List of Famous people who died in 1981

Eugenio Montale was an Italian poet, prose writer, editor and translator, and recipient of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Wallace Allan Wood was an American comic book writer, artist and independent publisher, best known for his work on EC Comics's Mad and Marvel's Daredevil. He was one of Mad's founding cartoonists in 1952. Although much of his early professional artwork is signed Wallace Wood, he became known as Wally Wood, a name he claimed to dislike. Within the comics community, he was also known as Woody, a name he sometimes used as a signature.

James Lonsdale-Bryans (1893–1981) was a British writer, amateur diplomat and Nazi sympathiser.

Henri Gaston Busignies was an electrical engineer who made major contributions to radar, radio communication, and radio navigation. He held 140 patents, many of them secret.

Abdelmajid Benjelloun (1919–1981) was a novelist, journalist and ambassador from Morocco.

Assad Bucaram Elmhalin was an Ecuadorian politician of Lebanese descent, he occupied positions as city Councilor and later of Mayor of Guayaquil. He was elected a Deputy for the province of Guayaquil and was later appointed President of the National Assembly of Ecuador.