Remembered
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Jamilur Reza Choudhury
1943 – 2020
Civil engineer, Engineer
Dr. Jamilur Reza Choudhury (15 November 1942 – 28 April 2020) was a Bangladeshi civil engineer, professor, researcher, and education advocate. He was an Adviser…
Saadat Husain
1946 – 2020
Civil servant
Sadat Hussain (24 November 1946 – 22 April 2020) was a Bangladeshi bureaucrat and the 9th chairman of the Bangladesh Public Service Commission, one of the count…
Pannya Jota Mahathera
1955 – 2020
Writer
Ven. U Pannya Jota Mahathera (Burmese: ဦးပညာဇောတမဟာထေရ်, Bengali: উ পঞ্ঞা জোত মহাথের; 22 December 1955 – 13 April 2020), locally known as Guru Bhante, was a Ban…
Sufia Ahmed
1932 – 2020
Professor
Sufia Ahmed (née Ibrahim; 20 November 1932 – 9 April 2020) was a Bangladeshi academic. She was selected as the first female National Professor of Bangladesh in…
Bashirul Haq
1942 – 2020
Architect
Bashirul Haq (24 June 1942 – 4 April 2020) was a Bangladeshi architect, town planner and visiting professor of MIT. He was regarded as one of the most influenti…
Philip W. Anderson
1923 – 2020
Physicist, University teacher, Theoretical physicist, Writer
Philip Warren Anderson (December 13, 1923 – March 29, 2020) was an American theoretical physicist who shared the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physics with Nevill Mott an…
Burhanuddin Khan Jahangir
1936 – 2020
Academic, Writer
Burhanuddin Khan Jahangir (9 January 1936 – 23 March 2020) was a Bangladeshi academic and writer. He was awarded the Bangla Academy Literary Award in 1969 and t…
Kenny Rogers
1938 – 2020
Singer, Actor, Singer-songwriter, Record producer, Guitarist, Pianist
Kenneth Donald Ray Rogers (August 21, 1938 – March 20, 2020) was an American country music singer-songwriter. Rogers was particularly popular with country audi…
Ashraf Siddiqui
1927 – 2020
Poet, Writer
Ashraf Siddiqui (1 March 1927 – 19 March 2020) was a Bangladeshi poet, researcher, folklorist, and essayist. He was awarded Bangla Academy Literary Award in 196…
Betty Williams
1943 – 2020
Peace activist
Elizabeth Williams (née Smyth; 22 May 1943 – 17 March 2020) was a peace activist from Northern Ireland. She was a co-recipient with Mairead Corrigan of the Nobe…
Max von Sydow
1929 – 2020
Television actor, Film director, Director, Stage actor, Film actor, Actor
Max von Sydow (Swedish pronunciation: [maks fɔn ˈsyːdɔv]; born Carl Adolf von Sydow; 10 April 1929 – 8 March 2020) was a Swedish and French actor. He had a 70-y…
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar
1920 – 2020
Politician, Diplomat, Lawyer, Ambassador, University teacher, Jurist
Javier Felipe Ricardo Pérez de Cuéllar Guerra (, Spanish: [xaˈβjeɾ ˈpeɾes ðe ˈkweʝaɾ]; 19 January 1920 – 4 March 2020) was a Peruvian diplomat and politician wh…
Freeman Dyson
1923 – 2020
Mathematician, Theoretical physicist, Nuclear physicist, Statistician, Physicist, University teacher
Freeman John Dyson (15 December 1923 – 28 February 2020) was a British-American theoretical physicist and mathematician who worked in quantum field theory, astr…
Hosni Mubarak
1928 – 2020
Politician, Aircraft pilot, Military personnel, Vice president, President, Military officer
Muhammad Hosni El Sayed Mubarak (Arabic: محمد حسني السيد مبارك; 4 May 1928 – 25 February 2020) was an Egyptian politician and military officer who served as th…
Katherine Johnson
1918 – 2020
Computer scientist, Physicist, Military flight engineer, Mathematician, Teacher, Writer
Creola Katherine Johnson (née Coleman, previously Goble; August 26, 1918 – February 24, 2020) was an American mathematician and human computer whose calculation…
Krishna Bose
1930 – 2020
Politician, Educator, Social worker, Writer
Krishna Bose (26 December 1930 – 22 February 2020) was an Indian politician, educator, author and social worker. She was a Member of Parliament elected from the…
M. Shamsur Rahman
1940 – 2020
Writer
M. Shamsur Rahman (c. 1940 – 16 February 2020) was a Bangladeshi academic and writer. He was the first vice-chancellor of Jatiya Kabi Kazi Nazrul Islam Universi…
Mohammad Badrul Ahsan
1959 – 2020
Banker, Economist, Journalist
Mohammad Badrul Ahsan (30 August 1959 – 6 February 2020) was a Bangladeshi journalist, columnist, economist, and founder-editor of the English weekly magazine F…
Kirk Douglas
1916 – 2020
Film producer, Television actor, Film actor, Film director, Screenwriter, Soldier
Kirk Douglas (born Issur Danielovitch; December 9, 1916 – February 5, 2020) was an American actor and filmmaker. After an impoverished childhood, he made his fi…
Kobe Bryant
1978 – 2020
Basketball player, Screenwriter, Professional athlete, Athlete, Author
Kobe Bean Bryant (August 23, 1978 – January 26, 2020) was an American professional basketball player. Nicknamed "the Black Mamba", he played his entire 20-year…