2020 in Peru

Incumbents

• President:
• * Martín Vizcarra
• * Francisco Sagasti
• Prime Minister:
• * Vicente Zeballos
• * Pedro Cateriano
• * Walter Martos Ruiz
• * Violeta Bermúdez

Events

January

• 26 January – Scheduled date for the 2020 Peruvian parliamentary election.

April

• 27 April – A prison riot at the Miguel Castro Castro prison in San Juan de Lurigancho, Lima left nine inmates dead.

August

• 22 August – 13 people are killed in a stampede when police raided at a nightclub in Los Olivos District.

September

• 18 September – Impeachment hearings for President Martín Vizcarra begin.

Deaths

January

• January 4 – Walter Ormeño, footballer.
• January 9 – Pablo Macera, historian.
• January 19 – Dante Frasnelli Tarter, Roman Catholic bishop.

March

• March 4 – Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, politician and diplomat.

June

• June 1 – Javier Alva Orlandini, politician, Vice President, President of the Senate.
• June 9 – Luis Repetto Málaga, museologist and cultural manager.

July

• July 1 – Santiago Manuin Valera, Awajún leader and Indigenous rights activist.

August

• August 10 – Luis Abilio Sebastiani Aguirre, Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Ayacucho o Huamanga.
• August 12 – Gian Carlo Vacchelli, sports commentator and politician.
• August 14 – Moisés Mamani, politician.
• August 24 – Jorge Sanjinez Lenz, military volunteer.
• August 25 – Francisco Belaúnde, politician.

September

• September 14 – Alicia Maguiña, singer and composer.

December

• December 14 – Segundo Galicia Sánchez, professor and sociologist.