1980

**1980** (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday in the Gregorian calendar.

## Events 
* January 20 – The Pittsburgh Steelers defeat the Los Angeles Rams to win their 4th Super Bowl championship. They hold the record for most wins by one team until 1995.
* April 12 – Terry Fox begins his *Marathon of Hope* in Canada.
* April 30 – Beatrix of the Netherlands crowned
* May 18 – Mount St. Helens erupts.
* August 1 – Vigdís Finnbogadóttir becomes the 4th President of Iceland. She is the first female ever elected as a head of state in a democratic election.
* August – Rising Solidarity a Polish trade union which make for fallen communism in East Europe
* September 1 – Terry Fox ends his *Marathon of Hope*, after his cancer resurfaces.
* September 22 – War begins between Iran and Iraq.
* November 4 – Ronald Reagan defeats Jimmy Carter during the presidential elections.
* December 8 – John Lennon of The Beatles is shot and killed outside of his apartment in New York City by Mark David Chapman.
* Pictures taken by the Voyager 1 probe lead to the discovery of Saturn's moon, Atlas.

## Births
### January
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* January 1
** Richie Faulkner, British rock guitarist
** Karina Jacobsgaard, Danish tennis player
** Mark Nichols, Canadian curler
** Elin Nordegren, Swedish model
* January 4 – Greg Cipes, American actor
* January 7 – Hele Kõrve, Estonian actress and singer
* January 8
** Adam Goodes, Australian rules footballer
** Rachel Nichols, American actress
* January 9 – Sergio García, Spanish golfer
* January 10 – Sarah Shahi, American actress
* January 11 – Lovieanne Jung, American softball player
* January 12 – Ameriie, American singer
* January 13 – LaKisha Jones, American singer
* January 14
** Carlos Alvarado Quesada, Costa Rican politician, 48th President of Costa Rica
** Ossama Haidar, Lebanese footballer
** Hiroshi Tamaki, Japanese actor, model and singer
** Cory Gibbs, American footballer
** Monika Kuszyńska, Polish singer and songwriter
** Sosuke Sumitani, Japanese announcer
** Yūko Kaida, Japanese voice actress
* January 16
** Albert Pujols, 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, Ukrainian-American dance champion, choreographer and instructor
* January 18
** Estelle, British singer and actress
** Julius Peppers, American football player
** Jason Segel, American actor and comedian
* January 19
** Jenson Button, British racecar driver
** Arvydas Macijauskas, Lithuanian basketball player
* January 20
** Philippe Cousteau Jr., American-French oceanographer
** Philippe Gagnon, Canadian Paralympic swimmer
** Kim Jeong-hoon, South Korean singer and actor
** Brigitte Olivier, Belgian martial artist
** Petra Rampre, Slovenian tennis player
** Matthew Tuck, Welsh singer and guitarist
* January 21
** Nana Mizuki, Japanese voice actress and singer
** Kevin McKenna, Canadian footballer
* January 22
** Jake Grove, American football player
** Christopher Masterson, American actor
* January 24
** Nyncke Beekhuyzen, Dutch actress
** Suzy, Portuguese singer
* January 25
** Christian Olsson, Swedish athlete
** Xavi, Spanish footballer
** Michelle McCool, American professional wrestler
* January 26 – Sanae Kobayashi, Japanese voice actress
* January 27 – Marat Safin, Russian tennis player
* January 28 – Nick Carter, American pop singer (Backstreet Boys)
* January 29
** Yael Bar Zohar, Israeli actress and model
** Jason James Richter, American actor
* January 30
** Josh Kelley, American singer-songwriter
** Wilmer Valderrama, American actor

### February
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* February 2
** Zhang Jingchu, Chinese actress
** Nina Zilli, Italian singer-songwriter
* February 5
** Jo Swinson, British MP
** Robin Vik, Czech tennis player
** Paul DelVecchio, American reality show personality
* February 6
** Kim Poirier, Canadian actress
** Luke Ravenstahl, American mayor of Pittsburgh
** Mamiko Noto, Japanese voice actress
* February 8 – Yang Wei, Chinese gymnast
* February 9 – Manu Raju, American journalist
* February 10
** César Izturis, Venezuelan Major League Baseball player
** Steve Tully, English footballer
* February 11 – Matthew Lawrence, American actor
* February 12
** Juan Carlos Ferrero, Spanish tennis player
** Christina Ricci, American actress
** Gucci Mane, American rapper
* February 14 – Michelle Ye, Hong Kong actress
* February 15
** Conor Oberst, American singer-songwriter
** Petr Elfimov, Belarusian singer
* February 16 – Ashley Lelie, American football player
* February 17
** Jason Ritter, American actor
** Vahe Tilbian, Ethiopian singer of Armenian descent
* February 18
** Cezar, Romanian opera singer and pianist
** Regina Spektor, Russian-American singer-songwriter
* February 19
** Mike Miller, American basketball player
** Ma Lin, Chinese table-tennis player
* February 20
** Imanol Harinordoquy, French rugby player
** Artur Boruc, Polish football (soccer) goalkeeper
** Yuichi Nakamura, Japanese voice actor
* February 21
** Brad Fast, Canadian ice hockey player
** Justin Roiland, American actor
** Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, King of Bhutan
* February 22 – Jeanette Biedermann, German singer and actress
* February 24
** Emma Johnson, Australian swimmer
** Shinsuke Nakamura, Japanese professional wrestler
* February 25 – Chris and Christy Knowings, American actors
* February 26 – Júlio César da Silva e Souza, Brazilian footballer
* February 27
** Chelsea Clinton, daughter of former U.S. President Bill Clinton and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
** Don Diablo, Dutch DJ and producer
* February 28
** Tayshaun Prince, American basketball player
** Piotr Giza, Polish footballer
* February 29
** Simon Gagné, Canadian hockey player
** Peter Scanavino, American actor

