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Deaths in a year
The following is a list of notable deaths in 1981 . Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
Deaths in 1981
January
Harold Urey
Beulah Bondi
January 1
January 3
January 4 –
Ruth Lowe , Canadian pianist and songwriter (b.
1914 )
January 5
January 6 –
A. J. Cronin , Scottish novelist (b.
1896 )
[3]
January 7
Jose Ardevol , Cuban composer and conductor of Spanish derivation (b.
1911 )
Alvar Lidell , English radio announcer and newsreader for the
BBC and compere (b. 1908)
January 9
January 10
January 11 –
Beulah Bondi , American actress (b.
1889 )
January 12 –
Isobel Elsom , English film, theatre, and television actress (b.
1893 )
January 15 –
January 16 –
Bernard Lee , English actor (b.
1908 )
January 17 –
Loukas Panourgias , Greek athlete and footballer (b.
1899 )
January 19 –
Francesca Woodman , American photographer (b.
1958 )
January 21 –
Allyn Joslyn , American actor (b.
1901 )
January 22 –
Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi , Pakistani nationalist historian and playwright (b.
1903 )
January 23
January 25 –
Adele Astaire , American dancer and actress (b.
1896 )
January 29 –
Lajos Korányi , Hungarian footballer (b.
1907 )
January 30 –
John Gordon , Irish
Roman Catholic bishop (b.
1912 )
January 31 –
Cozy Cole , American jazz drummer (b.
1909 )
February
Bill Haley
Ibrahim Abdel Hady Pasha
March
Roberto Francisco Chiari Remón
Max Delbrück
John S. McCain Jr.
March 1 –
Roberto Francisco Chiari Remón , 14th
President of Panama (b.
1905 )
March 2
March 4 –
Torin Thatcher , American actor (b.
1905 )
March 5 –
March 6 –
George Geary , English cricketer (b.
1893 )
March 7
March 9 –
Max Delbrück , German biologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1906 )
[6]
March 10 –
Flavio Calzavara , Italian director and screenwriter (b.
1900 )
March 11 –
Kazimierz Kordylewski , Polish astronomer (b.
1903 )
March 14
March 15 –
René Clair , French film director (b.
1898 )
March 17 –
Paul Dean , American
Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher (
1912 )
March 19 –
Frank Lane , American executive in professional baseball (b.
1895 )
March 20 –
Gerry Bertier , American college football player (b.
1953 )
March 21 –
Mark Donskoy , Russian Soviet film director (b.
1901 )
March 22
March 23
March 26 –
Cyril Dean Darlington , English biologist, geneticist and eugenicist, (b.
1903 )
March 27 –
Mao Dun , Chinese novelist, cultural critic, and minister of culture (b.
1896 )
[8]
March 29 –
Eric Williams , 1st
Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (b.
1911 )
March 30
March 31
April
Joe Louis
Prince Yasuhiko Asaka
April 1 –
Eua Sunthornsanan , singer, Thai composer and
bandleader of the
Suntaraporn Band (b.
1910 )
April 2 –
Delfo Cabrera , Argentine athlete, winner of the marathon race at the
1948 Summer Olympics (b.
1918 )
April 3
April 5
April 7
April 8 –
Omar Bradley , American army general (b.
1893 )
[11]
April 10
April 11
April 12
April 14 –
Ivan Galamian ,
Armenian-American violin teacher (b.
1903 )
April 15
April 16 –
April 18 –
James H. Schmitz , German-American writer (b.
1911 )
April 19 –
Ernst Levy , Swiss
musicologist , composer, pianist and conductor (b.
1895 )
April 21 –
Eddie Sauter , American composer and arranger (b.
1914 )
April 23 –
Josep Pla , Spanish journalist and author (b.
1897 )
[13]
April 26
April 27 –
John Aspinwall Roosevelt , American businessman and philanthropist (b.
1916 )
April 28
April 30 –
Peter Huchel , German poet and editor (b.
1903 )
May
Bob Marley
William Saroyan
Stefan Wyszyński
Soong Ching-ling
Ziaur Rahman
May 1 –
Barry Jones , American actor (b.
1893 )
May 3 –
Nargis , Indian actress (b.
1929 )
May 4 –
Paul Green , American
Pulitzer Prize -winning playwright (b.
1894 )
[14]
May 5 –
Bobby Sands , Irish republican hunger striker (b.
1954 )
May 6 –
Frank O'Grady , Australian public servant (b.
1900 )
May 7 –
Hiromichi Yahara , Imperial Japanese Army officer (b.
1902 )
May 8 –
Prince Andrei Alexandrovich of Russia (b.
1897 )
May 9
May 10 –
Ismail of Johor , Malaysian sultan (b.
1894 )
May 11
May 12 –
Benjamin Sheares , Singaporean politician and professor, 2nd
President of Singapore (b.
1907 )
May 13
May 14 –
J. Posadas , Argentine politician (b.
1912 )
May 16 –
Ernie Freeman , American pianist,
organist , bandleader, and
arranger (b.
