| Alice Kriisa | 1903-02-26 | 1981-05-31 | 78 | female | | | |
| Antoine Mattei | 1917-03-23 | 1981-05-31 | 64 | male | | France | France |
| Barbara Mary Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth | | 1981-05-31 | | female | | | |
| Barbara Ward | 1914-05-23 | 1981-05-31 | 67 | female | natural causes | United Kingdom | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
| Cecil Boden | 1890-12-18 | 1981-05-31 | 90 | male | | United Kingdom | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
| Edwina Chamier | 1890-03-27 | 1981-05-31 | 91 | female | | United Kingdom | Canada |
| Felix Loeffel | 1892-07-25 | 1981-05-31 | 88 | male | | Switzerland | Switzerland |
| Felix Rossignol | 1921-10-18 | 1981-05-31 | 59 | male | | | Canada |
| Flaviano Barrechea Ariola | 1905-07-04 | 1981-05-31 | 75 | male | | | |
| Frank Estes Cole | 1908-03-04 | 1981-05-31 | 73 | male | | | United States of America |
| Georges Henry | 1907-10-25 | 1981-05-31 | 73 | male | | France | France |
| Giuseppe Pella | 1902-04-18 | 1981-05-31 | 79 | male | | Italy | Kingdom of Italy |
| Gwendolyn B. Bennett | 1902-07-08 | 1981-05-31 | 78 | female | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Gyula Lóránt | 1923-02-06 | 1981-05-31 | 58 | male | natural causes | Greece | Hungary |
| Hans Gille | 1887-02-05 | 1981-05-31 | 94 | male | | | |
| István Kerese | 1911-08-13 | 1981-05-31 | 69 | male | | Hungary | Hungary |
| István Szász | 1910-02-07 | 1981-05-31 | 71 | male | | Romania | |
| Joaquim Pinheiro Monteiro | 1904-09-23 | 1981-05-31 | 76 | male | | Brazil | Brazil |
| Józef Zabielski | 1902-10-21 | 1981-05-31 | 78 | male | | United Kingdom | |
| Karl Schmedes | 1908-11-14 | 1981-05-31 | 72 | male | | | Germany |
| Karl Schönherr | 1925-05-30 | 1981-05-31 | 56 | male | | Germany | Germany |
| Leonardo Villanueva Meyer | 1891-07-09 | 1981-05-31 | 89 | male | | Panama | Panama |
| Mary Smith | 1901-11-05 | 1981-05-31 | 79 | female | | | |
| Michail Grigorevitsj Ivanov | 1909-09-28 | 1981-05-31 | 71 | male | | Russia | Soviet Union |
| Michał Sprusiński | 1940-09-02 | 1981-05-31 | 40 | male | | | Poland |
| Michel Rougerie | 1950-04-21 | 1981-05-31 | 31 | male | | Croatia | France |
| Mike Smith | 1904-11-16 | 1981-05-31 | 76 | male | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Otilio Arellano | 1916-02-09 | 1981-05-31 | 65 | male | | | Philippines |
| Vladimir Chernigovsky | 1907-03-01 | 1981-05-31 | 74 | male | | Russia | Russian Empire |
| Vladimír Vojtek | 1911-11-19 | 1981-05-31 | 69 | male | | | |
| William Edward Lodewyk Hamilton Crowther | 1887-05-09 | 1981-05-31 | 94 | male | | Australia | |
| Михайло Керамитчиев | 1915-01-01 | 1981-05-31 | 66 | male | | North Macedonia | |
| 张子意 | 1904-09-01 | 1981-05-31 | 76 | | | | People's Republic of China |
| 磯野庸幸 | 1878-10-25 | 1981-05-31 | 102 | male | | | |
| Ana María O'Neill | 1894-03-07 | 1981-05-30 | 87 | female | | | United States of America |
| Antônio Caringi | 1905-05-18 | 1981-05-30 | 76 | male | | Brazil | Brazil |
| Carl Linfert | 1900-07-14 | 1981-05-30 | 80 | male | | Germany | Germany |
| Don Ashby | 1955-03-08 | 1981-05-30 | 26 | male | | Canada | Canada |
| Ernst Wilhelm Kaiser | 1913-06-14 | 1981-05-30 | 67 | male | | | |
| Georges Manillier | 1906-05-23 | 1981-05-30 | 75 | male | | France | France |
