List of Famous people who died at 81

Benoît Faure was a French professional road bicycle racer. Benoît Faure was a brother of cyclists Eugène Faure and Francis Faure.

Frank Magee was an American film editor.

Yasuji Kiyose was a Japanese composer. He studied composition privately with Kōsaku Yamada and Kōsuke Komatsu and in 1930, took an active part in organizing the Shinkō Sakkyokuka Renmei,.

Boris de Fast was a Russian actor, screenwriter, film editor and make-up artist. Born in Feodosia, Crimea in the Russian Empire, he emigrated to France where he worked in the county's film industry. His only American film was a strange villainous performance in Tempest(1928)

Chu Shong-tin was the third Hong Kong period student of famous Chinese Kung Fu teacher Yip Man since Yip Man taught many persons in China previously, in the discipline of Wing Chun, and remained at Yip Man's school to become his senior instructor.

Jacob Geis was a German theatre director, screenwriter and film producer. He wrote for 35 films between 1935 and 1959.

Quartus de Wet was a South African judge who served as Judge President of the Transvaal Provincial Division of the Supreme Court of South Africa.