List of Famous people who died in 2020

Blanca María Rodríguez de Pérez was the First Lady of Venezuela from 1974 to 1979 and again from 1989 to 1993.

Dannes Arcenio Coronel Campoverde was an Ecuadorian football defender.

Rafael Gómez Nieto was a Spanish soldier and veteran of the Spanish Civil War and World War II.

Luboš Perek was a Czech astronomer best known for his Catalogue of Galactic Planetary Nebulae co-written in 1967 with Luboš Kohoutek. He worked on the distribution of mass in the galaxy, high-velocity stars, planetary nebulae, definition of outer space, geostationary orbit, space debris, and management of outer space.

Miloslav Stingl was a Czech ethnologist, traveller and author.

Aleksandr Vitalyevich Gordon was a Soviet filmmaker and Russian author.

Hyun Kil-Un was a Jeju Island-based South Korean writer.

Yoshisada Sakaguchi was a Japanese actor and voice actor from Tokyo. He was a professor at Obirin University, and was affiliated with Bungakuza. He was best known for dubbing over Morgan Freeman and Chief Inspector Japp.

Arief Budiman was the older brother of Soe Hok Gie. He graduated from Kolese Kanisius, a Jesuit high school and then Universitas Indonesia where he earned a bachelor's degree in psychology in 1968. In 1980, he earned his Ph.D. in sociology from Harvard University, United States. He was a Muslim Chinese Indonesian sociologist and was a lecturer at the Universitas Kristen Satya Wacana, Salatiga, Indonesia until 1996. From 1997 for about ten years, he was a professor in Indonesian studies in University of Melbourne, Australia.

Thorkild Grosbøll was a parish priest in the Church of Denmark. In the early 2000s he received a lot of media attention in Denmark for publicly stating disbelief in an interventionist creator God. He died on 10 May 2020 after a short illness.