Chronology of Notable Deaths

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Last updated: 2023 December 20.


2020

January 1
  • Death of David Stern, American businessman and NBA commissioner (born 1942). [1384]
January 3
  • A United States drone strike (ordered by US President Donald Trump) at Baghdad International Airport kills Iranian general Qasem Soleimani and Iraqi paramilitary leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis. [1384] [1598.10]
January 5
  • Death of Anri Jergenia, 4th Prime Minister of Abkhazia (born 1941). [1384]
January 8
  • Death of Infanta Pilar de Borbón, Spanish royal (born 1936). [1384]
January 10
  • Death of Marino Bollini, former Captain Regent of San Marino (born 1933). [1384]
  • Death of Qaboos bin Said, Sultan of Oman (born 1940). His cousin Haitham bin Tarik is named his successor. [1384] [1598.41]
January 21
  • Death of Hédi Baccouche, 6th Prime Minister of Tunisia (born 1930). [1384]
  • Death of Tengiz Sigua, 2nd Prime Minister of Georgia (born 1934). [1384]
January 23
  • Death of Frederick Ballantyne, 7th Governor-General of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (born 1936). [1384]
  • Death of Clayton Christensen of leukemia at age 67; author ("The Innovator's Dilemma" (1997)), professor (Harvard Business School). [1597.58]
January 24
  • Death of Seamus Mallon, Irish politician, inaugural deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland (born 1936). [1384]
January 26
  • Death of Kobe Bryant at age 41 in a helicopter crash; basketball player (shooting guard - Los Angeles Lakers, five NBA championship rings). [1384] [1597.78]
January 31
  • Death of Janez Stanovnik, 12th President of SR of Slovenia (born 1922). [1384]
February 2
  • Death of Mike Hoare at age 100; soldier of fortune, leader of the Wild Geese, 5 Commando. [1605.86]
  • Death of Mike Moore, 34th Prime Minister of New Zealand (born 1949). [1384]
February 4
  • Death of Daniel arap Moi, 2nd President of Kenya (born 1924). [1384] [1596.38]

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February 14
  • Death of Falafel AKA Matvey Natanzon at age 51; world backgammon champion (2007). [1611.78]
February 17
  • Death of Mário da Graça Machungo, 1st Prime Minister of Mozambique (born 1940). [1384]
February 20
  • Death of Claudette Nevins at age 82 at home in Los Angeles, California; actor (Melrose Place TV show). [1585.34]
February 24
  • Death of Katherine Goble Johnson; American NASA mathematician, recipient of Presidential Medal of Freedom. [1384] [1608.74]
February 25
  • Death of Hosni Mubarak at age 91 in Cairo, Egypt; 41st Prime Minister and 4th President of Egypt. [1384] [1608.37]
February 28
  • Death of Stephen Hugh-Jones; columnist (The Economist magazine, "Johnson"), salesman, soldier, journalist. [1611.73]
  • Death of Joe Coulombe at age 89 in Pasadena, California; founder of Trader Joe's shops. [1585.34]
March 1
  • Death of Ernesto Cardenal at age 95; Nicaraguan poet ("Hora O"), priest, Sandinista revolutionary, Nicaragua minister of culture (1979-1988). [1384] [1607.82]
  • Death of Jack Welch at age 84 of renal failure; American writer, business executive (chairman and CEO - General Electric). [1384] [1585.34] [1607.57]
March 2
  • Death of James Lipton at age 93 of bladder cancer in New York; American lyricist, host (Inside the Actors Studio TV show (1994-2019)), actor (Arrested Development TV show). [1384] [1585.34]
March 3
  • Death of Stanislaw Kania, Polish head of state, First Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party (born 1927). [1384]
March 4
  • Death of Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, 137th Prime Minister of Peru and 5th United Nations Secretary-General (born 1920). [1384]
