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Abolhassan Banisadr
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Adam Goodes
Adam Goodes (born 8 January 1980 in Wallaroo, South Australia) is a professional Australian rules football player with the Sydney Swans.
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Adam Petty
Adam Kyler Petty (July 10, 1980 – May 12, 2000) was a professional racing driver. He was the first fourth-generation driver in NASCAR history.
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Adam Scott (golfer)
Adam Derek Scott (born 16 July 1980) is an Australian professional golfer. On 7 January 2007, he reached a career high Official World Golf Ranking of third with a second place finish at the Mercedes-Benz Championship.
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Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler (; 20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party (, abbreviated NSDAP), commonly known as the Nazi Party. He was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and served as head of state as Führer und Reichskanzler from 1934 to 1945.
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Adolph Deutsch
Adolph Deutsch (20 October 1897 - 1 January 1980) was a composer, conductor and arranger. He won Oscars for his background music for Oklahoma! (1955), and for conducting the music for Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) and Annie Get Your Gun (1950). The London, England-born Deutsch was also nominated for The Band Wagon (1953) and the 1951 film version of Show Boat , for which he conducted the orchestra. For Broadway and Hollywood, he conducted, composed and arranged music, but did not write songs, not even for the Broadway shows on which he worked. In addition to his music for westerns and his conducting of the scores for musicals, Deutsch also composed for films noir, including The Mask of Dimitrios (1944), The Maltese Falcon (1941), and Nobody Lives Forever (1946), and the Billy Wilder comedies The Apartment (1960), and Some Like It Hot (1959).
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Agnes Pihlava
Agnieszka "Agnes" Pihlava (born ; born in March 19, 1980 in Leszno, Poland and currently living in Hartola, Finland) is a singer who rose to popularity after placing fourth in Idols Finland 2, the Finnish version of Pop Idol.
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Alaina Huffman
Alaina Huffman (born April 17, 1980) is a Canadian film and television actress, also known professionally as Alaina Kalanj (her birth name).
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Albert Kotin
Albert Kotin (August 7, 1907–1980) belonged to the early generation of New York School Abstract Expressionist artists whose artistic innovation by the 1950s had been recognized across the Atlantic, including Paris. The New York School Abstract Expressionism, represented by Jackson Pollock, Willem De Kooning, Franz Kline and others became a leading art movement of the post-World War II era.
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Albert Pujols
José Alberto Pujols Alcántara (born January 16, 1980), better known as Albert Pujols (), is a professional baseball player who has played his entire career in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the St. Louis Cardinals. Currently a first baseman, Pujols is well-known for his all-around ability as a player to hit for both average and power, plus his base-running and fielding excellence. His consistency over his ten years in the Major Leagues has earned him the reputation as one of the best players in the game today and the most feared hitter in baseball, according to a poll of all 30 MLB managers in 2008. Since his MLB debut in 2001, Pujols has been selected as an All-Star nine times, has won the National League Most Valuable Player Award three times, and won a World Series title in 2006.
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Alejo Carpentier
Alejo Carpentier y Valmont (December 26, 1904 – April 24, 1980) was a Cuban novelist, essay writer, and musicologist who greatly influenced Latin American literature during its famous "boom" period. Born in Lausanne, Switzerland, Carpentier grew up in Havana, Cuba; and despite his European birthplace, Carpentier strongly self-identified as Cuban throughout his life. He traveled extensively, particularly in France, and to South America and Mexico, where he met prominent members of the Latin American cultural and artistic community. Carpentier took a keen interest in Latin American politics and often aligned himself with revolutionary movements, such as Fidel Castro's Communist Revolution in Cuba in the mid-century. Carpentier was jailed and exiled for his leftist political philosophies.
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Alexei Yagudin
Alexei Konstantinovich Yagudin (; 18 March, 1980) is a former Russian figure skater. His major achievements in his six years of eligible sports career include:
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Alfred Hitchcock
Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English filmmaker and producer. He pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres. After a successful career in his native United Kingdom in both silent films and early talkies, Hitchcock moved to Hollywood. In 1956 he became an American citizen while remaining a British subject.
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Allen Hoskins
Allen Clayton Hoskins (August 9, 1920 – July 26, 1980) was an American child actor, most famous for portraying the character of Farina in the Our Gang short films from 1922 to 1931.
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Almudena Cid
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Amy Key Clarke
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Andrei Sakharov
Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov (; May 21, 1921 – December 14, 1989) was an eminent Soviet nuclear physicist, dissident and human rights activist. Sakharov was an advocate of civil liberties and reforms in the Soviet Union. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1975.
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Angelo Bruno
Angelo "The Gentle Don" Bruno ( Born Angelo Annaloro May 21, 1910 - March 21, 1980) was an Italian-American mobster who ran the Philadelphia crime family for two decades. Bruno gained his nickname and reputation due to his preference for conciliation over violence.
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Anna Chlumsky
Anna Chlumsky (born December 3, 1980; Chicago, Illinois) is an American actress. She is best-known for playing Vada Sultenfuss in the 1991 movie My Girl and the 1994 sequel My Girl 2. Her cousin, Vik Foxx, is the drummer for The Veronicas. Her father Frank Chlumsky is a culinary instructor for the culinary program at Kendall College in Chicago. Her surname is Czech origin and meaning hurst. Hurst was hill. Pronounced kh-LOOM-skee.
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Anna Jantar
Anna Jantar-Kukulska (10 June 1950 – 14 March 1980) was a popular Polish singer and mother of Natalia Kukulska.
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Anne Frank
Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank (; 12 June 1929 in Frankfurt am Main – early March 1945 in Bergen Belsen) is one of the most renowned and most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Acknowledged for the quality of her writing, her diary has become one of the world's most widely read books, and has been the basis for several plays and films.
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Arthur McDuffie
Arthur McDuffie (c. 1946 - 1979), an African American, whose death at the hands of five white Miami-Dade police officers, and the officers' subsequent acquittals, caused one of the worst race riots in United States history.
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Arvydas Macijauskas
Arvydas Macijauskas (born January 19, 1980) is a retired Lithuanian professional basketball player. He announced termination of his career after his last club, Olympiacos, released him following a prolonged judicial litigation.
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Ashley Cole
Ashley Cole (born 20 December 1980) is an English professional footballer who plays for Chelsea and the England national team. He plays as a left-back and has been named one of the best in the world.
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Ashley Lelie
Ashley Jovon Lelie [] (born February 16, 1980 in ) is an American football wide receiver who is currently a free-agent. He was drafted by the Denver Broncos 19th overall in the 2002 NFL Draft. He played college football at Hawaii.
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Austin Nichols
Austin Nichols (born April 24, 1980) is an American television and movie actor who is best known for his role as Julian Baker in the CW drama series One Tree Hill. He is also known for his featured roles in the movies The Day After Tomorrow and Wimbledon. He starred in the HBO series John from Cincinnati.
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Autumn Reeser
Autumn Alicia Reeser (born September 21, 1980) is an American actress. She has portrayed Taylor Townsend on the Fox series The O.C., and currently appears as Lizzie Grant on HBO's Entourage.
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Barbara Britton
Barbara Britton (September 26, 1919 – January 17, 1980) was an American film and television actress.
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Barbara O'Neil
'''Barbara O'Neil''' (July 17, 1910 – September 3, 1980) was an American actress.
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Barbara Pym
Barbara Mary Crampton Pym (2 June 1913 – 11 January 1980) was an English novelist.
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Baruj Benacerraf
Baruj Benacerraf (born 29 October 1920) is a Venezuelan immunologist, who shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the "discovery of the major histocompatibility complex genes which encode cell surface molecules important for the immune system's distinction between self and non-self". His colleagues and shared recipients were Jean Dausset and George Davis Snell. His brother is well-known philosopher Paul Benacerraf.
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Ben Freeman
Ben Freeman (born 8 April 1980) is an English television actor, best known for his part in ITV's Emmerdale as Scott Windsor.
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Ben Selvin
Ben Selvin (March 5, 1898 – July 15, 1980), son of Russian-immigrant Jewish parents, was a musician, bandleader, record producer and innovator in recorded music. He was known as The Dean of Recorded Music.
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Bengali people
The Bengali people are an ethnic community native to the historic region of Bengal (now divided between Bangladesh and India) in South Asia. They speak Bengali (বাংলা Bangla), which is an Indo-Aryan language of the eastern Indian subcontinent, evolved from the Magadhi Prakrit and Sanskrit languages. In their native language, they are referred to as বাঙালী (pronounced Bangali). They are an Indo-Aryan people, though they are also descended from Mongolo-Dravidians, closely related to Austro-Asiatic, Dravidian, Assamese, Sinhalese, Munda, Tibeto-Burman peoples. As such, Bengalis are a but considerably diverse ethnic group with heterogeneous origins.
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Benny Yau
Benny Yau (Traditional Chinese: 邱穟恆), born May 8, 1980 in Hong Kong); immigrated to Vancouver, Canada in 1988; is a Canadian actor and television presenter formerly affiliated with Fairchild TV.
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Bernard Berrian
Bernard Berrian (born December 27, 1980) is an American football wide receiver for the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League. He was originally drafted by the Chicago Bears in the third round of the 2004 NFL Draft. He played college football at Fresno State.
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Bert Kaempfert
Bert Kaempfert (born Berthold Kämpfert; 16 October 1923 – 21 June 1980) was a German orchestra leader and songwriter. He made easy listening and jazz-oriented records, and wrote the music for a number of well-known songs, such as "Strangers in the Night" (originally recorded by Ivo Robić) and "Spanish Eyes".
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Bijou Phillips
Bijou Lilly Phillips (born April 1, 1980) is an American actress, model, and singer. Phillips began her career as a model but soon transitioned herself into acting and singing. She made her musical debut with her album ''I'd Rather Eat Glass in 1999. She has appeared in films such as Black and White (1999), Almost Famous (2000), Bully (2001), Octane (2003), The Door in the Floor (2004), Venom (2005), (2007), and Choke'' (2008).
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Bill Clinton
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III, August 19, 1946) is the former 42nd President of the United States and served from 1993 to 2001. At 46 he was the third-youngest president. He became president at the end of the Cold War, and was the first baby boomer president. His wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, is currently the United States Secretary of State. Each received a Juris Doctor (J.D.) from Yale Law School.
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Bill Evans
William John Evans, known as Bill Evans (August 16, 1929 – September 15, 1980) was an American jazz pianist. His use of impressionist harmony, inventive interpretation of traditional jazz repertoire, and trademark rhythmically independent, "singing" melodic lines influenced a generation of pianists including: Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, John Taylor, Steve Kuhn, Don Friedman, Marian McPartland, Denny Zeitlin, Bobo Stenson, Michel Petrucciani and Keith Jarrett, as well as many other musicians world-wide. The music of Bill Evans continues to inspire younger pianists like Marcin Wasilewski, Fred Hersch, Bill Charlap, Lyle Mays, Eliane Elias and arguably Brad Mehldau, early in his career. He is considered by some to be the most influential post World War II jazz pianist.
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Billie Thomas
Billie Thomas (originally William Thomas, Jr.) (March 12, 1931 – October 10, 1980) was an American child actor best remembered for portraying the character of Buckwheat in the Our Gang (Little Rascals) short films from 1934 until the series' end in 1944. He was a native of Los Angeles, California.
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Billy Butlin
Sir William Heygate Edmund Colborne ("Billy") Butlin, (29 September 1899 – 12 June 1980), was the founder of Butlins Holiday Camps.
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Björn Wirdheim
Björn Karl Michael Wirdheim (born 4 April 1980 in Växjö, Sweden) is an auto racing driver. Wirdheim is the son of Örnulf Wirdheim, a Swedish racing driver. He began racing karts, competing in his first race, at the age of 10. His main achievement to date is becoming the International Formula 3000 Champion in 2003.
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Bobby Nystrom
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Bobby Van (actor)
Bobby Van (December 6, 1928 – July 31, 1980) was a musical actor probably best known for his career on Broadway in the 1950s and 1970s.
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Bon Scott
Ronald Belford "Bon" Scott (9 July 1946 – 19 February 1980) was a Scottish-born Australian rock musician, best known for being the lead singer and lyricist of Australian hard rock band AC/DC from 1974 until his death in 1980. He was born in Kirriemuir, Scotland, and moved to Melbourne, Australia with his family in 1952 at the age of six.
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Boris Aronson
Boris Aronson (October 15, 1898 – November 16, 1980) was an American scenic designer for Broadway and Yiddish theatre. He won the Tony Award for Scenic Design six times in his career.
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Boris Delaunay
Boris Nikolaevich Delaunay or Delone (; March 15, 1890 – July 17, 1980) was one of the first Russian mountain climbers and a Soviet/Russian mathematician, and the father of physicist Nikolai Borisovich Delone.
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Boris Kaufman
Boris Abelevich Kaufman, A.S.C. (; August 24, 1897 – June 24, 1980) was a cinematographer. He was the younger brother of famous filmmakers Dziga Vertov (Denis Kaufman) and Mikhail Kaufman.
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Bosco Wong
Bosco Wong Chung-Chak (, born 13 December 1980) is a Hong Kong actor under TVB management and singer under East Asia Music.
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Brad Fast
Brad Fast (born February 21, 1980 in Fort St. John, British Columbia) is a professional ice hockey defenceman for the Anyang Halla of the ALIH. He spent his amateur career in the British Columbia Hockey League, and was selected in the third round of the 1999 NHL Entry Draft, 84th overall, by the Carolina Hurricanes. He played for ERC Ingolstadt in the German Eishockey League for 2007–08 season. In May 2008, Fast signed with Anyang Halla (Asia League) for a one year deal. He is well known as 'Fasty'.
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Brad Gushue
Bradley Raymond "Brad" Gushue, ONL (born June 16, 1980) is a Canadian curler from Paradise, Newfoundland and Labrador. Gushue along with teammates Russ Howard, Mark Nichols, Jamie Korab and Mike Adam represented Canada in curling in the 2006 Winter Olympics, where they won the gold medal by defeating Finland 10–4, including a dramatic 6-point sixth end in the final match, which was conceded after the 8-end minimum stipulated under Olympic rules.
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Brenda Villa
Brenda Villa (born April 18, 1980 in Los Angeles, California) is an American world-class water polo player for the US National and Olympic teams.
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Brian McFadden
Brian Nicholas McFadden (born 12 April 1980), is an Irish singer-songwriter, who rose to fame in the late 90's, as a member of the all male Irish band, Westlife. McFadden left the group in early 2004 to pursue a solo career and subsequently signed a recording contract with Sony BMG. He is now a judge on ''Australia's Got Talent''.
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Bülent Ulusu
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C. P. Snow
Charles Percy Snow, Baron Snow of the City Of Leicester CBE (15 October 1905 – 1 July 1980) was an English physicist and novelist who also served in several important positions with the UK government.The Columbia Encyclopedia (6th Edition, 2001–2005). "[http://www.bartleby.com/65/sn/Snow-CP.html Snow, C. P.]" Accessed 26 July 2007. He is best known for his series of novels known collectively as Strangers and Brothers, and for "The Two Cultures", a 1959 lecture in which he laments the gulf between scientists and "literary intellectuals".
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Calvin Chen
Calvin Chen Yi Ru () is a Taiwanese singer and actor. He is currently a member of the boy band Fahrenheit. His stage name is a homophone of his birth name.
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Carmel Myers
Carmel Myers (April 4, 1899 – November 9, 1980) was an American actress who worked chiefly in silent movies.
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Caron Butler
James Caron Butler, widely known as Caron Butler (born March 13, 1980), is an American professional basketball player, currently playing at small forward for the NBA's Dallas Mavericks.
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Casey Wilson
Cathryn Rose "Casey" Wilson (born October 24, 1980) is an American actress, comedienne and screenwriter. She was a featured cast member on Saturday Night Live from 2008–2009 and is currently set to co-star in the upcoming comedies Happy Endings on ABC and Retired at 35 on TV Land.
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Cecil Beaton
Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton, CBE (14 January 1904 – 18 January 1980) was an English fashion and portrait photographer, diarist, style icon, interior designer and an Academy Award-winning stage and costume designer for films and the theatre.
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Cecilia Cheung
Cecilia Cheung Pak-Chi (born 24 May 1980) is a Hong Kong actress and cantopop singer based in Hong Kong. She is the wife of Nicholas Tse, thus being the daughter-in-law of Patrick Tse (謝賢) and Deborah Lee (狄波拉). She and Nicholas have a son, Lucas. She is considered a "Sing girl"—an actress who first received media attention through starring alongside Stephen Chow, and later went on to have a successful career of her own. She was also involved in the 2008 Edison Chen photo scandal.
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Charlie David
Charlie David (born August 9, 1980) is a Canadian actor, who stars in the LGBT horror series ''Dante's Cove. He has also worked as a producer, writer, and TV host. He was honored by Out Magazine'' as one of the "Out 100" for Remarkable Contributions to Gay Culture in 2005. He is co-owner of Border2Border Entertainment.
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Charlie Hunnam
Charles Matthew "Charlie" Hunnam (born 10 April 1980) is an English actor. He is perhaps known to UK audiences as Pete Dunham in Green Street and as Nathan Maloney in the Channel 4 hit drama Queer as Folk and to US audiences as Jackson "Jax" Teller in the FX network series, Sons of Anarchy.
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Chelsea Clinton
Chelsea Victoria Clinton (born February 27, 1980) is the only child of former U.S. President Bill Clinton and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
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Chris Barker
Christopher Andrew "Chris" Barker (born 2 March 1980) is an English footballer who plays as a defender for Southend United. He has also represented Barnsley, Cardiff City, Stoke City, Colchester United, Queens Park Rangers and Plymouth Argyle since beginning his career in 1997. His brother, Richard Barker, also played professional football as a striker.
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Chris Carmack
James Christopher "Chris" Carmack (born December 22, 1980) is an American actor and former fashion model.
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Chris Pine
Christopher Whitelaw "Chris" Pine (born August 26, 1980) is an American actor. He has appeared in the romantic comedies (2004) and Just My Luck (2006), as well as the action film ''Smokin' Aces (2007) as well as portraying James T. Kirk in the 2009 film Star Trek''.
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Christian Olsson
Christian Olsson (born January 25, 1980 in Gothenburg) is Swedish athlete competing in high jump and triple jump. He has won an Olympic gold medal, three gold and one silver medal in the World Championships and two gold medals in the European Championships. He also won the overall IAAF Golden League-jackpot in 2004 where he cashed in 500,000 US dollars (after splitting the million dollar pot with Tonique Williams-Darling).
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Christina Aguilera
Christina María Aguilera ( in English; born December 18, 1980) is an American pop singer, songwriter, dancer and actress. Aguilera first appeared on national television in 1990 as a contestant on the Star Search program, and went on to star in Disney Channel's television series The Mickey Mouse Club from 1993–1994. Aguilera signed to RCA Records after recording "Reflection" for the film Mulan.
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Christina Ricci
Christina Ricci (born February 12, 1980) is an American actress. Ricci received initial recognition and praise as a child star for her performance as Wednesday Addams in The Addams Family (1991) and Addams Family Values (1993), and her role as Kat in Casper (1995). Ricci made a transition into more adult-oriented roles with The Ice Storm (1997), followed by an acclaimed performance in The Opposite of Sex (1998), for which she received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress. She continued her success with well-received performances in Sleepy Hollow (1999) and Monster (2003).
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Christoph Metzelder
Christoph Tobias Metzelder (born 5 November 1980 in Haltern, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German footballer who plays for FC Schalke 04, as a central defender.
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Christy Hemme
Christina Lee "Christy" Hemme (born October 28, 1980) is an American actress, singer, model, professional wrestling valet and former professional wrestler. Hemme is currently signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, as a backstage interviewer.
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Cicely Courtneidge
Dame Cicely Courtneidge DBE (1 April 1893 – 26 April 1980) was an English actress and comedienne.
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Clark McConachy
Clark McConachy, MBE (15 April 1895 – 12 April 1980) was a New Zealand professional player of English billiards and snooker.
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Clement Martyn Doke
Clement Martyn Doke (May 16, 1893 in Bristol, Great Britain – February 24, 1980 in East London, South Africa) was a South African linguist working mainly on African languages. Realizing that the grammatical structures of Bantu languages are quite different from those of European languages, he was one of the first African linguists of his time to abandon the Euro-centric approach to language description for a more locally grounded one. A most prolific writer, he published a string of grammars, several dictionaries, comparative work, and a history of Bantu linguistics.
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Conn Smythe
Constantine Falkland Cary Smythe MC (February 1, 1895 – November 18, 1980) was a Canadian businessman, soldier and sportsman in ice hockey and horse racing. He is best known as the principal owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League (NHL) from 1927 to 1961 and as the builder of Maple Leaf Gardens. As owner of the Leafs during numerous championship years, his name appears on the Stanley Cup eleven times: 1932, 1942, 1945, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1951, 1962, 1963, 1964, and 1967.
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Conor Oberst
Conor Mullen Oberst (born February 15, 1980) is an American singer-songwriter best known for his work in Bright Eyes. He has also played in several other bands, including Desaparecidos, Norman Bailer (The Faint), Commander Venus, Park Ave., Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band, and his latest project, Monsters of Folk.
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Cory Gibbs
Cory Gibbs (born January 14, 1980 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida) is an American soccer player who currently plays for New England Revolution in Major League Soccer.
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Czesław Miłosz
Czesław Miłosz (June 30, 1911 – August 14, 2004) was a Polish poet, prose writer and translator of Lithuanian origin and subsequent American citizenship. His World War II-era sequence The World, is a collection of 20 "naive" poems. Defecting to the West in 1951, his non-fiction book The Captive Mind (1953) is one of the classics of anti-Stalinism. From 1961 to 1998 he was a professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1980, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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César Izturis
César David Izturis () (born February 10, 1980, in Barquisimeto, Venezuela) is a shortstop in Major League Baseball for the Baltimore Orioles. He is the half-brother of shortstop Maicer Izturis , who plays for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim and Julio Izturis, who plays in the minor leagues in the San Francisco Giants organization.
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Daisuke Matsuzaka
is a starting pitcher for the Boston Red Sox.
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Damion Stewart
Damion Stewart (born 18 August 1980) is a Jamaican professional football defender who plays for Bristol City.
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Daniil Khrabrovitsky
Daniil Khrabrovitsky (Даниил Яковлевич Храбровицкий June 28, 1923, Rostov-on-Don - March 1, 1980, Moscow) was a Soviet scriptwriter and film director.
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Dany Sabourin
Daniel Sabourin (born September 2, 1980) is a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender currently under contract for the Washington Capitals of the National Hockey League (NHL).
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Darby Crash
Darby Crash (born Jan Paul Beahm) (September 26, 1958 – December 7, 1980) was an American punk musician who, along with long time friend Pat Smear (born Georg Ruthenberg), co-founded The Germs. He died of a heroin overdose.
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David A. Johnston
David Alexander Johnston (December 18, 1949 – May 18, 1980) was an American volcanologist with the United States Geological Survey (USGS) who was killed by the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens in Washington. One of the principal scientists on the monitoring team, Johnston died while manning an observation post about 6 miles () from the volcano on the morning of May 18, 1980. He was the first to report the eruption, transmitting the message "Vancouver! Vancouver! This is it!" before being swept away by the lateral blast created by the collapse of the mountain's north flank. Though Johnston's remains have never been found, remnants of his USGS trailer were found by state highway workers in 1993.
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David Desrosiers
David Philippe Desrosiers (born August 29, 1980) is a French Canadian musician, who is best known as the bassist and backing vocalist for pop punk band Simple Plan. He grew up in Matane, Québec, Canada.
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David Janssen
David Janssen (March 27, 1931 – February 13, 1980) was an American film and television actor who is best known for his starring role as Dr. Richard Kimble in the television series The Fugitive (1963–1967) and as Harry Orwell on Harry O.
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Dean Heffernan
Dean James Heffernan (born May 19, 1980 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia) is an Australian professional association football player who currently plays as a Left Back for A-League club Melbourne Heart.
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Debra Lafave
Debra Jean Beasley, better known under her former married name of Debra Lafave, (born August 28, 1980) is an American former teacher at Angelo L. Greco Middle School in Temple Terrace, Florida, who pleaded guilty in 2005 to statutory rape charges stemming from her having sex with a 14-year-old student in the summer of 2004, when Lafave was 23 years old.
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Denny Hamlin
James Dennis Alan "Denny" Hamlin (born November 18, 1980 in Midlothian, Virginia )
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Deryck Whibley
Deryck Jason Whibley (born March 21, 1980) is a Canadian musician and producer, best known for his work as the guitarist, lead vocalist, songwriter and producer of the Juno Award-winning rock band Sum 41.
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Desi Bouterse
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Dick Haymes
Dick Haymes (September 13, 1918 – March 28, 1980) was an Argentine actor and one of the most popular male vocalists of the 1940s and early 1950s. He was the older brother of Bob Haymes, who was an actor, television host, and songwriter.
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Dimitris Diamantidis
Dimitris Diamantidis (alternate spelling: Dimitrios Diamantidis) () (born May 6, 1980 in Kastoria, Greece) is a Greek professional basketball player. Standing at 1.98 m (6'6"), Diamantidis mainly plays the point guard position but also has the size, strenght and shooting ability to play the shooting guard and small forward positions. At the age of fourteen he started his youth career with his home team in Kastoria and stayed there for five years before being transferred to Iraklis in 1999. Since the summer of 2004 he plays for the Greek League and Euroleague team Panathinaikos Athens.
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Dingdong Dantes
Jose Sixto Raphael Gonzalez Dantes III, popularly known as Dingdong Dantes, is a director/actor and model, born on August 2, 1980 in [Quezon City]], Philippines.
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Dirch Passer
Dirch Hartvig Passer (18 May 1926 - 3 September 1980) was a celebrated Danish actor. He was greatly renowned for his improvisational skills and, with a filmography comprising 110 movies, one of Denmark's most prolific actors.
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Dirk Kuyt
Dirk Kuijt, commonly known as Dirk Kuyt (; born 22 July 1980) is a Dutch professional footballer who currently plays for English club Liverpool. He started his career as a striker, but he has been converted into a successful winger and plays the position for both Liverpool and the Netherlands national team.
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Dixie Dean
William Ralph Dean (22 January 1907 – 1 March 1980), better known as Dixie Dean, was an English football player. Dean originally started his career with Birkenhead based Tranmere Rovers before moving on to professional team Everton, the club he had supported as a child, where he became one of the most prolific goal-scorers in English football history. Dean played the majority of his career at Everton before injuries caught up with him and he moved on to new challenges at Notts County and Ireland's Sligo Rovers. He is best known for his exploits in 1927-28 season which saw Dean score 100 goals in a season, 60 of which were in the league - a record which stands to this day.
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Dolph Ziggler
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Dominic Moore
Dominic Michael Moore (born August 3, 1980) is a Canadian professional ice hockey centre who currently plays for the Tampa Bay Lightning of the National Hockey League. Moore attended St. Anthony's Catholic Elementary School in Thornhill, Ontario; St. Michael's College School in Toronto, Ontario, as well as Harvard University; as did his older brothers Steve and Mark.
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Don "Red" Barry
:For the serial, see Red Barry. For the comic strip, see Red Barry.
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Donald Ogden Stewart
Donald Ogden Stewart (November 30, 1894 - August 2, 1980) was an American author and screenwriter.
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Dore Schary
Isadore "Dore" Schary (August 31, 1905, Newark, New Jersey - July 7, 1980, New York City) was an American motion picture director, writer, and producer, and playwright. He graduated from Central High School in Newark, New Jersey (class of 1923).
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Dorothy Day
Dorothy Day (November 8, 1897 – November 29, 1980) was an American journalist, social activist, and devout Catholic convert; she advocated the Catholic economic theory of Distributism. She was also considered to be an Christian anarchist, and did not hesitate to use the term. In the 1930s, Day worked closely with fellow activist Peter Maurin to establish the Catholic Worker movement, a nonviolent, pacifist movement that continues to combine direct aid for the poor and homeless with nonviolent direct action on their behalf.
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Dorothy Stratten
For CAPT Dorothy C. Stratton, Director of USCG SPARs during WWII, refer to the article Dorothy C. Stratton.
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Duncan Renaldo
Renault Renaldo Duncan (April 23, 1904 – September 3, 1980), better known as Duncan Renaldo, was an American actor who portrayed The Cisco Kid in films and on the 1950-1956 American TV series, The Cisco Kid.
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Ekaterina Gamova
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Elin Nordegren
Elin Maria Pernilla Nordegren (; born January 1, 1980) is a former Swedish model and the ex-wife of professional golfer Tiger Woods.
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Eliza Dushku
Eliza Patricia Dushku (; born December 30, 1980) is an American actress best known for her television roles, including her recurring appearances as Faith on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spinoff series Angel. She also starred in two Fox series, Tru Calling and Dollhouse. Additionally, she has appeared in several films, including True Lies, The New Guy, Bring It On, Wrong Turn and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.
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Elliott Nugent
Elliott Nugent (September 20, 1896, Dover, Ohio - August 9, 1980, New York City) was an American actor, writer, and film director. He successfully made the transition from silent film to sound. He directed The Cat and the Canary (1939), starring Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard. He also directed the Hope films Never Say Die (1939) and My Favorite Brunette (1947).
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Elsie MacGill
Elizabeth Muriel Gregory "Elsie" MacGill, OC (27 March 1905 – 4 November 1980), known as the Queen of the Hurricanes, was the world's first female aircraft designer. She worked as an aeronautical engineer during the Second World War and did much to make Canada a powerhouse of airplane construction during her years at Canada Car and Foundry (CC&F;) in Fort William, Ontario. After her work at CC&F; she ran a successful consulting business. Between 1967–1970 she was a commissioner on the Royal Commission on the Status of Women in Canada, published in 1970.
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Eminem
Marshall Bruce Mathers III (born October 17, 1972), better known by his stage name Eminem, is an American rapper, record producer, and actor. Eminem quickly gained popularity in 1999 with his major-label debut album, The Slim Shady LP, which won a Grammy Award for Best Rap Album. The following album, The Marshall Mathers LP, became the fastest-selling solo album in United States history. It brought Eminem increased popularity, including his own record label, Shady Records, and brought his group project, D12, to mainstream recognition.
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Erich Fromm
Erich SeligmannFunk, Rainer. Erich Fromm: His Life and Ideas. Translators Ian Portman, Manuela Kunkel. New York: Continuum International Publishing Group, 2003. ISBN 0-8264-1519-9, ISBN 978-0-8264-1519-6. P. 13:"For a second name he was given that of his grandfather on his father's side–Seligmann Pinchas Fromm, although the registry office in Frankfurt does not record him as Erich Pinchas Fromm, but as Erich Seligmann Fromm. Also his parents addressed his mail to 'Erich S. Fromm.'" Fromm (March 23, 1900 – March 18, 1980) was a German social psychologist, psychoanalyst, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist. He was associated with what became known as the Frankfurt School of critical theory.
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F. Burrall Hoffman
Francis Burrall Hoffman (March 6, 1882 - November 27, 1980) was an American born architect best known for his work with James Deering’s Villa Vizcaya in Miami, Florida.
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Fernando González
Fernando Francisco González Ciuffardi (born July 29, 1980) is a professional tennis player from Chile. He is known for having one of the hardest-hitting forehands on the circuit. In Spanish he is called El Bombardero de La Reina ("The La Reina Bomber") and Mano de Piedra ("Stone Hand"). The English-language media has labeled him "Gonzo".
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Fitz Hall
Fitz Benjamin Hall (born 20 December 1980, Walthamstow, London) is an English footballer who plays for Queens Park Rangers. He is a central defender who can also play as a central midfielder. His nickname is "One Size" Fitz Hall, a pun on the phrase "one size fits all". He attended Willowfield School.
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Francelino Matuzalem
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Francesca Schiavone
Francesca Schiavone (; born 23 June 1980 in Milan) is an Italian tennis player who turned professional in 1998. She won the 2010 French Open singles title, becoming the first Italian woman to win a Grand Slam event in singles. Her career high ranking is World No. 6 achieved on June 7, 2010. Schiavone is currently ranked World No. 6.
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Franco Evangelisti
Franco Evangelisti (born January 21, 1926 in Rome, died there January 28, 1980), was an Italian composer specifically interested in the scientific theories behind sound.
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Frank Norman
Frank Norman (9 June 1930 - 23 December 1980) was a British novelist, playwright and autobiographer.
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Frederick Sanger
Frederick Sanger, OM, CH, CBE, FRS (born 13 August 1918) is an English biochemist and twice a Nobel laureate in chemistry. He is the fourth (and only living) person to have been awarded two Nobel Prizes.
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Gabriel Milito
Gabriel Alejandro Milito (born 7 September 1980) is an Argentine footballer who currently plays for FC Barcelona in La Liga, as a central defender, and is the brother of Inter Milan striker Diego Milito.
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Gail Patrick
Gail Patrick (June 20, 1911 – July 6, 1980) was an American film actress.
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Gale Robbins
Gale Robbins (born Betty Gale Robbins, May 7, 1921 - February 18, 1980) was an American actress and singer.
