1981 deaths

Footballer and manager (1912-1981)

German actress (1896-1981)

German Resistance member, president of the state bank of the German Democratic Republic (1902–1981)

Ukrainian soldier (1893–1981)

French cyclist (1896–1981)

Mexican footballer (1953-1981)

Norwegian cross-country skier and runner

writer, humorist (1900–1981)

Swedish photographer (1892-1981)

Finnish painter (1925-1981)

American diplomat (1907–1981)

20th-century American ani-communist expository journalist and author (1892–1981)

Italian actor (1925–1981)

Estonian chemist and freedom fighter (1940–1981)

fashion designer and music manager (1955–1981)

Israeli politician (1907–1981)

American game theorist (1914–1981)

German actress

Olympic cyclist (1897-1981)

Mexican writer and diplomat

Soviet writer (1912–1981)

British gardener (1880-1981)

German photographer (1910–1981)

German chemist and politician (1896-1981)

Italian motorcycle racer (1915–1981)

(1893 - 1981), Scottish novelist, poet, educator

French general (1891–1981)

Soviet poet, critic and journalist (1919-1981)

Iranian film director, playwright and poet

Danish actress (1903–1981)

American painter (1888-1981)

Pakistani judge (1910–1975)

German admiral (1893-1981)

German painter (1893-1981)

Latvian-Australian chess player (1909-1981)

actress, singer (1911-1981)

Soviet association football player (1915-1981)

English drummer

Russian ballet dancer (1896-1981)

American actor (1931-1981)

Romanian writer (1902-1981)

German comedian (1927-1981)

Brazilian engineer

Czechoslovak table tennis player (1911–1981)

Polish-American violinist & conductor (1892-1981)

Spanish footballer (1897-1981)

gymnast (1895-1981)

polo player (1900–1981)

Uzbek actor (1910-1981)

American politician (1901–1981)

Pakistani scholar (1903-1981)

fencer (1906–1981)

Hungarian writer from Transylvania

Estonian association football player, ice hockey player, coach and association football referee (1908-1981)

Olympic lacrosse player of Great Britain (1887–1981)

Israeli politician (1911-1981)

Argentinian association football player (1918-1981)

Nigerian Anglican evangelist

Ukrainian dancer (1895–1981)

Greek novelist and journalist (1913–1981)