List of Famous people who died at 56

Chiaki Morosawa was a Japanese anime screenwriter and the creator of the fictional universe of "Cosmic Era" the setting (narrative) for the anime Mobile Suit Gundam SEED and its related series. Born in Urawa, Saitama, Saitama City, Saitama Prefecture, Kantou Region, Japan. Blood type: O. An older sister of Kazuyuki Morosawa. She was the wife of Mitsuo Fukuda, and the mother of their children.

Margarita Mimi Baez Fariña was a singer-songwriter and activist, the youngest of three daughters to a Scottish mother and Mexican-American physicist Albert Baez. She was the younger sister of the singer and activist Joan Baez.

Aloyzas Kveinys was a Lithuanian chess player, who was awarded the Grandmaster title in 1992.

Maina-Miriam Munsky was a German New Realist artist. She came to prominence in West Berlin during the 1970s with a series of "larger than life" ("großformatige") paintings of births, abortions and surgical procedures.

Dursun Karataş was a Turkish revolutionary of Kurdish descent, and the founding leader of the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front (DHKP-C).

Kunichika Tomiyama , better known by his stage name Kei Tomiyama , was a Japanese actor, voice actor, and narrator from Anshan, Manchukuo. He was also declared the Mel Blanc of Japanese voice acting. During his life, Tomiyama was affiliated with Aoni Production and Production Baobab.

Stjepan Đureković was a Croatian political dissident and businessman who was assassinated by the Yugoslavian State Security Administration (UDBA) in West Germany in 1983. He was previously the CEO of the state-owned INA petrol company. In 1982, he defected to West Germany and became active in Croatian émigré circles opposed to Yugoslavia.

Franz Surges was a German composer and musician.

Gunpei Yokoi , sometimes transliterated Gumpei Yokoi, was a Japanese video game designer. He was a long-time Nintendo employee, best known as creator of the Game & Watch handheld system, inventor of the "cross" shaped Control Pad, the original designer of the Game Boy, and producer of a few long-running and critically acclaimed video game franchises, such as Metroid and Kid Icarus.

Takayuki Fujikawa was a Japanese football player.