| Georg Ponsaing | 1889-05-15 | 1981-05-30 | 92 | male | | | Denmark |
| Győző Saszet | 1901-05-17 | 1981-05-30 | 80 | male | | | |
| Ivan Michaylovitsj Pavlov | 1918-06-18 | 1981-05-30 | 62 | male | | Ukraine | Soviet Union |
| Ivan Pudić | 1909-01-01 | 1981-05-30 | 72 | male | | | |
| Kjell Öfverberg | 1941-08-25 | 1981-05-30 | 39 | male | | | |
| Konstantin Zhuk | 1909-02-20 | 1981-05-30 | 72 | male | | Ukraine | Soviet Union |
| Manuel Cervera Cabello | 1907-05-16 | 1981-05-30 | 74 | male | | | Spain |
| Marie Mejzlíková | 1902-12-16 | 1981-05-30 | 78 | female | | Czech Republic | Czechoslovakia |
| Mehbubur Rahman | | 1981-05-30 | | male | | | Bangladesh |
| Nino Pedretti | 1923-08-13 | 1981-05-30 | 57 | male | | Italy | Kingdom of Italy |
| Peter Lindgren | 1915-12-13 | 1981-05-30 | 65 | male | | Sweden | Sweden |
| Sammy Cohen | 1902-12-08 | 1981-05-30 | 78 | male | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Shirō Yokozawa | 1906-03-10 | 1981-05-30 | 75 | male | | | Japan |
| Sven Andersson | 1907-02-14 | 1981-05-30 | 74 | male | | Sweden | Sweden |
| Takaharu Kitano | 1891-05-24 | 1981-05-30 | 90 | male | | | Japan |
| Takao Yanai | 1902-02-15 | 1981-05-30 | 79 | male | natural causes | | Japan |
| Ziaur Rahman | 1936-01-19 | 1981-05-30 | 45 | male | homicide | Bangladesh | British India |
| 韓沃申 | 1920-09-14 | 1981-05-30 | 60 | | | | South Korea |
| Archie W. Butcher | 1901-04-29 | 1981-05-29 | 80 | male | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Arne Larsen | 1909-07-07 | 1981-05-29 | 71 | male | | | Norway |
| Árpád Thierjung | 1914-05-02 | 1981-05-29 | 67 | male | | Romania | Romania |
| Benjamin Dietrich | 1910-10-03 | 1981-05-29 | 70 | male | | Germany | Germany |
| Commander Tristram Anthony Pack-Beresford | 1907-05-08 | 1981-05-29 | 74 | male | | | |
| Diomício Freitas | 1911-04-19 | 1981-05-29 | 70 | male | | Brazil | Brazil |
| Dionysia Roi | 1917-01-01 | 1981-05-29 | 64 | female | | United States of America | Greece |
| Frank Altschul | 1887-04-21 | 1981-05-29 | 94 | male | | | United States of America |
| Hana Růžičková | 1941-02-18 | 1981-05-29 | 40 | female | | Czech Republic | Czechoslovakia |
| Hilda Weiss | 1900-08-29 | 1981-05-29 | 80 | female | | United States of America | Germany |
| Irving Briskin | 1903-02-28 | 1981-05-29 | 78 | male | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Ivan Michaylovitsj Zasorin | 1913-04-08 | 1981-05-29 | 68 | male | | Russia | Soviet Union |
| Jacques-Antoine Gau | 1930-10-25 | 1981-05-29 | 50 | male | | France | France |
| Janusz Minkiewicz | 1914-06-25 | 1981-05-29 | 66 | male | | Poland | Poland |
| Jenő Béres | 1912-04-02 | 1981-05-29 | 69 | male | | | |
| Jerzy Daniel Kędzierski | 1902-01-03 | 1981-05-29 | 79 | male | | | |
| Lawson Lysnar Copland Field | 1896-02-11 | 1981-05-29 | 85 | male | | | New Zealand |
| Mabel Dunham | 1981-05-29 | 1981-05-29 | | female | | | |
| Martin P. Hottel | 1904-01-25 | 1981-05-29 | 77 | male | | United States of America | |
| Mette Lange-Nielsen | 1929-04-30 | 1981-05-29 | 52 | female | | Norway | Norway |
| Nina Negri | 1901-12-24 | 1981-05-29 | 79 | female | | France | Argentina |
| Omar Khorshid | 1945-10-09 | 1981-05-29 | 35 | male | | Egypt | Egypt |
| Paula Høegh-Guldberg | 1890-08-07 | 1981-05-29 | 90 | female | | | |
