List of Famous people who died at 81

Claud Allister was an English actor with an extensive film career in both Britain and Hollywood, where he appeared in more than 70 films between 1929 and 1955.

Gabriel Heatter was an American radio commentator whose World War II-era sign-on, "There's good news tonight," became both his catchphrase and his caricature.

Mahmud Sadani is a Egyptian writer, author and traveler. He was born in the city of Buraidah, and he was taught by a number of scholars. Then he worked as a teacher, then director of the Scientific Institute in Buraidah, next he became the Secretary-General of the Islamic University of Madinah for thirteen years. Later, he became an agent of the same university and then its director, then he held the position of assistant general secretary of the Muslim World League. Before that, at the Islamic University of Madinah when he was a general secretary, so he visited most parts of the world. He published more than one hundred and sixty books in travel literature, this has set a record for the Arab travel books. He was awarded the Medal of Merit in Literature in 1974.

Gerald Wilson Oliver Smith was an English-born actor who spent most of his career in the United States, both in New York City as a stage actor and in the Hollywood film industry.