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

* 1912 – Russell Drysdale, Australian Artist ( d. 1981 )

* 1981 – Russell Lissack, English musician ( Bloc Party, Pin Me Down and Ash )

* Lord Russell of Liverpool: Bernadotte: Marshal of France & King of Sweden, 1981

This fact is sometimes thought to have severe consequences for the program of logicism proposed by Gottlob Frege and Bertrand Russell, which aimed to define the natural numbers in terms of logic ( Hellman 1981, p. 451 – 468 ).

* Henry Norris Russell Lectureship ( 1981 )

* The Shake Russell / Dana Cooper Band by The Shake Russell / Dana Cooper Band ‒ " Waitin ' Here For You " and " Goin ' Down Judah " ( 1981 )

* Walker, Dorothy, Louis le Brocquy ( Dublin: Ward River Press, 1981 ; London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1982 ), with contributions by John Russell ; Dorothy Walker ; Earnán O ’ Malley ; le Brocquy ‘ A Painter ’ s Notes on his Irishness ’, ‘ Notes on Painting and Awareness ’; Jacques Dupin ‘ The Paintings of 1964-1966 ’; Claude Esteban ‘ Archaeology of the Face: Images of Lorca ’; Seamus Heaney ‘ Louis le Brocquy ’ s heads ’.

In 1981, President Ronald Reagan in his speech before the Conservative Political Action Conference ( or " CPAC ") named Hazlitt as one of the " ntellectual leaders " ( along with Hayek, Mises, Friedman, Russell Kirk, James Burnham and Frank Meyer ) who had " shaped so much of our thoughts ..."

* 1981 Jim Kale, Brent DeJarlais, Dale Russell, Mike McKenna, Sonnie Bernardi ( Now & Not Then LP )

During 1980, the line-up of Hitchcock, Russell, Esler-Smith, Cooper, and Moyse was augmented by David Green on bass guitar, with Goh returning on lead guitar in 1981.

His best-known film acting roles are as Egon Spengler in Ghostbusters ( 1984 ) and Russell Ziskey in Stripes ( 1981 ), both of which he also co-wrote.

* Bertrand Russell and His World ( 1981 ) ISBN 0-500-13070-1

During Game 5 of the 1981 NBA Finals, while working as a CBS analyst, Barry made a controversial comment when CBS displayed an old photo of colleague Bill Russell, who is African-American, and Barry joked that " it looks like some fool over there with that big watermelon grin ".

Russell Drysdale ( 1912 – 1981 ), a painter of outback scenes, represented Australia at the Venice Biennale in 1954.

* December 20-Walter Russell Shaw, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island ( d. 1981 )

* Edward Lowbury, " A Ghazel ( for Pauline )" ( 1968 ); " Prometheus: a ghazel " ( 1976 ); " Remembering Nine ( a ghazel for Peter Russell )" ( 1981 )

Sir Alexander Russell Downer KBE ( 7 April 1910 – 30 March 1981 ), Australian politician and diplomat generally known as Alec or Alick.

* Philip Russell Rea, 2nd Baron Rea ( 1900 – 1981 )

Robert Russell Bennett ( June 15, 1894 – August 18, 1981 )

Russell authored two autobiographies, Victory in My Hands ( 1949 ) and The Best Years of My Life ( 1981 ).

He had a son, Russell Allen, who started his career at West Brom, before playing close to 300 league games at Tranmere Rovers and Mansfield Town between 1971 and 1981.

Clearwater city officials approached the Philadelphia Phillies as early as 1981 about locating a Phillies minor league affiliate at Jack Russell Stadium in Clearwater.

* Selected and New Poems, 1961-1981 ( Drawings by Russell Chatham ) ( 1981 )