List of Famous people who died at 55

Roy Schuiten was a Dutch track and road racing cyclist. After retirement he became a team manager before starting a restaurant.

Thomas Mitscherlich was a German film director and screenwriter. He directed ten films between 1972 and 1996. His 1993 film Just a Matter of Duty was entered into the 43rd Berlin International Film Festival.

Hugh A. Robertson was an American film director and editor, born in Brooklyn, of Jamaican parents. While Robertson was credited as an editor for only three films, Midnight Cowboy earned him the BAFTA Award for Best Editing and a nomination for the Academy Award for Film Editing, making him the first African American person to be nominated for an Oscar in the editing category.

Sophie Catherine Tatischeff was a French film editor and director.

Luiz de Oliveira da Costa Maia is widely acknowledged as the father of the modern Brazilian bass. His unparalleled sense of rhythm and deep subwoofer-like tone stirred the sauce behind the classic recordings of Elis Regina, João Bosco, Tom Jobim, Djavan and Chico Buarque.

Jean Boyer was a French organist and a professor of organ at several institutions including the Conservatoire national supérieur musique et danse de Lyon.