List of Famous people who died in 1981

Daigaku Horiguchi was a poet and translator of French literature in Taishō and Shōwa period Japan. He is credited with introducing French surrealism to Japanese poetry, and to translating the works of over 66 French authors into Japanese.

Carel Hendrik Frederik Polak was a Dutch politician of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) and jurist.

Giuseppe Anatrelli, also known as Geppino Anatrelli, was an Italian film, stage and television actor.

Ketti Frings was an American author, playwright, and screenwriter who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1958.

Paul Eliot Green was an American playwright whose work includes historical dramas of life in North Carolina during the first decades of the twentieth century. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his 1927 play, In Abraham's Bosom, which was included in Burns Mantle's The Best Plays of 1926-1927.

Félix Pollaczek was an Austrian-French engineer and mathematician, known for numerous contributions to number theory, mathematical analysis, mathematical physics and probability theory. He is best known for the Pollaczek–Khinchine formula in queueing theory (1930), and the Pollaczek polynomials.