List of Famous people who died at 46

Samson Pascal François was a French pianist and composer.

Sadeq Qotbzadeh was an Iranian politician who served as a close aide of Ayatollah Khomeini during his 1978 exile in France, and foreign minister during the Iran hostage crisis following the Iranian Revolution. In 1982, he was executed for allegedly plotting the assassination of Ayatollah Khomeini and the overthrow of the Islamic Republic.

Doina Bumbea was a Romanian painter who was abducted to North Korea in 1978. Born in Bucharest, Bumbea left Romania in 1970 and went to Italy, where she studied fine arts and became a painter. There, she would be contacted by a certain individual who promised her a job as gallery curator in Japan if she gave an art exhibition in Pyongyang, North Korea. Bumbea accepted and was taken there, but she would not be allowed to leave the country.

Radamés Salazar Solorio was a Mexican politician.

Jeremy Dacre Ball was an Australian politician, actor and activist. Ball served as the Deputy Mayor of Launceston, Tasmania's second largest city, from 2011 until his death in 2014 due to a car accident.

Elliott Miles Goodman was an American composer for television and film. He is best remembered for his frequent collaboration with film director Frank Oz, for whom Goodman scored such films as Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988), What About Bob? (1991) and Housesitter (1992). For his score to Oz's Little Shop of Horrors (1986), Goodman was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score.