List of Famous people who died in 2020
Pierre Truche
Pierre Truche was a French magistrate. He notably prosecuted Klaus Barbie during his trial in 1987.
Amparo Dávila
Amparo Dávila was a Mexican writer best known for her short stories touching on the fantastic and the uncanny. She won the Xavier Villarrutia Award in 1977 for her short story collection, Árboles petrificados. In 2015 a literary prize in her honor was created in Mexico for the best story within the genre of "the fantastic": the Premio Bellas Artes del Cuento Fantástico Amparo Dávila.
Robert Bru
Robert Bru was a French rugby union coach.
Noël Vandernotte
Noël Vandernotte was a French rowing coxswain who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics. He was the son of Fernand Vandernotte and the nephew of Marcel Vandernotte. In 1936 he won the bronze medal of the French boat in the coxed pairs event as well as in the coxed four competition. He was the youngest male medalist at the 1936 Games, at 12 years and 233 days, and is also the youngest French Olympic medalist of all-time.
Pollycarpus Priyanto
Pollycarpus Budihari Priyanto was an Indonesian pilot for Garuda Indonesia airline and an alleged agent of Indonesia's State Intelligence Agency (BIN). He was involved in the murder of human rights activist Munir Said Thalib with arsenic on 7 September 2004.
Mónica Jiménez
Mónica Eliana Jiménez de la Jara was a Chilean Christian Democrat politician and Minister of Education.
José Jiménez Lozano
José Jiménez Lozano was a Spanish writer. In 2002 he was awarded the Miguel de Cervantes Prize.
Maria Alice Vergueiro
Maria Alice Monteiro de Campos Vergueiro was a Brazilian actress with an extensive career on stage, cinema, and television.
Jiro Kuwata
Jiro Kuwata was a Japanese manga artist.
Mário José dos Reis Emiliano
Mário José dos Reis Emiliano, commonly known as Marinho, was a Brazilian professional footballer and assistant manager of Bangu. He played as a right winger.