List of Famous people who died at 45

Anne Sexton was an American poet known for her highly personal, confessional verse. She won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1967 for her book Live or Die. Her poetry details her long battle with depression, suicidal tendencies, and intimate details from her private life, including relationships with her husband and children, whom it was later alleged she physically and sexually assaulted.

Alexander Prosvirnin was a Soviet Nordic combined skier who competed in the early 1980s. He was born in Vorokhta. He won a bronze medal in the 3x10 km team event at the 1984 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Rovaniemi and finished 14th in the 15 km individual event at the 1985 championships in Seefeld.

Saif Saeed Ghobash Al Marri was an Emirati diplomat and engineer. He was the United Arab Emirates first Minister of State for Foreign Affairs.

Cristina Lemercier was an Argentine actress and television presenter. Her mother, a Peronist, took Lemercier to an acting audition when she was a teenager. She had two sisters, Gloria and Maria Rosa Perone. In 1968, she married the singer Freddy Tadeo, brother of Palito Ortega. They had three children, Pablo, Paula, and Julia. She died from a gunshot wound to the head.

Joaquim Alberto da Silva, known as Quinzinho, was an Angolan professional footballer who played as a striker.

Leslie Galen Young was an American professional basketball player. He played two years of Division I college basketball for the Charlotte 49ers, where he earned first-team All-Conference USA honors in 1999. He played professionally in the United States and abroad for 13 years, winning a Continental Basketball Association championship in 2007 with the Yakima Sun Kings and an Australian National Basketball League championship in 2010 with the Perth Wildcats.

Samir Kassir was a Lebanese-Palestinian-French professor of history at Saint-Joseph University and journalist.

Pentti Saarikoski was one of the most important poets in the literary scene of Finland during the 1960s and 1970s. His body of work comprises poetry and translations, among them such classics as Homer's Odyssey and James Joyce's Ulysses.

Joseph Doucé was born to a rural family in Sint-Truiden, Belgium. He was a psychologist and a (defrocked) Baptist pastor in Paris. He was openly gay and was among the founders of the International Lesbian and Gay Association. He served as a volunteer soldier in the NATO base at Limoges, France, where he had time to perfect his French. After one year of pastoral and humanistic studies at Stenonius College in Maastricht, the Netherlands, he began his conversion to Protestantism around 1966.

Mahmoud Abdulaziz also transcribed as Mahmoud Abdel Aziz and affectionately known as Elhoot or Al-hoot, was a popular Sudanese singer-songwriter. Called "Sudan’s idol of the youth”, he was a central figure for Sudanese music fans, opposing the military government of the day.