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

Sakamoto would later remix his song " Thousand Knives " using the Roland TR-808 drum machine as " 1000 Knives " for his band's album BGM ( 1981 ).

* 1981 – Roland TB-303 The Bass Line is a synthesizer with built-in sequencer manufactured from late 1981 to 1984.

* 1981 – Roland System-100M: Semiprofessional modular synthesizer, successor of System-100.

* 1981 – Roland Jupiter-8: Roland claims this synthesizer put them in the forefront of professional synthesizers.

Beginning with " The Deaths of Roland Barthes " in 1981, Derrida produced a series of texts on mourning and memory occasioned by the loss of his friends and colleagues, many of them new engagements with their work.

* 1981: Virginia Bergstrom ( vacated ), Philip Cadwallader, John Adams, Jay Howell, Patrick McGrady, Roland Stemmer, Marlene Hultman ( appointed 12 / 7 / 81 ), Susan Betz ( appointed 12 / 15 / 80 ), Royal Hawley ( appointed 12 / 15 / 80 )

Other early users of the TR-808 include Australian producer Mark Moffatt, with his studio project, the Monitors ( 1981 ), and Indian musician Charanjit Singh, who used it alongside a Roland TB-303 bass synthesizer to produce music resembling acid house in his 1982 album Synthesizing: Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat.

( 1978 ) with a quartet that included pianist Oscar Peterson, guitarist Joe Pass, bassist Ray Brown, and drummer Louis Bellson ; two Duke Ellington Songbook albums ( 1979 ); Send In The Clowns ( 1981 ) with the Count Basie orchestra playing arrangements primarily by Sammy Nestico ; and Crazy and Mixed Up ( 1982 ), another quartet album featuring Sir Roland Hanna, piano, Joe Pass, guitar, Andy Simpkins, bass, and Harold Jones, drums.

With the advent of polyphony, tuning problems became worse and costs went up, due to the much larger number of oscillators involved ( often 16 in an 8-voice instrument like the Yamaha CS80 from 1977 or Roland Jupiter-8 from 1981 ).

* Roland TB-303, a bass synthesizer manufactured from 1981 to 1984

* Anastasia Myskina ( born 1981 ), Russian tennis player, 2004 Roland Garros Champion

In 1981, Ōtomo began improvising in the first Japanese house club in Tokyo ( Jazu Kissa ), performing on guitar and also using tapes and synthesizer devices, like Roland drum machines.

* " Karl Richter 1921 – 1981, His Life & Work ", by Roland Wörner, from the DVD " Karl Richter in München 1951-1981, Part 1: Solisten • Konzerte • Tourneen ", by Johannes Martin, 2006, EAN 9783000192777

" Instead, in the spring of 1981 he bought a guitar, borrowed a four-track multitrack recorder from a friend in exchange for a case of beer, and spent his spring break week recording the Lungs EP in his living room, handling the guitar, bass, and vocals by himself and programming the Roland TR-606 to provide the drum sound.

The German saxophonist Roland Schaeffer also plays it, having studied from 1981 to 1985 with Karupaia Pillai.

* World Rally Championship ( co-driver ): Vice-champion of the world 1981 with Guy Fréquelin in Talbot Sunbeam Lotus, allowing the team to win the 1981 manufacturers ’ World Championship and the Prix Roland Peugeot of the French Académie des Sports for the outstanding French motors port achievement of the year.

* Gérard Roland ( footballer ) ( born 1981 ), French football player

More recent definitions were given by Roland Meighan (" A Sociology of Education ", 1981 ):

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The Jupiter-8, or JP-8, is an eight-voice polyphonic analog subtractive synthesizer introduced by Roland Corporation in early 1981.

The Manitoba Liberal Party saw its support decline to historic lows in the early 1980s, and Westbury was defeated by New Democrat Roland Penner by almost 2, 000 votes in the provincial election of 1981.