List of Famous people who died at 81

Joseph Eric D'Arcy was the ninth Archbishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia from 1988 to 1999. Immediately prior to his appointment to Hobart, D'Arcy served as the sixth Bishop of the Diocese of Sale from 1981 to 1988.

John Milton Bright (1908-1989) was an American journalist, screenwriter and political activist.

Oddvar Berrefjord was a Norwegian jurist and politician for the Labour Party.

John Pfahl was an American photographer.

Harry Angelman was a British consultant paediatrician who identified and named Angelman syndrome.

Joseph Crescent McKinney was a late 20th-century and early 21st-century bishop of the Catholic Church in the United States. He served as auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Grand Rapids in the state of Michigan from 1968-2001.

Robert Easton was an American radio, film, and television actor whose career spanned more than 60 years. His mastery of English dialect earned him the epithet "The Man of a Thousand Voices". For decades, he was a leading Hollywood dialogue or accent coach.

Joseph Devine was the Roman Catholic Bishop of Motherwell in Scotland.