List of Famous people who died in 2020

Fernanda Ferreira Pires da Silva GOM GCM ComMAI was a Portuguese businesswoman. She was President of Grupo Grão-Pará, a conglomerate focusing on construction, real estate, tourism, hotel management, and marble.

John Bangsund was a prominent Australian science fiction fan in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. He was a major force, with Andrew I. Porter, behind Australia winning the right to host the 1975 Aussiecon, and he was Toastmaster at the Hugo Award ceremony at that convention.

Tamer Güney is a retired Turkish footballer and later manager.

Djalma Bastos de Morais was a Brazilian politician who served as Minister of Communications.

Justa Barrios was a home care worker and labor organizer who worked with the Ain't I A Woman? campaign, a coalition of professional caregivers, against the 24-hour workday and the National Mobilization Against Sweatshops (NMASS), a grassroots labor organization. Barrios was a home care worker for 18 years and notably worked 24-hour shifts for over 14 years, five days a week. She developed severe asthma and heart problems as a result. On May 2, 2020, the Aint I A Woman? campaign reported that Barrios had died of COVID-19. Barrios was working to distribute Personal Protective Equipment to home care workers throughout New York City shortly before she contracted COVID-19.

Nurhasanah Iskandar was an Indonesian voice actress, active between 1993 and 2017. She is most known as the voice actress of the Doraemon animated character that aired on RCTI.

Mohamed Haytham Khayat was a Syrian physician and lexicographer. He was a senior policy advisor to the World Health Organization Regional Directory for the Eastern Mediterranean, a member of both the Board of Trustees of the International Union of Muslim Scholars, and the Board of Trustees of the Islamic Organization for Medical Sciences. He was known for his major contribution to the Unified Medical Dictionary (UMD).