| 유지원 (1913년) | 1913-01-30 | 1981-12-31 | 68 | | | | South Korea |
| Alvina Krause | 1893-01-28 | 1981-12-31 | 88 | female | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Anna-Elisabeth Gräfin von und zu Arco-Zinneberg | 1909-08-10 | 1981-12-31 | 72 | female | | | |
| Antanas Dulinskas | 1931-08-16 | 1981-12-31 | 50 | male | | | |
| Antonio Martín Sánchez | 1947-09-19 | 1981-12-31 | 34 | male | | Spain | Spain |
| Antônio Sílvio Cunha Bueno | 1918-12-08 | 1981-12-31 | 63 | male | | Brazil | Brazil |
| Augusto Guerriero | 1893-08-16 | 1981-12-31 | 88 | male | | Italy | Kingdom of Italy |
| Carl Andreas Fürst | 1888-05-24 | 1981-12-31 | 93 | male | | | Sweden |
| Charles Murray Cramsie | 1897-11-02 | 1981-12-31 | 84 | male | | | |
| Charles N. Reilley | 1925-03-02 | 1981-12-31 | 56 | male | | | United States of America |
| Constantin Rădulescu | 1896-10-05 | 1981-12-31 | 85 | male | | | Romania |
| Dave Cavanaugh | 1919-03-13 | 1981-12-31 | 62 | male | | | United States of America |
| Drora Ben Avi | 1922-10-22 | 1981-12-31 | 59 | female | | | Israel |
| Eduard Lukk | 1919-08-10 | 1981-12-31 | 62 | male | | | |
| Efim Dzigan | 1898-12-14 | 1981-12-31 | 83 | male | | Russia | Russian Empire |
| Elmar Käige | 1901-07-23 | 1981-12-31 | 80 | male | | | |
| Franc Kvaternik | 1919-09-28 | 1981-12-31 | 62 | male | | Slovenia | Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia |
| Gladys Kathleen Glover | 1902-10-07 | 1981-12-31 | 79 | female | | | |
| Günther Krappe | 1893-04-13 | 1981-12-31 | 88 | male | | Germany | Germany |
| Herman Pečarič | 1908-03-06 | 1981-12-31 | 73 | male | | | Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia |
| Józef Salcewicz | 1899-07-26 | 1981-12-31 | 82 | male | | | Poland |
| Józsefné Szalai | 1892-05-29 | 1981-12-31 | 89 | female | | Hungary | |
| Kazimierz Trzeciak | 1901-02-04 | 1981-12-31 | 80 | male | | Poland | |
| Mario Anchisi Ciceri | 1918-01-01 | 1981-12-31 | 63 | male | | Spain | |
| Oswald Haberzettl | 1892-06-06 | 1981-12-31 | 89 | male | | Austria | Austria |
| Paolo Mazza | 1901-07-21 | 1981-12-31 | 80 | male | | Italy | Kingdom of Italy |
| Piet Voskuilen | 1919-02-17 | 1981-12-31 | 62 | male | | | |
| Q16437554 | 1932-09-04 | 1981-12-31 | 49 | male | | Kazakhstan | |
| Robert Theodore Clausen | 1911-12-26 | 1981-12-31 | 70 | male | | | United States of America |
| Seán Nunan | 1880-01-01 | 1981-12-31 | 101 | male | | | |
| Sune Wendel | 1903-01-21 | 1981-12-31 | 78 | male | | | |
| Vojislav Bogićević | 1896-04-17 | 1981-12-31 | 85 | male | | | |
| Зоненко, Пётр Павлович | 1905-05-31 | 1981-12-31 | 76 | male | | Russia | |
| 永田年 | 1897-01-01 | 1981-12-31 | 84 | male | | | |
| 黎錦炯 | 1901-10-12 | 1981-12-31 | 80 | male | | | |
| Alfie Anido | 1959-12-31 | 1981-12-30 | 21 | male | homicide | Philippines | Philippines |
| Ángel Allegri | 1926-12-26 | 1981-12-30 | 55 | male | | | Argentina |
| Ayhan Bozfırat | 1932-01-01 | 1981-12-30 | 49 | male | | Turkey | Turkey |
| Boris Zeidman | 1908-02-10 | 1981-12-30 | 73 | male | | Uzbekistan | Soviet Union |
| Curt Eisner | 1890-04-28 | 1981-12-30 | 91 | male | | Netherlands | Germany |
| Dezider Rakšány | 1906-07-09 | 1981-12-30 | 75 | male | | Slovakia | Czechoslovakia |