### March
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* March 1 – Shahid Afridi, Pakistani cricketer
* March 2
** Chris Barker, English footballer
** Julia Chantrey, Canadian actress
** Lance Cade, American professional wrestler (d. 2010)
* March 4
** Jung Da-bin, Korean actress (d. 2007)
** Omar Bravo, Mexican footballer
** Jack Hannahan, American baseball infielder
* March 5 – Jessica Boehrs, German singer and actress
* March 7
** Murat Boz, Turkish singer and actor
** Laura Prepon, American actress
** Mart Toome, Estonian actor
* March 9
** Chingy, American rapper, singer and actor
** Matthew Gray Gubler, American actor and director
* March 11 – Gabriela Pichler, Swedish film director and screenwriter
* March 13 
**Caron Butler, American basketball player
**Nick Barua, British Corporate executive
*March 14 
**Aaron Brown, English footballer
**Hiro Matsushita, Formar Japanese Race car Driver and Businessman
* March 16 – Todd Heap, American football player
* March 17 – Katie Morgan, American porn actress and radio host
* March 18 – Alexei Yagudin, Russian figure skater
* March 19
** Agnes Pihlava, Finnish pop singer
** Johan Olsson, Swedish cross country skier
* March 20
** Hamada Helal, Egyptian singer
** Jamal Crawford, American basketball player
** Mikey Day, American actor, comedian and writer
* March 21
** Marit Bjørgen, Norwegian cross-country skier
** Ronaldinho, Brazilian footballer
** Deryck Whibley, Canadian singer-songwriter and musician (Sum 41)
* March 23 – Russell Howard, English comedian
* March 26 – Rosendo Rodriguez, American convicted serial killer (d. 2018)
* March 27 – Greg Puciato, American heavy metal musician
* March 29 – Andy Scott-Lee, British singer
* March 30 – Yalın, Turkish pop singer and songwriter
* March 31
** Kate Micucci, American actress and voice artist
** Chien-Ming Wang, Taiwanese Major League Baseball player

### April
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* April 1
** Randy Orton, American professional wrestler
** Bijou Phillips, American actress
** Yūko Takeuchi, Japanese actress
* April 4 – Björn Wirdheim, Swedish race car driver
* April 7 – Michael Bellisario, American actor
* April 8
** Ben Freeman, British actor
** Carrie Savage, American actress and voice actress
* April 9
** Rachel Specter, American actress
** Arlen Escarpeta, Belizean actor
* April 10
** Sean Avery, Canadian ice hockey player
** Kasey Kahne, American race car driver
** Charlie Hunnam, English actor
* April 11 – Mark Teixeira, American baseball player
* April 12 – Brian McFadden, Irish rock singer
* April 13 – Colleen Clinkenbeard, American voice actress
* April 14
** Ayumi Ito, Japanese actress
** Tom Franco, American actor
* April 15 – Natalie Casey, English actress
* April 16
** Reeyot Alemu, Ethiopian journalist
** Samir Javadzadeh, Azerbaijani singer
** Paul London, American professional wrestler
* April 17
** Brenda Villa, American water polo player
** Lee Hyun-il, South Korean badminton player
** Alaina Huffman, Canadian film and television actress
* April 18 – Justin Amash, American politician
* April 20
** Jasmin Wagner, German singer
** Waylon, Dutch singer
* April 21
** Tony Romo, American football player
** Vincent Lecavalier, Canadian hockey player
* April 22 – Nicolas Douchez, French footballer
* April 24
** Austin Nichols, American actor
** Karen Asrian, Armenian chess Grandmaster (d. 2008)
** Reagan Gomez-Preston, American actress and voice actress
* April 25
** Lee Spick, English snooker player (d. 2015)
** Daniel MacPherson, Australian actor
** Kazuhito Tadano, Japanese baseball player
* April 26
** Jordana Brewster, American actress
** Marlon King, Jamaican footballer
** Channing Tatum, American actor and model
* April 27 – Zayed Khan, Indian actor
* April 28 – Josh Howard, American basketball player
* April 29
** Kian Egan, Irish singer
** Emmad Irfani, Pakistani model and TV actor
* April 30 – Luis Scola, Argentine basketball player

### May
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* May 1 – Ana Claudia Talancón, Mexican actress
* May 2
** Tim Borowski, German footballer
** Ellie Kemper, American actress and comedian
** Zat Knight, English footballer
* May 3 – Marcel Vigneron, American chef
* May 5
** Maia Hirasawa, Swedish pop singer
** Yossi Benayoun, Israeli footballer
** Hank Green, American entrepreneur, musician, educator, producer and vlogger
* May 6
** Kelly van der Veer, Dutch reality TV star
** Dimitris Diamantidis, Greek basketball player
* May 7 – Johan Kenkhuis, Dutch swimmer
* May 8 – Benny Yau, Canadian entertainer
* May 9
** Grant Hackett, Australian swimmer
** Carolin Kebekus, German comedian and actress
** Norihiro Nishi, Japanese footballer
* May 10 – Pete Gray, Australian environmental activist (d. 2011)
* May 15 – Josh Beckett, American baseball player
* May 17 – Alistair Overeem, Dutch mixed martial artist and kickboxer
* May 18 – Ali Zafar, Pakistani music composer, singer-songwriter, painter and actor
* May 19
** Drew Fuller, American actor and model
** Dean Heffernan, Australian footballer
* May 21 – Gotye, Belgian-Australian multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter
* May 22
** Lucy Gordon, British actress (d. 2009)
** Evelin Võigemast, Estonian actress and singer
* May 24 – Cecilia Cheung, Hong Kong actress
* May 28
** Mark Feehily, Irish singer
** Jørgen Strickert, Norwegian comedian
* May 29 – Michael Stasko, Canadian actor
* May 30 – Steven Gerrard, English footballer
* May 31 – Andy Hurley, American drummer

