page_title: 2020 in Colombia
section_title: Deaths
hierarchical_section_title: 2020 in Colombia / Deaths
caption_attribution_description: English: Carlos Cuco Rojas, colombian harpist from Cimarron.
context_page_description: Events in the year 2020 in Colombia.
context_section_description: 10 January – Carlos Cuco Rojas, harpist (b. 1954)
  16 January – Efraín Sánchez, footballer (b, 1926)
  6 February – Jhon Jairo Velásquez, 57, hitman, drug dealer and extortionist (Medellín Cartel); esophageal cancer
  26 February 26 – Clementina Vélez, 73, doctor, academic and politician, MP (1990–1991, 1998–2002) and city councillor of Cali (1972–1986, 1992–1997, 2004–2019); heart attack
  27 February – Juan Diego González, 39, soccer player (Once Caldas, La Equidad, Philadelphia Union) (body discovered on this date)
  4 May – Álvaro Teherán, 54, basketball player (Baloncesto Málaga, Fort Wayne Fury, KK Olimpija); kidney failure
  5 July – Alexander Balanta, 42, footballer; COVID-19.
  24 July – El indio Rómulo, 89, poet; COVID-19.
  15 August – Mercedes Barcha, 87, widow of writer Gabriel García Marquez, dies in Mexico City.
  17 August – Massacre of Samaniego in Samaniego, Nariño
  Brayan Cuaran
  Bairón Patiño
  Elian Benavides
  Daniel Vargas
  Laura Riascos
  Joan Quintero
  Rubén Ibarra
  Óscar Obando
  21 August – Antonio Bayter Abud, 86, Colombian Roman Catholic prelate, Vicar Apostolic of Inírida (1996–2013).
caption: Carlos Cuco Rojas
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