Kobe Bryant, Chadwick Boseman, Diego Maradona: Notable deaths in 2020

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Kobe Bryant, Chadwick Boseman, Diego Maradona: Notable deaths in 2020

FILE Photo: 2022 American Music Awards – Photo Room– Los Angeles, California, U.S., November 24, 2022 – Chadwick Boseman poses backstage. REUTERS/Danny Moloshok/File Photograph

From legendary actors Kirk Douglas and Sean Connery to Bollywood icon Irrfan Khan, here are some of the notable deaths in the world of entertainment and lifestyle this twelvemonth.

The late Kobe Bryant is among the legends whose enshrinement ceremonies into the Basketball Hall of Fame have been moved to May 13-15, 2021, due to the COVID-xix pandemic AFP/Christian Petersen

JANUARY

26: The states basketball game legend Kobe Bryant, 41, dies in a horrific helicopter crash northwest of Los Angeles that also claimed the lives of his 13-yr-former daughter and seven other people.

FILE PHOTO: Actor Kirk Douglas is seen prior to the unveiling of actor Michael Douglas' star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles, California, U.South., November six, 2018. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni

FEBRUARY

5: One of the last stars of Hollywood's golden age, Kirk Douglas, dies at his habitation in Beverly Hills anile 103.

MARCH

8: Exorcist star Max Von Sydow, who too featured in films by his Swedish compatriot Ingmar Bergman dies in French republic aged 90.

Irrfan Khan poses with a statuette for Best Histrion at the 2022 Asian Moving picture Awards AFP/Philippe LOPEZ

Apr

29: Bollywood star Irrfan Khan, known for his roles in blockbusters Life Of Pi and Slumdog Millionaire, dies from cancer in a Mumbai infirmary aged 53.

FILE PHOTO: Entertainer Little Richard performs on stage at the Crossroad festival in Gijon, northern Spain, July 23, 2005. (Photo: REUTERS/Alonso Gonzalez/File Photo)

MAY

ix: Picayune Richard, known for outrageous showmanship and lightning-fast rhythms dies anile 87 afterwards contesting cancer. Hits include Tutti Frutti and Long Tall Emerge.

31: Creative person Christo (Christo Javacheff) who wrapped landmarks such as Berlin's Reichstag and the Pont Neuf in Paris dies aged 84.

JULY

vi: Italian maestro Ennio Morricone, Oscar-winning composer of picture scores for Sergio Leone's spaghetti westerns, dies in Rome aged 91.

Olivia de Havilland pictured in Paris in 1970 AFP/-

26: Oscar-winning extra Olivia de Havilland, star of Gone With The Wind, dies at her home in Paris aged 104.

Obit-Chadwick Boseman

AUGUST

28: Actor Chadwick Boseman, who played Blackness Panther in the Marvel movies, dies of cancer aged 43.

SEPTEMBER

10: British extra Diana Rigg, of Avengers and Game Of Thrones fame, dies aged 82.

This image released past HBO shows Diana Rigg as Olenna Tyrell in a scene from Game Of Thrones. (HBO via AP)

23: French actress and vocalizer Juliette Greco, the face and voice of radical chichi postwar Paris, dies aged 93.

Oct

four: Japan's nigh famous fashion designer Kenzo Takada, founder of the Kenzo brand, dies in Paris anile 81 from Covid-19.

Japanese fashion designer Kenzo Takada, who has died in Paris aged 81, pictured in January 2022 AFP/JOEL SAGET

31: Legendary Scottish role player Sean Connery, the original James Bond, dies in his sleep in the Bahamas, aged 90.

Britain Obit Sean Connery

NOVEMBER

25: Diego Maradona, football game'due south troubled genius and one of the greatest players ever, dies aged 60.

Argentine republic's soccer team head coach Diego Maradona smiles during their international friendly soccer match against Scotland at Hampden Park stadium in Glasgow, Scotland, on Nov xix, 2008. (Photo: REUTERS/David Moir)

DECEMBER

11: Flick director Kim Ki-duk, the enfant terrible of Korean movie theatre, dies in Latvia from Covid-19 anile 59.

Kim Ki-duk's film Pieta won the Golden Lion prize at the Venice Film Festival in 2012. (Photograph: AFP/John MacDougall) Kim Ki-duk's picture show "Pieta" won the Golden Lion prize at the Venice Flick Festival in 2022 AFP/John MACDOUGALL

12: Charley Pride, US country music's first black superstar, dies from Covid-19 aged 86.

12: John le Carre, the master spy novelist, whose existent proper noun was David Cornwell, dies anile 89.

John le Carre wrote 25 novels and i memoir in a career spanning six decades, selling some sixty million books worldwide AFP/Claudio BRESCIANI

22: One of France'due south virtually beloved character actors Claude Brasseur, dies aged 84.

24: Israeli virtuoso violinist Ivry Gitlis, i of the modern greats of classical music, dies in Paris aged 98.

(Source: AFP)

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