page_title: 1981
section_title: September
hierarchical_section_title: 1981 / Deaths / September
caption_attribution_description: Rómulo Betancourt in 1975
context_page_description: 1981 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1981st year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 981st year of the 2nd millennium, the 81st year of the 20th century, and the 2nd year of the 1980s decade.
context_section_description: September 1
  Ann Harding, American actress (b. 1902)
  Albert Speer, German Nazi architect and war minister (b. 1905)
  September 2 – Enid Lyons, Australia politician (b. 1897)
  September 3 – Alec Waugh, British novelist (b. 1898)
  September 7
  Edwin Albert Link, American pioneer in aviation, underwater archaeology, and submersibles, and inventor of aeronautical, navigation, and oceanographic equipment (b. 1904)
  Christy Brown, Irish writer and painter (b. 1932)
  September 8
  Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1907)
  Roy Wilkins, American civil rights activist (b. 1901)
  September 9
  Jacques Lacan, French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist (b. 1901)
  Ricardo Balbín, Argentine politician, leader of the Radical Civic Union (UCR) (b. 1904)
  Sir Robert (Bob) Askin, Premier of New South Wales (b. 1907)
  September 11 – Frank McHugh, American actor (b. 1898)
  September 12 – Eugenio Montale, Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1896)
  September 14 – Charles L. Melson, American admiral (b. 1904)
  September 15
  Harold Bennett, British actor (b. 1899)
  Rafael Méndez, Mexican-born trumpet virtuoso (b. 1906)
  September 21 – Nigel Patrick, English actor (b. 1912)
  September 22 – Harry Warren, American songwriter (b. 1893)
  September 23 – Chief Dan George, Canadian actor and writer, tribal chief of the Tsleil-Waututh First Nation (b. 1899)
  September 24 – Patsy Kelly, American actress (b. 1910)
  September 27 – Robert Montgomery, American actor and director (b. 1904)
  September 28
  Rómulo Betancourt, 2-time President of Venezuela (b. 1908)
  Sir Edward Boyle, Baron Boyle of Handsworth, British Conservative cabinet minister (b. 1923)
  September 29
  Javad Fakoori, Iranian military officer, former minister of Defence (b. 1913)
  Mousa Namjoo, Iranian military officer, minister of Defence (b. 1938)
  Bill Shankly, British football manager (b. 1913)
caption: Romulo Betancourt
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