* In the 1981 British fantasy film Time Bandits, Agamemnon is played by Sean Connery.

* 1940 – Mike Hailwood, British motorcycle racer ( d. 1981 )

* 1981 – Amy Leach, British director

* 1981 – James Hibberd, British cricketer

* 1981 – Alex Lanipekun, British actor

* 1981 – Kit Lambert, British record producer and manager ( b. 1935 )

Chariots of Fire is a 1981 British historical drama film.

* In 1981, Attlee again entered British popular culture as one of the famous English people taunted by name in Bjørge Lillelien's legendary commentary immediately after Norway defeated England in a FIFA World Cup qualifier.

It was declared a British colony and given the name British Honduras in 1871, gaining independence as Belize in 1981.

Rick Dees, at the time a radio DJ in Memphis, Tennessee, recorded " Disco Duck " ( 1976 ) and " Dis-Gorilla " ( 1977 ); Frank Zappa parodied the lifestyles of disco dancers in " Dancin ' Fool " on his 1979 Sheik Yerbouti album, and " Disco Boy " on his 1976 Zoot Allures album ; and " Weird Al " Yankovic's 1981 eponymous debut album includes a disco song called " Gotta Boogie ", an extended pun on the similarity of the disco subgenre name " boogie " to the American slang word " booger " and its British counterpart " bogey ".

* 1981 – Michelle Dockery, British actress

Notable violations of embassy extraterritoriality include repeated invasions of the British Embassy, Beijing ( 1967 ), the Iran hostage crisis ( 1979 – 1981 ), the Japanese embassy hostage crisis at the ambassador's residence in Lima, Peru ( 1996 ), the overrunning of the Israeli Embassy in Cairo, Egypt ( 2011 ).

* Vuilleumier, François, Mary LeCroy & Ernst Mayr ( 1992 ) New species of birds described from 1981 to 1990 Bulletin of the British Ornithologists ' Club Vol.

British special effects technicians and production designers are known for creating visual effects at a far lower cost than their counterparts in the US, as seen in Time Bandits ( 1981 ) and Brazil ( 1985 ).

Pioneers such as Horace Ové had been working in 1970s ( Pressure, 1975, funded by the British Film Institute ), but the 1980s saw a wave of new talent, with films like Babylon ( 1980 ), Burning an Illusion ( 1981 ), Majdhar ( 1985 ) and Ping Pong ( 1986-one of the first films about Britain's Chinese community ).

* 1981 – Jay Howard, British racing driver

* Robin Wood, Howard Hawks, British Film Institute, 1981, revised with addition of chapter " Retrospect ".

* Sir John Ford ( born 1922 ), British Foreign Office official who served in Canada from 1978 to 1981 ( List of High Commissioners from the United Kingdom to Canada )

The film won the 1981 British Academy of Film and Television Arts ( Film ) Best Screenplay Award, as well as the 1980 Writers Guild of America Award ( Screen ) for Best Comedy Adapted from Another Medium.

* 1981 – British television: on Coronation Street, Ken Barlow marries Deirdre Langton, which proves to be a national event scoring massive viewer numbers for the show.

This huge success of the Krugerrand encouraged other gold-producing countries to mint and issue gold bullion coins of their own, including the Canadian Gold Maple Leaf in 1979, the Australian Nugget in 1981, the Chinese Gold Panda in 1982, the American Gold Eagle in 1986, and the British Britannia coin in 1987.

Some, primarily producing telephone bills, were still in commercial use with GPO Telephones, forerunner of British Telecom, until 1981, which remained usable through parts cannibalised from redundant LEOs purchased by the GPO.

* 2009 – Jade Goody, British reality show contestant on Big Brother ( b. 1981 )

In 1981, Smith and Griff Rhys Jones founded TalkBack Productions, a company that has produced many of the most significant British comedy shows of the past two decades, including Smack the Pony, Da Ali G Show, I'm Alan Partridge and Big Train.

Upon assuming office in 1981, U. S. President Ronald Reagan condemned the FSLN for joining with Cuba in supporting Marxist revolutionary movements in other Latin American countries such as El Salvador.

The May 1981 election was presented as a clash of ideologies by the Conservatives-Thatcherism against a ' tax high, spend high ' Marxist Labour group, claiming that Andrew McIntosh would be deposed by Ken Livingstone after the election.

In December 1981, he was kidnapped by the leftist Italian Red Brigades Marxist terrorist group.

The greatest challenge to Sir Dawda ’ s rule ( other than the coup that ended his power in 1994 ) was a putsch in 1981, headed by a disgruntled ex-politician turned Marxist, Kukoi Samba Sanyang, and some members of the Field Force ( Saine, 1989 ).

In August 1981, the Marxist historian Ariel Hidalgo was apprehended and accused of ‘ incitement against the social order, international solidarity and the Socialist State ’ and sentenced to eight years ’ imprisonment.

Paul Mattick Sr. ( 13 March 1904 – 7 February 1981 ) was a Marxist political writer and social revolutionary, whose thought can be placed within the council communist and left communist traditions.

