Bruce Bilson
American television director (Get Smart · 20 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 20 · Other
Deaths Died in 20 January 2026
Sara Jane Paez
Filipino beauty queen · 20 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 20 · Filipino · Other · Paez
Bobby Duncum
American professional wrestler (WWWF · 20 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 20 · Other
Barbara Aronstein Black
American legal scholar · 20 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 20 · Black · Other
Aleksandr Shavlokhov
South Ossetian politician · 20 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 20
Bob Taylor
Australian footballer (Essendon) · 20 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 20
Stu Tate
American baseball player (San Francisco Giants) · 20 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 20
Stephen Baxter
56–57 · 20 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 20 · Other
Phillip Boudreault
Canadian boxer and outlaw biker · 20 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 20
Justin Taylor
New Zealand priest and historian · 20 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 20
M Hafizuddin Khan
Bangladeshi bureaucrat · 20 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 20 · Other · Khan
Georg Winter
German businessman and environmentalist · 20 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 20 · Other
Thadeu Gomes Canellas
Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate · 20 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 20 · Canellas · Other
Haldun Dormen
Turkish theater · 20 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 20 · Other
Colette Flesch
Luxembourgish Olympic fencer and politician · 20 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 20
Kamal Roy
Indian actor (Yuvajanotsavam · 20 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 20
Patsy King
Australian actress (Prisoner · 20 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 20
Ilias Javed
Bangladeshi actor and choreographer · 20 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 20
Norman Gifford
English cricketer (Worcestershire · 20 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 20
Eugen Botez
Romanian sprint canoer · 20 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 20 · Other
Frank Pitts
American football player (Kansas City Chiefs · 20 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 20
Georges Borchardt
American literary agent · 20 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 20 · Other
Vicki L. Hanson Human-Computer InteractionAccessibility dead at age -1
Vicki L. Hanson, an American computer scientist, died on January 20, 2026. She was noted for her research on human-computer interaction and accessibility, and for her leadership in broadening participation in computing. Hanson was named chief executive officer of the… · 20 January 2026 · January 2026
Toshikatsu Yamamoto Japanese physician dead at age 96
Toshikatsu Yamamoto, a Japanese physician who worked in the field of acupuncture, died on January 20, 2026. Born on December 15, 1929, he graduated in 1956 from Nippon Medical School in Tokyo. He later gained qualifications in surgery, anesthesia and… · 20 January 2026 · January 2026
Ronald Joseph American figure skater, Olympic bronze medallist, complications from amyotrophic late…
Ronald Joseph, an American figure skater and 1964 Olympic bronze medallist, died on January 20, 2026, at age 81 from complications of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. He competed in pair skating with his sister, Vivian Joseph, and the two won the… · 20 January 2026 · January 2026
Peter Cousens (cricketer) South African-born English cricketer dead at age 93
Peter Cousens, the South African-born English cricketer who played for Essex, died on January 20, 2026, aged 93. Born in Durban, Natal, on May 15, 1932, he was a right-handed batsman and slow left-arm orthodox bowler. He made his first-class… · 20 January 2026 · January 2026
Deborah Cameron (linguist) British linguist and feminist, pancreatic cancer dead at age 67
Deborah Jane Cameron, a British linguist and feminist, died on January 20, 2026, at the age of 67. She held the Rupert Murdoch Professorship in Language and Communication at Worcester College, Oxford University. Cameron’s work focused on sociolinguistics and linguistic… · 20 January 2026 · January 2026