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This is a list of people and subjects appearing on the cover of Time magazine in the 1980s. Time was first published in 1923. As Time became established as one of the United States' leading news magazines , an appearance on the cover of Time became an indicator of notability, fame or notoriety. Such features were accompanied by articles.
For other decades, see Lists of covers of Time magazine .
1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 January 2 – Ronald Reagan & Yuri Andropov , Men of the Year January 9 – John Paul II & Mehmet Ali Ağca January 16 – Africa's Troubles January 23 – Arthur Rock January 30 – Phil Mahre & Tamara McKinney February 6 – Ronald Reagan February 13 – Seabrook Nuclear Plant February 20 – Yuri Andropov February 27 – Konstantin Chernenko March 5 – Martin Feldstein March 12 – Gary Hart , Walter Mondale & John Glenn March 19 – Michael Jackson March 27 – Cholesterol April 2 – Alexander Haig April 9 – End of the Sexual Revolution April 16 – Bill Gates April 23 – Policy on Nicaragua April 30 – China's New Face May 7 – Jesse Jackson May 14 – Shirley MacLaine May 21 – Olympic Turmoil May 28 – D-Day Remembered June 4 – Geraldine Ferraro & Dianne Feinstein June 11 – Mystery Behind Pain June 18 – Walter Mondale June 25 – Andrei A. Gromyko July 2 – Erma Bombeck July 9 – Shimon Peres & Yitzhak Shamir July 16 – Democrats Launch Campaign July 23 – Geraldine Ferraro July 30 – Carl Lewis August 6 – Mexico City August 13 – Carl Lewis August 20 – Sears & Cheryl Tiegs August 27 – Ronald Reagan & George H. W. Bush September 3 – Geraldine Ferraro September 10 – Science of Conception September 17 – Brian Mulroney September 24 – America's Upbeat Mood October 1 – Andrei A. Gromyko October 8 – The Supreme Court (Warren E. Burger , John Paul Stevens , Lewis F. Powell Jr. , William Rehnquist , Sandra Day O'Connor , Thurgood Marshall , William J. Brennan Jr. , Byron White & Harry Blackmun ) October 15 – Crackdown on the Mafia October 22 – Ronald Reagan , George H. W. Bush , Walter Mondale & Geraldine Ferraro October 29 – Ronald Reagan & Walter Mondale November 5 – New Concern with Civility November 12 – Indira Gandhi November 19 – Ronald Reagan November 26 – Astronauts Rescue Satellite December 3 – America's Banks December 10 – William DeVries December 17 – Disaster Strikes Bhopal December 24 – Video Cassette Recorders December 31 – David Lean 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 References Previous Lists of covers of Time magazine Next 1970s 1980s 1990s