List of Famous people who died in 2020

Chaim Dov Keller was a Haredi rabbi, Talmudic scholar, and rosh yeshiva (dean) of the Telshe Yeshiva in Chicago for six decades. He was also a member of the "Nesius" (Presidium) of the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah of Agudath Israel of America.

Florent C. Pereira was an Indian journalist and film actor who appeared in Tamil language films as a supporting actor.

Robert Moody Laughlin was an American anthropologist and linguist, and a curator at the Smithsonian Institution. His research focused on the indigenous Maya peoples of Chiapas, Mexico and the Tzotzil language. In 1975, he published The Great Tzotzil Dictionary of San Lorenzo Zinacantán, containing 30,000 entries. He also published works on other aspects of Tzotzil culture, such as folktales and ethnobotany, and helped to found a local writer's cooperative, Sna Jtz'ibajom, and a theatre troupe. His work is credited with helping to standardize how the Tzotzil language is written and with reviving interest in indigenous languages in the region. Laughlin died of COVID-19 in Arlington, Virginia during the COVID-19 pandemic in Virginia.

Cosmas Magaya was a Zimbabwean mbira musician.

Karim Dzhamalovich Kamalov, also spelled Karim Djamalovich Kamalov, was an Uzbek politician. He served as the Hokim, or Mayor, of Bukhara from 1997 until 2011 and again from August 2017 until February 2020. On 29 February 2020, Kamalov was appointed as acting Khokim of Bukhara Region, a gubernatorial office he held until his death on 22 August 2020, from COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Uzbekistan. The Khokim is the equivalent of a regional governor in Uzbekistan.