Since 2016, at the end of the year, I have posted a once-a-day-per-person tribute to people who have passed away whose work has had some kind of influence, or for whom I have had a personal connection. This year, that's too depressing. I will still post that for personal friends, but here is the list of others for this year:
2020 Death Roll
Friends
David Lee Hayes
Allen Thomas Richberg, Jr.
Artists
Christo
Athletics
Duck Allen
Lou Brock
Kobe Bryant
Steve Dalkowski
Tony Fernandez
Whitey Ford
Bob Gibson
Don Larsen
Miguel Marte
Joe Morgan
Fred “Curly” Neal
Phil Niekro
Tom Seaver
Don Shula
Roy Steele
David Stern
Bob Watson
Sam Wyche
Jimmy Wynn
Business
Jack Welch
Education
Carole Lipman
James Randi
Ronald Stebbings
Hollywood
Orson Bean
Chadwick Boseman
Wilford Brimley
Sean Connery
Robert Conrad
Olivia de Havilland
Brian Dennehey
Kirk Douglas
Buck Henry
Ian Holm
Grant Imahara
Terry Jones
Shirley Knight
David Lander
James Lipton
Tony Lister
David Prowse
Carl Reiner
Diana Rigg
Jerry Stiller
Max von Sydow
Alex Trebek
Lyle Waggoner
Dawn Wells
Fred Willard
Media
Hugh Downs
Jim Lehrer
Evin Thayer
Music
Jimmy Cobb
Richie Cole
Charlie Daniels
Mac Davis
Jimmy Heath
Lee Konitz
Ellis Marsalis
Lyle Mays
Lennie Niehaus
Neil Peart
Richard Wayne Penniman
Charlie Pride
Helen Reddy
Claudio Roditi
Kenny Rogers
Wallace Roney
McCoy Tyner
Eddie Van Halen
Ian Whitcomb
Bill Withers
Eugene Wright
Politics
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
John Lewis
Science and Engineering
Robert Adair, Jr.
Freeman Dyson
Katherine Johnson
Chuck Yeager
Writers
John le Carré
Christopher Tolkien