March 11
  • Death of Michel Roux at age 78; French chef and restaurateur in England (Le Gavroche in Chelsea, Waterside Inn at Bray in Berhshire, with brother Albert, 3 Michel stars, TV cookery show). [1384] [1612.78]
March 17
  • Death of Manuel Serifo Nhamadjo, Acting President of Guinea-Bissau (born 1958). [1384]
March 26
  • Death of Princess María Teresa of Bourbon-Parma, Spanish-French royal (born 1933). [1384]
March 27
  • Death of Hamed Karoui, 7th Prime Minister of Tunisia (born 1927). [1384]
March 30
  • Death of Hau Pei-tsun, 13th Premier of the Republic of China (born 1919). [1384]
  • Death of Joachim Yhombi-Opango, 4th President and 12th Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo (born 1939). [1384]
  • Death of Roman Marber at age 94, near home in Essex, England; graphic designer (The Economist magazine, Penguin Books, New Society, the Observer). [1610.72]
March 31
  • Death of Abdul Halim Khaddam, Acting President of Syria (born 1932). [1384]
April 1
  • Death of Nur Hassan Hussein, 12th Prime Minister of Somalia (born 1937). [1384]
April 4
  • Death of Rafael Leonardo Callejas Romero, 31st President of Honduras (born 1943). [1384]
April 5
  • Death of Mahmoud Jibril, former Prime Minister of Libya (born 1952). [1384]
April 8
  • Death of Valeriu Muravschi, 1st Prime Minister of Moldova (born 1949). [1384]
April 11
  • Death of Edem Kodjo, 3rd Prime Minister of Togo (born 1938). [1384]
April 12
  • Death of Stirling Moss, English F1 driver (born 1929). [1384]
  • Death of Chung Won-shik, 21st Prime Minister of South Korea (born 1928). [1384]
April 15
  • Death of Joe Brown at age 89; rock climber (Petit Dru at Chamonix 1954, Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas 1955, Old Man of Hoy in the Orkneys 1967, Mustagh Tower in Pakistan, Cenotaph Corner in Snowdonia 1952). [1610.78]
April 21
  • Death of Abdurrahim El-Keib, Acting Prime Minister of Libya (born 1950). [1384]
  • Death of Laisenia Qarase, 6th Prime Minister of Fiji (born 1941). [1384]
April 27
  • Death of Dragutin Zelenovic, 1st Prime Minister of Serbia (born 1928). [1384]
April 28
  • Death of Robert May, Baron May of Oxford, Australian scientist (born 1936). [1384]
April 29
  • Death of Giacomo dalla Torre del Tempio di Sanguinetto, 80th Prince and Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (born 1944). [1384]
May 1
  • Death of Tun Tin, 6th Prime Minister of Burma (born 1920). [1384]
May 12
  • Death of Sisavath Keobounphanh, 13th Prime Minister of Laos (born 1928). [1384]
May 13
  • Death of Chedli Klibi, 4th Secretary General of the Arab League (born 1925). [1384]
May 17
  • Death of José Cutileiro, 8th Secretary General of the Western Europe Union (born 1934). [1384]
May 20
  • Death of Gianfranco Terenzi, former Captain Regent of San Marino (born 1941). [1384]
May 25
  • Death of Hyun Soong-jong, 22nd Prime Minister of South Korea (born 1919). [1384]
May 29
  • Death of Abderrahmane Youssoufi, 12th Prime Minister of Morocco (born 1924). [1384]
May 30
  • Death of Yawovi Agboyibo, 8th Prime Minister of Togo (born 1943). [1384]
June 8
  • Death of Pierre Nkurunziza, 8th President of Burundi (born 1964). [1384]
June 11
  • Death of Emmanuel Issoze-Ngondet, 10th Prime Minister of Gabon (born 1961). [1384]
June 17
  • Death of William Dement at age 91 in his sleep; American pioneer in science of sleep and dreams, author, professor (Stanford). [1490.74]
June 18
  • Death of Vera Lynn at age 104 (born 1917); English entertainer and singer; ("We'll Meet Again", "The White Cliffs of Dover"). [1384] [1488.78]
  • Death of Jules Sedney, 5th Prime Minister of Suriname (born 1922). [1384]
June 20
