* 1981 – Tom Hiddleston, English actor

8½ inspired among others: Mickey One ( Arthur Penn, 1965 ), Alex in Wonderland ( Paul Mazursky, 1970 ), Beware of a Holy Whore ( Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1971 ), Day for Night ( François Truffaut, 1973 ), All That Jazz ( Bob Fosse, 1979 ), Stardust Memories ( Woody Allen, 1980 ), Sogni d ' oro ( Nanni Moretti, 1981 ), Parad Planet ( Vadim Abdrashitov, 1984 ), La Pelicula del rey ( Carlos Sorin, 1986 ), Living in Oblivion ( Tom DiCillo, 1995 ), 8½ Women ( Peter Greenaway, 1999 ), Falling Down ( Joel Schumacher, 1993 ), along with the successful Broadway musical, Nine ( Maury Yeston and Arthur Kopit, 1982 ).

* 1981 – Tom Meighan, English singer ( Kasabian )

* 1981 – Tom Starke, German footballer

* Tom Cheek and Jerry Howarth, radio announcers for Toronto Blue Jays from 1981 to 2005

Frantz and Weymouth, who were married in 1977, had been recording on the side as Tom Tom Club since 1981.

After leaving Asylum, the label released the first Tom Waits " Best of " album in 1981, a collection called Bounced Checks, notable for including an alternate, stripped down version of " Jersey Girl " and the otherwise unreleased " Mr. Henry ", as well as an alternate master of " Whistlin ' Past the Graveyard " and a live performance of " The Piano Has Been Drinking ".

During 1981, Nicks toured with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and New Zealand band Split Enz as a guest.

From 1980 to 1981 he had a second television variety show, the eponymous Tom Jones, that was produced in Vancouver, Canada and lasted for 24 episodes.

In March 2007 Tom Jones and Tom Jones Enterprises sued C / F International to stop the company from licensing sound recordings made from the 1981 Tom Jones series.

In 1981, UA was sold to Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer, and five years later, Ted Turner acquired the pre-May 1986 MGM library — which included the rights to MGM's cartoon characters like Tom and Jerry and Bosko.

Of the eleven actors to portray the role, only three would play the Doctor for longer chronological time: Pertwee's immediate successor, Tom Baker ( seven years from 1974 to 1981 ), Sylvester McCoy ( eight years from 1987 – 1996 ) and David Tennant ( four years and six and a half months from June 2005 to January 2010, thus longer by a month ).

In 1981, Scott appeared alongside Timothy Hutton and rising stars Sean Penn and Tom Cruise in the coming-of-age film Taps.

In 1981 writer Tom Stacey took to the British Home Office a proposal for the electronic tagging of offenders to track their movements, or fix a home curfew, using cellular radio telephone technology.

After spending nearly five months on the run with Dawn Schiller, he was arrested in Florida on December 4, 1981 by his former police handlers, LAPD homicide detectives Tom Lange and Frank Tomlinson, and returned to Los Angeles.

* A Dream of Wings: Americans and the Airplane, 1875-1905, by Dr. Tom D. Crouch, W. W. Norton, 1981

The 1981 Tom Stoppard farce On the Razzle also is based on the same story.

The play opened at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre on 9 November 1981 and ran for 200 performances, with Tom Courtenay repeating his performance as Norman and Paul Rogers as " Sir ".

* Tom Matera, ( 1981 -) World Wrestling Entertainment Superstar, known as Antonio Thomas

* Tom Eyen-American experimental playwright, lyricist, and theatre director, author of Dreamgirls for which he won the 1981 Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical

* Tom Stoppard: On the Razzle ( 1981 )

It was then that Padres manager Dick Williams informed Herzog that a no-trade clause had been included in Smith's 1981 contract.

* August 12 – Zerna Sharp, American writer and educator ( Dick and Jane ) ( d. 1981 )

Linda Hartinian, a personal friend of Dick, adapted the novel to the stage and designed the set, in addition to portraying Mary Ann Dominic and reading Dick's 1981 " Tagore Letter " at the end of the play.

He became shadow Attorney-General under the leadership of Frank Wilkes, but when Wilkes lost the 1979 election to the Liberal premier, Dick Hamer, Cain challenged him for the leadership, becoming leader in September 1981.

* Philip K. Dick: VALIS ( 1981 ) under the name Ikhnathon.

He also was a writer for Jean Doumanian's sixth season from 1980 to 1981, making him one of the few cast members to work for all three producers of SNL ( Lorne Michaels, Jean Doumanian, and Dick Ebersol ).

* Dick Harris, 1979 – 1981

* Dick Seay ( 1904 – 1981 ), Negro league baseball all-star second baseman.

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

* Philip K. Dick, VALIS ( 1981 ), perhaps the only book that could be considered both an autobiographical novel and a work of science fiction

In 1981 Boyd had presented his briefing, Patterns of Conflict, to Dick Cheney, then a member of the United States House of Representatives.

In 1981, Dick Clark hosted a 5-week summer series on ABC.

In 1981, he organized a new Artie Shaw Band with clarinetist Dick Johnson as bandleader and soloist.

The anchor position changed hands frequently under Dick Ebersol, executive producer of SNL from 1981 to 1985.

In 1981, she appeared as a feature player on the first Dick Ebersol-produced episode of Saturday Night Live following the firing of Jean Doumanian and her cast ( save for Eddie Murphy, Joe Piscopo, Denny Dillon, and Gail Matthius ).

* " The World Turned Upside Down " by Leon Rosselson, 1975, a song about the Diggers and their activities on St. George's Hill in 1649 ; this song was performed by Billy Bragg on his Between the Wars EP, 1985 ; by Dick Gaughan on Handful of Earth, 1981 ; by Chumbawumba on the b-side of their single " Timebomb ," 1993 ; by Attila the Stockbroker with Barnstormer on The Siege of Shoreham, 1996 ; by Oysterband on their albums Shouting End of life and Alive and Shouting, 1995 and 1996 ; by Clandestine, a Houston-based Celtic group, on their To Anybody At All album, 1999 ; by the Fagans, an Australian folk group, on their album, Turning Fine, 2002 ; and by Seattle Celt-rock band Coventry on the album Red Hair and Black Leather, 2005.

; 1981 Dick Francis, Whip Hand

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.

* Dick Hoover ( 1925 – 1981 ), American Major League Baseball player

* The Socialist Agenda: Crosland's Legacy, edited by David Lipsey and Dick Leonard, 1981, Cape, ISBN 0-224-01886-8

The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films gave the film its Saturn Award in 1981 for " Best International Film ", and, in addition, the " Best Make-Up " award went to Dick Smith in a tie with Altered States.

He served two terms ( 1977 – 1981 ) and was one of the leaders of a vocal group of conservative legislators opposing the policies of Colorado Governor Dick Lamm.

More recently, science fiction author Philip K. Dick reportedly had a theophany on 3 February 1974, which was to become the later basis for his semi-biographic works Valis ( 1981 ) and the posthumous Radio Free Albemuth ( 1985 ).

Sir Rupert James Hamer, AC, KCMG, ED ( 29 July 1916 – 23 March 2004 ), generally known until he was knighted in 1982 as Dick Hamer, Australian Liberal Party politician, was the 39th Premier of Victoria, serving from 1972 to 1981.