* 1981 – Ray William Johnson, American comedian

* 1918 – William Holden, American actor ( d. 1981 )

William John Clifton " Bill " Haley (; July 6, 1925 – February 9, 1981 ) was one of the first American rock and roll musicians.

*" Nicaragua 1981 – 1990: Destabilization in slow motion, by William Blum.

* 1905 – William Loeb III, American newspaper publisher, ( d. 1981 )

Screenwriter William Goldman identified Schaffner in 1981 as being one of the three best directors ( then living ) at handling ' scope ' ( a gift for screen epics ) in films.

* 1902 – William Wyler, French-American director ( d. 1981 )

Jetsprinting as an organised sport originated in New Zealand in 1981, and events were originally held in the same natural braided rivers that had inspired Sir William Hamilton to develop the jetboat, but when the sport was introduced to Australia in the mid-1980s permanent artificial courses were used — and this is now the norm even in New Zealand.

* Lord Peter Wimsey Cookbook ( 1981 ) by Elizabeth Bond Ryan and William J. Eakins ISBN 0-89919-032-4

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.

* 1981 – William Holden, American actor ( b. 1918 )

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.

Sir Robert William Askin GCMG, ( 4 April 19079 September 1981 ) was an Australian politician and the 32nd Premier of New South Wales from 1965 to 1975, the first representing the Liberal Party of Australia.

In 1978, the NASA SETI program was heavily criticized by Senator William Proxmire, and funding for SETI research was removed from the NASA budget by Congress in 1981, however, funding was restored in 1982, after Carl Sagan talked with Proxmire and convinced him of the program's value.

* Thompson, William Irwin, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality, and the Origins of Culture ( New York: St. Martin's Press, 1981 ).

* 1981 – William O. Baker

* William Jardine and other Jardine tai-pans are fictionally portrayed in author James Clavell's popular fiction novels Tai-Pan ( 1966 ), Gai-Jin ( 1993 ), Noble House ( 1981 ) and Whirlwind ( 1987 ).

* April 17 – William Holden, American actor ( d. 1981 )

* August 31 – William Saroyan, American writer ( d. 1981 )

* July 1 – William Wyler, American film director ( d. 1981 )

** William Edmunds, Italian stage and screen character actor ( d. 1981 )

The larger scientific community became aware of the significance of the EMP problem after a series of three articles were published about nuclear electromagnetic pulse in 1981 by William J.

* Kerman, J., The Masses and Motets of William Byrd ( London, 1981 )

* The Filth Amendment William Rushton ( Queen Anne Press, 1981 )

West ( 1967 ) for Alcidamas ' invention of the contest of Homer and Hesiod, N. J. Richardson ( 1981 ) against

" Historians and Cold War Origins: The New Consensus ", in Gerald K. Haines and J. Samuel Walker, eds., American Foreign Relations: A Historiographical Review ( 1981 ), 207-236.

In 1981, after Osterlund sold his team to J. D.

Schultz has also appeared in films including The Fan ( 1981 ), as Broadway Actress Lauren Bacall's director, and Fat Man and Little Boy ( 1989 ), as J. Robert Oppenheimer.

Mathematics ( Sweller, J., Mawer, R. F., & Ward, M. R., 1983 ) and physics ( Chi, Feltovich, & Glaser, 1981 ) are common domains for these studies.

* 1981 – Ray J, American singer

* 1896 – A. J. Cronin, Scottish writer ( d. 1981 )

The 1981 book Genes, Mind, and Culture: The Coevolutionary Process by Charles J. Lumsden and E. O. Wilson proposed the theory that genes and culture co-evolve, and that the fundamental biological units of culture must correspond to neuronal networks that function as nodes of semantic memory.

In the early 20th century, people like Ordway Tead ( 1891 – 1973 ), Walter Scott and J. Mooney applied the principles of psychology to management, while other writers, such as Elton Mayo ( 1880 – 1949 ), Mary Parker Follett ( 1868 – 1933 ), Chester Barnard ( 1886 – 1961 ), Max Weber ( 1864 – 1920 ), Rensis Likert ( 1903 – 1981 ), and Chris Argyris ( 1923-) approached the phenomenon of management from a sociological perspective.

Escher: His Life and Complete Graphic Work, edited by J. L. Locher, Amsterdam 1981.

Gell-Mann married Marcia Southwick in 1992, after the death of his first wife, J. Margaret Dow ( d. 1981 ), whom he married in 1955.

* 1981 – D. J. Campbell, English footballer

The inner Oort cloud is also known as the Hills cloud, named after J. G. Hills, who proposed its existence in 1981.

* J Harlen Bretz ( 1882 – 1981 ), pioneer of research into the shaping of landscapes by catastrophic floods, most notably the Bretz ( Missoula ) floods.

J. B. Jeyaretnam of the Workers ' Party became the first opposition party member of parliament in 15 years when he won a 1981 by-election.

** B. J. and the Bear ( 1978 – 1981 )

In 1981 the British microscopist Brian J. Ford found that Van Leeuwenhoek's original specimens had survived in the collections of the Royal Society of London.

* J. H. Lefroy ( editor ), Memorials of the Discovery and Early Settlement of the Bermudas or Somers Islands 1515 – 1685: Volumes I and II ( reprinted Bermuda Historical Society and National Trust, Hamilton, 1981 )

* A. J. Cronin – ( 1896 – 1981 ), Scottish novelist

Also in 1981, Jewel sold its home shopping service, which now operates under the name " J. T's General Store ".

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.