Explore 1450 historical events from 1980–1989.
Henri Bedimo Nsamé is a Cameroonian former professional footballer who played as a left-back. He represented the Cameroon national team internationally from 2009 to 2016 making 51…
Henri Bedimo, Cameroonian footballer
Kento Handa is a Japanese actor and singer, best known for his role as Takumi Inui/Kamen Rider Faiz in Kamen Rider 555. He plays many musical instruments including the guitar, bas…
Kento Handa, Japanese actor and singer
Stuart Kettlewell is a Scottish professional football manager and former player who is currently the manager of Ross County. He played as a midfielder for Queen's Park, Clyde, Ross…
Stuart Kettlewell, Scottish football manager and former player
Enrico Rossi Chauvenet is an Italian footballer who plays as a goalkeeper.
Enrico Rossi Chauvenet, Italian footballer
Claude Joseph Antoine Provost was a Canadian professional ice hockey player.
Claude Provost, Canadian-American ice hockey player (born 1933)
Marcel Janco was a Romanian and Israeli visual artist, architect and art theorist. He was the co-inventor of Dadaism and a leading exponent of Constructivism in Eastern Europe. In …
Marcel Janco, Romanian-Israeli artist (born 1895)
William McKinley "Red" Garland Jr. was an American modern jazz pianist. Known for his work as a bandleader and during the 1950s with Miles Davis, Garland helped popularize the bloc…
Red Garland, American pianist (born 1923)
Rafael Pérez y Pérez, was a popular Spanish writer of over 160 romantic novels from 1909 to 1971. He was one of the first writers to publish romance novels written in Spanish langu…
Rafael Pérez y Pérez, Spanish author (born 1891)
Ian White is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman who played over 500 games in the National Hockey League. In a career spanning parts of nine seasons, White suited …
Ian White, Canadian ice hockey player
Rainie Yang Cheng Lin is a Taiwanese singer, actress, and television host. Yang began her career in 2000 as a member of girl group 4 in Love. After the group disbanded in 2002, she…
Rainie Yang, Taiwanese actress
Hristo Ivanov Prodanov, also known as Christo Prodanov was a Bulgarian mountaineer. Prodanov was the first Bulgarian to climb Mount Everest, doing it via the most difficult way—the…
Hristo Prodanov, Bulgarian engineer and mountaineer (born 1943)
Ansel Easton Adams was an American landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his black-and-white images of the American West. He helped found Group f/64, an association…
Ansel Adams, American photographer and environmentalist (born 1902)
William James "Count" Basie was an American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer. In 1935, he formed the Count Basie Orchestra, and in 1936 took them to Chicago for a l…
Count Basie, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (born 1904)
Jüri Lossmann was an Estonian long-distance runner. He finished second in the marathon at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, at 2:32:48.6, trailing Hannes Kolehmainen by 13 secon…
Jüri Lossmann, Estonian-Swedish runner (born 1891)
Jack Barry was an American game show host, television personality and executive who made a name for himself in the game show field. Barry served as host of several game shows in hi…
Jack Barry, American game show host and producer, co-founded Barry & Enright Productions (born 1918)
Diana Dors was an English actress and singer.
Diana Dors, English actress (born 1931)
Mary Dawson Cain was an American newspaper editor, political activist, and gubernatorial candidate in Mississippi. A Democrat, she advocated for conservative causes and is particul…
Mary Cain, American journalist and politician (born 1904)
Ralph Bonner Pink was a British Conservative politician.
Bonner Pink, English politician (born 1912)
Lila Bell Wallace was an American magazine publisher and philanthropist. She co-founded Reader's Digest with her husband Dewitt Wallace, publishing the first issue in 1922.
Lila Bell Wallace, American publisher, co-founded Reader's Digest (born 1890)
Robert Emerson Clampett Sr. was an American animator, director, producer and puppeteer best known for his work on the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies animated series from Warner B…
Bob Clampett, American animator, director, and producer (born 1913)
Luigi Emilio Rodolfo Bertetti Bianco, better known as Gino Bianco was a racing driver from Brazil. Born in Milan, Italy, he emigrated to Brazil as a child and started racing there.…
Gino Bianco, Italian-Brazilian race car driver (born 1916)
Sir Edwin William "Ted" Hicks was a senior Australian public servant and diplomat. He was Secretary of the Department of Defence from 1956 to 1968.
Ted Hicks, Australian public servant and diplomat, Australian High Commissioner to New Zealand (born 1910)
Hermann Julius Walther Rauff, also Walther Rauff was a mid-ranking SS commander in Nazi Germany. From January 1938, he was an aide of Reinhard Heydrich firstly in the Security Serv…
Walter Rauff, German SS officer (born 1906)
Francis August Schaeffer was an American evangelical theologian, philosopher, and Presbyterian pastor. He co-founded the L'Abri community in Switzerland with his wife Edith Schaeff…
Francis Schaeffer, American pastor, theologian, and philosopher (born 1912)