List of Famous people who died in 2020
Carsten Bresch
Carsten Bresch was a German geneticist and physicist. He was a professor at the University of Freiburg at the Faculty of Biology. Working in Göttingen, Cologne, Dallas (U.S.) and Freiburg, he was a pioneer of genetics of bacteriophages, writing the standard Classical and Molecular Genetics.
Stephen Tataw
Stephen Tataw Eta was a Cameroonian football right-back who played club football in his home country and Japan. He captained the Cameroon national team at the 1990 and 1994 editions of the FIFA World Cup. He was the first player from Africa to play for a Japanese club.
Henri Tincq
Henri Tincq was a French journalist and Vatican expert.
Patrick Davin
Patrick Davin was a Belgian orchestra conductor.
Agustín Alezzo
Agustin Andres Oscar Alezzo was an Argentine theatre director and acting teacher. He was born in Buenos Aires. His career began in 1968. He directed the television series Nosotros in the 1970s. He also directed Spanish versions of Neil Simon, George Bernard Shaw and Arthur Miller productions.
Kenneth Gilbert
Kenneth Gilbert, was a Canadian harpsichordist, organist, musicologist, and music educator.
Jérôme Gendre
Jérôme Gendre was a French rugby union player and coach. He played amongst others for RC Narbonne, Castres Olympique, ASM Clermont Auvergne and FC Auch Gers. He died aged 43 after having suffered a heart attack.
Jean Nichol
Jean Nichol was a Canadian singer and songwriter.
Jean-Pierre Lux
Jean-Pierre Lux. was a French rugby union player and sports director. He played as a centre. He was professionally a dental surgeon.
Masayoshi Kabe
Masayoshi Kabe most commonly known by his stage name Louise Louis, was a half-French, half-Japanese bassist and guitarist from Yokohama, Japan. He began his career in 1966 as a member of The Golden Cups. He was a studio musician throughout the 1970s and also a member of various bands such as Speed, Glue & Shinki until he permanently joined the supergroup Pink Cloud in 1978. After they disbanded in 1994 he formed the instrumental side-project ZZK while providing support to other musicians as a bassist. He also recorded four albums as bass player with the band Vodka Collins from 1995-1998. He died on 26 September 2020, due to multiple organ failure.