Irish poet Seamus Heaney's Casualty ( published in Field Work, 1981 ) criticizes Britain for the death of his friend.

Spader's first major film role was in 1981 as Brooke Shields ' brother in Endless Love, and his first starring role was in Tuff Turf alongside good friend Robert Downey, Jr.

The most notable of these was the sensational article co-authored by David Marr and David Hickie, headlined " Askin: friend of organised crime ", which was famously published on the day of Askin's funeral in 1981.

Linda Hartinian, a personal friend of Dick, adapted the novel to the stage and designed the set, in addition to portraying Mary Ann Dominic and reading Dick's 1981 " Tagore Letter " at the end of the play.

Miller's friend Emil White founded the nonprofit Henry Miller Memorial Library in Big Sur in 1981.

While some claim " The Tune " was inspired by Bill Gaither and Gloria Gaither's 1969 song " God Gave the Song ", Norman claims in a 1981 article in Contemporary Christian Music magazine: " Bill Gaither's music first came to my attention in 1973 when a friend played me ' God Gave the Song '.

" Een Vriend " (" A Friend ") and " Een Beetje Verliefd " (" A Little In Love )" were both top ten hits in 1981, produced by his best friend Tim Griek.

Hampton, eldest son of an attorney in Buffalo, moved to New York City in 1981 and stumbled upon his now-famous ruse in 1983, when he and a friend were trying to get into Studio 54.

Turner's teleplay for the TV movie Freedom ( 1981 ), was based on her daughter Carrie's experiences in the 1970s as a teen runaway, played by real-life family friend Mare Winningham.

In 1981, with his friend Daniel Filipacchi, he purchased Hachette magazines, which included the French TV Guide ( Tele 7 Jours ), and the then-struggling Elle magazine.

Nearing appears in the film Reds ( 1981 ), as one of the many documentary " witnesses ," telling stories of his friend John Reed and of the heady days leading up to the Russian Revolution.

In 1981, Humphrey married Max Brown, a friend from childhood.

In 1981, Swayze did a TV show, Return of the Rebels, about an aging motorcycle gang who get together to help a friend who owns a popular campground that is being threatened by a band of arrogant groupies.

The election of Brian Mulroney's government in 1984 brought a friend to Via, initially, when several of Mulroney's commitments included rescinding the Via cuts of 1981 by restoring the Super Continental ( under pressure from his western caucus ), and the Atlantic ( under pressure from his eastern caucus and the then-Saint John mayor Elsie Wayne ).

His friend Bernard Kouchner, co-founder of Médecins Sans Frontières ( MSF ), criticized him for " absolving the intolerable ," while Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger ( and archbishop of Paris from 1981 to 2005 ) publicly disavowed him.

He started to live in the United States in 1981, first at the home of mentor and friend, Wojtek Fibak.

Pell's former campaign manager and close friend Raymond Nels Nelson, himself an openly gay man, was brutally murdered in Washington D. C in 1981 in a still unsolved murder.

" 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.

* Daniel Pilon – Donn Moomaw, friend, pastor of Reagan who gave the invocation at the 1981 Inaugural

A first-rate communicator and a personal friend of Jean Gélamur, head of the Catholic media group Bayard Presse, Lustiger was particularly attentive to the media and developed Catholic radio and television channels ( Radio Notre-Dame ) after François Mitterrand's liberalization of French media in 1981.

Shonen Knife was formed in December 1981 in Osaka, Japan with sisters guitarist-vocalist Naoko Yamano and drummer Atsuko Yamano and their friend bassist Michie Nakatani.

" In 1981, he learned about an opening for a game programmer at Atari through a friend.

* John Forbes Kerry's first cousin and friend, Brice Lalonde, an environmentalist activist, is a French Green party politician who was a candidate in the French presidential election, 1981 and currently mayor of Saint-Briac-sur-Mer near the Forbes family estate in France.

On 5 May 1981, Margaret Reid was elected by a joint sitting of the Australian Parliament to fill a casual vacancy in the representation of the Australian Capital Territory in the Senate, following the sudden death of her close friend, Senator John Knight.

* 1981 – Daniel Gygax, Swiss footballer

* 1981 – Philadelphia Police Department officer Daniel Faulkner is killed during a routine traffic stop ; Mumia Abu-Jamal is later convicted for it and he goes on to become " perhaps the world's best known death-row inmate " before his sentence is commuted to life without parole in December 2011.

* The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul ( co-edited with Daniel Dennett ) ( ISBN 0-465-03091-2 and ISBN 0-553-01412-9 ) ( ISBN 0-553-34584-2 ) 1981

* 1981 – Daniel Letterle, American actor

* 1981 – Daniel Ortmeier, American baseball player

* 1981 – Daniel Cabrera, Dominican baseball player

* 1981 – Danny Brown ( Daniel Sewell ), American rapper

Mumia Abu-Jamal ( born Wesley Cook on April 24, 1954 ) is an American convict, serving a life sentence for the 1981 murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner.

