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

* 1981 – Stephen Hunt, Irish footballer

* Toulmin, Stephen ( 1981 ).

Stephen KingKing dedicated Bachman's early books — Rage ( 1977 ), The Long Walk ( 1979 ), Roadwork ( 1981 ), and The Running Man ( 1982 ) — to people close to him, and worked in obscure references to his own identity.

The Mismeasure of Man is a book by Harvard evolutionary biologist, paleontologist, and historian of science Stephen Jay Gould, published in 1981.

* 1981 — Robert Kirshner, August Oemler, Paul Schechter, and Stephen Shectman find evidence for a giant void in Boötes with a diameter of approximately 100 million light years,

* Pippin ( musical ), the title of a Broadway musical by Stephen Schwartz ; or the 1981 film adaptation of the musical

* 1981: Edward J. Zagorski: Teacher's Manual: Novels of Stephen King

* Stephen Hunt-association football player, was born in Portlaoise in 1981.

*( 1981 ) Titans as Stephen Leacock

In Stephen King's novel Roadwork, published in 1981, the protagonist's house is purchased to make way for a road extension.

Stephen Moore released two pop singles — Marvin / Metal Man and Reasons to Be Miserable / Marvin I Love You ( double B-side )— in the UK in 1981, though neither reached the top 40.

In 1981, the play was adapted as a musical of the same name with a book by George Furth and lyrics and music by Stephen Sondheim.

* Stephen Maguire ( born 1981 ), British snooker player

The first was an abridged edition, recorded in 1981 by Stephen Moore, best known for playing the voice of Marvin the Paranoid Android in the radio series, LP adaptations and in the TV series.

* Stephen George – drums ( 1981 – 1985 )

Cujo ( 1981 ) is a psychological horror novel by Stephen King about a dog named Cujo.

A passionate appeal by Stephen Maxwell failed to get a motion critical of private industry passed at the 1981 conference, but conference did vote by a big majority for a motion calling for " a real Scottish resistance " including " political strikes and civil disobedience on a mass scale " after a speech by Sillars.

* Stephen Fox, John Muir and His Legacy: The American Conservation Movement ( Boston: Little, Brown, 1981 ) ISBN 0-316-29110-2

Broadbent has worked with Stephen Frears ( for television and in The Hit ( 1984 )) and Terry Gilliam ( in Time Bandits ( 1981 ) and Brazil ( 1985 )) before establishing himself in Mike Leigh's Life Is Sweet ( 1990 ).

Stephen Fry graduated from Queens ' in 1981 and is an honorary fellow.

Despite creating a number of hugely popular musicals in the late 1970s and 1980s such as The Phantom of the Opera, Sweeney Todd, and Evita, Prince had his first artistic failure with Stephen Sondheim in 1981 with Merrily We Roll Along.

* Fox, Stephen, John Muir and His Legacy: The American Conservation Movement ( Boston: Little, Brown, 1981 ).

As part of the Cambridge Footlights Revue 1981, " The Cellar Tapes ", Stephen Fry performed a monologue named " The Letter " in which a character named Melchett is mentioned.

* Moving Pictures ( originally Glasshouses ), a 1981 play by Stephen Lowe