List of Famous people who died in 2020

Leo Victor Panitch was a distinguished research professor of political science and a Canada Research Chair in comparative political economy at York University. From 1985 until the 2021 edition, he served as co-editor of the Socialist Register, which describes itself as "an annual survey of movements and ideas from the standpoint of the independent new left". Panitch himself saw the Register as playing a major role in developing Marxism's conceptual framework for advancing a democratic, co-operative and egalitarian socialist alternative to capitalist competition, exploitation, and insecurity.

Barbara Diane Martin Richardson was an American singer, best known as one of the original members of Motown group The Supremes. She was born in Detroit.

Rosario Bléfari  was an Argentine singer-songwriter, actress and poet, widely considered an emblematic figure of Argentine independent music and cinema.

Jordan Cox was an English rugby league footballer who last played for Doncaster. His main position was prop.

Talib Jauhari was a Pakistani Islamic scholar, poet, historian and philosopher of the Shia Sect of Islam.

Mónica Luiza Miguel was a Mexican actress, director and singer, born in Tepic, Nayarit in 1936.

Günter de Bruyn was a German author.

Ip Ching was a Hong Kong martial artist. He was one of five Grandmasters of the Ip Man family of Wing Chun Kung Fu.

Larry Frank Wilson was an American professional football player who was a free safety with the St. Louis Cardinals of the National Football League (NFL). An eight-time Pro Bowl selection, he played his entire 13-year career with the Cardinals and remained on the team's payroll until 2003, long after the team moved to Arizona in 1988.

Oskar Fischer was an East German politician of the ruling Socialist Unity Party (SED) who served as minister of foreign affairs of the German Democratic Republic from 1975 to 1990. He previously worked in the secretariat of the central committee of the communist party, and became a member of the SED central committee in 1971.