| Alexander Fischer | 1903-10-31 | 1981-11-30 | 78 | male | | Germany | Germany |
| Atanas D. Atanasov | 1892-02-12 | 1981-11-30 | 89 | male | | | Bulgaria |
| Bertie de Silva | 1901-01-19 | 1981-11-30 | 80 | male | | | |
| Billy Taylor | 1939-07-31 | 1981-11-30 | 42 | male | | | United Kingdom |
| Bohdan Holeček | 1922-01-12 | 1981-11-30 | 59 | male | | Czech Republic | |
| Bruno Boesch | 1911-03-13 | 1981-11-30 | 70 | male | | | Switzerland |
| Charles Eric Maine | 1921-01-21 | 1981-11-30 | 60 | male | | United Kingdom | United Kingdom |
| Charlie Fehring | 1899-03-21 | 1981-11-30 | 82 | male | | | |
| Daniel Lynch | 1916-01-01 | 1981-11-30 | 65 | male | | United States of America | United States of America |
| David Ian Rollo | 1921-07-29 | 1981-11-30 | 60 | male | | | |
| Fricis Kaņeps | 1916-08-10 | 1981-11-30 | 65 | male | | Latvia | Latvia |
| Hans Heinrich Muchow | 1900-01-01 | 1981-11-30 | 81 | male | | | Germany |
| Hjalmar Kahrila | 1907-05-12 | 1981-11-30 | 74 | male | | | Finland |
| Jan Klimeš | 1905-06-10 | 1981-11-30 | 76 | male | | | |
| Janusz Wieczorek | 1910-10-15 | 1981-11-30 | 71 | male | | | |
| Josef Hlaváček | 1908-01-17 | 1981-11-30 | 73 | male | | | |
| Karel Sartory | 1906-01-17 | 1981-11-30 | 75 | male | | | Kingdom of the Netherlands |
| Károly Molter | 1890-12-02 | 1981-11-30 | 90 | male | | Romania | Romania |
| Les Biederman | 1907-06-07 | 1981-11-30 | 74 | male | | | United States of America |
| Luís Augusto Viñamata Emmanuelli | 1915-01-01 | 1981-11-30 | 66 | male | | Spain | Spain |
| Maria Wilusz | 1925-07-07 | 1981-11-30 | 56 | female | | Poland | |
| Marius Rouvier | 1903-07-31 | 1981-11-30 | 78 | male | | | France |
| Maurice Carrier | 1900-01-15 | 1981-11-30 | 81 | male | | France | France |
| Maurice Leick | 1888-10-29 | 1981-11-30 | 93 | male | | | Luxembourg |
| Minden Blake | 1913-02-13 | 1981-11-30 | 68 | male | | United Kingdom | |
| Otto Kerry | 1913-12-11 | 1981-11-30 | 67 | male | | Austria | Austria |
| Paweł Szuflat | 1889-04-06 | 1981-11-30 | 92 | male | | | |
| Petronėlė Lastienė | 1897-09-09 | 1981-11-30 | 84 | female | | | |
| Raphael Rodrigues | 1894-05-16 | 1981-11-30 | 87 | male | | | Brazil |
| Reinhard Kohlus | 1932-05-12 | 1981-11-30 | 49 | male | | | |
| Robert Miller | 1930-12-05 | 1981-11-30 | 50 | male | natural causes | | United States of America |
| Ruggero Balli | 1910-08-09 | 1981-11-30 | 71 | male | | Italy | Kingdom of Italy |
| Sander Bonde | 1933-10-02 | 1981-11-30 | 48 | male | | | Denmark |
| Simone Mittre | 1897-05-19 | 1981-11-30 | 84 | female | | | |
| Ted Butler | 1903-07-16 | 1981-11-30 | 78 | male | | | |
| Val Gielgud | 1900-04-28 | 1981-11-30 | 81 | male | | United Kingdom | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
| Zenon Wierzchowski | 1888-01-01 | 1981-11-30 | 93 | male | | | Poland |
| Аржанов, Михаил Николаевич | 1924-03-03 | 1981-11-30 | 57 | male | | Russia | |
| Albert Klijn | 1895-04-05 | 1981-11-29 | 86 | male | | Netherlands | Kingdom of the Netherlands |
| André Doye | 1924-09-15 | 1981-11-29 | 57 | male | | France | France |
| Ari Cordovil | 1923-05-05 | 1981-11-29 | 58 | male | | Brazil | Brazil |
| Dieudonné Smets | 1901-08-17 | 1981-11-29 | 80 | male | | Belgium | Belgium |
