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10Apr

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Dmitri Smirnov, composer

Dmitri Nikolaevich Smirnov –a Russian-British composer and academic teacher, who also published as Dmitri N. Smirnov and D. Smirnov-Sadovsky – died on 9 April 2020 due to Covid-19. He wrote operas, symphonies, string quartets and other chamber music, and vocal music from song to oratorio. Many of his works were inspired by the art of William Blake. Smirnov was born in Minsk into a family of opera singers: his parents were Nikolay Senkin-Sadovsky and Eugenia Smirnova. His family moved to Ulan-Ude and then Bishkek, where he spent most of his childhood. He studied at the Moscow Conservatory from 1967 to 1972, composition with Nikolai Sidelnikov, instrumentation with Yuri Kholopov, and analysis with Edison Denisov. He also studied privately wit...

10Apr

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Lee Nurse, cricketer

Lee Harvey Nurse –an English cricketer – passed away on 9 April 2020 from Covid-19 complications. The son of Leon Nurse, he was born at Basingstoke in December 1976. Nurse made his debut in minor counties cricket for Berkshire in the 1997 Minor Counties Championship against Dorset at Reading. He played for Berkshire until 2006, playing a total of 29 matches in the Minor Counties Championship and fifteen matches in the MCCA Knockout Trophy, which included one match for the Derbyshire Cricket Board in 1998 when he was having trials at Derbyshire County Cricket Club. While playing for Berkshire, he played for the county in matches that held List A status in the domestic county one-day competition, making his List A debut against the Sus...

10Apr

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Andy Costa, Administrative Staff

Andy Costa – an Administrative Staff, Ward Administrator at Camden & Islington NHS Foundation Trust, London, England – passed away ON 9 April 2020 after suffering from COVID-19. Andy Costa devoted 26 years to the NHS, most recently working as a ward administrator at Highgate Mental Health Centre in north London. The NHS trust paid tribute to his “diligence and loyalty”. Andy’s 26 years of diligence and loyalty to Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust were honoured with a long service award only last summer at a special tea party A spokeswoman for the trust said: “Andy was a highly respected, conscientious and long-serving colleague who had worked at Highgate Mental Health Centre since it opened 15 years ago.” The spokes...

Fayez Khalid Ayache, General Practitioner

9Apr

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Fayez Khalid Ayache, General Practitioner

Fayez Khalid Ayache – a General Practitioner with North Clacton Medical Group, Clacton-on-Sea, England – passed away due to COVID-19 on April 8, 2020. Fayez was 77 years old. GP Fayez Khalid Ayache, 77, who worked part-time at the North Clacton Medical Group died of coronavirus on April 8, 2020. His family said he was admitted to hospital and tests came back positive for coronavirus on April 4, 2020. He died four days later. Dr Ed Garratt, Executive Lead for the Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care System, said: “Fayez Ayache was a much loved and very highly regarded GP who had made a massive contribution to the NHS since he arrived in the UK from Syria nearly half a century ago “Any death connected to this horrendous virus is a tragedy, bu...

9Apr

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Harvey Goldstein, statistician

Harvey Goldstein –a British statistician known for his contributions to multilevel modelling methodology and software, and for applying this to educational assessment and league tables – died of Covid-19 on 9 April 2020. He was professor of social statistics in the Centre for Multilevel Modelling at the University of Bristol. From 1977 to 2005, he was professor of statistical methods at the Institute of Education of the University of London. He was author of a monograph on multilevel statistical models. He was elected a fellow of the British Academy in 1996 and awarded the Guy Medal in silver by the Royal Statistical Society in 1998. He died on 9 April 2020. It was reported that his death was due to COVID-19.

8Apr

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Hudeidi, musician

Ahmed Ismail Hussein Hudeidi - a Somali musician who played the oud and composed songs – died on 7 April,2020 due to COVID-19. Born in Berbera in 1928 and raised in Yemen, Hudeidi was always fascinated by music, and fell in love with the oud when his father took him to a party in Aden where an Arab man was playing the instrument. He learned how to play it from Abdullahi Qarshe, who advised Hudeydi's father to buy his son an oud and a pick as well as books and writing instruments for school. During the 1950s and 1960s, Hudeidi lived in Yemen, Somaliland, and Djibouti, playing the oud and getting into trouble for singing politically rebellious songs as well as from rival musicians. In 1973 he moved to the United Kingdom, where he performed at private functions such as family weddings and...

8Apr

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Leilani Dayrit, Nurse

Leilani Dayrit – a Nurse in Rugby, England – passed away on 7 April 2020 after suffering from COVID-19. Dayrit was 47 years old. Her daughter Mary Dayrit described her as 'selfless until the very end', putting others' wellbeing before her own Source: Mirror Please help us in adding details.

Dr Syed Zeeshan Haider, General Practitioner

8Apr

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Dr Syed Zeeshan Haider, General Practitioner

Dr Syed Zeeshan Haider passed away in the United Kingdom on April 7, 2020 from Covid-19. Dr. Haider, a British Pakistani, had been a General Practitioner for more than 50 years. Dr Haider passed away after fighting the deadly coronavirus at the Queen’s Hospital. Dr Haider, who was in his 80s and lived in Dagenham, Essex is the second Pakistani origin doctor to lay down his life against the deadly Covid-19. Previously, Dr Habib Zaidi, an elderly doctor from Southend was the first doctor in all of the UK to succumb to the viral disease. After developing symptoms of the virus, Dr Haider was shifted to the hospital where he stayed for one week but he was unable to recover from the damage caused by the coronavirus. Dr Haider’s son, Dr Kumail spoke to Geo and The News and confirmed the pas...

8Apr

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Nipper Read, police officer

Leonard Ernest "Nipper" Read - a British police officer and boxing administrator – died on 7 April, 2020 due to COVID-19. Read was the son of Leonard Read Snr., who worked for a leather company, and his wife Ida (née Morris). His mother died when he was four and he was sent to live with her brother. After their father remarried, Leonard and his two sisters and brother returned to live with their father and stepmother. Read did well in school, always being one of the top three pupils in junior and senior school. He learned to box, winning his first medal in 1937. He later joined the Grundy boxing club, where he was nicknamed "Nipper". Read had hoped to attend Nottingham High School and passed the entrance exam, but his father could not afford the...

8Apr

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Roger Matthews, criminologist

Roger Matthews, a British criminologist, died on 7 April,2020 due to COVID-19. He was a Professor of Criminology at the University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom. Prior to joining the University of Kent, he was a professor of criminology at London South Bank University and Middlesex University. Matthews is known as one of the key figures in left realism, a criminological critique of both the dominant administrative criminology and the critical criminology. He died on 7 April 2020 at the age of 71 from the effects of the COVID-19 virus.