List of Famous people who died in 2020
V. J. Chitra
Chitra Kamaraj, better known as V. J. Chitra or Chithu, was an Indian television actress and anchor. She rose to fame with her role in the Tamil soap opera Pandian Stores. Chitra was found dead on 9 December 2020.
Hugo Martinez
General Hugo Rafael Martínez Poveda was a Colombian police general. He was assigned the new commander of the Search Bloc, a unit of the National Police of Colombia assembled by President Virgilio Barco Vargas in 1986; and tasked with the sole objective of the apprehension of drug lord Pablo Escobar and his associates.
Daniel Lewis Lee
Daniel Lewis Lee was an American white supremacist and convicted mass murderer who was sentenced to death and executed for the murders of William Frederick Mueller, Nancy Ann Mueller, and their daughter Sarah Elizabeth Powell. Lee and his accomplice, Chevie Kehoe, murdered the family at their home in Arkansas, on January 11, 1996. Kehoe was found guilty of the triple murder in a separate trial and sentenced to three consecutive terms of life imprisonment without parole.
Gene Deitch
Eugene Merril Deitch was an American-Czech illustrator, animator, comics artist, and film director. Based in Prague after 1959, Deitch was known for creating animated cartoons such as Munro, Tom Terrific, and Nudnik, as well as his work on the Popeye and Tom and Jerry series.
Pau Donés
Pau Donés Cirera was a Spanish songwriter, guitarist, and vocalist of the musical group Jarabe de Palo.
Alejandro Sabella
Alejandro Javier Sabella was an Argentine football player and manager. Born in Buenos Aires, he began his playing career with River Plate in his home country before moving to England in 1978 to play for Sheffield United. Known as "Alex" while in England, Sabella then had a spell with another English side, Leeds United, before returning to South America and representing Estudiantes, Grêmio, Ferro Carril Oeste and Irapuato.
Tarvaris Jackson
Tarvaris D'Andre Jackson was an American football quarterback in the National Football League (NFL). Jackson played college football for the Arkansas Razorbacks and Alabama State Hornets. He played professionally for the Minnesota Vikings, Seattle Seahawks, and Buffalo Bills.
Ken Osmond
Kenneth Charles Osmond was an American actor and police officer. Beginning a career as a child actor at the age of four, Osmond played the role of Eddie Haskell on the late 1950s to early 1960s television situation comedy Leave It to Beaver and reprised it on the 1980s revival series The New Leave It to Beaver. Typecast by the role, he found it hard to get other acting work and became a Los Angeles police officer. After retiring from police work, he resumed his acting career.
Karl Dall
Karl Bernhard Dall was a German comedian, singer, and television presenter. His distinctive 'hanging' eye was caused by a congenital ptosis.
V. Sethuraman
V. Sethuraman, also known by his stage name Sethu, was an Indian dermatologist, who was the founder and medical director of ZI Clinic, an upscale dermatology clinic in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. He was also an actor who appeared in Tamil language films in lead roles, first appearing in the comedy film Kanna Laddu Thinna Aasaiya (2013).