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* June 1
** Oliver James, British actor
** Damien Fahey, American MTV VJ, television host and drummer
* June 2 – Lindsey Yamasaki, Japanese-American basketball player
* June 3 – Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Emir of Qatar
* June 5 – Mike Fisher, Canadian hockey player
* June 6 – Mmusi Maimane, South African politician
* June 7 – Henkka Seppälä, Finnish bassist
* June 8 – David Holoubek, Czech football manager
* June 10
** Jessica DiCicco, American actress
** Francelino Matuzalem, Brazilian footballer
** Wang Yuegu, Singaporean Olympic table tennis player
* June 13
** Sarah Connor, German singer
** Juan Carlos Navarro, Spanish basketball player
* June 16
** Brad Gushue, Canadian curler
** Joey Yung, Hong Kong singer
* June 17
** Kimeru, Japanese singer
** Venus Williams, American tennis player
** Jeph Jacques, American webcomic writer
* June 19 – Jason White, American football player
* June 22 – Ilya Bryzgalov, Russian ice hockey player
* June 23
** Erick Elías, Mexican actor
** Mark Greaney, Irish singer and guitarist
** Ramnaresh Sarwan, West Indian cricketer
** Manus Boonjumnong, Thai boxer
** Francesca Schiavone, Italian tennis player
** Jessica Taylor, English singer
** Melissa Rauch, American actress
* June 24
** Liane Balaban, Canadian actress
** Minka Kelly, American actress
* June 25
** Nozomi Takeuchi, Japanese actress
** Philippe Lacheau, French actor, director and writer
* June 26
** Michael Vick, American football player
** Michael Jackson, English footballer
** Rafiz Abu Bakar, Malaysian footballer
* June 27 – Kevin Pietersen, South African-English former cricketer
* June 29
** James Courtney, Australian race car driver
** Katherine Jenkins, Welsh soprano
** Martin Truex Jr., American race car driver
* June 30
** Adil Annani, Moroccan long-distance runner
** Ryan ten Doeschate, Dutch cricketer
** Alireza Vahedi Nikbakht, Iranian footballer
** Nelbert Omolon, Filipino professional basketball player
** Rade Prica, Swedish footballer
** Sayuti, Indonesian footballer

### July
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* July 1
** Mizz Nina, Malaysian fashion designer, a host, humanitarian
** Nelson Cruz, Dominican baseball player
** Shon Seung-mo, South Korean badminton player
* July 2 – Brian Drolet, American actor, producer and writer
* July 3
** Roland Schoeman, South African swimmer
** Olivia Munn, American actress and model
** Harbhajan Singh, Indian international cricketer
* July 5
** Paul "DJ Pauly D" DelVecchio, American reality TV star
** Eva Green, French actress and model
** Zayed Khan, Indian actor and producer
** Fabián Ríos, Colombian actor and model
** Jason Wade, American singer and guitarist
* July 6 – Pau Gasol, Spanish basketball player
* July 7
** Marika Domińczyk, Polish American actress
** Jim McMahon, British politician
** Michelle Kwan, American figure skater
** Dr Malinga, South African record producer and musician
* July 8
** Robbie Keane, Irish footballer
** Chetan Anand, Indian badminton player
** Yang Tae-Young, South Korean gymnast
* July 10
** Thomas Ian Nicholas, American film actor, singer, musician, producer, director and writer
** Adam Petty, American race car driver (d. 2000)
** Jessica Simpson, American singer
** Jeremy Ray Valdez, American actor
** James Rolfe, American director, actor and writer
** Cláudia Leitte, Brazilian singer
* July 11
** Mathias Boe, Danish badminton player
** Alvent Yulianto, Indonesian badminton player
* July 12
** Kristen Connolly, American actress
** Eny Widiowati, Indonesian badminton player
* July 13 &ndash; Pejman Nouri, Iranian football player
* July 15
** Reggie Abercrombie, American baseball player
** BxB Hulk, Japanese professional wrestler
** JW-Jones, Canadian blues musician
** Jasper Pääkkönen, Finnish actor and film producer
** Julia Perez, Indonesian singer and actress (d. 2017)
* July 16
** Svetlana Feofanova, Russian pole-vaulter
** Adam Scott, Australian golfer
* July 17
** Rashid Ramzi, Moroccan-Bahraini athlete
** Masato Yoshino, Japanese professional wrestler
** Ryan Miller, American ice hockey goaltender
* July 18 – Kristen Bell, American actress
* July 19
** Yeoh Kay Bin, Malaysian badminton player
** Mark Webber, American actor
* July 20
** Gisele Bündchen, Brazilian supermodel
** Jin Goo, South Korean actor
* July 21 – CC Sabathia, American baseball player
* July 22
** Tablo, South Korean-Canadian rapper, songwriter, record producer, and author
** Dirk Kuyt, Dutch footballer
** Kate Ryan, Belgian singer
* July 25 – Rebeka Dremelj, Slovenian singer
* July 26 – Jacinda Ardern, 40th Prime Minister of New Zealand
* July 27 – Nick Nemeth, American professional wrestler
* July 29
** Rachel Miner, American actress
** Fernando González, Chilean tennis player

