Flight 253 en route from Amsterdam to Detroit. Births January 1 – Hend Zaza, Syrian table tennis player January 26 – YaYa Gosselin, American actress January 29 – The Suleman octuplets, notable multiple births April 6 – Valentina, French singer and winner of Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2020 April 6 – Shaylee Mansfield, deaf American actress April 15 – Julia Butters, American child actress May 4 – Count Henrik of Monpezat May 18 — Hala Finley, American actress June 23 – Xia Vigor, British-Filipino child actress Deaths January January 1 Nizar Rayan, Palestinian military and political leader (b. 1959) Johannes Mario Simmel, Austrian writer (b. 1924) Helen Suzman, South African activist and politician (b. 1917) January 2 – Steven Gilborn, American actor (b. 1936) January 3 – Pat Hingle, American actor (b. 1924) January 8 – Don Galloway, American actor (b. 1937) January 12 Claude Berri, French film director (b. 1934) Arne Næss, Norwegian philosopher (b. 1912) January 13 – Patrick McGoohan, Irish-American actor (b. 1928) January 14 – Ricardo Montalbán, Mexican-born American film and television actor (b. 1920) January 16 – Andrew Wyeth, American painter (b. 1917) January 20 – Stéphanos II Ghattas, Egyptian Patriarch of Alexandria (b. 1920) January 22 – Chau Sen Cocsal Chhum, 21st Prime Minister of Cambodia (b. 1905) January 24 – Karl Koller, Austrian footballer (b. 1929) January 25 – Mamadou Dia, 1st Prime Minister of Senegal (b. 1910) January 27 John Updike, American writer (b. 1932) Ramaswamy Venkataraman, 8th President of India (b. 1910) January 30 – Ingemar Johansson, Swedish boxer (b. 1932) February February 6 Philip Carey, American actor (b. 1925) James Whitmore, American actor (b. 1921) February 9 – Eluana Englaro, Italian patient in right-to-die case (b. 1970) February 11 – Estelle Bennett, American singer (b. 1941) February 12 – Giacomo Bulgarelli, Italian footballer (b. 1940) February 13 – Edward Upward, British novelist and short story writer (b. 1903) February 18 – Kamila Skolimowska, Polish hammer thrower (b. 1982) February 25 – Philip José Farmer, American writer (b. 1918) February 26 – Wendy Richard, English actress (b. 1943) February 27 – Manea Mănescu, 50th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1916) February 28 – Paul Harvey, American radio broadcaster (b. 1918) March March 2 – João Bernardo Vieira, 2nd President of Guinea-Bissau (b. 1939) March 3 – Sydney Chaplin, American actor (b. 1926) March 4 – Horton Foote, American playwright and screenwriter