| Elizabeth Piercy Bernard | 1924-04-10 | 1981-11-29 | 57 | female | | | |
| Elvira Navares | 1950-05-03 | 1981-11-29 | 31 | female | | | |
| Gilbert Grandval | 1904-02-12 | 1981-11-29 | 77 | male | | France | France |
| Giuseppe Anatrelli | 1925-01-03 | 1981-11-29 | 56 | male | natural causes | Italy | Kingdom of Italy |
| Harry Henriksson | 1907-06-26 | 1981-11-29 | 74 | male | | | Finland |
| Hassen Belkhodja | 1916-03-10 | 1981-11-29 | 65 | male | | | Tunisia |
| Helma Autenrieth | 1896-01-01 | 1981-11-29 | 85 | female | | | |
| Irving H. Decker | 1910-12-05 | 1981-11-29 | 70 | male | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Isabella Carrie | 1878-05-03 | 1981-11-29 | 103 | female | | United Kingdom | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
| Jack Cameron | 1900-12-03 | 1981-11-29 | 80 | male | | United States of America | Canada |
| Jakub Dąbski | 1885-06-18 | 1981-11-29 | 96 | male | | | Poland |
| Kendell Foster Crossen | 1910-07-25 | 1981-11-29 | 71 | male | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Ladislao Errázuriz Pereira | 1909-02-02 | 1981-11-29 | 72 | male | | | Chile |
| Louis Fredericq | 1892-11-25 | 1981-11-29 | 89 | male | | Belgium | Belgium |
| Marguerite Pâquet | 1916-11-10 | 1981-11-29 | 65 | female | | | Canada |
| Matrjona Platonovna Smirnova | 1913-11-21 | 1981-11-29 | 68 | female | | | Russian Empire |
| M. Mestechkin | 1900-03-29 | 1981-11-29 | 81 | male | | Russia | Russian Empire |
| Q16435978 | 1915-01-01 | 1981-11-29 | 66 | | | Kazakhstan | |
| Sándor Asztalos | 1908-06-15 | 1981-11-29 | 73 | male | | | Romania |
| Taniya Hachermoni | 1910-11-01 | 1981-11-29 | 71 | female | | | Israel |
| Thomas Humphrey Marshall | 1893-12-19 | 1981-11-29 | 87 | male | | United Kingdom | United Kingdom |
| William Vale | 1914-06-03 | 1981-11-29 | 67 | male | | United Kingdom | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
| Alejandro Mirecki | 1892-12-04 | 1981-11-28 | 88 | male | | | Spain |
| Aleksandr Debler | 1908-11-17 | 1981-11-28 | 73 | male | | Russia | Russian Empire |
| Alfred P.C. Petsch | 1887-08-06 | 1981-11-28 | 94 | male | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Arne Otto Kirkeby | 1915-04-18 | 1981-11-28 | 66 | male | | | Norway |
| Arthur Jensen | 1897-11-09 | 1981-11-28 | 84 | male | | Denmark | Denmark |
| Béla Boros | 1926-07-08 | 1981-11-28 | 55 | male | | | |
| Bill Stalker | 1948-08-03 | 1981-11-28 | 33 | male | | Australia | Australia |
| Bohumil Čepelák | 1910-07-20 | 1981-11-28 | 71 | male | | Czech Republic | Czechoslovakia |
| Braswell Deen | 1893-06-28 | 1981-11-28 | 88 | male | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Clara Hocke | 1901-04-12 | 1981-11-28 | 80 | female | | Germany | Germany |
| Elisabeth de Roos | 1903-07-15 | 1981-11-28 | 78 | female | | Netherlands | Kingdom of the Netherlands |
| Erwin Scheu | 1886-03-13 | 1981-11-28 | 95 | male | | Germany | Germany |
| Ferdinand Schmidt | 1909-09-16 | 1981-11-28 | 72 | male | | Germany | |
| Halldóra Bjarnadóttir | 1873-10-14 | 1981-11-28 | 108 | female | | | Iceland |
| Hans Gross | 1892-12-12 | 1981-11-28 | 88 | male | | Germany | Germany |
| Kōtarō Bandō | 1911-05-04 | 1981-11-28 | 70 | male | | | Japan |
| Kristian Bjerknes | 1901-06-10 | 1981-11-28 | 80 | male | | Norway | Norway |
