List of Famous people who died in 2020
Eva Galvache
Eva Galvache was a Spanish radio journalist.
Flor Isava-Fonseca
Flor Isava Fonseca was a Venezuelan sportswoman, journalist and writer as well as prominent member of Venezuelan society.
William Kahaiali'i
William Awihilima Kahaialiʻi, known as Willie K, was a Hawaiian musician who performed in a variety of styles, including blues, rock, opera and Hawaiian music.
Bootsie Barnes
Robert "Bootsie" Barnes was an American jazz tenor saxophonist from Philadelphia.
Carlos Eduardo Cadoca
Carlos Eduardo Cintra da Costa Pereira, better known as Carlos Eduardo Cadoca or simply Cadoca, was a Brazilian Politician and Lawyer.
Laisenia Qarase
Laisenia Qarase was a Fijian politician. He served as the sixth Prime Minister of Fiji from 2000 to 2006. After the military quashed the coup that led to the removal of Mahendra Chaudhry, Qarase joined the Interim Military Government as a financial adviser on 9 June 2000, until his appointment as Prime Minister on 4 July. He won two parliamentary elections, but a military coup removed him from power on 5 December 2006. He was later imprisoned on corruption charges brought by the military-backed regime.
Dan Olweus
Dan Olweus was a Swedish-Norwegian psychologist. He was a research professor of psychology at the University of Bergen, Norway. Olweus has been widely recognized as a pioneer of research on bullying.
Liu Ping-wei
Liu Ping-wei was a Taiwanese politician. He was first elected to the Taiwan Provincial Assembly in 1981 and served continuously until 1998. Liu assumed the speakership of the provincial assembly between 1994 and 1998, and sat for a single term in the Legislative Yuan from 1999 to 2002.
David Bowker
David Graham Bowker was a British sailor. He won a silver medal in the 5.5 metre class at the 1956 Summer Olympics. Born the third of five children in Salford, he was a bomber pilot in the Second World War before going on to start a yacht-building business in Bosham with his older brother Robin.
Mansour Khalid
Mansour Khalid, the former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sudan, was first vice chairman of Brundtland Commission which is formally known as World Commission on Environment and Development. The Chairman of the Commission was Gro Harlem Brundtland,.