List of Famous people who died at 81

José Guardiola Díaz de Rada, was a Spanish singer of popular music who sang in Spanish and Catalan.

Lucien Charles Gilbert Daloz was the archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Besançon, France.

Ralph Vinton Lyon Hartley was an American electronics researcher. He invented the Hartley oscillator and the Hartley transform, and contributed to the foundations of information theory.

Joseph B. Willigers, MHM was the Roman Catholic bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Jinja in Jinja, Uganda. His episcopal motto was De petra melle, Psalm 81; 17.

Carlos Savage (1919-2000) was a Mexican film editor and actor. He is also one of the descendants of Mexican ex-President Benito Juarez. His father, Carlos Savage Juarez, is the grandson of former Mexican President Benito Juarez, who was also a cadet in Mexico's Heroic Military Academy, where he participated in the famous "Marcha de la Lealtad" or "March of Loyalty" of the Mexican ex-president Francisco I. Madero.

Friedrich Hans Beck was a German physicist. His research interests were focused on superconductivity, nuclear and elementary particle physics, relativistic quantum field theory, and late in his life, biophysics and theory of consciousness.

Gerald Theron Campion was an English actor best remembered for his role as Billy Bunter in a 1950s television adaptation of books by Frank Richards.

Paul Marie Kinam Roh was Bishop of Seoul in 1940–1962 and then Archbishop for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Seoul in 1962–1967. He was noted as Pro-American and Anti-Communist in the Syngman Rhee years.