In the year 1981, Iran releases the 52 Americans held for 444 days, ending the Iran hostage crisis (Jan 20), the first London Marathon starts with 7500 runners (Mar 29), President Reagan survives the assassination in Washington D.C. (Mar 30), Space Shuttle Columbia returns to Earth, the first time for a manned reusable spacecraft to do so (Apr 14), the first game of paintball is played in Henniker, NH (Jun 27), Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer get married in London (Jul 29), France abolishes capital punishment (Sep 18), the Egyptian president Anwar Sadat is assassinated in Cairo (Oct 6), Muhammad Ali boxes for the last time (Dec 11) - and all these fine people were born:
1981-xxxx Saroo Brierley* (b Sheru Munshi Khan) Australian adoptee/ businessman - Ganesh Talai, Madhya Pradesh, India
1981-0101 Jonas Armstrong* actor - Dublin, Ireland
1981-0102
1981-0105 Brooklyn Sudano* actress/ director/daughter of Donna Summer - Los Angeles, CA USA
1981-0106 Betty Gabriel* actress - Washington, D.C. USA
1981-0110 Jared Kushner* investor/ publisher/advisor - Livingston, NJ USA
1981-0112 Niklas Kronwall* hockey player/3GC - Stockholm, Sweden
1981-0115 Dylan Armstrong* athlete (shot put)/OB - Kamloops, BC Canada
1981-0118 Antje Traue* actress - Mittweida, East Germany
1981-0119 Elizabeth Tulloch* actress - San Diego, CA USA
1981-0120
1981-0121 Dany Heatley* hockey player/OG - Freiburg, Germany
1981-0121 David F. Sandberg* filmmaker - Jönköping, Sweden
1981-0122 O. T. Fagbenle* actor/writer/director - London, England
1981-0122 Beverley Mitchell* actress/country singer - Arcadia, CA USA
1981-0124 Carrie Coon* actress - Copley, OH USA
1981-0128 Elijah Wood* actor - Cedar Rapids, Iowa USA
1981-0129 Tenoch Huerta* actor - Ecatepec, Mexico
1981-0131 Justin Timberlake* singer/actor/dancer - Memphis, TN USA
1981-0201 Lauri Mikkola* hockey coach - Oulu, Finland
1981-0202
1981-0204 Paulien van Deutekom* speed skater/WC - The Hague, Netherlands (2019/37)
1981-0209 Tom Hiddleston* actor - Westminster, London, England
1981-0210 Uzo Aduba* actress - Boston, MA USA
1981-0211 Kelly Rowland* singer/ songwriter/actress - Atlanta, GA USA
1981-0213 Liam Miller* football player - Cork, Ireland (2018/36)
1981-0214 Luke Jacobz* actor/television presenter - Sydney, NSW Australia
1981-0215 Jenna Morasca* Survivor S6 Contestant - Pittsburgh, PA USA
1981-0216 Jenny Kallur* Swedish hurdler/EG - Huntington, NY USA
1981-0216 Susanna Kallur* Swedish hurdler/EG - Huntington, NY USA
1981-0217 Joseph Gordon-Levitt* actor - Los Angeles, CA USA
1981-0220 Adrian Lamo* hacker/ threat analyst - Boston, MA USA (2018/37)
1981-0224 Lleyton Hewitt* tennis player - Adelaide, Australia
1981-0302 Bryce Dallas Howard* actress/director/daughter of Ron Howard - Los Angeles, CA USA
1981-0307 Brent Kite* rugby player/of Tongan descent - Queanbeyan, NSW Australia
1981-0311 David Anders* actor - Grants Pass, OR USA
1981-0311 Matthias Schweighöfer* actor/film director/producer - Anklam, East Germany
1981-0313 Sami Hedberg* stand-up comedian - Helsinki, Finland
