List of Famous people who died in 2020
Anthony Yuen
Anthony Yuen was a Chinese American editor and anchor on the Hong Kong-based television and media station Phoenix Television. He was also a columnist on Singapore's Lianhe Zaobao.
Tuncay Mataracı
Tuncay Mataracı was a Turkish politician and government minister.
Vatanyar Yagya
Vatanyar Saidovich Yagyua was a Russian politician. He was born in Leningrad. He was a member of United Russia. Yagyua was a member of the Leningrad city council from 1990 to 1993. He later became a member of the Legislative Assembly of Saint Petersburg from 1994 until his retirement in 2011.
Georges Domercq
Georges Domercq was a French Rugby Union referee. He was also a politician, serving as Mayor of Bellocq from 1971 to 2014.
Mário da Graça Machungo
Mário Fernandes da Graça Machungo was a Mozambican politician. He was Planning Minister from at least 1984 to 1986, when he became Prime Minister of the country from 17 July 1986 to 16 December 1994. Mário Fernandes da Graca Machungo served as the Chairman of the Board and President of BIM Banco Internacional de Moçambique SA.
Abdel Aziz El Mubarak
Abdel Aziz El Mubarak was a popular Sudanese singer, born in Wad Madani. He was known for his popular love songs, pleasing tenor voice and his large band. Especially from the 1970s to the 80s, he was one of the most successful musicians during the Golden Years of Sudanese popular music.
Michel Billière
Michel Billière was a French rugby union player who played flanker.
Maria José
Maria José was a Portuguese actress. She received the Medalha de Mérito Cultural in 2006.
Ebrahim Amini
Ayatollah Ebrahim Amini was an Iranian politician who was a member of the Assembly of Experts. He was also a member of the Expediency Discernment Council, and was previously identified as a possible candidate to become the next Iranian Supreme Leader. Ayatollah Amini was a jurist and a moderate supporter of jurisprudential Islam. He was a member of the Council for the Revision of the Second Constitution in 1989 and was a supporter of the maximum ruling term of a Supreme Leader being ten years.
Joe Norton
Joseph Tekwiro Norton was a Canadian politician and tribe chief of the Mohawks of Kahnawá:ke.