2020

"MMXX" redirects here. For the album by Sons of Apollo, see MMXX (album).

This article is about the year 2020. For the cricket format, see Twenty20.

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2020 by topic:

Arts

Architecture – Comics – Film – Home video – Literature (Poetry) – Music (Country, Rock, Metal, UK, US) – Radio – Photo – Television (UK, US) – Video gaming

Politics and government

Elections – International leaders – Sovereign states Sovereign state leaders – Territorial governors

Science and technology

Archaeology – Aviation – Birding/Ornithology – Palaeontology – Rail transport – Spaceflight

Sports

American football – Association football – Athletics (sport) – Badminton – Baseball – Basketball – Chess – Combat sports – Cricket – Cycling – Golf – Handball – Ice hockey – Rugby union – Swimming – Tennis – Volleyball

By place

Afghanistan – Albania – Algeria – Andorra – Angola – Antarctica – Argentina – Armenia – Australia – Austria – Azerbaijan – Bangladesh – The Bahamas – Bahrain – Barbados – Belarus – Belgium – Benin – Bhutan – Bolivia – Bosnia and Herzegovina – Botswana – Brazil – Bulgaria – Burkina Faso – Burundi – Cambodia – Cameroon – Canada – Cape Verde – Central African Republic – Chad – Chile – China – Colombia – Costa Rica – Comoros – Croatia – Cuba – Cyprus – Czechia – Denmark – Ecuador – Egypt – El Salvador – Estonia – Ethiopia – European Union – Fiji – Finland – France – Gabon – Georgia – Germany – Ghana – Greece – Guatemala – Guinea – Guyana – Haiti – Honduras – Hong Kong – Hungary – Iceland – India – Indonesia – Iran – Iraq – Ireland – Israel – Italy – Ivory Coast – Japan – Jordan – Kazakhstan – Kenya – Kosovo – Kuwait – Kyrgyzstan – Laos – Latvia – Lebanon – Lesotho – Liberia – Libya – Lithuania – Luxembourg – Macau – Madagascar – Marshall Islands – Malawi – Malaysia – Mali – Malta – Mauritania – Mexico – Micronesia – Moldova – Mongolia – Montenegro – Morocco – Mozambique – Myanmar – Nauru – Namibia – Nepal – Netherlands – New Zealand – Nicaragua – Niger – Nigeria – North Korea – North Macedonia – Norway – Oman – Pakistan – Palau – Palestine – Panama – Papua New Guinea – Paraguay – Peru – Philippines – Poland – Portugal – Qatar – Romania – Russia – Rwanda – Samoa – Saudi Arabia – Senegal – Serbia – Seychelles – Singapore – Slovakia – Slovenia – Somalia – South Africa – Solomon Islands – South Korea – South Sudan – Spain – Sri Lanka – Sudan – Sweden – Switzerland – Syria – Taiwan – Tajikistan – Tanzania – Thailand – Togo – Tonga – Tunisia – Turkey – Turkmenistan – Tuvalu – Uganda – Ukraine – United Arab Emirates – United Kingdom – United States – Uruguay – Uzbekistan – Vanuatu – Venezuela – Vietnam – Yemen – Zambia – Zimbabwe

Other topics

Religious leaders

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Works and introductions categories

Works – Introductions Works entering the public domain

2020 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	2020 MMXX
Ab urbe condita	2773
Armenian calendar	1469 ԹՎ ՌՆԿԹ
Assyrian calendar	6770
Bahá'í calendar	176–177
Balinese saka calendar	1941–1942
Bengali calendar	1427
Berber calendar	2970
British Regnal year	68 Eliz. 2 – 69 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar	2564
Burmese calendar	1382
Byzantine calendar	7528–7529
Chinese calendar	己亥年 (Earth Pig) 4716 or 4656     — to — 庚子年 (Metal Rat) 4717 or 4657
Coptic calendar	1736–1737
Discordian calendar	3186
Ethiopian calendar	2012–2013
Hebrew calendar	5780–5781
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2076–2077
- Shaka Samvat	1941–1942
- Kali Yuga	5120–5121
Holocene calendar	12020
Igbo calendar	1020–1021
Iranian calendar	1398–1399
Islamic calendar	1441–1442
Japanese calendar	Reiwa 2 (令和２年)
Javanese calendar	1953–1954
Juche calendar	109
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4353
Minguo calendar	ROC 109 民國109年
Nanakshahi calendar	552
Thai solar calendar	2563
Tibetan calendar	阴土猪年 (female Earth-Pig) 2146 or 1765 or 993     — to — 阳金鼠年 (male Iron-Rat) 2147 or 1766 or 994
Unix time	1577836800 – 1609459199

2020 (MMXX) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2020th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 20th year of the 3rd millennium, the 20th year of the 21st century, and the 1st year of the 2020s decade.

