List of Famous people who died in 2020

Percy Schmeiser was a Canadian businessman, farmer, and politician. In 1954, he took over the operations of the family owned farm, gas station, and farm equipment dealership. He renamed the farm equipment dealership Schmeiser's Garage and added a second farm equipment dealership in Humboldt, Saskatchewan in 1986 and oversaw their operations until their sale in 2003.

Marc-André Bédard was a Canadian attorney and politician. Born in Lac-à-la-Croix, Quebec, Bédard served in the National Assembly of Quebec from 1973 to 1985 and was Minister of Justice and Deputy Premier. Bédard was the father of politician Stéphane Bédard.

Ewa Maria Demarczyk was a Polish singer, generally associated with the sung poetry music genre and the Piwnica pod Baranami cabaret.

Philippe Frémeaux was a French economic journalist with the magazine Alternatives économiques.

Monica Echeverría Yáñez was a Chilean journalist, writer, actress and a Literature professor. She defined herself as a feminist since "before people called it that" and called herself a "rebel" and "anarchist" in the face of the neoliberal economic course of the Chilean government.

Louis Nirenberg was a Canadian-American mathematician, considered one of the most outstanding mathematicians of the 20th century.

Vakha Abuevich Agaev was a Russian politician, who, since 2011, had been a Member of the State Duma, representing the Krasnoyarsk region. He was a member of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. He served as Deputy Chairman of the State Duma committee on property. He died from COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Russia in 2020.

Marc Morgan was a Belgian singer and songwriter.

Tatjana Lematschko was a Soviet-born Swiss chess player, She was born in Moscow, but lived in Bulgaria for several years.

Pedro Iturralde Ochoa was a Spanish saxophonist, saxophone teacher and composer.