List of Famous people who died at 56

Wes Farrell was an American musician, songwriter and record producer, who was most active in the 1960s and 1970s.

Anne Marie Wibble was a Swedish politician. From 1991 to 1994 she served as Sweden's first female Minister for Finance. She was the daughter of Bertil Ohlin, a 1977 Nobel laureate.

Virginia Frances, Lady Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes was an explorer, and the wife of the adventurer Ranulph Fiennes. She was the first woman to be awarded the Polar Medal, and as such was invited to join the Antarctic Club in recognition of her research work for the British Antarctic Survey and University of Sheffield into very low frequency radio propagation.

Mokhtar Kechamli was an Algerian football manager and player.

Georg Richter was a German-born Norwegian actor.

Yury Rafaelovich Dokhoian was a Russian Grandmaster of chess (1988) of Armenian origin.

Hazel Terry was an English actress. A member of the theatrical dynasty the Terry family she had a successful stage career, and also made some cinema films. Among her roles was Ophelia in Hamlet opposite her cousin John Gielgud.