List of Famous people who died in 2020
Wilson Roosevelt Jerman
Wilson Roosevelt Jerman was an American butler who served 11 different U.S. presidents in the White House. He was one of the White House's longest serving employees.
Ernest Courant
Ernest Courant was an American accelerator physicist and a fundamental contributor to modern large-scale particle accelerator concepts. His most notable discovery was his 1952 work with Milton S. Livingston and Hartland Snyder on the Strong focusing principle, a critical step in the development of modern particle accelerators like the synchrotron, though this work was preceded by that of Nicholas Christofilos.
Claude Evrard
Claude Evrard was a French actor.
Liliane Juchli
Liliane Juchli was a Swiss nurse and member of the Merciful Sisters of the Holy Cross, a Swiss Catholic order that follows the Franciscan tradition.
Simon Schenk
Simon Schenk was a Swiss politician.
Noëlla Rouget
Noëlla Rouget was a French Resistance member and teacher. She spoke of her experiences in the 1980s in Switzerland, Haute-Savoie, and Ain.
Claude Lafortune
Claude Lafortune was a Canadian paper artist, set decorator, and television personality.
Daisy Lúcidi
Daisy Lopes Lúcidi Mendes was a Brazilian actress, radio broadcaster, and politician.
Marion Hänsel
Marion Hänsel was a French-born Belgian film director, producer, actress and screenwriter. Her film Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea was entered into the 1995 Cannes Film Festival.
Aleksandr Kurlyandsky
Aleksandr Yefimovich Kurlyandsky was a Soviet and Russian writer, satirist, playwright, screenwriter, and author of books for children. He was born and died in Moscow, and was an Honored Art Worker of the Russian Federation (2007). He was also awarded the USSR State Prize (1988).