List of Famous people who died in 2020

Fritz Gallati was a Swiss racing cyclist. He rode in the 1961 Tour de France.

Alexander Alexandrovich Bolonkin was a Russian-American scientist and academic who worked in the Soviet aviation, space and rocket industries and lectured in Moscow universities, before being arrested in 1972 by the KGB as a dissident. He served terms of imprisonment and internal exile for 15 years until 1987, when he emigrated to the US as a political refugee.

Anatoly Mykhailovych Samoilenko was a Ukrainian mathematician, an Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, the Director of the Institute of Mathematics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

Michel Chodkiewicz was a French author and a scholar of Sufism, especially Akbarian teaching.

Joaquim Pina Moura was a Portuguese politician and economist. He was a member of the Socialist Party.

Terence David Hands was an English theatre director. He founded the Liverpool Everyman Theatre and ran the Royal Shakespeare Company for thirteen years during one of the company's most successful periods; he spent 25 years in all with the RSC. He also saved Clwyd Theatr Cymru from closure and turned it into the most successful theatre in Wales in his seventeen years as Artistic Director. He received several Olivier, Tony and Molière awards and nominations for directing and lighting.

Michael Huckaby was an American DJ who produced electronic music.

Viktar Mikalayevich Dashkevich was a Belarusian stage actor.

Delphine Zanga Tsogo was a Cameroonian writer, feminist and politician. She served in the country's National Assembly from 1965 to 1972. Her married surname was Tsanga.

Jean-Marie Saget was a French military pilot who later worked for Dassault Aviation as a test pilot from 1955 to 1989.