List of Famous people who died at 81

Valeri Yevseevich Kozinets is a Soviet Russian stage and film actor and screenwriter.

Josef Suk was a Czech violinist, violist, chamber musician and conductor. In his home country he carried the title of National Artist.

Baard Arne Owe, sometimes credited Bård Owe, was a Norwegian-born actor who has acted in many Scandinavian films and TV series. He moved to Denmark in 1956, and there he lived and worked right up to his death.

Edmund Schlink was a German-Lutheran pastor and theologian. Between 1946 and his retirement in 1971 he was a professor of dogmatic and ecumenical theology at Heidelberg University.

George Habash, also known by his laqab "al-Hakim" was a Palestinian Christian politician who founded the left-wing secular nationalist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). Habash served as Secretary-General of the PFLP until 2000, when ill health forced him to resign.

Thomas Christoph Harlan was a German author and director of French-language films.

George Porter, Baron Porter of Luddenham was a British chemist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1967.

Harold C. Lear Jr. was an American basketball player.