| Aleksey Petrovitsj Roednev | 1921-03-06 | 1981-08-31 | 60 | male | | Russia | Soviet Union |
| David Hunter | 1905-09-05 | 1981-08-31 | 75 | male | | Australia | Australia |
| Ecaterina Dobreanu | 1905-01-08 | 1981-08-31 | 76 | female | | | |
| Elias Bickermann | 1897-07-13 | 1981-08-31 | 84 | male | | Israel | French Third Republic |
| Elisabeth Norgall | 1887-03-10 | 1981-08-31 | 94 | female | | | |
| Elley Bennett | 1924-04-03 | 1981-08-31 | 57 | male | | Australia | |
| Gino Cacchioli | 1925-06-11 | 1981-08-31 | 56 | male | | | Kingdom of Italy |
| Heinrich Maushake | 1894-01-01 | 1981-08-31 | 87 | male | | | |
| Hubert Wolf | 1934-10-28 | 1981-08-31 | 46 | male | | | |
| Hugh O’Neill Hencken | 1902-01-08 | 1981-08-31 | 79 | male | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Iosif Bentsianovitsj Fridljand | 1907-05-05 | 1981-08-31 | 74 | male | | Russia | Russian Empire |
| Iossif Lvovich Rozenfeld | 1914-08-22 | 1981-08-31 | 67 | male | | Russia | Soviet Union |
| Jim Amos | 1907-01-01 | 1981-08-31 | 74 | male | | New Zealand | New Zealand |
| John Ashworth Barraclough | 1894-01-01 | 1981-08-31 | 87 | male | | | United Kingdom |
| Joseph Hirshhorn | 1899-08-11 | 1981-08-31 | 82 | male | | | United States of America |
| Kálmán Kislégi | 1916-06-03 | 1981-08-31 | 65 | male | | | |
| Karólína Guðmundsdóttir | 1897-04-29 | 1981-08-31 | 84 | female | | | |
| Kathleen Hawkins | 1883-11-17 | 1981-08-31 | 97 | female | | | New Zealand |
| Kurur Neelakandan Namboodiripad | 1896-01-01 | 1981-08-31 | 85 | male | | India | |
| Michail Antonovitsj Bogomolov | 1907-03-03 | 1981-08-31 | 74 | male | | | Soviet Union |
| Patrick Bisset Fletcher | 1901-01-01 | 1981-08-31 | 80 | male | | | Southern Rhodesia |
| Pierre Billon | 1901-02-07 | 1981-08-31 | 80 | male | | France | France |
| Roy Parmelee | 1907-04-25 | 1981-08-31 | 74 | male | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Victor Trumper, Jr | 1913-10-07 | 1981-08-31 | 67 | male | | Australia | Australia |
| W. W. Shols | 1925-08-31 | 1981-08-31 | 56 | male | | Portugal | Germany |
| Νικόλαος Καβαζαράκης | 1894-01-01 | 1981-08-31 | 87 | male | | | Greece |
| Борис Анатольевич Малиновский | 1909-01-01 | 1981-08-31 | 72 | male | | | |
| ศรายุทธ ชะนะกุล | 1947-09-09 | 1981-08-31 | 33 | | | | Thailand |
| Adam Black | 1898-02-18 | 1981-08-30 | 83 | male | | | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
| Alberto Jarrín | 1901-01-01 | 1981-08-30 | 80 | male | | | Ecuador |
| Alice Frey | 1895-06-25 | 1981-08-30 | 86 | female | | Belgium | Belgium |
| Andreas Stratos | 1905-01-01 | 1981-08-30 | 76 | male | | Greece | Greece |
| Arkadiy Vasilevitsj Ochremtsjik | 1907-03-03 | 1981-08-30 | 74 | male | | Russia | Soviet Union |
| Bohumil Rektořík | 1905-07-10 | 1981-08-30 | 76 | male | | | |
| Bronisław Antczak | 1928-02-09 | 1981-08-30 | 53 | male | | | |
| Charles James Stranks | 1901-05-10 | 1981-08-30 | 80 | male | | | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
| Elfriede Paul | 1900-01-14 | 1981-08-30 | 81 | female | | Germany | Germany |
| François Seydoux | 1905-02-15 | 1981-08-30 | 76 | male | | France | France |
| Gerald Bridgeman, 6th Earl of Bradford | 1911-09-29 | 1981-08-30 | 69 | male | | | United Kingdom |
