Bruce Bilson
American television director (Get Smart · 20 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 20 · Other
Deaths Tag: January 20
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
Abdoulaye Diabaté
Senegalese pianist (Kora Jazz Trio) · 20 January 2025 · January 2025 · January 20
Edward L. Bowen
American horse racing historian and author · 20 January 2025 · January 2025 · January 20 · Bowen
Henry Rey
Monegasque sporting director and politician · 20 January 2025 · January 2025 · January 20
Willard Ikola
American Olympic ice hockey player (1956) and coach · 20 January 2025 · January 2025 · January 20
Charles Phan
American chef · 20 January 2025 · January 2025 · January 20 · Other
Luca Beatrice
Italian art critic · 20 January 2025 · January 2025 · January 20 · Béatrice
Petr Hannig
- · 20 January 2025 · January 2025 · January 20 · Other
Garth Hudson
Canadian musician (The Band). · 20 January 2025 · January 2025 · January 20
Valérie André
French neurosurgeon and general · 20 January 2025 · January 2025 · January 20 · Valerie · French · Other
Keiichi Suzuki
Japanese Olympic speed skater (1964 · 20 January 2025 · January 2025 · January 20 · Other
Bertrand Blier
French film director (Get Out Your Handkerchiefs · 20 January 2025 · January 2025 · January 20 · French · Other
Kunioki Mima
Japanese plasma physicist · 20 January 2025 · January 2025 · January 20
Doug Shapiro
American racing cyclist · 20 January 2025 · January 2025 · January 20
Kalilou Singhateh
Gambian politician · 20 January 2025 · January 2025 · January 20
Alexey Zlobin
Russian priest and politician · 20 January 2025 · January 2025 · January 20
Neil French
English cricketer (Lincolnshire) · 20 January 2025 · January 2025 · January 20
Benedict Fitzgerald
American screenwriter (The Passion of the Christ) · 20 January 2024 · January 2024 · January 20
James D. Hughes
American Air Force lieutenant general · 20 January 2024 · January 2024 · January 20 · Hughes · Other
Robert Nemeček
Serbian musician (Rok Mašina · 20 January 2024 · January 2024 · January 20
Jimmy Somers
Irish trade unionist · 20 January 2024 · January 2024 · January 20 · Other
Roger Rogerson
Australian police officer and convicted murderer · 20 January 2024 · January 2024 · January 20
David Gail
American actor (Robin's Hoods · 20 January 2024 · January 2024 · January 20
Doug Padgett
English cricketer (national team) · 20 January 2024 · January 2024 · January 20
Klaas de Groot
Dutch bioengineer · 20 January 2024 · January 2024 · January 20 · Dutch · Groot · Other
Sanjay Shah
Indian corporate executive (Vistex) · 20 January 2024 · January 2024 · January 20 · Other
César Suárez Pilay
Ecuadorian prosecutor (TC Televisión newsroom takeover) · 20 January 2024 · January 2024 · January 20 · Pilay
Pat McNamara
American actor (The Silence of the Lambs) · 20 January 2024 · January 2024 · January 20
Sekou Odinga
American activist · 20 January 2024 · January 2024 · January 20 · Other · Sékou