Shirley drawbridge ( bridge No. 8 ) at Majors Green on the northern branch

* Shirley Majors ( 1914 – 1981 ), American football coach ; father of several notable football players and coaches, the most famous being Johnny Majors

To the south is the Shirley West ward of Solihull and the Hollywood & Majors Green ward of Worcestershire.

* 1966 – Shirley Kwan, Hong Kong singer, dancer, and actress

* 1898 – Shirley Booth, American actress ( d. 1992 )

* 1934 – George Shirley, American tenor

* 1934 – Shirley MacLaine, American actor and author

The leading figures of the second generation of historical dance research include Shirley Wynne and her Baroque Dance Ensemble which was founded at Ohio State University in the early 1970s and Wendy Hilton ( 1931 – 2002 ), a student of Belinda Quirey who supplemented the work of Melusine Wood with her own research into original sources.

* Laverne & Shirley ( 1982 ) – Olga in episode: " Jinxed "

* Shirley Chisholm ( 1946 ), first African-American U. S. Congresswoman, 1968 – 1982.

* 1694 – William Shirley, Colonial Governor of Massachusetts ( d. 1771 )

* 1997 – Shirley Crabtree, British professional wrestler ( b. 1930 )

* 1999 – Shirley Hemphill, American actress ( b. 1947 )

* 1916 – Shirley Jackson, American writer ( d. 1965 )

It was Ball, according to numerous radio historians, who suggested Arden for Our Miss Brooks after Shirley Booth auditioned for but failed to land the role and Ball – committed at the time to My Favorite Husband – could not.

* 1781 – Fourth Anglo-Dutch War: Captain Thomas Shirley opened his expedition against Dutch colonial outposts on the Gold Coast of Africa ( present-day Ghana ).

* 1948 – Shirley Jackson's short story The Lottery is published in The New Yorker magazine.

* 1931 – Shirley Hazzard, Australian author

* 1947 – Shirley Hemphill, American actress ( d. 1999 )

* 1923 – Shirley Ardell Mason, American psychiatric patient ( d. 1998 )

* 1936 – Shirley Knight, American actress

* 1983 – Kellie Shirley, English actress

* 1930 – Shirley Williams, English politician

* 1937 – Dame Shirley Bassey, Welsh singer

* 1925 – Shirley Strickland, Australian runner ( d. 2004 )

* Shirley Hayden – backing vocals ( 1998 – 2001 )

In 1981, defectors from the moderate wing of the Labour Party, led by former Cabinet ministers Roy Jenkins, David Owen and Shirley Williams, founded the Social Democratic Party.

Almost immediately after his election as leader he was faced with a serious crisis: the creation in early 1981 of a breakaway party by four senior Labour right-wingers, Roy Jenkins, Shirley Williams, David Owen and William Rodgers ( the so-called " Gang of Four "), the Social Democratic Party.

As one of the so-called " Gang of Four ", he was a founder of the Social Democratic Party ( SDP ) in January 1981 with David Owen, Bill Rodgers and Shirley Williams.

Truman was the subject of the book Truman of St. Helens: The Man and His Mountain written by his niece Shirley Rosen and was portrayed by Art Carney in the 1981 docu-drama film St. Helens.

Some of the younger followers of Gaitskell, principally Roy Jenkins, Bill Rodgers and Shirley Williams left the Labour Party in 1981 to found the Social Democratic Party, but the central objective of the Gaitskellites was eventually achieved by Tony Blair in his successful attempt to rewrite Clause IV in 1995.

On 25 January 1981, MPs Shirley Williams, Roy Jenkins, William Rodgers and David Owen made the Limehouse Declaration from Owen's house in Limehouse, which announced the formation of the Council for Social Democracy in opposition to the granting of block votes to the trade unions in the Labour Party to which they had previously belonged.

* Shirley, Squirrely and Melvin, released on Shirley, Squirrely and Melvin ( Excelsior 88009, 1981 ).

* 1981: Shirley Christian, Miami Herald, " for her dispatches from Central America.

During its syndicated run, the series was retitled Laverne & Shirley & Company from 1981 to 1983 due to the series still airing on ABC at the time ( at the time, distributors would sometimes change the name of a show for syndication if it was still producing new episodes on a network — such as was the case with Happy Days, when it was retitled Happy Days Again in syndication ).

Following the establishment of the SDP by the ' Gang of Four ' ( Roy Jenkins, David Owen, Bill Rodgers, Shirley Williams ), who had left the Labour Party in March 1981, the new party entered into an informal alliance with the existing centre party, the Liberals, led by David Steel.

Early in 1981, Owen and three other senior moderate Labour politicians – Roy Jenkins, Bill Rodgers and Shirley Williams – announced their intention to break away from the Labour Party to form a " Council for Social Democracy ".

With Labour drifting to the left, Rodgers joined Shirley Williams, Roy Jenkins and David Owen in forming the Social Democratic Party in 1981.

From 1950 until 2010 Formby formed part of the constituency of Crosby, The MP for Crosby from 1997 until 2010 was Claire Curtis-Thomas, a member of the Labour Party, prior to her election the seat was generally considered to be a safe Conservative Party stronghold with Tory MP's elected at every election barring the Crosby by-election, 1981 where Shirley Williams of the Social Democratic Party was elected to represent the constituency.

The MP for Crosby from 1997 until 2010 was Claire Curtis-Thomas, a member of the Labour Party ; prior to her election the seat was generally considered to be a safe Conservative Party stronghold with Tory MPs elected at every election barring the Crosby by-election, 1981 where Shirley Williams of the Social Democratic Party was elected to represent the constituency.

From 1950 until 2010 Little Crosby was within the boundaries of the Crosby constituency, whose MP from 1997 till 2010 was Claire Curtis-Thomas, a member of the Labour Party, prior to her election the Crosby seat was generally considered to be a safe Conservative Party stronghold with Tory MP's elected at every election barring the Crosby by-election, 1981 where Shirley Williams of the Social Democratic Party was elected to represent the constituency.

From 1950 until 2010 Waterloo was within the boundaries of the Crosby constituency, whose MP from 1997 till 2010 was Claire Curtis-Thomas, a member of the Labour Party, prior to her election the Crosby seat was generally considered to be a safe Conservative Party stronghold, like its predecessor seat, with Tory MP's elected at every election barring the Crosby by-election, 1981 where Shirley Williams of the Social Democratic Party was elected to represent the constituency.

The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center ( formerly Lyric Opera Center for American Artists, 1981 – 2006 ), established in 1974 by Carol Fox, is the professional artist-development program for Lyric Opera of Chicago.

* Shirley Hufstedler ( 1949 ), first United States Secretary of Education ( 1979 – 1981 ) and Judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ( 1968 – 1979 )

His politics were always in the centre ground, but a meeting with Shirley Williams in Parliament at this time, shortly after the formation in 1981 of the SDP-Liberal Alliance, spurred Lamb in to front line active politics and he was elected to Norwich City Council where he led the Lib Dem group until he stood down in 1991 in order to pursue his Westminster ambitions.

The Limehouse Declaration was a statement issued on 25 January 1981 by four senior British Labour politicians, all MPs or former MPs and Cabinet Ministers: Roy Jenkins, David Owen, Bill Rodgers and Shirley Williams.

He won the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal ( s ) in 1981 for Quincy Jones's album Velas, and again in 1991 for Natalie Cole and Nat King Cole's " Unforgettable ", and one year later once more for Shirley Horn's album Here's to Life.

During the time between 1981 and 1988, Shirley Mae Albertus was Fascell's administravtive assistant.