List of Famous people who died in 2020
Opoku Afriyie
Opoku Afriyie was a Ghanaian footballer. He was popularly called Bayie. He played as a striker and won many caps with Asante Kotoko and the Ghana national football team. He worked for Asante Kotoko as Team-Manager.
Agitu Ideo Gudeta
Agitu Ideo Gudeta was an Ethiopian Oromo farmer, entrepreneur, and environmentalist who immigrated to Italy after experiencing conflict due to her political activism against land grabbing by the military for international corporations. She established a goat farming operation using the indigenous breed Pezzata Mòchena to produce dairy and beauty products. Gudeta became a national symbol of environmentalism and successful refugee integration into Italian society by the press and politicians. She died violently in December 2020; one of her seasonal workers was charged with raping and murdering her.
Michel Roquebert
Michel Roquebert was a French writer and historian.
Dobby Dobson
Highland Ralph Dobson OD was a Jamaican reggae singer and record producer, nicknamed "The Loving Pauper" after one of his best known songs.
Addy Valero
Addy Coromoto Valero Velandria was a Venezuelan politician who served as a deputy in the National Assembly.
Pablo Aranda Ruiz
Pablo Aranda Ruiz was a Spanish writer.
Antonín Jaroslav Liehm
Antonín Jaroslav Liehm was a Czech-born writer, publisher, translator, and scholar residing in Paris.
Lorenza Mazzetti
Lorenza Mazzetti was an Italian film director, novelist, photographer and painter.
Le Kha Phieu
Lê Khả Phiêu was a Vietnamese politician who served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam from December 1997 to April 2001. Lê Khả Phiêu served in the Vietnam People's Army during the First and Second Indochina Wars, join in the Cambodian war, and was Head of the General Political Department of the Vietnam People's Army.
Roger Landry
Roger D. Landry was a Canadian businessman who was president and publisher of La Presse.