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Gang of Four
The Gang of Four () was the name given to a leftist political faction composed of four Chinese Communist Party officials. They came to prominence during the Cultural Revolution (1966-76) and were subsequently charged with a series of treasonous crimes. The members consisted of Jiang Qing, Mao Zedong's last wife and the leading figure of the group, and her close associates Zhang Chunqiao, Yao Wenyuan, and Wang Hongwen.
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Geoffrey Baker
Field Marshal Sir Geoffrey Harding Baker GCB, CMG, CBE, MC (20 June 1912 – 8 May 1980) was Chief of the General Staff, the professional head of the British Army.
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George D. Snell
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George Pal
George Pal (February 1, 1908 – May 2, 1980), born György Pál Marczincsak, was a Hungarian-born American animator and film producer, principally associated with the science fiction genre. He became an American citizen after emigrating from Europe.
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George Raft
George Raft (September 26, 1901 – November 24, 1980) was an American film actor identified with portrayals of gangsters in crime melodramas of the 1930s and 1940s. Today George Raft is mostly known for his role in Billy Wilder's 1959 comedy Some Like it Hot and also Scarface (1932), Bolero (1934), and They Drive by Night (1940).
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George Tobias
George Tobias (July 14, 1901 – February 27, 1980) was an American character actor.
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Georges Painvin
Georges Jean Painvin (1886-1980) was a French cryptanalyst during the First World War. His most notable achievement was the breaking of the ADFGVX cipher in June 1918.
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Gervasio Deferr
Gervasio Deferr Angel (born November 7, 1980 in Premià de Mar, Barcelona) is a gymnast from Spain, who started in gymnastics at the age of five, and has since become the number one athlete of his country in that sport.
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Gisele Bündchen
Gisele Caroline Bündchen (born July 20, 1980) is a Brazilian model and occasional film actress. According to Forbes, she is the highest-paid model in the world and also the sixteenth richest woman in the entertainment world, with an estimated $150 million fortune. Bündchen also acts as a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations Environment Programme.
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Gloria Guinness
Gloria Guinness (August 27, 1912 – November 9, 1980), born Gloria Rubio y Alatorre, was a Mexican-born socialite and fashion icon of the 20th century, and a contributing editor to ''Harper's Bazaar'' from 1963 until 1971. She was named to the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1964.
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Gower Champion
Gower Carlyle Champion (June 22, 1919 – August 25, 1980) was an American actor, theatre director, choreographer, and dancer.
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Grant Hackett
Swimmer
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Gregory Bateson
Gregory Bateson (9 May 1904 – 4 July 1980) was a British anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, visual anthropologist, semiotician and cyberneticist whose work intersected that of many other fields. Some of his most noted writings are to be found in his books, Steps to an Ecology of Mind (1972) and Mind and Nature (1979). Angels Fear (published posthumously in 1987) was co-authored by his daughter Mary Catherine Bateson.
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Guillermo Rigondeaux
Guillermo Rigondeaux Ortiz (; born September 30, 1980 in Santiago de Cuba) is a Cuban boxer who won the gold medal at the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics in the Bantamweight (54 kg) class. Rigondeaux is a seven-time (2000-06) Cuban national champion at bantamweight. He currently claims an amateur record of nearly 400 fights with twelve losses; with his last losses coming to Rencise Perez and Bekzat Sattarkhanov in 1998, Waldemar Font in 1999, and his most recent loss against Aghasi Mammadov in 2003. After his defection in 2009, he turned professional.
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Hafez al-Assad
Hafez al-Assad ( ) (October 6, 1930 – June 10, 2000) was the president of Syria for three decades. Assad's rule stabilized and consolidated the power of the country's central government after decades of coups and counter-coups. He was succeeded by his son and current president Bashar al-Assad in 2000.
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Hanna Rovina
Hanna Rovina () (1889/1892, Berazino, Minsk district (guberniya) - 2 February 1980, Tel-Aviv), written also Hannah, Hana, or Chana Rovina or Robina, Israeli actress, is recognised as the original "First Lady of Hebrew Theatre".
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Hans Asperger
Hans Asperger (February 18, 1906 – October 21, 1980) was the Austrian pediatrician after whom Asperger syndrome is named.
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Harland Sanders
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Hellmuth Walter
Hellmuth Walter (26 August 1900 in Wedel near Hamburg – 16 December 1980 in Upper Montclair, New Jersey) was a German engineer who pioneered research into rocket engines and gas turbines. His most noteworthy contributions were rocket motors for the Messerschmitt Me 163 and Bachem Ba 349 interceptor aircraft, JATO units used for a variety of Luftwaffe aircraft during World War II, and a revolutionary new propulsion system for submarines known as air-independent propulsion (AIP).
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Henck Arron
Henck Alphonsus Eugène Arron (25 April 1936 Paramaribo – 4 December 2000 Alphen aan den Rijn) was the Prime Minister of Suriname from 24 December 1973 to 25 February 1980, when he was overthrown in a military coup d'état by Dési Bouterse. During his rule Suriname was granted independence by the Netherlands on 25 November 1975.
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Henkka Seppälä
Henri Samuli Seppälä (Born June 7, 1980), better known as Henkka T. Blacksmith, is the bassist of the Finnish metal band Children of Bodom. Henkka is responsible for backing vocals both on studio and live.
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Henry Hill (mobster)
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Henry Miller
Henry Valentine Miller (December 26, 1891 – June 7, 1980) was an American novelist and painter. He was known for breaking with existing literary forms and developing a new sort of 'novel' that is a mixture of novel, autobiography, social criticism, philosophical reflection, surrealist free association, and mysticism, one that is distinctly always about and expressive of the real-life Henry Miller and yet is also fictional. His most characteristic works of this kind are Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn and Black Spring. He also wrote travel memoirs and essays of literary criticism and analysis.
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Herman Tarnower
Herman Tarnower (March 18, 1910 – March 10, 1980) was a cardiologist and the author (with Samm Sinclair Baker) of the bestselling diet book The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet. He was murdered by Jean Harris.
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Hiroshi Tamaki
is a Japanese actor, singer, and model from Nagoya, Japan. When he was still in high school, he was discovered by a talent agent while out shopping with friends. He made his debut in the drama Am I Weird? (私ってへん？ Watashitte Hen?) in 1998. Tamaki became more well-known with his appearance in the 2001 film Waterboys.
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Hiroyuki Tomita
Hiroyuki Tomita (Japanese: 冨田洋之 born Osaka Prefecture, 21 November 1980) is a Japanese gymnast. Tomita is a top Japanese gymnast with three Olympic medals from the 2004 and 2008 Olympics. His elegant gymnastics have won him many fans.
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Hugh Griffith
Hugh Emrys Griffith (30 May 1912 – 14 May 1980) was a Welsh film, stage and television actor.
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Ian Curtis
Ian Kevin Curtis (15 July 1956 – 18 May 1980) was the songwriter, lyricist and singer of the English post-punk band Joy Division. Joy Division released its critically-acclaimed debut album Unknown Pleasures in 1979, and recorded their follow-up Closer in 1980. Suffering from epilepsy and a failing marriage, Curtis committed suicide in May 1980, on the eve of Joy Division's first North American tour.
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Ibrahim Maalouf
Ibrahim Maalouf () is a trumpeter, composer, arranger, and trumpet instructor. He was born on December 5, 1980 in Beirut, Lebanon; he now lives in France.
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Ida Kaminska
Ida Kaminska (September 18, 1899 – May 21, 1980) was a Polish actress.
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Ilya Bryzgalov
Ilya Nikolayevich Bryzgalov (; born June 22, 1980) is a Russian professional ice hockey goaltender currently playing for the Phoenix Coyotes of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected in the second round of the 2000 NHL Entry Draft, 44th overall, by the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim.
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Imanol Harinordoquy
Imanol Harinordoquy (born February 20, 1980) is a Basque rugby union player who typically plays as a number 8 for France internationally and Biarritz at club level. Before signing with Biarritz for the 2004-05 season, he played club rugby at Pau.
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Indira Gandhi
Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi ( Indirā Priyadarśinī Gāndhī; née: Nehru; 19 November 1917 – 31 October 1984) was the Prime Minister of the Republic of India for three consecutive terms from 1966 to 1977 and for a fourth term from 1980 until her assassination in 1984, a total of fifteen years. She is India's only female prime minister to date . She is the world's all time longest serving female Prime Minister.
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Isobel Barnett
Lady Isobel Barnett (30 June 1918 – 20 October 1980) was a British radio and television personality, popular during the 1950s and 1960s.
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Jack Hannahan
John Joseph "Jack" Hannahan IV (born March 4, 1980, in St. Paul, Minnesota) is a Major League Baseball infielder currently a free agent organization. He is mainly a third baseman, but has also played other infield positions.
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Jacqueline Cochran
Jacqueline Cochran (May 11, 1906 – August 9, 1980) was a pioneer American aviator, considered to be one of the most gifted racing pilots of her generation. She was an important contributor to the formation of the wartime Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC) and Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP).
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Jake Grove
Charles Jacob Grove (born January 22, 1980 in ) is an American football center, most recently for the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Oakland Raiders in the second round of the 2004 NFL Draft. He played college football at Virginia Tech.
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Jake Gyllenhaal
Jacob Benjamin "Jake" Gyllenhaal ( "Jillen-hall"; born December 19, 1980) is an American actor. The son of director Stephen Gyllenhaal and screenwriter Naomi Foner, Gyllenhaal began acting at age ten. He has appeared in diverse roles since his first lead role in 1999's October Sky, followed by the 2001 indie cult hit Donnie Darko, in which he played a psychologically troubled teen and onscreen brother to his real-life sister, actress Maggie Gyllenhaal. In the 2004 blockbuster The Day After Tomorrow he portrayed a student caught in a cataclysmic global cooling event, alongside Dennis Quaid as his father. He then played against type as a frustrated Marine in Jarhead (2005). The same year, he won critical acclaim as Jack Twist in the film Brokeback Mountain opposite Heath Ledger.
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Jakob von Uexkull
Jakob von Uexkull (born 19 August 1944) is a writer, lecturer and former member of the European Parliament who in 2006, together with Herbert Girardet, initiated the World Future Council . In 1980 he founded the Right Livelihood Award which is sometimes called the alternative Nobel Prize . He holds both Swedish and German citizenship. Uexkull is married and has three children. He lives with his family in London.
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James Callaghan
Leonard James Callaghan, Baron Callaghan of Cardiff, KG, PC (27 March 1912 – 26 March 2005), was a British Labour politician, who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1976 to 1979 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1976 to 1980. Commonly known as Jim Callaghan (and nicknamed Sunny Jim, Gentleman Jim, Lucky Jim or Big Jim), Callaghan is the only person to have served in all four of the Great Offices of State: Prime Minister, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Home Secretary and Foreign Secretary.
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James Toseland
James Michael Toseland (born 5 October 1980 in Doncaster, South Yorkshire is an English motorcycle racer. Toseland was the World Superbike Champion on a Ten Kate Honda, who also won the Superbike World Championship on a Ducati. Toseland is currently competing in the World Superbike Championship for the Sterilgarda Yamaha team, but has been dropped for next year as Marco Melandri and Eugene Laverty join the team. He is one of only two men, the other being Troy Corser, to have won the Superbike World Championship for two different manufacturers.
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James Watson Cronin
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Jane Froman
Jane Froman (November 10, 1907 – April 22, 1980) was an American singer and actress. During her thirty-year career, Froman performed on stage, radio and television despite chronic injuries that she sustained from a 1943 plane crash. The 1952 film, With a Song in My Heart, is based on her life.
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Janet Cooke
Janet Leslie Cooke (born July 23, 1954, in Toledo, Ohio) is an American former journalist who became infamous when it was discovered that a Pulitzer Prize winning story that she had written for The Washington Post had been fabricated.
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Jasmin Wagner
Jasmin Wagner, ([jasˈmiːn ˈʋaːgnɐ], born April 20, 1980), better known as Blümchen [ˈblyːmçən], is a multi-platinum selling pop and dance music singer, aspiring actress, model/spokeswoman. Although she releases her English albums under the name Blossom, her German stage name "Blümchen" actually translates to "floret" or "small flower". She is also known as Denim Girl, performing the song "Are You Ready For Some Darkness?" on the Alpha Motherfuckers - A Tribute to Turbonegro album.
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Jason Ritter
Jason Morgan Ritter (born February 17, 1980) is an American actor, son of the late actor John Ritter and actress Nancy Morgan. Ritter is probably best known for his role as Kevin Girardi in the television series Joan of Arcadia and as Sean Walker in the NBC series The Event.
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Jasper Pääkkönen
Jasper Pääkkönen (born 15 July 1980) is a Finnish television and film actor and film producer.
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Jay Silverheels
Jay Silverheels (May 26, 1912 – March 5, 1980) was a Canadian Mohawk Indian actor. He was well known for his role as Tonto, the faithful American Indian companion of the Lone Ranger in a long-running American television series.
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Jean Dausset
Jean-Baptiste-Gabriel-Joachim Dausset (October 19, 1916 - June 6, 2009) was a French immunologist born in Toulouse, France. He married Rose Mayoral in 1963, with whom he had two children, Henri and Irène. Dausset received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1980 along with Baruj Benacerraf and George Davis Snell for their discovery and characterisation of the genes making the major histocompatibility complex. Using the money from his Nobel Prize and a grant from the French Television, Dausset founded the Human Polymorphism Study Center (CEPH) in 1984, which was later renamed the Foundation Jean Dausset-CEPH in his honour. Jean Dausset died on June 6, 2009 in Majorca, Spain, at the age of 92.
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Jean Donovan
Jean Donovan (April 10, 1953 – December 2, 1980) was an American lay missionary who was murdered with three nuns in El Salvador by a military death squad while volunteering to do charity work during the civil war there.
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Jean Harris
Jean Harris (born Jean Struven in Cleveland, Ohio on April 27, 1923) was the headmistress of The Madeira School for girls in McLean, Virginia who made national news in 1980 as the defendant in a high-profile murder case of her ex-lover Dr. Herman Tarnower, a well-known cardiologist and author of the best-selling book The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet.
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Jean Piaget
Jean Piaget (; (9 August 1896 – 16 September 1980) was a Swiss developmental psychologist known for his epistemological studies with children. His theory of cognitive development and epistemological view are together called "genetic epistemology".
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Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (, ; 21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980) was a French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic. He was one of the leading figures in 20th century French philosophy, existentialism, and Marxism, and his work continues to influence fields such as Marxist philosophy, sociology, and literary studies. Sartre was also noted for his long relationship with the author and social theorist, Simone de Beauvoir. He was awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature but refused the honour.
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Jennie Finch
Jennie Lynn Finch (born September 3, 1980 in La Mirada, California), or occasionally using her husband's surname, Daigle, is an American softball player who pitches for the USA national softball team and the Chicago Bandits. Finch helped lead Team USA to win the gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics and a silver medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Time magazine described her as the most famous softball player in history. On July 20, 2010 Finch officially announced her retirement from softball to focus on her family.
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Jeph Jacques
Jeph Paul Jacques (born ) writes and illustrates the webcomic Questionable Content. He was born in Rockville, Maryland, graduated from Hampshire College with a degree in music. He lives in Easthampton, Massachusetts with his wife (and business manager) Cristi.
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Jerry Fielding
Jerry Fielding (June 17, 1922 – February 17, 1980) was an American radio, record, film and television composer, conductor, and musical director.
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Jesse Owens
Athlete
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Jessica Dragonette
Jessica Dragonette (February 14, 1900-March 18, 1980) was a singer who became popular on American radio and was active in the World War II effort.
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Jessica Simpson
Jessica Ann Simpson (born July 10, 1980) is an American singer, actress, television personality and fashion designer who rose to fame in 1999. She has achieved seven Billboard Top 40 hits, and five studio albums of which four have been positioned in the top 10 on Billboard 200 and besides that have been certified by the RIAA, three gold and two Multi- Platinum. Simpson starred with her then-husband Nick Lachey in the MTV reality show . She ventured into the country music market in 2008 and released Do You Know. She has sold 20 million records worldwide. Simpson has a total of records sales in Australia of more than 426,000 copies and was ranked in the # 113 on the 1000 artists chart of ARIA Music Decade Charts (1980–2010). In 2009, Billboard named Simpson as the 95th overall best Artists of the Decade. Also was ranked at number 86 on Billboard 200 Artists, solely based on album sales.
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Jim Sorgi
James "Jim" Sorgi (born December 3, 1980 in Fraser, Michigan) is an American football quarterback for the New York Giants of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Indianapolis Colts in the sixth round of the 2004 NFL Draft. He played college football at Wisconsin.
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Jimmy Carter
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. (born October 1, 1924) served as the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981 and was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, the only U.S. President to have received the Prize after leaving office. Before he became President, Carter served two terms as a Georgia State Senator and one as Governor of Georgia, from 1971 to 1975, and was a peanut farmer and naval officer.
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Jimmy Durante
James Francis "Jimmy" Durante (February 10, 1893 – January 29, 1980) was an American singer, pianist, comedian and actor. His distinctive clipped gravelly speech, comic language butchery, jazz-influenced songs, and large nose helped make him one of America's most familiar and popular personalities of the 1920s through the 1970s. His jokes about his nose included referring to it as a "Schnozzola", and the word became his nickname.
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Joe Dassin
Joseph Ira Dassin (November 5, 1938 – August 20, 1980), more commonly known as Joe Dassin, was a French/American singer-songwriter. Joe was born in New York City to American film director Jules Dassin and Béatrice Launer (1913-2005), a New-York-born violinist, who after graduating from a Hebrew High School in the Bronx studied with the British violinist Harold Berkely at the Juilliard School of Music. His father was of Russian and Polish Jewish extraction, his maternal grandfather was an Austrian Jewish immigrant, who arrived in New York with his family at age 11.
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Joel A. Sutherland
Joel A. Sutherland (born 1 December 1980 in Oakville, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian author and editor of thriller, horror and fantasy short stories and novels, anthologies and children's books. His notable works include Frozen Blood and Be a Writing Superstar Sutherland's writing has been nominated for the Bram Stoker Award and the Black Quill Award. He lives in Courtice, Ontario.
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John Barrie
John Barrie was a British actor who appeared in a number of television shows and films, but became best known for his roles on the police series Sergeant Cork and Z Cars in the 1960s. He was born in New Brighton in 1917 and made his screen debut in the 1954 film Yankee Pasha. He retired from acting in the 1970s.
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John Culshaw
John Royds Culshaw (28 May 1924 - 27 April 1980) was a pioneering English classical record producer for Decca Records.
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John Laurie
:For the Canadian mountain, see Mount John Laurie.
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John Lennon
John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980) was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles and, with Paul McCartney, formed one of the most successful songwriting partnerships of the 20th century.
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John Mauchly
John William Mauchly (August 30, 1907 – January 8, 1980) was an American physicist who, along with J. Presper Eckert, designed ENIAC, the first general purpose electronic digital computer, as well as EDVAC, BINAC and UNIVAC I, the first commercial computer made in the United States.
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John McEwen
Sir John "Black Jack" McEwen, GCMG, CH (29 March 1900 – 20 November 1980), was an Australian politician and the 18th Prime Minister of Australia.
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John Terry
John George Terry (born 7 December 1980) is an English professional footballer. Terry plays in a centre back position and is the captain of Chelsea in the Premier League. Terry was also captain of the England national football team from August 2006 until February 2010.
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John-Michael Liles
John-Michael Liles (born November 25, 1980) is an American professional ice hockey defenseman for the Colorado Avalanche of the NHL. He is also a minority owner of the Indiana Ice of the USHL.
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Johnny Rutherford
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Jolin Tsai
Jolin Tsai () is a Golden Melody Award winning Taiwanese Mandopop singer.
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Jon Lajoie
Jonathan "Jon" Lajoie (born August 21, 1980) is a Canadian comedian, actor, rapper, singer, musician and Internet celebrity from Montreal, Quebec.
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Jordana Brewster
Jordana Brewster (born April 26, 1980) is an American actress, perhaps best known for her roles in The Fast and the Furious, , The Faculty, D.E.B.S., Annapolis, Chuck, and most recently Fast & Furious in 2009.
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Joseph Banks Rhine
Joseph Banks Rhine (September 29, 1895 – February 20, 1980) (usually known as J. B. Rhine) was a botanist who later developed an interest in parapsychology and psychology. Rhine founded the parapsychology lab at Duke University, the Journal of Parapsychology, and the Foundation for Research on the Nature of Man. He also initiated the Parapsychological Association. He coined the term ESP.
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Joseph Paul Franklin
Joseph Paul Franklin (born April 13, 1950) is an American serial killer. He has been convicted of several murders, and has confessed to the attempted assassinations of two prominent people: the 1978 shooting of magazine publisher Larry Flynt and Flynt's attorney, and the 1980 shooting of Vernon Jordan. Franklin has not been convicted in either of those cases. Because Franklin has changed his story about some cases, the full extent of his crimes is uncertain.
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Joseph Yobo
Joseph Yobo (born 6 September 1980 in Kono) is a Nigerian football defender, who currently plays for Fenerbahçe S.K. in the Turkish Süper Lig on loan from Everton. He also plays for the Nigerian national team.
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Josh Beckett
Joshua Patrick Beckett (born May 15, 1980, in ) is a Major League Baseball right-handed starting pitcher for the Boston Red Sox. During his career in the playoffs, he won the 2003 World Series MVP Award with the Florida Marlins, and received the 2007 ALCS MVP award with the Red Sox.
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Josh Howard
Joshua Jay Howard (born April 28, 1980) is an American professional basketball player currently playing for the NBA's Washington Wizards. At and , he plays as a small forward.
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Josip Broz Tito
Josip Broz Tito (born Josip Broz; Cyrillic script: Јосип Броз Тито; 7 May 1892 – 4 May 1980) was a Yugoslav revolutionary and statesman. He was Secretary-General (later President) of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia (1939–80), and went on to heroically lead the World War II Yugoslav guerrilla movement, the Yugoslav Partisans (1941–45). After the war, he was the Prime Minister (1943–63) and later President (1953–80) of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY). From 1943 to his death in 1980, he held the rank of Marshal of Yugoslavia, serving as the supreme commander of the Yugoslav military, the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA).
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José Iturbi
José Iturbi (28 November 1895 – 28 June 1980) was a Spanish conductor, harpsichordist and pianist. He appeared in several Hollywood films of the 1940s, notably playing himself in the 1943 musical, Thousands Cheer and in the 1945 film, Anchors Aweigh. He was involved in a complex family custody battle in the 1940s that culminated in his former son-in-law kidnapping Iturbi's two granddaughters.
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Joy Adamson
Joy Adamson (20 January 1910 – 3 January 1980) (born Friederike Victoria Gessner) was a naturalist, artist and author best known for her book, Born Free, which describes her experiences raising a lion cub named Elsa. Born Free was printed in several languages and made into an Academy Award-winning movie of the same name. She was the wife of British wildlife conservationist George Adamson.
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Juan Carlos Ferrero
Juan Carlos Ferrero Donat (born 12 February 1980) is a professional tennis player, and a former World No. 1 ranked player, from Spain. He captured the men's singles title at the 2003 French Open, and in September that year, he became the 21st player to hold the world no. 1 ranking. He was also the runner-up at the 2002 French Open and the 2003 U.S. Open. His nickname is "Mosquito" due to his speed and wiry, strong physique.
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Julien Absalon
Julien Absalon (born August 16, 1980 in Remiremont, Vosges) is a French cross-country mountain biker. He won gold medals at the 2004 Summer Olympics and at the 2008 Summer Olympics. He rides for the Spanish mountain bike team Orbea. Absalon has 17 World Cup wins. Absalon won four consecutive Mountain Bike World Championships (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007).
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Julius Peppers
Julius Frazier Peppers (born January 18, 1980) is an American football defensive end for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Carolina Panthers second overall in the 2002 NFL Draft. He played college football at North Carolina.
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Jung Da Bin
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Kareena Kapoor
Kareena Kapoor (; born on September 21, 1980), often informally referred to as Bebo, is an Indian actress who appears in Bollywood films. During her career, Kapoor has received five Filmfare Awards and has been noted for her performances in a range of film genres; these include her work from contemporary romantic dramas to comedies, period films to major Bollywood productions, as well as less publicised independent films.
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Karen Asrian
Karen Asrian (24 April 1980 – 9 June 2008) was an Armenian chess Grandmaster.
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Karl Dönitz
Karl Dönitz (; 16 September 1891 – 24 December 1980) was a World War II German Admiral and the fourth and last President of the German Reich.
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Kasey Kahne
Kasey Kenneth Kahne (; born April 10, 1980 in Enumclaw, Washington) is a full-time NASCAR driver. He participates in the Sprint Cup Series, NASCAR Nationwide Series and the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour. He drives the #9 Budweiser Ford Fusion from Richard Petty Motorsports in the Sprint Cup Series. Kahne also drives the Nationwide Series #38 Great Clips Toyota Camry from Braun Racing.
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Kate Ryan
Kate Ryan (born Katrien Verbeeck on July 22, 1980) is a Belgian World Music Award winner. She began her singing career in 2001 and represented Belgium in the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 with "Je t'adore" coming in 12th place in the semi-final.
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Kay Hammond
Dorothy Katherine Standing (February 18, 1909 - May 4, 1980), better known under the stage name Kay Hammond, was an English stage and film actress.
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Kay Medford
Kay Medford (September 14, 1914 – April 10, 1980), was an American character actress.
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Kayte Christensen
Kayte Lauren Christensen (born November 16, 1980 in Lakeview, Oregon) is an American professional basketball player who has competed internationally and for the Phoenix Mercury and Chicago Sky in the WNBA.
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Kazuhito Tadano
is a right-handed pitcher for the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters in Japan's Pacific League. He had previously pitched in Major League Baseball for the Cleveland Indians.
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Kei Yasuda
is a Japanese singer, musician and actress under the Up Front Agency's Hello! Project. She was a member and co-leader of the J-pop group Morning Musume. Yasuda, along with Mari Yaguchi and Sayaka Ichii, were the second generation of singers to be recruited into Morning Musume. Morning Musume had only released one official single, Morning Coffee, prior to their joining.
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Keith Godchaux
Keith Richard Godchaux (July 19, 1948 – July 23, 1980) was a musician best known for his tenure in the rock group the Grateful Dead.
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Kelly van der Veer
Kelly van der Veer (born May 6, 1980) is a Dutch television personality, singer and actress. She is regarded the most prominent transsexual person in the Netherlands and rose to fame after competing in Big Brother - The Battle, a Dutch version of the Big Brother-format.
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Kenneth Tynan
Kenneth Peacock Tynan (2 April 1927 – 26 July 1980) was an influential and often controversial English theatre critic and writer.
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Kerry Katona
Kerry Jayne Elizabeth Katona (previously Croft; born 6 September 1980) is an English singer, actress, author and television presenter. Best known for her television work, predominantly in light entertainment and reality shows, she has also been a pop singer with girl group Atomic Kitten, a magazine columnist, an actress, and the "author" of ghostwritten books that include an autobiography and several novels. She has appeared in television commercials, notably for the Iceland and Asda supermarkets.
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Kim Kardashian
Kimberly Noel "Kim" Kardashian (born October 21, 1980) is an American celebutante, socialite, television personality, producer, actress, and model. She also is the daughter of late attorney Robert Kardashian. She is widely known for a sex tape with her former boyfriend Ray J and her E! reality series which she shares with her family, Keeping Up with the Kardashians. Since then, Kim has launched multiple fragrances, guest starred on numerous shows and competed on ABC ABC's Dancing with the Stars. She also has had roles in movies such as, Disaster Movie, and Deep in the Valley.
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Kim Poirier
Kim Poirier (born February 6, 1980) is a Canadian actress, singer, film producer, and television host.
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Kimeru
Kimeru (most often written either in Romaji (Kimeru) or with Katakana (キメル), but has been written as きめる (Hiragana) and (決) (Kanji), (June 17, 1980) is a J-pop musician, singer, and stage actor. He is most famous for his work with The Prince of Tennis. Born June 17, 1980 in Kumamoto-ken in Japan, after graduating from high school, he originally became a mailman, but later decided to pursue a career as a singer. He adopted the stage name Kimeru, which means "to decide" in Japanese, before debuting. Kimeru's birth name has never been announced publicly.
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Kristen Bell
Kristen Anne Bell (born July 18, 1980) is an American actress. Although her first film role was an uncredited appearance in Polish Wedding, Bell previously acted in stage and musical productions. In 2001, she made her Broadway début as Becky Thatcher in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. After re-locating to Los Angeles, Bell landed various television guest appearances and small film parts before appearing in a lead role in the David Mamet film Spartan. She gained fame as the title role on the critically acclaimed television series Veronica Mars from September 2004 to May 2007.
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Kristina Lenko
Kristina Lenko (born October 4, 1980 in Saskatchewan), is a Canadian professional ice dancer. She competed internationally for Canada with Danny Moir before turning professional.
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Laura Prepon
Laura Prepon (born March 7, 1980) is an American actress, best known for her role as Donna Pinciotti in the long-running Fox situation comedy ''That '70s Show, for all eight seasons. She is also known for the role of Hannah Daniels on the ABC drama October Road''.
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Lawrence Klein
Lawrence Robert Klein (born September 14, 1920) is an American economist. For his work in creating computer models to forecast economic trends in the field of econometrics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, he was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1980. Specifically "for the creation of economic models and their application to the analysis of economic fluctuations and economic policies." Due to his efforts, such models have become widespread among economists.
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Lech Wałęsa
Lech Wałęsa ( , ; born 29 September 1943) is a Polish politician, trade-union organizer, and human-rights activist. A charismatic leader, he co-founded Solidarity (Solidarność), the Soviet bloc's first independent trade union, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983, and served as President of Poland 1990–95.
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Ledley King
Ledley Brenton King (born 12 October 1980) is an English footballer who plays as a central defender for Tottenham Hotspur in the Premier League and the England national team. He is the longest serving player at the club and captained Spurs for four years. He is currently contracted to Tottenham until 2012. Known for his pace, strength, heading, composure on the ball with both feet and ability in timing his tackles, he has been described as "the best central defender I have seen in my career" by Martin Jol In March 2009 an article in The Times named King as Tottenham's 25th best player of all time.
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Lee Hyun-il
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Lewis Milestone
Lewis Milestone (born Lev Milstein) (September 30, 1895 – September 25, 1980) was a Russian-American motion picture director. He is known for directing Two Arabian Knights (1927) and All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), both of which received Academy Awards for Best Director. He also directed The Front Page (1931 - nomination), The General Died at Dawn (1936), Of Mice and Men (1940), ''Ocean's Eleven (1960), and Mutiny on the Bounty'' (1962).
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Lil Dagover
Lil Dagover (September 30, 1887 – January 24, 1980) was a German stage, film and television actress whose career spanned nearly six decades.
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Lillian Randolph
Lillian Randolph (December 14, 1898 - September 12, 1980) was an American actress and singer, a veteran of radio, film, and television.
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Lindsey Yamasaki
Lindsey Brooke Yamasaki (born June 2, 1980 in Oregon City, Oregon) is an American former professional women's basketball player.
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Lisa Middelhauve
Lisa Middelhauve (born Lisa Schaphaus November 28, 1980) is a German mezzo-soprano singer and former lead vocalist and pianist of German symphonic metal band Xandria. Her last recorded album with Xandria was "Salomé - The Seventh Veil" from 2007 and the single from the album "Save My Life" in which she sports a darker hair colour than the other three albums ("Kill the Sun", "Ravenheart", and "India") in which she has dark red hair.
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Louise Lovely
Louise Lovely (born Nellie Louise Alberti, 28 February 1895 – 18 March 1980) was the first Australian motion picture actress to find success in America. As such, she can be considered a forerunner to successful contemporary Australian actresses such as Nicole Kidman, Toni Collette, Naomi Watts, and Cate Blanchett.
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Lovieanne Jung
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Luis Muñoz Marín
Don José Luis Alberto Muñoz Marín (February 18, 1898April 30, 1980) was a Puerto Rican poet, journalist, and politician. Regarded as the "father of modern Puerto Rico," he was the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico. Muñoz Marín was the son of Luis Muñoz Rivera, a renowned autonomist leader. Following the death of his father, he began writing poetry, eventually publishing two books. After a brief involvement with the Socialist Party, he began developing an ideology based on independence. In 1932, he joined the newly-formed Liberal Party of Puerto Rico and ran a successful bid for senator. In 1937, Muñoz Marín was expelled from the Liberal Party and created a group known as Acción Social Independentista. One year later, he took part in the foundation of the Popular Democratic Party of Puerto Rico. This party won a majority in the Senate of Puerto Rico, with Muñoz Marín serving as its president. In 1947, the United States Congress passed legislation that allowed Puerto Rico to elect its own governor. Consequently, Muñoz Marín ran a successful campaign for the position, taking office on January 2, 1949.
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Luke Ravenstahl
Luke Robert Ravenstahl (born February 6, 1980) is the current Mayor of Pittsburgh. In September 2006, he became the youngest mayor in Pittsburgh's history at the age of 26. He is among the youngest mayors of a major city in American history.
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Macaulay Culkin
Macaulay Carson Culkin (born August 26, 1980) is an American actor. He became widely known for his potrayal of Kevin McCallister in Home Alone and . At the height of his fame, he was regarded as the most successful child actor since Shirley Temple. He was also considered one of the late entertainer Michael Jackson's best friends.
