List of Famous people who died in 2020

Carlo Casini was an Italian politician. He was a member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 8 May 2006 until 30 June 2014, he served in a seat left vacant following the 2006 Italian general election. He represented the Union of Christian and Centre Democrats within the EPP parliamentary group. He was also an MEP from 1984 to 1999.

Hernán Claret Alemán Pérez was a Venezuelan politician who served on the National Assembly representing the state of Zulia. Alemán was a member of the Acción Democrática (AD) political party.

Georges Pailler, known by the pen name Esparbec, was a French pornographic author.

Antônio Bivar Battistetti Lima, better known simply as Antônio Bivar, was a Brazilian writer of the Beat Generation and playwright.

Gil Manhães Vianna Júnior, better known simply as Gil Vianna, was a Brazilian Politician and member of the Military Police of Rio de Janeiro State.

Iba Der Thiam, also known as I. D. Thiam, was a Senegalese writer, historian, and politician. He served in the government of Senegal as Minister of Education from 1983 to 1988; later, he was First Vice-President of the National Assembly of Senegal from 2001 to 2012.

Volodymyr Mykolayovych Troshkin was a Soviet footballer and a Ukrainian coach. He was considered by many to be the best right back in 1970s in Ukraine. He was born in Yenakiieve.

James Douglas Grant Dunn, also known as Jimmy Dunn, was a British New Testament scholar, who was for many years the Lightfoot Professor of Divinity in the Department of Theology at the University of Durham. He worked broadly within the Protestant tradition.

José Cutileiro was a Portuguese diplomat and writer. He was a representative to the Council of Europe, Secretary General of the Western European Union (WEU), and an envoy to the UN Commissioner for Human Rights in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia. He was on the faculty of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.

Henrietta Longstreet Boggs was an American author, journalist, and activist. She served as First Lady of Costa Rica from 1948 to 1949 in the years immediately following the Costa Rican Civil War. She turned 100 in May 2018.