After the Marxist historian's E. P. Thompson planned Dimbleby Lecture on the Cold War was cancelled in 1981, Barnett asked whether he ( Thompson ) saw:

Marilyn Jean Buck ( December 13, 1947 – August 3, 2010 ) was an American Marxist revolutionary, convict, and feminist poet, who was imprisoned for her participation in the 1979 prison escape of Assata Shakur, the 1981 Brinks robbery and the 1983 U. S. Senate bombing.

* The Crisis in Historical Materialism: Class, Politics, and Culture in Marxist Theory ( 1981 )

The terms were coined in a 1981 essay by the British Marxist historian Timothy Mason.

Led by Nidoïsh Naisseline, a Marxist, it also refused to support Rock Pidjot of the Caledonian Union in the 1981 elections.

He served as press secretary for Marxist Prime Minister Maurice Bishop from 1981 – 1983, until a Bishop power-sharing dispute led to fighting and Bishop's death.

Marxist feminists, ( Rafter & Natalizia 1981, MacKinnon 1982 & 1983 ) however, hold that such patriarchal structures are emergent from the class producing inequalities inherent in capitalist means of production.

* 1895 – Andreas Alföldi, Hungarian historian and archaeologist ( d. 1981 )

* 1981 – Fawn M. Brodie, American historian ( b. 1915 )

* 1981 – Eric Williams, Caribbean historian, first Prime Minister of Trinidad & Tobago ( b. 1911 )

* 1903 – Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi, Pakistani historian and educationist ( d. 1981 )

" According to historian and domestic policy adviser Bruce Bartlett, Reagan's tax increases over the course of his presidency took back half of the 1981 tax cut.

* 1915 – Fawn M. Brodie, American biographer and historian ( d. 1981 )

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

* In 1981 Derrida, on the prompting of Roger Scruton and others, founded the French Jan Hus association with structuralist historian Jean-Pierre Vernant.

* Lyudmila Zhivkova ( 1942 – 1981 ), art historian and politician

He had received them from historian Michel Bergès, who had discovered them in February 1981 in the departmental archives.

* Aviation author and historian Michael B. McComb attended Kingman High School ( 1981 – 1985 ) in Kingman.

Among the major writers of the period were Guo Moruo ( 郭沫若 ) ( 1892 – 1978 ), a poet, historian, essayist, and critic ; Mao Dun ( 茅盾 ) ( 1896 – 1981 ), the first of the novelists to emerge from the " League of Left-Wing Writers " and one whose work reflected the revolutionary struggle and disillusionment of the late 1920s ; satirist and novelist Lao She ( 老舍 ) ( 1899 – 1966 ); and Ba Jin ( 巴金 ) ( 1904 – 2005 ), a novelist whose work was influenced by Ivan Turgenev and other Russian writers.

* Ariel Durant ( 1898 – 1981 ), historian, Pulitzer Prize in literature

* Will Durant ( 1885 – 1981 ), historian, Pulitzer Prize in literature

ln a prize-winning work published in 1981 the historian J. W. Burrow remarked of Froude that he was a leading promoter of the imperialist excitement of the closing years of the century, but that in the mass of his work even empire took second place to religion.

The film was restored in 1981 after twenty years ' work by silent film historian Kevin Brownlow.

Tursun Rakhimov, a Uyghur historian for the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during the Sino-Soviet split, argued in his 1981 book " Fate of the Non-Han Peoples of the PRC " that " both " East Turkestan and Dzungaria were conquered by China and " renamed " Xinjiang.

An amateur historian, Augstein published several successful books, among them Preußens Friedrich und die Deutschen ( 1981, ISBN 3-89190-106-2 ), Otto von Bismarck ( 1990, ISBN 3-445-06012-6 ), and, about his lifetime opponent, Überlebensgroß Herr Strauß.

In the 1980s, Lavender expanded his focus as an historian, writing about the Pacific Northwest in Fort Vancouver ( 1981 ), Wyoming in Fort Laramie ( 1984 ), Utah and Arizona in Colorado River Country ( 1982 ) and River Runners of the Grand Canyon ( 1985 ), California in California: A Place, a People, a Dream ( 1986 ) and California: Land of New Beginnings ( 1987 ), and Colorado in The Telluride Story ( 1987 ).

* Kwiatkowski, T., " Jan Łukasiewicz – A historian of logic ", Organon 16 – 17 ( 1980 – 1981 ), 169 – 188.

Espionage historian Chapman Pincher obtained a copy of the letter, and used former MI5 officers Peter Wright and Arthur Martin as his main additional secret sources, to write the sensational book Their Trade is Treachery in 1981.

He was succeeded by writer and historian Alistair Moffat, who left in 1981 to become Head of Arts at Scottish Television.

Soon after Packer's 1981 speech, Mormon historian D. Michael Quinn gave a speech highly critical of Packer's views, and suggested that a historian who followed Packer's advice would sacrifice their honesty and professional integrity.

* Will Durant ( 1885 – 1981 ), American philosopher, historian and author, husband of Ariel Durant