1981 deaths

Spanish football player (1908-1981)

Catholic bishop (1891–1981)

English footballer (1908–1981)

IRA Member

Khamphoui (; 12 July 1912 – 1982?) was Queen of Laos as the wife of Sisavang Vatthana, the second (and last) King of Laos. She was arrested with the rest of her family and reportedly died in a re-education camp in 1982.

French painter (1895–1981)

American actor (1911–1981)

American politician (1893-1981)

archbishop

Italian footballer (1909-1981)

Iranian meteorologist

Polish actor (1899-1981)

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) co-founder (1884-1981)

Cricket player of South Africa. (1910-1981)

Cuban musician (1911–1981)

Soviet film director (1925–1981)

Soviet actor (1904–1983)

American silent film actress (1890–1981)

American writer (1947–1981)

Argentine politician (1904-1981)

Soviet field hockey player

Australian politician

American journalist (1905–1981)

American writer of fantasy, horror and poetry (1903–1981)

actor (1902–1981)

martial artist (1912-1981)

Russian historian and university teacher (1897-1981)

Japanese politician (1891-1981)

British composer (1922-1981)

American congressman and governor of Virginia (1897-1981)

Guinean politician (1923–1981)

British novelist (1898–1981)

artist (1907-1981)

Soviet politician (1912–1981)

Croatian comic artist (1901-1981)

Swedish actor (1899–1981)

Nigerian writer (1911–1981)

Algerian actor (1940–1981)

Indian writer, etymologist (1902–1981)

sport shooter (1891–1981)

Swiss cryptographer (1908-1981)

American film producer (1901-1981)

American theologian, educator, and civil rights mentor (1899–1981)

American actor (1892-1981)

American writer (1916–1981)

American actor (1903-1987)

Japanese actor (1908–1981)

German quantum physicist (1912–1981)

British artist (1920-1981)

German arabist (1909–1981)

women's rights activist and playwright (1924-1981)

Brazilian film director (1912-1981)

actor (1891-1981)

Olympic athlete (1948–1981)

German politician (1912-1981)

Irish hunger striker (1955-1981)

Swedish actor (1915–1981)

Austrian composer of operettas and popular Viennese music (1893-1981)

Swiss artist (1889-1981)

Swiss literary critic (1897-1981)