Year-end Lists 2020: People

So, How Was Your 2020, ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic? 

Meet TIME's First-Ever Kid of the Year.

‘Many people did something immense, for complete strangers’ – readers’ heroes of 2020.

TIME's heroes of 2020. 

2020 Was the Year of Everyone Thirsting Online.

Video: 2020's Oddest Celebrity Couples. 

10 Celebrities We Didn’t Hate in 2020.

This is The Year Celebrities Lost Their Shine.

Biggest Celeb Scandals of 2020: From Ellen DeGeneres’ Unmasking to the Kardashians’ Pandemic Partying.

From The Root: The 2020 Wypipo Awards.

25 Karens who shaped 2020—for the worse.

In Memoriam


Celebrities we lost in 2020.

Notable Literary Deaths in 2020.

Scientists we lost in 2020.

Overlooked But Very Notable Deaths In 2020, part one and part two. 

Know their names: Black people killed by police in the US.

Faces of some of the lives lost this year in the COVID-19 crisis. These are just a small sample of the more than 333,000 people who died of the disease in the the US in 2020.

And for the rest of us...

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