List of Famous people who died at 56

Robert Richard "Robin" Davies was a Welsh television and film actor.

Muhammad Adil Siddiqui was a Pakistani politician who had been a Member of the Provincial Assembly of Sindh, from May 2013 to May 2018.

Ayatollah Abdul Aziz al-Hakim was an Iraqi theologian and politician and the leader of Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq, a party that has approximately 5% support in the Iraqi Council of Representatives. He also served as the President of the Governing Council of Iraq

José Maria Carvalho Pedroto, OIH, was a Portuguese football midfielder and manager.

Luc Brewaeys was a Belgian composer, conductor, pianist and recording producer at the VRT. He studied composition with André Laporte in Brussels, with Franco Donatoni in Siena (Italy) and with Brian Ferneyhough in Darmstadt (Germany).

Leonid Ignatyevich Beda was a ground-attack squadron commander in the Soviet Air Forces during the Second World War who went on to become a Lieutenant-General of Aviation. He completed over 214 sorties on the Ilyushin Il-2 during the war, for which he was twice awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union.

Ignacia de Loyola de Palacio y del Valle Lersundi was a Spanish politician. She was among the first women to rise to political prominence in Spain during the early years of reconstituted democracy. She was a minister in the Spanish government from 1996 to 1998, and a member of the European Commission from 1999 to 2004.

Kirill "Kirka" Babitzin was one of the most commercially successful Finnish musicians. His career spanned from the late 1960s until his death in 2007.