List of Famous people who died in 2020
Lyle Waggoner
Lyle Wesley Waggoner was an American actor, sculptor, presenter, travel trailer salesman, and model, known for his work on The Carol Burnett Show from 1967 to 1974 and for playing the role of Steve Trevor and Steve Trevor Jr. on Wonder Woman from 1975 to 1979.
John Horton Conway
John Horton Conway was an English mathematician active in the theory of finite groups, knot theory, number theory, combinatorial game theory and coding theory. He also made contributions to many branches of recreational mathematics, most notably the invention of the cellular automaton called the Game of Life.
Mikhail Kokshenov
Mikhail Mikhailovich Kokshenov was a Soviet and Russian actor, film director and screenwriter. People's Artist of Russia (2002).
Annie Glenn
Anna Margaret Glenn was an American advocate for people with disabilities and communication disorders and the wife of astronaut and senator John Glenn. A stutterer from an early age, Glenn was notable for raising awareness of stuttering among children and adults as well as other disabilities.
Ray Clemence
Raymond Neal Clemence, was an England international football goalkeeper and part of the Liverpool team of the 1970s. He is one of only 29 players to have made over 1,000 career appearances. Winning three European Cups, five League titles, two UEFA Cups, a UEFA Super Cup, an FA Cup and a League Cup with Liverpool, the last of his 665 appearances for the club was the victorious 1981 European Cup Final.
Cady Groves
Cady Danyl Groves was an American singer and songwriter from Emporia, Kansas. Some of her notable songs include "This Little Girl", "Oh Darlin'", "Forget You", and "Love Actually". She released four EPs during her lifetime: A Month of Sundays (2009), The Life of a Pirate (2010), This Little Girl (2012), and Dreams (2015). A fifth EP, Bless My Heart, was released shortly after her death.
Bobby Ball
Robert Harper, known professionally as Bobby Ball, was an English comic, actor and singer. He was best known as a member of the comic double act Cannon and Ball, with Tommy Cannon.
Lucia Bosé
Lucia Bosè was an Italian actress, who was at the height of her fame during the period of Italian Neorealism, the 1950s.
James Lipton
Louis James Lipton was an American writer, lyricist, actor, and dean emeritus of the Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University in New York City. He was the executive producer, writer, and host of the Bravo cable television series Inside the Actors Studio, which debuted in 1994. He retired from the show in 2018.
Armando Manzanero
Armando Manzanero Canché was a Mexican Mayan musician, singer, composer, actor and music producer, widely considered the premier Mexican romantic composer of the postwar era and one of the most successful composers of Latin America. He received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in the United States in 2014. He was the president of the Mexican Society of Authors and Composers.