### August
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* August 2 – Dingdong Dantes, Filipino actor
* August 3
** Nadia Ali, Pakistani-American singer-songwriter
** Hannah Simone, British-Canadian actress
** Dominic Moore, Canadian ice hockey player
* August 5 – Wayne Bridge, English footballer
* August 6 – Will Pan, American-Taiwanese singer-songwriter and actor
* August 8 – Craig Breslow, American baseball pitcher
* August 9
** Charlie David, Canadian actor
** Dominic Tabuna, Nauruan politician
* August 10 – Pua Magasiva, Samoan actor
* August 11 – Monika Pyrek, Polish pole vaulter
* August 12 – Maggie Lawson, American actress
* August 14 – Roy Williams, American football player
* August 16
** Julien Absalon, French mountain biker
** Vanessa Carlton, American singer
* August 17
** David Legwand, American ice hockey player
** Lene Marlin, Norwegian singer and musician
* August 18 – Damion Stewart, Jamaican footballer
* August 19
** Darius Campbell, Scottish singer-songwriter
** Adrian Lulgjuraj, Albanian singer
* August 21
** Jon Lajoie, Canadian comedian
** Paul Menard, American race car driver
* August 23
** Rex Grossman, American football player
** Joanne Froggatt, British voice artist
* August 24 – Rachael Carpani, Australian actress
* August 26
** Macaulay Culkin, American actor
** Chris Pine, American actor
* August 27 – Derrick Strait, American football player
* August 28 – Debra Lafave, American teacher
* August 29
** William Levy, Cuban-American actor
** David West, American basketball player

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* September 2 – Dany Sabourin, French Canadian ice hockey goaltender
* September 3
** Jennie Finch, American softball player
** Polina Smolova, Belarusian singer
* September 4 – Max Greenfield, American actor
* September 5 – Kevin Simm, English singer (Liberty X)
* September 6
** Kerry Katona, English TV presenter and former pop star (Atomic Kitten)
** 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
** Mark Prior, American baseball player
* September 8
** Eric Hutchinson, American singer-songwriter
** Neferteri Shepherd, African-American model and actress
* September 9
** Denise Quiñones, Puerto Rican actress, Miss Universe 2001
** Michelle Williams, American actress
* September 10 – Mikey Way, British musician (My Chemical Romance)
* September 11 – Mike Comrie, Canadian ice hockey player
* September 12
** Sean Burroughs, American baseball player
** Yao Ming, Chinese basketball player
** Hiroyuki Sawano, Japanese composer
* September 13
** Ben Savage, American actor
** Daisuke Matsuzaka, Japanese baseball player
* September 15
** Ben Wolff, American actor (d. 2015)
** Jolin Tsai, Taiwanese singer
** Faiz Khaleed, Malaysian astronaut
* September 21
** 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 – Daniel and Henrik Sedin, Swedish ice hockey players
* September 29
** Patrick Agyemang, Ghanaian footballer
** Dallas Green, musician
** Zachary Levi, American actor and singer
* September 30
** Martina Hingis, Swiss tennis player
** Emily Kokal, vocalist, guitarist
** Arisa Ogasawara, Japanese voice actress
** Guillermo Rigondeaux, Cuban boxer

### October
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* October 1 – Sarah Drew, American actress
* October 3 – Daniel DeSanto, Canadian actor and voice actor
* October 4
** Me'Lisa Barber, American athlete
** Joe Kennedy III, American lawyer
** Tomáš Rosický, Czech footballer
** Ben Whishaw, English actor
* October 5
** James Toseland, English motorcycle racer
** Ti West, American film director
* October 8
** Michael Mizanin, American professional wrestler
** Nick Cannon, African-American actor, comedian, rapper, entrepreneur, record producer and broadcast personality
* October 10
** Sherine, Egyptian singer
** Lynn Hung, Hong Kong actress
* October 11
** Tomokazu Sugita, Japanese voice actor
* October 12
** Ledley King, English footballer
** Nadzeya Ostapchuk, Belarusian athlete
* October 13
** Ashanti, African-American singer
** Scott Parker, English footballer
* October 14
** Terrence McGee, American football player
** Ben Whishaw, English actor
* October 15 – Tom Boonen, Belgian cyclist
* October 16
** Sue Bird, Israeli-American basketball player
** Timana Tahu, Australian Rugby League player
* October 17
** Angel Parker, American actress
** Justin Shenkarow, American actor
** Yekaterina Gamova, Russian volleyball player
* October 18
** Erin Dean, American actress
** Reetinder Singh Sodhi, Indian cricket player
* October 19 – José Bautista, Dominican baseball player
* October 21 – Kim Kardashian, American socialite and television personality
* October 23 – Robert Belushi, American actor
* October 24
** Monica, African-American singer
** Casey Wilson, American actress and comedian
* October 28
** Alan Smith, English footballer
** Christy Hemme, American professional wrestler
* October 29 – Ben Foster, American actor
* October 31 – Eddie Kaye Thomas, American actor and comedian

### November 
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* November 4 – Sabrina Colie, Jamaican actress
* November 5
** Luke Hemsworth, Australian actor
** Christoph Metzelder, German footballer
** Essaï Altounian, French-Armenian actor, singer-songwriter, keyboardist and music producer
* November 6 – Anri Jokhadze, Georgian pop singer
* November 7 – Gervasio Deferr, Spanish gymnast
* November 10 – Calvin Chen, Taiwanese pop singer
* November 11 – Willie Parker, American football player
* November 12 – Ryan Gosling, Canadian actor and musician
* November 13 – Monique Coleman, American actress
* November 15 – Kevin Staut, French equestrian
* November 16 – Kayte Christensen, American basketball player
* November 17 – Isaac Hanson, American musician
* November 18
** Denny Hamlin, American race car driver
** Dustin Kensrue, Canadian singer
** François Duval, Belgian rally driver
** Junichi Okada, Japanese singer
** Luke Chadwick, English footballer
** Mathew Baynton, English actor and writer
** Minori Chihara, Japanese voice actress and singer
* November 19 – Adele Silva, English actress and model
* November 21
** Hank Blalock, American baseball player
** Hiroyuki Tomita, Japanese gymnast
** Elaine Yiu, Hong Kong actress
* November 22 – David Artell, English footballer
* November 23 – Jonathan Papelbon, American baseball player
* November 24 – Beth Phoenix, American professional wrestler
* November 25
** Rowly Dennis, English actor
** John-Michael Liles, American hockey player
** Nick Swisher, American baseball player
* November 26 – Satoshi Ohno, Japanese singer
* November 28 – Lisa Middelhauve, German singer (Xandria)
* November 29
** Jason Griffith, American actor and voice actor
** Janina Gavankar, American actress and musician
** Ilias Kasidiaris, Greek politician

