List of Famous people who died in 2020
Peter Aluma
Peter Aluma was a Nigerian professional basketball player from Lagos. After high school at Okota Grammar School in Isolo, Nigeria, the 2.08-m (6'10") center became a star at Liberty University in Virginia, U.S.
Jean-Louis Leonetti
Jean-Louis Leonetti was a French football player and manager.
Zoltan Sabo
Zoltan Sabo was a Serbian professional footballer who played as a defender, and later manager. He also held Hungarian citizenship.
Mike Curtis
James Michael Curtis was an American professional football player for the Baltimore Colts, the Seattle Seahawks and the Washington Redskins, who played 14 seasons from 1965 to 1978 in the National Football League (NFL). He was a four-time Pro Bowler in 1968, 1970, 1971 and 1974. He was considered one of the meanest players of his era. Although sacks were not official during the time he played, Curtis was a good blitzer, recording 22 sacks, including one in which a famous photograph was taken of Curtis tackling Roman Gabriel's head. Curtis also picked off 25 passes and was named the AFC Defensive Player of the Year in 1970 by a panel of 101 sportswriters.
Dalila Ennadre
Dalila Ennadre was a Moroccan film director.
Miranda, Countess of Stockton
Miranda Elizabeth Louise Macmillan, Countess of Stockton was a British socialite and fashion model.
Silvia Lazarte
Silvia Lazarte, a Bolivian Indigenous woman from Quechua ancestry, became the President of the Constituent Assembly on August 6, 2006. Ms. Lazarte was a peasant leader representing the Santa Cruz department, although she was born in the Cochabamba Department. She became the principal authority of this important conclave through an agreement between social organizations and President Evo Morales that considered the presence of an Indigenous woman to be of capital importance in the design of a new State.
Petro Slobodyan
Petro Petrovych Slobodyan was a Soviet football player and a Ukrainian coach.
Gian Carlo Vacchelli
Gian Carlo Vacchelli Corbetto was a Peruvian sports commentator and politician. Nicknamed El Angelito, meaning "the little angel", he presented the sports program El ángel del deporte (2008–09) on RBC Televisión. Between 2011 and 2016, Vacchelli was a Force 2011 member of the Congress of the Republic of Peru for the district of Lima. He stood for re-election in 2016 but lost his seat.
Lugi Gizenga
Lugi Gizenga was a Congolese politician and leader in the Unified Lumumbist Party. He was an advisor in charge of investments and partnerships with Martin Kabwelulu, the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Minister of Mines.