Notable deaths on January 20

American activist (1957–2025)

Singaporean jewelry designer (1972–2025)

Canadian filmmaker (1926–2024)

American singer and actor (1947–2022)

Croatian-American actress and singer (1955–2021)

Zimbabwean politician (1960–2021)

Czech politician (1947–2020)

American politician and lawyer (1932–2020)

American war worker (1921–2018)

French chef (1926–2018)

French writer (1920–2016)

Lithuanian communist politician (1927–2016)

Italian conductor (1933–2014)

Lithuanian ethnologist (1939–2014)

Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives (1921–2014)

Greek author and playwright (born 1933)

Japanese poet (1911–2013)

Child psychiatrist (1918–2012)

American blues singer (1938–2012)

Greek politician (1933–2012)

American jazz bassist and manager (1912–2012)

Head of the Coptic Catholic Church from 1986 to 2006

Polish journalist and writer (1914–2005)

British natural scientist and author