List of Famous people who died at 56

Daniil Yakovlevich Khrabrovitsky was a Soviet scriptwriter and film director.

Román Viñoly Barreto was a Uruguayan-Argentine film director.

Marie Wilson was an American radio, film, and television actress. She may be best remembered as the title character in My Friend Irma.

Çetin Küçükarslan, better known by his stage name Çetin Alp, was a Turkish singer.

Rosalind Theresa Cash was an American actress, voice artist, and singer. Her best-known film role is in the 1971 science-fiction film The Omega Man. Cash also had another notable role as Mary Mae Ward in ABC's General Hospital, a role she portrayed from 1994 until her death in 1995.

Antonino Scopelliti was an Italian prosecuting magistrate, murdered by the 'Ndrangheta on behalf of the Sicilian Mafia.

Allan Charles Wilson FRS AAA&S was a professor of biochemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, a pioneer in the use of molecular approaches to understand evolutionary change and reconstruct phylogenies, and a revolutionary contributor to the study of human evolution. He was one of the most significant figures in post-war biology; his work attracted a great deal of attention both from within and outside the academic world. He is the only New Zealander to have won the MacArthur Fellowship.