Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 1981

Henry William "Harry" Lee was a professional English cricketer who played first-class cricket for the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and Middlesex County Cricket Club between 1911 and 1934. He made one Test appearance for England, in 1931. An all-rounder, Lee was a right-handed batsman and bowled both off break and slow-medium pace bowling with his right arm. He scored 1,000 runs in a season on thirteen occasions. Part of the County Championship winning sides in 1920 and 1921, Lee aggregated 20,158 runs and took 401 wickets in first-class cricket.

Rudolf Prack fue un actor austriaco.

Wanda Hendrix fue una actriz de cine y películas de televisión estadounidense.

Keshav Dev Malaviya was a leader of Indian National Congress and a union minister of India. He was a member of Lok Sabha from Domariyaganj, Uttar Pradesh. He received his degree in oil technology from HBTI Kanpur. He served as a Minister of Petroleum in the 1970s in the Congress government. He is also known as the Father of the Indian Petroleum Industry.

Clarence Nichols Hickman was a physicist who worked on rockets with Robert Goddard. He is known for developing the bazooka man-portable recoilless antitank rocket launcher weapon, and the American Piano Company Model B player piano. He is also known as the "Father of Scientific Archery".

Günter Stempel was a German politician (LDPD). He was involved in the formation of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), despite which he was a victim of political repression in both the GDR and the USSR.

Junzaburō Ban was a Japanese comedian and actor. His real name was Hirosada Suzuki .

Kenneth A. Carey was an American sailor who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics.

Jaime Roldós Aguilera fue un abogado y político ecuatoriano, presidente de la República del Ecuador desde el 10 de agosto de 1979 hasta su muerte en un presunto accidente aéreo la tarde del domingo 24 de mayo de 1981. Lideró el proceso de retorno al sistema democrático en el Ecuador, luego de casi una década de dictaduras civiles y militares.

José María Pemán y Pemartín fue un escritor español que cultivó todos los géneros literarios, destacando como periodista, dramaturgo y poeta, además de notable orador. Adscrito ideológicamente al monarquismo tradicional, entre otros reconocimientos recibió el de caballero de la Insigne Orden del Toisón de Oro.