1922 )
May 17 –
May 18
May 20 –
Dositej II, Archbishop of Ohrid and Macedonia (b.
1906 )
May 21
May 22 –
Boris Sagal , Ukrainian-American television and film director (b.
1923 )
May 23
May 24
May 25
May 28
May 29 –
Soong Ching-ling , Acting head of State of the People's Republic of China (b.
1893 )
May 30
May 31
June
Rino Gaetano
Zarah Leander
June 1 –
Carl Vinson , American politician (b.
1883 )
[18]
June 2 –
Rino Gaetano , Italian musician and singer-songwriter (b.
1950 )
June 5 –
Miguel Contreras Torres , Mexican actor, director, producer and screenwriter (b.
1899 )
June 10
June 11 –
Botak Chin , Malaysian criminal and gangster (b.
1951 )
June 12 –
Mahmoud Fawzi , Egyptian diplomat and political figure, 35th
Prime Minister of Egypt (b.
1900 )
June 13 –
George Walsh , American actor (b.
1889 )
June 16 –
Sir Thomas Playford , Australian politician,
Premier of South Australia (b.
1896 )
June 17 – Sir
Richard O'Connor , British general (b.
1889 )
June 19 –
Lotte Reiniger , German silhouette animator (b.
1899 )
June 22
June 23 –
Zarah Leander , Swedish actress and singer (b.
1907 )
June 28
July
Qahtan Muhammad al-Shaabi
July 1
July 3 –
Ross Martin , American actor (b.
1920 )
July 7 –
Qahtan Muhammad al-Shaabi , South Yemenite socialist leader, 1st President of
South Yemen (b.
1920 )
July 8
July 10 –
Giorgio De Lullo , Italian actor and director (b.
1921 )
July 16 –
Harry Chapin , American singer and songwriter (b.
1942 )
July 26 –
Stafford L. Warren , American physician and radiologist; inventor of the mammogram (b. 1896)
[19]
July 27 –
William Wyler , American movie director (b.
1902 )
[20]
July 28 –
Stanley Francis Rother , American priest, martyr, and Blessed (b.
1935 )
July 29 –
Robert Moses , American urban planner (b.
1888 )
July 31 –
Omar Torrijos , Panamanian leader (b.
1929 )
August
Melvyn Douglas
Béla Guttmann
September
Albert Speer
Robert Montgomery
Romulo Betancourt
September 1
September 2 –
Dame Enid Lyons , Australian politician (b.
1897 )
September 7 –
Christy Brown , Irish writer and painter (b.
1932 )
[22]
September 8
September 9
September 11 –
Frank McHugh , American actor (b.
1898 )
September 12 –
Eugenio Montale , Italian writer,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1896 )
[25]
September 14 –
Charles L. Melson , American admiral (b.
1904 )
September 15
September 17 –
Sir Milton Allen , Governor of Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla (b.
1888 )
[26]
September 21 –
Nigel Patrick , English actor (b.
1912 )
September 22 –
Harry Warren , American songwriter (b.
1893 )
September 23 –
Chief Dan George , Canadian actor and writer, tribal chief of the
Tsleil-Waututh First Nation (b.
1899 )
September 24 –
Patsy Kelly , American actress (b.
1910 )
September 27 –
Robert Montgomery , American actor and director (b.
1904 )
September 28
September 29
October
Gloria Grahame
Anwar Sadat
October 2
October 3 –
Chrysostom Blashkevich , Soviet
Benedict monk (b.
1915 )
October 4 –
Freddie Lindstrom , American baseball player (
New York Giants ) and a member of the
MLB Hall of Fame (b.
1905 )
October 5 –
Gloria Grahame , 57, American actress, breast cancer.
October 6 –
Anwar Sadat , 62, 37th
Prime Minister of Egypt and 3rd
President of Egypt , recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize , assassinated.
October 13
October 16
October 22 –
Michael Granger , American actor (b.
1923 )
October 24 –
Edith Head , American costume designer (b.
1897 )
October 25 –
Barbara Bedford , American actress (b.
1903 )
October 27 –
John Warburton , British actor (b.
1899 )
October 29 –
Georges Brassens , French singer and songwriter (b.
1921 )
November
William Holden
Natalie Wood
November 2 –
Wally Wood , American cartoonist (b.
1927 )
November 5 –
Jean Eustache , French film director (b.
1938 )
November 7 –
Will Durant , American philosopher and writer (b.
1885 )
November 10 –
Abel Gance , French film director (b.
1889 )
November 12 –
William Holden , American actor (b.
1918 )
November 13 –
Gerhard Marcks , German sculptor (b.
1889 )
November 15
November 17 –
Wilhelm Pelikan , Austrian chemist (b.
1893 )
[28]
November 21 –
Ejner Federspiel , Danish actor (b.
1896 )
[29]
November 22
November 25
November 26 –
Max Euwe , Dutch chess grandmaster (b.
1901 )
November 27 –
Lotte Lenya , Austrian singer and actress (b.
1898 )
November 29 –
Natalie Wood , American actress (b.
1938 )
December
Ferruccio Parri
Mehmet Shehu
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