  • Death of Ema Derossi-Bjelajac, 6th President of the Presidency of the SR of Croatia (born 1926). [1384]
June 27
  • Death of Belaid Abdessalam, 7th Prime Minister of Algeria (born 1928). [1384]
July 1
  • Death of Emmanuel Rakotovahiny, 15th Prime Minister of Madagascar (born 1938). [1384]
July 6
  • Death of Ennio Morricone at age 91 (born 1928); Italian composer, orchestrator and conductor (A Fistful of Dollars film, Battle of Algiers film, Once Upon a Time in the West film, The Mission film). [1384] [1491.74]
July 8
  • Death of Amadou Gon Coulibaly, 10th Prime Minister of Ivory Coast (born 1959). [1384]
July 9
  • Death of MiloÜ JakeÜ, 5th General Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (born 1922). [1384]
July 12
  • Death of Hassan Abshir Farah, 9th Prime Minister of Somalia (born 1945). [1384]
July 13
  • Death of Hasan al-Lawzi, Acting Prime Minister of Yemen (born 1952). [1384]
July 15
  • Death of Toke Talagi, 5th Premier of Niue (born 1951). [1384]
July 17
  • Death of Zenon Grocholewski, Polish Roman Catholic cardinal (born 1939). [1384]
July 19
  • Death of Seydou Diarra, 4th Prime Minister of Ivory Coast (born 1933). [1384]
  • Death of Nikolai Tanayev, 8th Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan (born 1945). [1384]
July 24
  • Death of Benjamin Mkapa, 3rd President of Tanzania (born 1938). [1384]
July 26
  • Death of Dame Olivia de Havilland at age 104; British-American actress (Captain Blood (1935), Gone With the Wind (1939), To Each His Own (1947, Best Actress Oscar), The Heiress (1950, Best Actress Oscar)). [1384] [1476.74]
July 27
  • Death of Owen Arthur, 5th Prime Minister of Barbados (born 1949). [1384]
July 30
  • Death of Lee Teng-hui at age 97; 13th President of the Republic of China (born 1923). [1384] [1476.32]
August 3
  • Death of Ernesto Brambilla, Grand Prix motorcycle road racer (born 1934). [1384]
August 7
  • Death of Lê Kh? Phiêu, 10th General-Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (born 1931). [1384]
August 17
  • Death of Mário de Araújo Cabral, Portuguese Formula One driver (born 1934). [1384]
August 20
  • Death of Branko Kostic, Acting President of the Presidency of Yugoslavia (born 1939). [1384]
August 24
  • Death of Pascal Lissouba, 6th President and 2nd Prime Minister of the Republic of Congo (born 1931). [1384]
August 31
  • Death of Pranab Mukherjee, 13th President of India (born 1935). [1384]
September 4
  • Death of Joe Williams, 5th Prime Minister of the Cook Islands (born 1934). [1384]
September 6
  • Death of Lou Brock at age 81; baseball player (Saint Louis Cardinals, Baseball Hall of Fame (1985)). [1550.18]
September 7
  • Death of Abdul Qadir Bajamal, 5th Prime Minister of Yemen (born 1946). [1384]
September 15
  • Death of Moussa Traoré, 2nd President of Mali (born 1936). [1384]
September 19
  • Death of John Turner, 17th Prime Minister of Canada (born 1929). [1384]
September 29
  • The Emir of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah al-Sabah dies at the age of 91. Crown Prince Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah is named his successor. [1384]
September 30
  • Death of Ali Bozer, Acting Prime Minister of Turkey (born 1925). [1384]
October 8
  • Death of Ali Khalif Galaydh, 8th Prime Minister of Somalia (born 1941). [1384]
October 12
  • Death of Litokwa Tomeing, 4th President of the Marshall Islands (born 1939). [1384]
October 14
  • Death of Kuniwo Nakamura, 6th President of Palau (born 1943). [1384]
October 18
  • Death of René Felber, 81st President of the Swiss Confederation (born 1933). [1384]
October 25
  • Death of Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, 6th Vice President of Iraq (born 1942). [1384]
  • Death of Lee Kun-hee at age 78; South Korean electronics executive (Samsung Electronics). [1384] [1467.7]
