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

Theatrical releases

Feature films

• January 25 - Guyana: Cult of the Damned
• February 8 - The Last Married Couple in America
• March 7 - Coal Miner's Daughter
• March 21 - Little Miss Marker
• April 18 - North Sea Hijack
• April 25 - Where the Buffalo Roam
• May 9 - The Nude Bomb
• May 23 - The Gong Show Movie
• June 13 - The Island
• June 20 - The Blues Brothers
• July 18 - Cheech and Chong's Next Movie
• August 8 - Xanadu
• August 15 - Smokey and the Bandit II
• September 19 - Melvin and Howard
• September 26
  • In God We Tru$t
  • Resurrection
• October 3 - Somewhere in Time
• December 5 - Flash Gordon

Shorts

Television

• Magnum, P.I.

Home media

Character debuts

• December 11 - Thomas Magnum

People

Births

• January 18 - Jason Segel
• February 29 - Peter Scanavino
• April 13 - Kelli Giddish
• July 3 - Olivia Munn
• July 18 - Kristen Bell
• October 25 - Mehcad Brooks

Deaths

• TBA

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