List of Famous people who died at 81

Jean Vauthier was a 20th-century French playwright.

Germaine Kerjean (1893–1975) was a French stage and film actress. She spent a decade with the Comédie-Française. In films she frequently played character roles.

Baltasar Leite Rebelo de Sousa, GCIH was a Portuguese politician and a former minister and member of parliament and medicine professor.

Irina Vsevolodovna Murzaeva was a Soviet actress of theater and cinema.

Jean-Claude Bouillaud was a French film and television actor.

Flavio Emoli was an Italian professional footballer from Turin who played as a midfielder. He is mostly remembered for his 10 years with Juventus, where he won three Serie A titles, and served as the team's captain.

Jean-Louis Bernard was a member of the National Assembly of France. and represented the Loiret department. He was born in Saulieu, Côte-d'Or, and was a member of the Radical Party and worked in association with the Union for a Popular Movement. He was the mayor of Orléans from 1988 to 1989.

Sun Fo or Sun Ke, courtesy name Zhesheng (哲生), was a high-ranking official in the government of the Republic of China. He was the son of Sun Yat-sen, the founder of the Republic of China, and his first wife Lu Muzhen.

Kenneth Eugene Silverman was an American biographer and educator. He won a Pulitzer Prize and a Bancroft Prize for his 1984 biography of Cotton Mather, The Life and Times of Cotton Mather. Silverman, who specialized in Colonial American literature, was a professor of English at New York University until his retirement in 2001.

Mamadou Diop was a Senegalese politician, and a member of the central committee of the Socialist Party of Senegal. Diop was the mayor of the capital city of Dakar for 18 years between 1984 and 2002.