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 – Claire Dames, American porn actress

Her teacher of the guqin is mainly Li Xiangting of the Central Conservatory of Music since 1981.

Wang Fei started her guqin studies in 1981 with Prof. Li Xiangting, who soon regarded her as his most promising student out of his 300 or so students worldwide.

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.

* Li Xiaopeng ( gymnast ) ( born 1981 ), Olympic gymnast

* Peigen Li ( 李培根 ), HIT Class 1981, elected in 2003, President of HUST

The Li Chinese Dictionary ( 李氏中文字典, Li shi zhong wen zi dian ) was published and distributed in the West and in the People ’ s Republic of China in 1981.

His other works include The War in Northern Burma ( 1946 ), 1587, a Year of No Significance ( 1981 ) ( also published in Chinese as The Fifteenth Year of Wan Li /《 萬曆十五年 》, 1985 ), Broadening the Chinese Field of Vision ( in Chinese, 1988 ), Chinese Macrohistory ( 1988 ) ( in Chinese 1993 ), Conversations about Chinese History on the Banks of the Hudson River ( in Chinese 1989 ), Discussions of Here and There and Old and New ( in Chinese 1991 ), Capitalism and the Twenty First Century ( in Chinese 1991 ), From a Macrohistory Perspective in Reading Jiang Jieshi's Diary ( in Chinese 1993 ), Contemporary Chinese Outlets ( in Chinese 1994 ), The Affair of Wan Chong ( in Chinese 1998 ), Yellow River Qing Mountain: Record of Huang Renzi's Recollections ( in Chinese 2001 ), and Bianjing Unfinished Dreams.

* " Li ' l Red Riding Hood " / " Waiting For Your Number To Be Called " / " I Ain't Gonna Tell Ya " ( live ) ( June 1981, Albion ) # 59

Li joined the Bank of East Asia in 1969, becoming Chief Executive in 1981 and Chairman in 1997.

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.

In 1981, they married so that Li could remain in the United States while avoiding deportation.

* 1907 – Benjamin Henry Sheares, Singaporean politician, 2nd President of Singapore ( d. 1981 )

* Rui En ( born 1981 ), birth name Lu Rui En ( 卢瑞恩 ), Singaporean actress and singer

This system was invented in 1981 by Peter Tompkins, of Birkenhead, as a method of classifying the results of Cambridge colleges, and a table compiled by Tompkins on this basis was published on 28 August by The Times ( 28 Aug 1981, p. 10 ) alongside a table using the Norrington scoring system, which had been compiled by the Cambridge Evening News.

The Athletic made some headway in the 1981 – 82 season to mid table.

In 1981 – 82 United finished third in the First Division, to qualify for the UEFA Cup, though for much of the season they were one of several teams who topped the table before a late surge from Liverpool saw Bob Paisley's team seal the title.

Since 1981, a possession arrow on the scorer's table has dictated which team should possess the ball, with the arrow switching directions after each use.

The original notification ( see references ) is from 1973, but it was amended in 1981 when the jōyō kanji table was issued.

Despite starting the decade on a high as league champions in 1981 and European Cup winners in 1982, they had now declined to mid table mediocrity and the return of Gray was unable to turn things around as his arrival at Everton had done.

* Dawn of the Middle Ages ( 1981 ) -- coffee table book

Twintone was used on three shapes of tableware, many table accessories and a whole host of decorative ware right up to 1981.

Colon was relegated from the Metropolitana in 1981 having won only 6 games that season, although prior to this year the team had generally been in at least a mid table position.

It was created in 1981 by Peter Tompkins, then a third-year undergraduate mathematics student at Trinity College, who compiles it every year exclusively for the newspaper The Independent, and is not an official University of Cambridge table.

Radnički Niš was one of the most stable clubs in the former Yugoslavia ; the team spent a total of 29 seasons in the Yugoslav First League, achieved the 3rd place in 1980 and 1981, and finished under the Top 10 in the Yugoslav First League all-time table.

Raster Blaster is a 1981 computer pinball game for the Apple II resembling the classic Firepower table.

The below table compares 2001 census with the 1981 census.