| Marcel Raymond | 1897-12-20 | 1981-11-28 | 83 | male | | Switzerland | Switzerland |
| Maximilian Debus | 1904-09-09 | 1981-11-28 | 77 | male | | Germany | Germany |
| Natalie Wood | 1938-07-20 | 1981-11-28 | 43 | female | accident | United States of America | United States of America |
| Nina Samorodin | 1892-01-01 | 1981-11-28 | 89 | female | | | United States of America |
| Richard Zitzmann | 1892-12-12 | 1981-11-28 | 88 | male | | Germany | |
| Shamus O'Brien | 1907-11-29 | 1981-11-28 | 74 | male | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Slavko Jelinčič | 1906-01-25 | 1981-11-28 | 75 | male | | Slovenia | Kingdom of Yugoslavia |
| Sophie Gimbel | 1898-01-01 | 1981-11-28 | 83 | female | | | |
| Tage Wedel-Heinen | 1906-02-17 | 1981-11-28 | 75 | male | | | Denmark |
| William Francis | 1894-02-04 | 1981-11-28 | 87 | male | | New Zealand | New Zealand |
| Николай Шелехов | 1912-04-16 | 1981-11-28 | 69 | male | | | Russian Empire |
| Alfred Colling | 1902-11-26 | 1981-11-27 | 79 | male | | France | France |
| Arnold Maas | 1909-01-01 | 1981-11-27 | 72 | male | | | Kingdom of the Netherlands |
| Bartosz Janiszewski | 1931-05-07 | 1981-11-27 | 50 | male | | | Poland |
| Bern von Baer | 1911-03-20 | 1981-11-27 | 70 | male | | Germany | Germany |
| Carlo Marcello Rietmann | 1905-10-15 | 1981-11-27 | 76 | male | | Italy | Kingdom of Italy |
| Cláudio Coutinho | 1939-01-05 | 1981-11-27 | 42 | male | accident | Brazil | Brazil |
| Dezső Kanizsai | 1886-01-27 | 1981-11-27 | 95 | male | | Hungary | Hungary |
| Elizabeth Johanna Maria Peman Kakebeeke | 1902-02-18 | 1981-11-27 | 79 | female | | | |
| Ella Schmidt | 1896-01-01 | 1981-11-27 | 85 | female | | Germany | |
| Emil Waas | 1919-07-13 | 1981-11-27 | 62 | male | | Germany | Germany |
| Epaminonda Ronconi | 1904-04-01 | 1981-11-27 | 77 | male | | Italy | Kingdom of Italy |
| Erich Frodermann | 1912-03-10 | 1981-11-27 | 69 | male | | | Germany |
| Frank Bettger | 1888-02-15 | 1981-11-27 | 93 | male | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Garzó Tamásné Bernáth Gabriella | 1927-04-08 | 1981-11-27 | 54 | female | | Hungary | Hungary |
| Giovanni Gioia | 1925-01-16 | 1981-11-27 | 56 | male | | | Kingdom of Italy |
| Henri Gondet | 1889-11-06 | 1981-11-27 | 92 | male | | France | |
| Herbert Grundmann | 1913-09-10 | 1981-11-27 | 68 | male | | Germany | |
| Hermann Krumey | 1905-04-18 | 1981-11-27 | 76 | male | | Germany | Germany |
| Hermann Middendorf | 1897-11-04 | 1981-11-27 | 84 | male | | | |
| Ivan Managarov | 1898-06-12 | 1981-11-27 | 83 | male | | Russia | Soviet Union |
| Karel Zeman | 1920-03-07 | 1981-11-27 | 61 | male | | Czech Republic | |
| Karl Martin Fischer | 1936-12-21 | 1981-11-27 | 44 | male | | Germany | German Democratic Republic |
| Leo Guntern | 1894-08-11 | 1981-11-27 | 87 | male | | Switzerland | Switzerland |
| Lotte Lenya | 1898-10-18 | 1981-11-27 | 83 | female | natural causes | United States of America | Austria |
| Luis Quinteros Tricot | 1894-10-03 | 1981-11-27 | 87 | male | | | Chile |
| Marijan Tavčar | 1912-12-20 | 1981-11-27 | 68 | male | | Slovenia | Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia |
| Meint Zuiderveen | 1943-08-12 | 1981-11-27 | 38 | male | accident | Netherlands | Kingdom of the Netherlands |
