1980 in India

• President of India – Neelam Sanjiva Reddy[1]
• 

  Charan Singh
  Prime Minister of India – Charan Singh until 14 January, then Indira Gandhi again became the prime minister of India.[2]
• Vice President of India – Mohammad Hidayatullah
• Chief Justice of India – Yeshwant Vishnu Chandrachud

• National income - ₹1,470,629 million
• 1 January – India asks Soviet Union for troop withdrawal from Afghanistan.[3]

Indira Gandhi the first female Prime Minister of India is returned to the office a second time.

• 14 January – Indira Gandhi returned to power.[4]
• 5 April - Bharatiya Janata Party was formed.[5]
• 23 June – Sanjay Gandhi is killed in a plane crash near Safdarjung Airport.[6]
• 18 July - SLV-3 successfully launched from Sriharikota.[7]
• Rajiv Gandhi quits working as pilot for Indian Airlines.[8]
• The Bhagalpur Blindings were widely publicized by Indian media.[9]
• 31 December – B. P. Mandal, chairman of the Backward Classes Commission, submitted his report to the government.[10]

• 25 October - Forest (Conservation) Act

The Indian Hockey team won the Gold in the Olympics.[11]

• 21 January – Santhanam, actor and comedian.
• 10 February – Mohd. Iqbal Khan, actor.
• 13 March – Varun Gandhi, politician
• 17 March – Nikitin Dheer, actor
• 20 April – Sunaina Sunaina, weightlifter[12]
• 2 June – Dola Banerjee, archer[13]
• 4 June – Prashanth Neel, film director.
• 20 June – Bobby Darling, actor.
• 5 July – Zayed Khan, actor.
• 7 July – Ramachandra Raju, actor.
• 8 July – Chetan Anand, badminton player.
• 12 August – Ghibran, music composer.
• 14 August – Prabhjot Singh, field hockey player.
• 16 August – Upen Patel, model and actor.
• 18 August – Preeti Jhangiani, actress and model.
• 30 August – Richa Pallod, model and actress.
• 10 September – Jayam Ravi, actor.
• 18 September – Akshay Kapoor, actor.
• 

  Kareena Kapoor
  21 September – Kareena Kapoor, actress.
• 18 October – Reetinder Singh Sodhi, cricketer.
• 24 October – Laila Mehdin, actress.
• 12 November – Devesh Chauhan, field hockey player.
• 13 November – Harman Baweja, actor.
• 9 December – Gagan Ajit Singh, field hockey player.
• 11 December – Arya, actor.
• 17 December – Arjun Halappa, field hockey player.
• 28 December – Deepak Thakur, field hockey player.

• 23 June – Sanjay Gandhi, politician (b. 1946).
• 23 June – Varahagiri Venkata Giri, fourth president of India (b. 1894).
• 18 July – Naoomal Jeoomal, cricketer (b. 1904).
• 24 July – Uttam Kumar, actor (b. 1926).
• 31 July – Mohammed Rafi, playback singer (b. 1924).
• 2 August – Ramkinkar Baij, sculptor and painter (b. 1906)
• 17 August – Kodavatiganti Kutumbarao, writer (b. 1909).
• 25 October – Sahir Ludhianvi, Urdu poet and Hindi lyricist and songwriter (b. 1921).
• 11 November – Chenganoor Raman Pillai, Kathakali artiste (b. 1886).
• 16 November – Jayan, actor (b. 1938).