2020 has been designated as Year of the Nurse and Midwife by the World Health Organization. The United Nations has declared 2020 as the International Year of Plant Health. 2020 has been designated as International Year of Sound by the International Commission for Acoustics.

2020 has been heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has led to severe global social and economic disruption including an economic recession.

Events

January

• January 2 – The government of New South Wales, Australia, declares a state of emergency whilst the government of Victoria, Australia declares a state of disaster amid large bushfires that have killed as many as 500 million animals.
• January 3 – 2019–20 Persian Gulf crisis: A U.S. drone strike at Baghdad International Airport kills Iranian general Qasem Soleimani and Iraqi paramilitary leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis.
• January 5 – Second Libyan Civil War: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announces that Turkish troops will be deployed to Libya on behalf of the United Nations-backed Government of National Accord.
• January 7 – 2019–20 Persian Gulf crisis: 56 people are reported killed and over 200 injured in a crush at the funeral of general Qasem Soleimani in the city of Kerman, Iran.
• January 8
  • 2019–20 Persian Gulf crisis: Iran launches ballistic missiles at two Iraqi military bases hosting American soldiers, injuring multiple personnel.
  • 2019–20 Persian Gulf crisis: Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 is shot down by Iran's armed forces shortly after takeoff from Tehran Imam Khomeini Airport, killing all 176 people on board.
• January 9
  • A rare, circumbinary planet called TOI 1338-b is discovered.
  • ISIL militants assault a Nigerien military base at Chinagodrar, killing at least 89 Nigerien soldiers.
• January 10 – The Sultan of Oman, Qaboos bin Said, dies aged 79. Haitham bin Tariq is sworn in as his successor.
• January 12 – Mount Taal in Luzon erupts forcing evacuation and disrupts air traffic.
• January 16 – The impeachment trial of the President of the United States, Donald Trump, begins in the U.S. Senate.
• January 18 – Yemeni Civil War: 111 Yemeni soldiers and 5 civilians are killed in a drone and missile attack on a military camp near Ma'rib.
• January 28 – President of the United States Donald Trump and Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu announce the Trump peace plan.
• January 29 – U.S. President Donald Trump signs the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement, the North American trade agreement replacing NAFTA.
• January 30 – COVID-19 pandemic: The World Health Organization (WHO) declares the outbreak of the disease as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, the sixth time that this measure has been invoked since 2009.
• January 31 – The United Kingdom and Gibraltar formally withdraw from the European Union at 11PM (GMT), beginning an 11-month transition period.

February

• February 5 – The U.S. Senate acquits U.S. president Donald Trump on articles of impeachment.
• February 11 – COVID-19 pandemic: The World Health Organization (WHO) names the disease COVID-19.
• February 13 – NASA publishes a detailed study of Arrokoth, the most distant body ever explored by a spacecraft, which New Horizons passed by on its journey through the Kuiper belt.
• February 27 – 2020 stock market crash: The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) plunges by 1,190.95 points, or 4.4%, to close at 25,766.64, its largest one-day points decline at the time. This follows several days of large falls, marking the worst week for the index since 2008, triggered by fears of the spreading COVID-19 coronavirus.
• February 28 – Ambassadors of all 29 NATO Allies meet in the North Atlantic Council expressing solidarity with Turkey after 33 Turkish soldiers were killed in an airstrike by pro-Syrian government forces during the ongoing Syrian civil war.
• February 29
  • Luxembourg becomes the first country in the world to make all public transport in the country (buses, trams, and trains) free to use.
  • A conditional peace agreement is signed between the United States and the Taliban in Doha, Qatar. The U.S. begins gradually withdrawing troops from Afghanistan on March 10.

