List of Famous people who died in 1981

Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fetin was a Soviet film director. He was named Merited Artist of the RSFSR in 1975.

Muhammad Sulayman al-Ahmad, better known by his pen name Badawi al-Jabal, was a Syrian poet known for his work in the neo-classical Arabic form. According to anthologist Salma Khadra Jayyusi, Badawi was "one of the greatest poets of the old school".

Ichikawa Fusae was a Japanese feminist, politician and a leader of the women's suffrage movement. Ichikawa was a key supporter of women's suffrage in Japan, and her activism was partially responsible for the extension of the franchise to women in 1945.

Marcia Moretto, born in 1946 in USA, Illinois, and died in 1983 in Paris, was a dancer, choreographer and director.

Lobsang Rampa is the pen name of an author who wrote books with paranormal and occult themes. His best known work is The Third Eye, published in Britain in 1956.

Muhammad Junaid Muhammad Lafir also known as either Mohammed Lafir or M J M Lafir was a Sri Lankan snooker player. He won the IBSF Amateur World Championship in 1973 and is regarded as the greatest snooker player of Sri Lanka.

Uwe Behrendt was a German right-wing terrorist. He is accused of killing two people and of torturing several other. He was also the deputy-leader of a militant right-wing organisation "Wehrsportgruppe Hoffmann".

Delesio Antonio Berni was an Argentine figurative artist. He is associated with the movement known as Nuevo Realismo, a Latin American extension of social realism. His work, including a series of Juanito Laguna collages depicting poverty and the effects of industrialization in Buenos Aires, has been exhibited around the world.

Münir Nurettin Selçuk was a Turkish classical musician and tenor singer.

Lanza del Vasto was an Italian philosopher, poet, artist, Catholic and nonviolent activist.