In the year 2020
1,798 Notable deaths
Mary Kay Letourneau
American schoolteacher convicted of the statutory rape of a 12/13-year old boy (1962-2020).
Born January 30th, 1962 in Tustin.
Died July 6th, 2020 at 58 years old in Des Moines (colorectal cancer). [ref]
Diana Rigg
English actress (1938–2020).
Born July 20th, 1938 in Doncaster.
Died September 10th, 2020 at 82 years old in London (cancer). [ref]
Regis Philbin
American television personality (1931–2020).
Born August 25th, 1931 in Manhattan.
Died July 24th, 2020 at 88 years old in Greenwich (myocardial infarction). [ref]
Carl Reiner
American actor.
Born March 20th, 1922 in The Bronx.
Died June 29th, 2020 at 98 years old in Beverly Hills.
Max von Sydow
Swedish-french actor (1929–2020).
Born April 10th, 1929 in Lund.
Died March 8th, 2020 at 90 years old in Seillans. [ref]
Brian Dennehy
American actor (1938–2020).
Born July 9th, 1938 in Bridgeport.
Died April 15th, 2020 at 81 years old in New Haven (sepsis, cardiac arrest). [ref]
S. P. Balasubrahmanyam
Indian playback singer (1946–2020).
Born June 4th, 1946 in Sri Potti Sri Ramulu Nellore district.
Died September 25th, 2020 at 74 years old in Chennai (cardiac arrest, COVID-19). [ref]
Samuel Little
American serial killer.
Born June 7th, 1940 in Reynolds.
Died December 30th, 2020 at 80 years old in Lancaster. [ref]
Qasem Soleimani
Iranian military officer (1957–2020).
Born March 11th, 1957 in Kerman, Qanat-e Malek. [ref]
Died January 3rd, 2020 at 62 years old in Baghdad Airport Road (drone warfare). [ref]
Grant Imahara
American electrical engineer, roboticist, television host, and actor (1970–2020).
Born October 23rd, 1970 in Los Angeles.
Died July 13th, 2020 at 49 years old in Los Angeles (intracranial aneurysm). [ref]
Ian Holm
British actor (1931–2020).
Born September 12th, 1931 in Goodmayes.
Died June 19th, 2020 at 88 years old in Chelsea and Westminster Hospital (Parkinson's disease, pneumonia). [ref]
John Prine
American singer-songwriter (1946-2020).
Born October 10th, 1946 in Maywood.
Died April 7th, 2020 at 73 years old in Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville (COVID-19). [ref]
Fred Willard
American actor and comedian (1933-2020).
Born September 18th, 1933 in Cleveland.
Died May 15th, 2020 at 86 years old in Los Angeles (cardiac arrest, coronary artery disease, myelodysplastic syndrome). [ref]
Wilford Brimley
American actor and singer (1934–2020).
Born September 27th, 1934 in Salt Lake City.
Died August 1st, 2020 at 85 years old in St. George (kidney disease). [ref]
Pranab Mukherjee
President of india from 2012 to 2017.
Born December 11th, 1935 in Mirati.
Died August 31st, 2020 at 84 years old in New Delhi (COVID-19). [ref]
Neil Peart
Canadian-american drummer (1952–2020).
Born September 12th, 1952 in Hamilton.
Died January 7th, 2020 at 67 years old in Santa Monica (glioblastoma). [ref]
Ennio Morricone
Italian composer, orchestrator and conductor (1928–2020).
Born November 10th, 1928 in Rome.
Died July 6th, 2020 at 91 years old in Rome (femoral fracture). [ref]
Bill Withers
American musician (1938–2020).
Born July 4th, 1938 in Slab Fork.
Died March 30th, 2020 at 81 years old in Los Angeles (heart disease). [ref]
John le Carré
British novelist and spy (1931–2020).
Born October 19th, 1931 in Poole. [ref]
Died December 12th, 2020 at 89 years old in Royal Cornwall Hospital (pneumonia). [ref]
Dawn Wells
American actress (1938–2020).
Born October 18th, 1938 in Reno. [ref]
Died December 30th, 2020 at 82 years old in Los Angeles (COVID-19). [ref]
Helen Reddy
Australian and american singer and actress (1941–2020).
Born October 25th, 1941 in Melbourne.
Died September 29th, 2020 at 78 years old in Los Angeles. [ref]
Chuck Yeager
American world war ii flying ace and test pilot; first pilot to fly faster than sound (1923–2020).
Born February 13th, 1923 in Myra.
Died December 7th, 2020 at 97 years old in Los Angeles. [ref]
Linda Tripp
American civil servant (1949-2020).
Born November 24th, 1949 in Jersey City.
Died April 8th, 2020 at 70 years old (pancreatic cancer). [ref]
Peter Green
British blues rock guitarist (1946–2020).
Born October 29th, 1946 in London.
Died July 25th, 2020 at 73 years old in Canvey Island. [ref]
Robert Conrad
American actor (1935–2020).
Born March 1st, 1935 in Chicago.
Died February 8th, 2020 at 84 years old in Malibu (heart failure). [ref]
Deaths 26 to 50 of 1798
When people don’t express themselves, they die one piece at a time. Laurie Halse Anderson