* 1930 – Noel Harford, New Zealand cricketer ( d. 1981 )

The first multiprotocol routers were independently created by staff researchers at MIT and Stanford in 1981 ; the Stanford router was done by William Yeager, and the MIT one by Noel Chiappa ; both were also based on PDP-11s.

In George Cukor's 1981 film Rich and Famous, Candice Bergen's character, Merry Noel Blake, resides in Malibu, during a portion of the film.

At the departure of drummer Mal Green from Split Enz in 1981, their percussionist Noel Crombie took up the role of drummer.

In 1981 it was adapted into a popular television miniseries called A Town Like Alice, starring Helen Morse and Bryan Brown ( with Gordon Jackson as Noel Strachan ).

Artisan Entertainment was founded in 1981 by Noel C. Bloom as Family Home Entertainment, Inc ..

* Noel Counihan prints 1931-1981: A catalogue raisonné by Robert Smith, 1981, Hale & Iremonger ( Sydney ) ISBN 0-908094-80-9

In 1981, Random House published another edition titled Sanctuary: The Original Text, edited by Noel Polk.

In 1981, he had played Noel Strachan in the Australian World War II drama A Town Like Alice, winning a Logie Award for this performance.

It grew out of four short films: Ida Makes a Movie, Cookie Goes to the Hospital, Irene Moves In and Noel Buys a Suit, which originally aired as after-school specials on CBC Television in 1979, 1980, 1981 and 1982, respectively.

After three previews, the Broadway production, directed by Noel William, opened on November 19, 1981 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre.

Olympia and York, of Toronto, was named as the developer for the World Financial Center in 1981, who then hired Cesar Pelli as the lead architect.

After over a dozen more subpar seasons, in 1981 the Cubs hired GM Dallas Green from Philadelphia to turn around the franchise.

In 1981, Stephanie Riethmiller, who lived in Ohio, was kidnapped by deprogrammers who were hired by her parents to remove her from a lesbian relationship.

In the same year, Gygax created the magazine The Strategic Review with himself as editor, and then he hired Tim Kask to assist in the transition of this magazine into the fantasy periodical The Dragon, with Gygax as writer, columnist, and publisher ( from 1978 to 1981 ).

When Lee made one final appeal to audition, Neil accepted and was hired April 1, 1981.

It ended in 1981, when they hired Doug Moe as a head coach.

In 1981, United Artists Classics, which had formerly been a division of the company that re-released library titles, was turned into a first run art film distributor by Nathaniel T. Kwit Jr. Tom Bernard was hired as the division's head of sales, and Ira Deutchman as its head of marketing.

He was hired by The New York Times as a reporter in 1981, and redispatched to Beirut at the start of the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon.

In May 1981, it hired Tim Paterson to port the system to the IBM PC, which used the slower and less expensive Intel 8088 processor and had its own specific family of peripherals.

Other than that, Harryhausen worked generally alone to produce almost all of the animation for all his films, until he hired protégé model animators Steve Archer and two-time Oscar-nominated Jim Danforth to assist with major animation sequences for his last feature film Clash of the Titans ( 1981 ).

The next year, Kansas City, his postseason rival, hired him to manage the last 33 games of the strike-shortened 1981 season.

Auerbach hired head coach Bill Fitch whom led the revamped Celtics to the 1981 title.

In 1981 the founders hired David Cole to be the chairman, president and CEO of their group of companies.

After Torre and his coaching staff were let go at the end of the 1981 season, Torre moved on to coach the Atlanta Braves in 1982, where he hired Gibson as a pitching coach.

Jay Jay remained as manager through 1981 at which time he hired Mark Puma, a local promoter, to manage the band.

During a short time in the early 1980s when SCTV was in between network deals, she was hired to replace Ann Risley when Saturday Night Live was being retooled in 1981.

The Outer Limits were hired by Kevin Rowland as an opening act for Dexys Midnight Runners on their tour of The Projected Passion Revue in 1981.

In 1981, he was hired as director of research for the federal NDP, but left in controversy in 1983 when he published a report critiquing the party's economic policies as being " out of date ".

He was lastly hired by KOA and debuted on February 23, 1981.

Ben Bova, who was hired as Fiction Editor, was promoted to Editor, leaving the magazine in 1981.

In 1981 Fender-CBS hired William Schultz, John McLaren, and Dan Smith away from the U. S. division of Yamaha.