| Pavol Viboch | 1896-04-07 | 1981-05-29 | 85 | male | | United States of America | Czechoslovakia |
| Petro Parovyshnikov | 1909-09-17 | 1981-05-29 | 71 | male | | Ukraine | Soviet Union |
| Prochor Denisovitsj Zalesov | 1914-08-03 | 1981-05-29 | 66 | male | | Russia | Soviet Union |
| Q20483075 | 1912-09-05 | 1981-05-29 | 68 | male | | | |
| Renato Cataldi | 1909-12-25 | 1981-05-29 | 71 | male | | Brazil | Brazil |
| Rosemary Anne Lucas | 1932-09-10 | 1981-05-29 | 48 | female | | | |
| Rudolf Eduard Michael von Wistinghausen | 1905-01-11 | 1981-05-29 | 76 | male | | Germany | |
| Ryūno Kiichirō | 1902-09-27 | 1981-05-29 | 78 | male | | | Japan |
| Soong Ching-ling | 1893-01-27 | 1981-05-29 | 88 | female | natural causes | People's Republic of China | Republic of China (1912–1949) |
| Srečko Šabec | 1894-05-15 | 1981-05-29 | 87 | male | | | Kingdom of Yugoslavia |
| T. A. Pai | 1922-01-17 | 1981-05-29 | 59 | male | | | Dominion of India |
| Viktor Severin | 1890-05-23 | 1981-05-29 | 91 | male | | | |
| Walter Russell Shaw | 1887-12-20 | 1981-05-29 | 93 | male | | Canada | Canada |
| William Bunce | 1911-04-17 | 1981-05-29 | 70 | male | | United Kingdom | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
| William Glen | 1903-07-28 | 1981-05-29 | 77 | male | | Ireland | Ireland |
| Zdeněk Hanuš | 1920-01-19 | 1981-05-29 | 61 | male | | | |
| Корнійчук Василь Дем'янович | 1901-02-09 | 1981-05-29 | 80 | male | | Ukraine | |
| Приймак Юхим | 1905-03-25 | 1981-05-29 | 76 | male | | United States of America | |
| Самохин, Анатолий Николаевич | 1905-11-30 | 1981-05-29 | 75 | male | | Russia | |
| Aleksey Pustovalov | 1916-03-17 | 1981-05-28 | 65 | male | | Russia | Soviet Union |
| Clarrie Answerth | 1901-05-27 | 1981-05-28 | 80 | male | | Australia | |
| Eleonore Lipschitz | 1922-08-01 | 1981-05-28 | 58 | female | | Germany | |
| Erich Meckel | 1919-02-16 | 1981-05-28 | 62 | male | | Germany | Germany |
| Florian Pierański | 1909-03-11 | 1981-05-28 | 72 | male | | | Poland |
| Frank Berryman | 1894-04-11 | 1981-05-28 | 87 | male | | Australia | Australia |
| Fritz Jung | 1903-06-07 | 1981-05-28 | 77 | male | | Germany | Germany |
| Hartmuth Lahm | 1912-12-23 | 1981-05-28 | 68 | | | | |
| Henry Blanke | 1901-12-30 | 1981-05-28 | 79 | male | | United States of America | Germany |
| Howden Hume | 1903-03-30 | 1981-05-28 | 78 | male | | | |
| Joaquín López Antay | 1897-08-23 | 1981-05-28 | 83 | male | | | Peru |
| John Bryan Ward-Perkins | 1912-02-03 | 1981-05-28 | 69 | male | | United Kingdom | United Kingdom |
| József Varga | 1929-12-21 | 1981-05-28 | 51 | male | natural causes | Hungary | Hungary |
| László Lukovszky | 1922-04-27 | 1981-05-28 | 59 | male | | Hungary | Hungary |
| Lem Billings | 1916-04-15 | 1981-05-28 | 65 | male | natural causes | United States of America | United States of America |
| Léon Velluz | 1904-07-31 | 1981-05-28 | 76 | male | | France | France |
| Magdalena Mora | 1952-01-01 | 1981-05-28 | 29 | female | natural causes | | Mexico |
| Marcel Hendrickx | 1920-12-26 | 1981-05-28 | 60 | male | | | Belgium |
| Mary Lou Williams | 1910-05-08 | 1981-05-28 | 71 | female | natural causes | United States of America | United States of America |
| Noël Duvivier | 1912-12-23 | 1981-05-28 | 68 | male | | | Belgium |
