List of Famous people who died at 49

José Ignacio Rucci was an Argentine politician and union leader, appointed general secretary of the CGT in 1970. Close to the Argentine president Juan Perón, and a chief representative of the "syndical bureaucracy" ; he was assassinated in 1973.

Kwamie Lassiter was an American football safety. He was signed by the Arizona Cardinals as an undrafted free agent in 1995. He played college football at Kansas.

Sutopo Purwo Nugroho was an Indonesian civil servant and academic who worked at the Indonesian National Board for Disaster Management as its head of public relations.

Anna Nakagawa , real name Anna Kuriyama was a Japanese actress. She won the award for best actress at the 11th Yokohama Film Festival for A Sign Days.

Taryn Fiebig was an Australian opera and musical theatre soprano.

Ernst Ogris was an Austrian football player.

David Paul Cooley was a Lockheed test pilot and retired United States Air Force (USAF) officer, responsible for developmental flight testing of the F-117 Nighthawk. He was killed while flying a test mission in an F-22 Raptor jet fighter over the high desert of Southern California.

Cristina Adela Foișor was a Romanian chess player. She was awarded by FIDE the titles of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) in 1991 and International Master (IM) in 1997.

John Paul Leon was an American comic book artist, known for his work on the Milestone Comics series Static, and the Marvel Comics limited series Earth X.

Konstantin Sergeyevich Sarsania was a Russian professional football coach, player, and agent. At the time of his death he worked as director of sports for FC Zenit Saint Petersburg.