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

* 1981 – Murder of Adam Walsh: the head of John Walsh's son is found.

Under Walsh the 49ers won Super Bowl championships in 1981, 1984 and 1988.

The 1981 season saw Walsh lead the 49ers to a Super Bowl championship ; the team rose from the cellar to the top of the NFL in just two seasons.

* 1981 – 6 year old Adam Walsh, son of John Walsh is kidnapped in Hollywood, Florida and is found murdered two weeks later.

Due to creative differences over the lyrical direction of the next album, Walsh left in October 1981 to form a new band, Streets.

* 1981 – 1982-The killing of 7-year-old Adam Walsh ( 1981 ), and the disappearance of Johnny Gosch, a 12-year-old newspaper carrier from Des Moines, Iowa ( 1982 ), raise awareness of missing children cases in the United States.

" In 1981, William Walsh argued that " Among the major Odes [...] no one has questioned the place and supremacy of ' To Autumn ', in which we see wholly realized, powerfully embodied in art, the complete maturity so earnestly laboured at in Keats's life, so persuasively argued about in his letters.

Walsh had gained publicity after his six-year-old son, Adam Walsh, was kidnapped and murdered in 1981.

Adam John Walsh ( November 14, 1974 – July 27, 1981 ) was an American boy who was abducted from a Sears department store at the Hollywood Mall in Hollywood, Florida, on July 27, 1981, and later found murdered and decapitated.

Walsh is known for his anti-crime activism, which he became involved with following the murder of his son, Adam, in 1981 ; in 2008, the late serial killer Ottis Toole was named as the killer of Walsh's son.

In the summer of 1981, Walsh was a partner in a hotel management company in Hollywood, Florida.

Walsh lost his seat at the 1981 general election, but secured election on the Cultural and Educational Panel to Seanad Éireann.

During the 1981 season, Coach Walsh had Montana and Clark routinely practice the 20-yard end-zone throw after regular practice.

Amanda Walsh ( born October 3, 1981 ) is a Canadian actress and former VJ for the Canadian television station MuchMusic.

* Joe Walsh — June 6, 1981

In February 1981 the band flew to Australia but did not last long before dissolving, Morris beginning her solo career, Price joining Sardine v and then Models, with Backhouse becoming a session musician with artists including Renée Geyer, Joe Walsh, Jenny Morris, Dave Dobbyn, Tim Finn and Vince Jones.

Since relocating to Australia in 1981, Backhouse has sung and / or played guitar with Renée Geyer, Joe Walsh, Jenny Morris, Jackie Orszaszcky and many others, and has arranged and recorded backing vocals for Dave Dobbyn, Tim Finn, Vince Jones, Justine Clarke and the Umbrellas.

In 1981 Swain and St. James formed the synthpop outfit Q composed of St. James on guitars, Dan Van Patten and John Van Tongeren on vocoder and synthesizer, and Swain as assistant producer ( Van Patten and Keith Walsh had previously collaborated on Berlin's single The Metro ).

There Goes the Neighborhood is the fifth studio album by Joe Walsh, released in 1981.

On October 21, 1983, he confessed to the 1981 murder of 6-year-old Adam Walsh.