| Muriel Bruce | 1890-07-20 | 1981-11-27 | 91 | female | | | Canada |
| Siegfried Bernfeld | 1907-06-09 | 1981-11-27 | 74 | male | | United States of America | |
| Susan Niven | 1946-06-25 | 1981-11-27 | 35 | female | accident | United States of America | United States of America |
| Vira Kutynska | 1897-09-14 | 1981-11-27 | 84 | female | | | Russian Empire |
| Wenceslao X. López Martín del C. | 1923-05-13 | 1981-11-27 | 58 | male | | | Mexico |
| Yuri Kamornyj | 1944-08-08 | 1981-11-27 | 37 | male | | Russia | Soviet Union |
| 荻生規矩夫 | 1895-04-29 | 1981-11-27 | 86 | male | | | |
| Alfreð Clausen | 1918-05-07 | 1981-11-26 | 63 | male | | | |
| Alvin A. Handrich | 1892-06-01 | 1981-11-26 | 89 | male | | | United States of America |
| Charles Hauter | 1888-07-09 | 1981-11-26 | 93 | male | | France | France |
| Ernesto Prinoth | 1923-04-15 | 1981-11-26 | 58 | male | | Austria | Kingdom of Italy |
| Ernst Grauwiller | 1895-01-13 | 1981-11-26 | 86 | male | | | |
| Fritz Koppe | 1896-01-01 | 1981-11-26 | 85 | male | | Germany | |
| Gaston Ouvrard | 1890-03-10 | 1981-11-26 | 91 | male | | France | France |
| Gianluigi Barni | 1909-05-27 | 1981-11-26 | 72 | male | | Italy | Kingdom of Italy |
| Grigol Chikovani | 1910-03-15 | 1981-11-26 | 71 | male | | Georgia | Democratic Republic of Georgia |
| Hans Theselius | 1919-07-13 | 1981-11-26 | 62 | male | | Sweden | Sweden |
| John Edwin Pomfret | 1898-09-21 | 1981-11-26 | 83 | male | | United States of America | United States of America |
| John Lyons | | 1981-11-26 | | male | | | |
| Josef Hillerbrand | 1892-08-02 | 1981-11-26 | 89 | male | | Germany | Germany |
| José Luis Benlliure López de Arana | 1898-07-05 | 1981-11-26 | 83 | male | | Spain | Spain |
| Kazimierz Glabisz | 1893-02-10 | 1981-11-26 | 88 | male | | United Kingdom | Poland |
| Kitty Lossius | 1892-04-19 | 1981-11-26 | 89 | female | | Norway | Norway |
| Kōzō Ōta | 1889-12-15 | 1981-11-26 | 91 | male | | | Japan |
| Leo Picard | 1888-11-04 | 1981-11-26 | 93 | male | | | Belgium |
| Lionel Harry Butler | 1923-12-17 | 1981-11-26 | 57 | male | | | |
| Marit Nørregaard | 1885-08-16 | 1981-11-26 | 96 | female | | | Norway |
| Max Euwe | 1901-05-20 | 1981-11-26 | 80 | male | natural causes | Netherlands | Kingdom of the Netherlands |
| Paul Chadourne | 1898-02-27 | 1981-11-26 | 83 | male | | France | France |
| Pavel Anissimov | 1904-08-28 | 1981-11-26 | 77 | male | | | |
| Pedro Lira Urquieta | 1900-07-16 | 1981-11-26 | 81 | male | | | Chile |
| Pierre Pibarot | 1916-07-23 | 1981-11-26 | 65 | male | | France | France |
| Regino Sainz de la Maza | 1896-09-07 | 1981-11-26 | 85 | male | | Spain | Spain |
| Rudolf Bervic | 1927-06-22 | 1981-11-26 | 54 | male | | | Czechoslovakia |
| Zuzana Jonikaitė | 1902-02-14 | 1981-11-26 | 79 | female | | | |
| Achille Saitta | 1898-03-12 | 1981-11-25 | 83 | male | | Italy | Kingdom of Italy |
| Aleksandre Aslanikashvili | 1916-03-17 | 1981-11-25 | 65 | male | | Georgia | Democratic Republic of Georgia |
| Andrzej Stypułkowski | 1929-05-16 | 1981-11-25 | 52 | male | | | |
| Arnaud de Solages | 1898-02-26 | 1981-11-25 | 83 | male | | France | |
| Bronius Laurinavičius | 1913-07-17 | 1981-11-25 | 68 | male | | | Lithuania |
| Dwight Caldwell | 1902-02-02 | 1981-11-25 | 79 | male | | | |
