List of Famous people who died at 51

Wayne McLaren was an American stuntman, model, actor, and rodeo performer.

Yuri Abramovich Veksler was a Soviet and Russian cinematographer. Winner of the USSR State Prize (1985).

Junji Izumida was a Japanese professional wrestler who worked for Pro Wrestling Noah.

Henry Liu, often known by his pen name Chiang Nan, was a Taiwanese-American writer and journalist. He was a vocal critic of the Kuomintang, then the single ruling party of the Republic of China in Taiwan, and was most famous for writing an unauthorized biography of Chiang Ching-kuo, then president of the Republic of China. He later became a naturalized citizen of the United States, and resided in Daly City, California, where he was assassinated by Bamboo Union members who had been reportedly trained by Republic of China military intelligence.

Rem Viktorovich Khokhlov was a Soviet physicist and university teacher, rector of Lomonosov Moscow State University, one of the founders of nonlinear optics.

Ahmed al-Jabari was a senior leader and second-in-command of the military wing of Hamas, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades. He was widely credited as the leader in the Hamas takeover of the Gaza Strip, and commanded the 2006 Hamas cross border raid which resulted in the capture of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. Under his command along with chief logistics officer Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, Hamas significantly developed its own military weapons capability by acquiring longer-range guided missiles and rockets.

Samira Khashoggi was a Saudi Arabian progressive author, as well as the owner and editor-in chief of Alsharkiah magazine. She was the sister of Saudi businessman Adnan Khashoggi, and the first wife of Egyptian-born businessman Mohamed Al-Fayed and the mother of filmmaker Dodi Fayed.

Hilda Rosario Hernández Alvarado was an agronomy engineer and Honduran politician. She held posts in the nationalist governments of Ricardo Maduro, Porfirio Lobo Sosa and of her brother, Juan Orlando Hernández, current Honduran president. From January 2017 until her death she was political advisor to her brother in his campaign for re-election in the general election, 2017. There are also allegations that she never died and the press never showed evidence of the crashed helicopter. Some other say that Chapo Guzman sent to kill her due to her brother Juan Orlando ties with drug trafficking.

Pascal Garray was a Belgian comics artist and cartoonist best known for his work on Peyo's The Smurfs and Benoît Brisefer.

Sylvie Roy was a Canadian politician in Quebec and a Member of the National Assembly for the electoral district of Arthabaska. She previously represented the riding of Lotbinière from 2003 until 2012, initially as a member of the now-defunct Action démocratique du Québec (ADQ) until the merger of that party into the Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) in 2012. She left the CAQ to sit as an independent in 2015.