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Maggie Lawson
Margaret "Maggie" Lawson (born August 12, 1980) is an American actress who has starred in the sitcoms Inside Schwartz, ''It's All Relative, and Crumbs, as well as the television movie Nancy Drew''. She is best known for her role as Juliet O'Hara in the TV show Psych.
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Maia Hirasawa
Maia Hirasawa (born May 5, 1980) is a Swedish-Japanese singer-songwriter.
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Maksim Chmerkovskiy
Maksim Aleksandrovich Chmerkovskiy (, Maksim Oleksandrovich Chmerkovskiy; ; born January 17, 1980) is a Ukrainian Latin Ballroom dance champion, choreographer, and instructor. He is best known as one of the professional dancers on the American television series Dancing With The Stars, on which he first appeared in season two.
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Malcolm Fraser
John Malcolm Fraser AC, CH, GCL (; born 21 May 1930) is a former Australian Liberal Party politician who was the 22nd Prime Minister of Australia. He came to power in the 1975 election following the dismissal of the Whitlam Labor government, in which he played a key role. After three election victories, he was defeated by Bob Hawke in the 1983 election and ended his career alienated from his own party.
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Mantovani
Annunzio Paolo Mantovani (November 15, 1905 – March 29, 1980), known by the mononym Mantovani, was an Anglo-Italian conductor and light orchestra-style entertainer with a cascading strings musical signature. He is more associated with the light orchestra genre than any other entertainer.
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Manus Boonjumnong
Manus Boonjumnong (, born June 23, 1980) is a Thai boxer who won the Olympics at Light Welterweight (60-64 kg) at the 2004 Summer Olympics . He is the brother of Non Boonjumnong.
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Marat Safin
Marat Mikhailovich Safin; (); born January 27, 1980 in Moscow, is a former Russian tennis player. Safin won two majors and reached the world number 1 ranking during his career. He was also famous for his emotional outbursts and sometimes fiery temper on court. Safin is the older brother of former World No. 1 WTA player Dinara Safina (Dinara Mikhailovna Safina) (Russian: Динара Михайловна Сафина), born April 27, 1986 in Moscow. They are the first brother-sister tandem in tennis history to both achieve No. 1 rankings.
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Marathon of hope
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Marc Connelly
Marcus Cook Connelly (13 December 1890 - 21 December 1980) was an American playwright, director, producer, performer, and lyricist. He was a key member of the Algonquin Round Table, and received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1930.
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Marcel Vigneron
Marcel Vigneron (born May 3, 1980) is an American chef best known as the runner-up of the second season of Top Chef, placing behind Ilan Hall.
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Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, (née Roberts; born 13 October 1925) served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. Thatcher is the only woman to have held either post.
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Marie Under
Marie Under (27 March 1883 in Tallinn, Estonia – 25 September 1980 in Stockholm, Sweden) was one of the greatest Estonian poets.
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Marin Preda
Marin Preda (; 5 August 1922 – 16 May 1980) was a Romanian novelist, one of the best post-WWII Romanian writers.
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Marit Bjørgen
Marit Bjørgen (born March 21, 1980 in Trondheim) is a Norwegian cross country skier and triple Olympic champion from Midtre Gauldal, Norway. Bjørgen is the most successful sprinter in Cross-country World Cup history with twenty-one victories. She is ranked third in the ladies all-time Cross-country World Cup rankings with thirty-seven individual victories. Only Yelena Välbe of the former Soviet Union and fellow Norwegian Bente Skari have more victories. One of her most notable achievements was winning the most medals at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics, with five, including three gold medals.
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Mark Nichols
Mark Nichols, ONL (born on January 1, 1980 in Labrador City, Newfoundland and Labrador) is a Canadian curler from St John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.
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Mark Prior
Mark William Prior (born September 7, 1980 in San Diego, California) is a pitcher in the Texas Rangers organization. He played for the Chicago Cubs from 2002-2006. His career has been notably muddled with injuries after a promising start which had the sports media calling him a future superstar. His repertoire of pitches includes a low to mid 90s fastball, a curveball, a slurve, and a changeup.
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Mark Webber (actor)
Mark Allen Webber (born July 19, 1980) is an American actor, known for his roles in the films Snow Day and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. He received a Best Actor nomination for his performance in Just Like the Son at the 2007 Method Fest Independent Film Festival and was the recipient of the Rising Star Award at the 2007 Philadelphia Film Festival.
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Marlon King
Marlon Francis King (born 26 April 1980) is a professional football player who plays as a striker for Football League Championship side Coventry City. After starting his career in non-League football with Dulwich Hamlet, he played for Barnet, Gillingham, Leeds United and Nottingham Forest before moving to Watford in 2005. At Watford he was the Football League Championship top scorer, and was voted Watford player of the season as the club earned promotion to the Premier League. King joined Wigan Athletic in 2008, and subsequently spent loan spells at Hull City and Middlesbrough.
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Marshall McLuhan
Herbert Marshall McLuhan, CC (July 21, 1911 – December 31, 1980) was a Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar—a professor of English literature, a literary critic, a rhetorician, and a communication theorist. McLuhan's work is viewed as one of the cornerstones of the study of media theory, as well as having practical applications in the advertising and television industries.
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Marshall Reed
: For the American Bishop of the Methodist Church, see Marshall Russell Reed.
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Martin Truex Jr
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Martina Hingis
Martina Hingis (born 30 September 1980 in Košice, Slovakia, then Czechoslovakia) is a Swiss former professional tennis player who spent a total of 209 weeks as World No. 1. She won five Grand Slam singles titles (three Australian Opens, one Wimbledon, and one US Open). She also won nine Grand Slam women's doubles titles, winning a calendar year doubles Grand Slam in 1998, and one Grand Slam mixed doubles title.
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Matthew Lawrence
Matthew William Lawrence (born February 11, 1980) is an American actor known for his leading role in the movie Cheats with Trevor Fehrman and his role of Jack Hunter on the ABC sitcom Boy Meets World from 1997 to 2000, and his roles in movies such as The Hot Chick, The Comebacks, and Mrs. Doubtfire.
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Maud Hart Lovelace
Maud Hart Lovelace (April 25, 1892 - March 11, 1980) was an American author best known for the Betsy-Tacy series.
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Me'Lisa Barber
'''Me'Lisa Barber''' (born October 4, 1980 in Livingston, New Jersey) is an American track and field sprint athlete.
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Michael Stasko
Michael John Stasko (born May 29, 1980) is an Canadian actor, film producer, film writer, film composer, film director and film editor. Graduating from The University of Windsor in Communication Studies with a concentration in Film he then went on to do a Post-Grad from Sheridan College in Advance Television and Film. Michael also plays in a band, Bloemfontein. His film credits can be seen at [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1618296/ ] which include Things To Do (2006) and the Iodine movie (2009).
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Michael Vick
Michael Dwayne Vick (born June 26, 1980) is an American football quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League. He played for the Atlanta Falcons for six seasons before serving time in prison for his involvement in an illegal dog fighting ring.
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Michelle Kwan
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Michelle McCool
Michelle Leigh McCool (born January 25, 1980) is an American professional wrestler currently working for World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) on the SmackDown brand, where she is currently the WWE Unified Divas champion
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Michelle Wild
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Michelle Ye
Michelle Ye Xuan is a Hong Kong actress. In 1999, she won the Miss Chinese International competition. Ye then signed a contract with TVB from 1999-2005. After she left TVB, She signed with Rich & Famous Talent Management Group Limited to pursue a movie career.
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Milburn Stone
Milburn Stone (July 5, 1904 – June 12, 1980) was an American television actor, a nephew of Broadway comedian Fred Stone and the son of a shopkeeper, best known for his role as "Doc" (Dr. Galen Adams) on the CBS western series Gunsmoke.
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Miliza Korjus
Miliza Elizabeth Korjus (18 August 1909 - 26 August 1980) was a coloratura soprano opera singer, who later appeared in Hollywood films.
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Milton H. Erickson
Milton Hyland Erickson, (5 December 1901 in Aurum, Nevada – 25 March 1980 in Phoenix, Arizona) was an American psychiatrist specializing in medical hypnosis and family therapy. He was founding president of the American Society for Clinical Hypnosis and a fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, the American Psychological Association, and the American Psychopathological Association. He is noted for his approach to the unconscious mind as creative and solution-generating. He is also noted for influencing brief therapy, strategic family therapy, family systems therapy, solution focused brief therapy, and neuro-linguistic programming.
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Mohammad Hatta
(12 August 1902 - 14 March 1980) was born in Bukittinggi, West Sumatra, Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia). He was Indonesia's first vice president, later also serving as the country's Prime Minister. Known as "The Proclamator", he and a number of Indonesians, including the first president of Indonesia, Sukarno, fought for the independence of Indonesia from the Dutch. Despite his efforts to gain Indonesian independence, he studied in the Netherlands from 1921 until 1932. Moreover, since his early education, he studied in Dutch schools in Indonesia.
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Mohammed Rafi
Mohammed Rafi (, lang-ur|; December 24, 1924 – July 31, 1980), was an Indian playback singer whose career spanned four decades. He won several awards including Padma Shri, 5 National Awards and 6 Filmfare awards.
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Monica (singer)
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Monika Pyrek
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Monique Coleman
Adrienne Monique Coleman (born November 13, 1980) is an American actress, singer and dancer known for being one of the co-stars in the High School Musical movies, in which she plays Taylor McKessie. Coleman also had a recurring role on The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, as a school girl named Mary-Margaret. She also competed in the third edition of ABC's Dancing with the Stars, finishing in fourth place. She will have her own talk-show, named "Gimme Mo'" and talking about teenage issues.
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Muriel Rukeyser
Muriel Rukeyser (15 December 1913 – 12 February 1980) was an American poet and political activist, best known for her poems about equality, feminism, social justice, and Judaism. Kenneth Rexroth said that she was the greatest poet of her "exact generation".
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Natalie Casey
Natalie Casey (born 15 April 1980, Rossendale, Lancashire) is an English actress, television presenter and singer. She is best known for her long running roles in the TV series Hollyoaks and Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps. She has also appeared on stage and worked as a television presenter for MTV, Channel 4 and the BBC.
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Nicholas Longworth
:See also Nicholas Longworth (1783 - 1863).
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Nick Carter (singer)
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Nick Swisher
Nicholas Thompson "Nick" Swisher (born November 25, 1980, in Columbus, Ohio) is an outfielder for the New York Yankees. Swisher is a switch hitter who throws left-handed.
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Nicolas Douchez
Nicolas Douchez (born April 22, 1980 in Rosny-sous-Bois) is a French football goalkeeper who currently plays for Rennes in the French Ligue 1.
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Nigel Short
Nigel David Short MBE (born 1 June 1965 in Leigh, Lancashire) is often regarded as the strongest English chess player of the 20th century. He became a Grandmaster at age 19. He challenged for the World Chess Championship against Garry Kasparov at London 1993. Still active, Short continues to enjoy international success. He is also a chess columnist, coach and commentator.
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Nihat Erim
Ismail Nihat Erim (1912 Kandıra, Kocaeli – July 19, 1980 Kartal, Istanbul) was a Turkish politician and jurist. He served as the prime minister of Turkey from 1971 until 1972, for almost 14 months. He was assassinated in Istanbul in 1980.
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Norah McGuinness
Norah McGuinness (7 November 1901, County Londonderry, Ireland – 22 November 1980, County Dublin) was an Irish painter and illustrator.
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Nordstrom Sisters
The Nordstrom Sisters were an American cabaret act which performed internationally from 1931 to 1976.
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Norihiro Nishi
is a Japanese football player who currently plays for Jubilo Iwata. He was capped 5 times for the Japanese national team.
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Norman Shelley
Norman Shelley (16 February 1903 – 22 August 1980) was an English actor, best known for his work in radio, in particular for the BBC's ''Children's Hour. He also had a recurring role as Colonel Danby in the long-running radio soap opera The Archers''.
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Nozomi Takeuchi
is a Japanese gravure idol, and a female talent. She is from Aichi, belonged to the show-business production Yume Kikaku. Her nickname is 'Kojocho' (means a factory manager), derives from her handle name of the official blog. She graduated from 'Kunitachi College of Music' (in Japan), and plays the piano.
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Nyncke Beekhuyzen
Nyncke Beekhuyzen (born 24 January 1980 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch actress.
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Omar Bravo
Omar Bravo Tordecillas (born March 4, 1980 in Los Mochis, Sinaloa) is a Mexican international footballer who is currently at Guadalajara.
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Oscar Romero
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Oskar Kokoschka
Oskar Kokoschka (1 March 1886 – 22 February 1980) was an Austrian artist, poet and playwright best known for his intense expressionistic portraits and landscapes.
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Ossama Haidar
Ossama Haidar (born on 14 January 1980) is a Lebanese footballer who plays for Al-Ahed in Lebanon. He is a midfielder. He represented the Lebanon national football team nine times between 2002 and 2004. He formerly played for Tadamon Sour.
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Oswald Mosley
Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, 6th Baronet (16 November 1896 – 3 December 1980) was a British politician, known principally as the founder of the British Union of Fascists. He was a member of Parliament for Harrow from 1918 to 1924 and for Smethwick from 1926 to 1931.
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Otto Frank
Otto Heinrich "Pim" Frank (12 May 1889 – 19 August 1980) was the father of Anne and Margot Frank. As the sole member of his family to survive the Holocaust, he inherited Anne's manuscripts after her death, and arranged for the publication of her diary in 1947.
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Pascual Jordan
Pascual Jordan (b. 18 October 1902 in Hanover, Germany; d. 31 July 1980 in Hamburg, Federal Republic of Germany) was a theoretical and mathematical physicist who made significant contributions to quantum mechanics and quantum field theory. He contributed much to the mathematical form of matrix mechanics, and developed canonical anticommutation relations for fermions. While the Jordan algebra he invented is no longer employed in quantum mechanics, it has found other mathematical applications.
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Patrick Agyemang
Patrick Agyemang (born 29 September 1980 in Walthamstow, England) is a footballer who plays for Queens Park Rangers as a striker. He has been capped 4 times by the Ghana national team, scoring one goal.
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Patrick Aufiero
Patrick Aufiero (born July 1, 1980, in Winchester, Massachusetts) is a retired American professional ice hockey defenseman. He was drafted in the third round (90th overall) in the 1999 NHL Entry Draft by the New York Rangers.
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Patrick Depailler
Patrick André Eugène Joseph Depailler (9 August 1944 - 1 August 1980) was a racing driver from France. He participated in 95 World Championship Formula One Grands Prix, debuting on 2 July 1972. He also participated in several non-Championship Formula One races.
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Pau Gasol
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Paul Berg
Paul Berg (born on June 30, 1926 in Brooklyn, New York, U.S.) is an American biochemist and professor emeritus at Stanford University. He graduated from Abraham Lincoln High School in 1943, received his B.S. in biochemistry from Penn State University in 1948 and Ph.D. in biochemistry from Case Western Reserve University in 1952. He is a member of the Beta Sigma Rho fraternity (now Beta Sigma Beta). In 1980 he shared half of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry with the team of Walter Gilbert and Frederick Sanger. All three were recognized for their important contributions to basic research in nucleic acids. His studies as a postgraduate involved the use of radioisotope tracers in intermediary metabolism. This resulted in the understanding of how foodstuffs are converted to cellular materials, through the use of isotopic carbons or heavy nitrogen atoms. Paul Berg's doctorate paper is now known as the conversion of formic acid, formaldehyde and methanol to fully reduced states of methyl groups in methionine. He was also one of the first to demonstrate that folic acid and B12 cofactors had roles in the processes mentioned.
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Paul Geidel
Paul Geidel (April 21, 1894 - May, 1987) was the longest serving American prison inmate whose sentence ended with his release. After being convicted of second-degree murder in 1911, Geidel served 68 years and 245 days in various New York state prisons. He was released on May 7, 1980, at the age of 86.
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Paul London
Paul Michael London (born April 16, 1980) is an American professional wrestler best known for his time with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE).
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Peter Sellers
Peter Sellers, OBE (born Richard Henry Sellers, 8 September 1925 – 24 July 1980), was a British comedian and actor best known for his roles in Dr. Strangelove, as Chief Inspector Clouseau in The Pink Panther film series, as Clare Quilty in the original 1962 screen version of Lolita, and as the man-child, Chance the gardener, in his penultimate film, Being There.
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Peter Stoner
Peter Stoner (June 16, 1888 – March 21, 1980) was Chairman of the Departments of Mathematics and Astronomy at Pasadena City College until 1953; Chairman of the science division, Westmont College, 1953–57; Professor Emeritus of Science, Westmont College; Professor Emeritus of Mathematics and Astronomy, Pasadena City College.
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Pierre Etchebaster
Pierre Etchebaster (December 8, 1893 - March 24, 1980) is widely considered history's greatest player of real tennis (in France jeu de paume), the original racquet sport from which the modern game of lawn tennis (which has usurped the name "tennis"), is descended.
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Pierre Trudeau
Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau, PC, CC, CH, QC, MSRC (October 18, 1919 – September 28, 2000), usually known as Pierre Trudeau or Pierre Elliott Trudeau, was the 15th Prime Minister of Canada from 20 April 1968 to 4 June 1979, and again from 3 March 1980 to 30 June 1984.
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Piersanti Mattarella
Piersanti Mattarella (May 24, 1935 - January 6, 1980) was an Italian politician. He was assassinated by the Mafia while he held the position of President of the Regional Government of Sicily.
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Piotr Giza
Piotr Giza (born February 28, 1980 in Kraków) is a Polish football player. From 2007 until 2010 he played for Legia Warsaw. He is a hard working central midfielder or offensive midfielder.
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Pope John Paul II
The Venerable Pope John Paul II (18 May 1920 – 2 April 2005, born Karol Józef Wojtyła) reigned as Supreme Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church and Sovereign of Vatican City from 16 October 1978 until his death on 2 April 2005. His was the second-longest documented pontificate; only Pope Pius IX served longer (St. Peter the Apostle is reputed to have served for more than thirty years as the first pontiff, but documentation is too sparse to definitively support this). He has been the only Slavic and Polish Pope to date, and was the first non-Italian Pope since Dutch Pope Adrian VI in 1522.
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Pua Magasiva
Pua Magasiva (born August 10, 1980) is a Samoan New Zealand actor, who is perhaps known for his roles as Shane Clarke, the Red Ranger from , and Nurse Vinnie Kruse in New Zealand soap Shortland Street.
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Rachael Carpani
Rachael Ann Carpani (born 24 August 1980 in Sydney, Australia) is an Australian actress.
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Ramnaresh Sarwan
Ramnaresh Ronnie Sarwan (born 23 June 1980) in Wakenaam Island, Guyana is a West Indian cricketer of Indo-Guyanese origin and member of the West Indies cricket team.
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Randy Orton
Randal Keith "Randy" Orton (born on April 1, 1980) is an American professional wrestler currently signed to World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) wrestling on its Raw brand, where he is the reigning WWE Champion. Orton is a third-generation professional wrestler; his grandfather Bob Orton, Sr., father "Cowboy" Bob Orton, as well as his uncle Barry O, all competed in the professional wrestling industry.
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Raymond Bailey
Raymond Thomas Bailey (May 6, 1904 – April 15, 1980) was an American actor on the Broadway stage, movies, and television. He is best known for his role as wealthy banker, Milburn Drysdale, in the television series The Beverly Hillbillies.
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Rebeka Dremelj
Rebeka Dremelj (born July 25, 1980 in Brežice, Slovenia, at the time SR Slovenia, Yugoslavia) is a singer, model, fashion designer, actress and TV presenter. She was chosen to represent Slovenia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 in Belgrade, Serbia with the song Vrag naj vzame.
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Red Sovine
Woodrow Wilson Sovine (July 17, 1918 – April 4, 1980), better known as Red Sovine, was an American country music singer associated with truck driving songs, particularly those recited as narratives but set to music. The most famous example was his 1976 number one hit "Teddy Bear".
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Reggie Abercrombie
Reginald Damascus Abercrombie (born July 15, 1981 in Columbus, Georgia) is a former Major League Baseball outfielder now playing for the Sioux Falls Fighting Pheasants.
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Regina Spektor
Regina Ilyinichna Spektor (, , ; born February 18, 1980) is a Russian-born American singer-songwriter and pianist. Her music is associated with the anti-folk scene centered in New York City's East Village.
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Reginald Gardiner
Reginald Gardiner (27 February 1903 - 7 July 1980) was an English-born actor in film and television and a graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in Britain. He made his film debut in 1926 in the silent film , by Alfred Hitchcock. Moving to Hollywood, he was cast in numerous roles, often as a British butler. One of his most famous roles was that of Schultz in Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator. Toward the end of his career, Gardiner made increasing guest appearances on the leading television sitcoms of the 1960s, including Fess Parker's ABC series, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington as the lead guest in the episode "Citizen Bellows". His last major role was alongside Phyllis Diller in her short-lived ABC sitcom The Pruitts of Southampton (1966-67).
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Rex Grossman
Rex Daniel Grossman, III (born August 23, 1980) is an American football quarterback for the Washington Redskins of the National Football League. He graduated from Bloomington High School South and attended the University of Florida on an athletic scholarship. Grossman led the Florida Gators to the 2000 SEC Championship, the 2001 Sugar Bowl, the 2002 Orange Bowl and the 2003 Outback Bowl. He was the runner-up for the 2001 Heisman Trophy.
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Richard Pryor
Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor III (December 1, 1940 – December 10, 2005) was an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer and MC. Pryor was known for uncompromising examinations of racism and topical contemporary issues, which employed colorful, vulgar and profane language, as well as racial epithets. He reached a broad audience with his trenchant observations and storytelling style. He is widely regarded as one of the most important stand-up comedians: Jerry Seinfeld called Pryor "The Picasso of our profession"; Bob Newhart has called Pryor "the seminal comedian of the last 50 years."
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Richard Wagner
Wilhelm Richard Wagner (, ; 22 May 1813 13 February 1883) was a German composer, conductor, theatre director and essayist, primarily known for his operas (or "music dramas", as they were later called). Wagner's compositions, particularly those of his later period, are notable for their complex texture, rich harmonies and orchestration, and the elaborate use of leitmotifs: musical themes associated with individual characters, places, ideas or plot elements. Unlike most other opera composers, Wagner wrote both the music and libretto for every one of his stage works. Famous extracts from his operas include the "Ride of the Valkyries" and the Bridal Chorus from Lohengrin, popularly known as the wedding march "Here Comes the Bride".
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Richie McCaw
Richard Hugh "Richie" McCaw (born 31 December 1980 in Oamaru, North Otago) is a professional New Zealand rugby union player. He plays in the openside flanker position and is the current captain of New Zealand. McCaw also represents Canterbury in the ITM Cup (formerly the Air New Zealand Cup) and the Crusaders in the Super 14. He weighs 99 kilograms and stands just shy of 6 feet 2 inches.
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Robert Brackman
Robert Brackman (September 25, 1898 – July 1980) was an artist and teacher of Russian origin, best known for large figural works, portraits, and still lifes.
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Robert Mugabe
Robert Gabriel Mugabe (, ; born 21 February 1924) is the second and current President of Zimbabwe. One of the leaders of the liberation movement against white-minority rule, he was elected into power as the head of government since 1980, as Prime Minister from 1980 to 1987, and as the first executive head of state since 1987.
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Robin Vik
Robin Vik (born February 5, 1980 in Hradec Králové) is a Czech professional tennis player. He turned professional in 1995 and he reached a career high ranking of 57 in January 2006.Now he is on 667 place
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Roland Mark Schoeman
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Rolf Nevanlinna
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Romain Gary
Romain Gary (8 May 1914 – 2 December 1980) was a French diplomat, novelist, film director, World War II aviator. He is the only author to have won the Prix Goncourt twice (under his own name and under a pseudonym).
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Ronald Reagan
Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was the 40th President of the United States (1981–1989) and the 33rd Governor of California (1967–1975).
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Ronaldinho
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Rosie Ruiz
Rosie Ruiz Vivas (born 1953, Havana, Cuba) is a Cuban American who on April 21, 1980 crossed the finish line before all other women runners in the 84th Boston Marathon and was initially credited as the first place female competitor, but was later stripped of her title when it was found that she had not run the entire course.
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Ruhollah Khomeini
Sayyed Ruhollah Moosavi Khomeini (, ; 24 September 1900 – 3 June 1989) was an Iranian religious leader and politician, and leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution which saw the overthrow of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran. Following the revolution and a national referendum, Khomeini became the country's Supreme Leader—a position created in the constitution as the highest ranking political and religious authority of the nation—until his death.
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Ryan Gosling
Ryan Thomas Gosling (born November 12, 1980) is a Canadian actor and musician. He is known for his roles in The Notebook and The Believer, and he won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Lead Male and the National Board of Review Award for Best Actor for his role in Half Nelson, for which he was also nominated for an Academy Award. He was nominated for another Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role for Lars and the Real Girl.
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Ryder Hesjedal
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Sabrina Colie
Sabrina Diana Colie (b. November 4, 1980 in Mandeville, Jamaica) is a Jamaican actress and director.
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Sahir Ludhianvi
Sahir Ludhianvi (Urdu: ساحر لدھیانوی; Devanagari: साहिर लुधियानवी) (8 March 1921 – 25 October 1980) was a popular Urdu poet and Hindi lyricist and songwriter. Sahir Ludhianvi is his pseudonym. He won the Filmfare Award twice, in 1964 and 1977, and in 1971 was awarded the Padma Shri.
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Salvadoran Civil War
El Salvador´s Civil War (1979–1992) was a conflict in El Salvador between the military-led government of El Salvador and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), a coalition or umbrella organization of five left-wing militias. Significant tensions and violence had already existed, before the civil war's full outbreak, over the course of the 1970s. El Salvador´s Civil War was the second longest civil war in Latin America after the Guatemalan Civil War.
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Samuel Kanyon Doe
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Samuel Peter
Samuel Okon Peter (born September 6, 1980 in Akwa Ibom, Nigeria), nicknamed "The Nigerian Nightmare," is an American based heavyweight boxer and the former WBC world heavyweight boxing champion.
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Sarah Chang
Sarah Chang (born December 10, 1980), is a Korean American violin virtuoso.
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Satoshi Ohno
(born November 26, 1980) is a Japanese idol, singer, actor, artist, and radio host. He is the lead vocalist and leader of Japanese boy band Arashi, hence his nickname .
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Satoshi Tsumabuki
is a Japanese actor. His breakthrough film was Waterboys for which he was nominated for the 'Best Actor' award at the Japanese Academy Awards, and won the 'Newcomer of the Year' prize. He is also the bassist and lead singer of the Japanese band Basking Lite.
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Sean Avery
Sean Christopher Avery (born April 10, 1980) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player for the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League (NHL). He formerly played for the Detroit Red Wings, Los Angeles Kings and Dallas Stars. Prior to the NHL, Avery played for the Owen Sound Platers and the Kingston Frontenacs of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL). Avery is best-known for his success in distracting other players. Avery’s “double life” of being a professional athlete while having an interest in fashion has prompted New Line Cinema to commission a screenplay.
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Sean Burroughs
Sean Patrick Burroughs (born September 12, 1980 in Atlanta, Georgia) is a free agent third baseman in Major League Baseball who has played for the San Diego Padres and Tampa Bay Devil Rays.
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Sergio García
Sergio García Fernández (born 9 January 1980) is a Spanish professional golfer who plays on both the United States PGA Tour and the European Tour. He has spent much of his career in the top 10 of the Official World Golf Rankings (over 300 weeks between 2000 and 2009). He reached a career high ranking of two after winning the HSBC Champions tournament in November 2008.
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Sherine
Sherine (, born Sherine Ahmed Abdel Wahhab, though it is not her real name; October 10, 1980) is an Egyptian singer and actress from Egypt, Cairo. Sherine began her career with the single Ah Ya Leil in 2002, and has since released several albums that include 2 EPs and 3 LPs.
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Siggie Nordstrom
Sigfred Ann "Siggie" Nordstrom (June 14, 1893 – December 24, 1980) was an American model, actress, entertainer, socialite and lead singer of The Nordstrom Sisters.
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Simon Gagné
Simon Gagné (; born February 29, 1980) is a Canadian professional ice hockey left winger who plays for the Tampa Bay Lightning of the National Hockey League (NHL).
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Simone Mathieu
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Sohrab Sepehri
Sohrab Sepehri () (October 7, 1928 - April 21, 1980) was a notable modern Persian poet and a painter.
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Sol Lesser
Sol Lesser (17 February 1890, Spokane, Washington – 19 September 1980, Hollywood, California) was an American film producer and presenter.
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Sosuke Sumitani
Sōsuke Sumitani (炭谷 宗佑 Sumitani Sōsuke, January 14, 1980 in Tokyo) is a Japanese announcer for Nippon Television. He was known for his good looks and was the sports announcer on various shows, slowly becoming a household name. Sumitani graduated from the Department of Economics at Keio University.
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Stana Katic
Stana Jacqueline Katic (born April 26, 1978) is a Canadian film and television actress active in the United States. She is best known for her portrayal of Detective Kate Beckett in ABC's Castle.
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Stephen Gaskin
Stephen Gaskin (born February 16, 1935) is a counterculture hippie icon best known for his presence in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco in the 1960s and for co-founding "The Farm", a famous spiritual intentional community in Summertown, Tennessee. He was a Green Party presidential primary candidate in 2000 on a platform which included campaign finance reform, universal health care, and decriminalization of marijuana. He is the author of over a dozen books, a teacher, a musician (drummer), a semantic rapper, a public speaker, a political activist, and a philanthropic organizer.
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Steve Lovell
Stephen William Henry "Steve" Lovell (born 6 December 1980 in Amersham) is an English professional association footballer, who plays for Bournemouth.
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Steve Peregrin Took
Steve Peregrin Took (born Stephen Ross Porter, 28 July 1949, Eltham, died 27 October 1980, North Kensington) was an English musician. He is best known for his membership of Tyrannosaurus Rex with Marc Bolan. After his departure from the group, he concentrated on his own singer/songwriting activities, variously as a solo artist or as a frontman for several bands.
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Steve Tully
Stephen Tully (born 10 February 1980) is an English footballer, currently playing in defence for League One side Exeter City. He was born in Paignton, Devon.
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Steven Gerrard
Steven George Gerrard MBE (; born 30 May 1980), is an English professional association football player who plays for and captains English Premier League club Liverpool and the England national team. He has played much of his career in a centre midfielder role; however, since the arrival of Fernando Torres at Liverpool in 2007, he has been used mainly as a second striker for his club team and as a winger for England since 2006. Gerrard is best known for his long shots and also has scored in numerous cup finals including the 2005 UEFA Champions League Final and the 2006 FA Cup Final.
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Sue Bird
Suzanne Brigit Bird (born October 16, 1980) is a professional women's basketball player for the Seattle Storm.
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Svetlana Feofanova
Svetlana Yevgenyevna Feofanova (; born 16 July, 1980 in Moscow) is a Russian pole vaulter. She won the silver medal in women's pole vaulting at the 2004 Summer Olympics behind compatriot Yelena Isinbayeva, and won the bronze in the 2008 Summer Olympics. Feofanova was also a gymnast and was included in the Russian national team at the 1996 Summer Olympics but did not continue competing in the sport.
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Taebin
Danny Im (Hangul: ), also known by his Korean name Tae Bin (), is a Korean singer and the youngest member of the Korean hip hop group 1TYM. Born on May 6, 1980, he debuted as lead vocalist of 1TYM in 1998. On June 12, 2004, he released his first solo album under the name Taebin. He used the name Danny while he worked with 1TYM, and was known for his smooth R&B; vocals, often performing with his friend and fellow K-pop artist Se7en. Taebin speaks both English and Korean fluently. His religion is Christian
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Tayshaun Prince
Tayshaun Durell Prince (born February 28, 1980, in Compton, California) is a left-handed American basketball player for the Detroit Pistons in the National Basketball Association. Prince is a small forward, listed at and . A graduate of Dominguez High School and the University of Kentucky, Prince was drafted in the first round (23rd overall) by the Detroit Pistons in the 2002 NBA Draft. Prince wears the jersey #22 as a result of his draft position, signifying the 22 teams that passed on drafting him. His college #21 was previously retired by the Pistons in honor of guard Dave Bing.
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Tegan and Sara
Tegan and Sara is a Canadian indie pop/New Wave/indie rock band led by identical twins Tegan Rain Quin and Sara Keirsten Quin (born September 19, 1980). Both Tegan and Sara play guitar and keyboard and write songs, most often separately. The band has released six studio albums since 1999, most recently Sainthood in 2009.
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Terrence McGee
Terrence Dewayne McGee (born October 14, 1980 in Smith County, Texas) is an American football cornerback and kick returner who currently plays for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League. He was originally drafted by Bills in the fourth round (111th overall) of the 2003 NFL Draft. He played high school football at Athens High School in Athens, Texas, and played collegiately at Northwestern State.
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Terry Fox
Terrance Stanley "Terry" Fox , (July 28, 1958 – June 28, 1981) was a Canadian humanitarian, athlete, and cancer research activist. In 1980, with one leg having been amputated, he embarked on a cross-Canada run to raise money and awareness for cancer research. Although the spread of his
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Tex Avery
Frederick Bean "Fred/Tex" Avery (February 26, 1908 – August 26, 1980) was an American animator, cartoonist, voice actor and director, famous for producing animated cartoons during The Golden Age of Hollywood animation. He did his most significant work for the Warner Bros. and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios, creating the characters of Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny, Droopy, Screwy Squirrel, and developing Porky Pig and Chilly Willy (this last one for the Walter Lantz Studio) into the personas for which they are remembered.