1981-0315 Mikael Forssell* Finnish football player - Steinfurt, West Germany
1981-0316 Alma Pöysti* actor/film director/grandddaugher of Lasse Pöysti - Helsinki, Finland
1981-0320 Mahara McKay* Swiss model/Tantra yoga teacher/to Switzerland at age 10 - Auckland, New Zealand
1981-0324 Ron Hainsey* hockey player/SC - Bolton, CT USA
1981-0324 Philip Winchester* actor - Belgrade, MT USA
1981-0326 Floriana Lima* actress - Cincinnati, OH USA
1981-0327 John Kristian Dahl* cross-country skier (Vasaloppet) - Kirkenes, Norway
1981-0327 Jukka Keskisalo* athlete/runner/EC - Varkaus, Finland
1981-0328 Julia Stiles* actress - New York, NY USA
1981-0330 Jon DiSalvatore* hockey player - Bangor, ME USA
1981-0401
1981-0402 Amber Gray* actress/ singer/military brat - Fort Belvoir, VA USA
1981-0402 Kapil Sharma* stand-up comedian/actor/producer - Amritsar, Punjab, India
1981-0405 Tom Riley* actor - Maidstone, Kent, England
1981-0405 Eugenio Siller* model/ actor/singer - Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico
1981-0407 Alex Lanipekun* actor/w Nigerian heritage - London, England
1981-0409 Moran Atias* Israeli-American actress - Haifa, Israel
1981-0409 Eric Harris* mass murderer (Columbine High School massacre ) - Wichita, KS USA (1999/18)
1981-0410
1981-0417 Hanna Pakarinen* singer - Lappeenranta, Finland
1981-0419 Hayden Christensen* actor/producer - Vancouver, BC Canada
1981-0420
1981-0425 Laura Birn* actress - Helsinki, Finland
1981-0426 Michael Dorman* actor - Auckland, New Zealand
1981-0428 Jessica Alba* actress - Pomona, CA USA
1981-0430
1981-0501 Alexander Hleb* football player - Minsk, Belorus, Soviet Union
1981-0505 Sami Jauhojärvi* cross-country skier/OGr - Ylitornio, Finland
1981-0508 Jodie Connor* recording artist/lyricist/goodwill ambassador - Oldham, England
1981-0510 Nicky Whelan* model/ actress - Cranbourne, VIC Australia
1981-0511 Daisuke Matsui* 松井 大輔 football player - Kyoto, Japan
1981-0512 Rami Malek* actor - Los Angeles, CA USA
1981-0512 Sami Malek* actor - Los Angeles, CA USA
1981-0513
1981-0515
1981-0520 Iker Casillas* football goalie - Madrid, Spain
1981-0520 Ottessa Moshfegh* author/ novelist - Boston, MA USA
1981-0525
1981-0526 Anthony Ervin* swimmer/OG - Santa Clarita, CA USA
1981-0529 Justin Chon* actor/ filmmaker - Garden Grove, CA USA
1981-0531
1981-0601 Amy Schumer* stand-up comedian - Manhattan, NY USA
1981-0604 Carly Hunt* football player - England
1981-0604 T. J. Miller* actor/comedian/writer - Denver, CO USA
1981-0605
1981-0606 Ali Jahangiri* Iranian-Finnish stand-up comedian/media presenter - Tehran, Iran
1981-0607 Anna Kournikova* tennis player - Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union
1981-0608 Ashley Biden* social worker/fashion designer/daughter of Joe Biden - Wilmington, DE USA
1981-0608 El Amin Chentouf* Paralympic athlete (marathon&5000m)/OG - Morocco
1981-0608 Rachel Held Evans* columnist/blogger - Birmingham, AL USA (2019/37)
1981-0609Natalie Portman* actress - Jerusalem, Israel
1981-0611 Dan “Uniikki” Tolppanen* artist/ nephew of Ben Zyskowicz - Helsinki, Finland
