Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 1981

Sudhin Dasgupta was a prolific Bengali music director, lyricist, and singer. He worked in various other Indian languages, such as Hindi, Assamese and Oriya. His contribution opened a new horizon to the Bengali music for both the arenas of Bengali basic song as well as Bengali film song.

Omar Khorshid was an Egyptian guitarist, musician, composer, accompanist, and actor. Born in Cairo, Khorshid was a well-known guitarist who accompanied many singers, including Farid Al Atrash, Umm Kulthum, Mohamed Abdel Wahab, and Abdel Halim Hafez.

Marcia Lenore Sossoman (King) fue una joven de 21 años originaria de Arkansas que fue asesinada en abril de 1981 y cuyo cuerpo fue descubierto en Troy, Ohio aproximadamente 48 horas después de su asesinato. Su cuerpo permaneció sin identificar durante 36 años antes de ser identificada mediante análisis de ADN y la genealogía genética en abril de 2018. King fue uno de los primeros difuntos no identificados en ser identificado mediante este método de investigación forense.

Milorad Petrović was an Armijski đeneral in the Royal Yugoslav Army who commanded the 1st Army Group during the April 1941 German-led Axis invasion of Yugoslavia of World War II. Petrović was commissioned into the Royal Serbian Army in 1901 and served in multiple staff positions during the Balkan Wars. During World War I, he served in various staff roles at the army and divisional level during the Serbian Campaign and later on the Macedonian Front. Following the war, he took part in military operations along the disputed northern border of the nascent Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, which was renamed the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in 1929. During the interwar period, Petrović was steadily promoted, performing key roles at the Ministry of the Army and Navy. He reached the rank of armijski đeneral in 1937. At the time of the 27 March 1941 Yugoslav coup d'état, he was the military commander of the Yugoslav capital, Belgrade.

Chen Wen-chen was a Taiwanese assistant professor of mathematics at Carnegie Mellon University who died on 3 July 1981 (aged 31) under mysterious circumstances. After the conclusion of his third year of teaching, he returned to his native Taiwan for a vacation. He was instructed not to leave Taiwan on his scheduled departure date. Members of Taiwan's secret police, the Garrison Command, detained and interrogated him for twelve hours on 2 July 1981, and his body was found on the campus of National Taiwan University the next day. The subsequent autopsy reported his death was due to a fall. Chen's death and the earlier massacre of Lin Yi-hsiung's family are cited as late examples of White Terror dissident suppression activities in Taiwan, although the case remains unsolved and the Garrison Command maintains it had nothing to do with his death. In 2020, the Transitional Justice Commission released a report concluding that Chen was most likely killed by state security agencies.

María Juana Moliner Ruiz fue una bibliotecaria, archivera, filóloga y lexicógrafa española, autora del Diccionario de uso del español.

Armando Bó fue un director de cine, actor y productor de cine argentino, conocido en Iberoamérica por las películas sexploitation que realizó protagonizadas por Isabel Sarli. Sarli fue pareja de Bó durante casi toda su vida, aunque nunca se casaron.

Karl Ferdinand Lütgendorf, born Karl Ferdinand Freiherr von Lütgendorf was an Austrian soldier and politician who served as the Defense Minister of Austria from 1971 to 1977. He died in 1981, in an apparent suicide, after the discovery of his part in the Lucona affair.

Hans Albert Edmund Söhnker fue un actor y cantante de nacionalidad alemana.

Abdullah Ibn Humaid, (1908–1981) also known as Abdullah bin Muhammad bin Humaid was the Chief Justice of Saudi Arabia and Imam of the Great Mosque of Mecca. He was succeeded as Great Mosque imam by his son Salih bin Abdullah al Humaid (1949-).