Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 1981

Claude John Eyre Auchinleck fue comandante en jefe del Ejército Británico durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial.

Erich Paul Hubert Correns fue un químico alemán y presidente del Frente Nacional de la República Democrática Alemana.

Mairi Lambert Gooden Chisholm of Chisholm, MM, OStJ, known as Mairi Chisholm, was a Scottish nurse and ambulance driver in the First World War. She, together with her friend Elsie Knocker, won numerous medals for bravery and for saving the lives of thousands of soldiers on the Western Front in Belgium. Dubbed "The Madonnas of Pervyse" by the press the two were among the most photographed women of the war.

Ilya Bolotowsky was a leading early 20th-century Russian-American painter in abstract styles in New York City. His work, a search for philosophical order through visual expression, embraced cubism and geometric abstraction and was influenced by Dutch painter Piet Mondrian.