List of Famous people who died in 2020

Maria de Sousa was a Portuguese immunologist, science leader poet and writer. She gained international recognition as a medical researcher, as the author of several seminal scientific papers: she was the first to describe thymus-dependent areas in 1966, a fundamental discovery in the mapping of peripheral lymphoid organs; she coined the term "ecotaxis" in 1971, to describe the phenomenon of cells of different origins to migrate and to organize among themselves in very specific lymphoid areas. In the 1980s she focused on the study of hereditary hemochromatosis, an iron overload genetic disease.

Chung Hae-Won was a South Korean football striker and coach. He scored two goals to give South Korea national football team a 2–1 win over North Korea national football team in the 1980 AFC Asian Cup to send South Korea to the final, where they were defeated 3–0 by Kuwait national football team.

Marilee Harris Shapiro Asher was an American sculptor, author and survivor of both the Spanish Flu and the COVID-19.

John Pepper Clark-Bekederemo was a Nigerian poet and playwright, who also published as J. P. Clark and John Pepper Clark.

Jacques Mazoin was a French rugby union player and coach.

Jean-Paul Grangaud was an Algerian pediatrician and university professor.

Orlando Duarte Figueiredo was a Brazilian sports journalist and commentator.

Marcos Raúl Montero Álvarez was a Bolivian journalist, TV host and radio host.

Michel Edmond Alfred Souplet was a French politician who served as a Senator.

Jean-Yves Veillard was a French historian.