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

* Michael Trostel ; "< u > Mount Clare, Being an Account of the Seat Built by Charles Carroll etc .</ u >"; Baltimore, 1981, Colonial Dames of Maryland.

* The 1981 BBC series The Borgias, starring Oliver Cotton as Cesare Borgia.

In 1981 a team of researchers from the Maison de l ' Orient et de la Méditerranée, including Jacques Cauvin and Oliver Aurenche divided Near East neolithic chronology into ten periods ( 0 to 9 ) based on social, economic and cultural characteristics.

* 1981 – Michael Oliver, American actor

Nielsen married four times: Monica Boyar ( 1950 – 1956 ), Alisande Ullman ( 1958 – 1973 ), Brooks Oliver ( 1981 – 1983 ) and Barbaree Earl ( 2001 – 2010 ).

* Williamson, Oliver E. ( 1981 ).

Under Reagan ( 1981 – 1989 ) the role of Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North, USMC, in the facilitation of funding to the Contras in Nicaragua, in explicit contravention of a United States Congressional ban, has been highlighted as an example of a " junior courtier's " ability to act, based on his position as a member of a large White House staff.

George Oliver Smith ( April 9, 1911-May 27, 1981 ) ( also known by the pseudonym Wesley Long ) was an American science fiction author.

The song is included in the BBC Radio 4 adaptation of The Lord of the Rings ( 1981 ), with music by Stephen Oliver.

The syndicated series ' orchestras were conducted by Bob Alberti ( 1974 – 1975 ), Tommy Oliver ( 1975 – 1978, 1984 – 1985 ), and Stan Worth ( 1978 – 1981 ).

The heir apparent is the present holder's son Oliver Henry Rufus Wallop, Viscount Lymington ( b. 1981 )

Oliver Letwin was a research Fellow from 1981 to 1982.

* 1977 – 1981 The Revd Rodney Oliver

Michael Oliver ( born October 10, 1981 ) is a former American child actor of the 1990s.

Oliver Robert Ocasek ( November 2, 1925 – June 25, 1999 ) was an American politician of the Democratic party who served as President of the Ohio State Senate from 1979 – 1981 and serving as Senator from Summit County and the Twenty Seventh District from 1959 until 1986.

Hostetler sat out the 1981 season, due to NCAA transfer rules, while Mountaineers ' quarterback Oliver Luck led the Mountaineers to an upset win against the University of Florida in the Peach Bowl.

* Oliver Koenig ( born 1981 ), German track and field athlete

As an actress her television work has included Three Sisters ( 1970 ), A Midsummer Night's Dream ( 1971 ), The Lady from the Sea ( 1974 ), Electra ( 1974 ), the villainess " Vanity Fair " in Dornford Yates ' She Fell Among Thieves ( 1977 ), Sons and Lovers ( 1981 ), Oliver Twist ( 1982 ), Smiley's People ( 1982 ), Titus Andronicus ( 1985 ), The Burston Rebellion ( 1985 ), A Better Class of Person ( 1985 ), Roman Holiday ( 1987 ), The Lost Language of Cranes ( 1991 ), Cold Comfort Farm ( 1995 ), Talking Heads ( 1998 ), Madame Bovary ( 2000 ), David Copperfield ( 2000 ), Wit ( 2001 ) and Bertie and Elizabeth ( 2002 ).

Oliver John Barkley ( born 28 November 1981 in Hammersmith ) is an English rugby union player who plays at fly-half or centre for Racing Metro and England.

Oliver Edward " Bo " Scaife, III ( born January 6, 1981 in Denver, Colorado ) is an American football tight end who is currently a Free Agent.

From 1981 he was also to star as Simon Peel in the Thames TV situation comedy Never the Twain, in which he played a snooty antiques dealer who had to live next door to Oliver Smallbridge ( played by Windsor Davies ), who also ran an antique shop.

The film was remade in 1981 by director Oliver Stone as The Hand.

* The Hand ( 1981 )-remake of The Beast with Five Fingers directed by Oliver Stone

In 1981 Scholefield ’ s novel Venom was made into a film starring Klaus Kinski, Nicol Williamson and Oliver Reed.

Oliver went to work for IPC Magazines Ltd, creating comic strips including Busters Master Mind ( 1980-1983 ), Cliff Hanger ( 1983-1987 ) and Vid Kid, as well as drawing The Champ in Whizzer and Chips from 1979 to 1981.