March

• March 5 – The International Criminal Court authorizes the Afghanistan War Crimes inquiry to proceed, allowing for the first time for U.S. citizens to be investigated.
• March 8 – COVID-19 pandemic: Italy places 16 million people in quarantine, more than a quarter of its population, in a bid to stop the spread of COVID-19. A day later, the quarantine is expanded to cover the entire country, becoming the first country to apply this measure nationwide.
• March 9 – International share prices fall sharply in response to a Russo-Saudi oil price war and the impact of COVID-19. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) plunges more than 2,000 points, the largest fall in its history up to that point. Oil prices also plunge by as much as 30 percent in early trading, the biggest fall since 1991.
• March 11 – COVID-19 pandemic: The World Health Organization declares the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic.
• March 12 – Global stock markets crash due to continued concerns over COVID-19 and the U.S. travel ban on the Schengen Area. The Dow Jones Industrial Average goes into free fall, closing at over −2,300 points, the worst losses for the index since 1987.
• March 13 – COVID-19 pandemic: The government of Nepal announces that Mount Everest will be closed to climbers and the public for the rest of the season due to concerns from the COVID-19 pandemic in Asia.
• March 14 – COVID-19 pandemic: Spain goes into lockdown after COVID-19 cases in the country surge.
• March 16 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls by 2,997.10, the single largest point drop in history and the second-largest percentage drop ever at 12.93 percent, an even greater crash than Black Monday (1929). This follows the U.S. Federal Reserve announcing that it will cut its target interest rate to 0–0.25 percent.
• March 17
  • COVID-19 pandemic:
    • The Iranian government warns that "millions" of its citizens may die from COVID-19 as 988 people have thus far died in the country. 90 percent of the 18,000 COVID-19 cases in the Middle East have thus far occurred in Iran.
    • European leaders close the EU's external and Schengen borders for at least 30 days in an effort to curb the COVID-19 pandemic.
    • The island of Luzon, the largest island of the Philippines, is placed under the enhanced community quarantine due to the coronavirus pandemic in the country as announced by President Rodrigo Duterte.
    • UEFA postpones the Euro 2020 association football tournament until summer 2021.
• March 18 – COVID-19 pandemic: The European Broadcasting Union announces that the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 will be cancelled due to COVID-19 in Europe, the first cancellation in the contest's 64-year history.
• March 20 – COVID-19 pandemic: The worldwide death toll from COVID-19 surpasses 10,000 as the total number of cases reaches a quarter of a million.
• March 23 – COVID-19 pandemic: By now ten nations have joined the Solidarity trial, a WHO-sponsored group dedicated to finding a cure against COVID-19. Four European countries (Switzerland, France, Norway and Spain), two American countries (Argentina and Canada), three Asian countries (Iran, Thailand, Bahrain) and South Africa are leading efforts to finding a cure.
• March 24
  • COVID-19 pandemic:
    • India goes into lockdown to contain COVID-19. The total number of people in the world facing some form of pandemic-related movement restriction now exceeds 2.6 billion, a third of the global population.
    • The United Kingdom goes into lockdown to contain COVID-19.
    • Chinese Premier Li Keqiang reports that the domestically transmitted epidemic was "basically blocked" and the domestic outbreak was now controlled. Two days later, China temporarily suspends entry for foreign nationals with visas or residence permits, effective midnight March 28.
    • The International Olympic Committee and Japan suspend the 2020 Summer Olympics until 2021. On March 30, the Summer Olympics are rescheduled for July 23 to August 8, 2021.
• March 26
  • COVID-19 pandemic:
    • Global COVID-19 cases reach 500,000, with nearly 23,000 deaths confirmed. The United States surpasses China and Italy in total number of known COVID-19 cases, with at least 81,321 cases and more than 1,000 deaths.
    • Militants in the Philippines, Syria, Yemen, and Libya agree to U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres' call for a ceasefire; some accept medical aid for themselves and the noncombatants in their communities. Guterres also asked wealthy countries to provide $2 billion to aid in fighting the virus. Colombia and Venezuela discussed a common response to the global pandemic, and the UAE airlifts aid to Iran.
• March 27 – North Macedonia becomes the 30th country to join NATO.
• March 30
  • COVID-19 pandemic: The COVID-19 death toll in Spain surpasses that of China, the original source of the outbreak, with a total of 7,340 deaths reported.
  • 2020 Russia–Saudi Arabia oil price war: The price of Brent Crude falls 9% to $23 per barrel, the lowest level since November 2002.

April

• April 2 – COVID-19 pandemic: The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 passes 1 million worldwide.
• April 5 – COVID-19 pandemic: The first case of COVID-19 in a zoo animal is reported; a four-year-old female Malayan tiger at the Bronx Zoo in New York City.
• April 7 – COVID-19 pandemic: Japan declares a state of emergency in response to COVID-19, and finalises a stimulus package worth 108 trillion yen ($990 billion), equal to 20% of the country's GDP.
• April 8 – COVID-19 pandemic: China ends the lockdown in Wuhan, the original epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, with people allowed to leave the city for the first time in 76 days.
• April 10 – COVID-19 pandemic: The death toll from COVID-19 exceeds 100,000 globally, a ten-fold increase from March 20.
• April 12–13 – At least 30 people are killed in an Easter Sunday tornado outbreak in the southeastern United States.
• April 14 – COVID-19 pandemic: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says it expects the world economy to shrink 3%, the worst contraction since the Great Depression of the 1930s.
• April 15 – COVID-19 pandemic: The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 passes 2 million worldwide.
• April 17
  • COVID-19 pandemic:
    • China revises the COVID-19 death toll in Wuhan upward, adding 1,290 more fatalities to bring the country's reported deaths from COVID-19 to 4,632.
    • Europe surpasses 100,000 COVID-19-related deaths.
• April 18 – A killing spree in Nova Scotia, Canada, leaves 23 dead.
• April 20 – Oil prices reach a record low, with West Texas Intermediate falling into negative values.
• April 25 – COVID-19 pandemic: The global death toll from COVID-19 exceeds 200,000. The United Kingdom is the fifth country to report 20,000 deaths.
• April 27 – COVID-19 pandemic: The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 passes 3 million worldwide, while the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the United States passes 1 million.
• April 28 – COVID-19 pandemic: Russia's 87,147 COVID-19 cases surpass the 84,341 in China.
• April 30 – Bulgaria applies for ERM II (the "waiting room" for the Eurozone), due to join along with Croatia in July 2020.

