List of Famous people who died in 1920

John Arbuthnot Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher,, commonly known as Jacky or Jackie Fisher, was a British Admiral of the Fleet known for his efforts at naval reform. He had a huge influence on the Royal Navy in a career spanning more than 60 years, starting in a navy of wooden sailing ships armed with muzzle-loading cannon and ending in one of steel-hulled battlecruisers, submarines and the first aircraft carriers.

Eduard Salomon Frankfort was a Dutch Jewish painter during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Richard Émile Augustin de Candolle was a Swiss botanist and was British consul to the Canton of Geneva between 1912 and 1918.

Robert Duncan Wilmot Jr. was a Canadian farmer, businessman and politician.

Pavel Karlovich Shternberg was a Russian professor, academic, astronomer, Bolshevik and revolutionary of German decent. Shternberg contributed to the abolition of the Czarist government by Alexander Kerensky during the February Revolution of 1917. He was friends with two notable revolutionaries, Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky.

Luc-Olivier Merson was a French academic painter and illustrator also known for his postage stamp and currency designs.

Filippo Giustini was an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Prefect of the Congregation for the Discipline of the Sacraments from 1914 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1914.