List of Famous people who died at 54

Zang Tianshuo was a Chinese rock musician.

Adlan Abuevich Varayev was a Russian-Chechen welterweight freestyle wrestler who won a silver medal at the 1988 Olympics. He won the 1987 World Championships, beating Dave Schultz in the final, and placed second in 1986. Varayev held the European welterweight title in 1986–1988. After retiring from competitions worked as a wrestling coach and administrator. He trained the Russian national freestyle team and served as vice-president of the Russian Wrestling Federation. He accidentally drowned after a bad fall into the Argun River.

Jimmy Banks was an American soccer defender. After a standout career at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Banks spent six seasons playing indoor soccer with the Milwaukee Wave. He also earned 35 caps with the national team between 1986 and 1991, including two games at the 1990 FIFA World Cup. After retiring from playing professionally, Banks entered the coaching ranks with both youth clubs and the Milwaukee School of Engineering men's team. Banks died of stomach cancer on April 26, 2019.

Romolo Valli was an Italian actor.

Sonia Viveros was one of the most important actresses on Chilean television. She was born in Santiago, Chile and died in La Serena. She distinguished herself with roles in the telenovelas La Madrastra, La Torre 10 and Marta a las Ocho.

Sakine Cansız was one of the co-founders of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). A Kurdish activist in the 1980s, she was arrested and tortured by Turkish police. A close associate of Abdullah Öcalan and a senior member of the PKK, she was shot dead during the triple murder of Kurdish activists in Paris, France, on 9 January 2013, along with two other female Kurdish activists, Fidan Doğan and Leyla Söylemez.

Bernd Jakubowski was an East German footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

Prof. Dr. Reinhard Alfred Furrer was a German physicist and astronaut.

Gil Manhães Vianna Júnior, better known simply as Gil Vianna, was a Brazilian Politician and member of the Military Police of Rio de Janeiro State.

Kemal Türkler was a Turkish socialist labor union leader. He was founder and first president of Confederation of Revolutionary Trade Unions of Turkey, and also one of the founders of the Workers Party of Turkey in 1963.