| Edward Wegener | 1904-12-17 | 1981-12-30 | 77 | male | | | Germany |
| Ellen Jansø | 1907-07-02 | 1981-12-30 | 74 | female | | Kingdom of Denmark | Denmark |
| Ferdinand Stransky | 1904-09-16 | 1981-12-30 | 77 | male | | Austria | Austria |
| Franjo Šeper | 1905-10-02 | 1981-12-30 | 76 | male | natural causes | Italy | Croatia |
| František Chaun | 1921-01-26 | 1981-12-30 | 60 | male | | Czech Republic | |
| Grigoriy Antonovitsj Loyko | 1923-03-08 | 1981-12-30 | 58 | male | | Ukraine | Soviet Union |
| Jan Starczewski | 1904-01-01 | 1981-12-30 | 77 | male | | | Poland |
| Job de Roincé | 1896-04-16 | 1981-12-30 | 85 | male | | France | France |
| Josef Reiter | 1890-02-18 | 1981-12-30 | 91 | male | | Austria | Austria |
| Joseph Platz | 1905-04-11 | 1981-12-30 | 76 | male | | United States of America | Germany |
| Josh Billings | 1891-11-30 | 1981-12-30 | 90 | male | | United States of America | United States of America |
| József Bakki | 1940-03-19 | 1981-12-30 | 41 | male | | Hungary | |
| Karl Arndt | 1892-03-10 | 1981-12-30 | 89 | male | | Germany | Germany |
| K. D. Tocher | 1921-01-01 | 1981-12-30 | 60 | male | | | |
| Lennart Peyron | 1909-11-19 | 1981-12-30 | 72 | male | | Sweden | Sweden |
| Montague Mattinson Pennell | 1916-03-20 | 1981-12-30 | 65 | male | | | |
| Natalia Lykova | 1936-01-01 | 1981-12-30 | 45 | female | | | |
| Nigul Pääbo | 1895-11-27 | 1981-12-30 | 86 | male | | | |
| Nikolai Jegorov | 1916-10-16 | 1981-12-30 | 65 | male | | | |
| Q67182180 | 1906-05-05 | 1981-12-30 | 75 | | | | |
| René Dorand | 1898-05-21 | 1981-12-30 | 83 | male | | France | France |
| Seishi Araki | 1907-01-07 | 1981-12-30 | 74 | male | | | Japan |
| Sepp Kals | 1911-10-28 | 1981-12-30 | 70 | male | | | Austria |
| Sylvia Mary Reed | 1914-09-18 | 1981-12-30 | 67 | female | | | New Zealand |
| Tomasa Núñez | 1951-04-17 | 1981-12-30 | 30 | female | | Cuba | Cuba |
| Vakhtang Ninua | 1916-09-19 | 1981-12-30 | 65 | male | | Georgia | Soviet Union |
| Yevgeny Fyodorov | 1910-04-23 | 1981-12-30 | 71 | male | | Russia | Russian Empire |
| Насибуллин, Ислам Насибуллович | 1918-10-10 | 1981-12-30 | 63 | male | | Russia | |
| Чоловский, Константин Захарович | 1915-06-04 | 1981-12-30 | 66 | male | | Russia | |
| Arsène Detry | 1897-11-07 | 1981-12-29 | 84 | male | | | Belgium |
| Bengt Bengtsson | 1910-03-02 | 1981-12-29 | 71 | male | | | Sweden |
| Cecil Clarence Richards | 1907-01-05 | 1981-12-29 | 74 | male | | United States of America | United Kingdom |
| Dénes Magda | 1908-01-14 | 1981-12-29 | 73 | female | | Hungary | Hungary |
| Don Plarski | 1929-11-09 | 1981-12-29 | 52 | male | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Emil Habr | 1908-01-05 | 1981-12-29 | 73 | male | | | |
| Eugen Flegler | 1897-06-23 | 1981-12-29 | 84 | male | | Germany | Germany |
| Floris Luigi Ammannati | 1916-04-09 | 1981-12-29 | 65 | male | | | Kingdom of Italy |
| Hélène Robert | 1910-01-27 | 1981-12-29 | 71 | female | | France | France |
| Hugo Schnell | 1904-03-15 | 1981-12-29 | 77 | male | | Germany | Germany |
| Jaak De Graeve | 1928-12-25 | 1981-12-29 | 53 | male | | | Belgium |
| Jaroslav Kouřil | 1913-04-10 | 1981-12-29 | 68 | male | | Czech Republic | Czechoslovakia |
