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

* Robert K. Massie, Peter the Great, His Life and World ( New York: Ballantine, 1981 ).

The first convincing synthesis was in 1981 by a German research team led by Peter Armbruster and Gottfried Münzenberg at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung ( Institute for Heavy Ion Research, GSI ) in Darmstadt using the Dubna reaction.

8½ inspired among others: Mickey One ( Arthur Penn, 1965 ), Alex in Wonderland ( Paul Mazursky, 1970 ), Beware of a Holy Whore ( Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1971 ), Day for Night ( François Truffaut, 1973 ), All That Jazz ( Bob Fosse, 1979 ), Stardust Memories ( Woody Allen, 1980 ), Sogni d ' oro ( Nanni Moretti, 1981 ), Parad Planet ( Vadim Abdrashitov, 1984 ), La Pelicula del rey ( Carlos Sorin, 1986 ), Living in Oblivion ( Tom DiCillo, 1995 ), 8½ Women ( Peter Greenaway, 1999 ), Falling Down ( Joel Schumacher, 1993 ), along with the successful Broadway musical, Nine ( Maury Yeston and Arthur Kopit, 1982 ).

The Gallipoli Campaign is the subject of the 1981 movie Gallipoli directed by Peter Weir and starring Mel Gibson.

* Peter Sterling, former rugby league player, 4-time premiership player ( 1981 – 83 and 1986 )

* Lord Peter Wimsey Cookbook ( 1981 ) by Elizabeth Bond Ryan and William J. Eakins ISBN 0-89919-032-4

In 1981 Avalon Hill made a board game on the topic titled The Peter Principle Game.

More recent usage was Peter Read's 1981 publication of The Stolen Generations: The Removal of Aboriginal children in New South Wales 1883 to 1969.

In 1981, he released a 45 rpm single, his first solo record (" I'm Not Your Steppin ' Stone " b / w " Higher And Higher ") and did some club performances and live television appearances, including taking part in a " Win A Date With Peter Tork " bit on Late Night with David Letterman.

* Brown, Peter, The Cult of the Saints ( London, 1981 )

In 1975 and 1976 he appeared in well-received pantomimes of Gulliver ’ s Travels ; in 1981 in Eric Idle ’ s Pass the Butler ; and in 1988 as Peter Tinniswood ’ s irascible Uncle Mort in Tales from a Long Room.

A year later, NBC acquired the rights to the show and chose Peter Marshall as host, a job he held for fifteen years until 1981.

Original Hollywood Squares host Peter Marshall was the center square for the week, marking the first time he had appeared on the program since 1981.

Burr co-starred in such TV films as Eischied: Only The Pretty Girls Die and Disaster On The Coastliner ( both 1979 ), The Curse of King Tut's Tomb and The Night the City Screamed ( both 1980 ), and Peter and Paul ( 1981 ).

His final film role was the 1981 adaptation of Peter Straub's novel Ghost Story.

* Macnair, Peter L .; Hoover, Alan L .; Neary, Kevin ( 1981 ) The Legacy – Continuing Traditions of Canadian Northwest Coast Indian Art

MetaComCo ( MCC ) was a computer systems software company started in 1981 and based in Bristol, England by Peter Mackeonis and Derek Budge.

* Peter Clemoes, Simon Keynes, Michael Lapidge, ( 1981 ) Anglo-Saxon England, Cambridge University Press.

* Yastrzemski Recalls His Most Memorable Games, by Peter Gammons, Baseball Digest, September 1981, Vol.

* 1981: Peter the Great: His Life and World by Robert K. Massie

* Red Skull appears in the 1981 Spider-Man animated series, voiced by Peter Cullen.

* Peter Villano, 1981 – 1985

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Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper, was questioned at Dewsbury Police Station and charged before magistrates in the courtroom of Dewsbury Town Hall after his arrest in January 1981.