Allan Dwan ( April 3, 1885 – December 28, 1981 ) was a pioneering Canadian-born American motion picture director, producer and screenwriter.

* 1981 – Jonathon Dutton, Australian actor and director

* 1981 – C. C. Swiney, American actor, writer, and director

* Mojado Power ( 1981 ) director, writer, actor

* Adrian Hoven ( 1922 – 1981 ), Austrian actor, producer and film director

* 1981 – Amy Leach, British director

* 1981 – Norman Taurog, American director ( b. 1899 )

* Nikki Benz, a. k. a. for Alla Montchak ( b. 1981 ), Canadian actress and director

Schultz has also appeared in films including The Fan ( 1981 ), as Broadway Actress Lauren Bacall's director, and Fat Man and Little Boy ( 1989 ), as J. Robert Oppenheimer.

* 1899 – Norman Taurog, American film director ( d. 1981 )

An unfortunate episode in fanzine history occurred in 1981 when Star Wars director George Lucas threatened to sue fanzine publishers who distributed zines featuring the Star Wars characters in sexually explicit stories or art.

* 1981 – Blake Judd, American actor, director, and producer

* 1902 – William Wyler, French-American director ( d. 1981 )

* 1981 – Abe Forsythe, Australian actor and director

* 1981 – Steve Jocz, Canadian singer-songwriter, drummer, and director ( Sum 41 )

* 1975 et 1981: 13, rue de l ' amour ( Monsieur Chasse ), by Georges Feydeau, director Basil Langton, US and Australie

* 1889 – Abel Gance, French film director ( d. 1981 )

In 1981, Ze ' evi was appointed director of what was then the Israel Museum in Tel Aviv and got its name changed to the Eretz Israel Museum – the change having political connotations, given the associations with Eretz Israel.

* 1981 – Fariborz Kamkari, Iranian director and producer

She was married to Zaki Fateen Abdel-Wahab in 1981, the son of Fateen Abdel-Wahab ( film director ) and Leila Mourad ; this marriage lasted only five months.

He held this position until 1967, when he became professor of applied math and director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, until 1981 ; he also served as Cecil & Ida Green professor of education at MIT from 1974-1981.

In 1981, a couple of Winterstick team riders went to France at the invitation of Alain Gaimard, marketing director at Les Arcs.

Sondheim collaborated with producer / director Harold Prince on six musicals between 1970 and 1981.

* Writer / director Lucio Fulci's 1981 film The Black Cat is loosely based on Poe's tale.

** Robert Montgomery, American actor and director ( d. 1981 )

* 1913 – Paul Dean, American baseball player ( d. 1981 )

During Selig's tenure as club president, the Brewers participated in postseason play in 1981, when the team finished first in the American League East during the second half of the season, and in 1982, when the team made it to the World Series, under the leadership of future Hall of Famers Robin Yount and Paul Molitor.

8½ inspired among others: Mickey One ( Arthur Penn, 1965 ), Alex in Wonderland ( Paul Mazursky, 1970 ), Beware of a Holy Whore ( Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1971 ), Day for Night ( François Truffaut, 1973 ), All That Jazz ( Bob Fosse, 1979 ), Stardust Memories ( Woody Allen, 1980 ), Sogni d ' oro ( Nanni Moretti, 1981 ), Parad Planet ( Vadim Abdrashitov, 1984 ), La Pelicula del rey ( Carlos Sorin, 1986 ), Living in Oblivion ( Tom DiCillo, 1995 ), 8½ Women ( Peter Greenaway, 1999 ), Falling Down ( Joel Schumacher, 1993 ), along with the successful Broadway musical, Nine ( Maury Yeston and Arthur Kopit, 1982 ).

As a side note, writer Paul Krassner published a story in the February 1981 issue of High Times, relating how Groucho prepared for the LSD-themed movie by taking a dose of the drug in Krassner's company, and had a moving, largely pleasant experience.

* 1981 – Paul Hasleby, Australian footballer

* 2000 – Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981.

The first significant post-Led Zeppelin project was The Honeydrippers, formed in 1981 by Robert Plant and featuring Jimmy Page on lead guitar, along with studio musicians and friends of Plant and Page, including Jeff Beck, Paul Shaffer, and Nile Rodgers.

* Paul Mayo ( born 1981 ), English footballer

* Churchland, Paul ( 1981 ).

* 1981 – Paul Wall, American rapper ( Expensive Taste )

* 1981 – Mehmet Ali Ağca attempts to assassinate Pope John Paul II in St. Peter's Square in Rome.

Mehmet Ali Ağca (; born January 9, 1958 ) is a Turkish assassin who murdered left-wing journalist Abdi İpekçi on February 1, 1979 and later shot and wounded Pope John Paul II on May 13, 1981, after escaping from a Turkish prison.

After landing in Cologne, the hijackers demanded the release of Ağca, who at the time was serving a life sentence in Italy for trying to assassinate Pope John Paul II in 1981.

In November 2010, he publicly asserted that Cardinal Agostino Casaroli had been the man behind the assassination attempt on John Paul II in 1981.

* 1894 – Paul Green, American writer ( d. 1981 )

The 1981 recession is thought to have been caused by the tight-money policy adopted by Paul Volcker, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, before Ronald Reagan took office.

* Paul Carrack – keyboards ( 1978 – 1981 )

Hence philosopher Paul Ricœur's ( 1981 ) emphasis upon the need for a " decolonization of memory ", because mentality, itself, has been colonised in the " Age of imperialism ".

According to Paul Krugman, " Over all, the 1982 tax increase undid about a third of the 1981 cut ; as a share of G. D. P., the increase was substantially larger than Mr. Clinton's 1993 tax increase.

It was established by Pope John Paul II on May 9, 1981 with the Motu Proprio Familia a Deo Instituta and substituted for the Committee for the Family of Pope Paul VI, which had been established in 1973.

* 1981 – Paul McCoy, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( 12 Stones )

Routledge & Kegan Paul, parallel edition including the German text on the facing page to the English text: 1981 printing: ISBN 0-415-05186-X, 1999 Dover reprint

* Paul Cohn, Universal Algebra ( 1981 ), D. Reidel Publishing, Holland.

* March 17 – Paul Green, novelist and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright ( d. 1981 )