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The Miz
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The Times
The Times is a daily national newspaper published in the United Kingdom since 1785, when it was known as The Daily Universal Register.
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Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919) His last name is, according to Roosevelt himself, "pronounced as if it was spelled 'Rosavelt.' That is in three syllables. The first syllable as if it was 'Rose.'" ; An [http://vvl.lib.msu.edu/record.cfm?recordid=509 Audio recording] in which Roosevelt pronounces his own last name distinctly. To listen at the correct speed, slow the recording down by 20%. Retrieved on July 12, 2007. ) was the 26th President of the United States. He is noted for his energetic personality, range of interests and achievements, leadership of the Progressive Movement, and his "cowboy" image and robust masculinity. He was a leader of the Republican Party and founder of the short-lived Progressive ("Bull Moose") Party of 1912. Before becoming President (1901–1909) he held offices at the municipal, state, and federal level of government. Roosevelt's achievements as a naturalist, explorer, hunter, author, and soldier are as much a part of his fame as any office he held as a politician.
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Tim Borowski
Tim Borowski (born 2 May 1980 in Neubrandenburg) is a German footballer, who currently plays as a midfielder for Werder Bremen. He is a central midfielder, adept at tackling and attacking although best known for his passing and vision.
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Tim Hardin
Timothy James "Tim" Hardin (December 23, 1941 – December 29, 1980) was an American folk musician and composer. He wrote the Top 40 hits "If I Were a Carpenter", covered by, among others, Joan Baez, Bobby Darin, Johnny Cash, Ramblin' Jack Elliot, and Robert Plant, and "Reason to Believe", covered by many, including Rod Stewart, as well as his own recording career.
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Timana Tahu
Timana James Aporo Tahu (born 16 October 1980) is an Indigenous Australian rugby league footballer and former rugby union player, a dual-code international. In 2010 he returned back to rugby league and plays again for the Parramatta Eels. He formerly played for the New South Wales Waratahs in the Super 14 competition. Prior to that he played rugby league for the Newcastle Knights and the Parramatta Eels, as well as playing for New South Wales in the State of Origin and for the Kangaroos, the Australian National Team.
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Todd Heap
Todd Benjamin Heap (born March 16, 1980 in Mesa, Arizona) is a Pro Bowl tight end for the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League. He played college football at Arizona State University.
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Tomáš Rosický
Tomáš Rosický (; born 4 October 1980 in Prague) is a Czech footballer who currently plays for Arsenal of the Premier League and is the captain of the Czech national team. He has a brother named Jiří who used to be a footballer as well. A versatile attacking midfielder nicknamed "The Little Mozart", Rosický is known for his skill and his ability to orchestrate the midfield with his passing, Arsène Wenger described him as a player with remarkable vision and first touch.
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Tony Beckley
Tony Beckley (7 October 1927 – 19 April 1980) was an English character actor. A graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, Beckley went onto carve out a career on film and television throughout the 1960s and 1970s often playing villainous roles, as well as being a veteran of numerous stage productions.
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Tony Romo
Antonio Ramiro "Tony" Romo (born April 21, 1980) is a professional American football quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys. Romo's career passer rating - at 95.5 - ranks fourth-best all time. Romo replaced the Cowboys' previous starting quarterback Drew Bledsoe during a game against the New York Giants in the 2006 season.
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Unabomber
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Uttam Kumar
Uttam Kumar (; 3 September 1926 – 24 July 1980) was one of the most famous names of Indian Bengali Cinema.
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Val Logsdon Fitch
Val Logsdon Fitch (born March 10, 1923, Merriman, Nebraska, USA) is an American nuclear physicist. A native of Merriman, Nebraska, he graduated from Gordon High School and attended Chadron State College for three years before being drafted into the U.S. army in 1943. He later graduated from McGill University with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1948 and completed his Ph.D. in physics in 1954 from Columbia University. In World War II, he worked on the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos. He is a member of the faculty at Princeton University.
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Vernon Jordan
Vernon Eulion Jordan, Jr. (born August 15, 1935) is a lawyer and business executive in the United States. He served as a close adviser to President Bill Clinton and has become known as an influential figure in American politics. An African American, Jordan has been a leading figure in the civil rights movement.
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Victor Sen Yung
Victor Sen Yung (, pinyin: Yáng Sēn; October 18, 1915 – November 9, 1980) was an American character actor. He was given billing under a variety of names, including Sen Yung, Sen Young, Victor Sen Young, and Victor Young.
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Victoria Pendleton
Victoria Pendleton MBE (born Stotfold, Bedfordshire, England, 24 September 1980) is a British Olympic and world champion track cyclist. Her father, Max, was also a British national grass-track cycling champion.
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Vladimir Vysotsky
Vladimir Semyonovich Vysotsky () (25 January 1938 – 25 July 1980
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Vladimír Holan
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Walter Gilbert
Walter Gilbert (born March 21, 1932) is an American physicist, biochemist, molecular biology pioneer, and Nobel laureate.
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Walter Rodney
Walter Rodney (March 23, 1942 – June 13, 1980) was a prominent Guyanese historian and political activist, who was assassinated in Guyana in 1980.
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Walter Susskind
Jan Walter Susskind (1 May 1913 – 25 March 1980) was a Czech-born British conductor.
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Wang Yuegu
Tabletennis player
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Wayne Bridge
Wayne Michael Bridge (born 5 August 1980) is an English footballer who currently plays as a left back for Manchester City.
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Willard Libby
Willard Frank Libby (December 17, 1908 – September 8, 1980) was an American physical chemist, famous for his role in the 1949 development of radiocarbon dating, a process which revolutionized archaeology.
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William Howard Stein
William Howard Stein (June 25, 1911 – February 2, 1980) was an American biochemist.
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William O. Douglas
William Orville Douglas (October 16, 1898 – January 19, 1980) was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. With a term lasting 36 years and 209 days, he is the longest-serving justice in the history of the Supreme Court. In 1975, a Time article called Douglas "the most doctrinaire and committed civil libertarian ever to sit on the court."He was replaced on the Court by John Paul Stevens, and the combination of the tenure of the two justices on the Court stretched 71 years, a seat held longer by two justices than any other.
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Willie Parker
"Fast" Willie Parker, Jr. (born November 11, 1980) is an American football running back who is currently a free agent. He was signed by the Pittsburgh Steelers as an undrafted free agent in 2004. He played college football at North Carolina. He has also played for the Washington Redskins.
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Wilmer Valderrama
Wilmer Valderrama (born January 30, 1980) is an American actor and television personality, best known for the role of Fez in the sitcom ''That '70s Show, hosting the MTV series Yo Momma'', and voicing the character of Manny in the children's show Handy Manny.
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Winifred Wagner
Winifred Wagner (23 June 1897 - 5 March 1980) was an English-born Welsh woman married to Siegfried Wagner, Richard Wagner's son. She was the effective head of the Wagner family from 1930 to 1945, and a close friend of German dictator Adolf Hitler.
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Yahya Khan
Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan, H.Pk, HJ, S.Pk, psc (Urdu: آغا محمد یحیی خان; February 4, 1917 – August 10, 1980) was the third President of Pakistan from 1969 to 1971, following the resignation of Ayub Khan. He had one son, Ali Yahya and one daughter, Yasmeen Khan.
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Yalin
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Yang Tae-Young
Yang Tae-Young (born July 8, 1980, Seoul) is a South Korean 2004 Olympic medalist in artistic gymnastics.
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Yang Wei (gymnast)
Yang Wei (; born February 8, 1980 in Xiantao, Hubei) is a male gymnast from China.
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Yao Ming
Yao Ming (; born September 12, 1980) is a professional basketball player who plays for the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He is currently the tallest player in the NBA, at .
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Yootha Joyce
Yootha Joyce (20 August 1927 – 24 August 1980) was an English actress, best known for playing Mildred Roper in Man About the House and George and Mildred.
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Yūko Takeuchi
is a Japanese actress. She made her big break with NHK's television series Asuka and JT Green's commercial. She has gone on to star in many TV shows, movies, and commercials.
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Zachary Levi
Zachary Levi Pugh (born September 29, 1980) is an American television actor known for roles of Kipp Steadman in Less than Perfect and Chuck Bartowski in Chuck.
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Zat Knight
Zatyiah "Zat" Knight (born 2 May 1981 in Solihull) is an English footballer who plays for Bolton Wanderers in the Premier League. Knight has two caps for England.
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Zhang Jingchu
Zhang Jingchu () (born February 2, 1980) is a Chinese film actress. She graduated in Directing at the Central Academy of Drama in Beijing.
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Zooey Deschanel
Zooey Claire Deschanel (; born January 17, 1980) is an American actress, musician, and singer-songwriter. In 1999, Deschanel made her film debut in Mumford, followed by her break out role as young protagonist William Miller's troubled older sister Anita in Cameron Crowe's 2000 semi autobiographical film Almost Famous. Deschanel soon became known for her deadpan supporting roles in films such as Elf (2003), ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005) and Failure to Launch (2006). She then began playing lead roles in films, including Yes Man (2008) and (500) Days of Summer'' (2009).
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Óscar Romero
Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez (August 15, 1917 – March 24, 1980) was a bishop of the Roman Catholic Church in El Salvador. He became the fourth Archbishop of San Salvador, succeeding Luis Chávez. He was assassinated on March 24, 1980.
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Ümit Kaftancıoğlu
Ümit Kaftancıoğlu (1935, Sakarya village – 11 April 1980, Istanbul) was a Turkish TV producer, writer and columnist of the newspaper Cumhuriyet.
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Alexandra Palace
Set in Alexandra Park, Alexandra Palace was built in an area between Hornsey, Muswell Hill and Wood Green in North London, England, in 1873 as a public centre of recreation, education and entertainment and as North London's counterpart to the Crystal Palace in South London.
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Algeria
Algeria (Arabic: , al-Jazā’ir, Berber: Dzayer, French: Algérie), officially the '''People's Democratic Republic of Algeria (also formally referred to as the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria'''), is a country in North Africa. In terms of land area, it is the largest country on the Mediterranean Sea, the second largest on the African continent after Sudan, and the eleventh-largest country in the world.
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Asunción
Asunción (full name: La Muy Noble y Leal Ciudad de Nuestra Señora Santa María de la Asunción) is the capital and largest city of Paraguay. The Spanish word asunción means assumption in English. It refers to the Assumption of Mary; the full name means The Very Noble and Loyal City of Our Lady Saint Mary of the Assumption.
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Australia
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Bali
Bali is an Indonesian island located in the westernmost end of the Lesser Sunda Islands, lying between Java to the west and Lombok to the east. It is one of the country's 33 provinces with the provincial capital at Denpasar towards the south of the island.
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Beacon, New York
Beacon is a city located in Dutchess County, New York, United States. Although the city's estimated living population is around 16,000 people, the 2000 census placed the city total population at 13,808. It is part of the Poughkeepsie–Newburgh–Middletown, NY Metropolitan Statistical Area as well as the larger New York–Newark–Bridgeport, NY-NJ-CT-PA Combined Statistical Area. Beacon was named to commemorate the historic beacon fires that blazed forth from the summit of the Fishkill Mountains to alert the Continental Army about British troop movements.
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Belgrade
Belgrade (Serbian: Београд, Beograd - ) is the capital and largest city of Serbia. The city lies at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. With a population of 1,630,000 (official estimate 2007), Belgrade is the fourth largest city in Southeastern Europe, after Istanbul, Athens and Bucharest. Its name in Serbian translates to White city.
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Botswana
The Republic of Botswana () is a sub Saharan country located in Southern Africa. The citizens are referred to as "Batswana" (singular: Motswana). Formerly the British protectorate of Bechuanaland, Botswana adopted its new name after becoming independent within the Commonwealth on 30 September 1966. It has held free and fair democratic elections since independence.
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Brazil
Brazil (; , ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (, ), is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population. It is the only Portuguese-speaking country in the Americas and the largest lusophone country in the world.
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Brighton
Brighton () is the major part of the city of Brighton and Hove (formed from the previous towns of Brighton, Hove, Portslade and several other villages) in East Sussex on the south coast of Great Britain. For administrative purposes, Brighton and Hove is not part of the non-metropolitan county of East Sussex, but remains part of the ceremonial county of East Sussex.
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Bristol
Bristol () is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, with an estimated population of 433,100 for the unitary authority in 2009, and a surrounding Larger Urban Zone (LUZ) with an estimated 1,006,600 residents, it is England's sixth, and the United Kingdom's eighth most populous city, one of the group of English Core Cities and the most populous city in South West England.
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Cairo
Cairo (; , literally "The Vanquisher" or "The Conqueror") is the capital of Egypt, the largest city in Africa and the Arab World, and one of the most densely populated cities in the world. Nicknamed "The City of a Thousand Minarets" for its preponderance of Islamic architecture, Cairo has long been a center of the region's political and cultural life. Even before Cairo was established in the 10th century, the land composing the present-day city was the site of national capitals whose remnants remain visible in parts of Old Cairo. Cairo is also associated with Ancient Egypt due to its proximity to the Great Sphinx and the pyramids in adjacent Giza.
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California
California (pronounced ) is the most populous state in the United States and the third-largest by land area, after Alaska and Texas. California is also the most populous sub-national entity in North America. It's on the U.S. West Coast, bordered by the Pacific Ocean to the west and by the states of Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, Baja California, Mexico, to the south. Its 5 largest cities are Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose, San Francisco, and Long Beach, with Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Jose each having at least 1 million residents. Like many populous states, California's capital, Sacramento is smaller than the state's largest city, Los Angeles. The state is home to the nation's 2nd- and 6th-largest census statistical areas and 8 of the nation's 50 most populous cities. California has a varied climate and geography and a multi-cultural population.
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Canada
Canada () is a country in North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean. It is the world's second largest country by total area. Canada's common border with the United States to the south and northwest is the longest in the world.
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Caribbean Islands
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Chad
Chad (, Tshād), officially known as the Republic of Chad, is a landlocked country in central Africa. It is bordered by Libya to the north, Sudan to the east, the Central African Republic to the south, Cameroon and Nigeria to the southwest, and Niger to the west. Due to its distance from the sea and its largely desert climate, the country is sometimes referred to as the "Dead Heart of Africa".
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Chlef
Chlef () is the capital of Chlef Province, Algeria. It is home to the soccer club ASO Chlef, the Hassiba Ben Bouali university, and the basilica of Saint Reparatus, which is home to the oldest Christian labyrinth in the world.
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Chuschi
Chuschi is a town in the Chuschi District of the Cangallo Province of the Ayacucho Region of Peru. On May 17, 1980, Shining Path guerrillas began their war against the Peruvian state by burning ballot boxes in Chuschi. On March 14, 1991, government forces perptrated the Chuschi massacre in the town.
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Cincinnati
Cincinnati () is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Hamilton County. The municipality is located north of the Ohio River at the Ohio-Kentucky border. The population within city limits was estimated to be 333,200 in 2009, making it the state's third-largest city. According to a 2008 Census Bureau estimate, the Cincinnati metropolitan area had a population of 2,155,137 making it the largest MSA in Ohio (surpassing Cleveland, which ranks 26th), and the 24th most populous in the United States. Residents of Cincinnati are called Cincinnatians.
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Colombia
Colombia (), officially the Republic of Colombia (, ), is a constitutional republic in northwestern South America. Colombia is bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the northwest by Panama; and to the west by the Pacific Ocean. Colombia also shares maritime borders with Venezuela, Jamaica, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica. With a population of over 45 million people, Colombia has the 29th largest population in the world and the second largest in South America, after Brazil. Colombia has the fourth largest Spanish-speaking population in the world after Mexico, the United States, and Spain.
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Costa Rica
:For the plant genus Costarica, see its synonym Sicyos.
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Cuba
The Republic of Cuba (; , ) is an island country in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos.
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Czech Republic
The Czech Republic ( ; , , short form Česko ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country borders Poland to the northeast, Germany to the west and northwest, Austria to the south and Slovakia to the east. The Czech Republic has been a member of NATO since 1999 and of the European Union since 2004. The Czech Republic is also a member of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). As an OSCE participating State, the Czech Republic’s international commitments are subject to monitoring under the mandate of the U.S. Helsinki Commission. From 1 January 2009 to 30 June 2009, the Czech Republic held the Presidency of the Council of the European Union.
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Detroit, Michigan
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Egypt
Egypt (; , Miṣr, ; Egyptian Arabic: مصر, Maṣr, ; Coptic: , ; Greek: Αίγυπτος, Aiguptos; Egyptian:
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El Salvador
El Salvador (; , literally meaning "Republic of The Savior") is the smallest and also the most densely populated country in Central America. It borders the Pacific Ocean between Guatemala and Honduras. It lies on the Gulf of Fonseca, as do Honduras and Nicaragua further south.
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Estonian SSR
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European Commission
The European Commission is the executive body of the European Union. The body is responsible for proposing legislation, implementing decisions, upholding the Union's treaties and the general day-to-day running of the Union.
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Florida
Florida () is a state of the United States. It is located in the Southeastern United States, bordering Alabama to the northwest and Georgia to the north. Much of the state's land mass is a large peninsula with the Gulf of Mexico to the west, the Atlantic Ocean to the east and the Caribbean to the south. Florida was admitted as the 27th U.S. state in 1845, after a three hundred year period of European colonization.
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Fort Wayne, Indiana
Fort Wayne is a city in the U.S. state of Indiana and the county seat of Allen County. As of 2009, the city had an estimated population of 255,890, ranking it the 72nd largest city in the nation. It is the second largest city in Indiana, after Indianapolis. The municipality is located in northeastern Indiana, approximately west of the Ohio border and south of the Michigan border.
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Gdańsk
Gdańsk (formerly Danzig; see Names below), is a city on the Baltic coast in northern Poland, at the centre of the country's fourth-largest metropolitan area.
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Georgia Guidestones
The Georgia Guidestones is a large granite monument in Elbert County, Georgia, USA. A message comprising ten guides is inscribed on the structure in eight modern languages, and a shorter message is inscribed at the top of the structure in four ancient languages' scripts: Babylonian, Classical Greek, Sanskrit, and Egyptian hieroglyphs.
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Gibraltar
Gibraltar () is a British overseas territory located on the southern end of the Iberian Peninsula at the entrance of the Mediterranean, overlooking the Strait of Gibraltar. The territory itself is a peninsula of whose isthmus connects to the north with Spain. The Rock of Gibraltar is the major landmark of the area and gives its name to the densely populated town, home to almost 30,000 Gibraltarians.
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Gotthard Road Tunnel
The St. Gotthard Tunnel in Switzerland is the third-longest road tunnel in the world. The longest is Lærdal Tunnel, which is 24.5 km (15.3 miles), and the second-longest is the Zhongnanshan Tunnel. It runs from Göschenen in the north to Airolo in the south, and is just under 16.4 kilometres (10.5 miles) in length below the St. Gotthard Pass. It links two Swiss cantons: Uri to the north and Ticino to the south.
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Guatemala
Guatemala (; , ) is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the north and west, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, Belize to the northeast, the Caribbean to the east, and Honduras and El Salvador to the southeast. Its area is 108,890 km² (42,043 mi²) with an estimated population of 13,276,517.
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Gwangju
Gwangju (officially known as Gwangju Metropolitan City; ) is the sixth largest city in South Korea. It is a designated metropolitan city under the direct control of the central government's Home Minister. The city was also the capital of South Jeolla Province until the provincial office moved to the southern village of Namak in Muan County in 2005.
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Honduras
Honduras (, , ) is a republic in Central America. It was formerly known as Spanish Honduras to differentiate it from British Honduras (now Belize). The country is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Ocean at the Gulf of Fonseca, and to the north by the Gulf of Honduras, a large inlet of the Caribbean Sea.
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Iceland
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Iran
Iran ( ), officially the Islamic Republic of Iran is a country in Central Eurasia and Western Asia. The name Iran has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was also known to the western world as Persia. Both Persia and Iran are used interchangeably in cultural contexts; however, Iran is the name used officially in political contexts.
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Iraq
Iraq ( or , Arabic: ), officially the Republic of Iraq (Arabic:
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Israel
Israel (, ''Yisrā'el; , Isrā'īl), officially the State of Israel (Hebrew: , Medīnat Yisrā'el; , Dawlat Isrā'īl''), is a parliamentary republic in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan and the West Bank in the east, Egypt and Gaza on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area. Israel is the world's only predominantly Jewish state, and is defined as A Jewish and Democratic State by the Israeli government.
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Italy
Italy (; ), officially the Italian Republic (), is a country located in south-central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia along the Alps. To the south it consists of the entirety of the Italian Peninsula, Sicily, Sardinia — the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea — and many other smaller islands. The independent states of San Marino and the Vatican City are enclaves within Italy, whilst Campione d'Italia is an Italian exclave in Switzerland. The territory of Italy covers some and is influenced by a temperate seasonal climate. With 60.4 million inhabitants, it is the sixth most populous country in Europe, and the twenty-third most populous in the world.
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Jerusalem
Jerusalem ( , ; Arabic: , al-Quds Sharif, "The Holy Sanctuary") is the capital of Israel, though not internationally recognized as such. If the area and population of East Jerusalem is included, it is Israel's largest city in both population and area, with a population of 763,800 residents over an area of . Located in the Judean Mountains, between the Mediterranean Sea and the northern edge of the Dead Sea, modern Jerusalem has grown far beyond the boundaries of the Old City.
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Knesset
The Knesset (, ; lit. the gathering or assembly; al-Knīsat) is the unicameral legislature of Israel, located in Givat Ram, Jerusalem.
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Las Vegas Strip
The Las Vegas Strip is an approximately stretch of Las Vegas Boulevard South in Clark County, Nevada. The Strip lies in the unincorporated areas of Paradise and Winchester. Most of "the Strip" has been designated an All-American Road.
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Liberia
Liberia , officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country on the west coast of Africa, bordered by Sierra Leone, Guinea, Côte d'Ivoire, and the Atlantic Ocean. As of the 2008 Census, the nation is home to 3,476,608 people and covers .
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London
London () is the capital of England and the United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its founding by the Romans, who called it Londinium. London's core, the ancient City of London, largely retains its square-mile mediaeval boundaries. Since at least the 19th century, the name London has also referred to the metropolis developed around this core. The bulk of this conurbation forms the London region and the Greater London administrative area, governed by the elected Mayor of London and the London Assembly.
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles ( ; , Spanish for "The Angels") is the second most populous city in the United States, the most populous city in the state of California and the western United States, with a population of 3.83 million within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Los Angeles extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of over 14.8 million and it is the 14th largest urban area in the world, affording it megacity status. The metropolitan statistical area (MSA) is home to nearly 12.9 million residents while the broader Los Angeles-Long Beach-Riverside combined statistical area (CSA) contains nearly 17.8 million people. Los Angeles is also the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populated and one of the most multicultural counties in the United States. The city's inhabitants are referred to as "Angelenos" ().
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Lublin
Lublin (, Liublin, Loblin) is the ninth largest city in Poland. It is the capital of Lublin Voivodeship with a population of 350,392 (June 2009). Lublin is also the largest Polish city east of the Vistula river. Lublin is a candidate for the title of European Capital of Culture in 2016.
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Mali
Mali, officially the Republic of Mali (), is a landlocked country in Western Africa. Mali borders Algeria on the north, Niger on the east, Burkina Faso and the Côte d'Ivoire on the south, Guinea on the south-west, and Senegal and Mauritania on the west. Its size is just over 1,240,000 km² with a population more than 14 million. Its capital is Bamako.
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Maze (HM Prison)
'''Her Majesty's Prison Maze (known colloquially as Maze Prison, The Maze, The H Blocks or Long Kesh''') was a prison in Northern Ireland that was used to house paramilitary prisoners during the Troubles from mid-1971 to mid-2000.
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Mecca
Mecca (), also spelled Makkah (occasionally 'Bakkah') (; Makkah and in full: transliterated Makkah Al Mukarramah ) is a city in Saudi Arabia, and the holiest meeting site in Islam, closely followed by Medina.
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Moscow
Moscow ( or ; ; see also ) is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the world, a global city. Moscow is the most populous city on the continent of Europe and the seventh largest city proper in the world, a megacity. The population of Moscow (as of 1 January 2010) is 10,563,038.
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NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA, ) is an Executive Branch agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's civilian space program and aeronautics and aerospace research. Since February 2006, NASA's self-described mission statement is to "pioneer the future in space exploration, scientific discovery and aeronautics research."
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New Jersey
New Jersey (, ) is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. It is bordered on the northeast by New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware. New Jersey lies largely within the sprawling metropolitan areas of New York City and Philadelphia. It is the most densely populated state in the United States.
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Nicaragua
Nicaragua ( ) officially the Republic of Nicaragua (, ), is a representative democratic republic. It is the largest country in Central America with an area of 130,373 km2. The country is bordered by Honduras to the north and Costa Rica to the south. The Pacific Ocean lies to the west of the country, the Caribbean Sea to the east. The country's Caribbean coast is part of the Western Caribbean Zone. Falling within the tropics, Nicaragua sits between 11 degrees and 14 degrees north of the Equator in the Northern Hemisphere. Nicaragua's abundance of biologically significant and unique ecosystems contribute to Mesoamerica's designation as a biodiversity hotspot. The capital city of Nicaragua is Managua. Roughly one quarter of the nation's population lives in the Nicaraguan capital, making it the second largest city and metropolitan area in Central America (following Guatemala City).
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Nobel Peace Prize
The Nobel Peace Prize (Swedish and Norwegian: Nobels fredspris) is one of the five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel.
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Norco shootout
The Norco shootout was an armed confrontation between five heavily armed bank robbers and deputies of the Riverside and San Bernardino County sheriff's departments in Norco, California, United States on May 9, 1980. Two of the five perpetrators and one sheriff's deputy were killed, 9 other law enforcement officers were injured, and gunfire damaged at least 30 police cars and one police helicopter.
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Palermo
Palermo (, Sicilian: Palermu, , from , Panormos, , Balharm) is a historic city in Southern Italy, the capital of both the autonomous region of Sicily and the Province of Palermo. The city is noted for its rich history, culture, architecture and gastronomy, playing an important role throughout much of its existence; it is over 2,700 years old. Palermo is located in the northwest of the island of Sicily, right by the Gulf of Palermo in the Tyrrhenian Sea.
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Paraguay
Paraguay (), officially the Republic of Paraguay (, ; Guaraní: Tetã Paraguái ), is a landlocked country in South America. It is bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to the east and northeast, and Bolivia to the northwest. Paraguay lies on both banks of the Paraguay River, which runs through the center of the country from north to south. Due to its central location in South America, it is sometimes referred to as Corazón de América, or the Heart of America.
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia () is the largest city in Pennsylvania, sixth-most-populous city in the United States and the fifty-first most populous city in the world.
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Poland
Poland (), officially the Republic of Poland (Rzeczpospolita Polska), is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north. The total area of Poland is , making it the 69th largest country in the world and the 9th largest in Europe. Poland has a population of over 38 million people, which makes it the 34th most populous country in the world and the sixth most populous member of the European Union, being its most populous Slavic member.
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Quebec
Quebec or ( ) is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level.
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Riyadh
Riyadh ( ar-Riyāḍ, lit: The Gardens) is the capital and largest city of Saudi Arabia. It is also the capital of Riyadh Province, and belongs to the historical regions of Nejd and Al-Yamama. It is situated in the center of the Arabian Peninsula on a large plateau, and is home to 4,854,000 people, and the urban center of a region with a population of close to 7 million people. The city is divided into 15 municipal districts, managed by Riyadh Municipality headed by the mayor of Riyadh, and the Riyadh Development Authority, chaired by the Governor of Riyadh Province, Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz. The current mayor of Riyadh is Abdul Aziz ibn Ayyaf Al Migrin, appointed in 1998.
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Russia
Russia (; ), also officially known as the Russian Federation (), is a state in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects. From northwest to southeast, Russia shares borders with Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland (both via Kaliningrad Oblast), Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, the People's Republic of China, Mongolia, and North Korea. It also has maritime borders with Japan by the Sea of Okhotsk and the United States by the Bering Strait. At , Russia is the largest country in the world, covering more than a ninth of the Earth's land area. Russia is also the ninth most populous nation with 142 million people. It extends across the whole of northern Asia and 40% of Europe, spanning 9 time zones and incorporating a wide range of environments and landforms. Russia has the world's largest reserves of mineral and energy resources. It has the world's largest forest reserves and its lakes contain approximately one-quarter of the world's fresh water.
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San Salvador
San Salvador City is the capital and largest city of the nation of El Salvador. It is the third most populous city in Central America after Guatemala City and Managua. Home to one-half of El Salvador's wealth, the city's per capita GDP - PPP is approximately USD11,200, compared to a national average of USD5,260 (2002). The city has a long history, with origins dating back to the Spanish conquest of the Pipil tribes. The name of the capital city is the Spanish name of "Holy Savior".
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Saudi Arabia
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (), commonly known as Saudi Arabia, occasionally spelled '''Sa'udi Arabia''', is the largest Arab country of the Middle East. It is bordered by Jordan and Iraq on the north and northeast, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates on the east, Oman on the southeast, and Yemen on the south. The Persian Gulf lies to the northeast and the Red Sea to its west. It has an estimated population of 28 million, and its size is approximately . The kingdom is sometimes called "The Land of the Two Holy Mosques" in reference to Mecca and Medina, the two holiest places in Islam. The two mosques are Masjid al-Haram (in Mecca) and Masjid Al-Nabawi (in Medina). The current kingdom was founded by Abdul-Aziz bin Saud, whose efforts began in 1902 when he captured the Al-Saud’s ancestral home of Riyadh, and culminated in 1932 with the proclamation and recognition of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, though its national origins go back as far as 1744 with the establishment of the First Saudi State. Saudi Arabia's government takes the form of an Islamic absolute monarchy. Human rights groups such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have repeatedly expressed concern about the state of human rights in Saudi Arabia.
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Saudia Flight 163
Saudia Flight 163 was a scheduled passenger flight of Saudia that caught fire at Riyadh's International Airport (now the Riyadh Air Base) after a flight from Karachi, Pakistan. The fire, on August 19, 1980, killed all 287 passengers and 14 crew on board the Lockheed L-1011-200 TriStar, registered , which had been due to fly on to the Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah.
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Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone () (Krio: Sa Lone), officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Guinea to the north and east, Liberia to the southeast, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west and southwest. Sierra Leone covers a total area of and has a population estimated at 6.5 million. It is a former British Colony and now a constitutional republic comprising three provinces and the Western Area; which are further divided into fourteen districts.
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Sincelejo
Sincelejo is the capital of the department of Sucre Department, Colombia. Is located northwest of the country in the Colombian Caribbean Coast. The name comes from the Cacique Sincelejo Chisel, who commanded a tribe settled in the area where today puebla Sincelejo, as recorded in several documents in the Archivo General de la Nación (AGN) in Bogota. He has received names such as La Capital de la Sabana, being surrounded by this accident of geography, it is also called Reina y Señora de la Sabana. Sincelejo is an important agricultural and cattle in northern Colombia.
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South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country located at the southern tip of Africa, with a coastline on the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. To the north lie Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe; to the east are Mozambique and Swaziland; while Lesotho is an independent country wholly surrounded by South African territory.
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South Korea
South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK, , ) and sometimes referred to simply as Korea, is a state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, and North Korea to the north. Its capital is Seoul. South Korea lies in a temperate climate region with a predominantly mountainous terrain. Its territory covers a total area of 99,392 square kilometers and has a population of .
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Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR, , abbreviated СССР, SSSR), informally known as the Soviet Union () or Soviet Russia, was a constitutionally socialist state that existed on the territory of most of the former Russian Empire in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991.
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Spain
Spain ( ; , ), officially the Kingdom of Spain (), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Its mainland is bordered to the south and east by the Mediterranean Sea except for a small land boundary with the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar; to the north by France, Andorra, and the Bay of Biscay; and to the northwest and west by the Atlantic Ocean and Portugal.
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St Kilda, Victoria
St Kilda is an inner city suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 6 km south from the Melbourne city centre. Its Local Government Area is the City of Port Phillip. As of 2006 Census the population has 16,122 people.
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Suriname
'Suriname or Surinam' ( or , ; Sarnami: शर्नम् Sarnam, Sranan Tongo: Sranangron or Sranankondre), officially the Republic of Suriname, is a country in northern South America. Its geographical size is just under , and it has an estimated population of approximately 470,000, most of whom live on the country's north coast, where the capital Paramaribo is located.
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Swaziland
The Kingdom of Swaziland (Umbuso weSwatini), sometimes called Ngwane or Swatini, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa, bordered to the north, south and west by South Africa, and to the east by Mozambique. The nation, as well as its people, are named after the 19th century king Mswati II.
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Switzerland
Switzerland (, , , ), officially the Swiss Confederation (Confoederatio Helvetica in Latin, hence its ISO country codes CH and CHE), is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe where it is bordered by Germany to the north, France to the west, Italy to the south, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east.
