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7Jun

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Dietmar Seyferth, professor

Dietmar Seyferth ‑ an emeritus professor of chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology – succumbed to Covid-19 on June 6, 2020. He published widely on topics in organometallic chemistry and was the founding editor of the journal Organometallics. Seyferth was born in 1929 in Chemnitz, Germany and received his college education at the University of Buffalo. His PhD thesis dealt with main group chemistry under the mentorship of Eugene G. Rochow at Harvard. He spent his entire academic career at MIT, focusing initially on organophosphorus, organosilicon, and organomercury chemistry. He also contributed to organocobalt chemistry and organoiron chemistry, e.g. the popularization of Fe2S2(CO)6. He died on Saturday, June 6, 2020, due to complications from COVID-19....

10May

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Johannes Beck, social ethicist

Johannes Beck SJ ‑ a German Jesuit and social ethicist – contracted Covid-19 and died due its complications on 9 May 2020. Beck joined the Jesuit order in 1948. After the theological training he received, on July 31, 1956 he was ordained at the St. Michael's Church in Munich. He was particularly involved in the worker and company pastoral care and campaigned for social justice and Catholic social teaching, in particular for the principle of solidarity in large industrial companies. Among other things, he served for many decades as a spiritual advisor to the Catholic Workers' Movement (KAB). As the successor to Franz Prinz SJ, he headed the Werkgemeinschaft christischer Arbeiter in Munich. From 1979 to 1991, Beck was director of the "Social Seminar" at M&...

9May

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Roy Horn, magician

Roy Horn Roy Horn, one-half of the popular Las Vegas animal and magic act Siegfried and Roy, died on May 5, 2020, due to complications from the coronavirus. He was 75. Roy Uwe Ludwig Horn and Siegfried Fischbacher began their upbeat performances in Europe, later becoming regulars in Las Vegas, where they performed for four decades. "Roy was a fighter his whole life including during these final days," Fischbacher said in a statement. "I give my heartfelt appreciation to the team of doctors, nurses and staff at Mountain View Hospital who worked heroically against this insidious virus that ultimately took Roy's life." Their revue ended after Horn was attacked on stage by a white tiger named Mantecore in October 2003, severing his spine. Horn believed the attack was a reaction ...

8May

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Dan van Husen, actor

Dan van Husen ‑ a German actor – died at Ilminster, Somerset, England in May 2020 of Covid-19 at age 75. He started his career in the 1960s, playing in a number of spaghetti westerns (usually he was cast as the bad guy), and also performed in Italian and German films by renowned directors including Frederico Fellini and Werner Herzog and in German TV series. Starting in the 2000s he performed in Hollywood films, and in 2008 had a role in a Dutch World War 2 movie, Winter in Wartime. He died in 2020 of COVID-19. Dan van Husen was born in Gummersbach. He was first discovered by Italian producers while working as a club disc jockey in Spain and began working increasingly seriously as an actor in the late 60s. He appeared in twenty Italo Westerns in six or seven years and bef...

28Apr

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Andreas Hagemann, Family Doctor

Andreas Hagemann – a Family Doctor in Praxis, Wahlwies, Germany – passed away on 27 April 2020, after suffering from COVID-19. Andreas was 61 years old. Source: SUDKURIER Please help us in adding details.

31Mar

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Wilhelm Burmann, dancer

Wilhelm "Willy" Burmann ‑ a German dancer, ballet master, and teacher – succumbed to Covid-19 on March 30, 2020. Burmann was born on April 3, 1939 in Oberhausen, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, where he grew up on a farm. He had one sister, Chrystal Weideman. He began training as a dancer when he was fifteen years old. Burmann was a principal dancer for companies including Frankfurt Ballet, Grand Théâtre du Genève, and Stuttgart Ballet. He also danced with companies including New York City Ballet, Pennsylvania Ballet, and New Jersey Ballet. Burmann retired from dancing in 1977. Burmann was a ballet master at the Washington Ballet and the Ballet du Nord. He was also known for his professional dance classes at St...

28Mar

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Stefan Lippe, insurer

Stefan Lippe –a German insurance manager – died from Covid-19 on 27 March 2020. He was the CEO of Swiss Re from 2009 to 2012 when Michel M. Liès succeeded him as Swiss Re's Group Chief Executive Officer. Lippe was born in Mannheim. He studied mathematics and economics at the University of Mannheim and graduated in 1982. He then was a research assistant at the Chair of actuarial science at the University of Mannheim. For his dissertation he was awarded the Prize of the Kurt-Hamann-Foundation. In October 1983 he joined Bavarian Re (Munich), a subsidiary of Swiss Re. In 1986 he became head of the underwriting department, non-proportional business. In 1988 he was appointed a deputy member of the Management Board. In 1991 he to...