May

• May 1 – COVID-19 pandemic: The total number of recovered COVID-19 patients reaches 1 million worldwide, according to data from The Johns Hopkins University.
• May 3 – COVID-19 pandemic: Brazil reports 100,000 cases of infection and 7,000 deaths, the ninth highest number of cases in the world, surpassing Iran.
• May 5 – COVID-19 pandemic: The UK death toll from COVID-19 becomes the highest in Europe at 32,313 after exceeding the death toll of 29,029 in Italy.
• May 6
  • Astronomers announce the discovery of the first black hole located in a star system visible to the naked eye.
  • COVID-19 pandemic:
    • New evidence indicates that an Algerian-born French fishmonger, who had not traveled to China and did not have contact with any Chinese nationals, was treated for pneumonia from an unknown source, now identified as COVID-19, on December 27, 2019.
    • The number of cases in Iran passes 100,000 with more than 6,400 confirmed deaths.
• May 9 – Several Chinese and Indian soldiers are injured in a cross-border clash at the Nathu La crossing. About 150 troops participated in the face-off, which involved fistfights and stone-throwing.
• May 10
  • The Iranian Navy frigate Jamaran accidentally strikes the Iranian support vessel Konarak with a missile, killing nineteen sailors. This is the first friendly fire incident since February 2019, when an Indian Mil Mi-17 helicopter was mistakenly shot down by Indian air defense forces.
  • COVID-19 pandemic:
    • The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 passes 4 million worldwide.
    • Wuhan, the original epicentre of the pandemic, reports its first coronavirus cases in more than a month. An 89-year-old man is confirmed positive, but his wife and several members of the community are recorded as asymptomatic cases.
• May 12 – Gunmen storm a maternity hospital and kill 24 people, including two newborn babies, in Dashte Barchi, a majority-Shia neighborhood of Kabul, Afghanistan.
• May 14
  • COVID-19 pandemic:
    • The global death toll from COVID-19 exceeds 300,000.
    • The UN warns of a global mental health crisis caused by isolation, fear, uncertainty and economic turmoil.
• May 16 – Félicien Kabuga, a Rwandan businessman responsible for supporting the Rwandan genocide, is arrested in Asnières-sur-Seine, France after 26 years as a fugitive.
• May 21 – Cyclone Amphan makes landfall in eastern India and Bangladesh, killing over one hundred people and forcing the evacuation of more than four million others. It causes over US$13 billion in damage, making it the costliest cyclone ever recorded in the North Indian Ocean, shattering the record previously held by Nargis.
• May 21 – COVID-19 pandemic: The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 passes 5 million worldwide, with 106,000 new cases recorded over the past 24 hours, the highest single-day figure so far.
• May 22
  • Flight PK8303, a Pakistan International Airlines passenger aircraft, crashes in a residential area near Karachi, in Pakistan, killing 97 people on board and injuring dozens on the ground. Two surviving passengers are reported.
  • COVID-19 pandemic: Brazil overtakes Russia to become the country with the second highest number of COVID-19 cases, with over 330,000 reported. President Jair Bolsonaro continues to dismiss the threat of the virus.
• May 26
  • Riots break out across the United States in protest against the death of George Floyd.
  • Costa Rica becomes the first Central American country to legalise same-sex marriage.
• May 27
  • U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declares Hong Kong "no longer autonomous", as China backs a new security law that would make it a crime to undermine Beijing's authority in the territory.
  • COVID-19 pandemic: The U.S. death toll passes 100,000 – more Americans than were killed in the Vietnam War and Korean War combined, and approaching that of the First World War, where 116,000 Americans died in combat. The total number of cases continues to rise, although the rate is slowing.
• May 29 – Taiwan decriminalises adultery.

Predicted and scheduled events

Scheduled

• May 30 – The first crewed flight of the Dragon 2 spacecraft is scheduled to be launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, the first manned spacecraft to take off from U.S. soil since 2011.
• July 17 – Planned launch of NASA's Mars 2020 mission to study the habitability of Mars in preparation for future human missions.
• October 18 – The 2020 ICC Men's T20 World Cup will be held in Australia in eight cities.
• November 3 – The United States will hold the 2020 United States presidential election.
• December 31 – Following the United Kingdom's departure from the European Union, the current transition period for negotiations on a future relationship is set to expire on this date.