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* December 1
** Angelique Bates, American actress, comedian, and rapper
** Joel A. Sutherland, Canadian author
* December 3
** Anna Chlumsky, American actress
** Jenna Dewan, American actress
** Jim Sorgi, American football player
* December 5 – Ibrahim Maalouf, Lebanese-born French trumpeter
** Shizuka Itō, Japanese voice actress
* December 6
** Steve Lovell, English footballer
** Kei Yasuda, Japanese singer
* December 7 – John Terry, English footballer
* December 9
** Simon Helberg, American actor and comedian
** Ryder Hesjedal, Canadian professional cyclist
* December 10 – Sarah Chang, American violinist
* December 13
** Satoshi Tsumabuki, Japanese actor
** Bosco Wong, Hong Kong actor
* December 15
** Neil McDermott, English actor
** Sergio Pizzorno, English guitarist and songwriter
* December 16 – Axle Whitehead, Australian actor and singer-songwriter
* December 18
** Baron Vaughn, American actor and comedian
** Christina Aguilera, American singer
* December 19
** Marla Sokoloff, American actress
** Jake Gyllenhaal, American actor
* December 20
** Ashley Cole, English footballer
** Chris Edwards, English musician
** Fitz Hall, English footballer
* December 22
** Chris Carmack, American actor
** Matt Parker, Australian author
* December 23 – Cody Ross, American baseball player
* December 25 – Laura Sadler, English actress (d. 2003)
* December 27
** Bernard Berrian, American football player
** Cesaro, Swiss professional wrestler
* December 30 – Eliza Dushku, American actress
* December 31 – Richie McCaw, New Zealand rugby player

## Deaths
### January
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* January 1
** Adolph Deutsch, American composer (b. 1897)
** 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)
* January 7 – Simonne Mathieu, French tennis champion (b. 1908)
* January 8 – John Mauchly, American physicist and inventor (b. 1907)
* January 10
** Bo Rein, American football coach (b. 1945)
** George Meany, American labor leader (b. 1894)
* January 11 – Barbara Pym, English novelist (b. 1913)
* January 13 – Andre Kostelanetz, Russian conductor and arranger (b. 1901)
* January 17 – Barbara Britton, American actress (b. 1919)
* January 18 – Sir Cecil Beaton, English photographer (b. 1904)
* January 19 – William O. Douglas, American Supreme Court Justice (b. 1898)
* January 21 – Georges Painvin, French cryptographer (b. 1886)
* January 22
** Walter Pym, Australian actor (b. 1905)
** Teresa Noce, Italian labor leader, activist, and journalist (b. 1900)
* January 23 – Leonard Strong, American actor (b. 1908)
* January 24 – Lil Dagover, German actress (b. 1887)
* January 25 – David Newell, American actor (b. 1905)
* January 27
** Hans Aeschbacher, Swiss sculptor (b. 1906)
** Peppino De Filippo, Italian actor (b. 1903)
** Eric Wyndham White, British administrator and economist, first Director-General of the GATT (b. 1913)
* January 28 – 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 – Eduardo Cáceres, Guatemalan politician (b. 1906)

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* February 1 – Jack Bailey, American actor (b. 1907)
* February 2
** Hanna Rovina, Russian-born Israeli actress (b. 1889)
** William Howard Stein, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
* February 6 – Albert Kotin, American abstract expressionist painter (b. 1907)
* February 7 – Richard Williams, Royal Australian Air Force officer (b. 1890)
* February 8
** Isadora Bennett, American publicity agent (b. 1900)
** Nikos Xilouris, Greek pop singer (b. 1936)
** Francesco Zucchetti, French Olympic cyclist (b. 1902)
* February 9 – Tom Macdonald, British journalist and novelist (b. 1900)
* February 10 – Wels Eicke, Australian rules football player (b. 1893)
* February 11 – R. C. Majumdar, Indian historian (b. 1884)
* February 12 – Muriel Rukeyser, American poet (b. 1913)
* February 13 – David Janssen, American actor (b. 1931)
* February 14 – Luitkonwar Rudra Baruah, Assamese composer and actor (b. 1926)
* February 17
** Jerry Fielding, American conductor and music director (b. 1922)
** Graham Sutherland, English artist (b. 1903)
* February 18 – Gale Robbins, American singer and actress (b. 1921)
* February 19
** Robert Morrison, British Olympic rower (b. 1902)
** Bon Scott, Scottish-born Australian rock singer (b. 1946)
* February 20
** Joseph Banks Rhine, American parapsychologist (b. 1895)
** Alice Longworth, U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt's daughter, wife of Nicholas Longworth (b. 1884)
* February 21 – Aldo Andreotti, Italian mathematician (b. 1924)
* February 22 – Oskar Kokoschka, Austrian painter and poet (b. 1886)
* February 23
** Enrico Celio, Swiss politician, 49th President of the Swiss Confederation (b. 1889)
** Robert Hayden, American poet (b. 1913)
* February 24
** 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
** George Tobias, American actor (b. 1901)
** Shin'ichi Hisamatsu, Japanese philosopher (b. 1889)
* February 28 – James Goff, American football and basketball head coach (b. 1912)
* February 29
** Gil Elvgren, American pin-up artist (b. 1914)
** Yigal Allon, Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1918)