October 30
  • Death of Mesut Yilmaz, 21st Prime Minister of Turkey (born 1947). [1384]
November 2
  • Death of Ahmed Laraki, 6th Prime Minister of Morocco (born 1931). [1384]
November 6
  • Death of Jim Marurai, 8th Prime Minister of the Cook Islands (born 1947). [1384]
November 10
  • Death of Amadou Toumani Touré, 3rd President of Mali (born 1948). [1384]
November 11
  • Death of Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa, 1st Prime Minister of Bahrain (born 1935). [1384]
November 12
  • Death of Jerry Rawlings, President of Ghana (born 1947). [1384]
November 14
  • Death of Hasan Muratovic, 4th Prime Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina (born 1940). [1384]
November 18
  • Death of Umar Ghalib, 7th Prime Minister of Somalia (born 1930). [1384]
November 22
  • Death of Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi, 7th President of Mauritania (born 1938). [1384]
  • Death of Carlo D'Este at age 84 in Cape Cod, Massachusettes, USA; historian, biographer, author, recipient of 2011 Pritzker Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing. [1839.12]
November 24
  • Death of Mamadou Tandja, 7th President of Niger (born 1938). [1384]
November 25
  • Death of James Wolfensohn, 9th President of the World Bank Group (born 1933). [1384]
November 26
  • Death of Sadiq al-Mahdi, 7th Prime Minister of Sudan (born 1935). [1384]
  • Death of Tevita Momoedonu, 5th Prime Minister of Fiji (born 1946). [1384]
November 27
  • Iran's top nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, is assassinated near Tehran. [1384]
December 2
  • Death of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, 20th President of France (born 1926). [1384]
  • Death of Zafarullah Khan Jamali, 15th Prime Minister of Pakistan (born 1944). [1384]
December 6
  • Death of Tabaré Vázquez, 39th and 41st President of Uruguay (born 1940). [1384]
December 7
  • Death of Chuck Yeager at age 97 in Los Angeles, California, USA; US Air Force Brigidier General, World War II double ace, first commandant of the US Air Force's Aerospace Research Pilot School, flew 127 missions as commander of 405th Tactical Fighter Wing in the Vietnam War, first pilot to break sound barrier. [1384] [1839.8]
December 9
  • Death of Vyacheslav Kebich, 1st Prime Minister of Belarus (born 1936). [1384]
December 12
  • Death of John le Carré AKA David John Moore at age 89 in Truro, England; British spy, espionage novelist (George Smiley). [1384] [1839.12]
  • Death of Fikre Selassie Wogderess, 9th Prime Minister of Ethiopia (born 1945). [1384]
December 13
  • Death of Ambrose Mandvulo Dlamini, 10th Prime Minister of Eswatini (born 1968). [1384]
December 15
  • Death of Saufatu Sopoanga, 8th Prime Minister of Tuvalu (born 1952). [1384]
December 16
  • Death of Flavio Cotti, 80th President of the Swiss Confederation (born 1939). [1384]
December 17
  • Death of Pierre Buyoya, 3rd President of Burundi (born 1949). [1384]
December 18
  • Death of Michael Jeffery, 24th Governor-General of Australia (born 1937). [1384]
  • Death of Òscar Ribas Reig, 1st Prime Minister of Andorra (born 1936) . [1384]
December 19
  • Death of Mekere Morauta, 7th Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea (born 1946). [1384]
December 20
  • Death of Doug Anthony, 2nd Deputy Prime Minister of Australia (born 1929). [1384]
December 22
  • Death of Muhammad Mustafa Mero, 62nd Prime Minister of Syria (born 1941). [1384]
December 24
  • Death of John Cremona, Acting President of Malta (born 1918). [1384]
December 29
  • Death of Pierre Cardin, Italian-born French fashion designer (born 1922). [1384]

End of 2020. Next: 2021.

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