Date unknown

• Earliest year that power aboard the space probes Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 is expected to terminate (though either probe may function past this date).
• China's BeiDou Navigation Satellite System and the European Union's Galileo are scheduled to be fully operational.
• Estimated completion of the Aegis Ashore missile defense system in Poland.
• The African Central Bank (ACB) is expected to be completed.
• The supposed deadline for a 2014 deal between Liberia and Norway to pay the impoverished country $150 million to stop deforestation by 2020. However, subsequent review by watchdog groups suggests that the policies put into place may have accelerated deforestation. For more information see Environmental issues in Liberia.
• Egypt, which has the highest rate of hepatitis C in the world, is expected to eradicate the disease by 2020 after an ambitious nationwide campaign against it.
• The New Administrative Capital of Egypt is expected to be completed.
• Bulgaria and Croatia are due to join the Eurozone's "waiting room" (a.k.a. the ERM II).

Births

• May 10 – Prince Charles of Luxembourg

Deaths

Further information: Category:2020 deaths

January

Main article: Deaths in January 2020

Qasem Soleimani

Neil Peart

Qaboos bin Said

Terry Jones

Kobe Bryant

Mary Higgins Clark

• January 1 – David Stern, American businessman and NBA commissioner (b. 1942)
• January 2 – John Baldessari, American conceptual artist (b. 1931)
• January 3
  • Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, Iraqi-Iranian military commander (b. 1954)
  • Qasem Soleimani, Iranian general (b. 1957)
• January 5
  • Anri Jergenia, 4th Prime Minister of Abkhazia (b. 1941)
  • Hans Tilkowski, German football goalkeeper and manager (b. 1935)
• January 6 – Luís Morais, Brazilian football player (b. 1930)
• January 7
  • Khamis Al-Dosari, Saudi Arabian footballer (b. 1973)
  • Silvio Horta, American screenwriter and television producer (b. 1974)
  • Neil Peart, Canadian drummer and lyricist (b. 1952)
  • Elizabeth Wurtzel, American writer and journalist (b. 1967)
• January 8
  • Edd Byrnes, American actor (b. 1932)
  • Buck Henry, American actor, screenwriter and television producer (b. 1930)
  • Infanta Pilar de Borbón, Spanish royal (b. 1936)
• January 9 – Mike Resnick, American science fiction author (b. 1942)
• January 10
  • Neda Arnerić, Serbian film actress (b. 1953)
  • Guido Messina, Italian racing cyclist (b. 1931)
  • Qaboos bin Said, Sultan of Oman (b. 1940)
• January 12 – Roger Scruton, British philosopher and writer (b. 1944)
• January 13 – Isabel-Clara Simó, Spanish journalist and writer (b. 1943)
• January 15
  • Rocky Johnson, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1944)
  • Christopher Tolkien, British academic and editor (b. 1924)
• January 16 – Efraín Sánchez, Colombian footballer and manager (b. 1926)
• January 17
  • Pietro Anastasi, Italian footballer (b. 1948)
  • Derek Fowlds, English actor (b. 1937)
• January 19
  • Jimmy Heath, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1926)
  • Shin Kyuk-ho, South Korean businessman (b. 1921)
• January 21
  • Hédi Baccouche, 6th Prime Minister of Tunisia (b. 1930)
  • Terry Jones, Welsh actor and comedian (b. 1942)
  • Tengiz Sigua, 2nd Prime Minister of Georgia (b. 1934)
  • Theodor Wagner, Austrian footballer and manager (b. 1927)
• January 23
  • Jim Lehrer, American journalist, novelist and screenwriter (b. 1934)
  • Gudrun Pausewang, German writer (b. 1928)
• January 24
  • Duje Bonačić, Croatian rower (b. 1929)
  • Juan José Pizzuti, Argentine footballer and manager (b. 1927)
  • Rob Rensenbrink, Dutch footballer (b. 1947)
• January 26
  • Kobe Bryant, American professional basketball player (b. 1978)
  • Louis Nirenberg, Canadian-American mathematician (b. 1925)
• January 28 – Nicholas Parsons, English radio and TV presenter (b. 1923)
• January 30 – Jörn Donner, Finnish writer, film director and politician (b. 1933)
• January 31
  • Mary Higgins Clark, American novelist (b. 1927)
  • Janez Stanovnik, 12th President of SR of Slovenia (b. 1922)