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Syria
Syria ( ; ' or '), officially the Syrian Arab Republic (), is a country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the West, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest.
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Tampa, Florida
Tampa () is a Gulf Coast Bay city in the U.S. state of Florida. It serves as the county seat for Hillsborough County. Tampa is located on the west coast of Florida. The population of Tampa in 2000 was 303,447. According to the 2009 estimates, the city's population had grown to 343,890, making it the 54th largest city in the United States.
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Tehran (Persian: تهران Tehrān ), is the capital of Iran and Tehran Province. With a population of 8,429,807; it is also Iran's largest urban area and city, one of the largest cities in Western Asia, and is the 21st largest city in the world.
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Tenerife
Tenerife () (Webster's pronunciation: \ˌte-nə-ˈrē-(ˌ)fā, -ˈrēf, -ˈrif\ ... 4 syllables, not 2) is the largest of the seven Canary Islands, Spain, in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa. Tenerife has an area of 2034.38 square kilometers, and 899,833 inhabitants. It is the most populated island of the Canary Islands and Spain. About 43% of the population of the Canary Islands is on this island. About five million tourists visit Tenerife each year, which is also one of the busiest Spanish resorts and the first of Canary Islands. Tenerife also has one of the world's largest carnivals, and the Carnival of Santa Cruz de Tenerife now aspires to become a World Heritage Site. Tenerife is the only Spanish island that has two airports. Tenerife is the largest number of tourists it receives, it is also headquarters of the main financial institution of the archipelago, Tenerife so is the economic capital of the Canary Islands.
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The Hague
The Hague (with capital T; Dutch: ', officially also ') is the third largest city in the Netherlands, after Amsterdam and Rotterdam, with a population of 485,818 (as of May 31, 2009) (population of agglomeration: 1,011,459) and an area of approximately 100 km². It is located in the west of the country, in the province of South Holland, of which it is also the provincial capital. The Hague is, like Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht and Almere, part of the Randstad metropolitan area, with 6,659,300 inhabitants.
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Turkey
Turkey (), known officially as the Republic of Turkey (), is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in western Asia and Thrace in the Balkan region of southeastern Europe. Turkey is one of the six independent Turkic states. Turkey is bordered by eight countries: Bulgaria to the northwest; Greece to the west; Georgia to the northeast; Armenia, Azerbaijan (the exclave of Nakhchivan) and Iran to the east; and Iraq and Syria to the southeast. The Mediterranean Sea and Cyprus are to the south; the Aegean Sea to the west; and the Black Sea is to the north. The Sea of Marmara, the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles (which together form the Turkish Straits) demarcate the boundary between Eastern Thrace and Anatolia; they also separate Europe and Asia.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK, or Britain) is a country and sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island nation, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of the island of Ireland, and many smaller islands. Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK with a land border with another sovereign state, sharing it with the Republic of Ireland. Apart from this land border, the UK is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel and the Irish Sea. Great Britain is linked to continental Europe by the Channel Tunnel.
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United States
The United States of America (also referred to as the United States, the U.S., the USA, or America) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Caribbean and Pacific.
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Vanuatu
Vanuatu ( or ), officially the Republic of Vanuatu (, Bislama: Ripablik blong Vanuatu), is an island nation located in the South Pacific Ocean. The archipelago, which is of volcanic origin, is some east of northern Australia, northeast of New Caledonia, west of Fiji, and southeast of the Solomon Islands, near New Guinea.
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Warsaw
Warsaw ( ; see also other names) is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population as of June 2009 was estimated at 1,711,466, and the Warsaw metropolitan area at approximately 2,785,000. The city area is , with an agglomeration of (Warsaw Metro Area Obszar Metropolitalny Warszawy). Warsaw is the 9th largest city in the European Union by population.
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Wisconsin
Wisconsin () is a U.S. state located in the north-central United States and is considered part of the Midwest. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Upper Michigan to the northeast, and Lake Superior to the north. Wisconsin's capital is Madison, and its largest city is Milwaukee. As of 2009 the state has an estimated 5.6 million residents. The state contains 72 counties.
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Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe ( ; officially the Republic of Zimbabwe and formerly Southern Rhodesia, the Republic of Rhodesia, and Zimbabwe Rhodesia) is a landlocked country located in the southern part of the continent of Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers. It is bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia to the northwest and Mozambique to the east. Zimbabwe has three official languages: English, Shona (a Bantu language), and Ndebele (also a Bantu language).
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Dirt Nasty - "1980"
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- Duration: 3:55
- Published: 16 Oct 2007
- Uploaded: 28 Dec 2011
- Author: NickGoossen
Directed by Nicholaus Goossen. Featuring Mickey Avalon, Andre Legacy, Cisco Adler, Shwayze, DJ AM, Evidence, and ALF.
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Estelle '1980'
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- Duration: 3:48
- Published: 14 Sep 2006
- Uploaded: 27 Dec 2011
- Author: andyhylton
Estelle's first music video directed by Andy Hylton.
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Rehab - 1980 Lyrics
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- Duration: 3:18
- Published: 30 May 2009
- Uploaded: 28 Dec 2011
- Author: DanimalMarie2010
No Copyright Intended. Comment, rate, subscribe and request :]
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1980 - Rehab
I do not own this song in any way all the credit goes to the band Rehab. (explicit) PLZ RATE AND COMMENT =D over 200,00 views, DAMN! thanks guys =] If you have suggestions for any other Rehab songs just send me a message or leave a comment and I'll see if I can make a vid.
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Trip through the 80s - A Video Compilation
Song List: bit.ly ---- iMix on iTunes: bit.ly For more great 80s videos visit www.thegreat80s.com .............. Video Description A selection of video clips starting in 1980 and going on through 1989. All of the songs in this collection were on the Billboard end of year top 20 for their respective year. You can also download the songs from iTunes using the iMix list located on the song list page.
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OSTR "1980"
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- Duration: 3:07
- Published: 05 Mar 2008
- Uploaded: 28 Dec 2011
- Author: AsfaltRecords
video clip from OSTR's "Ja tu tylko sprzatam" album (release 22 Feb 2008). ostr.asfalt.pl
http://wn.com/OSTR_1980
Omd - Messages (1980)
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- Duration: 3:57
- Published: 23 Jun 2007
- Uploaded: 27 Dec 2011
- Author: barrythecat
The 3rd Single from OMD's first album Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, released in 1980... This song reached No. 13 in the Uk Charts in 1980.
http://wn.com/Omd__Messages_1980
ABBA-The Winner Takes It All Live 1980
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- Duration: 4:19
- Published: 06 Jan 2008
- Uploaded: 28 Dec 2011
- Author: agnetha4ever
Agnetha turns in a stellar performance of what had to be a heart wrenching song for her to sing.
http://wn.com/ABBA-The_Winner_Takes_It_All_Live_1980
Sailing by Christopher Cross in 1980
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- Duration: 4:04
- Published: 09 Nov 2007
- Uploaded: 28 Dec 2011
- Author: martingrebing
Christopher Cross performing his number one hit "Sailing" live in 1980
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Split Enz - I Got You (1980)
Music from Australia & New Zealand in the year 1980: Split Enz's promo-video for the hit single 'I Got You' (March, 1980) taken from the 1980 album 'True Colours'. Band Origin: Auckland, New Zealand Track: I Got You Album: True Colours Composed By: Neil Finn Produced By: David Tickle Label: Mushroom Chart Position: # 1 (Australia) -- # 1 (New Zealand) -- # 13 (United Kingdom) -- # 53 (United States) -- # 12 (Canada) -- also charted successfully in other countries, such as Iraq. Release Date: 21 January 1980 Footage Information: A Chris Lofven Production Links: - en.wikipedia.org - www.frenz.com - www.myspace.com Line-up: Tim Finn - Vocals, Guitar [ Split Ends (1972-1974) -- Split Enz (1975-1984) -- solo (1983-present) -- Crowded House (1990-1992) -- Enzo (1966) -- Finn (1996) -- Alt (mid-late 1990s) ] Neil Finn - Guitar, Vocals [ Split Enz (1977-1985) -- Crowded House (1985-1996) -- Finn (1996) -- solo (1998-2004) -- Crowded House reformed (2007-present) Eddie Rayner - Piano, Keyboards [ Split Enz (1974-1984) -- session (notably Paul McCartney) -- Crowded House tour keyboardist -- The Makers (1990) -- Split Enz reunions ] Noel Crombie - Percussion, Drums [ Split Enz (1972-1984) -- Schnell Fenster (1986-1992) -- The Makers (1990) -- Split Enz reunions ] Nigel Griggs -- Bass [ Octopus (1968-1970) -- Carmen -- Steve Hillage's Khan -- Split Enz (1977-1984) -- Schnell Fenster (1986-1992) ] Malcolm Green -- Drums [ Love Affair -- The Honeycombs -- Octopus -- Split Enz (1976 <b>...</b>
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The Fools - Psycho Chicken (1980)
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- Duration: 3:23
- Published: 07 Sep 2009
- Uploaded: 27 Dec 2011
- Author: rrraaagggeeee
1980 promo-music-video-clip by American band taken from Australian music program 'rage'.
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Ao cubo-1980
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- Duration: 6:47
- Published: 25 Mar 2007
- Uploaded: 27 Dec 2011
- Author: phunderground2
philips de souza
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Nessun Dorma (Pavarotti, NY 1980)
Luciano Pavarotti singing from a concert in January 1980 with the NY Philharmonic cond. by Zubin Mehta. Compare this performance with other (later) dates; Pavarotti here is clearly still in absolute total command. This was part of the "Live from Lincoln Center" 30th anniversary special.
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John Lennon Shot BBC NEWS 1980
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:46
- Published: 06 Dec 2006
- Uploaded: 27 Dec 2011
- Author: 9videostar9
Evening News
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Andy Kaufman on Letterman (June 24th 1980)
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- Duration: 8:43
- Published: 28 Aug 2008
- Uploaded: 28 Dec 2011
- Author: AndyOnLetterman
Andy appearing on Letterman's show for the second time. This is the day after his first appearance on the same morning show.
http://wn.com/Andy_Kaufman_on_Letterman_June_24th_1980
Ash - True Love 1980
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:57
- Published: 16 Sep 2009
- Uploaded: 20 Dec 2011
- Author: darthmarkh
Ash -- True Love 1980. Lifted from AZ Vol.1 CD Out Now. Ash - The AZ Series. 26 Singles. 2 Compilation CDs. www.ashofficial.com. Directed by Daniel Garcia
http://wn.com/Ash__True_Love_1980
The Knack - My Sharona 1980
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- Duration: 4:20
- Published: 06 Feb 2009
- Uploaded: 26 Dec 2011
- Author: fritz51314
The Knack - My Sharona 1980 Ooh my little pretty one, pretty one. When you gonna give me some time, Sharona? Ooh you make my motor run, my motor run. Gun it comin' off the line Sharona Never gonna stop, give it up. Such a dirty mind. Always get it up for the touch of the younger kind. My my my i yi woo. MMM My Sharona Come a little closer huh, ah will ya huh. Close enough to look in my eyes, Sharona. Keeping it a mystery gets to me Running down the length of my thighs, Sharona Never gonna stop, give it up. Such a dirty mind. Always get it up for the touch of the younger kind. My my my i yi woo. MMM My Sharona MMM My Sharona (Instrumental) When you gonna give it to me, give it to me. It is just a matter of time Sharona Is it just destiny, destiny? Or is it just a game in my mind, Sharona? Never gonna stop, give it up. Such a dirty mind. Always get it up for the touch of the younger kind. My my my i yi woo. MMM My my my i yi woo MMM My Sharona MMM My Sharona MMM My Sharona MMM My Sharona (Instrumental) Ooooaaa My Sharona Ooooaaa My Sharona Ooooaaa My Sharona
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Pascal Obispo - 1980
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- Duration: 4:16
- Published: 03 Oct 2009
- Uploaded: 28 Dec 2011
- Author: pascalobispoVEVO
Music video by Pascal Obispo performing 1980. (C) 2006 PO Productions -SBMG France SAS
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Hawaii Five-0 Theme 1968 -1980
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- Duration: 3:22
- Published: 05 Jan 2008
- Uploaded: 27 Dec 2011
- Author: sunfilling
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leo sayer - More Than I Can Say 1980
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- Duration: 3:18
- Published: 10 Jan 2011
- Uploaded: 27 Dec 2011
- Author: memorylane1980s
Good quality video singing live on Top Of The Pops 1980. Leo Sayer (born Gerard Hugh Sayer 1948) Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex is a Grammy Award Winning British singer-songwriter, musician and entertainer whose singing career has spanned four decades. Sayer became a naturalised Australian citizen in 2009. Sayer was a top singles and album act on both sides of the Atlantic in the 1970s. His first seven hit singles in the UK all reached the Top 10 -- a feat first registered by his one-time manager, Adam Faith. A consistently successful artist, from his first hit with "The Show Must Go On" in 1973 to the present day, Sayer has never been missing from the charts for longer than five successive years. Sayer began his music career co-writing songs with David Courtney, including "Giving It All Away", which gave Roger Daltrey of The Who his first hit without The Who in 1973. That same year, Sayer began his career as a recording artist. At the time of his initial chart breakthrough in the UK, with his second single "The Show Must Go On", he wore a pierrot style costume and make-up and the song shot up to number two. Sayer followed up with hit after hit.[1] He had subsequent single hits with "One Man Band" (1974), "Long Tall Glasses" (1975) and "Moonlighting" (1975). In 1976, Sayer recorded three Beatles songs, "I Am the Walrus", "Let It Be" and "The Long and Winding Road" for the film, All This and World War II. In 1977, he had a US number one with "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing" (a <b>...</b>
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1980's TV Cartoons
a collection of some of my favourites TV cartoons back in the 80's when i was growing up.
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Milton Friedman on Donahue 1980 (1/5)
Milton Friedman provides a direct and to-the-point defense of capitalism and free trade. He explains how governmental regulations, no matter how well-intended, are inevitably infiltrated by business interests which use governmental power to stifle competition. He also explains the economics of why drug prohibition doesn't work to control drugs. Playlist for all 5 videos: www.youtube.com
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Eurovision 1980 - Johnny Logan - What's another year
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:01
- Published: 26 Aug 2008
- Uploaded: 28 Dec 2011
- Author: Euroencyclopedic
Eurovision 1980 - Johnny Logan - What's another year
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Syria-Russia relations since 1980
18 Jan 2012
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DAMASCUS ' Syria's long-time ally Russia has blocked all draft UN Security Council resolutions condemning the brutal crackdown by President Bashar Al-Assad's regime on a 10-month pro-democracy protest movement, most recently on Wednesday. Here are key dates in their relationship. · October 8,...
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Lesko files federal appeal in 1980 cop killing
16 Jan 2012
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Prosecutors withheld documents that would have undermined two key witnesses in his Westmoreland County trial, convicted cop killer John C. Lesko claims in a federal appeal filed Friday. Lesko, 53, of Homestead and co-defendant Michael...
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SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador - Salvadoran President Mauricio Funes says an estimated 22,000 former rebel combatants now...
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The political shootout of the year, at least in Southern California, is the duel between two veteran Democratic congressmen who were thrown into the same district by the independent redistricting commission, Howard Berman and Brad...
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Turkey's then Army Commander General Kenan Evren, seen here in a photo date... The leader of the 1980 Turkish coup and a co-conspirator have been charged with crimes against the state after an Ankara court approved an indictment Tuesday, the Anatolia news agency...
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Court to try 1980 Turkey coup plotters
10 Jan 2012
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January 10, 2012 -- Updated 1359 GMT (2159 HKT) An undated photo of Turkey's retired army general and former president Kenan Evren, involved in Turkey's 1980 military coup. Istanbul (CNN) -- Turkey moved one step closer to prosecuting the senior commanders behind a military coup in 1980 when a...
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Turkey to prosecute two organizers of 1980 coup
10 Jan 2012
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Istanbul - The two surviving military leaders behind Turkey's 1980 military coup will be prosecuted for crimes against the state, Turkey's state news agency Anatolian reported on Tuesday. Former military...
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1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year that started on a Tuesday. In the Gregorian calendar, the year 1980 was the 1980th year in the Anno Domini or Common Era, the 80th year of the 20th century, and the 980th year of the 2nd millennium. It was also the first year of the 1980s.
January 1 – Changes to the Swedish Act of Succession make Princess Victoria of Sweden Crown Princess and therefore next in line to the throne, ahead of her younger brother.
January 4 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter proclaims a grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission.
January 6
* Global Positioning System time epoch begins at 00:00 UTC.
* The president of Sicily, Piersanti Mattarella, is killed by the Mafia.
January 7 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs legislation approving $1.5 billion in loan guarantees to bail out the Chrysler Corporation.
January 9 – In Saudi Arabia, 63 Muslim fanatics are beheaded for their part in the siege of the Great Mosque in Mecca in November, 1979.
January 11 – Nigel Short, 14, becomes the youngest chess player to be awarded the degree of International Master.
January 20 – Cuba recognizes the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR).
January 21
The London Gold Fixing hits its highest price ever (adjusted for inflation), at US$850 a troy ounce.
* The MS Athina B is beached at Brighton, becoming a temporary tourist attraction.
* At least 200 people were killed when the Corralejas Bullring collapsed at Sincelejo, Colombia.
January 22 – Andrei Sakharov, Soviet scientist and human rights activist, is arrested in Moscow.
January 24 – The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railroad is ordered liquidated due to bankruptcy, and debt owed to creditors.
January 26 – Israel and Egypt establish diplomatic relations.
January 27 – Canadian caper: Six United States diplomats, posing as Canadians, manage to escape from Tehran, Iran as they board a flight to Zürich, Switzerland.
January 31 – The Spanish Embassy in Guatemala is invaded and set on fire, killing 36 people. It is called "Spain's own Tehran", similar to the 1979–80 Iran American U.S. Embassy Hostages of Americans.
February 2–February 3 – The New Mexico State Penitentiary Riot takes place; 33 inmates are killed and more than 100 inmates injured.
February 4 – Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini names Abolhassan Banisadr as president of Iran.
February 13 – The 1980 Winter Olympics open in Lake Placid, New York.
February 15 – In Vanuatu, followers of John Frum's cargo cult on the island of Tanna declare secession as the nation of Tafea.
February 16 – A total solar eclipse seen in North Africa and West Asia.
February 19 – Bon Scott of AC/DC dies of alcohol poisoning.
February 22 – The United States Olympic Hockey Team defeats the Soviet Union in the semifinals of the Winter Olympics, in the ''Miracle on Ice''.
February 23 – Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini states that Iran's parliament will decide the fate of the American embassy hostages.
February 25 – A coup in Suriname ousts the government of Henck Arron; leaders Desi Bouterse and Roy Horb replace it with a National Military Council.
February 27
* M-19 guerrillas begin the Dominican embassy siege in Colombia, holding 60 people hostage, including 14 ambassadors.
* Iran recognizes the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR).
March 1 – The ''Voyager 1'' probe confirms the existence of Janus, a moon of Saturn.
March 3 – Pierre Trudeau returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada.
March 4 – Robert Mugabe is elected Prime Minister of Zimbabwe.
March 8 – The Soviet Union's first rock music festival starts.
March 14 – In Poland, a plane crashes during an emergency landing near Warsaw, killing a 14-man American boxing team and 73 others.
March 18 – Fifty people are killed at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia, when a Vostok-2M rocket explodes on its launch pad during a fueling operation.
March 20 – The ''Mi Amigo'', the ship that housed pirate radio station ''Radio Caroline'', sinks (''Radio Caroline'' returns aboard a new ship in 1983).
March 21
* U.S. President Jimmy Carter announces that the United States will boycott the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.
* ''Mafioso'' Angelo Bruno is murdered in Philadelphia.
March 22 – The Georgia Guidestones are erected in Elbert County, Georgia.
March 24
* The Australia Olympic Committee announces it will send an Olympic delegation to Moscow, despite objections by Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser.
* Archbishop Óscar Romero is killed by gunmen while celebrating Mass in San Salvador. At his funeral 6 days later, 42 people are killed amid gunfire and bombs.
March 26 – A mine lift cage at the Vaal Reef gold mine in South Africa falls 1.2 miles, killing 23.
March 27
* The Norwegian oil platform Alexander L. Kielland collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212.
* The Silver Thursday market crash occurs.
* Sierra Leone recognizes the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR).
March 28 – Talpiot Tomb is found in Jerusalem.
March 31 – Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad operates its final train.
April 1
* The Southern African Development Coordination Conference (SADCC) is formed in Lusaka, Zambia.
* The Mariel boatlift from Cuba begins.
* New York City's Transport Works Union Local 100 goes on strike, which continues for 11 days.
April 2 – The St. Pauls riot breaks out in Bristol.
April 7 – The United States severs diplomatic relations with Iran and imposes economic sanctions, following the taking of American hostages on November 4, 1979.
April 10 – Spain and the United Kingdom agree to reopen the border between Gibraltar and Spain, closed since 1969.
April 12
* Samuel Kanyon Doe takes over Liberia in a ''coup d'état'', ending over 130 years of democratic presidential succession in that country.
* Terry Fox begins his Marathon of Hope from St. Johns, Newfoundland, Canada.
April 14 – Iron Maiden's debut self titled album ''Iron Maiden'' is released.
April 15 – Lybia and Syria recognize the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR).
April 18 – Zimbabwe gains independence from the United Kingdom; Robert Mugabe becomes Prime Minister.
April 21 – Rosie Ruiz wins the Boston Marathon, but is later exposed as a fraud and stripped of her award.
April 24 – Pennsylvania Lottery Scandal: the Pennsylvania Lottery is rigged by 6 men including the host of the live TV drawing, Nick Perry.
April 24–April 25 – Operation Eagle Claw, a commando mission in Iran to rescue American embassy hostages, is aborted after mechanical problems ground the rescue helicopters. Eight United States troops are killed in a mid-air collision during the failed operation.
April 25 – Dan-Air Flight 1008 crashes in Tenerife, killing all 146 occupants and marking the worst air disaster involving a British-registered aircraft in terms of loss of life.
April 26 – Louise and Charmian Faulkner disappear from outside their flat in St Kilda, Victoria, Australia.
April 27 – The Dominican embassy siege ends with all hostages released and the guerrillas flying to Cuba.
April 28 – Swaziland recognizes the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR).
April 30
* Iranian Embassy Siege: Six Iranian-born terrorists take over the Iranian embassy in London, UK. SAS retakes the Embassy on May 5; 1 terrorist survives.
* Queen Juliana of the Netherlands abdicates, and her daughter Beatrix accedes to the throne.
May 4 – Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito dies. The funeral ceremony later becomes the world's biggest diplomatic meeting and media event ever, with more than 140 state delegations in Belgrade from all over the world (only the funeral of Pope John Paul II in April 2005 will have more news coverage and a higher number of delegations).
May 7 – Paul Geidel, convicted of second-degree murder in 1911, is released from prison in Beacon, New York, after 68 years and 245 days (the longest-ever time served by an inmate).
May 9
* In Florida, the Liberian freighter ''Summit Venture'' hits the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay. A 1,400-foot section of the bridge collapses and 35 people (most in a bus) are killed.
* The Norco shootout takes place in California.
* James Alexander George Smith "Jags" McCartney the Turks and Caicos Islands’ first Chief Minister, is killed in a plane crash over New Jersey.
May 11 – Mobster Henry Hill is arrested for drug possession.
May 14 – Botswana recognizes the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR).
May 17
* A Tampa, Florida court acquits 4 white police officers of killing Arthur McDuffie, a black insurance executive, provoking 3 days of race riots in Miami.
* Internal conflict in Peru: On the eve of presidential elections, Maoist guerrilla group Shining Path attacks a polling location in the town of Chuschi, Ayacucho.
May 18
* Mount St. Helens erupts in Washington, killing 57 and causing US$3 billion in damage.
* Ian Curtis, singer/songwriter of acclaimed post punk band Joy Division, is found hanged.
May 18–May 27 – Gwangju Massacre: Students in Gwangju, South Korea begin demonstrations, calling for democratic reforms.
May 20 – 1980 Quebec referendum: Voters in Quebec reject by a vote of 60% a proposal to seek independence from Canada.
May 21 – ''Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back'' is released.
May 22 – Pac-Man (the best-selling arcade game of all time) is released.
May 24
* The International Court of Justice calls for the release of U.S. Embassy hostages in Tehran.
* The New York Islanders win their first Stanley Cup, from a goal by Bobby Nystrom in overtime of game six of the Stanley Cup playoffs's final round.
May 25 – Indianapolis 500: Johnny Rutherford wins for a third time in car owner Jim Hall's revolutionary ground effect Chaparral car; the victory is Hall's second as an owner.
May 26
* John Frum supporters in Vanuatu storm government offices on the island of Tanna. Vanuatu government troops land the next day and drive them away.
* In South Korea, military government forces and pro-democracy protesters clash; 2,000 protesters die.
* Vernon Jordan is shot and critically injured in an assassination attempt in Fort Wayne, Indiana by Joseph Paul Franklin (the first major news story for CNN).
June 1 – The Cable News Network (CNN) is officially launched.
June 3 – A series of deadly tornadoes strikes Grand Island, Nebraska, causing over $300m in damage, killing 5 people and injuring over 250.
June 9 – In Los Angeles, comedian Richard Pryor is badly burned trying to freebase cocaine.
June 10
Apartheid: The African National Congress in South Africa publishes a statement by their imprisoned leader Nelson Mandela.
* A Unabomber bomb injures United Airlines president Percy Wood in Lake Forest, Illinois.
June 20 – Augusta AVA becomes the first federally recognized American Viticultural Area.
June 23–September 6 – The 1980 United States heat wave claims 1,700 lives.
June 25 – A Muslim Brotherhood assassination attempt against Syrian president Hafez al-Assad fails. Assad retaliates by sending the army against them.
June 26 – Aerolinee Itavia Flight 870 crashes into the sea near Palermo after an explosion occurs in the air; 81 people die. A bomb or a missile is suspected to be the cause of the accident but no culprits are ever found.
June 27 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs Proclamation 4771, requiring 18- to 25-year-old males to register for a peacetime military draft, in response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
June 29 – Vigdis Finnbogadottir is elected president of Iceland.
July 4 – Chad and Mali recognize the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR).
July 8 – A wave of strikes begins in Lublin, Poland
July 9
* Pope John Paul II visits Brazil; 7 people are crushed to death in a crowd meeting him.
* Zimbabwe recognizes the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR).
July 15 – A severe and destructive thunderstorm strikes 4 counties in western Wisconsin, including the city of Eau Claire. It causes over $250m in damage, and 1 person is killed.
July 16 – Former California Governor and actor Ronald Reagan is nominated for U.S. President, at the Republican National Convention in Detroit, Michigan. Influenced by the Religious Right, the convention also drops its long standing support for the Equal Rights Amendment, dismaying moderate Republicans.
July 19 – Former Turkish Prime Minister Nihat Erim is killed by 2 gunmen in Istanbul, Turkey.
July 19–August 3 – The 1980 Summer Olympics are held in Moscow, Soviet Union.
July 25 – The album ''Back in Black'' is released by the Australian band AC/DC.
July 27 – Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, deposed Shah of Iran, dies in Cairo.
July 30
* Vanuatu gains independence.
* Israel's Knesset passes the Jerusalem Law.
August 2 – A terrorist bombing at the railway station in Bologna, Italy kills 85 people and wounds more than 200.
August 7–August 31 – Lech Wałęsa leads the first of many strikes at the Gdańsk Shipyard.
August 10 – Hurricane Allen (category 3) pounds southeastern Texas.
August 14 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter defeats Senator Edward Kennedy to win renomination, at the 1980 Democratic National Convention in New York City.
August 17 – In Australia, baby Azaria Chamberlain disappears from a campsite at Ayers Rock (Uluru), reportedly taken by a dingo.
August 19 – In one of aviation's worst disasters, 301 persons are killed when Saudia Flight 163 catches fire in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
August 31 – Victory of the strike in Gdańsk Shipyard, Poland. Gdańsk Agreement is signed, opening a way to start the first in the communist block free organization not controlled by regime "Solidarność" i.e. Solidarity.
September 2 – Ford Europe launches the Escort MK3, a new front-wheel drive hatchback.
September 5 – The St. Gotthard Tunnel opens in Switzerland as the world's longest highway tunnel at 10.14 miles (16.32 km), stretching from Goschenen to Airolo.
September 12 – Kenan Evren stages a military coup in Turkey. It stops political gang violence, but begins stronger state violence leading to the execution of many young activists.
September 17
* After weeks of strikes at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk, Poland, the nationwide independent trade union Solidarity is established.
* Former Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza Debayle is killed in Asunción, Paraguay.
September 21 – Bülent Ulusu, ex admiral, forms the new government of Turkey (44th government, composed mostly of technocrats)
September 22
* The command council of Iraq orders its army to "deliver its fatal blow on Iranian military targets," initiating the Iran–Iraq War.
* Youth riots in the capital of the Soviet Republic of Estonia are quickly forced down.
September 26 – The Mariel Boatlift officially ends.
September 29 – The ''Washington Post'' publishes Janet Cooke's story of Jimmy, an 8-year-old heroin addict (later proven to be fabricated).
September 30 – Digital Equipment Corporation, Intel and Xerox introduce the DIX standard for Ethernet, which is the first implementation outside of Xerox, and the first to support 10 Mbit/s speeds.
October 1 – Associated Newspapers announces that ''The Evening News'' will close and merge with the ''Evening Standard''.
October 5 – British Leyland launches its new Metro, a three-door entry-level hatchback which is designed as the eventual replacement for the Mini. It gives BL a long-awaited modern competitor for the likes of the Ford Fiesta and Vauxhall Chevette.
October 10
* El Asnam, Algeria is destroyed by an earthquake, which claims more than 2,600 lives. After the quake, El Asnam is rebuilt and changes its name to the city of Chlef.
* British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher delivers her famous 'The lady's not for turning' speech.
October 14 – The Staggers Rail Act is enacted, deregulating American railroads.
October 15
* James Callaghan announces his resignation as Leader of the British Labour Party.
* James Hoskins forces his way into WCPO's television studio in Cincinnati, holding 9 employees hostage for several hours before releasing them and taking his own life.
October 18 – The Fraser Government is re-elected for a third consecutive term in Australia with a reduced majority.
October 21 – World Series: The Philadelphia Phillies beat the Kansas City Royals 4–2 in game 6.
October 22 – The Thomson Corporation says that The Times and all associated supplements will close in March 1981 if no buyer can be found.
October 25 – Proceedings on the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction conclude at The Hague.
October 27 – Six Provisional Irish Republican Army prisoners in Maze prison refuse food and demand status as political prisoners; the hunger strike lasts until December.
October 30
* El Salvador and Honduras sign a peace treaty to put the border dispute fought over in 1969's Football War before the International Court of Justice.
* Costa Rica recognizes the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR).
October 31
* The Polish government recognizes Solidarity.
* Reza Pahlavi, eldest son of the shah of Iran, proclaims himself the rightful successor to the Peacock Throne.
November – Duration of the CESDAP plan extended indefinitely.
November 4 – United States presidential election, 1980: Republican challenger and former Governor Ronald Reagan of California defeats incumbent Democratic President Jimmy Carter, exactly 1 year after the beginning of the Iran hostage crisis.
November 10 – November 12 – Voyager program: The NASA space probe ''Voyager I'' makes its closest approach to Saturn, when it flies within 77,000 miles of the planet's cloud-tops and sends the first high resolution images of the world back to scientists on Earth.
November 20
* The Gang of Four trial begins in China.
* A Texaco oil rig breaks through to a mine under Lake Peigneur.
November 21
* A fire at the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino on the Las Vegas Strip kills 85 people.
* A then-record number of viewers (for an entertainment program) tune into the U.S. TV soap opera ''Dallas'' to learn who shot lead character J.R. Ewing. The "Who shot J.R.?" event is a international obsession.
November 23 – Italy Earthquake of 1980: a magnitude 7 earthquake in southern Italy kills approximately 4,800 people and leaves 300,000 homeless.
November 27 – Vanuatu recognizes the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR).
December 2 – American missionary Jean Donovan and three Roman Catholic nuns are murdered by a military death squad in El Salvador while volunteering to do charity work during the country's civil war.
December 8 – John Lennon, an English musician and peace activist, is murdered in New York City.
December 11 – CERCLA is enacted by the U.S. Congress.
December 15 – The Academia de la Llingua Asturiana (Academy of the Asturian Language) is created.
December 16 – During a summit on the island of Bali, OPEC decides to raise the price of petroleum by 10%.
Lawrence Klein is awarded the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
The Right Livelihood Award is founded by Jakob von Uexkull. Hassan Fathy and Plenty International / Stephen Gaskin are its first winners.
