Death claimed many notable people in 2020, including Italian composer Ennio Morricone, Hollywood star Sean Connery, football legend Diego Maradona and fashion designer Pierre Cardin. TASS remembers those we lost in 2020.
Last goodbyes: Remembering those we lost in 2020
A look back at notable people who have died in 2020
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Monty Python star Terry Jones died on January 21. He was 77
© REUTERS/Nacho Doce Actor Kirk Douglas died on February 5, at age 103
© Bettmann/Getty Images NBA legend and holder of two Olympic titles Kobe Bryant died in a helicopter crash on January 26. He was 41
© AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill Former President of Egypt Hosni Mubarak died on February 25 in Cairo aged 91
© David Hume Kennerly/Getty Images Actor Max von Sydow died on March 8, aged 90, at his home in France
© Richard Blanshard/Getty Images Rock'n'roll legend Little Richard died on May 9. He was 87
© Tim Graham/Evening Standard/Getty Images Actor Ian Holm died on June 19, at the age of 88
© J. Vespa/WireImage Film director Joel Schumacher died on June 22, aged 80
© AP Photo/Matt Sayles Italian composer Ennio Morricone died on July 6. He was 91
© Luciano Viti/Getty Images Actress Olivia de Havilland, two-time Oscar winner, died on July 25. She was 104
© John Kobal Foundation/Getty Images US actor Chadwick Boseman, best known for playing Black Panther in the hit Marvel superhero franchise, died of cancer on August 28. He was 43
© Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP Ruth Ginsburg, an advocate for gender equality and civil rights, died on September 18, at the age of 87
© REUTERS/Pablo Martinez Monsivais/Pool Japanese fashion designer Kenzo Takada died on October 4 of COVID-19 complications. He was 81
© EPA/Tobias Hase Rock legend Eddie Van Halen died on October 6. He was 65
© Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Solters Hollywood star Sean Connery died on October 31. He was 90
© Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Renowned Russian writer and satirist Mikhail Zhvanetsky died on November 6. He was 86
© Vyacheslav Prokofiev/TASS Argentine football icon Diego Maradona died on November 25 from a cardiac arrest at the age of 60
© David Cannon/Allsport/Getty Images/Hulton Archive President and former director of Moscow's Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts Irina Antonova died on November 30. She was 98
© Viktor Velikzhanin/TASS Former French president Valery Giscard d'Estaing died on December 2. He was 94
© Gilles BASSIGNAC/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images South Korean film director Kim Ki-duk died on December 11. He was 59
© Laurent KOFFEL/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images Popular Soviet and Russian actor Valentin Gaft died on December 12 at the age of 85
© Viktor Budan/TASS French fashion designer Pierre Cardin died on December 29. He was 98
© Pierre Vauthey/Sygma/Sygma via Getty Images Global COVID-19 death toll reached 1 776 997 on December 29, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University
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