2020 Celebrity Deaths
by yohmarit-143-626778 | created - 06 Dec 2020 | updated - 24 Dec 2020 | Public
1. Kobe Bryant
Producer | Dear Basketball
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 basketball players of all time, Bryant won five NBA championships, ...
2. Chadwick Boseman
Actor | Black Panther
Chadwick Boseman was an American actor. He is known for his portrayal of T'Challa / Black Panther in the Marvel Cinematic Universe from 2016 to 2019, particularly in Black Panther (2018), and for his starring roles as several pioneering Americans, Jackie Robinson in 42 (2013), James Brown in Get on...
August 2000
3. Diana Rigg
Actress | Last Night in Soho
British actress Dame Diana Rigg was born on July 20, 1938 in Doncaster, Yorkshire, England. She has had an extensive career in film and theatre, including playing the title role in "Medea", both in London and New York, for which she won the 1994 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play.
Rigg made her ...
September 10
4. Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Self | RBG
Ruth Bader Ginsburg was born on March 15, 1933 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. She was married to Martin D. Ginsburg. She died on September 18, 2020 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA.
September 18
5. Michael Lonsdale
Actor | The Day of the Jackal
Tall, bearded, heavy-set Anglo-French character actor, best known internationally for playing Deputy Commissioner Claude Lebel in The Day of the Jackal (1973) and Bond villain Hugo Drax in Moonraker (1979). The son of an English army officer (Edward Lonsdale-Crouch) and a Franco-Irish mother (...
September 21
6. Helen Reddy
Actress | Pete's Dragon
The #1 Grammy-winning "I Am Woman" became not only THE anthem of the feminist movement during the radical 1970s, but also the signature song for its lovely, crop-haired, reddish-haired composer and singer Helen Reddy. Many decades later this is the hit people still remember her for, despite the ...
September 29
7. Margaret Nolan
Actress | Goldfinger
Born in 1943 in Hampstead, London, Margaret Nolan had a career as a glamour model under the name of Vicky Kennedy, even posing for Playboy magazine. Entering films in 1963 in Saturday Night Out (1964) saw her catapulted into Goldfinger (1964). Often cast mainly for her fabulous buxom figure and ...
October 5
8. Johnny Nash
Soundtrack | Grosse Pointe Blank
Johnny Nash was born on August 19, 1940 in Houston, Texas, USA. He was an actor and composer, known for Grosse Pointe Blank (1997), Deep Blue Sea (1999) and Take a Giant Step (1959). He was married to Carlie Collins and Doris Vann. He died on October 6, 2020 in Houston, Texas, USA.
October 6
9. Edward Van Halen
Soundtrack | Twister
Edward Van Halen was a musician who along with his brother Alex Van Halen, and Michael Anthony and David Lee Roth, formed the band Van Halen in the early '70s, with Eddie on guitar, Alex on drums, Michael on bass and David on vocals. The band had different members over the years, but the core (...
October 6
10. Conchata Ferrell
Actress | Two and a Half Men
It took 30 years since it was first predicted, but Conchata Ferrell finally achieved television stardom, albeit of the supporting variety, as the housekeeper "Berta" in the situation-comedy Two and a Half Men (2003). Ferrell originally had been tipped for stardom with her turn as the prostitute "...
October 12
11. Billy Joe Shaver
Soundtrack | Hell or High Water
Billy Joe Shaver was born on August 16, 1939 in Corsicana, Texas, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Hell or High Water (2016), Crazy Heart (2009) and Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (2001). He was married to Wanda Lynn Canady, Brenda Tindell and Jean. He died on October 28, 2020 in Waco, Texas, ...
October 28
12. Leanza Cornett
Actress | The Tick
Leanza Cornett was born on June 10, 1971 in Big Stone Gap, Virginia, USA. She was an actress, known for The Tick (2001), CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000) and Still Waiting in the Wings (2018). She was married to Mark Steines. She died on October 28, 2020 in Jacksonville, Florida, USA.
October 28
13. Nikki McKibbin
Soundtrack | American Idol: The Search for a Superstar
Nikki McKibbin was born on September 28, 1978 in Grand Prairie, Texas, USA. She was an actress, known for American Idol (2002), The Scorned (2005) and Sober House (2009). She was married to Craig Michael Sadler and Joshua David Ozment. She died on November 1, 2020 in Arlington, Texas, USA.
October 28
14. Sean Connery
Actor | The Rock
The tall, handsome and muscular Scottish actor Sean Connery is best known as the original actor to portray James Bond in the hugely successful movie franchise, starring in seven films between 1962 and 1983. Some believed that such a career-defining role might leave him unable to escape it, but he ...