| Juliusz Malewski | 1899-03-29 | 1981-12-29 | 82 | male | | Poland | |
| Karl Kottenhahn | 1910-04-27 | 1981-12-29 | 71 | male | | | Germany |
| Käthe Augenstein | 1899-12-20 | 1981-12-29 | 82 | female | | Germany | |
| Kingo Hirabayashi | 1894-11-27 | 1981-12-29 | 87 | male | | | Japan |
| Kripalvananda | 1913-01-13 | 1981-12-29 | 68 | male | | | |
| Leon Hellmuth | 1934-08-14 | 1981-12-29 | 47 | male | | United Kingdom | United Kingdom |
| Margaret Mary Ducarel de la Pasture | 1884-01-01 | 1981-12-29 | 97 | female | | | |
| Mark Zemansky | 1900-05-05 | 1981-12-29 | 81 | male | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Martinus Miché | 1892-08-16 | 1981-12-29 | 89 | male | | Netherlands | Kingdom of the Netherlands |
| Mikuláš Mišík | 1907-11-25 | 1981-12-29 | 74 | male | | Slovakia | Czechoslovakia |
| Miroslav Krleža | 1893-07-07 | 1981-12-29 | 88 | male | | Croatia | Yugoslavia |
| M. J. M. van der Lans | 1915-03-23 | 1981-12-29 | 66 | male | | | Kingdom of the Netherlands |
| Peter Černo | 1919-09-01 | 1981-12-29 | 62 | male | | Slovakia | |
| Peter Savage | 1920-09-09 | 1981-12-29 | 61 | male | | Netherlands | Kingdom of Italy |
| Petro Andrusiv | 1906-07-02 | 1981-12-29 | 75 | male | | United States of America | |
| Philip Handler | 1917-08-13 | 1981-12-29 | 64 | male | | | United States of America |
| Rémi Mathieu | 1919-12-02 | 1981-12-29 | 62 | male | | | France |
| Salvatore De Matteis | 1912-06-20 | 1981-12-29 | 69 | male | | Italy | Kingdom of Italy |
| Semjon Semjonovitsj Sjachmatov | 1915-01-22 | 1981-12-29 | 66 | male | | Russia | Soviet Union |
| Senia Russakoff | 1891-09-26 | 1981-12-29 | 90 | male | | | |
| Wendelin Endrédy | 1895-01-19 | 1981-12-29 | 86 | male | | Hungary | |
| Чернышов, Михаил Степанович | 1906-11-21 | 1981-12-29 | 75 | male | | Russia | |
| Allan Dwan | 1885-04-03 | 1981-12-28 | 96 | male | natural causes | United States of America | United States of America |
| Angelo De Santis | 1889-09-20 | 1981-12-28 | 92 | male | | Italy | Kingdom of Italy |
| Bram van Velde | 1895-10-19 | 1981-12-28 | 86 | male | | France | Kingdom of the Netherlands |
| Carlo Chiavazza | 1914-01-01 | 1981-12-28 | 67 | male | | | Kingdom of Italy |
| Cezary Pawłowski | 1895-01-01 | 1981-12-28 | 86 | male | | Poland | Poland |
| David Abraham Cheulkar | 1909-01-01 | 1981-12-28 | 72 | male | | Canada | Dominion of India |
| Demetrio Aguilera Malta | 1909-05-24 | 1981-12-28 | 72 | male | natural causes | Mexico | Ecuador |
| Fjodor Ivanovitsj Timofeev | 1923-08-15 | 1981-12-28 | 58 | male | | Russia | Soviet Union |
| Franco Giongo | 1891-07-07 | 1981-12-28 | 90 | male | | Italy | Kingdom of Italy |
| George D. Stoddard | 1897-10-08 | 1981-12-28 | 84 | male | | | |
| Ján Kubačka | 1904-12-07 | 1981-12-28 | 77 | male | | Slovakia | |
| John Bischoff | 1894-10-28 | 1981-12-28 | 87 | male | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Karel Zadražil | 1913-09-21 | 1981-12-28 | 68 | male | | | |
| Mario Pantaleoni | 1931-06-18 | 1981-12-28 | 50 | male | | Italy | Kingdom of Italy |
| Mollie King | 1895-04-16 | 1981-12-28 | 86 | female | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Nils Jacobsson | 1900-05-29 | 1981-12-28 | 81 | male | | | Sweden |
