Birth Chart and Horoscope of 1981 deaths
- Aimé Maeght
- Albert Speer
- Alfie Anido
- Alfred Sharp
- Alfredo Guarini
- Alfredo Rampi
- Alice Lon
- Allen Ludden
- Allyn Joslyn
- Anatoly Nagiyev
- Antonio Berni
- Archie W. Butcher
- Armand Marquiset
- Austen Campbell
- Balfour Currie
- Ben Tumbling
- Bert Lyons (footballer)
- Bert Sutton
- Betty Jane Beard
- Bill Haley
- Bill Hallahan
- Bill Loeb
- Bill Melville
- Bill Shankly
- Billy Hooper
- Billy Powell (footballer)
- Bo Johnsson
- Bob Marley
- Bobby Sherwood
- Bronisław Malinowski (runner)
- Bruce Lindahl (criminal)
- Catherine Dorris Norrell
- Cecelia Ager
- Cecil Davidge
- Cecil P. Taylor
- Charles E. Kelly (cartoonist)
- Chet King
- Clarrie Answerth
- Clifford Battles
- Clyde T. Francisco
- Cola Debrot
- Danilo Švara
- David McGill (athlete)
- David Shakow
- Dele Udo
- Devaneya Pavanar
- Dick Hoover
- Dick Plasman
- Dieudonné Smets
- Don Ashby
- Don Megowan
- Dorothy Dare
- Durga Agarwal
- Dwight Caldwell
- Earle Brucker Sr.
- Eddie Eastwood
- Edwin Hunt
- Eliza Jane Pratt
- Emil Zeibig
- Emile Mercier (cartoonist)
- Erich Fiedler
- Ernst Pepping
- Erwin Schulz
- Fawn M. Brodie
- Francesca Woodman
- Frank D. Lanterman
- Frank Fitzsimmons
- Frank Matthews (footballer)
- François Bordes
- Fred Stiely
- Gabriel Hauge
- Gene Viernes
- George Cochran Doub
- George Harris (Australian footballer)
- Georges Brassens
- Germaine Poinso-Chapuis
- Ghislain Cloquet
- Gilbert Gray
- Giuseppe Pella
- Gloria Grahame
- Gwendolyn B. Bennett
- H.C. Westermann
- HAP Grieshaber
- Hal Adelquist
- Hans Söhnker
- Hans Adolf Krebs
- Harry Chapin
- Harry Wake
- Heinosuke Gosho
- Helen Blackler
- Henry Blanke
- Henry Eyring
- Hildegarde Dolson Lockridge
- Hocine Benmiloudi
- Hubert Shirley-Smith
- Hugo Friedhofer
- Ibrahim Muhammad Didi
- Ilmari Kuokka
- Irene Scruggs
- Irwin Shapiro
- Isabel Garcés
- Ivar Vičs
- J. Robert Bren
- Jaap Bakema
- Jake Simmons Jr.
- James L. White
- Jean Boyer (footballer)
- Jean Eustache
- Jean-Jérôme Adam
- Joe Louis
- Joe McDonnell (hunger striker)
- Johannes Kichlefeldt
- John Oates Bower
- John Roosevelt
- Johnny Doyle
- Jorge Urrutia Blondel
- José Martínez González
- Jules Charney
- Julio Libonatti
- Julita Ross
- Karl Evang
- Krishnasami Venkataraman
- Lanza Del Vasto
- Lawrence Edward Watkin
- Leonardo Sinisgalli
- Louis De Ridder
- Louis Gompers
- László Molnár
- Léo Collard
- Manuel Maples Arce
- Marcel Barnault
- Maria Moliner
- Marie Eline
- Marthe Robin
- Mary Alexander Cook
- Mary Riddle
- Matthew Beard
- Maud Rosenbaum
- Maurice Mandrillon
- Max Euwe
- Mel Holden
- Melvyn Douglas
- Mette Lange-Nielsen
- Michael Devine (hunger striker)
- Mickey Walker (boxer)
- Miguel de Capriles
- Moshe Dayan
- Murray Joslin
- Natalie Wood
- Nathalie Paley
- Niall Harrington
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (archivist)
- Paolo Mazza
- Patsy O'Hara
- Paul Bontemps
- Pedro Espinel Torres
- Per Wendelbo
- Peter Kreuder
- Pierre Billon
- Prince of Teck Maurice
- Princess of Greece and Denmark Margarita
- Queen Consort of Greece Friederike
- Rabindra Nath Chaudhuri
- Ragnar Magnusson
- Ray Oyler
- Rayner Heppenstall
- Richard Boone
- Richard Juckes
- Richard Rushton
- Rino Gaetano
- Robert Garioch
- Robert Giordani
- Robert Kellard
- Robert Montgomery
- Rolf Just Nilsen
- Ross Allen
- Rusty Chambers
- Sam Dalrymple
- Sammy Cohen
- Samuel Barber
- Seddon Bagley
- Stan Hollmig
- Stefan Wyszynski
- Steve Hanson (American football)
- Steven Timothy Judy
- Sydney Badeley
- Tex Hamer
- Theodor Schultes
- Tommy Downs
- Tony Piet
- Trygve de Lange
- Valérie Valère
- Victor Davis (footballer)
- Walter Heitler
- Wanda Hendrix
- William Holden
- William MacTaggart
- William Saroyan
- William Wyler
- Zarah Leander