Notable deaths in 2020
Ruth Bader Ginsburg became a heroine to the American left after overcoming entrenched sexism in the legal profmore
World soccer great Diego Armando Maradona, who died on November 25 less than a month after his 60th birthday, more
John Lewis, a pioneer of the civil rights movement and long-time member of the U.S. House of Representatives, more
Kobe Bryant, one of the NBA's all-time greatest players, was killed at age 41 on January 26 in a helicopter crmore
Herman Cain, a television host and former Republican presidential candidate, died July 30 after contracting COmore
Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who held power for 30 years until he was ousted in 2011 in a popular more
Scottish movie legend Sean Connery, who shot to international stardom as the suave, sexy and sophisticated Brimore
Actor Chadwick Boseman, best known for his star turn in the blockbuster Marvel superhero film "Black Panther,"more
Game show host Alex Trebek, who as the brainy quizmaster of "Jeopardy!" became one of the most recognizable pemore
Kirk Douglas, the cleft-chinned movie star who fought gladiators, cowboys and boxers on the screen and the Holmore
Grammy-winning singer John Prine, who wrote his early songs in his head while delivering mail and later emergemore
Katherine Johnson, the black woman whose mathematical genius took her from a behind-the-scenes job in a segregmore
African-American country singer Charley Pride, whose No. 1 country hits included "All I Have to Offer You (Is more
Jerry Stiller, who played two of American television's most cantankerous fathers on the sitcoms "Seinfeld" andmore
"Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" author John le Carre, who cast flawed spies on to the bleak chessboard of Cold Warmore
"Glee" star Naya Rivera died of accidental drowning on July 8, marking the third tragic passing of a cast membmore
Chuck Yeager, the steely test pilot who took aviation to the doorstep of space by becoming the first person tomore
Viacom and CBS Chairman Emeritus Sumner Redstone, the media mogul who took his father's movie theater chain anmore
Regis Philbin, a familiar face to TV viewers as an energetic and funny talk and game show host who logged moremore
French designer Pierre Cardin, who upended fashion styles in the 1960s and 70s with futuristic looks, died at more
Neil Peart, the drummer of Rush, died January 7 at the age of 67. Among the most admired drummers in rock musimore
Author Larry Kramer, whose early advocacy for a national response to AIDS as the disease first emerged in the more
Aimee Stephens, a transgender woman at the center of a major LGBT rights battle, died May 12 at age 59, just amore
Little Richard, the self-proclaimed "architect of rock 'n' roll" who built his ground-breaking sound with a bomore
Magician Roy Horn, who alongside Siegfried Fischbacher starred in a popular, long-running Las Vegas act built more
Irrfan Khan, an Indian actor who brought versatility and style to recent hit films and had roles in Hollywood more
Bill Withers, a soulful singer best known for the 1970s hits "Lean on Me," "Lovely Day" and "Ain't No Sunshinemore
Rocker Eddie Van Halen, guitarist and founding member of the hugely successful rock band named after him and hmore
David Dinkins, who served as New York City's first and only African-American mayor during the 1990s, died Novemore
British travel writer and transgender pioneer Jan Morris, who as a journalist broke the 1953 news of Edmund Himore
Japanese fashion designer Kenzo Takada, better known as Kenzo, who created his label in Paris in the 1970s, dimore
Stella Tennant, one of Britain's top models, died December 22, just five days after her 50th birthday. Tennantmore
Former National Basketball Association Commissioner David Stern, who oversaw explosive growth in the popularitmore
Roberta McCain, whose irrepressible spirit and energy helped shape the maverick tendencies of her older son, tmore
Saeb Erekat, one of the most experienced and high-profile advocates for the Palestinian cause over decades of more
"Gone With the Wind" star Olivia de Havilland, considered the last surviving actress of the Golden Age of Hollmore
Grammy-winning country singer Kenny Rogers died March 20 at the age of 81. Rogers, a three-time Grammy winner more
American actress Kelly Preston, who has appeared in films including "Jerry Maguire" and "Twins," died July 12 more
Fred Willard, the comic actor known for his genial but dunderheaded characters, died May 15 at age 86. He was more
Terry Jones, one of the Monty Python comedy team and director of religious satire "Life of Brian," as well as more
Ennio Morricone, whose scores for movies such as "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly," "The Mission" and "Cinema Pmore
David Prowse, the English actor who played Darth Vader in the original Star Wars films, died November 28 aged more
Legendary New York Yankees pitcher and six-time World Series champion Whitey Ford died October 8 at the age ofmore
Kuwait's ruling Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah, regarded by many Gulf Arabs as a savvy diplomatic operatomore
Mexican scientist Mario Molina, who became his country's first winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for hismore
Argentina's beloved cartoonist "Quino," whose comic character Mafalda with shock black hair and strong politicmore
Toots Hibbert, an influential and veteran Jamaican ska and reggae singer and founder of the band the Maytals, more
Sir Harold Evans, a British-American editor whose 70-year career as a hard-driving investigative journalist, mmore
Tom Seaver, the Hall-of-Fame pitcher who won more than 300 games during his Major League Baseball career and lmore
Singer Helen Reddy, whose 1972 song "I Am Woman" became a global feminist anthem, died aged 78 on September 29more
John Hume, the Roman Catholic architect of Northern Ireland's 1998 Good Friday peace agreement who won the Nobmore
Former Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui, who died on July 30 aged 97, was dubbed "Mr. Democracy" for burying automore
South African anti-apartheid campaigner Andrew Mlangeni, who was jailed alongside Nelson Mandela in 1964 aftermore
Macau gambling king Stanley Ho, who built a business empire from scratch in the former Portuguese colony and bmore
Tanzania's former president Benjamin Mkapa, who worked to end conflict in East Africa during and after his decmore
Christo, the Bulgarian-born artist best known for his temporary installations based on wrapping the exteriors more
Florian Schneider, co-founder of pioneering German electronic band Kraftwerk (R, performing in Montreux in Julmore
Country music band leader Charlie Daniels, singer and fiddler player on the Grammy-winning hit "The Devil Wentmore
Carl Reiner, a driving force in American comedy as a writer for television pioneer Sid Caesar, partner of Mel more
Indian actor Rishi Kapoor, who starred in celebrated Bollywood movies such as "Bobby" and "Mera Naam Joker," dmore
Linda Tripp, the former U.S. civil servant whose secretly taped telephone conversations with former White Housmore
The Reverend Joseph Lowery, a key ally of Martin Luther King in the U.S. civil rights movement of the 1960s, dmore
Manolis Glezos, a prominent Greek whose act of defiance against Nazi occupation during World War Two was a ralmore
Tony award-winning playwright Terrence McNally died March 24 of complications related to the coronavirus at agmore
World-famous singer and saxophonist Manu Dibango died March 24 from a coronavirus infection at the age of 86 imore
James Lipton, the creator and host of the long-running U.S. television show "Inside the Actors Studio" died Mamore
Albert Uderzo, illustrator and co-creator of famous comic series "Asterix and Obelix ," died March 24 at age 9more
Former Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi, who died February 4 aged 95, held power for longer than any other leamore
Sultan Qaboos bin Said, who died January 10 at age 79, transformed Oman during his 49-year reign from a povertmore
Legendary journalist Jim Lehrer died January 23 at the age of 85. Lehrer, who co-founded "PBS NewsHour," anchomore
Former Northern Ireland Deputy First Minister Seamus Mallon, one of the architects of the 1998 Good Friday peamore
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