List of Famous people who died at 81

Sir Eduardo Luigi Paolozzi was a Scottish sculptor and artist. He is widely considered to be one of the pioneers of pop art.

Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky was a Soviet composer and teacher of Russian gentry descent.

Karl Klasen was a German jurist and served as president of the Bundesbank from 1970 to 1977. He was co-head of Deutsche Bank from 1967 to 1969.

Carolyn George was an American ballerina, photographer, and dance instructor.

René Jules Dubos was a French-American microbiologist, experimental pathologist, environmentalist, humanist, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for his book So Human An Animal. He is credited for having made famous the environmental maxim: "Think globally, act locally." Aside from a period from 1942 to 1944 when he was George Fabyan Professor of Comparative Pathology and professor of tropical medicine at Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health, his scientific career was spent entirely at The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, later renamed The Rockefeller University.