List of Famous people who died in 2020

Ko Si-chi (1929-2020) was a Taiwanese artist best known for his photography. He was Taiwan's first contemporary photographer.

April Dunn was an American disability rights activist. Dunn lived in Louisiana and worked as chair of the Louisiana Developmental Disabilities Council (LDDC) and for the governor's office. Dunn was best known for helping to advocate for the passage of Act 833 which provides an alternative to graduation for students who are unable to pass standardized tests in the state.

Eduardo Alas Alfaro was a Salvadoran Roman Catholic bishop.

Mockbul Hossain was a businessman, Bangladesh Awami League politician and served as a Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Dhaka-9 constituency.

Thomas Shi-Tao Huang was a Chinese-born American electrical engineer and computer scientist. He was a researcher and professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Huang was one of the leading figures in computer vision, pattern recognition and human computer interaction.

William Wolf was an American film and theater critic, and the author of several books. He was a film critic for Cue and New York magazines in the 1960s-1980s. Wolf served two years as Chairman of the New York Film Critics Circle and was a member of the National Society of Film Critics, the New York Film Critics Online, the Online Film Critics Society, PEN, the American Theatre Critics Association, the International Association of Theatre Critics, and the American Association of University Professors. He served for four years as President of the Drama Desk, an organization of critics and writers on the theater, and previously served for two years on its nominating committee for the Drama Desk Awards and was on the Drama Desk Executive Board. At New York University, he was an Adjunct Professor and taught Film as Literature in the English Department and Cinema and Literature in the French Department. Professor Wolf was particularly known for his Movie Preview course, now presented independently at Lincoln Center in the Elinor Bunin Munroe Center. During the course of his career, Wolf interviewed hundreds of film and theater notables and has covered the world's major film festivals. Among those he interviewed were Ingmar Bergman and Charlie Chaplin. Audio tapes of his interviews with directors, actors, producers, and others in the world of cinema and the stage constitute the William Wolf Film and Theater Interview Collection (1972-1998), part of the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, that he donated to the New York Public Library of the Performing Arts.

Jacques Fouad Acar was a French doctor and microbiologist who specialized in antibiotics.