* 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.

* 1981 – Brian Vandborg, Danish cyclist

* 1981 – Brian Buscher, American baseball player

*" Why Pascal is Not My Favorite Programming Language " – By Brian Kernighan, AT & T Bell Labs, 2 April 1981

* 1981 – Brian Bannister, American baseball player

* The Ionian Mission, a 1981 historical novel by Patrick O ' Brian

* 1981 – Brian Joo, American-born Korean singer ( Fly to the Sky )

* 1981 – Brian Tevreden, Dutch footballer

* Mahan, Brian and L. Dale Richesin, The Challenge of Liberation Theology: A First World Response, 1981, Orbis Books, Maryknoll, New York.

* Brian Stock ( b. 1981 ), Welsh footballer

Paul Raymond's Erotica ( 1981 ) stars Brigitte Lahaie and Diana Cochran and was directed by Brian Smedley-Aston.

Rothery and keyboardist Brian Jelliman completed the first line-up ; the first gig with this line-up was at the Red Lion Pub in Bicester, Oxfordshire, on 14 March 1981.

* Brian Mathew, Christopher Grey-Wilson, Bulbs, ( ill. Marjorie Blamey ), Collins, 1981

After little further discussion of the issue in the 1970s, the 1980s saw the publication of three scholarly editions of The Shrew, all of which re-addressed the question in light of the by now general acceptance of Alexander's theory ; Brian Morris ' 1981 edition for the Arden Shakespeare, H. J.

With the board of directors consisting of Kevin and Brian Blume plus Gygax, Gygax was primarily a figurehead president and CEO of the corporation, with Brian Blume as president of creative affairs and Kevin Blume as president of operations, as of 1981.

During his time in the band, Byrne took on outside projects, collaborating with Brian Eno during 1979 and 1981 on the album My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, which attracted considerable critical acclaim due to its early use of analogue sampling and found sounds.

The Forest Lake City Marching Band, formed in 1981 by Forest Lake High School alumni Steve Hursh and Brian Tolzmann, and directed by long-time Forest Lake High School director Rollin Nelson, was a seven-time state, six time Midwest region and 1985 national champion open class band.

* Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire, Brian Masters, Hamish Hamilton, 1981.

Gene Palmer, Randle Walker ; 1971, Mike Buchanan, Lindsey Roberts ; 1972, Rueben Bussey, Bobby Price, Avery Downing ; 1973, Maurice Jones ; 1974, Coach Ben Pannel, Roy Green, Bobby Hunt, Stanley Lawrence ; 1975, James Brack, Bobby Mowrey, Jerry Malone ; 1976, Pres Young, Rex Scroggins, Dick Ford ; 1977, Robert Knight ; 1979, Jackie Walker, Gregg McNeal ; 1980, Windy Haggard, Syd Keasler, Zell Roberts, Wilber Ingram ; 1981, Kenny Rowe, Martin Luther King Jr, Danny Malone ; 1982, Jimmy Killion, Gene Grammer ; 1983, David Powell, Jerry Bunt ; 1984, Doug Floyd, Ken Jones ; 1985, Mike Trice, Scooter Taylor ; 1986, Brian Koechel, Bryon Lawrence ; 1987, Donald Taylor ; 1988, Jimmie Tallant ; 1989, Tommy Roberts ; 1990, Chris Shafer, Larry Gideon ; 1991, Randy Clark, Clifford Shaw ; 1992, Jimmy Lynn Grimes, Ricky Lawrence ; 1993, Linty Ingram ; 1995, Jeff Brownlee, Ron Gideon ; 1996, John Martin ; 1997, Rob Floyd ; 1998, Steve Green, Patrick Gill ; 1999, J. B. Rodgers ; 2000, Les Langley ; 2001, Rodney Flake ; 2002, Donnie Muckleroy

In 2007, Queen released a special edition of Queen Rock Montreal on Blu-ray and DVD formats containing their 1981 concert from The Forum in Montreal, Canada, and their complete Live Aid performance, along with Freddie Mercury and Brian May performing " Is This The World We Created ...?

* Blow Out, a 1981 film directed by Brian De Palma

* The 1981 NBC mini series, The Gangster Chronicles, the character of Michael Lasker, played by Brian Benben, was based on Lansky.

Paterson stayed with Rowland, who added Billy Adams ( guitar / banjo ), Seb Shelton ( drums, formerly of Secret Affair ), Micky Billingham ( keyboard ), Brian Maurice ( alto saxophone ), Paul Speare ( tenor saxophone ) and Steve Wynne ( bass ), releasing a handful of singles in 1980 and 1981, and adopting a new look that included hooded tops, boxing boots, and pony tails.

* In the 1981 film comedy Modern Problems, Nell Carter ( as voodoo maid Dorita ) makes a big tray of really nice looking Zombies for vacationing guests Chevy Chase, Patti D ' Arbanville, Mary Kay Place and Brian Doyle-Murray in the living room of their beach house getaway.