Modli was a professional pilot for over 30 years. He spent the first 20 years in the state-owned Jat Airways, piloting a Boeing 727, and then moved to a private airlines company Prince Aviation. On 15 July 2010, Modli survived a landing accident at Brač Airport in Bol, Croatia. He was piloting a Cessna Citation II, when the plane ran off the runway and caught fire. All the passengers survived without injuries, but Modli left his job.
Modli was born in Zemun. On 23 February 2020, he died in Belgrade at the age of 71.
Dacian Cioloș
Dacian Cioloș (born 25 May 1963) is a Romanian engineer and politician. He is currently the leader of the Renew Europe party in the European Parliament since 4 November 2019. Before that, he was Prime Minister of Romania from November 2015 to January 2017. His government was a government of technocrats as his ministers were not part of any political party.
Before being Prime Minister, Cioloș was European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development between 2010 and 2014, and the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development in Romania from 2007 to 2008.
János Göröcs
János Göröcs (8 May 1939 – 23 February 2020) was a Hungarian footballer. He played as a midfielder.
Göröcs was born in Gánt. He played club football for Újpesti Dózsa and Tatabányai Bányász. He played 62 games and scored 19 goals for the Hungary national team. He played in the bronze medal winning national team at the 1960 Summer Olympics. He also played for his country at the 1962 FIFA World Cup. He later coached Újpest.
Göröcs died in Budapest on 23 February 2020 at the age of 80.
Fred Chaney
Frederick Michael Chaney (born 28 October 1941) is an Australian politician. He was deputy leader of the Liberal Party from 1989 to 1990. He was a Senator for Western Australia from 1974 to 1990. After serving this role, he was a member of the House of Representatives for Pearce from 1990 to 1993.
As Senator, Chaney was Leader of the Opposition in the Senate 1983 to 1990. As a minister in the Fraser Government, he served as Minister for Administrative Services (1978), Aboriginal Affairs (1978–1980) and Social Security (1980–1983).
Chaney was born in Perth, Western Australia. He was the son of Liberal politician Sir Fred Chaney. His six siblings include businessman Michael Chaney and judge John Chaney. In 1964, he married Angela Clifton. The couple have three children.
Susan Ryan
Susan Maree Ryan (10 October 1942 – 27 September 2020) was an Australian public servant and politician. She was the Age Discrimination Commissioner from 2011 to 2016, within the Australian Human Rights Commission. She was a member of the Labor Party. She served as a Senator for the Australian Capital Territory between 1975 and 1987.
Ryan also served as a minister in the Hawke Goverment. In 1983, she became the first female Labor minister when she became the Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Status of Women and Minister for Education and Youth Affairs. She was involved in the creation of the and the . She was also Special Minister of State from 1987 to 1988.
Ryan was born in Sydney, New South Wales. She was married to government official Richard Butler from 1963 to 1972. The couple had two children.
On 25 September 2020, Ryan was hospitalized in intensive care at a hospital near Sydney after swimming. She died two days later on 27 September, aged 77.
Mathew Beard
Mathew Beard (July 9, 1870? – February 16, 1985) was an American supercentenarian claimant, farmer and claimed veteran of the Spanish–American War in 1898. Beard is verified to be the first person in history to become 114 years old, although the oldest living person at the time of Beard's death at age 114 years, 222 days was believed to be the now debunked Japaneseman Shigechiyo Izumi who claimed to be five years older and died over a year later, and the fourth-youngest of only seven verified men who have become at least 114 years old.
Beard claimed to be born on July 9, 1870 in Norfolk, Virginia. However, it is not supported by any record. According to the 1935 US census and the 1940 Florida State census, he was born in Florida and may have been born later, in 1872 or 1879. The oldest reliable census, from 1880, includes a Matthew Beard born 1870 in Illinois while the 1900 US census includes one with the same name born 1890 in Texas and the Georgia State census the same year includes one Mathew Beard born October 1886.
When Beard was three years old, his family moved to Missouri where he worked in a saw mill at age 12. At age 17, he moved to Wildwood, Florida and worked on laying the tracks for the Seaboard extension of the Florida Central and Peninsular Railroad, but he did not settle there until later. In 1898, he claimed to be fighting in Cuba in the Spanish–American War and after the war he worked as a farmer in Wildwood.
Beard married in 1919 and had twelve children (of whom eight were living after his death) born between 1911 and 1940.
Garry Wills
Garry Wills (born May 22, 1934) is an American author, journalist, and historian. His works focused in American history, politics, and religion, especially the history of the Catholic Church. He won a Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1993. He was born in Atlanta.
Wills has written nearly forty books and, since 1973. He has been a reviewer for "The New York Review of Books". He became a faculty member of the history department at Northwestern University in 1980, where he is currently an Emeritus Professor of History.
Hawthorne, Nevada
Hawthorne is a census-designated place (CDP) in Mineral County, Nevada, United States. At the 2010 census, the population was 3,269. It is the county seat of Mineral County.
Joseph Shabalala
Joseph Shabalala (28 August 1940 – 11 February 2020), born Bhekizizwe Joseph Siphatimandla Mxoveni Mshengu Bigboy Shabalala, was a South African singer and musician. He was the founder and musical director of the choral group Ladysmith Black Mambazo. Shabalala was born in Ladysmith, South Africa.
On 11 February 2020, Shabalala died at a hospital in Pretoria from back surgery-related problems at the age of 78.
Hector (French singer)
Jean-Pierre Kalfon, known professionally as Hector (20 October 1946 – 19 February 2020) was a French singer. He was born in Paris. Hector started his career with a group called "les Médiators". He separated from this group in 1964 and began his solo career. Hector wrote many of his songs alongside Jean Yanne and Gérard Sire.
Hector died of cancer on 19 February 2020, aged 73.
Peter Dreher
Peter Dreher (26 August 1932 – 20 February 2020) was a German artist and academic teacher. He painted series of landscapes, interiors, flowers and skulls, beginning his series "Tag um Tag guter Tag" in 1974.
Dreher was a lecturer of painting at the Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe from 1965 at the Freiburg location, and from 1968 a professor there. He retired from his position as a professor in 1997.
Dreher died in February 2020 at the age of 87.
Boris Leskin
Boris Leskin (January 5, 1923 – February 21, 2020) was a Romanian-born Russian-American actor. He was born in Chişinău, Bessarabia, Romania He was known for his roles in "Heavenly Swallows", "Vampire's Kiss" and "Men in Black". His last known role was in "Everything Is Illuminated.
Leskin died in New York City on February 21, 2020 at the age of 97.
Tao Porchon-Lynch
Tao Porchon-Lynch (born Täo Andrée Porchon, August 13, 1918 — February 21, 2020) was an American yoga master and author. She discovered yoga in 1926 when she was eight years old in India.
At age 101, she taught a weekly class in New York, and led programs across the globe. She was the author of two books, including her autobiography, "Dancing Light: The Spiritual Side of Being Through the Eyes of a Modern Yoga Master", which won a 2016 IPPY Award and three 2016 International Book Awards.