| Přemysl Peer | 1919-02-17 | 1981-12-28 | 62 | male | | Czech Republic | |
| Rafael Ferreres | 1914-01-01 | 1981-12-28 | 67 | male | | Spain | Spain |
| Raoul Baligand | 1913-01-04 | 1981-12-28 | 68 | male | | Belgium | Belgium |
| Saligram Jaiswal | 1907-12-09 | 1981-12-28 | 74 | male | | | Dominion of India |
| Seishi Yokomizo | 1902-05-24 | 1981-12-28 | 79 | male | natural causes | Japan | Japan |
| Sydney Badeley | 1902-04-07 | 1981-12-28 | 79 | male | | | New Zealand |
| Tommaso Leonetti | 1902-04-14 | 1981-12-28 | 79 | male | | Italy | Kingdom of Italy |
| Victor August Schmitz | 1900-01-01 | 1981-12-28 | 81 | male | | | |
| Vladimír Plachý | 1918-12-29 | 1981-12-28 | 62 | male | | | |
| Vladimir Vishnevetsky | 1900-07-15 | 1981-12-28 | 81 | male | | Kazakhstan | |
| Walter Erich Schäfer | 1901-03-16 | 1981-12-28 | 80 | male | | Germany | Germany |
| Wilhelm Uliczka | 1913-12-28 | 1981-12-28 | 68 | male | | Poland | Poland |
| Willy Müller-Gera | 1887-09-17 | 1981-12-28 | 94 | male | | | |
| Winona Mildred Melick | 1876-10-22 | 1981-12-28 | 105 | female | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Władysław Herman | 1901-08-08 | 1981-12-28 | 80 | male | | | |
| Wołodymyr Pellich | 1886-10-17 | 1981-12-28 | 95 | male | | | |
| Лена Багратовна Джавадян | 1926-09-01 | 1981-12-28 | 55 | female | | Azerbaijan | |
| Aleksey Ivanovitsj Nikolaev | 1892-09-28 | 1981-12-27 | 89 | male | | Russia | Russian Empire |
| Björn Hallström | 1916-02-13 | 1981-12-27 | 65 | male | | | |
| Célestin Montcocol | 1879-06-26 | 1981-12-27 | 102 | male | | | France |
| Edwin H. Knopf | 1899-11-11 | 1981-12-27 | 82 | male | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Elizabeth Thornton Ball | 1909-05-01 | 1981-12-27 | 72 | female | | | |
| Gerard Laumans | 1912-04-22 | 1981-12-27 | 69 | male | | | Kingdom of the Netherlands |
| Hatsuko Miyajima | 1911-01-12 | 1981-12-27 | 70 | female | | | Japan |
| Hoagy Carmichael | 1899-11-22 | 1981-12-27 | 82 | male | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Joseph Sedgwick | 1898-11-24 | 1981-12-27 | 83 | male | | | Canada |
| Kenneth Simmons | 1904-02-02 | 1981-12-27 | 77 | male | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Leo Storm | 1908-06-09 | 1981-12-27 | 73 | male | | Germany | Germany |
| Lino Binel | 1904-12-14 | 1981-12-27 | 77 | male | | Italy | Kingdom of Italy |
| Ljubomir Koler | 1917-03-23 | 1981-12-27 | 64 | male | | Slovenia | Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia |
| Lovro Žemva | 1911-08-10 | 1981-12-27 | 70 | male | | | Yugoslavia |
| Natalia Pavlovna Paley | 1905-12-05 | 1981-12-27 | 76 | female | | United States of America | Russian Empire |
| Reginald Harding | 1905-01-01 | 1981-12-27 | 76 | male | | | |
| Senta Morikawa | 1895-10-16 | 1981-12-27 | 86 | male | | | Japan |
| Suat Hayri Ürgüplü | 1903-08-13 | 1981-12-27 | 78 | male | | Turkey | Ottoman Empire |
| Tokuichi Kuribayashi | 1896-03-09 | 1981-12-27 | 85 | male | | | Japan |
| Wacław Brejter | 1903-05-15 | 1981-12-27 | 78 | male | | Poland | |
| Zhinous Nemat Mahmoudi | 1929-01-01 | 1981-12-27 | 52 | female | | | Iran |
| Пашков, Иван Захарович | 1897-10-08 | 1981-12-27 | 84 | male | | Russia | |
