page_title: 2020
section_title: January
hierarchical_section_title: 2020 / Deaths / January
caption_attribution_description: Kobe Bryant of Los Angeles Lakers
context_page_description: 2020 is the current year, and is a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2020th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 20th year of the 3rd millennium, the 20th year of the 21st century, and the 1st year of the 2020s decade.
  The United Nations has declared 2020 as the International Year of Plant Health. 2020 has been designated as Year of the Nurse and Midwife by the World Health Organization.
  2020 has been heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has led to global social and economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of events, and the largest economic recession since the Great Depression.
context_section_description: January 1 – David Stern, American businessman and NBA commissioner (b. 1942)
  January 2 – John Baldessari, American conceptual artist (b. 1931)
  January 3
  Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, Iraqi-Iranian military commander (b. 1954)
  Qasem Soleimani, Iranian general (b. 1957)
  January 5
  Anri Jergenia, 4th Prime Minister of Abkhazia (b. 1941)
  Hans Tilkowski, German football goalkeeper and manager (b. 1935)
  January 6 – Luís Morais, Brazilian football player (b. 1930)
  January 7
  Khamis Al-Dosari, Saudi Arabian footballer (b. 1973)
  Silvio Horta, American screenwriter and television producer (b. 1974)
  Neil Peart, Canadian drummer and lyricist (b. 1952)
  Elizabeth Wurtzel, American writer and journalist (b. 1967)
  January 8
  Edd Byrnes, American actor (b. 1932)
  Buck Henry, American actor, screenwriter and television producer (b. 1930)
  Infanta Pilar de Borbón, Spanish royal (b. 1936)
  January 9 – Mike Resnick, American science fiction author (b. 1942)
  January 10
  Neda Arnerić, Serbian film actress (b. 1953)
  Guido Messina, Italian racing cyclist (b. 1931)
  Qaboos bin Said, Sultan of Oman (b. 1940)
  January 12 – Roger Scruton, British philosopher and writer (b. 1944)
  January 13 – Isabel-Clara Simó, Spanish journalist and writer (b. 1943)
  January 15
  Rocky Johnson, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1944)
  Christopher Tolkien, British academic and editor (b. 1924)
  January 16 – Efraín Sánchez, Colombian footballer and manager (b. 1926)
  January 17
  Pietro Anastasi, Italian footballer (b. 1948)
  Derek Fowlds, English actor (b. 1937)
  January 19
  Jimmy Heath, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1926)
  Shin Kyuk-ho, South Korean businessman (b. 1921)
  January 21
  Hédi Baccouche, 6th Prime Minister of Tunisia (b. 1930)
  Terry Jones, Welsh actor and comedian (b. 1942)
  Tengiz Sigua, 2nd Prime Minister of Georgia (b. 1934)
  Theodor Wagner, Austrian footballer and manager (b. 1927)
  January 23
  Jim Lehrer, American journalist, novelist and screenwriter (b. 1934)
  Gudrun Pausewang, German writer (b. 1928)
  January 24
  Duje Bonačić, Croatian rower (b. 1929)
  Juan José Pizzuti, Argentine footballer and manager (b. 1927)
  Rob Rensenbrink, Dutch footballer (b. 1947)
  January 26
  Kobe Bryant, American professional basketball player (b. 1978)
  Louis Nirenberg, Canadian-American mathematician (b. 1925)
  January 28 – Nicholas Parsons, English radio and TV presenter (b. 1923)
  January 30 – Jörn Donner, Finnish writer, film director and politician (b. 1933)
  January 31
  Mary Higgins Clark, American novelist (b. 1927)
  Janez Stanovnik, 12th President of SR of Slovenia (b. 1922)
caption: Kobe Bryant
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