List of Famous people who died at 81

Alice Lex-Nerlinger was a German mid-century artist in the media of painting, photography, photomontage and photograms.

Dennis Stock was an American journalist and professional photographer.

Jacques Michel Gabriel Paul Benoist-Méchin was a French far right politician and writer. He was born and died in Paris. Well known as a journalist and historian, he later became prominent for his collaborationism under the Vichy regime. After his conviction in 1947 and release from prison in 1954, he became an Arab world expert in the second part of his life.

Cornelius Michael 'Nelie' Smith was a South African rugby union player and coach.

Jürgen Roland, born Jürgen Schellack was a German film director. Roland was described as the "father of German TV crime shows". He directed about 80 TV productions and 30 movies.

Henri Queffélec was a French writer and screenwriter.

Sir Michael Robert Emanuel Kerr was a German-born British jurist, author lawyer and high court judge. He had been told, he said, that he was England's first "foreign-born judge" in eight hundred years, though he himself was careful neither to confirm nor refute the suggestion.

Antonio Calpe Hernández was a Spanish professional footballer who played as a defender.

Nguyen Manh Khanh, also known as Quasar Khanh, was a Vietnamese engineer, an inventor, and a designer. The Vietnamese and French community significantly recognizes him for his inflatable furniture line Aerospace. At the age of fifteen, Khanh moved to Paris, France and established himself as the most significant Vietnamese furniture designer of the 20th century. He was one of a handful of designers whose shocking products, in color and in form, were in touch with the renegade spirit of the 1960s.

Antônio Bivar Battistetti Lima, better known simply as Antônio Bivar, was a Brazilian writer of the Beat Generation and playwright.