The following is a list of notable deaths in December 1981.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
Dewey Markham, a comedian who performed on both the black and white vaudeville circuits and was best known for his skit called Here comes the judge, died Sunday in Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx after suffering a massive stroke. He was 77 years old and lived in the Bronx.
Marian Shockley Collyer died Monday in Los Angeles...She was born in Kansas City, Mo. and graduated from the University of Missouri.
Radio Actress Was First Ellery Queen Secretary: Marian Shockley Collyer, widow of radio and television announcer Clayton (Bud) Collyer
Suat Hayri Ürgüplü. 13 Ağustos 1903 tarihinde Şam'da doğdu.
Mollie King, 86, former stage and silent screen actress, died Dec. 28, 1981, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., following a stroke. Born in New York of theatrical parents, she was the sister of Charles ('Broadway Melody') King. [...] She was married twice, to Kenneth D. Alexander and Thomas Claffey.
Much of this material was created by the first comic-art 'shop,' which had been set up in the summer of 1936 by a farsighted entrepreneur named Harry 'A' Chesler.
By the end of the [First World War], Krleža had established himself as the leading figure of twentieth-century Croatian literature, a position he was never to relinquish.