List of Famous people who died at 50

Tamio Kageyama was a Japanese writer.

Chen Yu-mei was a Taiwanese politician. She served as Deputy Minister of the Overseas Community Affairs Council of the Executive Yuan from 18 September 2013 to 8 August 2014.

Chandra Ariati Dewi Irawan or better known as Ria Irawan (born in Jakarta on 24 July 1969 - death in Jakarta 6 January 2020) was an Indonesian actress and singer of Minangkabau descent.

Rafael Ramón Acosta Arévalo was a Venezuelan military officer with the rank of corvette captain of the Armed Forces. Acosta Arévalo was victim of forced disappearance and tortured by agents of the General Directorate of Military Counterintelligence (DGCIM) during his detention after being accused by the government of Nicolás Maduro of "conspiring to carry out an attempted coup d'état". Acosta Arévalo died as a result of injuries suffered while in detention in the Military Hospital of the Army Dr. Vicente Salias Sanoja. The news of his death caused great impact in the media and the condemnation of both national and international authorities.

Lina Anatolyevna Cheryazova was an Uzbek freestyle skier who competed in aerials. She won a bronze medal at the 1990 European Championship and a gold medal at the 1993 World Championships before winning the gold medal at the 1994 Winter Olympics with a score of 166.84. So far she is the only athlete to have won a Winter Olympic medal while representing the Republic of Uzbekistan. Her achievements earned her the title of Honored Athlete of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

Boris Grigoryevich Fyodorov was a Russian economist, politician, and reformer. He was awarded a doctor of economics degree from the Moscow Finance Institute and authored over 200 publications. Fyodorov was Minister of Finance of the Russian SFSR in 1990. From 1991 to 1992 he worked for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in London. In 1992 he became director of the World Bank. He served as Finance Minister of Russia from 1993 until 1994, when he resigned. Fyodorov was a member of the State Duma between 1994 and 1998. In 1998 he became a tax minister and Deputy Prime Minister of Russia.

Mohamed Zouari, was born in 1967 and assassinated on December 15, 2016 in Sfax when he was shot dead in a drive-by shooting operation generally attributed to Mossad. Zouari was a Tunisian Aerospace engineer working for Hamas military wing The Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades.

Laura Canales was an American Tejano musician and an original inductee in the Tejano Roots Hall of Fame. Canales was born in Kingsville, Texas.

Andrei Aleksandrovich Chernov, also known as Andrew Chernov and Ache, was a Soviet and Russian programmer who was one of the founders of the Russian Internet and the creator of the character encoding KOI8-R.

Nicholas Christian Hopkins was an English pianist and organist. Hopkins recorded and performed on many notable British and American pop and rock music releases from the 1960s through the 1990s including many songs by The Rolling Stones, The Kinks and The Who.