List of Famous people who died at 81

Mahavir Tyagi was a prominent Indian independence fighter and famous parliamentarian from Dehra Dun, Uttar Pradesh India. He was born on 31 December 1899 at Dhabarsi, Moradabad District in Uttar Pradesh, then known as the United Provinces.

Thae Byong-ryol, General of the Korean People ’s Army. On October 1980 elected by the First Plenary Session of the 6th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea he was elected a member of the Central Military Commission. Thae Byong-ryol served as a member of the central Committee from October 14, 1980 until his death. He has at least one son named Thae Hyong-chol, who is the president of Kim Il Sung University.

Sir Oswald Victor Cheung was a barrister in Hong Kong, known as the "doyen of the bar".

Ronald Myles Dworkin was an American philosopher, jurist, and scholar of United States constitutional law. At the time of his death, he was Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law and Philosophy at New York University and Professor of Jurisprudence at University College London. Dworkin had taught previously at Yale Law School and the University of Oxford, where he was the Professor of Jurisprudence, successor to renowned philosopher H. L. A. Hart. An influential contributor to both philosophy of law and political philosophy, Dworkin received the 2007 Holberg International Memorial Prize in the Humanities for "his pioneering scholarly work" of "worldwide impact." According to a survey in The Journal of Legal Studies, Dworkin was the second most-cited American legal scholar of the twentieth century. After his death, the Harvard legal scholar Cass Sunstein said Dworkin was "one of the most important legal philosophers of the last 100 years. He may well head the list."

Ding Ling, formerly romanized as Ting Ling, was the pen name of Jiang Bingzhi, also known as Bin Zhi, one of the most celebrated 20th-century Chinese women authors. She was awarded the Soviet Union's Stalin second prize for Literature in 1951.

Hédi Jouini was a Tunisian singer, oud player, and composer. In his long career, Jouini composed close to 1,070 songs and 56 operettas. His songs are inspired by traditional Andalusian music, and found great popularity in Tunisia and the countries of the Mashriq.

Aminuddin Ponulele was an Indonesian academic and politician who served as Governor of Central Sulawesi from 2001 to 2006. He also served as the speaker of the Central Sulawesi Provincial House of Representatives from 2009 to 2019. He also ran as a candidate for governor in the Central Sulawesi Provincial General Election in 2011.

Zaid Kilani was a Jordanian physician specializing in obstetrics and gynecology and founder and director of Farah Maternity Hospital in Amman, and a member of the Jordanian Senate. He died on November 9, 2019.

Lei Chen was an Chinese politician and dissident who was the early leading figure in the movement to bring fuller democracy to the government of the Republic of China.

Arbi Sanit was an Indonesian political scientist and lecturer in the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Indonesia. He wrote several books on Indonesian political system.