Same Day / Decades
The 1980s
77 icons active, 0 born, 1 at their peak.
The twelve longest careers
Born in the 1980s
Nobody on the bill was born in this decade.
At their peak in the 1980s
- Freddie MercuryMusic
Active in the 1980s
- Akira Kurosawa1943 to 1993
- Alfred Eisenstaedt1927 to 1993
- Ansel Adams1927 to 1984
- Aretha Franklin1956 to 2017
- Audrey Hepburn1948 to 1989
- Ava Gardner1941 to 1986
- Barbara Stanwyck1927 to 1986
- Bette Davis1931 to 1989
- Bill Haley1946 to 1981
- Billy Wilder1929 to 1981
- Bo Diddley1951 to 2007
- Bob Marley1962 to 1981
- Bon Scott1964 to 1980
- Burt Lancaster1946 to 1991
- Chuck Berry1953 to 2017
- Dean Martin1940 to 1991
- Del Shannon1958 to 1990
- Dusty Springfield1958 to 1995
- Elizabeth Taylor1942 to 2001
- Ella Fitzgerald1934 to 1993
- Etta James1954 to 2011
- Fats Domino1947 to 2007
- Federico Fellini1950 to 1990
- Frank Sinatra1935 to 1995
- Fred Astaire1905 to 1981
- Freddie Mercury1969 to 1991
- Gene Kelly1938 to 1994
- George Harrison1958 to 2001
- George Hurrell1925 to 1992
- Ginger Rogers1929 to 1984
- Gregory Peck1944 to 2000
- Henry Fonda1928 to 1981
- Horst P. Horst1931 to 1991
- Ian Curtis1976 to 1980
- Ingmar Bergman1944 to 2003
- Ingrid Bergman1935 to 1982
- Irving Penn1943 to 2009
- Jack Lemmon1949 to 2000
- James Brown1953 to 2006
- James Cagney1930 to 1984
- James Stewart1932 to 1991
- Jerry Garcia1960 to 1995
- Jim Marshall1959 to 2010
- John Bonham1964 to 1980
- John Lennon1957 to 1980
- Johnny Cash1954 to 2003
- Karen Carpenter1965 to 1983
- Katharine Hepburn1928 to 1994
- Kirk Douglas1946 to 2008
- Lana Turner1937 to 1991
- Lauren Bacall1942 to 2014
- Lillian Gish1912 to 1987
- Linda McCartney1966 to 1998
- Little Richard1947 to 2013
- Marlon Brando1950 to 2001
- Marvin Gaye1957 to 1984
- Miles Davis1944 to 1991
- Muddy Waters1941 to 1982
- Myrna Loy1925 to 1981
- Natalie Wood1943 to 1981
- Nina Simone1954 to 2002
- Orson Welles1934 to 1985
- Paul Newman1952 to 2006
- Peter Sellers1948 to 1980
- Phil Lynott1967 to 1985
- Ray Charles1947 to 2004
- Richard Avedon1944 to 2004
- Robert Mitchum1943 to 1997
- Roy Orbison1953 to 1988
- Sam Peckinpah1955 to 1983
- Sammy Davis Jr.1933 to 1990
- Sergio Leone1959 to 1984
- Sidney Poitier1950 to 2001
- Slim Aarons1942 to 1990
- Stanley Kubrick1951 to 1999
- Steve McQueen1952 to 1980
- Vincent Price1938 to 1993