List of Famous people who died in 2020
Yuri Zisser
Yuri Zisser was a Belarusian web businessman and blogger. He was the founder and owner of TUT.by, the most visited Belarusian web portal.
Inés Moreno
Inés Moreno was an Argentine film and television actress who often played vampish roles. Moreno was married to the actor Juan Carlos Barbieri with whom she had a daughter Andrea Barbieri who is also an actress. She later divorced Barbieri and married the Uruguayan journalist Lucho Avilés.
Francis Rapp
Francis Rapp was a French medievalist specializing in the history of Alsace and medieval Germany. An emeritus university professor, he was a member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres since 1993.
Markus Raetz
Markus Raetz was a Swiss painter, sculptor, and illustrator.
Isabel-Clara Simó
Isabel-Clara Simó i Monllor was a Spanish journalist and writer. She is considered one of the most important writers in the Catalan language.
Vadão
Oswaldo Fumeiro Alvarez, more commonly known as Vadão, was a Brazilian football manager. Although he managed several Brazilian men's teams over the course of his managerial career, he was best known for being the head coach of the Brazil women's national football team on two occasions, from 2014 to 2016, and from 2017 to 2019.
Astrid Nøklebye Heiberg
Astrid Nøklebye Heiberg was a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party, and a professor of medicine. She was the state secretary to the Minister of Social Affairs 1981–1985, and Minister of Administration and Consumer Affairs in 1986.
Zhao Zhongxiang
Zhao Zhongxiang was a well-known Chinese news anchor on the national news program Xinwen Lianbo and television host. He joined China Central Television in 1959.
Waldemar Bastos
Waldemar dos Santos Alonso de Almeida Bastos was an Angolan musician who combined Afropop, Portuguese (fado), and Brazilian influences.
Catherine Paysan
Annie Hausen, known by her pen name Catherine Paysan, was a French writer. She won the Grand prix de littérature de la SGDL for her lifetime’s writing.