January 1
* Elin Nordegren, Swedish model
* Mark Nichols, Canadian curler
January 8
* Adam Goodes, Australian rules footballer
* Rachel Nichols, American actress
January 9 – Sergio García, Spanish golfer
January 10 – Sarah Shahi, American actress of Iranian and Spanish descent
January 11 – Lovieanne Jung, American softball player
January 13 – LaKisha Jones, American singer
January 14
* Ossama Haidar, Lebanese footballer
* Hiroshi Tamaki, Japanese actor, model, and singer
* Cory Gibbs, American footballer
* Sosuke Sumitani, Japanese announcer
January 16
* Albert Pujols, Dominican Major League Baseball player
* Michelle Wild, Hungarian actress
January 17
* Maksim Chmerkovskiy, Ukrainian dance champion, choreographer, and instructor
* Zooey Deschanel, American actress
January 18 – Julius Peppers, American football player
January 19
* Arvydas Macijauskas, Lithuanian basketball player
* Jenson Button, British racecar driver
January 21 – Kevin McKenna, Canadian footballer
January 22 – Jake Grove, American football player
January 24 – Nyncke Beekhuyzen, Dutch actress
January 25
* Christian Olsson, Swedish athlete
* Xavi, Spanish footballer
* Michelle McCool, American professional wrestler
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
January 30 – Wilmer Valderrama, Venezuelan/Colombian-American comedian
February 2 – Zhang Jingchu, Chinese actress
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
February 8 – Yang Wei, Chinese gymnast
February 10
* César Izturis, Venezuelan Major League Baseball player
* Steve Tully, English footballer
February 11 – Matthew Lawrence, American actor (Boy Meets World)
February 12
* Juan Carlos Ferrero, Spanish tennis player
* Christina Ricci, American actress
February 14 – Michelle Ye, Hong Kong actress
February 15 – Conor Oberst, American singer/songwriter
February 16 – Ashley Lelie, American football player
February 17 – Jason Ritter, American actor
February 18 – Regina Spektor, Russian-born 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
February 21
* Brad Fast, Canadian ice hockey player
* Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, King of Bhutan
February 24 – Emma Johnson, Australian swimmer
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. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton
February 28
* Tayshaun Prince, American basketball player
* Piotr Giza, Polish footballer
February 29 – Simon Gagné, Canadian hockey player
March 2
* Chris Barker, English footballer
* 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 7 – Laura Prepon, American actress
March 13 – Caron Butler, American basketball player
March 14 – Aaron Brown, English footballer
March 16 – Todd Heap, American football player
March 18 – Alexei Yagudin, Russian figure skater
March 19
* Agnes Pihlava, Finnish pop singer
* Johan Olsson, Swedish cross country skier
March 20 – Jamal Crawford, American basketball player
March 21
* Marit Bjørgen, Norwegian cross-country skier
* Ronaldinho, Brazilian footballer
* Deryck Whibley, Canadian singer, songwriter, and musician (Sum 41)
March 30 – Yalin, Turkish pop singer and songwriter
March 31 – Chien-Ming Wang, Taiwanese Major League Baseball player
April 1
* Bijou Phillips, American actress and socialite
* Randy Orton, American professional wrestler
* Yūko Takeuchi, Japanese actress
April 4 – Björn Wirdheim, Swedish race car driver
April 8 – Ben Freeman, British actor
April 9 – Rachel Specter, American actress
April 9 – 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 (Westlife)
April 15 – Natalie Casey, English actress
April 16 – 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 20 – Jasmin Wagner, German 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)
April 25 – Kazuhito Tadano, Japanese baseball player
April 26
* Jordana Brewster, American actress
* Stana Katic, American film 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 30 – Luis Scola, Argentine basketball player
May 2
* Tim Borowski, German footballer
* Zat Knight, English footballer
May 3 – Marcel Vigneron, American chef
May 5 – Maia Hirasawa, Swedish pop singer
May 6
* Taebin, Korean hip-hop artist (1TYM)
* 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
* Norihiro Nishi, Japanese footballer
May 10 – Pete Gray, Australian environmental activist (d. 2011)
May 15 – Josh Beckett, American baseball player
May 19 – Dean Heffernan, Australian footballer
May 22 – Lucy Gordon, British actress (d. 2009)
May 24 – Cecilia Cheung, Hong Kong actress
May 29 – Michael Stasko, Canadian actor
May 30 – Steven Gerrard, English footballer
June 1 – Oliver James, British actor
June 2 – Lindsey Yamasaki, Japanese-American basketball player
June 5 – Mike Fisher, Canadian hockey player
June 7 – Henkka Seppälä, Finnish bassist (Children of Bodom)
June 10
* Francelino Matuzalem, Brazilian footballer
* Wang Yuegu, Singaporean Olympic table tennis player
June 13
* Sarah Connor, German singer
* Juan Carlos Navarro, Spanish basketball player
June 15 – Almudena Cid Spanish rhythmic gymnast
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
* Ramnaresh Sarwan, West Indian cricketer
* Manus Boonjumnong, Thai boxer
* Francesca Schiavone, Italian tennis player
June 24 – Liane Balaban, Canadian actress
June 25 – Nozomi Takeuchi, Japanese actress
June 26 – Michael Vick, American football player
June 29
* Katherine Jenkins, Welsh soprano
* Martin Truex Jr, American race car driver
July 1 – Patrick Aufiero, American ice hockey player
July 3 – Roland Mark Schoeman, South African swimmer
July 5 – Eva Green, French actress and model
July 6 – Pau Gasol, Spanish basketball player
July 7 – Michelle Kwan, American figure skater
July 8
* Robbie Keane, Irish footballer
* Yang Tae-Young, South Korean gymnast
July 9 – Kathia Rodriguez, Puerto Rican actress
July 10
* Adam Petty, American race car driver (d. 2000)
* Jessica Simpson, American singer
* James Rolfe, American director, actor and writer (on the Internet)
July 15
* Jasper Pääkkönen, Finnish actor and film producer
* Reggie Abercrombie, American baseball player
* JW-Jones, Canadian blues musician
July 16
* Adam Scott, Australian golfer
* Svetlana Feofanova, Russian pole-vaulter
July 18 – Kristen Bell, American actress
July 19 – Mark Webber, American actor
July 20 – Gisele Bündchen, Brazilian supermodel
July 22
* Dirk Kuyt, Dutch footballer
* Kate Ryan, Belgian singer
July 23 – Michelle Williams, American singer, actress, (Destiny's Child)
July 25 – Rebeka Dremelj, Slovenian singer
July 27 – Nick Nemeth, American professional wrestler
July 29 – Fernando González, Chilean tennis player
July 30 – Diam's, French rapper
August 2 – Dingdong Dantes, Filipino Actor
August 3 – Dominic Moore, Canadian ice hockey player
August 5 – Wayne Bridge, English footballer
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
August 18 – Damion Stewart, Jamaican footballer
August 21 – Jon Lajoie, Canadian comedian
August 23 – Rex Grossman, American football player
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
* Nicholas Tse, Hong Kong singer
* David Desrosiers, bassist and backing vocalist for (Simple Plan)
September 2 – Dany Sabourin, French Canadian ice hockey goaltender
September 3 – Jennie Finch, American softball player
September 6
* Joseph Yobo, Nigerian footballer
* Samuel Peter, Nigerian boxer & heavyweight champion
* Kerry Katona, English TV presenter and former pop star (Atomic Kitten)
September 7
* Gabriel Milito, Argentine footballer
* Mark Prior, American baseball player
September 9 – Michelle Williams, American actress
September 11 – Mike Comrie, Canadian ice hockey player
September 12
* Sean Burroughs, American baseball player
* Yao Ming, Chinese basketball player
September 13
* Ben Savage, American actor (Boy Meets World)
* Daisuke Matsuzaka, Japanese baseball player
September 15 – Jolin Tsai, Taiwanese singer
September 19 - Tegan and Sara Quin, Canadian singer/songwriters
September 21
* Kareena Kapoor, Indian actress
* Autumn Reeser, American actress
September 24 – Victoria Pendleton, English cyclist
September 29
* Patrick Agyemang, Ghanaian footballer
* Zachary Levi, American actor
September 30
* Martina Hingis, Swiss tennis player
* Guillermo Rigondeaux, Cuban boxer
October 4
* Kristina Lenko, Canadian champion ice skater
* Tomáš Rosický, Czech footballer
* Me'Lisa Barber, American athlete
October 5 – James Toseland, English motorcycle racer
October 8 – Michael Mizanin, American professional wrestler
October 10 – Sherine, Egyptian singer
October 12 – Ledley King, English footballer
October 13 – Scott Parker, English footballer
October 14 – Terrence McGee, American football player
October 16
* Sue Bird, American basketball player
* Timana Tahu, Australian Rugby League player
October 17
* Ekaterina Gamova, Russian volleyball player
* Eminem, American rapper
October 18 – Reetinder Sodhi, Indian cricket player
October 21 – Kim Kardashian, American television personality
October 24
* Monica Arnold, American singer
* Casey Wilson, American actress and comedienne
October 28
* Alan Smith, English footballer
* Christy Hemme, American professional wrestler
November 4 – Sabrina Colie, Jamaican actress
November 5 – Christoph Metzelder, German footballer
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
November 13 – Monique Coleman, American actress
November 16 – Kayte Christensen, American basketball player
November 17 – Isaac Hanson, American musician
November 18 – Denny Hamlin, American race car driver
November 21
* Hank Blalock, American baseball player
* Hiroyuki Tomita, Japanese gymnast
November 25
* John-Michael Liles, American hockey player
* Nick Swisher, American baseball player
November 26 – Satoshi Ohno, Japanese singer
November 28 – Lisa Middelhauve, German singer (Xandria)
December 1 – Joel A. Sutherland, Canadian author
December 3
* Anna Chlumsky, American actress
* Jim Sorgi, American football player
December 5 – Ibrahim Maalouf, Lebanese-born French trumpeter
December 6
* Steve Lovell, English footballer
* Kei Yasuda, Japanese singer
December 7 – John Terry, English footballer
December 9 – Ryder Hesjedal, Canadian professional cyclist
December 10
* Marina Orlova, Internet celebrity
* Sarah Chang, American violinist
December 13
* Satoshi Tsumabuki, Japanese actor
* Bosco Wong, Hong Kong actor
December 18 – Christina Aguilera, American singer
December 19 – Jake Gyllenhaal, American actor
December 20
* Ashley Cole, English footballer
* Fitz Hall, English footballer
December 22 – Chris Carmack, American actor
December 27 – Bernard Berrian, American football player
December 30 – Eliza Dushku, American actress
December 31 – Richie McCaw, New Zealand rugby player
January 1 – Adolph Deutsch, American composer (b. 1897)
January 3 – Joy Adamson, Austrian-born conservationist and author (b. 1910)
January 7 – Simone Mathieu, French tennis champion (b. 1908)
January 8 – John Mauchly, American physicist and inventor (b. 1907)
January 10 – George Meany, American labor leader (b. 1894)
January 11 – Barbara Pym, English novelist (b. 1913)
January 13 – Andre Kostelanetz, Russian-born 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 24 – Lil Dagover, German actress (b. 1887)
January 28 – Franco Evangelisti, Italian composer (b. 1926)
January 29 – Jimmy Durante, American actor, singer, and comedian (b. 1893)
January 30 – Professor Longhair, American musician (b. 1918)
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 9 – Tom Macdonald, Welsh journalist and novelist (b. 1900)
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
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 – Bon Scott, Scottish-born rock singer (AC/DC) (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 22 – Oskar Kokoschka, Austrian painter and poet (b. 1886)
February 24 – Clement Martyn Doke, South African linguist (b. 1893)
February 27 – George Tobias, American actor (b. 1901)
March 1
* Dixie Dean, English football player (b. 1907)
* Wilhelmina, Dutch-born American high-fashion model and owner of model agency (b. 1940)
* Daniil Khrabrovitsky, Soviet film director (b. 1923)
March 5
* Jay Silverheels, Native American actor (b. 1912)
* Winifred Wagner, German daughter-in-law of Richard Wagner, close friend of Adolf Hitler (b. 1897)
March 10 – Herman Tarnower, American doctor and murder victim (b. 1910)
March 11 – Maud Hart Lovelace, American author (b. 1892)
March 14
* Anna Jantar, Polish singer (b. 1950)
* Mohammad Hatta, Indonesia's first vice president (b. 1902)
March 16 – Tamara de Lempicka, Polish-born painter (b. 1898)
March 18
* Jessica Dragonette, American singer (b. 1900)
* Erich Fromm, German-born psychologist and philosopher (b. 1900)
* Louise Lovely, Australian actress (b. 1895)
March 21 – Peter Stoner, American mathematician, astronomer and Christian apologist (b. 1888)
March 24
* John Barrie, British actor (b. 1917)
* Pierre Etchebaster, French real tennis player (b. 1893)
* Oscar Romero, El Salvador Roman Catholic archbishop (b. 1917)
March 25
* Roland Barthes, French literary critic and writer (b. 1915)
* Walter Susskind, Czech conductor (b. 1913)
* James Wright, American poet (b. 1927)
* Milton H. Erickson, American psychiatrist (b.1901)
March 28 – Dick Haymes, Argentine actor and singer (b. 1916)
March 29 – Mantovani, Italian-born conductor and arranger (b. 1905)
March 31
* Vladimír Holan, Czech poet (b. 1905)
* Jesse Owens, African-American athlete (b. 1913)
April 4 – Red Sovine, American country & folk singer & songwriter (b. 1917)
April 6 – John Collier, English writer (b. 1901)
April 10 – Kay Medford, American actress (b. 1914)
April 11 – Ümit Kaftancıoğlu, Turkish writer (b. 1935)
April 12 – Clark McConachy, New Zealand snooker and billiards player (b. 1895)
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 19 – Tony Beckley, English character actor (b. 1927)
April 20 – Katherine Kennicott Davis, American composer (b. 1892)
April 21 – Sohrab Sepehri, Persian poet and painter (b. 1928)
April 22 – Jane Froman, American singer and actress (b. 1907)
April 24 – Alejo Carpentier, Cuban writer (b. 1904)
April 26 – Cicely Courtneidge, British actress (b. 1893)
April 27 – John Culshaw, British recording producer and musicologist (b. 1924)
April 29 – Alfred Hitchcock, British suspense film director (b. 1899)
April 30 – Luis Muñoz Marín, Puerto Rican poet, journalist, and politician (b. 1898)
May 2 – George Pal, Hungarian-born animator and producer (b. 1904)
May 4
* Kay Hammond, English actress (b. 1909)
* Josip Broz Tito, 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 8 – Geoffrey Baker, English field marshal (b. 1912)
May 12 – Lillian Roth, American actress (b. 1910)
May 14 – Hugh Griffith, Welsh actor (b. 1912)
May 16 – Marin Preda, Romanian writer (b. 1922)
May 18
* David A. Johnston, American volcanologist (b. 1949)
* Ian Curtis, British musician and singer (Joy Division) (b. 1956)
May 21 – Ida Kaminska, Polish actress (b. 1899)
May 28 – Rolf Nevanlinna, Finnish mathematician (b. 1895)
June 1 – Rube Marquard, American baseball player (b. 1886)
June 7
* Henry Miller, American writer (b. 1891)
* Elizabeth Craig, British chef and writer (b. 1883)
* Philip Guston, American painter (b. 1912)
June 12
* Masayoshi Ohira, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1910)
* Billy Butlin, South African–born Canadian founder of Butlins Holiday Camps (b. 1899)
* Milburn Stone, American actor (b. 1904)
June 13 – Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian and political figure (b. 1942)
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, British actor (b. 1897)
* Sanjay Gandhi, Indian son of Indira Gandhi (air crash) (b. 1946)
June 24 – Boris Kaufman, Russian cinematographer (b. 1897)
June 27 – Carey McWilliams, American author, editor, and lawyer (b. 1905)
June 28 – José Iturbi, Spanish conductor and musician (b. 1895)
July – Robert Brackman, American painter (b. 1898)
July 1 – C. P. Snow, British physicist and novelist (b. 1905)
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
* Reginald Gardiner, English actor (b. 1903)
* Dore Schary, American film writer, director, and producer (b. 1905)
July 9 – Vinicius de Moraes, Brazilian writer, poet and diplomat (b. 1913)
July 15 – Ben Selvin, American orchestra leader & recording artist (b. 1898)
July 17
* Don "Red" Barry, American actor (b. 1912)
* Boris Delaunay, Russian mathematician (b. 1890)
July 23 – Keith Godchaux, American musician of the band The Grateful Dead (b. 1948)
July 24
* Uttam Kumar (Arun Kumar Chatterjee), Bengali actor (b. 1926)
* Peter Sellers, English comedian and actor (b. 1925)
July 25 – Vladimir Vysotsky, Russian singer-songwriter, poet, actor (b. 1938)
July 26
* Allen Hoskins, American actor (b. 1920)
* Kenneth Tynan, English theatre critic (b. 1927)
July 27 – Muhammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran (b. 1919)
July 31
* Pascual Jordan, German physicist (b. 1902)
* Mohammed Rafi, Indian singer (b. 1924)
* Bobby Van, American actor (b. 1928)
August 1 – Patrick Depailler, French racing driver (b. 1944)
August 2 – Donald Ogden Stewart, American writer (b. 1894)
August 7 – Jackie Cochran, American pilot (b. 1906)
August 9 – Elliott Nugent, American actor (b. 1896)
August 10 – Yahya Khan, President of Pakistan (b. 1917)
August 14 – Dorothy Stratten, Canadian model (murdered) (b. 1960)
August 19 – Otto Frank, German father of Jewish diarist Anne Frank (b. 1889)
August 20 – Joe Dassin, French singer (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)
* Miliza Korjus, Estonian-Polish opera singer (b. 1909)
September 3
* Barbara O'Neil, American actress (b. 1909)
* Dirch Passer, Danish actor (b. 1926)
* Duncan Renaldo, American actor (b. 1904)
September 8 – Willard Libby, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)
September 12 – Lillian Randolph, American actress (b. 1898)
September 15 – Bill Evans, American jazz pianist (b. 1929)
September 16 – Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologist (b. 1896)
September 17 – Anastasio Somoza Debayle, former President of Nicaragua (b. 1925)
September 18 – Katherine Anne Porter, American author (b. 1890)
September 19 – Sol Lesser, American film producer (b. 1890)
September 25
* John Bonham, British rock drummer (Led Zeppelin) (b. 1948)
* Lewis Milestone, American film director (b. 1895)
* Marie Under, Estonian poet (b. 1883)
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 (Buckwheat, Our Gang) (b. 1931)
October 20 – Lady Isobel Barnett, British television personality (b. 1918)
October 21 – Hans Asperger, Austrian pediatrician after whom Asperger syndrome was named (b. 1906)
October 25
* Sahir Ludhianvi, Urdu/Hindustani poet and Hindi film lyricist (b. 1921)
* Virgil Fox, American organist (b. 1912)
* Victor Galindez, Argentine boxer (race car accident) (b. 1948)
October 27
* Steve Peregrin Took, British rock musician (T. Rex) (b. 1949)
* John Hasbrouck van Vleck, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
November 4 – Elsie MacGill, Canadian aeronautical engineer (b. 1904)
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)
November 18 – Conn Smythe, Canadian NHL coach (b. 1895)
November 20 – John McEwen, 18th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1900)
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 social progressive (b. 1897)
December 2 – Romain Gary, Lithuanian-born writer (b. 1914)
December 3 – Sir Oswald Mosley, British fascist leader (b. 1896)
December 4
* Francisco Sá Carneiro, Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1934)
* Stanislawa Walasiewicz, Polish-born runner (b. 1911)
December 7 – Darby Crash, American rock songwriter, singer (The Germs) (b. 1958)
December 8 – John Lennon, British singer, songwriter, and guitarist (The Beatles) (assassinated; b. 1940)
December 16
* Colonel Sanders, American fast food entrepreneur (b. 1890)
* Hellmuth Walter, German engineer and inventor (b. 1900)
December 18 – Alexei Kosygin, Russian politician, Premier of the Soviet Union (b. 1904)
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 briefly President of Germany (b. 1891)
* Siggie Nordstrom, American model, actress, entertainer, socialite and lead singer (The Nordstrom Sisters) (b. 1893)
December 25 – Victoria Drummond, first woman marine engineer in Britain (b. 1894)
December 26 – Richard Chase, American serial killer (b. 1950)
December 28 – Sam Levene, American actor (b. 1905)
December 29 – Tim Hardin, American musician (b. 1941)
December 31
* Marshall McLuhan, Canadian author and professor (b. 1911)
* Raoul Walsh, American film director (b. 1887)
Physics – James Watson Cronin, Val Logsdon Fitch
Chemistry – Paul Berg, Walter Gilbert, Frederick Sanger
Medicine – Baruj Benacerraf, Jean Dausset, George D. Snell
Literature – Czesław Miłosz
Peace – Adolfo Pérez Esquivel
Economics – Lawrence Klein
Prof. Ralph Burhoe
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| Birth name | Simon Rex Cutright |
|---|---|
| Birth date | July 20, 1974 |
| Birth place | San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actor, Comedian, TV host, Recording Artist, Rapper|years_active 1992–present |
| Website | http://www.dirtnastymusic.com }} |
Simon Rex (born July 20, 1974) is an American actor, comedian, television host and recording artist. He is known for starring as Jeff Campbell in ''What I Like About You'', during the first season.
Early life
Rex was born Simon Rex Cutright in San Francisco, California, and is the only child of Paul and Zoe Cutright, a relationship coach and an environmental consultant.
Career
Adult Films
In 1993, at age 19, he appeared solo in scenes for three masturbation porn films, ''Young, Hard & Solo II''; ''Young, Hard & Solo III''; and ''Hot Sessions III''. He was once featured on an episode of ''MTV Cribs''.
Acting
In 1995, MTV hired Rex to work as a VJ and kept him on the air for over two years. After being let go by MTV during an update to its VJ line-up, and after his adult video work became more widely known, his notability and popularity increased.Rex began to pursue mainstream acting and in 1999 was cast in the television show ''Jack & Jill,'' which ran for two seasons. He appeared as "Eli" in the TV show ''Felicity'' and television guest appearances followed including ''Baywatch'', ''Everwood'', and ''Summerland''. In 2002, the pilot for the show ''What I Like About You'' was picked up by The WB, which now has become The CW. Rex starred in the first season. He later appeared on the Lifetime show, ''Monarch Cove'' which ran for 11 episodes in 2006. He also co-produced a pilot for a show called ''Rex'', with supporting roles performed by Paris Hilton, Lance Bass and Jaime Pressley.
Rex has appeared in ''The Forsaken'', ''Scary Movie 3'', ''Scary Movie 4'' and ''The Karate Dog''. He also starred in ''National Lampoon's Pledge This!'' with Paris Hilton.
Music
Rex entered the music industry as a rap artist after becoming friends with Mickey Avalon. Rex adopted the stage name "Dirt Nasty" and formed the rap group, Dyslexic Speedreaders, along with Mickey Avalon, Andre Legacy, and Beardo. Rex often toured with the group and collaborated to create the Shoot To Kill mixtape. The group ended abruptly, as Mickey Avalon left due to personal problems involving Rex and Andre Legacy. Rex still remains close to Andre Legacy and Beardo. He also collaborates with other artists such as Andy Milonakis and Rich Hil. In 2007, he released his self titled debut album. Rex appeared on ''Paris Hilton's My New BFF'' in his "Dirt Nasty" persona and in Kesha's video for her song "Tik Tok". He appeared in the LMFAO music video for "Yes". He rapped at the conclusion of Charlie Sheen's "Torpedo of Truth" show in Detroit but did not perform at the show's second presentation in Chicago the next day.In 2011, Rex preformed at ''The Piano Room'', a Kings Cross nightclub in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Rex was involved in a minor incident at the nightclub, jointly owned by John Ibrahim and investors, including Kyle Sandilands, where a customer allegedly took a microphone from Rex and assaulted him. It was alleged that Rex, in self-defense, punched the man, and was defended by associates of the Bra Boys.
Filmography
{|class="wikitable" |- !Year !Title !Role !Notes |- |rowspan="2"|1993 |''Young, Hard & Solo #2'' |Sebastian |Adult film |- |''Young, Hard & Solo #3'' |Sebastian |Brad Posey's |- |1994 |''Hot Sessions 3'' |Sebastian | 97 AVN Awards ''Winner'' |- |1996 |''Baywatch'' |Himself |TV series - 1 episode |- |1998 |''Snapped'' |Himself | |- |rowspan="3"|1999 |''Katie Joplin'' |Tiger French |TV series |- |''Felicity'' |Eli |TV series - 4 episodes |- |''Jack & Jill'' |Michael 'Mikey' Russo |TV series - 32 episodes |- |rowspan="3"|2000 |''Hot Sessions 11'' |Sebastian |Adult film - archive footage |- |''Hot Sessions 12'' |Sebastian |Adult film - archive footage |- |''Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth'' |Slab O'Beef | |- |rowspan="3"|2001 |''Drum Solo'' |Blondie | |- |''Going Greek'' |Thompson | |- |''The Forsaken'' |Pen | |- |2002 |''What I Like About You'' |Jeff Campbell |1 season - 22 episodes |- |2003 |''Scary Movie 3'' |George Logan |Lead Role |- |rowspan="3"|2004 |''The Karate Dog'' |Det. Peter Fowler | |- |''Summerland'' |Sun |TV series - 2 episodes |- |''She Wants to Move'' |Hot Guy |Music video by N*E*R*D |- |rowspan="2"|2005 |''Cuts'' |Harrison |TV series - 2 episodes |- |''Everwood'' |Cliff Fenton |TV series - 1 episode |- |rowspan="5"|2006 |''Mindy and Brenda'' |Josh |TV movie |- |''Scary Movie 4'' |George Logan |Cameo |- |''Pledge This!'' |Derek | |- |''Monarch Cove'' |Eddie Lucas |TV series - 14 episodes |- |''Rise: Blood Hunter'' |Hank | |- |rowspan="2"|2008 |''Hotel California'' |Pete | |- |''Superhero Movie'' |Human Torch | |- |rowspan="6"|2009 |''2 Dudes and a Dream'' |Dirt Nasty | |- |''Silver Street'' |John | |- |''Rex'' |Simon |TV movie |- |''The Truth About Angels'' |Kane Connor | |- |''Sonny Dreamweaver'' |Hunter | |- |''TiK ToK'' |Barry |Music video by Kesha |- |rowspan="5"|2010 |''Slightly Single in L.A.'' |J.P. Cipoletti |''post-production'' |- |''Boy Toy'' |Clive |''post-production'' |- |''King of the Avenue'' |Taz |''post-production'' |- |''Yes'' |Dirt Nasty |Music Video by LMFAO |- |''Nick Swardson's Pretend Time'' |Brian |TV Series - 1 episode |}
Discography
{|class="wikitable" |- style="background:#ccc;" !Year !Album !Record label !Type of label |- |2007 |''Dirt Nasty'' |Shoot to Kill Music |Indie |- |2010 |''The White Album'' |- |2010 |''Nasty As I Wanna Be'' |Shoot to Kill Music | |}
References
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| name | John Lennon |
|---|---|
| alt | A bearded, bespectacled man in his late twenties, with long dark brown hair and wearing a loose-fitting pajama shirt, sings and plays an acoustic guitar. White flowers are visible behind and to the right of him. |
| background | solo_singer |
| birth name | John Winston Lennon |
| birth date | October 09, 1940 |
| birth place | Liverpool, England, UK |
| death date | December 08, 1980 |
| death place | New York, New York, US |
| instrument | Vocals, guitar, piano, harmonica, harmonium, electronic organ, six-string bass |
| genre | Rock, pop |
| occupation | Musician, singer-songwriter, record producer, artist, writer |
| years active | 1957–75, 1980 |
| label | Parlophone, Capitol, Apple, EMI, Geffen, Polydor |
| associated acts | The Quarrymen, The Beatles, Plastic Ono Band, The Dirty Mac, Yoko Ono |
| notable instruments | Rickenbacker 325Epiphone CasinoGibson J-160E }} |
Born and raised in Liverpool, Lennon became involved as a teenager in the skiffle craze; his first band, The Quarrymen, evolved into The Beatles in 1960. As the group disintegrated towards the end of the decade, Lennon embarked on a solo career that produced the critically acclaimed albums ''John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band'' and ''Imagine'', and iconic songs such as "Give Peace a Chance" and "Imagine". After his marriage to Yoko Ono in 1969, he changed his name to John Ono Lennon. Lennon disengaged himself from the music business in 1975 to devote time to his infant son Sean, but re-emerged in 1980 with a new album, ''Double Fantasy''. He was murdered three weeks after its release.
Lennon revealed a rebellious nature and acerbic wit in his music, his writing, his drawings, on film, and in interviews, becoming controversial through his political and peace activism. He moved to New York City in 1971, where his criticism of the Vietnam War resulted in a lengthy attempt by Richard Nixon's administration to deport him, while some of his songs were adopted as anthems by the anti-war movement.
As of 2010, Lennon's solo album sales in the United States exceed 14 million units, and as writer, co-writer or performer, he is responsible for 25 number-one singles on the US Hot 100 chart. In 2002, a BBC poll on the 100 Greatest Britons voted him eighth, and in 2008, ''Rolling Stone'' ranked him the fifth-greatest singer of all-time. He was posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1987 and into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994.
History
1940–57: Early years
Lennon was born in war-time England, on 9 October 1940 at Liverpool Maternity Hospital, to Julia and Alfred Lennon, a merchant seaman who was away at the time of his son's birth. He was named John Winston Lennon after his paternal grandfather, John "Jack" Lennon, and then-Prime Minister Winston Churchill. His father was often away from home but sent regular pay cheques to 9 Newcastle Road, Liverpool, where Lennon lived with his mother, but the cheques stopped when he went absent without leave in February 1944. When he eventually came home six months later, he offered to look after the family, but Julia—by then pregnant with another man's child—rejected the idea. After her sister, Mimi Smith, twice complained to Liverpool's Social Services, Julia handed the care of Lennon over to her. In July 1946, Lennon's father visited Smith and took his son to Blackpool, secretly intending to emigrate to New Zealand with him. Julia followed them—with her partner at the time, 'Bobby' Dykins—and after a heated argument his father forced the five-year-old to choose between them. Lennon twice chose his father, but as his mother walked away, he began to cry and followed her. It would be 20 years before he had contact with his father again.Throughout the rest of his childhood and adolescence, he lived with his aunt and uncle, Mimi and George Smith, who had no children of their own, at Mendips, 251 Menlove Avenue, Woolton. His aunt bought him volumes of short stories, and his uncle, a dairyman at his family's farm, bought him a mouth organ and engaged him in solving crossword puzzles. Julia visited Mendips on a regular basis, and when he was 11 years old he often visited her at 1 Blomfield Road, Liverpool, where she played him Elvis Presley records, and taught him the banjo, learning how to play "Ain't That a Shame" by Fats Domino.
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He regularly visited his cousin, Stanley Parkes, who lived in Fleetwood. Seven years Lennon's senior, Parkes took him on trips, and to local cinemas. During the school holidays, Parkes often visited Lennon with Leila Harvey, another cousin, often travelling to Blackpool two or three times a week to watch shows. They would visit the Blackpool Tower Circus and see artists such as Dickie Valentine, Arthur Askey, Max Bygraves and Joe Loss, with Parkes recalling that Lennon particularly liked George Formby. After Parkes's family moved to Scotland, the three cousins often spent their school holidays together there. Parkes recalled, "John, cousin Leila and I were very close. From Edinburgh we would drive up to the family croft at Durness, which was from about the time John was nine years old until he was about 16." He was 14 years old when his uncle George died of a liver haemorrhage on 5 June 1955 (aged 52).
Lennon was raised as an Anglican and attended Dovedale Primary School. From September 1952 to 1957, after passing his Eleven-Plus exam, he attended Quarry Bank High School in Liverpool, and was described by Harvey at the time as, "A happy-go-lucky, good-humoured, easy going, lively lad." He often drew comical cartoons which appeared in his own self-made school magazine called ''The Daily Howl'', but despite his artistic talent, his school reports were damning: "Certainly on the road to failure ... hopeless ... rather a clown in class ... wasting other pupils' time."
His mother bought him his first guitar in 1956, an inexpensive Gallotone Champion acoustic for which she "lent" her son five pounds and ten shillings on the condition that the guitar be delivered to her own house, and not Mimi's, knowing well that her sister was not supportive of her son's musical aspirations. As Mimi was sceptical of his claim that he would be famous one day, she hoped he would grow bored with music, often telling him, "The guitar's all very well, John, but you'll never make a living out of it". On 15 July 1958, when Lennon was 17 years old, his mother, walking home after visiting the Smiths' house, was struck by a car and killed.
Lennon failed all his GCE O-level examinations, and was accepted into the Liverpool College of Art only after his aunt and headmaster intervened. Once at the college, he started wearing Teddy Boy clothes and acquired a reputation for disrupting classes and ridiculing teachers. As a result, he was excluded from the painting class, then the graphic arts course, and was threatened with expulsion for his behaviour, which included sitting on a nude model's lap during a life drawing class. He failed an annual exam, despite help from fellow student and future wife Cynthia Powell, and was "thrown out of the college before his final year."
1957–70: The Quarrymen to The Beatles
1957–65: Formation, commercial breakout, and touring years
The Beatles evolved from Lennon's first band, the Quarrymen. Named after Quarry Bank High School, the group was established by him in September 1956 when he was 15, and began as a skiffle group. By the summer of 1957 the Quarrymen played a "spirited set of songs" made up of half skiffle, and half rock and roll. Lennon first met Paul McCartney at the Quarrymen's second performance, held in Woolton on 6 July at the St. Peter's Church garden fête, after which McCartney was asked to join the band.McCartney says that Aunt Mimi: "was very aware that John's friends were lower class", and would often patronise him when he arrived to visit Lennon. According to Paul's brother Mike, McCartney's father was also disapproving, declaring Lennon would get his son "into trouble"; although he later allowed the fledgling band to rehearse in the McCartneys' front room at 20 Forthlin Road. During this time, the 18-year-old Lennon wrote his first song, "Hello Little Girl", a UK top 10 hit for The Fourmost nearly five years later.