| Hugh John Casey | 1898-06-07 | 1981-08-30 | 83 | male | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Irma Telkki | 1916-04-13 | 1981-08-30 | 65 | female | | | Finland |
| Jayant Pandurang Naik | 1907-09-05 | 1981-08-30 | 73 | male | | | Dominion of India |
| Joannes Seghers | 1902-07-19 | 1981-08-30 | 79 | male | | | Belgium |
| Johann Schmidt | 1907-08-28 | 1981-08-30 | 74 | male | | Germany | Germany |
| Josef Ščuka | 1906-02-23 | 1981-08-30 | 75 | male | | Czech Republic | Czechoslovakia |
| Kamal Krishan Nirula | 1917-05-05 | 1981-08-30 | 64 | male | | | |
| Konrāds Ubāns | 1893-12-31 | 1981-08-30 | 87 | male | | Latvia | Latvia |
| László András | 1910-10-19 | 1981-08-30 | 70 | male | | Romania | |
| László Tarján | 1920-10-18 | 1981-08-30 | 60 | male | | Hungary | Hungary |
| Michel Nicoletti | 1937-06-10 | 1981-08-30 | 44 | male | | France | |
| Mohammad-Ali Rajai | 1933-06-15 | 1981-08-30 | 48 | male | homicide | Iran | Iran |
| Mohammad-Javad Bahonar | 1933-09-05 | 1981-08-30 | 47 | male | homicide | Iran | Iran |
| Múcio de Castro | 1915-05-08 | 1981-08-30 | 66 | male | | | Brazil |
| Niharranjan Ray | 1903-01-14 | 1981-08-30 | 78 | male | | India | Dominion of India |
| Rita Webb | 1904-02-25 | 1981-08-30 | 77 | female | | United Kingdom | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
| Robert A. Kann | 1906-02-11 | 1981-08-30 | 75 | male | | Austria | Austria |
| Rochus Graf von Spee | 1925-10-25 | 1981-08-30 | 55 | male | | | |
| Stephen Ullmann | 1914-07-31 | 1981-08-30 | 67 | male | | United Kingdom | Hungary |
| T.B.W. Reid | 1901-07-10 | 1981-08-30 | 80 | male | | | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
| Tsuneo Muramatsu | 1900-04-12 | 1981-08-30 | 81 | male | | | Japan |
| Vera-Ellen | 1921-02-16 | 1981-08-30 | 60 | female | natural causes | United States of America | United States of America |
| William W. Knox | 1911-06-18 | 1981-08-30 | 70 | male | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Гербов, Тихон Васильевич | 1877-02-28 | 1981-08-30 | 104 | male | | United States of America | |
| Сутулов, Лев Северьянович | 1906-02-10 | 1981-08-30 | 75 | male | | Russia | |
| Ալեքսանդր Հակոբյանց | 1859-01-01 | 1981-08-30 | 122 | male | | Azerbaijan | |
| شمس الدین حسینی | | 1981-08-30 | | | | | |
| 山路秀男 | 1892-01-01 | 1981-08-30 | 89 | male | | | |
| Alexander Frederick Ralli | 1913-03-30 | 1981-08-29 | 68 | male | | | |
| Atiyah al-Jamri | 1899-01-01 | 1981-08-29 | 82 | male | | | Bahrain |
| Carlo Caldarola | 1928-01-01 | 1981-08-29 | 53 | | | | |
| Curt Salmuth | 1895-05-01 | 1981-08-29 | 86 | male | | Germany | Germany |
| Daniel Myschetzky | 1891-04-11 | 1981-08-29 | 90 | male | | | Denmark |
| Giuseppe Catalano | 1888-01-01 | 1981-08-29 | 93 | male | | Italy | Kingdom of Italy |
| Heinrich Meyerholz | 1894-07-28 | 1981-08-29 | 87 | male | | | |
| Ivan Starchak | 1905-02-16 | 1981-08-29 | 76 | male | | Russia | Soviet Union |
| James George Donald | 1898-06-04 | 1981-08-29 | 83 | male | | | New Zealand |
| Jean Kobs | 1912-04-12 | 1981-08-29 | 69 | male | | Belgium | France |
| Joaquín Álvarez Lores | 1898-01-01 | 1981-08-29 | 83 | male | | Spain | Spain |
| Josef Lomský | 1894-06-10 | 1981-08-29 | 87 | male | | Czech Republic | |
| Joseph Givard | 1923-05-27 | 1981-08-29 | 58 | male | | | Belgium |
