List of Famous people who died in 2020
Volodymyr Lozynskyi
Volodymyr Fedorovych Lozynskyi or Vladimir Fyodorovich Lozinsky was a Ukrainian football player and coach.
Bintou Malloum
Bintou Malloum was a Chadian politician, and the first ambassador of Chad to Germany, Republic of Congo, and Italy.
Michael McClure
Michael McClure was an American poet, playwright, songwriter, and novelist. After moving to San Francisco as a young man, he found fame as one of the five poets who read at the famous San Francisco Six Gallery reading in 1955, which was rendered in barely fictionalized terms in Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums. He soon became a key member of the Beat Generation and was immortalized as Pat McLear in Kerouac's Big Sur.
Jean Pineau
Jean Paul Pierre Pineau was a French politician.
Park Jae-ok
Peter Serkin
Peter Adolf Serkin was an American classical pianist. He won the Grammy Award for Most Promising New Classical Recording Artist in 1966, and he performed globally, known for not only "technically pristine" playing but also a "commitment to contemporary music". He taught at the Curtis Institute of Music, the Juilliard School, Yale University, and Bard College.
Paul-Jean Hérault
Paul-Jean Hérault, pseudonym of Michel Rigaud, was a French writer and journalist.
Jahn Teigen
Jahn Teigen was a Norwegian singer, musician and comedian. He represented Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest three times, in 1978, 1982 and 1983, His given name was Jan; he added the silent H later. From October 2006 until his death in February 2020, he resided in Sweden.
Aldo Mongiano
Aldo Mongiano, IMC was an Italian-born Brazil-based bishop of the Roman Catholic Church. Mongiano was born in Pontestura, Italy, and was ordained a priest on 3 June 1943, from the religious order of the Consolata Missionaries. Mongiano was appointed bishop of the Diocese of Roraima as well as Titular bishop of Nasai on 14 May 1975, and consecrated on 5 October 1975. He resigned as Titular bishop of Nasai and was appointed bishop of Roraima on 4 December 1979. Mongiano retired from the Roraima Diocese on 26 June 1996. Mongiano died on 15 April 2020 at the age of 100 from complications from a broken femur.
Sergio Zavoli
Sergio Wolmar Zavoli was an Italian politician and journalist.