* 1981 – Daniel Moreno, Spanish cyclist

Soon after the construction of the Monster in 1981, a proof, totaling more than 10, 000 pages, was supplied that group theorists had successfully listed all finite simple groups, with victory declared in 1983 by Daniel Gorenstein.

Daniel Ash had already started Tones on Tail with Bauhaus roadie Glen Campling as a side-project in 1981 ; after Bauhaus broke up Kevin Haskins joined the group, which released an album and several EPs before breaking up following a 1984 American tour.

Front 242 was created in 1981 in Aarschot, near Brussels, Belgium, by Daniel Bressanutti and Dirk Bergen, who wanted to create music and graphic design using emerging electronic tools.

* Ulla Musarra-Schrøder, Le Roman-mémories moderne: pour une typologie du récit à la première personne, précédé d ' un modèle narratologique et d ' une étude du roman-mémoires traditionnel de Daniel Defoe à Gottfried Keller, Amsterdam: APA, Holland University Press, 1981, ISBN 90-302-1236-5 ;

MOVE continues to advocate for the release of jailed MOVE sympathizer and former resident of Philadelphia, Mumia Abu-Jamal, convicted of the 1981 murder of police officer Daniel Faulkner.

* Daniel Ketchum ( born 1981 ), former American swimmer

* " Protest and Survive " by E. Thompson, Dan Smith, Introduction by Daniel Ellsberg, 1981 – Publisher: Monthly Review Press

* Cage, John, and Daniel Charles ( 1981 ).

Having performed together occasionally since 1981, in October, Keaggy, John Sferra and Daniel Pecchio reunited as Glass Harp for a concert in their hometown of Youngstown, Ohio at a sold out Powers Auditorium.

Marty Dieckmeyer was the bass guitar player for the Christian rock band Daniel Amos from 1974 to 1981.

Horrendous Disc is the title of the third studio album by the rock band Daniel Amos, that was recorded in 1978 and released in 1981 on Solid Rock Records.

is a 1981 album by rock band Daniel Amos, released on Newpax Records.

In 1975, Schneider married Daniel Biasini, her private secretary ; they separated in 1981.

A list of past honorary degree recipients, include: Beverly Sills ( 1975 ), Roy Lichtenstein ( 1977 ), Twyla Tharp ( 1978 ), Gordon Davidson ( 1980 ) Haskell Wexler ( 1981 ) Mischa Schneider ( 1981 ), Bella Lewitzky ( 1981 ), Henry Mancini ( 1983 ), Jan de Gaetani ( 1983 ), Ravi Shankar ( 1985 ), John Cage ( 1986 ), Frank O. Gehry ( 1987 ), Trisha Brown ( 1988 ), Donn B. Tatum ( 1989 ), Luis Valdez ( 1989 ), Paul Taylor ( 1989 ), Ornette Coleman ( 1990 ), Beatrice Manley ( 1990 ), Lulu May Von Hagen ( 1990 ), Ustad Ali Akbar Khan ( 1991 ), Pearl Primus ( 1991 ), Adrian Piper ( 1992 ), Ray Bradbury ( 1992 ), Yvonne Rainer ( 1993 ), Steven Bochco ( 1993 ), Stan Brakhage ( 1994 ), Vija Celmins ( 1994 ), Betye Saar ( 1995 ), Carolyn Forche ( 1995 ), Laurie Anderson ( 1996 ), Elvin Jones ( 1996 ), Chantal Akerman ( 1997 ), Lee Breuer ( 1998 ), Ed Ruscha ( 1999 ), Bill Viola ( 2000 ), Steve Reich ( 2000 ), Ry Cooder ( 2001 ), Faith Hubley ( 2001 ), Bruce Nauman ( 2001 ), Alice Coltrane ( 2002 ), Roy E. Disney ( 2003 ), Anna Halprin ( 2003 ), Carolee Schneemann ( 2003 ), Christian Wolff ( 2004 ), Daniel Nagrin ( 2004 ), James Newton ( 2005 ), Harrison “ Buzz ” Price ( 2005 ), Julius Shulman ( 2005 ), Rudy VanderLans ( 2006 ), Rudy Perez ( 2006 ), Alonzo King ( 2007 ), Harry Belafonte ( 2008 ), Herbert Blau ( 2008 ), Terry Riley ( 2008 ), Elizabeth LeCompte ( 2009 ), Morton Subotnick ( 2009 ), William M. Lowman ( 2010 ), Trimpin ( 2010 ), Annette Bening ( 2011 ), Donald McKayle ( 2011 ), and Peter Sellars ( 2012 ).