Remembering those who died in 2020, from Ruth Bader Ginsburg and B. Smith to Chadwick Boseman and Eddie Van Halen
Updated Dec 31, 2020;
Posted Dec 31, 2020
FILE - In this Sept. 26, 2018, file photo, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg leaves the stage after speaking to first-year students at Georgetown Law in Washington. Ginsburg died of metastatic pancreatic cancer at age 87. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)AP
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By BERNARD McGHEE, The Associated Press
In a year defined by a devastating pandemic, the world lost iconic defenders of civil rights, great athletes and entertainers who helped define their genres.
Many of their names hold a prominent place in the collective consciousness RBG, Kobe, Maradona, Eddie Van Halen, Little Richard, Sean Connery, Alex Trebek, Christo but pandemic restrictions often limited the public’s ability to mourn their loss in a year that saw more than a million people die from the coronavirus.
Celebrity deaths in 2020: Remembering stars who died this year
Updated Dec 30, 2020;
Posted Dec 19, 2020
2020 celebrity deaths included actors Sean Connery, Chadwick Boseman and Kelly Preston and rocker Eddie Van Halen. (AP)
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Celebrity deaths: In memoriam 2020
As we near the end of 2020, we take time to look back at those celebrities and other famous individuals we have lost in the past year. Check out our slideshows to learn more about those stars who have passed on.
Singer Hillard “Sweet Pea” Atkinson, 1945 - 2020
Ohio native and former member of Was (Not Was) also collaborated with the likes of Bonnie Raitt, Bob Dylan and Sir Elton John over the course of his career