List of Famous people who died in 2020

Lenard Lakofka was an American writer of material for the fantasy role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons. Although never a formal TSR staff member, the company that published Dungeons & Dragons, he was an influential voice in the development of the game. He was one of the playtesters of the game as it was being developed, an editor of early manuscripts, wrote a widely-read monthly D&D magazine column and two official D&D adventures, and had his home campaign setting of the Lendore Isles incorporated into Gary Gygax's World of Greyhawk Fantasy Game Setting.

Jean Morzadec was a French singer-songwriter, writer, and journalist. In 2005, he began running the website "Le Choix de Librairies" in partnership with 20 minutes, France Info, France Culture, Lire, FIP, and France 5.

Ephrem Marie M'Bom was a Cameroonian professional footballer. He competed for the Cameroon national football team at the 1982 FIFA World Cup.

Simone Créantor was a French athlete, who specialised in the shot put.

Jean-Philippe Reverdot was a French photographer.

Jean Tavernier was a French politician.

Thomas Forsyth was a Scottish football player and coach. Forsyth played as a defender for Motherwell, Rangers and Scotland.

Li Zhensheng was a Chinese photojournalist who captured some of the most telling images from the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, better known as the Chinese Cultural Revolution.

Oliver Friggieri was a Maltese poet, novelist, literary critic, and philosopher. He led the establishment of literary history and criticism in Maltese while teaching at the University of Malta, studying the works of Dun Karm, Rużar Briffa, and others. A prolific writer himself, Friggieri explored new genres to advocate the Maltese language, writing the libretti for the first oratorio and the first cantata in Maltese. His work aimed to promote the Maltese cultural identity, while not shying from criticism: one of his most famous novels, Fil-Parlament Ma Jikbrux Fjuri, attacked the tribalistic divisions of society caused by politics. From philosophy, he was mostly interested in epistemology and existentialism.

Attilio Bignasca was a Swiss politician and a member of the Ticino League. He was the brother of Giuliano Bignasca. He was elected to the National Council, and represented the Canton of Ticino between 1991 and 2019.