List of Famous people who died in 2020

Hong Ling was a Chinese geneticist, professor and doctoral advisor at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology.

João Alves Peixoto was a Brazilian politician.

Domingo "Menggie" Cobarrubias was a Filipino actor who appeared in approximately 200 television shows and films.

José-Itamar de Freitas was a Brazilian journalist.

Lobsang Thubten Trinley Yarphel, was the 5th Gangchen Tulku Rinpoche of Tibet. He was a Tibetan-Italian lama of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism.

Jawdat Al-Qazwini was an Iraqi scholar.

Brian J. Axsmith was an American paleobotanist, paleoecologist, and professor of biology at the University of South Alabama, where he taught ecology, evolutionary biology, and the evolution of vascular plants. Axsmith studied the evolutionary history of conifers and vascular plants. He specialized in the Neogene paleobotany of the Gulf Coastal Plain in the present-day United States, especially Alabama and Mississippi, as well as the Mesozoic paleobotany of eastern North America and China.