George Harrison joined the band as lead guitarist, even though Lennon thought Harrison (at 14 years old) was too young to join the band, so McCartney engineered a second audition on the upper deck of a Liverpool bus, where Harrison played "Raunchy" for Lennon. Stuart Sutcliffe, Lennon's friend from art school, later joined as bassist. Lennon, McCartney, Harrison and Sutcliffe became "The Beatles" in early 1960. In August that year The Beatles, engaged for a 48-night residency in Hamburg, Germany, and desperately in need of a drummer, asked Pete Best to join them. Lennon was now 19, and his aunt, horrified when he told her about the trip, pleaded with him to continue his art studies instead. After the first Hamburg residency, the band accepted another in April 1961, and a third in April 1962. Like the other band members, Lennon was introduced to Preludin while in Hamburg, and regularly took the drug, as well as amphetamines, as a stimulant during their long, overnight performances.
Brian Epstein, The Beatles' manager from 1962, had no prior experience of artist management, but nevertheless had a strong influence on their early dress code and attitude on stage. Lennon initially resisted his attempts to encourage the band to present a professional appearance, but eventually complied, saying, "I'll wear a bloody balloon if somebody's going to pay me". McCartney took over on bass after Sutcliffe decided to stay in Hamburg, and drummer Ringo Starr replaced Best, completing the four-piece line-up that would endure until the group's break-up in 1970. The band's first single, "Love Me Do", was released in October 1962 and reached #17 on the British charts. They recorded their debut album, ''Please Please Me'', in under 10 hours on 11 February 1963, a day when Lennon was suffering the effects of a cold, which is evident in the vocal on the last song to be recorded that day, Twist and Shout. The Lennon–McCartney songwriting partnership yielded eight of its fourteen tracks. With few exceptions—one being the album title itself—Lennon had yet to bring his love of wordplay to bear on his song lyrics, saying: "We were just writing songs ... pop songs with no more thought of them than that–to create a sound. And the words were almost irrelevant". In a 1987 interview, McCartney said that the other Beatles idolised John: "He was like our own little Elvis ... We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest".
The Beatles achieved mainstream success in the UK during the beginning of 1963. Lennon was on tour when his first son, Julian, was born in April. During their Royal Variety Show performance, attended by the Queen Mother and other British royalty, Lennon poked fun at his audience: "For our next song, I'd like to ask for your help. For the people in the cheaper seats, clap your hands ... and the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewellery." After a year of Beatlemania in the UK, the group's historic February 1964 US debut appearance on ''The Ed Sullivan Show'' marked their breakthrough to international stardom. A two-year period of constant touring, moviemaking, and songwriting followed, during which Lennon wrote two books, ''In His Own Write'' and ''A Spaniard in the Works''. The Beatles received recognition from the British Establishment when they were appointed Members of the Order of the British Empire in the Queen's Birthday Honours of 1965.
Lennon grew concerned that fans attending Beatles' concerts were unable to hear the music above the screaming of fans, and that the band's musicianship was beginning to suffer as a result. Lennon's "Help!" expressed his own feelings in 1965: "I ''meant'' it ... It was me singing 'help'". He had put on weight (he would later refer to this as his "Fat Elvis" period), and felt he was subconsciously seeking change. The following January he was unknowingly introduced to LSD when a dentist, hosting a dinner party attended by Lennon, Harrison and their wives, spiked the guests' coffee with the drug. When they wanted to leave, their host revealed what they had taken, and strongly advised them not to leave the house because of the likely effects. Later, in an elevator at a nightclub, they all believed it was on fire: "We were all screaming ... hot and hysterical." A few months later in March, during an interview with ''Evening Standard'' reporter Maureen Cleave, Lennon remarked, "Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink ... We're more popular than Jesus now—I don't know which will go first, rock and roll or Christianity." The comment went virtually unnoticed in England but caused great offence in the US when quoted by a magazine there five months later. The furore that followed—burning of Beatles' records, Ku Klux Klan activity, and threats against Lennon—contributed to the band's decision to stop touring.
1966–70: Studio years, break-up and solo work
Deprived of the routine of live performances after their final commercial concert on 29 August 1966, Lennon felt lost and considered leaving the band. Since his involuntary introduction to LSD in January, he had made increasing use of the drug, and was almost constantly under its influence for much of the year." According to biographer Ian MacDonald, Lennon's continuous experience with LSD during the year brought him "close to erasing his identity". 1967 saw the release of "Strawberry Fields Forever", hailed by ''TIME'' magazine for its "astonishing inventiveness", and the group's landmark album ''Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band'', which revealed Lennon's lyrics contrasting strongly with the simple love songs of the Lennon–McCartney's early years.In August, after having been introduced to the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the group attended a weekend of personal instruction at his Transcendental Meditation seminar in Bangor, Wales, and were informed of Epstein's death during the seminar. "I knew we were in trouble then", Lennon said later. "I didn't have any misconceptions about our ability to do anything other than play music, and I was scared". They later travelled to Maharishi's ashram in India for further guidance, where they composed most of the songs for ''The Beatles'' and ''Abbey Road''.
The anti-war, black comedy ''How I Won the War'', featuring Lennon's only appearance in a non–Beatles' full-length film, was shown in cinemas in October 1967. McCartney organised the group's first post-Epstein project, the self-written, -produced and -directed television film ''Magical Mystery Tour'', released in December that year. While the film itself proved to be their first critical flop, its soundtrack release, featuring Lennon's acclaimed, Lewis Carroll-inspired "I am the Walrus", was a success. With Epstein gone, the band members became increasingly involved in business activities, and in February 1968 they formed Apple Corps, a multimedia corporation comprising Apple Records and several other subsidiary companies. Lennon described the venture as an attempt to achieve, "artistic freedom within a business structure", but his increased drug experimentation and growing preoccupation with Yoko Ono, and McCartney's own marriage plans, left Apple in need of professional management. Lennon asked Lord Beeching to take on the role, but he declined, advising Lennon to go back to making records. Lennon approached Allen Klein, who had managed The Rolling Stones and other bands during the British Invasion. Klein was appointed as Apple’s chief executive by Lennon, Harrison and Starr, but McCartney never signed the management contract.
At the end of 1968, Lennon featured in the film ''The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus'' (not released until 1996) in the role of a Dirty Mac band member. The supergroup, comprising Lennon, Eric Clapton, Keith Richards and Mitch Mitchell, also backed a vocal performance by Ono in the film. Lennon and Ono were married on 20 March 1969, and soon released a series of 14 lithographs called "Bag One" depicting scenes from their honeymoon, eight of which were deemed indecent and most of which were banned and confiscated. Lennon's creative focus continued to move beyond The Beatles and between 1968 and 1969 he and Ono recorded three albums of experimental music together: ''Unfinished Music No.1: Two Virgins'' (known more for its cover than for its music), ''Unfinished Music No.2: Life with the Lions'' and ''Wedding Album''. In 1969 they formed The Plastic Ono Band, releasing ''Live Peace in Toronto 1969''. In protest at Britain's involvement in the Nigerian Civil War, Lennon returned his MBE medal to the Queen, though this had no effect on his MBE status, which could not be renounced. Between 1969 and 1970 Lennon released the singles "Give Peace a Chance" (widely adopted as an anti-Vietnam-War anthem in 1969), "Cold Turkey" (documenting his withdrawal symptoms after he became addicted to heroin) and "Instant Karma!".
Lennon left the group in September 1969, and agreed not to inform the media while the band renegotiated their recording contract, but he was outraged that McCartney publicised his own departure on releasing his debut solo album in April 1970. Lennon's reaction was, "Jesus Christ! He gets all the credit for it!" He later wrote, "I started the band. I disbanded it. It's as simple as that." In later interviews with ''Rolling Stone'' magazine, he revealed his bitterness towards McCartney, saying, "I was a fool not to do what Paul did, which was use it to sell a record." He spoke too of the hostility he perceived the other members had towards Ono, and of how he, Harrison, and Starr "got fed up with being sidemen for Paul ... After Brian Epstein died we collapsed. Paul took over and supposedly led us. But what is leading us when we went round in circles?"
1970–80: Solo career
1970–72: Initial solo success and activism
In 1970, Lennon and Ono went through primal therapy with Dr. Arthur Janov in Los Angeles, California. Designed to release emotional pain from early childhood, the therapy entailed two half-days a week with Janov for four months; he had wanted to treat the couple for longer, but they felt no need to continue and returned to London. Lennon's emotional debut solo album, ''John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band'' (1970), was received with high praise. Critic Greil Marcus remarked, "John's singing in the last verse of 'God' may be the finest in all of rock." The album featured the songs "Mother", in which Lennon confronted his feelings of childhood rejection, and the Dylanesque "Working Class Hero", a bitter attack against the bourgeois social system which, due to the lyric "you're still fucking peasants", fell foul of broadcasters. The same year, Tariq Ali's revolutionary political views, expressed when he interviewed Lennon, inspired the singer to write "Power to the People". Lennon also became involved with Ali during a protest against ''Oz'' magazine's prosecution for alleged obscenity. Lennon denounced the proceedings as "disgusting fascism", and he and Ono (as Elastic Oz Band) released the single "God Save Us/Do the Oz" and joined marches in support of the magazine.
With Lennon's next album, ''Imagine'' (1971), critical response was more guarded. ''Rolling Stone'' reported that "it contains a substantial portion of good music" but warned of the possibility that "his posturings will soon seem not merely dull but irrelevant". The album's title track would become an anthem for anti-war movements, while another, "How Do You Sleep?", was a musical attack on McCartney in response to lyrics from ''Ram'' that Lennon felt, and McCartney later confirmed, were directed at him and Ono. However, Lennon softened his stance in the mid-1970s and said he had written "How Do You Sleep?" about himself. He said in 1980: "I used my resentment against Paul ... to create a song ... not a terrible vicious horrible vendetta ... I used my resentment and withdrawing from Paul and The Beatles, and the relationship with Paul, to write 'How Do You Sleep'. I don't really go 'round with those thoughts in my head all the time".
Lennon and Ono moved to New York in August 1971, and in December released "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)". To advertise the single, they paid for billboards in 12 cities around the world which declared, in the national language, "WAR IS OVER—IF YOU WANT IT". The new year saw the Nixon Administration take what it called a "strategic counter-measure" against Lennon's anti-war propaganda, embarking on what would be a four-year attempt to deport him: embroiled in a continuing legal battle, he was denied permanent residency in the US until 1976.
Recorded as a collaboration with Ono and with backing from the New York band Elephant's Memory, ''Some Time in New York City'' was released in 1972. Containing songs about women's rights, race relations, Britain's role in Northern Ireland, and Lennon's problems obtaining a green card, the album was poorly received—unlistenable, according to one critic. "Woman Is the Nigger of the World", released as a US single from the album the same year, was televised on 11 May, on ''The Dick Cavett Show''. Many radio stations refused to broadcast the song because of the word "nigger". Lennon and Ono gave two benefit concerts with Elephant's Memory and guests in New York in aid of patients at the Willowbrook State School mental facility. Staged at Madison Square Garden on 30 August 1972, they were his last full-length concert appearances.
1973–75: "Lost weekend"
While Lennon was recording ''Mind Games'' (1973), he and Ono decided to separate. The ensuing 18-month period apart, which he later called his "lost weekend", was spent in Los Angeles and New York in the company of May Pang. ''Mind Games'', credited to the "Plastic U.F.Ono Band", was released in November 1973. Lennon also contributed "I'm the Greatest", to Starr's album ''Ringo'' (1973), released the same month. (an alternate take, from the same 1973 ''Ringo'' sessions, with Lennon providing a guide vocal, appears on ''John Lennon Anthology'').In early 1974, Lennon was drinking heavily and his alcohol-fuelled antics with Harry Nilsson made headlines. Two widely publicised incidents occurred at The Troubadour club in March, the first when Lennon placed a menstruation "towel" on his forehead and scuffled with a waitress, and the second, two weeks later, when Lennon and Nilsson were ejected from the same club after heckling the Smothers Brothers. Lennon decided to produce Nilsson's album ''Pussy Cats'' and Pang rented an Los Angeles beach house for all the musicians but after a month of further debauchery, with the recording sessions in chaos, Lennon moved to New York with Pang to finish work on the album. In April, Lennon had produced the Mick Jagger song "Too Many Cooks (Spoil the Soup)" which was, for contractual reasons, to remain unreleased for more than 30 years. Pang supplied the recording for its eventual inclusion on ''The Very Best of Mick Jagger'' (2007).
Settled back in New York, Lennon recorded the album ''Walls and Bridges''. Released in October 1974, it yielded his only number-one single in his lifetime, "Whatever Gets You Thru the Night", featuring Elton John on backing vocals and piano. A second single from the album, "#9 Dream", followed before the end of the year. Starr's ''Goodnight Vienna'' (1974) again saw assistance from Lennon, who wrote the title track and played piano. On 28 November, Lennon made a surprise guest appearance at Elton John's Thanksgiving concert at Madison Square Garden, in fulfilment of his promise to join the singer in a live show if "Whatever Gets You Thru the Night"—a song whose commercial potential Lennon had doubted—reached number one. Lennon performed the song along with "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" and "I Saw Her Standing There", which he introduced as "a song by an old estranged fiancee of mine called Paul".
Lennon co-wrote "Fame", David Bowie's first US number one, and provided guitar and backing vocals for the January 1975 recording. The same month, Elton John topped the charts with his cover of "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", featuring Lennon on guitar and back-up vocals. He and Ono were reunited shortly afterwards. Lennon released ''Rock 'n' Roll'' (1975), an album of cover songs, in February. "Stand By Me", taken from the album and a US and UK hit, became his last single for five years. He made what would be his final stage appearance in the ATV special ''A Salute to Lew Grade'', recorded on 18 April and televised in June. Playing acoustic guitar, and backed by an eight-piece band, Lennon performed two songs from ''Rock 'n' Roll'' ("Stand By Me", which was not broadcast, and "Slippin' and Slidin'") followed by "Imagine".
1975–80: Retirement and return
With the birth of his second son Sean on 9 October 1975, Lennon took on the role of househusband, beginning what would be a five-year hiatus from the music industry during which he gave all his attention to his family. Within the month, he fulfilled his contractual obligation to EMI/Capitol for one more album by releasing ''Shaved Fish'', a compilation album of previously recorded tracks. He devoted himself to Sean, rising at 6 am daily to plan and prepare his meals and to spend time with him. He wrote "Cookin' (In the Kitchen of Love)" for Starr's ''Ringo's Rotogravure'' (1976), performing on the track in June in what would be his last recording session until 1980. He formally announced his break from music in Tokyo in 1977, saying, "we have basically decided, without any great decision, to be with our baby as much as we can until we feel we can take time off to indulge ourselves in creating things outside of the family." During his career break he created several series of drawings, and drafted a book containing a mix of autobiographical material and what he termed "mad stuff", all of which would be published posthumously.He emerged from retirement in October 1980 with the single "(Just Like) Starting Over", followed the next month by the album ''Double Fantasy'', which contained songs written during a journey to Bermuda on a 43-foot sailing boat the previous June, that reflected Lennon's fulfillment in his new-found stable family life. Sufficient additional material was recorded for a planned follow-up album ''Milk and Honey'' (released posthumously in 1984). Released jointly with Ono, ''Double Fantasy'' was not well received, drawing comments such as ''Melody Maker'''s "indulgent sterility ... a godawful yawn".
8 December 1980: Death
At around 10:50 pm on 8 December 1980, as Lennon and Ono returned to their New York apartment in The Dakota, Mark David Chapman shot Lennon in the back four times at the entrance to the building. Lennon was taken to the emergency room of the nearby Roosevelt Hospital and was pronounced dead on arrival at 11:07 pm. Earlier that evening, Lennon had autographed a copy of ''Double Fantasy'' for Chapman.Ono issued a statement the next day, saying "There is no funeral for John", ending it with the words, "John loved and prayed for the human race. Please pray the same for him." His body was cremated at Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York. Ono scattered his ashes in New York's Central Park, where the Strawberry Fields memorial was later created. Chapman pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and was sentenced to 20 years to life; as of 2011, he remains in prison, having been denied parole six times.
Personal relationships
Cynthia Lennon
Lennon and Cynthia Powell met in 1957 as fellow students at the Liverpool College of Art. Although being scared of Lennon's attitude and appearance, she heard that he was obsessed with French actress Brigitte Bardot, so she dyed her hair blonde. Lennon asked her out, but when she said that she was engaged, he screamed out, "''I didn't ask you to fuckin' marry me, did I?''" She often accompanied him to Quarrymen gigs and travelled to Hamburg with McCartney's girlfriend at the time to visit him. Lennon, jealous by nature, eventually grew possessive and often terrified Powell with his anger and physical violence. Lennon later said that until he met Ono, he had never questioned his chauvinistic attitude to women. The Beatles' song "Getting Better", he said, told his own story, "I used to be cruel to my woman, and physically—any woman. I was a hitter. I couldn't express myself and I hit. I fought men and I hit women. That is why I am always on about peace".Recalling his reaction in July 1962 on learning that Cynthia was pregnant, Lennon said, "There's only one thing for it Cyn. We'll have to get married." The couple were married on 23 August at the Mount Pleasant Register Office in Liverpool. His marriage began just as Beatlemania took hold across the UK. He performed on the evening of his wedding day, and would continue to do so almost daily from then on. Epstein, fearing that fans would be alienated by the idea of a married Beatle, asked the Lennons to keep their marriage secret. Julian was born on 8 April 1963; Lennon was on tour at the time and did not see his son until three days later.
Cynthia attributes the start of the marriage breakdown to LSD, and as a result, she felt that he slowly lost interest in her. When the group travelled by train to Bangor, Wales, in 1967, for the Maharishi Yogi's Transcendental Meditation seminar, a policeman did not recognise her and stopped her from boarding. She later recalled how the incident seemed to symbolize the ending of their marriage. After arriving home at Kenwood, and finding Lennon with Ono, Cynthia left the house to stay with friends. Alexis Mardas later claimed to have slept with her that night, and a few weeks later he informed her that Lennon was seeking a divorce and custody of Julian on grounds of her adultery with him. After negotiations, Lennon capitulated and agreed to her divorcing him on the same grounds. The case was settled out of court, with Lennon giving her £100,000, and custody of Julian.
Brian Epstein
The Beatles were performing at Liverpool's Cavern Club in 1962, when all four Beatles were introduced to Epstein after a midday concert. Epstein was homosexual. According to biographer Philip Norman, one of his reasons for wanting to manage the group was that he was physically attracted to Lennon. Almost as soon as Julian was born, Lennon went on holiday to Spain with Epstein, leading to speculation about their relationship. Questioned about it later, Lennon said, "Well, it was almost a love affair, but not quite. It was never consummated. But it was a pretty intense relationship. It was my first experience with a homosexual that I was conscious was homosexual. We used to sit in a café in Torremolinos looking at all the boys and I'd say, 'Do you like that one? Do you like this one?' I was rather enjoying the experience, thinking like a writer all the time: I am experiencing this." Soon after their return from Spain, at McCartney's twenty-first birthday party in June 1963, Lennon physically attacked Cavern Club MC Bob Wooler for saying "How was your honeymoon, John?" The MC, known for his wordplay and affectionate but cutting remarks, was making a joke, but ten months had passed since Lennon's marriage, and the honeymoon, deferred, was still two months in the future. To Lennon, who was intoxicated with alcohol at the time, the matter was simple: "He called me a queer so I battered his bloody ribs in".Lennon delighted in mocking Epstein for his homosexuality and for the fact that he was Jewish. When Epstein invited suggestions for the title of his autobiography, Lennon offered ''Queer Jew''; on learning of the eventual title, ''A Cellarful of Noise'', he parodied, "More like ''A Cellarful of Boys''". He demanded of a visitor to Epstein's flat, "Have you come to blackmail him? If not, you're the only bugger in London who hasn't." During the recording of "Baby, You're a Rich Man", he sang altered choruses of "Baby, you're a rich fag Jew".
Julian Lennon
Lennon's first son, Julian, was born as his commitments with The Beatles intensified at the height of Beatlemania during his marriage to Cynthia. Lennon was touring with The Beatles when Julian was born on 8 April 1963. Julian's birth, like his mother Cynthia's marriage to Lennon, was kept secret because Epstein was convinced public knowledge of such things would threaten The Beatles' commercial success. Julian recalls how some four years later, as a small child in Weybridge, "I was trundled home from school and came walking up with one of my watercolour paintings. It was just a bunch of stars and this blonde girl I knew at school. And Dad said, 'What's this?' I said, 'It's Lucy in the sky with diamonds.'" Lennon used it as the title of a Beatles' song, and though it was later reported to have been derived from the initials LSD, Lennon insisted, "It's not an acid song." McCartney corroborated Lennon's explanation that Julian innocently came up with the name. Lennon was distant from Julian, who felt closer to McCartney than to his father. During a car journey to visit Cynthia and Julian during Lennon's divorce, McCartney composed a song, "Hey Jules", to comfort him. It would evolve into The Beatles song "Hey Jude". Lennon later said, "That's his best song. It started off as a song about my son Julian ... he turned it into 'Hey Jude'. I always thought it was about me and Yoko but he said it wasn't."Lennon's relationship with Julian was already strained, and after Lennon and Ono's 1971 move to New York, Julian would not see his father again until 1973. With Pang's encouragement, it was arranged for him (and his mother) to visit Lennon in Los Angeles, where they went to Disneyland. Julian started to see his father regularly, and Lennon gave him a drumming part on a ''Walls and Bridges'' track. He bought Julian a Gibson Les Paul guitar and other instruments, and encouraged his interest in music by demonstrating guitar chord techniques. Julian recalls that he and his father "got on a great deal better" during the time he spent in New York: "We had a lot of fun, laughed a lot and had a great time in general."
In a ''Playboy'' interview with David Sheff shortly before his death, Lennon said, "Sean was a planned child, and therein lies the difference. I don't love Julian any less as a child. He's still my son, whether he came from a bottle of whiskey or because they didn't have pills in those days. He's here, he belongs to me, and he always will." He said he was trying to re-establish a connection with the then 17-year-old, and confidently predicted, "Julian and I will have a relationship in the future." After his death it was revealed that he had left Julian very little in his will.
Yoko Ono
Two versions exist of how Lennon met Ono. According to the first, on 9 November 1966 Lennon went to the Indica Gallery in London, where Ono was preparing her conceptual art exhibit, and they were introduced by gallery owner John Dunbar. Lennon was intrigued by Ono's "Hammer A Nail": patrons hammered a nail into a wooden board, creating the art piece. Although the exhibition had not yet begun, Lennon wanted to hammer a nail into the clean board, but Ono stopped him. Dunbar asked her, "Don't you know who this is? He's a millionaire! He might buy it." Ono had supposedly not heard of The Beatles, but relented on condition that Lennon pay her five shillings, to which Lennon replied, "I'll give you an imaginary five shillings and hammer an imaginary nail in." The second version, told by McCartney, is that in late 1965, Ono was in London compiling original musical scores for a book John Cage was working on, ''Notations'', but McCartney declined to give her any of his own manuscripts for the book, suggesting that Lennon might oblige. When asked, Lennon gave Ono the original handwritten lyrics to "The Word".Ono began telephoning and calling at Lennon's home, and when his wife asked for an explanation, he explained that Ono was only trying to obtain money for her "avant-garde bullshit". In May 1968, while his wife was on holiday in Greece, Lennon invited Ono to visit. They spent the night recording what would become the ''Two Virgins'' album, after which, he said, they "made love at dawn." When Lennon's wife returned home she found Ono wearing her bathrobe and drinking tea with Lennon who simply said, "Oh, hi." Ono became pregnant in 1968 and miscarried a male child they named John Ono Lennon II on 21 November 1968, a few weeks after Lennon's divorce from Cynthia was granted.
During Lennon's last two years in The Beatles, he and Ono began public protests against the Vietnam War. They were married in Gibraltar on 20 March 1969, and spent their honeymoon in Amsterdam campaigning with a week-long Bed-In for peace. They planned another Bed-In in the United States, but were denied entry, so held one instead at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, where they recorded "Give Peace a Chance". They often combined advocacy with performance art, as in their "Bagism", first introduced during a Vienna press conference. Lennon detailed this period in The Beatles' song "The Ballad of John and Yoko". Lennon changed his name by deed poll on 22 April 1969, adding "Ono" as a middle name. The brief ceremony took place on the roof of the Apple Corps building, made famous three months earlier by The Beatles' ''Let It Be'' rooftop concert. Although he used the name John Ono Lennon thereafter, official documents referred to him as John Winston Ono Lennon, since he was not permitted to revoke a name given at birth. After Ono was injured in a car accident, Lennon arranged for a king-sized bed to be brought to the recording studio as he worked on The Beatles' last album, ''Abbey Road''. To escape the acrimony of the band's break-up, Ono suggested they move permanently to New York, which they did on 31 August 1971.
They first lived in the St. Regis Hotel on 5th Avenue, East 55th Street, then moved to a street-level flat at 105 Bank Street, Greenwich Village, on 16 October 1971. After a robbery, they relocated to the more secure Dakota at 1 West 72nd Street, in May 1973.
May Pang
ABKCO Industries, formed in 1968 by Allen Klein as an umbrella company to ABKCO Records, recruited May Pang as a receptionist in 1969. Through involvement in a project with ABKCO, Lennon and Ono met her the following year. She became their personal assistant. After she had been working with the couple for three years, Ono confided that she and Lennon were becoming estranged from one another. She went on to suggest that Pang should begin a physical relationship with Lennon, telling her, "He likes you a lot." Pang, 22, astounded by Ono's proposition, eventually agreed to become Lennon's companion. The pair soon moved to California, beginning an 18-month period he later called his "lost weekend". In Los Angeles, Pang encouraged Lennon to develop regular contact with Julian, whom he had not seen for two years. He also rekindled friendships with Starr, McCartney, Beatles' roadie Mal Evans, and Harry Nilsson. Whilst drinking with Nilsson, after misunderstanding something Pang said, Lennon attempted to strangle her, relenting only when physically restrained by Nilsson.On moving to New York, they prepared a spare room in their newly rented apartment for Julian to visit. Lennon, hitherto inhibited by Ono in this regard, began to reestablish contact with other relatives and friends. By December he and Pang were considering a house purchase, and he was refusing to accept Ono's telephone calls. In January 1975, he agreed to meet Ono—who said she had found a cure for smoking—but after the meeting failed to return home or call Pang. When Pang telephoned the next day, Ono told her Lennon was unavailable, being exhausted after a hypnotherapy session. Two days later, Lennon reappeared at a joint dental appointment, stupefied and confused to such an extent that Pang believed he had been brainwashed. He told her his separation from Ono was now over, though Ono would allow him to continue seeing her as his mistress.
Sean Lennon
When Lennon and Ono were reunited, she became pregnant, but having previously suffered three miscarriages in her attempt to have a child with Lennon, she said she wanted an abortion. She agreed to allow the pregnancy to continue on condition that Lennon adopt the role of househusband; this he agreed to do. Sean was born on 9 October 1975, Lennon's 35th birthday, delivered by Caesarean section. Lennon's subsequent career break would span five years. He had a photographer take pictures of Sean every day of his first year, and created numerous drawings for him, posthumously published as ''Real Love: The Drawings for Sean''. Lennon later proudly declared, "He didn't come out of my belly but, by God, I made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and to how he sleeps, and to the fact that he swims like a fish."
Former Beatles
Although his friendship with Starr remained consistently warm during the years following The Beatles' break-up in 1970, Lennon's relationship with McCartney and Harrison varied. He was close to Harrison initially, but the two drifted apart after Lennon moved to America. When Harrison was in New York for his December 1974 ''Dark Horse'' tour, Lennon agreed to join him on stage, but failed to appear after an argument over Lennon's refusal to sign an agreement that would finally dissolve The Beatles' legal partnership. (Lennon eventually signed the papers while holidaying in Florida with Pang and Julian.) Harrison incensed Lennon in 1980 when he published an autobiography that made little mention of him. Lennon told ''Playboy'', "I was hurt by it. By glaring omission ... my influence on his life is absolutely zilch ... he remembers every two-bit sax player or guitarist he met in subsequent years. I'm not in the book."Lennon's most intense feelings were reserved for McCartney. In addition to attacking him through the lyrics of "How Do You Sleep?", Lennon argued with him through the press for three years after the group split. The two later began to reestablish something of the close friendship they had once known, and in 1974 even played music together again, before growing apart once more. Lennon said that during McCartney's final visit, in April 1976, they watched the episode of ''Saturday Night Live'' in which Lorne Michaels made a $3,000 cash offer to get The Beatles to reunite on the show. The pair considered going to the studio to make a joke appearance, attempting to claim their share of the money, but were too tired. Lennon summarised his feelings towards McCartney in an interview three days before his death: "Throughout my career, I've selected to work with...only two people: Paul McCartney and Yoko Ono....That ain't bad picking."
Along with his estrangement from McCartney, Lennon always felt a musical competitiveness with him and kept an ear on his music. During his five-year career break he was content to sit back so long as McCartney was producing what Lennon saw as mediocre "product". When McCartney released "Coming Up" in 1980, the year Lennon returned to the studio and the last year of his life, he took notice. "It's driving me crackers!" he jokingly complained, because he could not get the tune out of his head. Asked the same year whether the group were dreaded enemies or the best of friends, he replied that they were neither, and that he had not seen any of them in a long time. But he also said, "I still love those guys. The Beatles are over, but John, Paul, George and Ringo go on."
Political activism
Lennon and Ono used their honeymoon as what they termed a "Bed-In for Peace" at the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel; the March 1969 event attracted worldwide media ridicule. At a second Bed-In three months later at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal Lennon wrote and recorded "Give Peace a Chance". Released as a single, it was quickly taken up as an anti-war anthem and sung by a quarter of a million demonstrators against the Vietnam War in Washington, DC, on 15 October, the second Vietnam Moratorium Day.Later that year, Lennon and Ono supported efforts by the family of James Hanratty, hanged for murder in 1962, to prove his innocence. Those who had condemned Hanratty were, according to Lennon, "the same people who are running guns to South Africa and killing blacks in the streets. ... The same bastards are in control, the same people are running everything, it's the whole bullshit bourgeois scene." In London, Lennon and Ono staged a "Britain Murdered Hanratty" banner march and a "Silent Protest For James Hanratty", and produced a 40-minute documentary on the case. At an appeal hearing years later, Hanratty's conviction was upheld.
Lennon and Ono showed their solidarity with the Clydeside UCS workers' work-in of 1971 by sending a bouquet of red roses and a cheque for £5,000. On moving to New York City in August that year, they befriended two of the Chicago Seven, Yippie peace activists Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman. Another peace activist, John Sinclair, poet and co-founder of the White Panther Party, was serving ten years in prison for selling two joints of marijuana after previous convictions for possession of the drug. In December 1971 at Ann Arbor, Michigan, 20,000 people attended the "John Sinclair Freedom Rally", a protest and benefit concert with contributions from Lennon, Stevie Wonder, Bob Seger, Bobby Seale of the Black Panther Party, and others. Lennon and Ono, backed by David Peel and Rubin, performed an acoustic set of four songs from their forthcoming ''Some Time in New York City'' album including "John Sinclair", whose lyrics called for his release. The day before the rally, Michigan State had drastically reduced the penalties for Sinclair’s crimes and three days after the rally, he was released on bail. The performance was recorded and two of the tracks later appeared on ''John Lennon Anthology'' (1998).
Following the ''Bloody Sunday'' incident in Northern Ireland in 1972, in which 13 unarmed civil rights protesters were shot dead by the British Army, Lennon said that given the choice between the army and the IRA (who were not involved in the incident) he would side with the latter. Lennon and Ono wrote two songs protesting British presence and actions in Ireland for their ''Some Time in New York City'' album: "Luck of the Irish" and "Sunday Bloody Sunday". In 2000, David Shayler, a former member of Britain's domestic security service MI5 suggested that Lennon had given money to the IRA though this was swiftly denied by Ono. Biographer Bill Harry records that following Bloody Sunday, Lennon and Ono financially supported the production of the film ''The Irish Tapes'', a political documentary with a Republican slant.
According to FBI surveillance reports (and confirmed by Tariq Ali in 2006) Lennon was sympathetic to the International Marxist Group, a Trotskyist group formed in Britain in 1968. However, the FBI considered Lennon to have limited effectiveness as a revolutionary since he was "constantly under the influence of narcotics".
