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

The Evil Dead ( sometimes shortened to just Evil Dead, and originally titled Book of the Dead ) is a 1981 American horror film written and directed by Sam Raimi, starring Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, and Betsy Baker.

* 1981 – Sam Burley, American middle-distance track athlete

* 1924 – Sam Jones, American jazz bassist and cellist ( d. 1981 )

* 1981 – Sam Brown, American comedian

An example of such is the 1981 film The Evil Dead, which marked the directorial debut of Sam Raimi.

In the 1981 BBC radio serial of The Lord of the Rings, Sam was played by Bill Nighy.

He also played werewolf sheriff Sam Newfield in The Howling ( 1981 ).

Vandeweghe was traded to the Denver Nuggets, along with a first-round pick in 1981, in exchange for two future first-round picks that eventually materialized into Rolando Blackman in 1981 and Sam Perkins in 1984.

Sam & Dave were an American soul and rhythm and blues ( R & B ) duo who performed together from 1961 through 1981.

In 1981, they re-recorded many hits along with Sam Cooke and Otis Redding covers for LPs titled Soul Study Vol.

The Coen brothers first met Sam Raimi when Joel Coen worked as an assistant editor on Raimi's The Evil Dead ( 1981 ).

He was nominated for the 1981 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as athletics trainer Sam Mussabini in Chariots of Fire.

His portrayal of Sam Mussabini in Chariots of Fire ( 1981 ), earned him a special award at the Cannes Film Festival and an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

From 1981 – 1999, he joined Byron Nelson and Sam Snead in hitting a ceremonial tee shot before each Masters tournament.

As late as 1981, Sam Dann's scripts included nervous or skeptical references to " women's lib ", a term that was by then a decade out of date.

* Sam Nilsson, 1981 – 1999

# Sam S. Walker ( 1981 – 1988 )

The 1981 BBC The Lord of the Rings radio play has " The Scouring of the Shire " story included along with the Shire homeland taken over by ruffians, like the book Frodo, Sam, Merry, Pippin does rally up the Hobbits to fight against the ruffians in which the Hobbits won The Battle of Bywater and includes the original showdown and ending of Saruman who dies by Wormtongues knife and Wormtongue who gets killed by arrows in the Shire, also it tells about the murder of Lotho and Lobelia who gives Frodo and Sam back his home and money to help out the Hobbits and she later dies of old age.

An even more popular film from 1981, Sam Raimi's The Evil Dead, has actress Ellen Sandweiss ' character being attacked by the possessed woods she is walking in.

* Sam Jones ( musician ) ( 1924 – 1981 ), American bassist, cellist, and composer

* 1981 – Sam Moskowitz ( USA )

She guest starred on Sam Benedict and The Nurses before landing the role of actress-turned-Judge Clara " Carla " Hall on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live, a role she played from 1968 to 1981, and again from 1983 to 1985.