| Penka Vasileva | 1895-07-25 | 1981-05-28 | 85 | female | | Italy | Bulgaria |
| Reiko Sato | 1931-12-19 | 1981-05-28 | 49 | female | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Stanislav Černý | 1901-03-27 | 1981-05-28 | 80 | male | | | |
| Stefan Wyszyński | 1901-08-03 | 1981-05-28 | 79 | male | | Poland | Poland |
| Vilém Funk | 1913-05-26 | 1981-05-28 | 68 | male | | Czech Republic | Czechoslovakia |
| Walter T. Lorch | 1913-06-26 | 1981-05-28 | 67 | male | | Germany | |
| Walt Vezmar | 1925-01-01 | 1981-05-28 | 56 | male | | United States of America | |
| Γιώργος Καρατζόπουλος | 1912-01-01 | 1981-05-28 | 69 | male | | | Greece |
| 藤原繁太郎 | 1897-01-01 | 1981-05-28 | 84 | male | | | |
| Aleksiej Szaposznikow | 1909-10-14 | 1981-05-27 | 71 | male | | Russia | |
| Anne Pennington | 1934-03-31 | 1981-05-27 | 47 | female | | United Kingdom | United Kingdom |
| Arvo Tuominen | 1894-09-05 | 1981-05-27 | 86 | male | | Finland | Finland |
| Bento Figueiredo | 1904-12-13 | 1981-05-27 | 76 | male | | | Brazil |
| Boris Beshchev | 1903-07-30 | 1981-05-27 | 77 | male | | Russia | Soviet Union |
| Bruno Grüttner | 1896-02-24 | 1981-05-27 | 85 | male | | Germany | Germany |
| Donald Lester Jackson | 1910-01-23 | 1981-05-27 | 71 | male | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Elmer Leonard | 1888-11-12 | 1981-05-27 | 92 | male | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Émile Just Bachelet | 1892-01-02 | 1981-05-27 | 89 | male | | France | France |
| Fuat Asllani | 1897-09-15 | 1981-05-27 | 83 | male | | Albania | |
| George O. Smith | 1911-04-09 | 1981-05-27 | 70 | male | | | United States of America |
| Gösta Blomberg | 1905-04-05 | 1981-05-27 | 76 | male | | Sweden | Sweden |
| Grigoriy Sergeevitsj Barinov | 1911-06-22 | 1981-05-27 | 69 | male | | Russia | Soviet Union |
| György Lőrinczy | 1935-04-22 | 1981-05-27 | 46 | male | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Heinz Sauermann | 1905-03-17 | 1981-05-27 | 76 | male | | | Germany |
| Henriette Alice McCrea-Metcalf | 1888-08-04 | 1981-05-27 | 92 | female | | | |
| Henry Bertram Roper-Caldbeck | 1911-05-15 | 1981-05-27 | 70 | male | | | |
| Jacqueline Michel | 1921-09-17 | 1981-05-27 | 59 | female | | France | France |
| János Pilinszky | 1921-11-25 | 1981-05-27 | 59 | male | | Hungary | Hungary |
| Jan Styczyński | 1917-07-16 | 1981-05-27 | 63 | male | | | Poland |
| Joachim von Amsberg | 1903-12-18 | 1981-05-27 | 77 | male | | Germany | |
| Kit Pedler | 1927-06-11 | 1981-05-27 | 53 | male | natural causes | United Kingdom | United Kingdom |
| Lasse Behm | 1905-06-02 | 1981-05-27 | 75 | male | | | |
| Lennart Pilotti | 1912-11-06 | 1981-05-27 | 68 | male | | | Sweden |
| Martin Waldron | 1925-02-02 | 1981-05-27 | 56 | male | | | United States of America |
| Ondrej Uhorskai | 1927-05-03 | 1981-05-27 | 54 | male | | Slovakia | |
| Paul Rudolf Wilhelm Manteufel | 1897-01-25 | 1981-05-27 | 84 | male | | | |
| Philip Bolt | 1894-07-30 | 1981-05-27 | 86 | male | | | Kingdom of the Netherlands |
| Q20557195 | 1903-01-01 | 1981-05-27 | 78 | male | | | |
| Reidar Särestöniemi | 1925-05-14 | 1981-05-27 | 56 | male | | Finland | Finland |
| Roger Wheeler | 1926-02-27 | 1981-05-27 | 55 | male | homicide | United States of America | United States of America |
