List of Famous people who died at 49

Jalil Zandi was a fighter pilot in the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force who served during all of the Iran–Iraq War. His combat record qualifies him as one of the most successful pilot of that conflict in air-to-air combat, as well as one of the best Iranian aces ever. It also made him the highest-scoring pilot in the history of the F-14 Tomcat.

Layla Al-Attar was an Iraqi artist and painter who became the Director of the Iraqi National Art Museum. Through her art, al-Attar expressed feminist ideals that attempted to recognize the role of women in all spheres of society.

Prince Charles of Luxembourg, Prince of Bourbon-Parma and Nassau, was a younger son of Grand Duchess Charlotte and Prince Felix of Bourbon-Parma.

Leonard John McLean was an English unlicensed boxer, bouncer, bodyguard, businessman and actor. He was known as "The Guv'nor", "the King of the Cobbles" and "the hardest man in Britain".

Mark O'Brien was an American journalist, poet, and advocate for the disabled. He has been the subject of two films: Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien, which won an Academy Award in 1997, and The Sessions in which he was portrayed by John Hawkes, a film that won the audience award in the U.S. Dramatic category at the Sundance Film Festival in 2012.

Zé Arigó was a faith healer and proponent of psychic surgery. He claimed to have performed psychic surgery with his hands or with simple kitchen utensils while in a mediumistic trance, therefore he was also known as the Surgeon of the Rusty Knife. During his operations he supposedly embodied the spirit of Dr. Adolf Fritz.

Paul McMullen was an American middle-distance runner who specialized in the 1500 meters. Paul was known by some as "the pride of Cadillac" after qualifying and competing in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia.

Gyöngyi Szalay-Horváth was a Hungarian fencer. She won a bronze medal in the women's individual épée event at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Ayatollah Sayyid Muhammad-Ridha al-Husayni al-Shirazi was an Iraqi-Iranian Shia scholar, and the eldest son of the late Grand Ayatollah Muhammad al-Shirazi.