| 洪遜欣 | 1914-10-14 | 1981-12-27 | 67 | | | | |
| Alfred Becker | 1899-08-20 | 1981-12-26 | 82 | male | | | |
| Amber Reeves | 1887-07-01 | 1981-12-26 | 94 | female | | | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
| Chiyoko Nakatani | 1930-01-01 | 1981-12-26 | 51 | female | | | |
| Clemens Hesemann | 1897-03-18 | 1981-12-26 | 84 | male | | Germany | Germany |
| David O. Woodbury | 1896-07-24 | 1981-12-26 | 85 | male | | | United States of America |
| Djalma Marinho | 1908-06-30 | 1981-12-26 | 73 | male | | Brazil | Brazil |
| Ed Levinson | 1899-01-01 | 1981-12-26 | 82 | male | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Erik af Klint | 1901-03-12 | 1981-12-26 | 80 | male | | Sweden | Sweden |
| Felix Magno | 1909-04-13 | 1981-12-26 | 72 | male | | | Uruguay |
| Folke Rydbo | 1924-03-25 | 1981-12-26 | 57 | male | | | |
| François de Polignac | 1887-10-04 | 1981-12-26 | 94 | male | | France | France |
| Günther Serres | 1910-06-18 | 1981-12-26 | 71 | male | | Germany | Germany |
| Hans Mokre | 1901-06-04 | 1981-12-26 | 80 | male | | Austria | Austria |
| Heinrich Benedikt | 1886-12-30 | 1981-12-26 | 94 | male | | Austria | Austria |
| Henry Eyring | 1901-02-20 | 1981-12-26 | 80 | male | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Ian Maclaren Thompson | 1896-09-13 | 1981-12-26 | 85 | male | | | Canada |
| Ian Maclaren Thompson | 1896-01-01 | 1981-12-26 | 85 | male | | | |
| Igor Alekseevich Komarov | 1927-07-05 | 1981-12-26 | 54 | male | | Russia | |
| Irene Mullen | 1914-02-16 | 1981-12-26 | 67 | female | | Canada | Canada |
| Jan Pokorný | 1910-04-19 | 1981-12-26 | 71 | male | | | |
| John Craven | 1912-09-10 | 1981-12-26 | 69 | male | | France | France |
| Józef Grzegorz Różański | 1906-03-12 | 1981-12-26 | 75 | male | | | Poland |
| Michał Stolarczyk | 1916-07-12 | 1981-12-26 | 65 | male | | Poland | |
| Mick Neville | 1887-02-26 | 1981-12-26 | 94 | male | | | |
| Newell Edenfield | 1911-08-10 | 1981-12-26 | 70 | male | | | United States of America |
| Paulo Renato | 1924-10-23 | 1981-12-26 | 57 | male | | Portugal | Portugal |
| Percy Jackson | 1907-09-21 | 1981-12-26 | 74 | male | | | Canada |
| Robert Price | 1905-09-18 | 1981-12-26 | 76 | male | | | |
| Rodrigo Lira | 1945-12-26 | 1981-12-26 | 36 | male | | Chile | Chile |
| Savitri | 1935-12-06 | 1981-12-26 | 46 | female | | India | Dominion of India |
| Senri Shimazaki | 1906-01-01 | 1981-12-26 | 75 | | | | Japan |
| Vladimir Korolyuk | 1921-02-28 | 1981-12-26 | 60 | male | | Russia | Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic |
| Apollon Andreevitsj Toroev | 1893-12-14 | 1981-12-25 | 88 | male | | Russia | Russian Empire |
| Artur Tammiko | 1903-06-11 | 1981-12-25 | 78 | male | | Estonia | Estonia |
| Cees Kelk | 1901-08-28 | 1981-12-25 | 80 | male | | | Kingdom of the Netherlands |
| Ernst Uhlmann | 1902-05-07 | 1981-12-25 | 79 | male | | Switzerland | |
| Gheorghe Mihoc | 1906-07-07 | 1981-12-25 | 75 | male | | Romania | Romania |
| Heinrich Welker | 1912-09-09 | 1981-12-25 | 69 | male | | Germany | Germany |
| Henri-Paul Rey | 1904-06-29 | 1981-12-25 | 77 | male | | France | France |
| Henry Wellesley | 1907-08-08 | 1981-12-25 | 74 | male | | | |
