Wednesday December 30, 2020, 6:44 PM
Sir Sean Connery, Dame Barbara Windsor, Bill Withers, Chadwick Boseman and Caroline Flack were among the stars who died in 2020.
A year like no other began with the shock death of basketball star and Oscar-winner Kobe Bryant before a pandemic upended life as we knew it.
Here are some of the high-profile figures who we said goodbye to over the last 12 months:
January
Neil Peart
Peart, the drummer from Canadian prog-rock trio Rush, died aged 67 following a battle with brain cancer.
Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl led the tributes and Peart was lauded as one of the greatest drummers in rock ‘n’ roll history.