### March
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* March 1
** Dixie Dean, English football player (b. 1907)
** Daniil Khrabrovitsky, Soviet film director (b. 1923)
** Wilhelmina, Dutch-born American high-fashion model and owner of model agency (b. 1940)
* March 3 – Roger Davis, American actor (b. 1884)
* March 5 – Jay Silverheels, American actor (b. 1912)
* March 6 – Barbara Brukalska, Polish architect (b. 1899)
* March 9 – Nikolay Bogolybov, Russian actor (b. 1899)
* March 10 – Herman Tarnower, American medical doctor and diet guru (b. 1910)
* March 11 – Maud Hart Lovelace, American author (b. 1892)
* March 13 – Roland Symonette, 1st 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)
* March 18
** Jessica Dragonette, American singer (b. 1900)
** 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 21 – Peter Stoner, American mathematician, astronomer and Christian apologist (b. 1888)
* March 24
** John Barrie, Welsh actor (b. 1917)
** Pierre Etchebaster, French real tennis player (b. 1893)
** Óscar Romero, Salvadorian Roman Catholic archbishop (b. 1917)
* March 25
** Roland Barthes, French literary critic and writer (b. 1915)
** Erminio Macario, Italian actor (b. 1902)
** Walter Susskind, Czech conductor (b. 1913)
** James Wright, American poet (b. 1927)
** Milton H. Erickson, American psychiatrist (b.1901)
* March 28
** Helena Bochořáková-Dittrichová, Czechoslovak illustrator (b. 1894)
** James Hayes, American-born Filipino Roman Catholic, Jesuit archbishop, missionary and servant of God (b. 1889)
** Dick Haymes, Argentine actor and singer (b. 1918)
* March 29 – Mantovani, Italian-born conductor and arranger (b. 1905)
* March 30
** David Sharpe, American actor (b. 1910)
** Tôn Đức Thắng, 2nd President of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) (b. 1888)
* March 31
** Vladimír Holan, Czech poet (b. 1905)
** Jesse Owens, American Olympic athlete (b. 1913)

### April
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* April 2 – Stanley Forman Reed, American Supreme Court Justice (b. 1884)
* April 4 – Red Sovine, American country and folk singer-songwriter (b. 1917)
* April 6
** John Collier, English writer (b. 1901)
** Nils Ericson, Swedish actor (b. 1906)
* April 8 – Bill Eastman, British army officer (b. 1911)
* April 10 – Kay Medford, American actress and singer (b. 1919)
* April 11 – Ümit Kaftancıoğlu, Turkish writer (b. 1935)
* April 12
** Clark McConachy, New Zealand snooker and billiards player (b. 1895)
** William R. Tolbert Jr., 20th President of Liberia (b. 1913)
* April 13 – Karl Stegger, Danish actor (b. 1913)
* April 15
** Raymond Bailey, American actor (b. 1904)
** Marshall Reed, American film and television actor (b. 1917)
** Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
* April 18 – Antonio Caponigro, American gangster (b. 1912)
* April 19
** Charles Seel, American actor (b. 1897)
** Tony Beckley, English character actor (b. 1927)
* April 20
** Katherine Kennicott Davis, American composer (b. 1892)
** Helmut Käutner, German director (b. 1908)
* April 21 – Sohrab Sepehri, Persian poet and painter (b. 1928)
* April 22
** Jane Froman, American singer and actress (b. 1907)
** Fritz Strassmann, German chemist (b. 1902)
* April 24 – Alejo Carpentier, Cuban writer (b. 1904)
* April 26 – Cicely Courtneidge, British actress (b. 1893)
* April 27
** Mario Bava, Italian director (b. 1914)
** John Culshaw, British recording producer and musicologist (b. 1924)
* April 28 – Thomas G. W. Settle, American record-setting balloonist and admiral (b. 1895)
* April 29 – Alfred Hitchcock, British suspense film director (b. 1899)
* April 30 – Luis Muñoz Marín, Puerto Rican poet, journalist and politician (b. 1898)

### May
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* May 1 – Henry Levin, American film director and actor (b. 1909)
* May 2
** George Pal, Hungarian-born animator and producer (b. 1904)
** Clarrie Grimmett, New Zealand-born cricketer (b. 1891)
* May 4
** Kay Hammond, English actress (b. 1909)
** Josip Broz Tito,  Croatian-born 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 7
** Isla Cameron, British actress (b. 1930)
** Margaret Cole, British politician (b. 1893)
* May 8 – Geoffrey Baker, English field marshal (b. 1912)
* May 9
** 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)
** Fatmawati, First Lady of Indonesia (b. 1923)
** Hugh Griffith, Welsh actor (b. 1912)
* May 16
** José Calvo, Spanish actor (b. 1916)
** Marin Preda, Romanian writer (b. 1922)
* May 18
** David A. Johnston, American volcanologist (b. 1949) (killed by eruption of Mount St. Helens)
** Ian Curtis, English musician and singer (b. 1956)
** Reid Blackburn, photojournalist for National Geographic (b. 1952; also killed by eruption of Mount St. Helens)
** Harry R. Truman, Owner/Operator of Mt. St. Helens Lodge (b. 1896; killed by eruption of Mount St. Helens)
* May 20 – Jack Walsh, Australian cricketer (b. 1912)
* May 21 – Ida Kamińska, Polish-born Jewish actress, playwright and translator (b. 1899)
* May 25 – George West, British Anglican missionary (b. 1893)
* May 28 – Rolf Nevanlinna, Finnish mathematician (b. 1895)
* May 30 – Carl Radle, American bassist (b. 1942)

