2020
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2020 is the 20th year of the 3rd millennium, the 20th year of the 21st century, and the 1st year of the 2020s decade.
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Events
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Arts and culture
- MONOCULTURE – A Recent History at the M HKA
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Literature
- Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake
- Langs de afgrond by Arnold Heumakers
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Film
- Riders of Justice by Anders Thomas Jensen
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Music
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In the public domain
Entering the public domain in countries with life + 70 years:
- February 11 – Axel Munthe, Swedish psychiatrist (The Story of San Michele)
- February 16 – Umberto Brunelleschi, Italian artist
- April 18 – Leonard Bloomfield, American linguist
- May 6 - Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian writer
- May 10 – Tod Robbins, American author ("Spurs")
- October 3 – E. J. Bellocq, an American photographer
- October 29 - George Gurdjieff, Soviet spiritual teacher
- November 19 – James Ensor, Belgian painter
- November 22 – Richard Connell, American author and journalist, best known for his short story "The Most Dangerous Game"
- December 6 - Lead Belly, African-American blues musician
- December 28 - Hervey Allen, American author (Israfel: The Life and Times of Edgar Allan Poe)
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Deaths
- Stanley Cowell, 79, American jazz pianist, co-founder of Strata-East Records.
- MF Doom, 49, British rapper, songwriter and record producer.
- John le Carré, 89, British author, (The Spy Who Came In from the Cold), pneumonia.
- Jan Morris, 94, Welsh historian and travel writer.
- Nelly Kaplan, 89, French film director (A Very Curious Girl) and screenwriter.
- Cándido Camero, 99, Cuban percussionist (Dancin' & Prancin').
- Betty Dodson, 91, American sex educator.
- Bunny Lee, 79, Jamaican reggae producer.
- Eddie Van Halen, 65, Dutch-American musician (Van Halen) and songwriter ("Beat It" (guitar solo), "Jump").
- Shere Hite, 77, American-born German feminist.
- Bernard Stiegler, 68, French philosopher (Technics and Time, 1).
- Sir Alan Parker, 76, English film director (Midnight Express, Pink Floyd – The Wall, Mississippi Burning).
- Peter Green, 73, English blues rock singer-songwriter and guitarist (Fleetwood Mac, composer of Albatross").
- Ennio Morricone, 91, Italian film composer ("Man with a Harmonica" and the theme to "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly").
- Carl Reiner, 98, American actor, film director and writer (The Jerk, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, The Man with Two Brains).
- Zeev Sternhell, 85, Polish-born Israeli historian and political scientist (The Birth of Fascist Ideology).
- Christo, 84, Bulgarian-born American artist (Valley Curtain).
- Mory Kanté, 70, Guinean singer and kora player ("Yé ké yé ké").
- Michel Piccoli, 94, French actor (Contempt, La Grande Bouffe, Themroc).
- Betty Wright, 66, American soul and R&B singer ("Clean Up Woman"), cancer.
- Little Richard, 87, American composer and singer ("Tutti Frutti").
- Florian Schneider, 73, German electronic musician (Kraftwerk), cancer.
- Millie Small, 73, Jamaican singer ("My Boy Lollipop"), stroke.
- Tony Allen, 79, Nigerian drummer (Never Expect Power Always).
- Hamilton Bohannon, 78, American percussionist, songwriter and record producer ("Let's Start the Dance").
- Allen Garfield, 80, American actor (Greetings, Hi Mom! and The Conversation).
- Bill Withers, 81, American singer-songwriter ("Lean on Me", "Use Me", "Ain't No Sunshine").
- Manu Dibango, 86, Cameroonian saxophonist ("Soul Makossa").
- Kenny Rogers, 81, ("Just Dropped In", "Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town"), songwriter and actor.
- Genesis P-Orridge, 70, English musician (Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV, "United/Zyklon B Zombie", 20 Jazz Funk Greats).
- Max von Sydow, 90, Swedish-born French actor (The Seventh Seal, Death Watch).
- Claire Bretécher, 79, French cartoonist, co-founder of L'Écho des savanes.
- Kirk Douglas, 103, American actor (Spartacus).
- Terry Jones, 77, Welsh comic actor, screenwriter and film director (Monty Python).
- Roger Scruton, 75, British philosopher and author (Sexual Desire, How to Be a Conservative).
- Elizabeth Wurtzel, 52, American author (Prozac Nation).
- John Baldessari, 88, American conceptual artist (Painting for Kubler).
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