List of Famous people who died in 2020

Suzana Amaral Rezende was a Brazilian film director and screenwriter. She was best known for the 1985 film A Hora da Estrela.

Carlos Horacio Casamiquela was an Argentine agricultural engineer and public official. He was appointed Minister of Agriculture of Argentina in November 2013, replacing Norberto Yauhar.

Yu Lihua was a Chinese writer who authored over thirty works - novels, short stories, newspaper articles and translations in a span of sixty years. She is regarded as "one of the five most influential Chinese-born women writers in the postwar era and the progenitor of the Chinese students’ overseas genre." She wrote primarily in Chinese, drawing on her experience as a Chinese émigré in postwar America. She was celebrated in the diaspora for giving voice to what she called the "rootless generation" — émigrés who had left for a better life but remained nostalgic for their homeland.

Attila Ladinszky nicknamed Le Gitan was a Hungarian football striker, born in Budapest.

Alexander Sergeevich Spirin was a Russian biochemist, Distinguished Professor at the Lomonosov Moscow State University, a Director of Institute of Protein Research Russian Academy of Sciences, Puschino (Пущино-на-Оке), Moscow Region, Academician of Russian Academy of Sciences. His primary scientific interests in biochemistry included nucleic acids and protein biosynthesis.

Piotr Jegor was a Polish professional footballer who played for Górnik Zabrze and Odra Wodzisław Śląski in the Polish Ekstraklasa.

Nikolai Borisovich Fadeyechev was a Soviet and Russian ballet dancer and teacher. People's Artist of the USSR (1976).

Isidora Žebeljan was a Serbian composer and conductor. She was a professor of composition at the Belgrade Music Academy and a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Paul Méfano, was a French composer and conductor.

Jaap Schröder or Jaap Schroeder was a Dutch violinist, conductor, and pedagogue.