List of Famous people who died in 2020

Jean-Christophe Parisot de Bayard was a French political scientist and disability activist with tetraplegia due to myopathy.

Moustapha Sourang was a Senegalese politician.

Lawrence R. Novak was an American jazz pianist. He was the father of drummer Gary Novak.

Norbert Balatsch was an Austrian conductor, especially known as a choral conductor, who began as a baritone choir singer. He was the long-term choir director of both the Vienna State Opera and the Bayreuth Festival. Two of his recordings won Grammy Awards.

William Charles Dement was an American sleep researcher and founder of the Sleep Research Center at Stanford University. He was a leading authority on sleep, sleep deprivation and the diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders such as sleep apnea and narcolepsy. For this pioneering work in a previously uncharted field in the United States, he is sometimes referred to as the American father of sleep medicine.

Nello Santi was an Italian conductor. He was associated with the Opernhaus Zürich for six decades, and was a regular conductor at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. He was focused on Italian repertoire, especially operas by Verdi and Puccini, in a style following the tradition of Toscanini. He made sound and video recordings of Italian operas, including in 1971 Leoncavallo's Pagliacci with Plácido Domingo, Montserrat Caballé and Sherrill Milnes, in 1976 Montemezzi's L'amore dei tre re with Anna Moffo, Domingo and Pablo Elvira, in 2000 Verdi's I due Foscari, and in 2006 Donizetti's Don Pasquale in a Zürich production. Santi conducted from memory, and said "I love all of Verdi, but when he composed Rigoletto, Il Trovatore and La traviata he was in a profound state of grace."

Arminsyah was an Indonesian prosecutor. He was Vice Attorney General of Indonesia from 15 November 2017 to his death on 4 April 2020. He died because of traffic collision at Jagorawi Toll Road while driving a Nissan GT-R.

Chiu Chuang-huan was a Taiwanese politician. He was the Vice Premier from 1981 to 1984.

Alberto Sáenz de Zumarán Ortiz de Taranco, known as Alberto Zumarán was a Uruguayan lawyer and politician, belonging to the National Party.

Alex Varenne was a French comic book artist and writer, known by his erotic works. He worked often in collaboration with his brother Daniel Varenne.