List of Famous people who died at 49

Georgi Ivanov Markov was a Bulgarian dissident writer.

Alexei Prokopievich Berest was a Soviet political officer and one of the three Red Army soldiers who hoisted the Victory Banner.

Sister Maura Clarke, M.M., was an American Catholic Maryknoll sister who served as a missionary in Nicaragua and El Salvador. She worked with the poor and refugees in Central America from 1959 until her murder in 1980. On December 2, 1980, she was beaten, raped, and murdered along with three fellow missionaries — Ita Ford, Dorothy Kazel and Jean Donovan — by members of the military of El Salvador.

Brian Asawa was a Japanese American opera singer who sang as a countertenor. About Asawa, Opera News stated: "In his prime, Asawa was an electric performer, his fearless performing style supported by a voice of arresting beauty and expressivity."

Darren Edward James Pitcher was an English professional footballer who played as a defender and a midfielder from 1988 until 1999.

Jenny Lynn was an International Federation of BodyBuilders (IFBB) professional figure competitor.

Armin Kircher was an Austrian composer and conductor.

Andrew J. Tallon was a Belgian art historian. He used lasers to create a precise model of Notre-Dame de Paris, among other buildings.

David Rostomovich Khakhaleishvili was a heavyweight Georgian judoka, mixed martial artist and Olympic gold medalist. He was born in Kutaisi.

William George Bonin, also known as the Freeway Killer, was an American serial killer and twice-paroled sex offender who committed the rape, torture, and murder of a minimum of 21 boys and young men in a series of killings in 1979 and 1980 in southern California. Bonin is also suspected of committing a further 15 murders. Described by the prosecutor at his first trial as "the most arch-evil person who ever existed", Bonin was convicted of 14 of the murders linked to the "Freeway Killer" in two separate trials in 1982 and 1983. He spent 14 years on death row before he was executed by lethal injection at San Quentin State Prison in 1996.