February

Main article: Deaths in February 2020

Daniel arap Moi

Kirk Douglas

Katherine Johnson

Hosni Mubarak

Freeman Dyson

• February 1 – Andy Gill, English musician (b. 1956)
• February 2 – Mike Moore, 34th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1949)
• February 3 – George Steiner, French-American literary critic and essayist (b. 1929)
• February 4
  • José Luis Cuerda, Spanish filmmaker, screenwriter and producer (b. 1947)
  • Daniel arap Moi, 2nd President of Kenya (b. 1924)
• February 5
  • Stanley Cohen, American Nobel biochemist (b. 1922)
  • Kirk Douglas, American actor, director and producer (b. 1916)
• February 6 – Jhon Jairo Velásquez, Colombian hitman and drug dealer (b. 1962)
• February 7
  • Orson Bean, American actor, comedian and producer (b. 1928)
  • Li Wenliang, Chinese ophthalmologist (b. 1986)
  • Nexhmije Pagarusha, Albanian singer and actress (b. 1933)
• February 8 – Robert Conrad, American actor (b. 1935)
• February 9 – Mirella Freni, Italian soprano (b. 1935)
• February 11 – Joseph Shabalala, South African musician (b. 1940)
• February 12
  • Christie Blatchford, Canadian newspaper columnist, journalist and broadcaster (b. 1951)
  • Geert Hofstede, Dutch social psychologist (b. 1928)
• February 13 – Rajendra K. Pachauri, Indian scientist (b. 1940)
• February 14 – Lynn Cohen, American actress (b. 1933)
• February 15 – Caroline Flack, English presenter (b. 1979)
• February 16
  • Zoe Caldwell, Australian actress (b. 1933)
  • Harry Gregg, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1932)
  • Larry Tesler, American computer scientist (b. 1945)
• February 17
  • Mário da Graça Machungo, 1st Prime Minister of Mozambique (b. 1940)
  • Kizito Mihigo, Rwandan gospel singer, organist and peace activist (b. 1981)
  • Andrew Weatherall, English music DJ and producer (b. 1963)
• February 18
  • José Bonaparte, Argentine paleontologist (b. 1928)
  • Sonja Ziemann, German actress (b. 1926)
• February 22 – Kiki Dimoula, Greek poet (b. 1931)
• February 24
  • Clive Cussler, American author (b. 1931)
  • Katherine Johnson, American mathematician (b. 1918)
  • Diana Serra Cary, American child actress (b. 1918)
  • Jahn Teigen, Norwegian singer (b. 1949)
• February 25
  • Mario Bunge, Argentine philosopher (b. 1919)
  • Hosni Mubarak, 41st Prime Minister and 4th President of Egypt (b. 1928)
  • Dmitry Yazov, Soviet and Russian marshal (b. 1924)
• February 26 – Nexhmije Hoxha, Albanian politician (b. 1921)
• February 28 – Freeman Dyson, British-born American physicist and mathematician (b. 1923)
• February 29 – Éva Székely, Hungarian swimmer, Olympic champion (b. 1927)

March

Main article: Deaths in March 2020

Javier Pérez de Cuéllar

Max von Sydow

Eduard Limonov

Betty Williams

Kenny Rogers

Manolis Glezos

Bill Withers

• March 1
  • Ernesto Cardenal, Nicaraguan poet and priest (b. 1925)
  • Jack Welch, American business executive and writer (b. 1935)
• March 2
  • James Lipton, American writer, lyricist and actor (b. 1926)
  • Ulay, German performance artist (b. 1943)
• March 3 – Stanisław Kania, Polish politician, First Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party (b. 1927)
• March 4
  • Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, 137th Prime Minister of Peru and 5th United Nations Secretary-General (b. 1920)
  • Robert Shavlakadze, Georgian high jumper (b. 1933)
• March 6
  • Henri Richard, Canadian Hall of Fame ice hockey player (b. 1936)
  • McCoy Tyner, American jazz pianist (b. 1938)
• March 8 – Max von Sydow, Swedish-French actor (b. 1929)
• March 9 – Richard K. Guy, British mathematician (b. 1916)
• March 11
  • Charles Wuorinen, American composer (b. 1938)
  • Michel Roux, French chef and restaurateur (b. 1941)
• March 12 – Tonie Marshall, French-American actress, screenwriter, and film director (b. 1951)
• March 13 – Dana Zátopková, Czech javelin thrower (b. 1922)
• March 14 – Genesis P-Orridge, English singer-songwriter, musician, poet, and occultist (b. 1950)
• March 15 – Vittorio Gregotti, Italian architect (b. 1927)
• March 16 – Stuart Whitman, American actor (b. 1928)
• March 17
  • Eduard Limonov, Russian writer, poet, publicist, and political dissident (b. 1943)
  • Roger Mayweather, American professional boxer and trainer (b. 1961)
  • Manuel Serifo Nhamadjo, Acting President of Guinea-Bissau (b. 1958)
  • Betty Williams, Northern Ireland Nobel peace activist (b. 1943)
• March 18
  • Catherine Hamlin, Australian obstetrician and gynaecologist (b. 1924)
  • Joaquín Peiró, Spanish football player (b. 1936)
  • Alfred Worden, American astronaut (b. 1932)
• March 19 – Peter Whittingham, English footballer (b. 1984)
• March 20
  • Amadeo Carrizo, Argentine footballer (b. 1926)
  • Kenny Rogers, American country singer and songwriter (b. 1938)
• March 21 – Lorenzo Sanz, Spanish sports executive (b. 1943)
• March 23
  • Lucia Bosè, Italian actress and beauty pageant winner (b. 1931)
  • Branko Cikatić, Croatian kickboxer (b. 1954)
• March 24
  • Manu Dibango, Cameroonian saxophonist (b. 1933)
  • Stuart Gordon, American film director (b. 1947)
  • Terrence McNally, American playwright (b. 1938)
  • Albert Uderzo, French comic book artist (b. 1927)
• March 25 – Inna Makarova, Soviet and Russian actress (b. 1926)
• March 26
  • Princess María Teresa of Bourbon-Parma, Spanish-French royal (b. 1933)
  • Michel Hidalgo, French footballer and manager (b. 1933)
• March 27 – Hamed Karoui, 7th Prime Minister of Tunisia (b. 1927)
• March 29
  • Philip W. Anderson, American Nobel physicist (b. 1923)
  • Yuri Bondarev, Soviet and Russian writer and screenwriter (b. 1924)
  • Ken Shimura, Japanese comedian (b. 1950)
  • Krzysztof Penderecki, Polish composer and conductor (b. 1933)
• March 30
  • Manolis Glezos, Greek politician and resistance fighter (b. 1922)
  • Hau Pei-tsun, 13th Premier of the Republic of China (b. 1919)
  • Bill Withers, American singer-songwriter (b. 1938)
  • Joachim Yhombi-Opango, 4th President and 12th Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo (b. 1939)
• March 31
  • Abdul Halim Khaddam, Acting President of Syria (b. 1932)
  • Wallace Roney, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1960)

