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 – Alex Suarez, American bassist ( Cobra Starship and This Is Ivy League )

* 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

He held this position until 1967, when he became professor of applied math and director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, until 1981 ; he also served as Cecil & Ida Green professor of education at MIT from 1974-1981.

Recent English verse translations include those by British Poet Laureate Cecil Day-Lewis ( 1963 ) which strove to render Virgil's original hexameter line, Allen Mandelbaum ( honoured by a 1973 National Book Award ), Library of Congress Poet Laureate Robert Fitzgerald ( 1981 ), Stanley Lombardo ( 2005 ), Robert Fagles ( 2006 ), and Sarah Ruden ( 2008 ).

U. S. Secretary of the Interior ( 1977 – 1981 ) Cecil D. Andrus removed the National Register from the jurisdiction of the National Park Service in 1978

The 1981 documentary film Imagine the Sound explores free jazz through interviews with and performances by Archie Shepp, Paul Bley, Cecil Taylor and Bill Dixon.

* The Ethics of Citizenship, University of Texas at Dallas, 1981, Andrew R. Cecil lectures on moral values in a free society featured Stockdale and other speakers.

* Cecil Parkinson 1981 – 1983

* John Cecil Holm ( 1904 – 1981 ), American dramatist

* Cecil Parkinson ( 1981 – 1983 )

Former Governor Cecil Andrus was the Secretary of the Interior under President Jimmy Carter, serving from 1977 to 1981.

Cecil Dale Andrus ( born August 25, 1931 ) was an American politician who served as Governor of Idaho from 1971 to 1977, and again from 1987 to 1995 ; and in Washington as United States Secretary of the Interior from 1977 to 1981, during the Carter administration.

* David George Brownlow Cecil, 6th Marquess of Exeter ( 1905 – 1981 )

Parker has recorded a large number of albums both solo or as a group leader, and has recorded or performed with Peter Brötzmann ( including Brötzmann's epochal Machine Gun in 1968 and Michael Nyman's " Waltz in F " ( 1981 )), John Stevens, Derek Bailey, Keith Rowe, Joe McPhee, Anthony Braxton, Cecil Taylor, John Zorn, Fred Frith, Bill Laswell, Ikue Mori, Cyro Baptista, Milford Graves, George Lewis, Tim Berne, Mark Dresser, Dave Holland, Sylvie Courvoisier, and many others.

He was one of four featured musicians in the Canadian documentary Imagine the Sound ( along with Cecil Taylor, Archie Shepp, and Paul Bley ), 1981.

Cecil Fielder was drafted by the Baltimore Orioles in the 31st round of the 1981 amateur draft, but did not sign.

* Henry Cecil – Le Moss ( 1979, 1980 ), Ardross ( 1981, 1982 ), Paean ( 1987 )

* Henry Cecil – Catalpa ( 1976 ), Strigida ( 1981 ), Queen Midas ( 1987 ), Alydaress ( 1989 ), Yashmak ( 1997 )

Zuken's older brother, William Ross ( Cecil Zuken ), was also an active Communist politician, and served as leader of the Communist Party in Manitoba from 1948 to 1981.

William Cecil Ross December 12, 1948 – 1981

William Cecil Ross ( May 11, 1911-June 4, 1998 ) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada, and the leader of that province's Communist Party from 1948 until his retirement in 1981.

David George Brownlow Cecil, 6th Marquess of Exeter KCMG ( 9 February 1905 – 22 October 1981 ), styled Lord Burghley before 1956 and also known as David Burghley, was an English athlete, sports official and Conservative Party politician.

* Robert Cecil Romer Maugham ( 1916 – 1981 ), 2nd Viscount.

In his book The Anglo-American Establishment: From Rhodes to Cliveden, written in 1949 but published posthumously in 1981, Quigley purports to trace the history of a secret society founded in 1891 by Cecil Rhodes and Alfred Milner.

Cecil Ralph " Tiny " Thompson ( May 31, 1903 – February 9, 1981 ) was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender.

Robert Cecil Romer Maugham, 2nd Viscount Maugham ( 17 May 1916 – 13 March 1981 ), known as Robin Maugham, was a British novelist, playwright and travel writer.