2020 deaths

Argentine football player and manager (1960–2020)

Sir Thomas Sean Connery was a Scottish actor. Connery was the first actor to portray the fictional British secret agent James Bond in motion pictures, starring in seven Bond films between 1962 and 1983. He originated the role in Dr. No (1962) and continued starring as Bond in the Eon Productions films From Russia with Love (1963), Goldfinger (1964), Thunderball (1965), You Only Live Twice (1967) and Diamonds Are Forever (1971). His final appearance in the franchise was with Never Say Never Again (1983), a non-Eon-produced Bond film.

President of Egypt from 1981 to 2011

French official and politician (1926–2020)

Kobe Bean Bryant was an American professional basketball player. A shooting guard, he spent his entire 20-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential players in the sport's history, Bryant won five NBA championships and was an 18-time All-Star, four-time All-Star MVP, 15-time member of the All-NBA Team, 12-time member of the All-Defensive Team, the 2008 NBA Most Valuable Player (MVP), two-time NBA Finals MVP, and two-time scoring champion. He ranks fourth in league all-time regular season and postseason scoring. Bryant was posthumously named to the NBA 75th Anniversary Team in 2021 and was a two-time inductee to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, for his playing career in 2020 and as a member of the 2008 U.S. Olympic team in 2025.

American actor (1916–2020)

President of India from 2012 to 2017

Italian composer, orchestrator and conductor (1928–2020)

sultan of Oman from 1970 to 2020 (1940–2020)

Carl Reiner was an American actor, author, comedian, director, and screenwriter whose career spanned seven decades. His awards and honors include 12 Primetime Emmy Awards, a Grammy Award, and the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. He was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame in 1999.

American lawyer and jurist (1933–2020)

British actress (1916–2020)

5th Secretary-General of the United Nations (1920-2020)

British novelist and spy (1931–2020)

Northern Irish peace activist (1943–2020)

Japanese physicist and astronomer (1926-2020)

theoretical physicist and mathematician (1923–2020)

American actor and singer (1934–2020)

American country singer (1938–2020)

American physicist (1923-2020)

Swedish-French actor (1929–2020)

Mexican chemical engineer (1943–2020)

President of Uruguay from 2005 to 2010 and from 2015 to 2020

Italian footballer (1956–2020)

American musician (1932–2020)

English actress (1938–2020)

South Korean film director (1960–2020)

German-American physicist, Nobel laureate (1921-2020)

Irish politician from Northern Ireland (1937–2020)

Kenyan President (2nd) (1924-2020)

British filmmaker (1944–2020)

Malian soldier and politician

American biochemist

Polish composer and conductor (1933–2020)

Welsh actor, comedian, director, historian and writer (1942–2020)

American economist (1932–2020)

American actor and wrestler (1958–2020)

British actor (1931–2020)

English conservative philosopher and writer (1944–2020)

7-9th President of Republic of China(Taiwan) (1923-2020)

Canadian-American stage magician and skeptical movement adherent

American World War II flying ace and test pilot; first pilot to fly faster than sound (1923–2020)

Indian film actor (1951–2020)

English writer and journalist (1946–2020)

fourth President of the Republic of Ghana (1947-2020)

Kelly Kamalelehua Smith, known professionally as Kelly Preston, was an American actress. She appeared in more than 60 television and film productions, including Mischief (1985), Twins (1988), Jerry Maguire (1996), and For Love of the Game (1999). She married John Travolta in 1991, and collaborated with him on the comedy film The Experts (1989) and the biographical film Gotti (2018). She also starred in the films SpaceCamp (1986), The Cat in the Hat (2003), What a Girl Wants (2003), Sky High (2005), and Old Dogs (2009).

French comic book artist (1927–2020)

French-Italian fashion designer (1922-2020)

French actor (1925–2020)

American director, screenwriter, and producer (1939–2020)

American author of suspense novels (1927–2020)

British motor racing driver (1929-2020)

Russian writer (1943-2020)

English mathematician (1937–2020)

Soviet minister of defence (1924-2020)

Tanzanian politician and former president (1938-2020)

17th Prime Minister of Canada (1929–2020)

literary scholar, writer, and editor (1924–2020)

President of Niger from 1999 to 2010

Cameroonian musician and songwriter, recording artist (1933–2020)