| Shalva Amisulashvili | 1915-04-15 | 1981-05-27 | 66 | male | | Georgia | Democratic Republic of Georgia |
| Yokichirō Miki | 1902-12-21 | 1981-05-27 | 78 | male | | | Japan |
| Венжега Анатолій Іванович | 1944-09-13 | 1981-05-27 | 36 | male | | | |
| หลวงปู่อ่อน ญาณสิริ | | 1981-05-27 | | | | | |
| 杨亚峰 | 1902-01-01 | 1981-05-27 | 79 | | | | |
| Alberto Schommer Koch | 1897-01-01 | 1981-05-26 | 84 | male | | Spain | Germany |
| Aleksej Knorre | 1914-06-29 | 1981-05-26 | 66 | male | | Russia | Soviet Union |
| André Brunel | 1912-12-07 | 1981-05-26 | 68 | male | | France | France |
| Bartolo Portuondo | 1893-08-24 | 1981-05-26 | 87 | male | | | Cuba |
| Boris Stavrev | 1901-10-22 | 1981-05-26 | 79 | male | | Bulgaria | Bulgaria |
| Bronisław J. Gubała | 1909-09-27 | 1981-05-26 | 71 | male | | | |
| Edward Rochie Hardy | 1908-06-17 | 1981-05-26 | 72 | | | | |
| Elg Elgesem | 1924-03-27 | 1981-05-26 | 57 | male | | Norway | Norway |
| George Bare | 1899-01-05 | 1981-05-26 | 82 | male | | United States of America | United States of America |
| George Smith | 1901-10-27 | 1981-05-26 | 79 | male | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Gérard Magnac | 1946-10-14 | 1981-05-26 | 34 | male | natural causes | France | France |
| Howard Clayton Eberline | 1917-10-15 | 1981-05-26 | 63 | male | | | |
| Ida zur Nieden | 1886-08-10 | 1981-05-26 | 94 | female | | Germany | Germany |
| Ilonka Karasz | 1896-07-13 | 1981-05-26 | 84 | female | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Iosif Boleslavovitsj Poljakovskiy | 1925-09-14 | 1981-05-26 | 55 | male | | Russia | Soviet Union |
| Jan Boerenkamp | 1903-01-05 | 1981-05-26 | 78 | male | | | Kingdom of the Netherlands |
| Johannes Jacobus Antonius van der Steen | 1893-06-12 | 1981-05-26 | 87 | male | | | Kingdom of the Netherlands |
| Nor Ayr | 1912-09-18 | 1981-05-26 | 68 | male | | Armenia | |
| Sterling Wortman Jr. | 1923-04-03 | 1981-05-26 | 58 | male | | | United States of America |
| Wolf Detlef Rohr | 1928-01-01 | 1981-05-26 | 53 | male | | | Germany |
| Τάκης Κατσικόπουλος | 1919-01-01 | 1981-05-26 | 62 | male | | | Greece |
| Вайнштейн, Михаил Исакович | 1940-02-20 | 1981-05-26 | 41 | male | | Ukraine | |
| Alberto Ferioli | 1914-04-11 | 1981-05-25 | 67 | male | | Italy | Kingdom of Italy |
| Alexander Jan Reitsma | 1919-08-17 | 1981-05-25 | 61 | male | | | |
| Armando de Armas Romero | 1914-11-27 | 1981-05-25 | 66 | male | | Cuba | Cuba |
| Ben Earl Looney | 1904-06-02 | 1981-05-25 | 76 | male | natural causes | United States of America | United States of America |
| Colette Hocheneder | 1890-02-14 | 1981-05-25 | 91 | female | | Austria | Austria |
| Dusty Fahrnow | 1903-01-18 | 1981-05-25 | 78 | male | | | United States of America |
| Edward Barszcz | 1928-04-03 | 1981-05-25 | 53 | male | suicide | Poland | Poland |
| F.C.L. Bosman | 1898-05-17 | 1981-05-25 | 83 | male | | | South Africa |
| Franz Purtschert | 1925-04-19 | 1981-05-25 | 56 | male | | Switzerland | Switzerland |
| Fredric Warburg | 1898-11-27 | 1981-05-25 | 82 | male | | United Kingdom | |
| George Rife Clark | 1902-08-22 | 1981-05-25 | 78 | male | | | United States of America |
| Georg Malmstén | 1902-06-27 | 1981-05-25 | 78 | male | | Finland | Finland |
| Hellmut Laun | 1902-09-14 | 1981-05-25 | 78 | male | | | |