Deportation attempt
Following the impact of "Give Peace a Chance" and "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)", both strongly associated with the anti–Vietnam War movement, the Nixon administration, hearing rumours of Lennon's involvement in a concert to be held in San Diego at the same time as the Republican National Convention, tried to have him deported. Nixon believed that Lennon's anti-war activities could cost him his re-election; Republican Senator Strom Thurmond suggested in a February 1972 memo that "deportation would be a strategic counter-measure" against Lennon. The next month the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) began deportation proceedings, arguing that his 1968 misdemeanor conviction for cannabis possession in London had made him ineligible for admission to the United States. Lennon spent the next three and a half years in and out of deportation hearings until on 8 October 1975, when a court of appeals barred the deportation attempt, stating " ... the courts will not condone selective deportation based upon secret political grounds." While the legal battle continued, Lennon attended rallies and made television appearances. Lennon and Ono co-hosted the ''Mike Douglas Show'' for a week in February 1972, introducing guests such as Jerry Rubin and Bobby Seale to mid-America. In 1972, Bob Dylan wrote a letter to the INS defending Lennon, stating:
John and Yoko add a great voice and drive to the country’s so-called art institution. They inspire and transcend and stimulate and by doing so, only help others to see pure light and in doing that, put an end to this dull taste of petty commercialism which is being passed off as Artist Art by the overpowering mass media. Hurray for John and Yoko. Let them stay and live here and breathe. The country’s got plenty of room and space. Let John and Yoko stay!
On 23 March 1973, Lennon was ordered to leave the US within 60 days. Ono, meanwhile, was granted permanent residence. In response, Lennon and Ono held a press conference on 1 April 1973 at the New York City Bar Association, where they announced the formation of the state of Nutopia; a place with "no land, no boundaries, no passports, only people". Waving the white flag of Nutopia (two handkerchiefs), they asked for political asylum in the US. The press conference was filmed, and would later appear in the 2006 documentary ''The U.S. vs. John Lennon''. Lennon's ''Mind Games'' (1973) included the track "Nutopian International Anthem", which comprised three seconds of silence. Soon after the press conference, Nixon's involvement in a political scandal came to light, and in June the Watergate hearings began in Washington, DC. They led to the president's resignation 14 months later. Nixon's successor, Gerald Ford, showed little interest in continuing the battle against Lennon, and the deportation order was overturned in 1975. The following year, his US immigration status finally resolved, Lennon received his "green card" certifying his permanent residency, and when Jimmy Carter was inaugurated as president in January 1977, Lennon and Ono attended the Inaugural Ball.
FBI surveillance and declassified documents
After Lennon's death, historian Jon Wiener filed a Freedom of Information Act request for FBI files documenting the Bureau's role in the deportation attempt. The FBI admitted it had 281 pages of files on Lennon, but refused to release most of them on the grounds that they contained national security information. In 1983, Wiener sued the FBI with the help of the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California. It took 14 years of litigation to force the FBI to release the withheld pages. The ACLU, representing Wiener, won a favourable decision in their suit against the FBI in the Ninth Circuit in 1991. The Justice Department appealed the decision to the Supreme Court in April 1992, but the court declined to review the case. In 1997, respecting President Bill Clinton's newly instigated rule that documents should be withheld only if releasing them would involve "foreseeable harm", the Justice Department settled most of the outstanding issues outside court by releasing all but 10 of the contested documents. Wiener published the results of his 14-year campaign in January 2000. ''Gimme Some Truth: The John Lennon FBI Files'' contained facsimiles of the documents, including "lengthy reports by confidential informants detailing the daily lives of anti-war activists, memos to the White House, transcripts of TV shows on which Lennon appeared, and a proposal that Lennon be arrested by local police on drug charges". The story is told in the documentary ''The U.S. vs. John Lennon''. The final 10 documents in Lennon's FBI file, which reported on his ties with London anti-war activists in 1971 and had been withheld as containing "national security information provided by a foreign government under an explicit promise of confidentiality", were released in December 2006. They contained no indication that the British government had regarded Lennon as a serious threat; one example of the released material was a report that two prominent British leftists had hoped Lennon would finance a left-wing bookshop and reading room.
Writing and art
Lennon's biographer Bill Harry writes that Lennon began drawing and writing creatively at an early age with the encouragement of his uncle. He collected his stories, poetry, cartoons, and caricatures in a Quarry Bank High School exercise book that he called the ''Daily Howl''. The drawings were often of crippled people, and the writings satirical, and throughout the book was an abundance of wordplay. According to classmate Bill Turner, Lennon created the ''Daily Howl'' to amuse his best friend and later Quarrymen band mate, Pete Shotton, to whom he would show his work before he let anyone else see it. Turner said that Lennon "had an obsession for Wigan Pier. It kept cropping up", and in Lennon's story ''A Carrot In A Potato Mine'', "the mine was at the end of Wigan Pier." Turner described how one of Lennon's cartoons depicted a bus stop sign annotated with the question, "Why?". Above was a flying pancake, and below, "a blind man wearing glasses leading along a blind dog—also wearing glasses".Lennon's love of wordplay and nonsense with a twist found a wider audience when he was 24. Harry writes that ''In His Own Write'' (1964) was published after "Some journalist who was hanging around The Beatles came to me and I ended up showing him the stuff. They said, 'Write a book' and that's how the first one came about". Like the ''Daily Howl'' it contained a mix of formats including short stories, poetry, plays and drawings. One story, "Good Dog Nigel", tells the tale of "a happy dog, urinating on a lamp post, barking, wagging his tail—until he suddenly hears a message that he will be killed at three o'clock". ''The Times Literary Supplement'' considered the poems and stories "remarkable ... also very funny ... the nonsense runs on, words and images prompting one another in a chain of pure fantasy". ''Book Week'' reported, "This is nonsense writing, but one has only to review the literature of nonsense to see how well Lennon has brought it off. While some of his homonyms are gratuitous word play, many others have not only double meaning but a double edge." Lennon was not only surprised by the positive reception, but that the book was reviewed at all, and suggested that readers "took the book more seriously than I did myself. It just began as a laugh for me".
In combination with ''A Spaniard in the Works'' (1965), ''In His Own Write'' formed the basis of the stage play ''The John Lennon Play: In His Own Write'', co-adapted by Victor Spinetti and Adrienne Kennedy. After negotiations between Lennon, Spinetti and the artistic director of the National Theatre, Sir Laurence Olivier, the play opened at the Old Vic in 1968. Lennon and Ono attended the opening night performance, their second public appearance together to date. After Lennon's death, further works were published, including ''Skywriting by Word of Mouth'' (1986); ''Ai: Japan Through John Lennon's Eyes: A Personal Sketchbook'' (1992), with Lennon's illustrations of the definitions of Japanese words; and ''Real Love: The Drawings for Sean'' (1999). ''The Beatles Anthology'' (2000) also presented examples of his writings and drawings.
Musicianship
Instruments played
His playing of a mouth organ during a bus journey to visit his cousin in Scotland caught the driver's ear. Impressed, the driver told Lennon of a harmonica he could have if he came to Edinburgh the following day, where one had been stored in the bus depot since a passenger left it on a bus. The professional instrument quickly replaced Lennon's toy. He would continue to play harmonica, often using the instrument during The Beatles' Hamburg years, and it became a signature sound in the group's early recordings. His mother taught him how to play the banjo, later buying him an acoustic guitar. At 16, he played rhythm guitar with the Quarrymen. As his career progressed, he played a variety of electric guitars, predominantly the Rickenbacker 325, Epiphone Casino and Gibson J-160E, and, from the start of his solo career, the Gibson Les Paul Junior. Occasionally he played a six-string bass guitar, the Fender Bass VI, providing bass on some Beatles' numbers that occupied McCartney with another instrument. His other instrument of choice was the piano, on which he composed many songs, including "Imagine", described as his best-known solo work. His jamming on a piano with McCartney in 1963 led to the creation of The Beatles' first US number one, "I Want to Hold Your Hand". In 1964, he became one of the first British musicians to acquire a Mellotron keyboard, though it was not heard on a Beatles' recording until "Strawberry Fields Forever" in late 1966.
Vocal style
When Lennon recorded "Twist and Shout", the final track during the mammoth one-day session that captured the band's 1963 debut album ''Please Please Me'', his voice, already compromised by a cold, came close to giving out. Lennon said, "I couldn't sing the damn thing, I was just screaming." In the words of biographer Barry Miles, "Lennon simply shredded his vocal cords in the interests of rock 'n' roll." The Beatles' producer, George Martin, tells how Lennon "had an inborn dislike of his own voice which I could never understand. He was always saying to me: 'DO something with my voice! ... put something on it ... Make it ''different''.'" Martin obliged, often using double-tracking and other techniques. Music critic Robert Christgau says that Lennon's "greatest vocal performance ... from scream to whine, is modulated electronically ... echoed, filtered, and double tracked."As his Beatles' era segued into his solo career, his singing voice found a widening range of expression. Biographer Chris Gregory writes that Lennon was, "tentatively beginning to expose his insecurities in a number of acoustic-led 'confessional' ballads, so beginning the process of 'public therapy' that will eventually culminate in the primal screams of 'Cold Turkey' and the cathartic ''John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band''." David Stuart Ryan notes Lennon's vocal delivery to range from, "extreme vulnerability, sensitivity and even naivety" to a hard "rasping" style. Wiener too describes contrasts, saying the singer's voice can be "at first subdued; soon it almost cracks with despair" Music historian Ben Urish recalls hearing The Beatles' ''Ed Sullivan Show'' performance of "This Boy" played on the radio a few days after Lennon's murder: "As Lennon's vocals reached their peak ... it hurt too much to hear him scream with such anguish and emotion. But it was my emotions I heard in his voice. Just like I always had."
Legacy
Music historians Schinder and Schwartz, writing of the transformation in popular music styles that took place between the 1950s and the 1960s, say that The Beatles' influence cannot be overstated: having "revolutionized the sound, style, and attitude of popular music and opened rock and roll's doors to a tidal wave of British rock acts", the group then "spent the rest of the 1960s expanding rock's stylistic frontiers". Liam Gallagher, his group Oasis among the many who acknowledge the band's influence, identifies Lennon as a hero; in 1999 he named his first child Lennon Gallagher in tribute. On National Poetry Day in 1999, after conducting a poll to identify the UK's favourite song lyric, the BBC announced "Imagine" the winner.In a 2006 ''Guardian'' article, Jon Wiener wrote: "For young people in 1972, it was thrilling to see Lennon's courage in standing up to [US President] Nixon. That willingness to take risks with his career, and his life, is one reason why people still admire him today." Whilst for music historians Urish and Bielen, Lennon's most significant effort was "the self-portraits ... in his songs [which] spoke to, for, and about, the human condition."
Lennon continues to be mourned throughout the world and has been the subject of numerous memorials and tributes. In 2010, on what would have been Lennon’s 70th birthday, the John Lennon Peace Monument was unveiled in Chavasse Park, Liverpool, by Cynthia and Julian Lennon. The sculpture entitled ‘Peace & Harmony’ exhibits peace symbols and carries the inscription “Peace on Earth for the Conservation of Life · In Honour of John Lennon 1940–1980”.
Awards and sales
The Lennon–McCartney songwriting partnership is regarded as one of the most influential and successful of the 20th century. As performer, writer or co-writer Lennon has had 25 number one singles on the US Hot 100 chart. His album sales in the US stand at 14 million units. ''Double Fantasy'', released shortly before his death, and his best-selling, post-Beatles' studio album at three million shipments in the US, won the 1981 Grammy Award for Album of the Year. The following year, the BRIT Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music went to Lennon. Participants in a 2002 BBC poll voted him eighth of "100 Greatest Britons". Between 2003 and 2008, ''Rolling Stone'' recognised Lennon in several reviews of artists and music, ranking him fifth of "100 Greatest Singers of All Time" and 38th of "The Immortals: The Fifty Greatest Artists of All Time", and his albums ''John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band'' and ''Imagine'', 22nd and 76th respectively of "The RS 500 Greatest Albums of All Time". He was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) with the other Beatles in 1965. He was posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1987 and into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994.
Discography
Notes
Lennon was responsible for 25 Billboard Hot 100 number one singles as performer, writer or co-writer. Solo (2): "Whatever Gets You Thru the Night", "(Just Like) Starting Over". With The Beatles (20): "Can't Buy Me Love", "I Feel Fine", "I Want to Hold Your Hand", "Love Me Do", "She Loves You", "A Hard Day's Night", "Eight Days a Week", "Help!", "Ticket to Ride", "Yesterday", "Paperback Writer", "We Can Work It Out", "All You Need Is Love", "Hello Goodbye", "Penny Lane", "Hey Jude", "Something/"Come Together", "Get Back", "Let It Be", "The Long and Winding Road"/"For You Blue". As co-writer of and performer on release by another artist (1): "Fame" (David Bowie). As co-writer of releases by other artists (2): "A World Without Love" (Peter and Gordon), "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" (Elton John).
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| name | Andy Kaufman |
|---|---|
| birth date | January 17, 1949 |
| birth place | New York City, New York, United States |
| death date | May 16, 1984 |
| death place | Los Angeles, California, United States |
| birth name | Andrew Geoffrey Kaufman |
| years active | 1974–1984 |
| occupation | Actor/Comedian }} |
Early life
Kaufman was born in New York City, on January 17, 1949, the first son of Janice (née Bernstein) and Stanley Kaufman. He grew up in a middle-class Jewish family, in Great Neck, Long Island, New York, and began performing at age nine. He attended the now defunct two-year Grahm Junior College, in Boston, graduating in 1971. He then began performing stand-up comedy at various small clubs along the East Coast.
Career
Foreign Man and Mighty Mouse
Kaufman first caught major attention with a character known as Foreign Man, who claimed to be from Caspiar (a fictional island in the Caspian Sea) and would appear on the stage of comedy clubs to play a recording of the theme from "Mighty Mouse" and lip-synch one line—"Here I come to save the day." He would proceed to tell a few jokes and perform a number of impersonations (Archie Bunker, Richard Nixon, et al.). Some variations of this performance were broadcast in the first season of ''Saturday Night Live''; the Mighty Mouse number was featured in the October 11, 1975 premiere, while the joke-telling and Bunker impression were included in the November 8 broadcast that same fall.Foreign Man would often try to impersonate a whole series of different celebrities, with the comedy arising from Foreign Man's obvious ineptitude at impersonation. For example, in his fake accent Kaufman would say to the audience, "I would like to imitate Meester Carter, de President of de United States", and then in the same voice, "Hello, I am Meester Carter, de President of de United States. T'ank you veddy much." At some point in the performance, usually when the audience were entirely used to Foreign Man's inability to perform a single convincing impression, Foreign Man would announce, "And now I would like to imitate the Elvis Presley," turn around, take off his jacket, slick his hair back, and launch into an unexpectedly credible Elvis Presley impersonation which Presley himself described as his favorite. Like Presley, he would take off his leather jacket and throw it into the audience, but Kaufman would then immediately ask for it back again. After, he would take a simple bow and say in his Foreign Man voice, "T'ank you veddy much!"
Latka
Kaufman first used a version of the Foreign Man character as Andy the Robot in the pilot for the sitcom ''Stick Around'' in 1977. The character was then changed into Latka Gravas, for ABC's ''Taxi'' sitcom, appearing in 79 of 114 episodes from 1978 to 1983. The producers of ''Taxi'' had seen Andy's Foreign Man act and, according to producer Ed Weinberger, "We weren't considering Andy for the show before we saw him. Then we wrote a part for him." Bob Zmuda confirms this: "They basically were buying Andy's Foreign Man character for the ''Taxi'' character Latka." Andy's long-time manager George Shapiro encouraged Andy to take the gig. "My feeling was that it would be a nice boost for his career...and he would be playing a character that he knew very well, the Foreign Man—this particular character speaks poor English in ''Taxi'' and his name is Latka Gravas."
Kaufman disliked sitcoms and was not thrilled with the idea of being in one. In order to allow Kaufman to demonstrate some comedic range, his character was given multiple personality disorder, which allowed Kaufman to randomly portray other characters. In one episode, Kaufman's character came down with a condition which made him act like Alex Reiger, the main character played by Judd Hirsch. Another such recurring character played by Kaufman was the womanizing Vic Ferrari. His role did lead to two Golden Globe nominations, in 1979 and 1981.
''Taxi'' was an award-winning show with a large audience and Kaufman was widely recognized as Latka. On some occasions, audiences would show up to one of Kaufman's stage performances expecting to see him perform as Latka, and heckling him with demands when he did not. Kaufman would punish these audiences with the announcement that he was going to read ''The Great Gatsby'' by F. Scott Fitzgerald to them. The audience would laugh at this, not realizing that he was serious, and Kaufman would proceed to read the book to them, continuing despite audience members' departure. At a certain point, he would ask the audience if they wanted him to keep reading, or play a record. When the audience chose to hear the record, the record he cued up was a recording of him continuing to read ''The Great Gatsby'' from where he had left off.
Tony Clifton
Another well-known Kaufman character is Tony Clifton, an audience-abusing lounge singer who began opening for Kaufman at comedy clubs and eventually even performed concerts on his own around the country. Sometimes it was Kaufman performing as Clifton, sometimes it was his brother Michael or his friend Bob Zmuda. For a brief time, it was unclear to some that Clifton was not a real person. News programs interviewed Clifton as Kaufman's opening act, with the mood turning ugly whenever Kaufman's name came up. Kaufman, Clifton insisted, was attempting to ruin Clifton's "good name" in order to make money and get famous.As a requirement for Kaufman accepting the offer to star on ''Taxi'', he insisted that Clifton be hired for a guest role on the show as if he were a real person, not a character. After throwing a tantrum on the set, Clifton was fired and escorted off of the studio lot by security guards. Much to Kaufman's delight, this incident was reported in the local newspapers. Paramount TV and producers James L. Brooks and Stan Daniels later released a statement that said that although Clifton was "no longer welcome on the set", his friend Andy Kaufman would continue in his role as Latka, which he did until the show ended its run in 1983.
Carnegie Hall "milk and cookies" show
At the beginning of an April 1979 performance at New York's Carnegie Hall, Kaufman invited his "grandmother" to watch the show from a chair he had placed at the side of the stage. At the end of the show, she stood up, took her mask off and revealed to the audience that she was actually comedian Robin Williams in disguise. Kaufman also had an elderly woman (named Eleanor Cody Gould) appear to have a heart attack and die on stage, at which point he reappeared on stage wearing a Native American headdress and performed a dance over her body, seeming to revive her.The performance is most famous for Kaufman ending the show by actually taking the entire audience, in twenty buses, out for milk and cookies. He invited anyone interested to meet him on the Staten Island Ferry the next morning, where the show continued. This kind of performance art was a hallmark of Kaufman's career. This was depicted in the biopic ''Man on the Moon''; however, in the movie, it takes place after Kaufman was diagnosed with cancer, when in reality, it took place nearly four years earlier.
''Andy's Funhouse aka The Andy Kaufman Special'' and ''The Andy Kaufman Show''
The ''Taxi'' deal with ABC included giving Kaufman a television special/pilot. He came up with ''Andy's Funhouse'', based on an old routine he had developed while in junior college. The special was taped in 1977 but did not air until August 1979, on ABC. It featured most of Andy's famous gags, including Foreign Man/Latka and his Elvis Presley impersonation, as well as a host of unique segments (including a special appearance by children's television character Howdy Doody and the "Has-been Corner"). There also was a segment that included fake television screen static as part of the gag, which ABC executives were not comfortable with, fearing that viewers would mistake the static for broadcast problems and would change the channel - which was the comic element Kaufman wanted to present. ''Andy's Funhouse'' was written by Kaufman, Zmuda, and Mel Sherer, with music by Kaufman. In 1980 a very similar looking show would be filmed for PBS's SoundStage, called the ''The Andy Kaufman Show''. It would feature a peanut gallery like Funhouse and is often confused with ''Andy's Funhouse''. The show opens right in the middle of an interview Kaufman is doing in which he is laughing hysterically, and then he proceeds to thank the audience for watching and the credits roll. After this, opening credits do come on and the show has its "proper" beginning. This show is easy to confuse with ''Andy's Funhouse'' as they both feature "The Has-Been Corner" and Kaufman wears his "I Love Grandma" shirt in both shows among other similarities.
The ''Fridays'' incident
In 1981, Kaufman made three appearances on ''Fridays'', a variety show on ABC that was similar to ''Saturday Night Live''. Kaufman's first appearance on the show proved to be memorable. During a sketch about four people out on a dinner date who excuse themselves to the restroom to smoke marijuana, Kaufman broke character and refused to say his lines.In response, cast member Michael Richards walked off camera and returned with a set of cue cards and dumped them on the table in front of Kaufman. Andy responded by splashing Richards with water. Co-producer Jack Burns stormed onto the stage, leading to a brawl on camera before the show abruptly cut away to commercial. It was later revealed that this incident was a practical joke.
Regardless, Kaufman appeared the following week in a videotaped apology to the home viewers. Later that year, Kaufman returned to host ''Fridays.'' At one point in the show, he invited a ''Lawrence Welk Show'' gospel and standards singer, Kathie Sullivan, on stage to sing a few gospel songs with him and announced that the two were engaged to be married, then talked to the audience about his newfound faith in Jesus (Kaufman was Jewish). That was also a hoax. Later, following a sketch about a drug-abusing pharmacist, Kaufman was supposed to introduce the band The Pretenders. Instead of introducing the band, he delivered a nervous speech about the harmfulness of drugs while the band stood behind him ready to play. After his speech, he informed the audience that he had talked for too long and had to go to a commercial.
Professional wrestling
Kaufman grew up admiring professional wrestlers and the world in which they perform. Inspired by the theatricality of kayfabe, the staged nature of the sport, and his own tendency to form elaborate hoaxes, Kaufman began wrestling women during his act and was the self-proclaimed "Inter-Gender Wrestling Champion of the World", taking on an aggressive and ridiculous personality based upon the characters invented by professional wrestlers. He offered a $1,000 prize to any woman who could pin him. He employed his friend, the performance artist Laurie Anderson as a stooge in this act for a while.Kaufman initially approached then-World Wrestling Federation (WWF) owner Vince McMahon, Sr. about bringing his act to the New York territory. McMahon found Kaufman's act too gimmicky and suggested to Kaufman that he try his luck in the Southern wrestling territories, where his gimmick might have more appeal.
Later, after a challenge from professional wrestler Jerry "The King" Lawler, Kaufman would step into the ring (in the Memphis wrestling circuit) with a man — Lawler himself. Their ongoing feud, often featuring Jimmy Hart and other heels in Kaufman's corner, included a broken neck for Kaufman as a result of Lawler's piledriver and a famous on-air fight on a 1982 episode of ''Late Night with David Letterman''. For some time after that, Kaufman appeared everywhere wearing a neck brace, insisting that his injuries were worse than they were. Kaufman would continue to defend the Inter-Gender Championship in the Mid-South Coliseum and offered an extra prize, other than the $1,000: that if he were pinned, the woman who pinned him would get to marry him and that Kaufman would also shave his head.
Kaufman and Lawler's famous feud and wrestling matches were later revealed to have been staged, or a "work", as the two were actually friends. The truth about its being a "work" was not disclosed until more than 10 years after Kaufman's death, when the Emmy-nominated documentary, ''A Comedy Salute to Andy Kaufman'', aired on NBC in 1995. Coincidentally, Jim Carrey is the one who reveals the secret, and would later go on to play Kaufman in the 1999 film ''Man on the Moon.'' In a 1997 interview with the ''Memphis Flyer'', Lawler claimed he had improvised during their first match and the ''Letterman'' incident. Although officials at St. Francis Hospital stated that Kaufman's neck injuries were real, in his 2002 biography ''It's Good to Be the King...Sometimes'', Lawler detailed how they came up with the angle and kept it quiet. Even though Kaufman's injury was legitimate, the pair pretended that the injury was more severe than it was. He also said that Kaufman's explosion on ''Letterman'' was Kaufman's own idea, including when Lawler slapped Kaufman out of his chair.
Kaufman also appeared in the 1983 film ''My Breakfast with Blassie'' with professional wrestling personality "Classy" Freddie Blassie, a parody of the art film ''My Dinner With Andre.'' The film was directed by Johnny Legend, who employed his sister Lynne Margulies as one of the girls who appears in the film. Margulies met Kaufman for the first time on camera, and they later became a couple, living together until Kaufman's death.
Appearances
Although Kaufman made a name for himself as a guest on NBC's ''Saturday Night Live'', his first prime time appearances were several guest spots as the 'Foreign Man' on the "Dick Van Dyke Variety" Show in 1976. He also appeared four times on ''The Tonight Show'' from 1976–1978, three times on ''The Midnight Special'' in 1972, 1977 and 1981. In the 1977 episode, Kaufman performed a song called "I Trusted You" (which features only those three words, repeated over and over, as lyrics), while in 1981 he is shown sitting in the audience during Tony Clifton's act (although it was obvious Kaufman was not in the audience during the sketch).His ''SNL ''appearances started with the inaugural October 11, 1975 show; he made 16 ''SNL'' appearances in all, although his last two appearances were simply aired video-tapes and not live. He would do routines from his comedy act, such as the ''Mighty Mouse'' sing-along, Foreign Man character, the Elvis impersonation, etc. After he angered the audience with his female wrestling routine, in January 1983 Kaufman did make a pre-taped appearance (his 16th) on the show, where he asked the audience if he should ever appear on the show again, and said that he would honor the audience's decision and stay off the show if the vote was negative. ''SNL'' ran a phone vote, and close to 195,544 people voted to "Dump Andy" and approximately 169,186 people voted to "Keep Andy", so Kaufman did not appear "live" but ''Saturday Night Live'' did air a tape of him thanking the 169,186 people who had voted "yes" for him to appear again, which could be considered a 17th appearance.
Though it was never made clear whether this was a gag, Kaufman did not appear on the show again. During the ''SNL'' episode with the Keep Andy/Dump Andy phone poll, many of the cast stated their admiration for Andy's work and read the "Keep Andy" number more clearly than the "Dump Andy" number. After Eddie Murphy read both numbers, he said, "Now Andy Kaufman is a friend of mine. Keep that in mind when you call. I don't want to have to punch nobody in America in the face." Mary Gross read the "Dump Andy" number at a rate so fast that audiences were unable to catch it. The final tally was read by Gary Kroeger to a cheering audience. As the credits rolled, announcer Don Pardo said, "This is Don Pardo saying, 'I voted for Andy Kaufman.'"
Kaufman made a number of appearances on the daytime ''The David Letterman Show'' in 1980, and eleven appearances on ''Late Night with David Letterman'' in 1982-1983, including one where he claimed to be homeless and begged the audience for money and one where he talked about his adopted children, who turned out to be three fully-grown black men.
He appeared twice on ''The Merv Griffin Show'' (1979–1980), and once, in 1978 as a participant, on ''The Dating Game'' under a presumed name and as a supposedly real contestant. He also made numerous guest spots on other television programs hosted by or starring celebrities like Johnny Cash (1979 Christmas special), Dick Van Dyke, Dinah Shore, Rodney Dangerfield, Cher, Dean Martin, Redd Foxx, Mike Douglas, Dick Clark, and Joe Franklin.
He appeared in his first theatrical film ''God Told Me To'' in 1976, where he portrayed a murderous policeman. He also appeared in several others, including as a televangelist in the 1980 film ''In God We Tru$t''.
Laurie Anderson worked alongside Andy Kaufman for a time in the 1970s, acting as a sort of straight woman in a number of his Manhattan and Coney Island performances. One of these performances included getting on a ride that people stand in and get spun around. After everyone was strapped in Kaufman would start saying how he did not want to be on the ride in a panicked tone and eventually cry. Anderson later described these performances in her 1995 album ''The Ugly One with the Jewels''.
At Park West Theatre in Chicago on March 26, 1982, Kaufman performed stage hypnosis where he induced local DJ Steve Dahl to urinate while sitting in a large box. Other staged inductions included Bob Zmuda's childhood friend Joe Troiani mimicking the behavior of a pig and long-time friend Bill Karmia dressed as a police officer arresting Kaufman for inducing public nudity with a woman he had hypnotized.
Personal life
Kaufman never married. He was survived by his father and daughter, Maria Colonna, who was born in 1969 out of wedlock with a high-school girlfriend of Kaufman's, but later placed for adoption. Colonna learned in 1992 that she was the daughter of Andy Kaufman, when she traced her biological parentage.In college, Kaufman learned Transcendental Meditation. According to a BBC article, Kaufman used Transcendental Meditation to build confidence and take his act to comedy clubs. For the rest of his life Kaufman meditated and performed yoga for three hours a day. He trained as a teacher of Transcendental Meditation in Majorca, Spain from February to June, 1971.
Death
At Thanksgiving dinner with his family on Long Island in November 1983, several family members grew concerned over Kaufman's persistent coughing during the dinner, and openly expressed worry about it. Kaufman claimed to them that he had the cough for nearly a month, but also claimed that an initial visit to his doctor told him that nothing was wrong. After returning to Los Angeles, Kaufman consulted a physician where he checked himself into Cedars-Sinai Hospital for a series of medical tests and a few days later, he was diagnosed with a rare type of lung cancer. Despite his doctor's prognosis that there was no hope for recovery, he was committed to fighting the disease until his death.After audiences were shocked by his gaunt appearance during his performances in January 1984, Kaufman acknowledged having an unspecified illness, which he hoped to cure with "natural medicine" including an all-fruit and vegetables diet, among other measures. Kaufman received palliative radiotherapy, but by then the cancer had rapidly spread from his lungs to his brain. His last resort was "psychic surgery", a debunked procedure that includes the use of sleight of hand, performed in Baguio, Philippines, in March 1984. Kaufman died in a hospital in Los Angeles on May 16, 1984 of kidney failure, caused by metastasized large cell carcinoma, and was interred in the Beth David Cemetery in Elmont, New York (Long Island). He was 35 years old. Because he kept the true nature of his illness a secret—almost until the day he died—fans have, over the years, doubted Kaufman's death, thinking that he staged it as the ultimate Andy Kaufman stunt.
Kaufman allegedly told many people—including Bob Zmuda—that he wished to fake his own death prior to his actual death. This has caused some fans to believe Kaufman is still alive. Kaufman himself purportedly claimed that if he were to fake his death, he would return 20 years later, which would have been in 2004.
The 1999 Jim Carrey film ''Man on the Moon'' leaves the question open-ended. "Tony Clifton" performed a year after Kaufman's death at The Comedy Store benefit in Kaufman's honor, with members of his entourage in attendance. Bob Zmuda has acknowledged "death hoax" rumors over the years quite tongue-in-cheek, admitting that Kaufman and he had discussed faking his death at times and that he seemed "obsessed with the idea", but he maintains the opinion that Kaufman truly did die and his death was not faked. Bob Zmuda claims he does not think he would be cruel enough to go this long without making contact with his family if he was still alive. His official website states that his death was not a hoax and he did die.
During the 1990s, "Tony Clifton" made several appearances at LA nightclubs, prompting speculation that perhaps Kaufman was still alive and working under the makeup. Jim Carrey stated on the NBC special ''Comedy Salute to Andy Kaufman'' that the Clifton character had been passed on by Kaufman to Bob Zmuda while he was still alive. Kaufman's death certificate is on file with the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services and is also available on the website The Smoking Gun.
Filmography
Acting
Writing
Composing
Producing
Notable TV guest appearances
Legacy
Jim Carrey portrayed Kaufman in the 1999 film ''Man on the Moon'', directed by Miloš Forman. The film took its title from the R.E.M. song of the same name. Also in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, the acquirable taxi firm is called Kaufman Cabs, as an homage to Kaufman's work in Taxi. Comedian Richard Lewis in ''A Comedy Salute to Andy Kaufman'' said of him: "No one has ever done what Andy did, and did it as well, and no one will ever. Because he did it first. So did Buster Keaton, so did Andy."
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Pascal Michel Obispo (born 8 January 1965 in Bergerac, Dordogne, France) is a French singer/songwriter.
''Le long du fleuve'' (1990)
''Plus Que Tout au Monde'' (1992)
''Un Jour Comme Aujourd'hui'' (1994)
''Superflu'' (1997)
''Live 98'' (1998)
''Soledad'' (1999)
''Millésime Live 00/01'' (2001)
''Studio Fan – Live Fan'' (2004)
''Les Fleurs du Bien (2006)
''Les Fleurs de forest(live)(2007)
''Welcome to the Magic World of Captain Samourai Flower (2009)''
''Les Dix Commandements (2000)'' – Music: Pascal Obispo, Book and Lyrics: Lionel Florence and Patrice Guirao
Biography of Pascal Obispo, from Radio France Internationale
Pascal Obispo started singing in 1980. He got his first record deal in 1990, ''Le long du fleuve''. With his second album, ''Plus que tout au monde'', selling over 2 million albums, his songs became a popular success. Some of his most famous songs are "Plus que tout au monde", "Laurelenn", "Tombé pour elle", "L'important c'est d'aimer", "Personne" and "Fan". With his 2007 release of Les Fleurs du Bien (a play on Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal) he makes allusions to Rosa Parks, Pablo Picasso and others. He is also well known for his various escapades, his unconservative behavior, his haircut, etc. His name is an anagram of painter Pablo Picasso's name. Most of his albums have now sold more than 1 million copies.
Obispo used his popularity to help with humanitarian work and particularly with work to stop the AIDS epidemic. He has worked with many other well-known artists such as Jean-Jacques Goldman, Florent Pagny, Johnny Hallyday, Patricia Kaas, Amel Bent, and Natasha St-Pier.
Discography
Albums
Musicals
Singles
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External links
Official website
References
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