Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 1981

James Edward Walsh fue un sacerdote católico estadounidense, de la Sociendad Misionera de Maryknoll, misionero en China y más tarde obispo de Kongmoon. Fue arrestado por el gobierno comunista chino, estuvo encarcelado por veinte años, y luego fue deportado, encontró refugio en Hong Kong. Fundó la Congregación de Hermanas del Corazón Inmaculado de María de Hong Kong.

Francis Curray McHugh, was an American stage, radio, film and television actor.

Bernard Osgood Koopman was a French-born American mathematician, known for his work in ergodic theory, the foundations of probability, statistical theory and operations research.

Maurice d'Hartoy, whose real name was Mauritius-Lucien Hanot, also known as Lieutenant d’Hartoy, was a soldier, politician and French writer.

Edwin H. Knopf was an American film producer, film director, and screenwriter.

Raden Panji Soeroso was a politician, Sarekat Islam activist, and a National Hero of Indonesia. He served as Governor of Central Java and Minister of Public Works and Manpower under the Great Indonesia Party. He was also a vice chairman of the BPUPK and a member of PPKI. He was the founder of the Civil Servants Cooperative Republic of Indonesia. Soeroso was born in Porong, Sidoarjo, East Java, Dutch East Indies. Soeroso was posthumously honored as an Indonesian National Hero through a Presidential Decree issued on October 23, 1986. He died in Indonesia.

Howard Washington Thurman fue un influyente escritor, filósofo, teólogo, educador y activista por los derechos civiles estadounidense. La teología de la no violencia radical de Thurman influyó decisivamente y dio forma a una generación de activistas afroamericanos, incluido Martin Luther King, Jr.

Philo McCullough was an American actor. He appeared in 255 films between 1914 and 1969. He was born in San Bernardino, California, and died in Burbank, California.