| Joyce Gardner | 1910-08-24 | 1981-08-29 | 71 | female | | | |
| Juana Couretot de Guella | 1903-12-01 | 1981-08-29 | 77 | female | | | Argentina |
| Lowell Thomas | 1892-04-06 | 1981-08-29 | 89 | male | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Mariano Ansó | 1899-01-21 | 1981-08-29 | 82 | male | | France | Spain |
| Maude Cosho | 1896-09-13 | 1981-08-29 | 84 | female | | | |
| Paul Mistral | 1904-06-23 | 1981-08-29 | 77 | male | | France | France |
| Ralston Paterson | 1897-05-21 | 1981-08-29 | 84 | male | | United Kingdom | Scotland |
| Raul Falin | 1918-01-01 | 1981-08-29 | 63 | male | | | Finland |
| Samuel Orr | 1890-07-11 | 1981-08-29 | 91 | male | | | United States of America |
| Walter W. Stone | 1910-06-24 | 1981-08-29 | 71 | male | | | Australia |
| Willi Walser | 1921-06-16 | 1981-08-29 | 60 | male | | | Switzerland |
| Yar Mohammad Khan | 1920-09-09 | 1981-08-29 | 60 | male | | India | British India |
| Ալեքսանդր Թավրիզյան | 1912-07-21 | 1981-08-29 | 69 | male | | Russia | |
| Abraham Regelson | 1896-01-01 | 1981-08-28 | 85 | male | | | Israel |
| Antonio Bramante | 1922-01-24 | 1981-08-28 | 59 | male | | | |
| Béla Guttmann | 1899-01-27 | 1981-08-28 | 82 | male | | Austria | Hungary |
| Bjarne Fjærtoft | 1899-11-07 | 1981-08-28 | 81 | male | | | Norway |
| Eugeniusz Słuszkiewicz | 1901-11-06 | 1981-08-28 | 79 | male | | Poland | Poland |
| Fernando Di Giulio | 1924-04-27 | 1981-08-28 | 57 | male | | Italy | Kingdom of Italy |
| Furcie Tirolien | 1886-01-30 | 1981-08-28 | 95 | male | | France | France |
| Guy Stevens | 1943-04-13 | 1981-08-28 | 38 | male | | United Kingdom | United Kingdom |
| Hans-Jürgen Schreiber | 1916-05-10 | 1981-08-28 | 65 | male | | Germany | Germany |
| Hermann Schilli | 1896-01-01 | 1981-08-28 | 85 | male | | Germany | Germany |
| Jiří Neustupný | 1905-01-01 | 1981-08-28 | 76 | male | | Czech Republic | Czechoslovakia |
| Jørgen Ryg | 1927-08-11 | 1981-08-28 | 54 | male | | | Denmark |
| Leon Florek | 1903-10-30 | 1981-08-28 | 77 | male | | Poland | Poland |
| Lyubomir Genchev | 1907-11-26 | 1981-08-28 | 73 | male | | Bulgaria | |
| Maurice Boissais | 1901-11-26 | 1981-08-28 | 79 | male | | France | France |
| Maurice Henry Drake | 1899-03-23 | 1981-08-28 | 82 | male | | | |
| Paul Anspach | 1882-04-01 | 1981-08-28 | 99 | male | | Belgium | Belgium |
| Paul Atkins Harwood | 1899-10-29 | 1981-08-28 | 81 | male | | United States of America | |
| Raymond Drake | 1901-03-29 | 1981-08-28 | 80 | male | | | |
| Ronnie Self | 1938-07-05 | 1981-08-28 | 43 | male | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Suzanne Mansion | 1916-07-30 | 1981-08-28 | 65 | female | | Belgium | Belgium |
| Teresita Arce | | 1981-08-28 | | female | | | Peru |
| Willi Engelmann | 1924-05-10 | 1981-08-28 | 57 | male | | Germany | German Democratic Republic |
| Патрик Футуна | 1947-09-12 | 1981-08-28 | 33 | male | | Ireland | |
| Adrianus Zwart | 1903-08-30 | 1981-08-27 | 77 | male | | Netherlands | Kingdom of the Netherlands |
| Ali︠a︡kseĭ Pysin | 1920-03-22 | 1981-08-27 | 61 | male | | Belarus | Soviet Union |
| Alojz Bizjak | 1907-04-12 | 1981-08-27 | 74 | male | | Slovenia | Kingdom of Yugoslavia |
