List of Famous people who are 81

Alain Deloche, born 2 September 1940 at Paris, is a French surgeon. Ex member of Médecins Sans Frontières, he cofounded Médecins du Monde and is board member of the Surgeons of Hope Foundation since 1988.

Lydia Selina Dunn, Baroness Dunn,, JP is a Hong Kong-born retired British businesswoman and politician. She became the second person of Hong Kong origin and the first female ethnic Chinese Hongkonger to be elevated to the peerage as a life peeress with the title and style of Baroness in 1990.

Eberhard Weber is a German double bassist and composer. As a bass player, he is known for his highly distinctive tone and phrasing. Weber's compositions blend chamber jazz, European classical music, minimalism and ambient music, and are regarded as characteristic examples of the ECM Records sound.

Jacqueline Sassard is an actress best known for appearances in Italian films such as Guendalina directed by Alberto Lattuada, a young woman with family and financial troubles in Luigi Zampa's Il Magistrato and Valerio Zurlini's Violent Summer (1959), in which her character was left by Jean-Louis Trintignant.

Louis Tebogo Moholo, is a South African jazz drummer. He has been a member of several notable bands, including The Blue Notes, the Brotherhood of Breath and Assagai.

Heinz Zednik is an Austrian operatic buffo tenor, closely associated with the character tenor roles of Wagner such as Mime and Loge and David. He is also distinguished in roles such as Valzacchi, Monostatos, Pedrillo, the Scribe (Khovanshchina), the Captain in Wozzeck, and the Director.

Gao Xingjian is a Chinese émigré novelist, playwright, critic, painter, photographer, film director, and translator who in 2000 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for an oeuvre of universal validity, bitter insights and linguistic ingenuity." He is also a noted translator, screenwriter, stage director, and a celebrated painter. In 1998, Gao was granted French citizenship.

Mukhtar Magauin is a Kazakh writer and publicist. He was born in the district of Chubar-Tau in Semey region of Kazakhstan on 2 February 1940. He graduated at the Kazakh state university (1962) and the doctorate (1965) there. He was head of the literary criticism department at the “Kazakh literature” newspaper in Almaty. He publishes several scholarly articles and books and novels.

Guy Cloutier is a Canadian music producer and talent manager.

Jürgen Chrobog is a German jurist, diplomat, and German Ambassador to the United States from 1995 to 2001 and German State Secretary from 2001-2005. He was kidnapped on December 28, 2005 in eastern Yemen during a cross-country vacation, along with his wife and three grown sons, and released three days later along with his family.