Explore 3174 historical events from 1980–1989.
Frances Scott "Scottie" Fitzgerald was an American writer and journalist and the only child of novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald. She graduated from Vassar Co…
Frances Scott Fitzgerald, American journalist (born 1921)
Leonard Kevin Bias was an American college basketball player for the Maryland Terrapins. In the last of his four years playing for Maryland, he was named a consensus first-team All…
Len Bias, American basketball player (born 1963)
Assi Rahbani was a Lebanese composer, musician, conductor and producer. He was part of the Rahbani Brothers, with his brother Mansour Rahbani. He married Lebanese singer Nouhad Had…
Assi Rahbani, Lebanese singer-songwriter and producer (born 1923)
George Nēpia was a New Zealand Māori rugby union and rugby league player. He is remembered as an exceptional full-back and one of the most famous Māori rugby players. He was induct…
George Nēpia, New Zealand rugby player and referee (born 1905)
Frank Joseph Scott Wise AO was a Labor Party politician who was the 16th Premier of Western Australia. He took office on 31 July 1945 in the closing stages of the Second World War,…
Frank Wise, Australian politician, 16th Premier of Western Australia (born 1897)
Harry Lee "Peanuts" Lowrey was an American outfielder in Major League Baseball who played for the Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Reds (1949–50), St. Louis Cardinals (1950–54) and Philade…
Peanuts Lowrey, American baseball player and manager (born 1917)
Hubert Prior Vallée, known professionally as Rudy Vallée, was an American singer, musician, actor, and radio host. He was one of the first modern pop stars of the teen idol type.
Rudy Vallée, American singer, saxophonist, and actor (born 1901)
Paul-Gilbert Langevin was a French musicologist, who was a specialist on Anton Bruckner, Franz Schubert and 19th-century classical music.
Paul-Gilbert Langevin, French musicologist, critique musical and physicist (born 1933)
Franciscus Florentinus Peeters, Baron Peeters was a Belgian composer, organist and academic teacher. He was director of the Conservatorium in Antwerp, Belgium, and organist at Mech…
Flor Peeters, Belgian organist and composer (born 1903)
Oscar Zariski was an American mathematician. The Russian-born scientist was one of the most influential algebraic geometers of the 20th century.
Oscar Zariski, Belarusian-American mathematician and academic (born 1899)
Jagjivan Ram, popularly known as Babuji, was an Indian independence activist and politician who served as a minister with various portfolios for over 30 years, making him the longe…
Jagjivan Ram, Indian lawyer and politician, 4th Deputy Prime Minister of India (born 1908)
James Laverne "Skeeter" Webb was an American professional baseball infielder in Major League Baseball from 1932 to 1949. He played 12 seasons with the St. Louis Cardinals, Clevelan…
Skeeter Webb, American baseball player and manager (born 1909)
Nicholas VI served as Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria between 1968 and 1986.
Patriarch Nicholas VI of Alexandria (born 1915)
Tadeusz Piotrowski was a Polish mountaineer and author of several books related to the subject. He has been referred to as "perhaps the finest winter mountaineer of his day".
Tadeusz Piotrowski, Polish mountaineer and author (born 1940)
Raymond Loewy was a French-born American industrial designer who achieved fame for the magnitude of his design efforts across a variety of industries. He was recognized for this by…
Raymond Loewy, French-American industrial designer (born 1893)
William Robert (Billy) Haughton was an American harness driver and trainer. He was one of only three drivers to win the Hambletonian four times, the only one to win the Little Brow…
Billy Haughton, American harness racer and trainer (born 1923)
Ede Ulfert Staal was a Dutch singer-songwriter from the Northern province of Groningen who sang mainly in the Gronings dialect.
Ede Staal, Dutch singer-songwriter (born 1941)
Fritz Albert Lipmann was a German-American biochemist and a co-discoverer in 1945 of coenzyme A. For this, together with other research on coenzyme A, he was awarded the Nobel Priz…
Fritz Albert Lipmann, German-American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1899)
Arthur Floyd Gottfredson was an American cartoonist best known for his defining work on the Mickey Mouse comic strip, which he worked on from 1930 until his retirement in 1975. His…
Floyd Gottfredson, American author and illustrator (born 1905)
Qudrat Ullah Shahab was an eminent Urdu writer, civil servant and diplomat from Pakistan.
Qudrat Ullah Shahab, Pakistani civil servant and author (born 1917)
Vincente Minnelli was an American stage director and film director. From a career spanning over half a century, he is best known for his sophisticated innovation and artistry in mu…
Vincente Minnelli, American director and screenwriter (born 1903)
William Averell Harriman was an American politician, businessman, and scion of the wealthy Harriman family. He was a founder of Harriman & Co. which merged with the older Brown Bro…
W. Averell Harriman, American politician and diplomat, 11th United States Secretary of Commerce (born 1891)
The Isles of Scilly are a small archipelago off the southwestern tip of mainland Cornwall. One of the islands, St Agnes, is over four miles further south than the most southerly po…
The Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly declared peace, having hypothetically been at war for 335 years without a single
Mswati III is the Ngwenyama (King) of Eswatini and head of the Swazi royal family. He heads an absolute monarchy, as he has unrestricted political authority and veto power over all…
Mswati III (pictured) was crowned King of Swaziland, succeeding his father Sobhuza II