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Durgabai Deshmukh
Indian freedom fighter, politician, and social worker
Ella Grasso
American politician; 83rd governor of Connecticut (1975-80)
Francis Hunter
US tennis player (1894–1981)
Gunichi Mikawa
Japanese admiral (1888–1981)
Hilde Krahwinkel Sperling
German-Danish tennis player
Marcel Bezençon
Swiss broadcasting executive (1907-1981)
Guy Butler
athletics competitor (1899-1981)
Franjo Šeper
Croatian Roman Catholic cardinal (1905–1981)
Lydia Lopokova
Russian ballet dancer (1892–1981)
Rino Gaetano
Italian recording artist; singer-songwriter
Jim Davis
American actor (1909–1981)
Bruce Fraser, 1st Baron Fraser of North Cape
Royal Navy admiral of the fleet (1888-1981)
Heinz Kohut
Austrian-American psychoanalyst and psychiatrist (1913-1981)
Savitri
Indian actress (1935–1981)
Richard Boone
American actor (1917–1981)
Lanza del Vasto
philosopher, poet, artist, activist (1901–1981)
Bronisław Malinowski
Polish athlete (1951–1981)
Ricardo Wolf
German-Cuban inventor, Cuban ambassador to Israel and philanthropist (1887–1982)
Harry Warren
American composer and lyricist (1893–1981)
Howard Hanson
American composer, conductor, educator and music theorist (1896–1981)
Henry Eyring
Mexican-born American theoretical chemist (1901-1981)
Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, 16th Karmapa
Karmapas (1924–1981)
Jan Burgers
Dutch physicist (1895-1981)
Mica Todorović
Bosnian painter
Ivan Eklind
Swedish football referee (1905-1981)
Andrei Alexandrovich of Russia
Russian prince (1897–1981)
Natalia Pavlovna Paley
member of the Romanov family (1905-1981)
Irving Jaffee
speed skater (1906-1981)
János Pilinszky
Hungarian poet, writer (1921–1981)
Tadeusz Kotarbiński
Polish philosopher (1886–1981)
Paco Bienzobas
Spanish football player/manager/referee (1909-1981)
Yip Harburg
American lyricist (1896–1981)
Big Walter Horton
American blues harmonica player (1921–1981)
Malcolm MacDonald
British politician and diplomat (1901-1981)
Crisant Bosch
Spanish footballer (1907-1981)
David Garnett
British writer and publisher (1892-1981)
Helmut Gröttrup
German engineer and inventor of the smart card (1916-1981)
Ariel Durant
Russian-Jewish American writer
Antonio Berni
Argentine artist (1905-1981)
Rudolf Krčil
Czech footballer (1906-1981)
Rensis Likert
American statistician (1903–1981)
Julio Libonatti
Argentine footballer (1901-1981)
Zdeněk Burian
Czech illustrator, painter and biological illustrator (1905-1981)
François Bordes
French geologist, archaeologist and author (1919-1981)
Aleksandra Beļcova
Latvian artist (1892–1981)
Evsei Liberman
Soviet economist (1897-1981)
Donald Wills Douglas, Sr.
American aeroplanes designer and businessman (1892–1981)
Ludwig Goldbrunner
German footballer (1908–1981)
Roman Rudenko
Soviet lawyer (1907-1981)
Tadeusz Baird
Polish composer (1928–1981)
Barbara Ward
British economist; life peer (1914-1981)
Stefanie Clausen
Danish diver (1900-1981)
Carleton S. Coon
American anthropologist
Lev Atamanov
Soviet animator (1905–1981)
Robert Russell Bennett
American composer, arranger (1894-1981)
Nils Asther
Swedish actor (1897–1981)
Leonard Howell
Jamaican Rastafari preacher (1898–1981)
Carl Knowles
American basketball player (1910-1981)
Gerhard Marcks
German sculptor (1889–1981)
Adele Astaire
American dancer and entertainer (1896-1981)