List of Famous people who died at 81

Elín Ortiz was a Puerto Rican actor, comedian and producer. He died on June 12, 2016, primarily due to Alzheimer's Disease.

André Goustat was a French politician who was the co-founder of CPNT, an agrarianist political party in France. Goustat also served as the mayor of Mauzac-et-Grand-Castang and as the regional councilor of Aquitaine from 1992 to 2004.

David Francis Williamson, Baron Williamson of Horton was a senior British and European civil servant, as well as a member of the House of Lords.

Brigadier General Arnold Nugent Strode Strode-Jackson, was a British athlete, British Army officer, and a barrister. He was the winner of the 1500 m at the 1912 Summer Olympics, in what was hailed at the time as "the greatest race ever run". He was a brigadier general and amongst the most highly decorated British general officers of the First World War.

Katharina Mayberg (1925–2007) was a German film and television actress.

Thomas Newton Hill, Jr. was an Indian-born American character actor and director on stage for decades before starting in film in the mid-1960s and on television in the 1980s.

Katharine Burr Blodgett was an American physicist and chemist known for her work on surface chemistry, in particular her invention of "invisible" or nonreflective glass while working at General Electric. She was the first woman to be awarded a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Cambridge, in 1926.

Tatiana Zatulovskaya was an Israeli chess player. She was three-time Soviet women's champion and twice world women's senior champion. She was awarded the titles Woman International Master (WIM) in 1961 and Woman Grandmaster (WGM) in 1976 by FIDE. Her last name may also be spelled as Zatulovskaia or Zatulovskaja.

Karl-Heinz Weigang was a German professional football coach.

Altair Gomes de Figueiredo, usually referred to as Altair, was a football defender and a World Champion for Brazil in the 1962 World Cup.