List of Famous people who died at 81

Giuseppe Alberigo was an Italian historian and editor of a history of the Second Vatican Council that pointed out the discontinuities of the Council and departures from previous Church teaching.

Nurul Amin, referred to as the 'Patriot of Pakistan', was a prominent Pakistani leader, and a jurist who served as Prime Minister of Pakistan and as the first and only Vice President of Pakistan. He is noted as being the last Bengali leader of Pakistan. His term of 13 days as prime minister was the shortest served in pakistani parliamentary history.

Ignatius Basile Moses I Daoud was Patriarch of Antioch for the Syrian Catholic Church, a Cardinal Bishop, and Prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches in the Catholic Church.

Howard Washington Thurman was an American author, philosopher, theologian, educator, and civil rights leader. As a prominent religious figure, he played a leading role in many social justice movements and organizations of the twentieth century. Thurman's theology of radical nonviolence influenced and shaped a generation of civil rights activists, and he was a key mentor to leaders within the civil rights movement, including Martin Luther King Jr.