List of Famous people who died in 2020

Michel Ragon was a French art and literature critic and writer. His primary focus was on anarchic and libertarian literature.

Tiloun, stage name of Jean-Michel Ramoune, was a Réunionese singer.

Claude Castonguay, was a Canadian politician, educator, and businessman.

Shobushi Kanji was a Japanese sumo wrestler from Kōfu, Yamanashi. He was the first sumo wrestler to die from the coronavirus, and is also thought to be the first person in their 20s to die from the virus in Japan.

Ana Paula Scheffer was a Brazilian individual rhythmic gymnast.

Reginald Thomas Foster was an American Catholic priest and friar of the Order of Discalced Carmelites. From 1970 until his retirement in 2009, he worked in the Latin Letters section of the Secretariat of State in the Vatican. He was an expert in Latin literature and an influential teacher of Latin, including 30 years at the Gregorian University in Rome and free summer courses that continued when he retired to Milwaukee.

Otto Benjamín de la Rocha López was a Nicaraguan singer, songwriter and radio actor, best known for his characterization of the picaresque persona Aniceto Prieto.

Bert Olav Holmquist was a Swedish trombonist who was active in the European music scene since the 1960s. Holmquist was born in Skellefteå. A completely self-taught musician, he began his career in a Swedish armed forces band (I20). He first took up the tuba, switched to valve trombone, and then to slide trombone. Starting as a freelance musician, he managed to land a job with the Swedish Radio big band in 1963 but continued to freelance throughout the 1960s. During this period, he often worked with Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson, who were later members of ABBA.

Anatoliy Matviyenko was a Ukrainian politician, founder of several political parties in the country. Matviyenko was 6 times elected to the Ukrainian parliament.

Paul-Heinz Dittrich was a German composer and academic teacher. Based in East Berlin, he focused on chamber music, with many works inspired by poetry. His works were performed earlier in the West than in the East. He was an influential composer of contemporary music in Germany who taught internationally, including in the United States, Israel, and Korea.