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 – Li Jiawei, Singaporean table tennis player

* 1981 – Claire Dames, American porn actress

Williams expanded greatly with the success of Defender, but Jarvis left to found an independent game development firm called Vid Kidz with Larry DeMar in February 1981.

After four months of tag-team programming between DeMar and Jarvis, they produced Vid Kidz's first game: Stargate ( 1981 ), an enhanced sequel to Defender that they sold to Williams.

Jarvis James Hayes ( born August 9, 1981 ) is an American professional basketball player.

Eventually, Cookie Jarvis was phased out in favor of a new mascot, the Cookie Crook ( 1981 – 1997 ).

In 1981, it moved to Jarvis Collegiate Institute, became a separate entity in 1989, and adopted the name Le Collège français à Jarvis in 1992.

In computer telecommunication, the Hayes command set is a specific command-language originally developed for the Hayes Smartmodem 300 baud modem in 1981.

Hayes Communications introduced a solution in its 1981 Smartmodem by re-using the existing data pins with no modification.

Cannock's population continued to increase steadily in the 20th century and its slight fall since the 1981 census has been more than compensated for by house-building in the adjoining village of Heath Hayes.

* 1981 — Count Basie, Cary Grant, Helen Hayes, Jerome Robbins, and Rudolf Serkin

In 1981, McDonnell was elected to the Greater London Council ( GLC ) as a member for Hayes and Harlington.

After the NFL outlawed the use of such foreign substances in 1981, Hayes ' success rate at interceptions dropped below average though that could be do to his reputation as a " shutdown cornerback ", which discouraged opposing teams from throwing to his side of the field.

However, the collection returned to Sheffield in 1981, and was displayed at the Ruskin Gallery situated in the former Hayes Wine Store on Norfolk Street from 1985 to 2001.

** PWI Tag Team of the Year award in 1981 for Michael Hayes and Terry Gordy.

On June 8, 1981, Hayes was traded to the Houston Rockets.

Hayes played Mammy Yokum in both the Broadway and film versions of Li ' l Abner, appeared on the soap opera General Hospital as Robert Scorpio's mentor, " O ' Reilly " in 1981 and 1985, and did the voiceover for the character Mother Mae-Eye on the animated series Teen Titans and the character Granny Applecheeks in The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy.

A 1970 Harvey revival, starring James Stewart and Helen Hayes, was successful and ran for 79 performances while a 1981 musical adaptation of Harvey, entitled Say Hello to Harvey, failed after a six week run amid negative reviews in Toronto.

* Arthur Horace Sydney Hull ( C ): Hayes and Harlington December 15, 1977 – 1981

* John Martin McDonnell ( Lab ): Hayes and Harlington 1981 – August 2, 1984 and September 20, 1984 – March 31, 1986

* Thomas Hayes ( boxer ) ( born 1981 ), American heavyweight boxer