1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1980th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 980th year of the 2nd millennium, the 80th year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 1980s decade.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries: 19th century20th century21st century
Decades: 1950s  1960s  1970s  – 1980s –  1990s  2000s  2010s
Years: 1977 1978 197919801981 1982 1983

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Greg Cipes
 
Carlos Alvarado Quesada
 
Lin-Manuel Miranda
 
Zooey Deschanel
 
Maksim Chmerkovskiy
 
Estelle
 
Jason Segel
 
Xavi
 
Marat Safin
 
Nick Carter
 
Josh Kelley
 
Wilmer Valderrama

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Matthew Lawrence
 
Christina Ricci
 
Jason Ritter
 
Justin Roiland
 
Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck
 
Chelsea Clinton

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Laura Prepon
 
Johan Olsson
 
Ronaldinho
 
Kate Micucci

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Randy Orton
 
Charlie Hunnam
 
Waylon
 
Reagan Gomez-Preston
 
Daniel MacPherson
 
Jordana Brewster
 
Channing Tatum

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Ellie Kemper
 
Gotye
 
Steven Gerrard

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Mike Fisher
 
Sarah Connor
 
Jessica DiCicco
 
Melissa Rauch

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Olivia Munn
 
Harbhajan Singh
 
Eva Green
 
Michelle Kwan
 
Jessica Simpson
 
Kristen Bell
 
Michelle Williams
 
Jacinda Ardern

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Macaulay Culkin
 
Chris Pine
 
William Levy
 
Joanne Froggatt

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Nigar Jamal
 
Michelle Williams
 
Mike Comrie
 
Yao Ming
 
Zachary Levi

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Joe Kennedy III
 
Nick Cannon
 
Kim Kardashian
 
Monica
 
Ben Foster

November change

 
Luke Hemsworth
 
Ryan Gosling
 
Monique Coleman
 
Isaac Hanson
 
Nick Swisher

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Simon Helberg
 
Christina Aguilera
 
Jake Gyllenhaal
 
Elizabeth Rodriguez
 
Eliza Dushku

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January change

 
Jimmy Durante

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Oskar Kokoschka
 
Yigal Allon

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Mohammad Hatta
 
Óscar Romero
 
Tôn Đức Thắng
 
Jesse Owens

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William R. Tolbert Jr.
 
Jean-Paul Sartre
 
Mario Bava
 
Alfred Hitchcock

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Josip Broz Tito

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Masayoshi Ōhira

July change

 
Peter Sellers
 
Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi

August change

 
Yahya Khan

September change

 
Jean Piaget
 
John Bonham

October change

 
Edelmiro Julián Farrell

November change

 
Steve McQueen
 
John McEwen
 
Sara García
 
Mae West

December change

 
John Lennon
 
Colonel Sanders
 
Alexei Kosygin
 
Héctor José Cámpora
 
Karl Dönitz

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