October 31
15. Carol Arthur
Actress | Blazing Saddles
Carol Arthur was born on August 4, 1935 in Hackensack, New Jersey, USA. She was an actress, known for Blazing Saddles (1974), Intrepid (2000) and Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993). She was married to Dom DeLuise. She died on November 1, 2020 in Woodland Hills, California, USA.
October 31
16. Eddie Hassell
Actor | The Kids Are All Right
Eddie Hassell was born on July 16, 1990 in Corsicana, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for The Kids Are All Right (2010), Surface (2005) and 2012 (2009). He died on November 1, 2020 in Grand Prairie, Texas, USA.
October 31
17. Alex Trebek
Producer | Jeopardy!
Born and raised in Sudbury, Ontario, Alex Trebek graduated from the University of Ottawa with a degree in Philosophy. After his first decision to become a newscaster, he joined the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Company), Canada's premier network in 1961. As he was working, he helped organize national ...
November 8
18. Daria Nicolodi
Actress | Phenomena
Daria Nicolodi was born on June 19, 1949 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. She was an actress and writer, known for Phenomena (1985), Deep Red (1975) and Tenebrae (1982). She died on November 26, 2020 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
November 26
19. David Prowse
Actor | Star Wars
David "Dave" Prowse was born into a working class family on 1 July, 1935 in Bristol, England, UK. He was raised by his mother and never knew his father. As a child, David was disadvantaged and a poor student, he found a passion for bodybuilding and weight training in his early teens, as a young ...
November 28
20. Hugh Keays-Byrne
Actor | Mad Max: Fury Road
Hugh Keays-Byrne was born in 1947 in Kashmir, India. In 1973, he moved to Australia, where he began an acting career. He is a well respected theater, film and TV actor in Australia. Hugh became noticed after roles in Stone (1974), Mad Dog Morgan (1976) and The Trespassers (1976). He landed his ...
December 1
21. David L. Lander
Actor | Laverne & Shirley
David L. Lander was born on June 22, 1947 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Laverne & Shirley (1976), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) and Used Cars (1980). He was married to Kathy Fields and Thea (Pool) Markus. He died on December 4, 2020 in Los Angeles, ...
December 4
22. Natalie Desselle Reid
Actress | B*A*P*S
Actress Natalie Desselle Reid hailed from Alexandria, Louisiana. She graduated from Peabody Magnet High School and attended Grambling State University for 2 1/2 years. The acting bug bit her after a starring role in Grambling's production of "Bubbling Brown Sugar." After several productions as a ...
December 7
23. Tom Lister Jr.
Actor | Le Cinquième Élément
If you ever wanted a 6' 5", musclebound, broad-shouldered, shaved-head actor to play a terrifying bodyguard, a soldier of fortune or a fearsome gangster, then Tommy "Tiny" Lister Jr. was your man. The basketball player turned actor, who notched up appearances in roughly 132 films, first popped up ...
December 10
24. John le Carré
Writer | The Constant Gardener
John le Carré was born in Poole, Dorset in England on 19 October, 1931. He went to Sherborne School and, later, studied German literature for one year at University of Bern. Later, he went to Lincoln College, Oxford and graduated in Modern Languages. From 1956 to 1958, he taught at Eton and from ...
December 12
25. Charley Pride
Soundtrack | Breakdown
Charley Pride was born on March 18, 1934 in Sledge, Mississippi, USA. He was an actor, known for Breakdown (1997), Sometimes a Great Notion (1971) and Supernatural (2005). He was married to Rozene Pride. He died on December 12, 2020 in Dallas, Texas, USA.
December 12 2020
26. Ann Reinking
Actress | Annie
Ann Reinking was born on November 10, 1949, in Seattle, Washington. Renowned more for her dancing than acting, Reinking has danced in many Broadway shows. She made her film debut in Movie Movie (1978) and the following year starred opposite Roy Scheider and Jessica Lange in the Bob Fosse biopic All...
December 12
27. Jeremy Bulloch
Actor | Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
Jeremy Bulloch was born on February 16, 1945 in Market Harborough, Leicestershire, England, the son of Aziz Diane (Meade) and McGregor Bulloch, an aeronautical engineer. He was the middle of three siblings, along with three older half-brothers from his mother's earlier marriage. Even at the age of ...
December 17
28. Rebecca Luker
Actress | The Rewrite
Rebecca Luker was born on April 17, 1961 in Birmingham, Alabama, USA. She was an actress, known for The Rewrite (2014), Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999) and Spectropia (2006). She was married to Danny Burstein and Gregory Jbara. She died on December 23, 2020 in Manhattan, New York City,...
December 23
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