Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 1981

Robert H. Harris was an American character actor.

Derick Heathcoat-Amory, 1st Viscount Amory,, was a British Conservative politician and member of the House of Lords.

Mehmet Ismail Shehu fue un político comunista albanés que fue presidente del Consejo de Ministros de la República Popular de Albania desde 1954 hasta 1981. Destacó por su trayectoria militar en el movimiento partisano y dentro del Partido del Trabajo de Albania (PPSH) siendo Ministro del Interior (1948-1954), responsable de la Sigurimi y Ministro de Defensa. Aunque durante décadas estuvo considerado como el «hombre fuerte» de Enver Hoxha y el segundo hombre más poderoso de Albania, terminó perdiendo su confianza y, según la versión oficial, se suicidó en 1981.

Ole Sarvig was a Danish author and poet, known for his participation in the literary journal heretica. In 1967 he received the grand prize of the Danish Academy. In 2004 his 1943 work Regnmaaleren was included in the Danish Culture Canon. He was a friend and mentor to the poet Michael Strunge, whose poem "December" remembers Sarvig's death by suicide in December 1981. Like Sarvig, Strunge took his life by jumping from a building.

Helmut Andreas Paul Grieshaber or HAP Grieshaber was a German artist. His preferred medium was large format woodcuts.

Oscar Frederic Moore was an American jazz guitarist with the Nat King Cole Trio.