### June
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* June 1 – Rube Marquard, American baseball player (New York Giants) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1886)
* June 7
** Richard Bonelli, American opera baritone (b. 1889)
** Henry Miller, American writer (b. 1891)
** Elizabeth Craig, British chef and writer (b. 1883)
** Salvator Gotta, Italian writer (b. 1887)
** Philip Guston, American painter (b. 1912)
** Marian Spychalski, Polish architect and politician, former head of State (b. 1908)
* June 8
** 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 Holiday Camps (b. 1899)
** Masayoshi Ōhira, Japanese politician, 43rd Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1910)
** Milburn Stone, American actor (b. 1904)
* June 13 – 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 20 – Amy Key Clarke, English mystical poet (b. 1892)
* June 21 – Bert Kaempfert, German orchestra leader and songwriter (b. 1923)
* June 23
** Clyfford Still, American painter (b. 1904)
** John Laurie, Scottish actor (b. 1897)
** V. V. Giri, Indian politician and 4th President of India (b. 1894)
* June 24 – Boris Kaufman, Russian cinematographer (b. 1897)
* June 26 – Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch Ignatius Jacob III (b. 1912)
* June 27 – Carey McWilliams, American author, editor and lawyer (b. 1905)
* June 28 – José Iturbi, Spanish conductor and musician (b. 1895)

### July
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* July – Robert Brackman, American painter (b. 1898)
* July 1 – C. P. Snow, British physicist and novelist (b. 1905)
* July 3
** Deng Hua, Chinese general (b. 1910)
** Abdelhamid Sharaf, 51st Prime Minister of Jordan (b. 1939)
* July 4 – Gregory Bateson, British anthropologist, anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, semiotician and cyberneticist (b. 1904)
* July 6 – Gail Patrick, American actress (b. 1911)
* July 7
** Prince Dmitri Alexandrovich of Russia (b. 1901)
** Reginald Gardiner, English actor (b. 1903)
** Dore Schary, American film writer, director and producer (b. 1905)
** Dan White, American actor (b. 1908)
* July 8 – Rudolf Creutz, Austrian criminal (b. 1896)
* July 9 – Vinicius de Moraes, Brazilian writer, poet and diplomat (b. 1913)
* July 13 – Seretse Khama, 1st President of Botswana (b. 1921)
* July 15 – Ben Selvin, American orchestra leader and recording artist (b. 1898)
* July 17
** Red Barry, American actor (b. 1912)
** Boris Delaunay, Russian mathematician (b. 1890)
* July 19 – Nihat Erim, 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 23 – Keith Godchaux, American musician (b. 1948)
* July 24 – Peter Sellers, British comedian and actor (b. 1925)
* July 25
** Tony Catalano, American football player (b. 1895)
** Vladimir Vysotsky, Soviet singer-songwriter, poet and actor (b. 1938)
* July 26
** Allen Hoskins, American actor (b. 1920)
** Kenneth Tynan, English theatre critic (b. 1927)
* July 27 – Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran (b. 1919)
* July 28 – Maria Luisa Monteiro da Cunha, Brazilian librarian (b. 1908)
* July 30 – Lucien Dalsace, French actor (b. 1893)
* July 31
** Pascual Jordan, German physicist (b. 1902)
** Bobby Van, American actor, singer, and dancer (b. 1928)

### August
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* August 1
** Patrick Depailler, French racing driver (b. 1944)
** Strother Martin, American actor (b. 1919)
* August 2 – Donald Ogden Stewart, American writer (b. 1894)
* August 9
** Harry Bell, Australian footballer (b. 1897)
** Jacqueline "Jackie" Cochran, American pilot (b. 1906)
** Elliott Nugent, American actor (b. 1896)
* August 10
** 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 (murdered) (b. 1960)
* August 15 – William Hood Simpson, American general (b. 1888)
* August 18 – Arman, Iranian-born Soviet actor (b.  1921)
* August 19 – Otto Frank, German father of Jewish diarist Anne Frank (b. 1889)
* August 20 – Joe Dassin, American-born French singer-songwriter (b. 1938)
* August 22 – Norman Shelley, British actor (b. 1903)
* August 24 – Yootha Joyce, British actress (b. 1927)
* August 25 – Gower Champion, American theatre director, choreographer and dancer (b. 1919)
* August 26 – Tex Avery, American cartoonist (b. 1908)

### September
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* September 3
** Barbara O'Neil, American actress (b. 1909)
** Dirch Passer, Danish actor (b. 1926)
** Duncan Renaldo, American actor (b. 1904)
* September 4
** Pepe Abad, Spanish-born Chilean television presenter and radio host (b. 1932)
** George Murray Burnett, British mathematician and chemist (b. 1921)
* September 8 – Willard Libby, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)
* September 9 – Manzoor Ali Khan, Pakistani classical singer (b. 1922)
* September 12 – 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)
** Julio Franco Arango, Colombian Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1914)
* September 17 – Anastasio Somoza Debayle, Nicataguan politician, President of Nicaragua (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)
* September 30
** John McGuire, American actor (b. 1929)
** Peter, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein (b. 1922)

### October
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* 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 – Billie Thomas, American actor (b. 1931)
* October 12 – Alberto Demicheli, Uruguayan political figure, President of Uruguay ("de facto") (b. 1896)
* October 15 – Prince Peter of Greece and Denmark (b. 1908)
* October 18 – Hans Ehard, German lawyer and politician (b. 1887)
* October 21
** Hans Asperger, Austrian pediatrician after whom Asperger syndrome was named (b. 1906)
** Valko Chervenkov, Bulgarian politician, 34th Prime Minister of Bulgaria (b. 1900)
** Edelmiro Julián Farrell, Argentine general, 28th President of Argentina (d. 1887)
* October 23 – Mariano Suárez, Ecuadorian politician, 27th President of Ecuador (b. 1897)
* October 25
** Virgil Fox, American organist (b. 1912)
** Víctor Galíndez, Argentine boxer (race car accident) (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
** Steve Peregrin Took, British rock musician (b. 1949)
** John Hasbrouck Van Vleck, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
* October 29 – Giorgio Borġ Olivier, Maltese politician and statesman, 7th Prime Minister of Malta (b. 1911)
* October 31 – Elizebeth Smith Friedman, American cryptographer (b. 1892)