1981-0613 Chris Evans* actor - Boston, MA USA
1981-0616 Kevin Bieksa* hockey player/Hockey Night in Canada host - Grimsby, ON Canada
1981-0617 Matt Hendricks* hockey player - Blaine, MN USA
1981-0620
1981-0623 Jodie Swallow* swimmer/triathlete - Brentwood, Essex, England
1981-0624 Vanessa Ray* actress - Livermore, CA USA
1981-0625 Simon Ammann* ski jumper/OG - Grabs, Switzerland
1981-0630 Barbora Spotaková* athlete (javelin/OG) - Jablonec nad Nisou, Czechoslovakia
1981-0701
1981-0703 Justin Torkildsen* actor - Boulder, CO USA
1981-0705
1981-0710
1981-0712 Abigail Spears* tennis player - San Diego, CA USA
1981-0714 Emily Kagan* mixed martial artist - Bangor, ME USA
1981-0715 Taylor Kinney* model/ actor - Lancaster, PA USA
1981-0715 Oksana Zubkovska* Paralympic athlete (long jump)/OG - Mena, Ukraine, Soviet Union
1981-0718 Michiel Huisman* actor - Amstelsveen, Netherlands
1971-0719 Elsa Saisio* actress/ daughter of Pirkko Saisio - Helsinki, Finland
1981-0722 Clive Standen* actor - Holywood, County Down, Northern Ireland
1981-0723 Jarkko Nieminen* tennis player - Masku, Finland
1981-0729 Fernando Alonso* racing driver/WC - Oviedo, Asturias, Spain
1981-0730 Hope Solo* football goalie - Richland, WA USA
1981-0801
1981-0804 Meghan Markle* actress/Duchess of Sussex - Los Angeles, CA USA
1981-0805 Rachel Scott* first victim of the Columbine High School massacre - Denver, CO USA (1999/17)
1981-0806 Leslie Odom Jr.* actor/ singer - New York City, NY USA
1981-0807
1981-0808 Roger Federer* tennis player - Basel, Switzerland
1981-0808 Tony Salmelainen* hockey player/meditation coach - Espoo, Finland
1981-0810
1981-0813 Cory Doyne* baseball player - Tampa, FL USA
1981-0814 Kaisa Sali* (b Lehtonen) nutritionist/ triathlon IST - Finland
1981-0815 Adam Craig* mountain biker - Bangor, ME USA
1981-0818 Hannu-Pekka Parviainen* stunt performer/The Dudesons - Seinäjoki, Finland
1981-0820 Ben Barnes* actor - London, England
1981-0822 Ross Marquand* actor/comedian/impressionist - Fort Collins, CO USA
1981-0822 Christina Obergföll* athlete (javelin/OS) - Lähr, Schwartzwald, West-Germany
1981-0823 Oscar “Ozzy” Lusth* Survivor contestant - Guanajuato, Mexico
1981-0824 Chad Michael Murray* actor/ writer - Buffalo, NY USA
1981-0830 Tomasz Majewski* athlete (shotput/OG) - Nasielsk, Poland
1981-0831
1981-0901 Nina Zanjani* Iranian-Swedish actress/to Sweden at age 6 - Tehran, Iran
1981-0904 Beyoncé* (Knowles) singer - Houston, TX USA
1981-0907 Vladimir Kara-Murza* journalist - Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union
1981-0907 Athena Karkanis* actress - Lethbridge, AB Canada
1981-0910
1981-0911 Dylan Klebold* mass murderer (Columbine High School massacre ) - Lakewood, CO USA (1999/17)
1981-0912 Josephine Bornebusch* actress - Stockholm, Sweden
1981-0912 Jennifer Hudson* singer/actress - Chicago, IL USA
1981-0915 Ben Schwartz* actor - The Bronx, NY USA
1981-0916 Fan Bingbing* actress/singer/producer - Qingdao, Shandong, China
1981-0916 Alexis Bledel* actress - Houston, TX USA
