Black Panther star Chadwick Boseman was privately fighting colon cancer while working on a wide range of films, including Marvel Studios’ superhero crossover Avengers: Infinity War, the crime thriller 21 Bridges, and more recently the drama Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.

After a four-year battle, he died in August. He was 43 years old.

Boseman was one of a number of high-profile celebrities who died this year.

At the MTV Movie & TV Awards, his Avengers co-stars Don Cheadle and Robert Downey Jr. honored him in a video that has gone viral.

“Mr. Boseman truly embodied what it meant to be a superhero,” Downey Jr. said.

.@RobertDowneyJr and @DonCheadle paid tribute to the late Chadwick Boseman ahead of his Hero for the Ages honor at the #MTVAwards: Greatest of All Time. ❤️ pic.twitter.com/GOYdiKxHPf

— Movie & TV Awards (@MTVAwards) December 7, 2020

Basketball legend Kobe Bryant died in a helicopter accident with his daughter Giana. 

Throughout his NBA career, he only played for the Los Angeles Lakers, winning five championships with the team.

Game show host Alex Trebek passed away at 80 years old from pancreatic cancer. 

While he hosted various game shows throughout the decades, “Jeopardy!” was his most prominent one.

Trebek holds the Guinness World Record for hosting the most episodes of a single game show.

His final episodes of “Jeopardy!,” which were taped prior to his death, will continue to air in syndication all the way up to the first week of January.

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