Gone Too Soon: Celebrities We Lost In 2020

Naya Rivera

Actress Naya Rivera was found dead on July 13 after going missing during a boat trip with her son on a lake in Southern California. She was 33 years old.

The Glee star was reported missing on July 8 after spending the afternoon on Lake Piru in a rented pontoon boat with her 4-year-old son, Josey Hollis Dorsey. The young boy was found alone on the drifting boat, telling investigators that he and his mom were swimming together but she never got back into the boat.

Andre Harrell

Andre Harrell died on May 8 at the age of 59.

The veteran music executive is known for founding the popular hip-hop label Uptown Records and is a longtime associate of Diddy. Harrell was a popular and influential figure in the music industry, helping catapult the careers of such artists as Mary J. Blige and The Notorious B.I.G.

“Everyone in the REVOLT family is devastated by the loss of our friend, mentor and Vice Chairman,” Revolt CEO Roma Khanna said in a statement. “Andre’s impact on Hip Hop, the culture and on all of us personally has been immeasurable and profound.  May he Rest In Peace.”

John Lewis

Congressman John Lewis died at the age 80 on July 17. He passed seven months after revealing that he had stage 4 pancreatic cancer. The civil rights icon was known as the “conscience of the U.S. Congress,” continually representing Georgia’s 5th Congressional District since taking office in 1987.

“John Lewis was a titan of the civil rights movement whose goodness, faith and bravery transformed our nation,” Nancy Pelosi said in a statement. “From the determination with which he met discrimination at lunch counters and on Freedom Rides, to the courage he showed as a young man facing down violence and death on Edmund Pettus Bridge, to the moral leadership he brought to the Congress for more than 30 years.”