Births and deaths in the year 1980
BIRTHS
Elin Nordegren, Swedish model and former wife of Tiger Woods.
Bernard Dunne, boxer.
Toireasa Ferris, Sinn Féin politician.
Chelsea Clinton, daughter of Bill and Hillary Clinton.
Brian McFadden, Kian Eganand Mark Feehily,singers with successful Irish boyband Westlife.
Robbie Keane,soccer player.
Graham Canty, Cork Gaelic footballer.
Ciarán Walsh, visual artist.
DEATHS
Alfred Hitchcock, film-maker.
James Hamilton Delargy, folklorist.
Tom Barry, guerrilla leader in the Irish Republican Army during the War of Independence.
Alan Simpson, co-founder, with his wife Carolyn Swift, of the Pike Theatre.
Cecile O'Rahilly, scholar of the Celtic languages and writer.
Hattie Jacques, comedy actor.
Eric Cross, author of The Tailor and Ansty.
Joseph Brennan, Fianna Fáil deputy, minister and ceann comhairle.
Mae West,actor.