List of Famous people who died at 81

Alessandro Mazzinghi, known as Sandro, was an Italian professional boxer who held the world light middleweight championship twice.

Austin J. Rhodes was an English World Cup winning professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1950s and 1960s, and coached in the 1970s. He played at representative level for Great Britain, and at club level for St Helens, Leigh and Swinton as a goal-kicking fullback, centre, stand-off or scrum-half, i.e. number 1, 3 or 4, 6 or, 7, and coached at club level for Swinton and Pilkington Recs.

Christopher John Penrice Booker was an English journalist and author. He was a founder and contributor of the satirical magazine Private Eye in 1961. From 1990 onward he was a columnist for The Sunday Telegraph. Booker was a global warming denier and in 2009, he published The Real Global Warming Disaster. He disputed the dangers posed by asbestos. In his Sunday Telegraph section he frequently commented on the UK Family Courts and Social Services.

Taha Jabir Al-Alwani, Ph.D., was the President of Cordoba University in Ashburn, Virginia, United States. He also held the Imam Al-Shafi'i Chair in the Islamic Legal Theory at The Graduate School of Islamic and Social Sciences at Corboda University. Al-Alwani concentrated on the fields of Islamic legal theory, jurisprudence (fiqh), usul al-fiqh, Qur'anic sciences, and general Islamic thought.

Howard Rodney "Doc" Edwards, was an American professional baseball catcher, manager, and coach, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Cleveland Indians, Kansas City Athletics, New York Yankees, and Philadelphia Phillies, over parts of five seasons, spanning nine years. Edwards also managed the Indians, for parts of three seasons.

Ferenc Kósa was a Hungarian film director and screenwriter. He directed thirteen films between 1961 and 1988. He won the award for Best Director at the 1967 Cannes Film Festival for the film Ten Thousand Days.

Field Marshal Sir Gerald Walter Robert Templer, was a senior British Army officer who fought in both the world wars. He is best known for his defeat of the guerrilla rebels in Malaya between 1952 and 1954. As Chief of the Imperial General Staff, the professional head of the British Army, from 1955–58, he was Prime Minister Anthony Eden's chief military adviser during the Suez Crisis.

Baron Göran Fredrik von Otter was a Swedish diplomat and friherre, best known for his service in Berlin during World War II. Anne Sofie von Otter is von Otter's daughter; former Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik von Otter was his grandfather.

Edie Adams was an American comedienne, actress, singer and businesswoman. She was a Tony Award winner and an Emmy Award nominee.