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

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries: 19th century20th century21st century
Decades: 1950s  1960s  1970s  – 1980s –  1990s  2000s  2010s
Years: 1977 1978 197919801981 1982 1983
1980 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar1980
MCMLXXX
Ab urbe condita2733
Armenian calendar1429
ԹՎ ՌՆԻԹ
Assyrian calendar6730
Bahá'í calendar136–137
Balinese saka calendar1901–1902
Bengali calendar1387
Berber calendar2930
British Regnal year28 Eliz. 2 – 29 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar2524
Burmese calendar1342
Byzantine calendar7488–7489
Chinese calendar己未(Earth Goat)
4676 or 4616
    — to —
庚申年 (Metal Monkey)
4677 or 4617
Coptic calendar1696–1697
Discordian calendar3146
Ethiopian calendar1972–1973
Hebrew calendar5740–5741
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat2036–2037
 - Shaka Samvat1901–1902
 - Kali Yuga5080–5081
Holocene calendar11980
Igbo calendar980–981
Iranian calendar1358–1359
Islamic calendar1400–1401
Japanese calendarShōwa 55
(昭和55年)
Javanese calendar1912–1913
Juche calendar69
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4313
Minguo calendarROC 69
民國69年
Nanakshahi calendar512
Thai solar calendar2523
Tibetan calendar阴土羊年
(female Earth-Goat)
2106 or 1725 or 953
    — to —
阳金猴年
(male Iron-Monkey)
2107 or 1726 or 954
Unix time315532800 – 347155199

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

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Matthew Lawrence
 
Christina Ricci
 
Jason Ritter
 
Justin Roiland
 
Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck
 
Chelsea Clinton
 
Laura Prepon
 
Johan Olsson
 
Ronaldinho
 
Kate Micucci
 
Randy Orton
 
Charlie Hunnam
 
Waylon
 
Reagan Gomez-Preston
 
Daniel MacPherson
 
Jordana Brewster
 
Channing Tatum
 
Ellie Kemper
 
Gotye
 
Steven Gerrard
 
Mike Fisher
 
Sarah Connor
 
Jessica DiCicco
 
Melissa Rauch
 
Olivia Munn
 
Harbhajan Singh
 
Eva Green
 
Michelle Kwan
 
Jessica Simpson
 
Kristen Bell
 
Michelle Williams
 
Jacinda Ardern

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Macaulay Culkin
 
Chris Pine
 
William Levy
 
Joanne Froggatt

September

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Nigar Jamal
 
Michelle Williams
 
Mike Comrie
 
Yao Ming
 
Zachary Levi

October

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Joe Kennedy III
 
Nick Cannon
 
Kim Kardashian
 
Monica
 
Ben Foster

November

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Luke Hemsworth
 
Ryan Gosling
 
Monique Coleman
 
Isaac Hanson
 
Nick Swisher

December

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Simon Helberg
 
Christina Aguilera
 
Jake Gyllenhaal
 
Elizabeth Rodriguez
 
Eliza Dushku

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January

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Jimmy Durante

February

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Oskar Kokoschka
 
Yigal Allon
 
Mohammad Hatta
 
Óscar Romero
 
Tôn Đức Thắng
 
Jesse Owens
 
William R. Tolbert Jr.
 
Jean-Paul Sartre
 
Mario Bava
 
Alfred Hitchcock
 
Josip Broz Tito
 
Masayoshi Ōhira
 
Peter Sellers
 
Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi

August

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Yahya Khan

September

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Jean Piaget
 
John Bonham

October

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Edelmiro Julián Farrell

November

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Steve McQueen
 
John McEwen
 
Sara García
 
Mae West

December

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John Lennon
 
Colonel Sanders
 
Alexei Kosygin
 
Héctor José Cámpora
 
Karl Dönitz

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