This dataset includes 1,644,234 identifiers for tweets that mention the phrase "diego maradona" that were sent between November 18 and November 30, 2020. Diego Maradona was an Argentine professional football player and manager who died on November 25, 2020. He was widely regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of the sport. President Alberto Fernández announced three days of national mourning after his death. The tweets were collected from the Twitter search API using twarc to search for the phrase "diego maradona". The data was collected as part of a collaboration between Alejandra Josiowicz at Rio de Janeiro State University and Ed Summers at the University of Maryland.