List of Famous people who died in 2020

Péter Marót was a Hungarian fencer. He won a silver medal in the individual sabre and a bronze in the team event at the 1972 Summer Olympics. He also competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics.

Nikolay Havrylovych Shmatko was a Ukrainian sculptor and painter. He was born in the Donetsk region of Ukraine.

Paolo Sassone-Corsi was an Italian researcher and molecular biologist.

Michael Anthony Charles Slemen was an England international rugby union player. He toured South Africa in 1980 with the British and Irish Lions and at the time played club rugby for Liverpool.

George Carr Frison was an American archaeologist. He received the Society for American Archaeology's Lifetime Achievement Award, the Paleoarchaeologist of the Century Award, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. He was Wyoming’s first State Archaeologist, and was a founder of the University of Wyoming Anthropology Department. He died in September 2020 at the age of 95.

Albert Salvadó i Miras was an Andorran writer and industrial engineer. He wrote in both Catalan and Spanish.

Oreste Casalini was an Italian painter and sculptor.

Miguel Ángel Castellini was an Argentine professional boxer. Castellini, who was active as a professional from 1965 to 1980, is most notable for having held the and WBA and lineal light middleweight titles from 1976 to 1977.

Jacques Lesourne was a French economist who was Director of the daily newspaper Le Monde from 1991 to 1994.