### November
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* November 4
** 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)
** Carmel Myers, American actress (b. 1899)
** Victor Sen Yung, American actor (b. 1915)
* 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 19 – E. J. Bowen, English chemist (b. 1898)
* November 20
** Avtandil Gogoberidze, Soviet football player (b. 1922)
** John McEwen, Australian politician, 18th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1900)
* November 21 – Sara García, Mexican actress (b. 1895)
* November 22
** Norah McGuinness, Northern Irish painter and illustrator (b. 1901)
** Mae West, American actress (b. 1893)
* November 24 – George Raft, American actor (b. 1901)
* November 26 – 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
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* December 2
** Jean Donovan, American Roman Catholic missionary (b. 1953)
** Murder of the Three American Roman Catholic fellow missionaries by Salvadorian military:
*** Maura Clarke (b. 1931)
*** Ita Ford (b. 1940)
*** Dorothy Kazel (b. 1939)
** 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)
* December 7 – Darby Crash, American rock songwriter, singer  (b. 1958)
* December 8 – John Lennon, British singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1940)
* December 9 – Patriarch Benedict I of Jerusalem (b. 1892)
* December 11 – Dorothy West, American actress (b. 1891)
* December 12
** Bruno Bartolozzi, Italian composer (b. 1911)
** Erich Jantsch, Austrian astrophysicist (b. 1929)
** Severino Montano, Filipino actor, director and playwright (b. 1915)
* December 14 – Elston Howard, American baseball player (b. 1929)
* December 16
** Colonel Sanders, American fast-food entrepreneur (b. 1890)
** Hellmuth Walter, German engineer and inventor (b. 1900)
** Peter Collinson, British film director (b. 1936)
* December 17 – Chiang Kuei, Chinese novelist (b.  1908)
* December 18
** Frances Fuller, American actress (b. 1907)
** 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 23 – Frank Norman, English novelist, playwright and autobiographer (b. 1930)
* December 24
** Karl Dönitz, German admiral and 4th President of Germany (b. 1891)
** Heikki Liimatainen, Finnish Olympic athlete (b. 1894)
** Siggie Nordstrom, American model, actress, entertainer, socialite and lead singer (b. 1893)
* December 25 – Victoria Drummond, first woman marine engineer in Britain (b. 1894)
* December 28
** Alfredo Barrera Vásquez, Mexican anthropologist (b. 1900)
** Sam Levene, American actor (b. 1905)
* December 29 – Tim Hardin, American musician (b. 1941)
* December 30 – Giuseppe Carraro, Italian Roman Catholic bishop and venerable (b. 1899)
* December 31
** Marshall McLuhan, Canadian author and professor (b. 1911)
** Raoul Walsh, American film director (b. 1887)

### Date Unknown
* Nureddine Rifai, 25th Prime Minister of Lebanon (b. 1899)

## Movies released 
* *Airplane!
* *The Blue Lagoon*
* *The Blues Brothers*
* *The Gods Must Be Crazy*
* *The Island*
* *Popeye*
* *Stir Crazy*
* *Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back*
* *Used Cars*
* *9 to 5*

## TV Series 
* *Gumby Adventures'' – The first Gumby in 1980's. Gumby episode is "The Music Ball", "Shrink-a-Dink" and "Hatching Out" in November 1, **1980** first aired.

## Hit Songs 
* "A Forest" – The Cure
* "All Out of Love" – Air Supply
* "Any Way You Want It" – Journey
* "Another One Bites The Dust"-Queen
* "Ashes To Ashes" – David Bowie
* "Babe" – Styx
* "Back Together Again" – Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway
* "Borrowed Time" – Styx
* "Breaking the Law" – Judas Priest
* "Cheap Wine" – Cold Chisel
* "Fool in the Rain" – Led Zeppelin
* "Freewill" – Rush
* "Good Morning Girl" – Journey
* "Hungry Heart" – Bruce Springsteen
* "I Can't Tell You Why" – The Eagles
* "I Hope I Never – Split Enz
* "Living After Midnight" – Judas Priest
* "London Calling" – The Clash
* "Love The World Away" – Kenny Rogers
* "Metal Gods" – Judas Priest
* "On And On And On" – ABBA
* "People – Mi-Sex
* "Remember (Walking in the Sand)" – Aerosmith
* "Sexy Eyes" – Dr. Hook
* "Stay Awhile" – Journey
* "Suddenly" – Olivia Newton-John and Cliff Richard
* "Super Trouper" – ABBA
* "The Winner Takes It All" – ABBA
* "Too Late" – Journey
* "Train in Vain" – The Clash
* "Tulsa Time" – Eric Clapton
* "Turn It On Again" – Genesis
* "Why Me" – Styx
* "You May Be Right" – Billy Joel
* *(Just Like) Starting Over* – John Lennon
* *Another Brick In The Wall, Part II* – Pink Floyd
* *Another One Bites The Dust*- Queen
* *Call Me* – Blondie
* *Coming Up* – Paul McCartney & Wings
* *Crazy Little Thing Called Love* – Queen
* ''It's Still Rock And Roll To Me* – Billy Joel
* *Lady* – Kenny Rogers
* *Magic* -Olivia Newton-John
* *Rock With You* – Michael Jackson
* *Upside Down* – Diana Ross
* *Woman In Love'' – Barbra Streisand