| Buck Morgan | 1907-06-20 | 1981-08-27 | 74 | male | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Charlie Barnes | 1903-04-25 | 1981-08-27 | 78 | male | | | Australia |
| Feliciano Brunelli | 1903-02-07 | 1981-08-27 | 78 | male | | | Argentina |
| Gerhard Wandschneider | 1906-09-29 | 1981-08-27 | 74 | male | | Germany | Germany |
| Hanna Rautenbach | 1889-05-28 | 1981-08-27 | 92 | female | | Germany | Germany |
| Heinrich Brauer | 1900-01-12 | 1981-08-27 | 81 | male | | | |
| Henryk Iwaniszewski | 1922-04-12 | 1981-08-27 | 59 | male | | | Poland |
| James Larkin Pearson | 1879-09-13 | 1981-08-27 | 101 | male | | | United States of America |
| Karl Dippon | 1901-01-05 | 1981-08-27 | 80 | male | | Germany | Germany |
| Mansukhlal Jhaveri | 1907-10-03 | 1981-08-27 | 73 | male | | India | Dominion of India |
| Martin Olsson | 1886-04-30 | 1981-08-27 | 95 | male | | Sweden | Sweden |
| Max van Pelt | 1916-07-31 | 1981-08-27 | 65 | male | | | Kingdom of the Netherlands |
| Michail Vasilevitsj Reptsjenko | 1924-05-01 | 1981-08-27 | 57 | male | | Russia | Soviet Union |
| Nazareno de Brito | 1925-02-26 | 1981-08-27 | 56 | male | | | Brazil |
| Paul Herget | 1908-01-30 | 1981-08-27 | 73 | male | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Q67182278 | 1926-12-16 | 1981-08-27 | 54 | | | | |
| Severinus Desiré Emanuels | 1910-02-27 | 1981-08-27 | 71 | male | | Netherlands | Kingdom of the Netherlands |
| Sofia Mineyko | 1887-01-01 | 1981-08-27 | 94 | female | | Greece | Greece |
| Valeri Kharlamov | 1948-01-14 | 1981-08-27 | 33 | male | accident | Russia | Soviet Union |
| Vasily Lytkin | 1895-12-27 | 1981-08-27 | 85 | male | | Russia | Russian Empire |
| Фёдоровский, Алексей Александрович | 1897-03-30 | 1981-08-27 | 84 | male | | Ukraine | |
| หม่อมเจ้าโวฒยากร วรวรรณ | 1900-01-01 | 1981-08-27 | 81 | male | | | |
| Alexander Turyn | 1900-12-26 | 1981-08-26 | 80 | male | | United States of America | Poland |
| Alfredo Mileo | | 1981-08-26 | | male | | Argentina | Argentina |
| Ashraf Huseynov | 1907-09-20 | 1981-08-26 | 73 | male | | Azerbaijan | Russian Empire |
| Catherine Dorris Norrell | 1901-03-30 | 1981-08-26 | 80 | female | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Cresswell Clementi | 1918-12-30 | 1981-08-26 | 62 | male | | | |
| Denis Honegger | 1907-10-13 | 1981-08-26 | 73 | male | | Monaco | Switzerland |
| Gerda Dina Barag | 1909-08-11 | 1981-08-26 | 72 | female | | | |
| Hans Dietl | 1894-01-24 | 1981-08-26 | 87 | male | | Germany | Germany |
| Henri Victor Vallois | 1889-04-11 | 1981-08-26 | 92 | male | | France | France |
| Hermann Buse de la Guerra | 1920-01-01 | 1981-08-26 | 61 | male | | Peru | Perusoma recurvatum |
| Ivan Alekseevitsj Gorjunov | 1907-02-23 | 1981-08-26 | 74 | male | | Russia | Soviet Union |
| Ján Slivka | 1933-12-25 | 1981-08-26 | 47 | male | | | Czechoslovakia |
| Joan Edwards | 1919-02-13 | 1981-08-26 | 62 | female | | | United States of America |
| Kazimierz Zembrzuski | 1905-04-18 | 1981-08-26 | 76 | male | | Poland | |
| Kemalettin Gökakın | 1909-01-01 | 1981-08-26 | 72 | male | | | Turkey |
| Lee Hays | 1914-03-14 | 1981-08-26 | 67 | male | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Leontiy-Liudomyr Dmokhovskyi | 1909-07-01 | 1981-08-26 | 72 | male | | Mexico | |
| Matthias Hödlmoser | 1907-08-09 | 1981-08-26 | 74 | male | | Austria | Austria |
