Allan Dwan ( April 3, 1885 – December 28, 1981 ) was a pioneering Canadian-born American motion picture director, producer and screenwriter.

* 1892 – Donald Wills Douglas, Sr., American aviation industrialist ( d. 1981 )

* 1892 – Lowell Thomas, American writer ( d. 1981 )

* 1981 – Robert Earnshaw, Zambian-Welsh footballer

* 1981 – Jeff Faine, American football player and agent

* 1981 – Kari Jobe, American singer and songwriter ( Gateway Worship )

* 1981 – The first launch of a Space Shuttle ( Columbia ) takes place-the STS-1 mission.

* 1981 – Nicolás Burdisso, Argentine footballer

* 1981 – Grant Holt, English footballer

* 1981 – Brian Vandborg, Danish cyclist

* 1981 – John O ' Shea, Irish footballer

* 1981 – Emma Pierson, English actress

* 1981 – Kunal Nayyar, Indian-English actor

* 1895 – Andreas Alföldi, Hungarian historian and archaeologist ( d. 1981 )

* 1933 – Joke Smit, Dutch activist and politician ( d. 1981 )

* 1981 – Maxwell Cabelino Andrade, Spanish footballer

* 1981 – Alessandro Gamberini, Italian footballer

* 1981 – Demetria McKinney, American actress

* 1981 – Vitantonio Liuzzi, Italian race car driver

* 1981 – Travie McCoy, American rapper and songwriter ( Gym Class Heroes )

* 1981 – Diána Póth, Hungarian figure skater

* 1981 – Jarvis Hayes, American basketball player

* 1981 – Li Jiawei, Singaporean table tennis player

* 1981 – Claire Dames, American porn actress

* Alex Colville, 1981 – 1991

* 1981 – Alex Lanipekun, British actor

* 1981 – Alex Rios, American baseball player

8½ inspired among others: Mickey One ( Arthur Penn, 1965 ), Alex in Wonderland ( Paul Mazursky, 1970 ), Beware of a Holy Whore ( Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1971 ), Day for Night ( François Truffaut, 1973 ), All That Jazz ( Bob Fosse, 1979 ), Stardust Memories ( Woody Allen, 1980 ), Sogni d ' oro ( Nanni Moretti, 1981 ), Parad Planet ( Vadim Abdrashitov, 1984 ), La Pelicula del rey ( Carlos Sorin, 1986 ), Living in Oblivion ( Tom DiCillo, 1995 ), 8½ Women ( Peter Greenaway, 1999 ), Falling Down ( Joel Schumacher, 1993 ), along with the successful Broadway musical, Nine ( Maury Yeston and Arthur Kopit, 1982 ).

* 1981 – Alex Band, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer ( The Calling )

* 1981 – Alex Auld, Canadian ice hockey player

* My: Roman, ( We: A Novel ) 1927 ( translations: Gregory Zilboorg, 1924 ; Bernard Guilbert Guerney, 1970, Mirra Ginsburg, 1972 ; Alex Miller, 1991 ; Clarence Brown, 1993 ; Natasha Randall, 2006 ; first Russian-language book publication 1952, U. S .)-Wir, TV film in 1981, dir.

Founded in March 1980 by Newkirk and fellow animal rights activist Alex Pacheco, the organization first caught the public's attention in the summer of 1981 during what became known as the Silver Spring monkeys case, a widely publicized dispute about experiments conducted on 17 macaque monkeys inside the Institute of Behavioral Research in Silver Spring, Maryland.

* Alex Vincent ( born 1981 ), known for his roles as a child actor in the Child's Play movies.

* Alex Lewis ( born 1981 ), football linebacker with the Detroit Lions.

* 1968 – 1981: Alex Pisciotta ( 1898 – 1985 )

Alex Koroknay-Palicz ( born July 2, 1981 ) is an American activist in Washington, D. C.

* Alex Rocco ... Charlie Polniaczek ( occasional, 1981 – 1988 )

Psychic TV was formed with the core membership of Genesis P-Orridge and Alex Fergusson in 1981.

In 1981 Alex Callinicos of the British Socialist Workers Party took issue with the RCP's argument that ' such issues as racism and Ireland form ... a vital component of revolutionary propaganda '.

* Tom Condon graduated from UB Law in 1981, sports agent, represents over 120 NFL players, including Peyton Manning, Matt Ryan, Tony Romo, Matt Leinart, Tim Couch, Marvin Harrison, LaDainian Tomlinson, Tony Gonzalez, Steve Hutchinson, Eli Manning, Drew Brees, Chad Pennington, Alex Smith, Marc Bulger, Chris Simms, Byron Leftwich, Mathias Kiwanuka, Brady Quinn, Jake Long, and Adrian Peterson.

A previous entry added 1980 UChicago: Lucy Li and Alex Richardson, but APDA was not founded until January of 1981, and the Chicago tournament of 1981 was recognized as the first APDA Nationals.

* Tetrarch, a 1981 fantasy novel by Alex Comfort

That includes players like Ron Washington ( 1977 ), Bob Welch ( 1977 ), Ron Roenicke ( 1978 – 1979 ), Mike Scioscia ( 1978 ), Dave Stewart ( 1978 ), Orel Hershiser ( 1980 – 1981, 1991 ), Fernando Valenzuela ( 1980 ), Steve Sax ( 1981 ), Sid Bream ( 1982 ), Sid Fernandez ( 1983 ), Franklin Stubbs ( 1983 ), Ramon Martinez ( 1988, 1996 ), John Wetteland ( 1988 ), Eric Karros ( 1990 ), Pedro Martinez ( 1991 ), Raul Mondesi ( 1991 – 1992 ), Eric Young ( 1991 ), Mike Piazza ( 1992 ), Henry Blanco ( 1993 – 1996 ), Todd Hollandsworth ( 1993 ), Chan Ho Park ( 1994 ), Miguel Cairo ( 1995 ), Paul LoDuca ( 1995, 1997 ), Paul Konerko ( 1996 ), Alex Cora ( 1997 ), Dennys Reyes ( 1997 ), Adrian Beltre ( 1998 ) and Eric Gagne ( 1999 ).

* Cyclone Alex ( 1981 ), stayed well out to sea and did not approach any land

From 1972 to 1981, he was co-host of Curling Classic, a television program on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation ( CBC ) that was earlier hosted by Alex Trebek.

The reburial was controversial ( Zimmerman and Alex 1981 ) and one of the largest ever to have occurred in the United States.