List of Famous people who died in 2020

Frances Elizabeth Allen was an American computer scientist and pioneer in the field of optimizing compilers. Allen was the first woman to become an IBM Fellow and in 2006 became the first woman to win the Turing Award. Her achievements include seminal work in compilers, program optimization, and parallelization. She worked for IBM from 1957 to 2002 and subsequently, was a Fellow Emerita.

Mariano Puga Concha was a Chilean Roman Catholic priest and a human rights activist.

Rajendra Kumar Pachauri was the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and was succeeded by Hoesung Lee. He held the post from 2002 until his resignation in February 2015 after facing multiple allegations of sexual harassment. The IPCC was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize during his tenure. He was the Chairman and Director General of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI).

Vincent Marzello was an American actor.

Thái Thanh was a Vietnamese-American singer. She was one of the most iconic singers of the Western-influenced popular music in Vietnam, known as 'New music of Vietnam '.

Dirk Frederik Mudge was a Namibian politician. He served in several high-ranking positions in the South African administration of South West Africa, was the chairman of the 1975–1977 Turnhalle Constitutional Conference, and co-founded the Republican Party (RP) of Namibia as well as the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance (DTA), now known as the Popular Democratic Movement (PDM).

Aly Zaker was a Bangladeshi actor, businessman, director and writer. He was the owner of Asiatic Marketing Communications Limited.

Ernest Winston Angley was an American Christian evangelist, author, and television station owner who had been based in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio from the 1950s until his death in 2021.

Jole Santelli was an Italian politician. A member of the centre-right party Forza Italia, she was the President of Calabria from 15 February 2020 until her death eight months later.

Paul English was Willie Nelson's longtime drummer who started playing with him in Fort Worth in 1955, although he did not become Nelson's regular drummer until 1966. In the years in between he played with Delbert McClinton among others. In the early days, one of his duties was to serve as a strong armed collection agent for overdue payments from club owners for the band. He was the husband of second wife, Janie English.