| Maurice Ehlinger | 1896-09-25 | 1981-08-26 | 84 | male | | France | France |
| Michael Dix Hamilton | 1910-07-03 | 1981-08-26 | 71 | male | | | |
| Olavi Järvelä | 1913-05-07 | 1981-08-26 | 68 | male | | | Finland |
| Olivier Allard | 1910-03-10 | 1981-08-26 | 71 | male | | France | Belgium |
| Otti Zacharias | 1906-01-01 | 1981-08-26 | 75 | female | | Germany | Germany |
| Peter Eckersley | 1935-01-01 | 1981-08-26 | 46 | male | | United Kingdom | United Kingdom |
| Robert Braucher | 1916-02-23 | 1981-08-26 | 65 | male | | | United States of America |
| Robert Thill | 1904-10-21 | 1981-08-26 | 76 | male | | | Luxembourg |
| Roger Nash Baldwin | 1884-01-21 | 1981-08-26 | 97 | male | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Sidney Walter Smith | 1893-01-20 | 1981-08-26 | 88 | male | | | New Zealand |
| Sven Wiking | 1899-04-26 | 1981-08-26 | 82 | male | | | |
| Tove Mohr | 1891-03-03 | 1981-08-26 | 90 | female | | | Norway |
| Vasiliy Nikolaevitsj Borovik | 1894-04-15 | 1981-08-26 | 87 | male | | Russia | Russian Empire |
| Walter Thomas | 1907-02-10 | 1981-08-26 | 74 | male | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Мухамедов, Джалалидин Мухамедович | 1920-02-10 | 1981-08-26 | 61 | male | | Tajikistan | |
| Стамен Стаменов (министър) | 1922-09-15 | 1981-08-26 | 58 | male | | Bulgaria | |
| 野地嘉平 | 1888-01-01 | 1981-08-26 | 93 | male | | | |
| 長沢貫一 | 1891-01-01 | 1981-08-26 | 90 | male | | | |
| Amalananda Ghosh | 1910-03-03 | 1981-08-25 | 71 | male | | United States of America | British India |
| August Hofer | 1899-03-01 | 1981-08-25 | 82 | male | | Germany | Germany |
| Carl-Gustav Grüner Schøller | 1903-05-22 | 1981-08-25 | 78 | male | | | Denmark |
| Charles Keith Leask | 1916-03-30 | 1981-08-25 | 65 | male | | | |
| Dick Horsfall | 1920-06-26 | 1981-08-25 | 61 | male | | United Kingdom | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
| Elfriede Tungl | 1922-07-04 | 1981-08-25 | 59 | female | | Austria | |
| Elisabeth Wilms | 1905-07-22 | 1981-08-25 | 76 | female | | Germany | Germany |
| Frances Irwin Hunt | 1890-07-26 | 1981-08-25 | 91 | female | | | New Zealand |
| Fu Qiutao | 1907-08-03 | 1981-08-25 | 74 | male | | | People's Republic of China |
| István Pekáry | 1905-02-01 | 1981-08-25 | 76 | male | | Hungary | Hungary |
| Jan Burgerhout | 1919-10-01 | 1981-08-25 | 61 | male | | Netherlands | |
| Jaroslav Vávra | 1920-09-04 | 1981-08-25 | 60 | male | | Czech Republic | Czechoslovakia |
| Jens Dunker | 1892-02-17 | 1981-08-25 | 89 | male | | Norway | Norway |
| Joris Verhaegen | 1921-05-03 | 1981-08-25 | 60 | male | | | Belgium |
| Juliana Anna Fialová | 1902-10-19 | 1981-08-25 | 78 | female | | | |
| Karl Jürgens | 1892-01-05 | 1981-08-25 | 89 | male | | | |
| Kathryn Hulme | 1900-07-06 | 1981-08-25 | 81 | female | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Konrad Bänninger | 1890-09-15 | 1981-08-25 | 90 | male | | Switzerland | Switzerland |
| Milo Rigaud | 1904-01-01 | 1981-08-25 | 77 | male | | | Haiti |
| Nasos Kedrakas | 1915-12-04 | 1981-08-25 | 65 | male | | Greece | Greece |
| Nic Pauly | 1919-11-19 | 1981-08-25 | 61 | male | | Luxembourg | Luxembourg |
| Pablo Canela | 1914-11-25 | 1981-08-25 | 66 | male | | | Venezuela |
