List of Famous people who died at 51

Vsevolod Chaplin was a Russian celibate priest of the Russian Orthodox Church. He was the chairman of the Synodal Department for the Cooperation of Church and Society of the Moscow Patriarchate from 2009 to December 2015.

Ronit Elkabetz was an Israeli actress, screenwriter and filmmaker. She worked in both Israeli and French cinema. She won three Ophir Awards and received a total of seven nominations.

Sabel Hay Shields, better known as Sable Starr, was a famous American groupie, often described as the "queen of the groupie scene" in Los Angeles during the early 1970s. She claimed during an interview published in the June 1973 edition of Star magazine that she had sexual relationships with Iggy Pop, Rod Stewart, Alice Cooper, David Bowie, and Marc Bolan.

Hamid Dawud Mohamed Khalil al-Zawi, known as Abu Hamza al-Baghdadi and Abu Omar al-Qurashi al-Baghdadi, was the leader of the militant groups Mujahideen Shura Council, and its successor, the Islamic State of Iraq, which fought against US forces and their Iraqi allies in the Iraq War.

Helen Elizabeth Bailey was a British author who wrote the Electra Brown series of books aimed at a teenage audience.

Ralf Waldmann was a German Grand Prix motorcycle road racer.

Amjad Khan was an Indian actor and director. He worked in over 132 films in a career spanning nearly twenty years. He gained popularity for villainous roles in mostly Hindi films, the most famous being the iconic Gabbar Singh in the 1975 classic Sholay and of Dilawar in Muqaddar Ka Sikandar (1978).

Emmanuel Yarbrough was an American martial artist, professional wrestler, football player and actor. He was particularly known by his career in amateur sumo, holding the Guinness World Record for the heaviest living athlete.

Natalio Alberto Nisman was an Argentine lawyer who worked as a federal prosecutor, noted for being the chief investigator of the 1994 car bombing of the Jewish center in Buenos Aires, which killed 85 people, the worst terrorist attack in Argentina's history. On 18 January 2015, Nisman was murdered at his home in Buenos Aires, one day before he was scheduled to report on his findings, with supposedly incriminating evidence against high-ranking officials of the then-current Argentinian government including former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.

Brian Francis Connolly was a Scottish singer-songwriter, musician and actor, best known as the lead singer between 1968 and 1979 of the British glam rock band The Sweet.