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

Grant then made a few more albums before dropping out of college to pursue a career in music — Never Alone, followed by a pair of live albums in 1981 ( In Concert and In Concert Volume Two ), both backed by an augmented edition of the DeGarmo & Key band.

* Skarda, Patricia L., and Jaffe, Norma Crow ( 1981 ) Evil Image: Two Centuries of Gothic Short Fiction and Poetry.

* Fourth Drawer Down ( Situation Two, 1981 )

* " Tell Me Easter's on Friday " ( Situation Two, 1981 )

* " Q Quarters " ( Situation Two, 1981 )

* " Kitchen Person " ( Situation Two, 1981 )

* " Message Oblique Speech " ( Situation Two, 1981 )

* " White Car in Germany " ( Situation Two, 1981 )

The Deep Cameo versions of proofs from 1965 to 1971 and 1981 Type Two are highly valued because of their scarcity, high grade examples of quarters from certain years of the 1980s ( such as 1981 – 1987 ) because of scarcity in high grades due to high circulation and in 1982 and 1983 no mint sets were produced making it harder to find mint state examples, and any coin from 1981 – 1994 graded in MS67 is worth upwards of $ 1000.

In 1981, John Barton followed the 1957 Old Vic model and directed a heavily edited version of the play as a double bill with The Two Gentlemen of Verona for the RSC, starring Patrick Stewart as Titus, Sheila Hancock as Tamora, Hugh Quarshie as Aaron and Leonie Mellinger as Lavinia.

Blackwork and Holbein Embroidery: Book Two, Self-Published ; Second edition 1981.

She also starred in several stage plays, including a play called It Had to be You at a dinner theater in Canada, Particular Friendships in New York in 1981, and Two for the Seesaw, directed by Burt Reynolds.

The project was completed in 1981 with the recordings of Burlesque Variations on an Original Theme, and Two Herrick Songs, Requiem for the Rose and The Hag.

Two scores in the 80s against India, one against Sri Lanka and two 70s against Pakistan over the winter of 1981 / 82 kept in him contention for an international place, however centuries were lacking in his game.

) Henry VI, Part Two ( The New Penguin Shakespeare ; London: Penguin, 1981 )

Two albums, released in 1981 ; We'll Bring the House Down and Till Deaf Do Us Part adopted a hard rock and heavy metal sound, as a result of the band's revival amongst heavy metal fans, following their success at the Reading Festival.

* Two Orders of Lenin ( 22 June 1963 and 6 May 1981 )-for making progress on the development and strengthening of ties with the progressive community and peace-loving forces of foreign countries

Two years later in September 1981 Lewis produced a sequel benefit show The Secret Policeman's Other Ball that featured similar performances by other rock performers including Sting, Phil Collins and Bob Geldof.

* Mad as Hell / Two Real ( 1981 )

Two years later she was elected to the Dáil at the 1981 general election for Dublin South – West.

Two highly significant events in modern history occurred in the Calendar area ; the murders committed by the Yorkshire Ripper ( 1975 – 1981 ) and the Miners ' Strike ( 1984 – 1985 ).

Two Golden Domes were erected between 1980 and 1981 and are used for daily group practice of the Transcendental Meditation and the TM-Sidhi program and have been called " particle accelerators of consciousness " by the university's founder.