1981 deaths

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

American serial killer (1957-1981)

American psychologist (1901–1981)

British historian (1899-1981)

German politician (1892-1981)

Yiddish writer (1890–1981)

American baseball player and coach

Mexican religious (1904-1981)

Norwegian writer (1922–1981)

Italian actress and voice actress (1908-1981)

French historian (1888–1981)

poet

Swiss composer and conductor (1895-1981)

Japanese film critic (1903–1981)

Italian singer and actor (1927-1981)

Chinese photojournalist

French cyclist (1912–1981)

Japanese actor

German geneticist (1902–1981)

Spanish association football player (1899-1981)

American chess master (1902-1981)

Poet, novelist, translator (1891–1981)

American professional wrestler

British musician (1947–1981)

American actor (1926–1981)

American singer, vocalist (1916–1981)

Austrian classical philologist (1896-1981)

German entomologist (1890-1981)

American astronomer (1908-1981)

American academic

Volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army (1956-1981)

American film director (1895-1981)

Basque writer, politician and nationalist leader (1904-1981)

Filipino boxer (1906–1981)

American mayor (1908-1981)

American actor, singer, announcer (1906-1981)

South African astronomer

British biologist (1903-1981)

American mobster (1930–1981)

German physicist (1901-1981)

Egyptian actor and musician and producer

Austrian actor (1905-1981)

Hungarian writer (1914–1981)

British chemist (1926-1981)

American-Italian psychiatrist

Bulgarian physicist

American lyricist and producer (1907-1981)

Danish philosopher (1905–1981)

British artist (1920-1981)

Soviet admiral (1897–1981)

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

Vietnamese astronaut (1949–1981)

Irish hunger striker (1955-1981)

Swedish actor (1915–1981)

Swiss artist (1889-1981)

French anthropologist

Swiss literary critic (1897-1981)

art collector (1906-1981)

American writer (1905-1981)

German association football player (1929-1981)