| Edmund King | 1906-03-26 | 1981-11-25 | 75 | male | | United Kingdom | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
| Fritz Blättner | 1891-07-07 | 1981-11-25 | 90 | male | | | Germany |
| Giuseppe Ciresi | 1924-09-05 | 1981-11-25 | 57 | male | | | Kingdom of Italy |
| Gyula Andrásfi | 1908-08-12 | 1981-11-25 | 73 | male | | Hungary | Hungary |
| Hans Lehmann | 1915-09-24 | 1981-11-25 | 66 | male | | Germany | Germany |
| Haruhisa Yoshikawa | 1909-01-25 | 1981-11-25 | 72 | | | | |
| Herbert Tjadens | 1897-10-02 | 1981-11-25 | 84 | male | | Germany | |
| Idwal H. Edwards | 1895-04-05 | 1981-11-25 | 86 | male | | United States of America | |
| Ivan Hadzhirachev | 1927-02-02 | 1981-11-25 | 54 | male | | | Bulgaria |
| Jack Albertson | 1907-06-16 | 1981-11-25 | 74 | male | natural causes | United States of America | United States of America |
| Kyūichirō Washizu | 1921-03-12 | 1981-11-25 | 60 | male | | | Japan |
| Lloyd N. Morrisett | 1892-06-23 | 1981-11-25 | 89 | male | | | |
| Margot Kalinke | 1909-04-23 | 1981-11-25 | 72 | female | | Germany | Germany |
| Masao Sugatani | 1914-01-01 | 1981-11-25 | 67 | male | | | Japan |
| Morris Kirksey | 1895-09-13 | 1981-11-25 | 86 | male | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes | 1902-02-02 | 1981-11-25 | 79 | male | | | |
| Raichand Boral | 1903-10-19 | 1981-11-25 | 78 | male | | India | Dominion of India |
| Richard Alfred Hunter | 1923-11-11 | 1981-11-25 | 58 | male | | | |
| Romain Bellenger | 1894-01-18 | 1981-11-25 | 87 | male | | France | France |
| Rudolf Kopecký | 1893-12-27 | 1981-11-25 | 87 | male | | | |
| Sigbjørn Hølmebakk | 1922-02-02 | 1981-11-25 | 59 | male | | Norway | Norway |
| Stanisław Owczarek | 1905-01-01 | 1981-11-25 | 76 | male | | | |
| Stasys Paska | 1920-10-24 | 1981-11-25 | 61 | male | | | Lithuania |
| Toni Mau | 1917-09-02 | 1981-11-25 | 64 | female | | Germany | Germany |
| Toshimasa Shimamura | 1912-03-25 | 1981-11-25 | 69 | male | | | Japan |
| Toshirō Yamaguchi | 1901-03-31 | 1981-11-25 | 80 | male | | | Japan |
| Vladimir Ignatevitsj Streltsjenko | 1917-06-14 | 1981-11-25 | 64 | male | | Russia | Soviet Union |
| Witold Wypijewski | 1907-11-25 | 1981-11-25 | 74 | male | | Poland | Poland |
| Афонин, Михаил Яковлевич | 1912-02-02 | 1981-11-25 | 69 | male | | Ukraine | Russian Empire |
| Рихтер, Александр Андреевич | 1904-03-14 | 1981-11-25 | 77 | male | | | |
| اسماعیل شاهرودی | 1926-01-30 | 1981-11-25 | 55 | male | | | Iran |
| Andreas Bruno Wachsmuth | 1890-11-30 | 1981-11-24 | 90 | male | | Germany | Germany |
| Archibald Thomas John Dollar | 1908-05-18 | 1981-11-24 | 73 | male | | | |
| Charles P. de Volpi | 1911-07-16 | 1981-11-24 | 70 | male | | | United States of America |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton Blake | 1894-12-31 | 1981-11-24 | 86 | female | | | |
| George Hudson | 1905-07-12 | 1981-11-24 | 76 | male | | United Kingdom | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
| Giuseppe Magliolo | 1948-01-01 | 1981-11-24 | 33 | male | | Italy | Italy |
| Hans Bonertz | 1914-06-28 | 1981-11-24 | 67 | male | | Germany | |
| Hans Elo | 1891-04-15 | 1981-11-24 | 90 | male | | | Finland |
| Jean Boyer | 1901-02-13 | 1981-11-24 | 80 | male | | France | France |