April

Main article: Deaths in April 2020

Honor Blackman

Mahmoud Jibril

John Horton Conway

Luis Sepúlveda

Shirley Knight

Irrfan Khan

Giacomo dalla Torre

Maj Sjöwall

• April 1
  • Nur Hassan Hussein, 12th Prime Minister of Somalia (b. 1937)
  • Ellis Marsalis Jr., American jazz pianist (b. 1934)
  • Adam Schlesinger, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1967)
• April 4 – Rafael Leonardo Callejas Romero, 31st President of Honduras (b. 1943)
• April 5
  • Honor Blackman, English actress (b. 1925)
  • Margaret Burbidge, English-born American astrophysicist (b. 1919)
  • Shirley Douglas, Canadian actress and civil rights activist (b. 1934)
  • Mahmoud Jibril, former Prime Minister of Libya (b. 1952)
  • Pentti Linkola, Finnish deep ecologist and writer (b. 1932)
• April 6
  • Radomir Antić, Serbian football manager and player (b. 1948)
  • James Drury, American actor (b. 1934)
• April 7
  • Allen Garfield, American actor (b. 1939)
  • John Prine, American singer-songwriter (b. 1946)
• April 8 – Valeriu Muravschi, 1st Prime Minister of Moldova (b. 1949)
• April 10
  • Enrique Múgica, Spanish politician (b. 1932)
  • Nobuhiko Obayashi, Japanese filmmaker (b. 1938)
• April 11
  • John Horton Conway, English mathematician (b. 1937)
  • Edem Kodjo, 3rd Prime Minister of Togo (b. 1938)
• April 12
  • Peter Bonetti, English footballer (b. 1941)
  • Stirling Moss, English F1 driver (b. 1929)
  • Chung Won-shik, 21st Prime Minister of South Korea (b. 1928)
  • Keiji Fujiwara, Japanese voice actor (b. 1964)
  • Tim Brooke-Taylor, English comic performer (b. 1940)
• April 13
  • Ryo Kawasaki, Japanese jazz fusion guitarist and composer (b. 1947)
  • Landelino Lavilla, Spanish politician (b. 1934)
• April 15
  • Allen Daviau, American cinematographer (b. 1942)
  • Brian Dennehy, American actor (b. 1938)
  • Lee Konitz, American jazz composer and alto saxophonist (b. 1927)
• April 16
  • Christophe, French singer and songwriter (b. 1945)
  • Gene Deitch, American-Czech animator and film director (b. 1924)
  • Howard Finkel, American wrestling ring announcer (b. 1950)
  • Luis Sepúlveda, Chilean writer (b. 1949)
• April 17 – Norman Hunter, English international footballer (b. 1943)
• April 19
  • Edmond Baraffe, French football player and manager (b. 1942)
  • Philippe Nahon, French actor (b. 1938)
• April 21
  • Abdurrahim El-Keib, Acting Prime Minister of Libya (b. 1950)
  • Laisenia Qarase, 6th Prime Minister of Fiji (b. 1941)
  • Florian Schneider, German electronic musician (b. 1947)
• April 22
  • Hartwig Gauder, German Olympic champion (b. 1954)
  • Shirley Knight, American actress (b. 1936)
• April 25 – Per Olov Enquist, Swedish author (b. 1934)
• April 26 – Giulietto Chiesa, Italian journalist and politician (b. 1940)
• April 27 – Dragutin Zelenović, 1st Prime Minister of Serbia (b. 1928)
• April 28
  • Robert May, Baron May of Oxford, Australian scientist (b. 1936)
  • Michael Robinson, English-Irish footballer and TV commentator (b. 1958)
• April 29
  • Trevor Cherry, English footballer (b. 1948)
  • Denis Goldberg, South African social campaigner (b. 1933)
  • Irrfan Khan, Indian actor (b. 1967)
  • Jānis Lūsis, Latvian Olympic champion (b. 1939)
  • Giacomo dalla Torre del Tempio di Sanguinetto, 80th Prince and Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (b. 1944)
  • Maj Sjöwall, Swedish writer (b. 1935)
• April 30
  • Tony Allen, Nigerian drummer, composer, and songwriter (b. 1940)
  • Rishi Kapoor, Indian actor (b. 1952)
  • Sam Lloyd, American actor, singer, and musician (b. 1963)

