V. S. Naipaul November 5, 1981
Raoul Wallenberg November 5, 1981
Chancellor Bismarck November 19, 1981
Richard Viguerie November 19, 1981
Phyllis Schlafly November 19, 1981
John Updike November 19, 1981
Georg Lukács November 19, 1981
Robert Stone December 3, 1981
P. G. Wodehouse December 3, 1981
Ronald Reagan December 3, 1981
Francis Crick December 3, 1981
Bronislava Nijinska December 3, 1981
Tom Wolfe December 17, 1981
Matthew Arnold December 17, 1981
Elvis Presley December 17, 1981
Casper Weinberger December 17, 1981
Vladimir Nabokov December 30, 1981