunger strike (born 1956)
Arthur Joseph O'Connell was an American stage, film and television actor, who achieved prominence in character roles in the 1950s. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best S…
Arthur O'Connell, American actor (born 1908)
William Saroyan was an American novelist, playwright, and short story writer of Armenian descent. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1940, and in 1943 won the Academy A…
William Saroyan, American novelist, playwright, and short story writer (born 1908)
Ernest Aaron Freeman was an American pianist, organist, bandleader, and arranger. He was responsible for arranging many successful rhythm and blues and pop records from the 1950s t…
Ernie Freeman, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (born 1922)
Willy Hartner was a German scientist and polymath. He studied at Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, where he obtained his PhD in physics in 1928 and where he later served as pro…
Willy Hartner, German physician and academic (born 1905)
Raymond McCreesh was an Irish volunteer in the South Armagh Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). In 1976, he and two other IRA volunteers were captured while att…
Raymond McCreesh, PIRA volunteer and Hunger Striker (born 1957)
Patsy O'Hara was an Irish republican hunger striker and member of the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA). O'Hara was one of 10 Irish republicans who died in the 1981 hunger stri…
Patsy O'Hara, INLA volunteer and Hunger Striker (born 1957)
Gene Leroy Green was an American Major League Baseball outfielder and catcher who played all or portions of seven MLB seasons for the St. Louis Cardinals (1957–1959), Baltimore Ori…
Gene Green, American baseball player (born 1933)
John Rayner Heppenstall was a British novelist, poet, diarist, and a BBC radio producer.
Rayner Heppenstall, English author and poet (born 1911)
George Albert "Georgie" Jessel was an American actor, singer, songwriter, and film producer. He was famous in his lifetime as a multitalented comedic entertainer, achieving a level…
George Jessel, American actor, singer, and producer (born 1898)
David Lewis was a Canadian labour lawyer and social democratic politician. He was national secretary of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) from 1936 to 1950 and one of …
David Lewis, Belarusian-Canadian lawyer and politician (born 1909)
Herbert Müller Rebmann was a racing driver from Switzerland. He was born in Reinach and was nicknamed Stumpen-Herbie. Among other successes, he won the Targa Florio twice, in 1966 …
Herbert Müller, Swiss race car driver (born 1940)
Ruby Violet Payne-Scott was an Australian pioneer in radiophysics and radio astronomy.
Ruby Payne-Scott, Australian physicist and astronomer (born 1912)
Fredric John Warburg was a British publisher, who in 1935 founded the company Secker & Warburg. He is best known for his association with the author George Orwell. During a career …
Fredric Warburg, English author and publisher (born 1898)
Mary Lou Williams was an American jazz pianist, arranger, and composer. She wrote hundreds of compositions and arrangements and recorded more than one hundred records. Williams wro…
Mary Lou Williams, American pianist and composer (born 1910)
Stefan Wyszyński was a Polish Roman Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Warsaw and Archbishop of Gniezno from 1948 to 1981. He previously served as Bishop of Lublin from 1…
Stefan Wyszyński, Polish cardinal (born 1901)
Nina Negri was an Argentine-French surrealist painter and engraver who was a part of the art studio Atelier 17.
Nina Negri, Argentine-French painter and engraver (born 1901)
Donald Allan Ashby was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who was a centre for six seasons in the National Hockey League from 1975–76 until 1980–81.
Don Ashby, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1955)
Carl Vinson was an American politician who served in the U.S. House of Representatives for over 50 years and was influential in the 20th century expansion of the U.S. Navy. He was …
Carl Vinson, American lawyer and politician (born 1883)
Carleton Stevens Coon was an American anthropologist and professor at the University of Pennsylvania. He is best known for his scientific racist theories concerning the parallel ev…
Carleton S
Leslie Cecil Lloyd Averill was a New Zealand soldier who served during the First World War on the Western Front. After the war, he became a doctor and established a private practic…
Leslie Averill, New Zealand doctor and soldier (born 1897)
Allen Ellsworth Ludden was an American television personality, actor, singer, emcee, and game show host. He hosted various incarnations of the game show Password between 1961 and 1…
Allen Ludden, American game show host (born 1917)
Ziaur Rahman was a Bangladeshi military leader and politician who served as the sixth president of Bangladesh from 1977 until his assassination in 1981. One of the leading figures …
Ziaur Rahman, Bangladeshi general and politician, 7th President of Bangladesh (born 1936)
Barbara Mary Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth, was a British economist and writer interested in the problems of developing countries. She urged Western governments to share thei…
Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth, English economist and journalist (born 1914)