May

Main article: Deaths in May 2020

Idir

Millie Small

Little Richard

Jerry Stiller

Adolfo Nicolás

Stanley Ho

• May 1 – Tun Tin, 6th Prime Minister of Burma (b. 1920)
• May 2 – Idir, Algerian singer (b. 1949)
• May 3 – John Ericson, German-born American actor (b. 1926)
• May 4 – Michael McClure, American poet and playwright (b. 1932)
• May 5 – Millie Small, Jamaican singer-songwriter (b. 1946)
• May 8 – Roy Horn, German-American magician (b. 1944)
• May 9 – Little Richard, American musician (b. 1932)
• May 10 – Betty Wright, American soul singer (b. 1953)
• May 11 – Jerry Stiller, American comedian (b. 1927)
• May 12
  • Renato Corti, Italian cardinal (b. 1936)
  • Sisavath Keobounphanh, 13th Prime Minister of Laos (b. 1928)
  • Astrid Kirchherr, German photographer and artist (b. 1938)
  • Michel Piccoli, French actor, producer and film director (b. 1925)
• May 13
  • Rolf Hochhuth, German author and playwright (b. 1931)
  • Chedli Klibi, 4th Secretary General of the Arab League (b. 1925)
• May 15
  • Ezio Bosso, Italian composer, classical musician and conductor (b. 1971)
  • Lynn Shelton, American filmmaker (b. 1965)
  • Fred Willard, American actor and comedian (b. 1933)
• May 16 – Julio Anguita, Spanish politician (b. 1941)
• May 17
  • José Cutileiro, 8th Secretary General of the Western Europe Union (b. 1934)
  • Shad Gaspard, American professional wrestler and actor (b. 1981)
• May 19 – Ravi Zacharias, Indian-born Canadian-American Christian apologist (b. 1946)
• May 20
  • Adolfo Nicolás, Spanish priest (b. 1936)
  • Gianfranco Terenzi, former Captain Regent of San Marino (b. 1941)
• May 21
  • Mamoon al-Farkh, Syrian actor and theater director (b. 1958)
  • Oliver E. Williamson, American Nobel economist (b. 1932)
• May 22
  • Ashley Cooper, Australian tennis player (b. 1936)
  • Mory Kanté, Guinean singer and musician (b. 1950)
  • Luigi Simoni, Italian football player and manager (b. 1939)
  • Jerry Sloan, American basketball player and head coach (b. 1942)
  • Miljan Mrdaković, Serbian football player (b. 1982)
• May 23
  • Hana Kimura, Japanese professional wrestler (b. 1997)
  • Alberto Alesina, Italian economist and university professor (b. 1957)
• May 24 – Jimmy Cobb, American jazz drummer (b. 1929)
• May 25
  • Hyun Soong-jong, 22nd Prime Minister of South Korea (b. 1919)
  • Balbir Singh Sr., Indian field hockey player and manager (b. 1923)
  • Vadão, Brazilian football manager (b. 1956)
• May 26 – Stanley Ho, Hong Kong-Macau business magnate, investor and philanthropist (b. 1921)
• May 27 – Larry Kramer, American author and LGBT rights activist (b. 1935)
• May 28 – Bob Kulick, American guitarist and record producer (b. 1950)
• May 29 – Abderrahmane Youssoufi, 12th Prime Minister of Morocco (b. 1924)
• May 30 – Hassan Hosny, Egyptian actor (b. 1931)

In fiction

Main article: 21st century in fiction § 2020