List of Famous people who died in 2020

Izumi Matsumoto

寺嶋 一弥
First Name Izumi
Last Name Matsumoto
Born on October 13, 1958
Died on October 6, 2020 (aged 61)

Kazuya Terashima , known by his pen name Izumi Matsumoto , was a Japanese manga artist best known for Kimagure Orange Road. His career started in 1982, publishing his comic Milk Report in the manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump. But real success came in 1984, publishing Kimagure Orange Road in the same magazine.

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Matthew Watkins

First Name Matthew
Last Name Watkins
Born on September 2, 1978
Died on March 7, 2020 (aged 41)
Height 183 cm | 6'0

Matthew Jason Watkins was a Welsh international rugby union player who played as a centre. He was commonly known by the name Matthew J. Watkins to avoid confusion with another Welsh rugby union player of the same name.

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Robert H. Garff

First Name Robert
Last Name Garff
Born on September 15, 1942
Died on March 29, 2020 (aged 77)

Robert Heiner Garff was an American businessman and politician who served as chair of the Ken Garff Automotive Group. He also served as the speaker of the Utah House of Representatives from 1985 to 1987. He was a member of the Republican party.

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Amanullah

Born on November 30, 1949
Died on March 6, 2020 (aged 70)
Born in Pakistan, Punjab

Amanullah Khan, known, professionally as Amanullah, was a Pakistani Punjabi theatre performer, comedian and TV artist regarded as one of the best comedians in the Indian subcontinent. He is cited as one of the world's best observational comedians as he learned through his surroundings and everyday happenings. He influenced many artists as well as people. Khan has a world record of 860-day night theater plays.

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Juan Cotino

Juan Gabriel Cotino Ferrer
First Name Juan
Last Name Cotino
Born on January 26, 1950
Died on April 13, 2020 (aged 70)

Juan Gabriel Cotino Ferrer was a Spanish entrepreneur and politician.

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Vern Rumsey

First Name Vern
Born on November 30, 1972
Died on August 6, 2020 (aged 47)

Vernon Emory Aldo Rumsey was an American musician and the bassist for the band Unwound. He generally played a Fender Jazz bass. He was also a recording engineer who has worked with bands such as Blonde Redhead, KARP, Enemymine, Novex and Replicator.

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Ann Katharine Mitchell

Ann Katharine Williamson
First Name Ann
Last Name Mitchell
Born on November 19, 1922
Died on May 11, 2020 (aged 97)

Ann Katharine Mitchell was a British cryptanalyst and psychologist who worked on decrypting messages encoded in the German Enigma cypher at Bletchley Park during the Second World War. After the war she became a marriage guidance counsellor, then studied for a Master of Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. She worked at the university's Department of Social Administration and wrote several academic books about the psychological effects of divorce on children, including Someone to Turn to: Experiences of Help Before Divorce (1981) and Children in the Middle: Living Through Divorce (1985).

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Wolfgang J. Fuchs

First Name Wolfgang
Last Name Fuchs
Born on September 16, 1945
Died on January 20, 2020 (aged 74)
Born in Germany, Bavaria

Wolfgang J. Fuchs was a German nonfiction author, journalist, comics scholar, comics author, comics translator and film expert. He co-wrote the first standard work in German on comics as an art form, published in 1971. He translated comics such as Prince Valiant, Garfield, and Mom's Cancer by Brian Fies. The translated book Mutter hat Krebs was awarded the 2007 Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis.

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Pierre Kezdy

First Name Pierre
Last Name Kezdy
Born on January 4, 1962
Died on October 9, 2020 (aged 58)

Pierre Kezdy was an American bass player, known for playing with various Chicago punk bands, including Naked Raygun, Pegboy, Strike Under, Arsenal, and Trial By Fire. He was also the younger brother of Effigies frontman John Kezdy.

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Mike Resnick

Michael Diamond Resnick
First Name Mike
Last Name Resnick
Born on March 5, 1942
Died on January 9, 2020 (aged 77)

Michael Diamond Resnick was an American science fiction writer and editor. He won five Hugo awards, and a Nebula award. He was the guest of honor at Chicon 7, the executive editor of Jim Baen's Universe and the editor and creator of Galaxy's Edge magazine.

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