List of Famous people who died in 2020

Jerónimo Julio Arango Arias was a Mexican billionaire businessman, co-founder of the Aurrerá supermarket chain, with his younger brothers, Manuel and Plácido, known for a long time as three of Mexico's wealthiest men. His net worth was estimated at US$4.6 billion in 2006 by Forbes.

Lenin El-Ramly was an independent Egyptian writer and director of films and for television and theater. His work is in the field of satire, farce, parody and the Theatre of the Absurd.

Yasumasa Kanada was a Japanese computer scientist most known for his numerous world records over the past three decades for calculating digits of π. He set the record 11 of the past 21 times.

Dmitry Svetushkin was a Moldovan chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 2002.

Paul Natali was a French politician.

Mohamad "Bob" Hasan was an Indonesian businessman, who served briefly as trade and industry minister in 1998 and was later jailed for corruption. He was one of the most prominent ethnic Chinese cronies of long-serving Indonesian president Suharto and was nicknamed "the plywood king" because of his forestry businesses. Hasan served as the chairman of the Indonesian Athletics Association from September 1984 until his death.

Michel Parisse was a French historian who specialized in medieval studies. He was a professor emeritus at the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne.

Peter E. Toschek was a German experimental physicist who researched nuclear physics, quantum optics, and laser physics. He is known as a pioneer of laser spectroscopy and for the first demonstration of single trapped atoms (ions). He was a professor at Hamburg University.

Aleksandr Nikolayevich Mikhailov was a Russian politician, who served as governor of Kursk Oblast and a member of the State Duma (1993–2000).

Claudine Cassereau was a French model and artist. She was elected Miss Poitou-Charentes in 1971 and was 3rd place in Miss France in 1972. She then became Miss France 1972 after Chantal Bouvie de Lamotte was hurt by a fall from horseback.