Brown was hired in 1981 by the Washington, D. C., law firm Patton, Boggs & Blow as a lawyer and a lobbyist.

In 1981, he was hired to coach the Vancouver Whitecaps of the NASL.

CBS decided going into the 1981 NFL season that John Madden, whom CBS had hired in 1979 and who had called games alongside Frank Glieber and Gary Bender his first two years, was going to be the star color commentator of their NFL television coverage.

In 1971, he was hired by the University of Arizona to be its first professor of computer science, subsequently organized the department, and was its head until 1981.

In 1981, Korner joined another " supergroup ", Rocket 88, a project led by Ian Stewart based on boogie-woogie keyboard players, which featured a rhythm section comprising Jack Bruce and Charlie Watts, among others, as well as a horn section.

* 1907 – Jack Albertson, American actor ( d. 1981 )

Mackal and Jack Bryan mounted an expedition to the same area in late 1981.

Associated with the Fête de la Musique, created by Jack Lang in Paris in 1981 to celebrate music and musicians, the Festa was incorporated into the Italian Minister of Culture's agenda in 1994, and has since spread across Italy as well as the world, encouraging the cooperation and musical exchanges between the participating cities.

* 1896 – Jack Warner, English actor ( d. 1981 )

Given the task of overhauling the Cardinals by owner Gussie Busch, Herzog was looking to trade Templeton when he was approached by Padres General Manager Jack McKeon at the 1981 baseball winter meetings.

On January 13, 1981, owner Jack Kent Cooke signed the offensive coordinator of the San Diego Chargers, Joe Gibbs, as their head coach.

He is best known as the main character Derek " Del Boy " Trotter in the BBC sitcom Only Fools and Horses from 1981, the voice of Mr Toad in The Wind in the Willows and as Detective Inspector Jack Frost on the ITV crime drama A Touch of Frost from 1992.

He also appeared in The Big Knife as an overly aggressive film studio boss who berates film star Jack Palance ; as Al Capone in Al Capone ( 1959 ); as Mr. Joyboy in The Loved One ; as the serial killer in No Way to Treat a Lady ; and as a repressed gay NCO in The Sergeant ( 1968 ); as Rabbi Saunders in The Chosen ( 1981 ).

O ' Neill was portrayed by Jack Nicholson in the 1981 film Reds about the life of John Reed.

Jack Albertson ( June 16, 1907 – November 25, 1981 ) was an American character actor dating to vaudeville.

* Jack Z. Anderson ( 1904 – 1981 ), United States Representative from California

* Fletcher, Jack E. & Patricia A. Colorado's Cowtown ( 1981 )

The Maxtor founders, James McCoy, Jack Swartz, and Raymond Niedzwiecki --- graduates of the San Jose State University School of Engineering and former employees of IBM --- began the search for funding in 1981.

* Luciano's Luck, Jack Higgins ( 1981 ).

* Slipper of the Yard ( 1981 ) by Jack Slipper, first published by Sidgwick and Jackson Ltd ( ISBN 0-2839-8702-2 ).

In 1981, Tiffany debuted with country music singer Jack Reeves at a country and western spot called Narods in Chino, California.

Jack Warner OBE ( 24 October 1895 – 24 May 1981 ) was an English film and television actor.

Jack Henry Abbot ( 1981 ), a convicted murderer and author, described the effects of akathisia produced by antipsychotic drugs when given without the necessary medication for side effects ( e. g. procyclidine ) as may occur in prison and even sometimes hospitals:

Sagal was married to German American musician Freddie Beckmeier ( 1978 – 1981 ) and country music drummer Jack White ( November 26, 1993 – July 24, 2000 ).

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Watcom International Corporation was founded in 1981 by three former employees of the Computer Systems Group ( Fred Crigger, Ian McPhee, and Jack Schueler ) at the University of Waterloo, in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

* The Postman Always Rings Twice ( 1981 ), an American remake based on a screenplay by David Mamet, directed by Bob Rafelson, and featuring Jack Nicholson and Jessica Lange

* Jack Dormand ( 1981 – 87 )

The Soft Machine name was used for the 1981 record Land of Cockayne ( with Jack Bruce and, again, Allan Holdsworth, plus Ray Warleigh and Dick Morrissey on saxes and John Taylor on electric piano ), and for a final series of dates at London's Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in the summer of 1984, featuring Jenkins and Marshall leading an ad hoc lineup of Etheridge, Warleigh, pianist Dave MacRae and bassist Paul Carmichael.