1981-0916 Jade “Jay’ed” Goto* New Zealand-Japanese singer-songwriter/to Japan at age 10 - Invercargill, New Zealand
1981-0918 Lasse Kukkonen* hockey player/WC - Oulu, Finland
1981-0920
1981-0922 Janne Niskala* Finnish hockey player/WC - Västerås, Sweden
1981-0926 Aras Baskauskas* musician/Survivor S12 Contestant - Los Angeles, CA USA
1981-0926 Christina Milian* (b Flores) singer/ songwriter/actress - Jersey City, NJ USA
1981-0926 Serena Williams* tennis player - Saginaw, MI USA
1981-0930
1981-1001 Deborah James* journalist/ podcast host/charity campaigner - London, England (2022/40)
1981-1003 Seth Gabel* actor - Hollywood, FL USA
1981-1003 Zlatan Ibrahimovic* football player - Malmö, Sweden
1981-1004 Daniel Lissing* actor - Sydney, Australia
1981-1004 Justin Williams* hockey player/WG/SC - Cobourgh, ON Canada
1981-1005 Martin Kariya* hockey player – North Vancouver, BC Canada
1981-1009 Rupert Friend* actor/ screenwriter/producer - Stonesfield, Oxfordshire, England
1981-1010 Beth Rowley* English singer-songwriter/to England at age 2 - Lima, Peru
1981-1011 Ayad Lamdassem* Moroccon-Spanish long-distance runner - Sidi Ifni, Morocco
1981-1015 Pamela Tola* actress - Ruotsinpyhtää, Finland
1981-1017 Holly Holm* mixed martial artist - Albuquerque, NM USA
1981-1020
1981-1030 Shaun Sipos* actor/of Hungarian descent - Victoria, BC Canada
1981-1030 Ivanka Trump* model/ businesswoman/ fashion designer - New York, NY USA
1981-1031
1981-1102 Martina Ratej* athlete (javelin) - Loče, Slovenia
1981-1104 Yemi A.D.* choreographer/ art director/correspondent - Liberec, Czechoslovakia
1981-1105 Luke Hemsworth* actor - Melbourne, VIC Australia
1981-1117 Bojana Novakovic* Serbian-Australian actress - Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia
1981-1118 Allison Tolman* actress - Harris County, TX USA
1981-1120 Scott Hutchison* singer/songwriter/guitarist (Frightened Rabbit) - Selkirk, Scotland (2018/36)
1981-1120 Andrea Riseborough* actress - Wallsend, England
1981-1121 Park Hae-soo* actor (Squid Game) - Suwon, South Korea
1981-1121 Ainārs Kovals* athlete (javelin/OS) - Riga, Latvia, Soviet Union
1981-1130
1981-1201 Jessica Ransom* actress (Doc Martin)/writer - Sheffield, Yorkshire, England
1981-1202 Britney Spears* singer - McComb, MS USA
1981-1203 Liza Lapira* actress - New York City, NY USA
1981-1203 David Villa* football player/ investor - Langreo, Spain
1981-1208 Azra Akın* Miss World 2002/Turkish-Dutch model/actress - Almelo, Netherlands
1981-1210 Paula Vesala* singer-songwriter/ actress/playwright - Kärsämäki, Finland
1981-1216 Krysten Ritter* actress (Jessica Jones) - Bloomsberg, PA USA
1981-1220
1981-1222 Otto Gabrielsson* psychologist/writer/son of Jörn Donner - Stockholm, Sweden
1981-1222 Tumi Morake* stand-up comedian/ actress/writer - Free State, South Africa
1981-1222 Jare “Cheek” Tiihonen* rapper - Lahti, Finland
1981-1228 Sienna Miller* actress - New York, NY USA
1981-1229
1981-1230 Kate Elliott* actress - Auckland, New Zeeland
1981-1231 Diego Sanchez* mixed martial artist - Albuquerque, NM USA
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