For sports fans around the world, 2020 began and ended with the death of two superstars: basketball player Kobe Bryant, 41, and soccer player Diego Maradona, 60. His daughter Gianna, a promising athlete from 13 years.
Other revered personalities who have died include American civil rights leader John Lewis; guitarist Eddie Van Halen; actors Chadwick Boseman and Sean Connery.
Many admirers of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg not only mourned her death but deplored that the liberal justice’s successor was the conservative Amy Coney Barrett.
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