List of Famous people who died at 39

Lyudmila Alekseyevna Pakhomova was an ice dancer who competed for the Soviet Union. With her husband Alexandr Gorshkov, she was the 1976 Olympic champion, one of the oldest female figure skating Olympic champions.

Mark Spoon was a disc jockey, musician and record producer from Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Together with Rolf Ellmer he recorded under several monikers, including Jam & Spoon, Tokyo Ghetto Pussy and Storm. He also produced and remixed many other artists as well as becoming a veteran performer many times at Berlin's Love Parade.

Shane McConkey was a professional skier and BASE jumper. He was born in Vancouver, British Columbia and eventually based himself in Squaw Valley, California, but due to an itinerant childhood he never identified with a single place and chose Boulder, Colorado, as the place he came from. It was from here that he started his professional skiing career after initially attending the University of Colorado Boulder before dropping out to pursue his dreams.

Nahed Sherif, also romanised as Nahied Sherif, was an Egyptian actress who came to prominence in Egyptian and Lebanese films of the 1960s and 1970s.

Ziya Bazhayev was a prominent Russian businessman of Chechen origin specializing in oil trading. He died in Moscow during a crash of a Yakovlev Yak-40 aircraft shortly after takeoff on March 9, 2000, together with a Russian journalist, Artyom Borovik.

Carola Scarpa, born Ana Carolina Rorato de Oliveira in São Paulo, was a Brazilian actress and socialite.

Horst Skoff was a professional tennis player from Austria, who won four tournaments at the top-level.

Artyom Genrikhovich Borovik was a Russian journalist and media magnate. He was the son of a Soviet journalist, Genrikh Borovik, who worked for many years as a foreign correspondent in the U.S.

Pyotr Gennadyevich Devyatkin was a Kazakhstani ice hockey forward.

Sergi López Segú was a Spanish footballer who played as a central defender.