2020: The Year in People

Generation Alpha · Year of the Rat 🐀 · Born in 2020 turn 6 in 2026

The year in numbers

Gas, per gallon

$2.17

Median home

$248,800

Minimum wage

$7.25/hr

Movie ticket

$9.37

US population

7.84B

US president

Donald Trump

Top song

"Blinding Lights" — The Weeknd

Top film

Bad Boys for Life

Top TV show

Sunday Night Football

Best Picture

Nomadland

In the news: COVID-19 pandemic shuts down the world

What happened in 2020

2020 (MMXX) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2020th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 20th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 1st year of the 2020s decade.

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Died in 2020

Chadwick Boseman1976–2020 · American actor
Eddie Van Halen1955–2020 · American rock guitarist
Brian Dennehy1938–2020 · American actor
Haruma Miura1990–2020 · Japanese actor
Hosni Mubarak1928–2020 · President of Egypt from 1981 to 2011
Alex Trebek1940–2020 · Canadian-American TV personality
Bill Withers1938–2020 · American musician
Conchata Ferrell1943–2020 · American actress
Chuck Yeager1923–2020 · American flying ace and test pilot
Adam Schlesinger1967–2020 · American musician
Dawn Wells1938–2020 · American actress
Charlie Daniels1936–2020 · American musician