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Anjanette Miller, Nurse

Anjanette Miller – a Nurse in Chicago, Illinois – passed away after suffering from COVID-19. It was reported on 17 April 2020. Miller initially went to the hospital in mid-March after contracting coronavirus-like symptoms. The nurse tested negative for coronavirus and was informed she had diabetes, a condition which Miller said she had been predisposed to.However, just days later, her coronavirus symptoms came back. Source:5 Chicago Please help us in adding details.

17Apr

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Bennie Gene Adkins, soldier

Bennie Gene Adkins ‑ a United States Army soldier – died on April 17 2020 battling Covid-19. Adkins received the U.S. military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions during the Vietnam War. In March 1966 Adkins distinguished himself during a 38-hour close-combat battle against North Vietnamese Army forces during the Battle of A Shau. At the time of the cited action, Adkins was a sergeant first class serving as an Intelligence Sergeant with Detachment A-102, 5th Special Forces Group, 1st Special Forces. Adkins was born in Waurika, Oklahoma and was drafted in 1956. He was assigned to a garrison unit in Germany, with a follow-on assignment to the 2nd Infantry Division, Fort Benning, Georgia. After attending Airborne School, he volunteered for...

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Henry Miller, lawyer

Henry Miller ‑ an American lawyer and jurist – died on April 16 2020 due to Covid‑19. Miller was a past president of the New York Bar Association, and the author of several books and articles on trial advocacy; he was known as an expert in trial lawyering. Miller was born in Brooklyn, the son of Henry A. and Anne Withers Miller, on February 18, 1931. He attended St. John's College (class of 1952) and St. John's Law School (class of 1959). Miller was the senior partner of the law firm of Clark, Gagliardi & Miller, P.C., where he practiced trial work starting in 1966. He was president of the Westchester Bar Association and the New York Bar Association, the largest voluntary bar association in the United States. He received man...

16Apr

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Mark Leighton Bowen, Registered Nurse

Mark Leighton Bowen – a Registered Nurse at Highland Care Nursing Home, Queens, New York – passed away after suffering from COVID-19. It was reported on April 16, 2020. Mark was 54 years old. Source: Facebook Please help us in adding details.

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Huy Hao Dao, Physician

Huy Hao Dao – a Public Health Physician in Montreal, Canada – passed away on 16 April 2020 due to COVID-19. Huy was 44 years old. Dr. Huy Hao Dao, worked at the public health authority for the Montérégie region and was also a professor in the department of community health sciences at the University of Sherbrooke in Longueuil, Que. Between 2016 and 2017, Dao worked for Quebec's public health institute (INSPQ), which is leading the fight against the spread of the coronavirus. Dr. Horacio Arruda, Quebec's public health director, confirmed the death at the province's daily briefing on the pandemic .Without identifying Dao by name, Arruda said the doctor had not been in contact with patients. Arruda said if nothing else, the death ...

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John Pfahl, photographer

John Pfahl ‑ an American photographer – died on April 15, 2020, in Buffalo, New York, of COVID-19. Pfahl was born in New York City and grew up in Wanaque, New Jersey. He is known for his landscape photography such as his 1974 "Altered Landscapes" series. He received a BFA from Syracuse University in the School of Art and his MA from Syracuse University in the School of Communications. He taught at the Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York, from 1968 to 1983. Later he was professor at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. In 2012 he taught at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York.

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Milena Jelinek, screenwriter

Milena Jelinek ‑ a Czech American screenwriter, playwright and teacher ‑ died in New York on 15 April 2020 of complications from COVID-19, aged 84. Jelinek wrote the screenplay for the film Forgotten Light, which was awarded three Czech Lions in 1997. Her name is associated with the golden generation of Czech filmmakers, known as Czech New Wave. She was married to the late researcher Frederick Jelinek. Jelinek was born on 19 August 1935 in Prestice, near Pilsen. From 1955, she studied at the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. The film director Ivan Passer was one of her classmates, and the writer Milan Kundera was her literature teacher. One of her early screenplays, written under her maiden name and titled Snadný život (An Easy Lif...

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Joyce Brown, Nurse

Joyce Brown – a Registered Nurse and Nurse Manager at LIJ Forest Hills, Forest Hills, New York – passed away due to Covid-19. It was reported on April 16. Source: Go Fund Me Please help us in adding details.

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Henry Grimes, Jazz bassist

Henry Grimes ‑ an American jazz double bassist, violinist, and poet ‑ died on April 15, 2020, at the age of 84 from complications of COVID-19. After more than a decade of activity and performance, notably as a leading bassist in free jazz, Grimes completely disappeared from the music scene by 1970. Grimes was often presumed to have died, but he was rediscovered in 2002 and returned to performing. Henry Alonzo Grimes was born in Philadelphia, to parents who both had been musicians in their youth. He took up the violin at the age of 12, then began playing tuba, English horn, percussion, finally switching to the double bass at Mastbaum Technical High School. He furthered his musical studies at Juilliard and established a reputation as a versatile bassist by the...

Ella King Russell Torrey, human rights activist

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Ella King Russell Torrey, human rights activist

Ella King Russell Torrey ‑ public information officer for Eleanor Roosevelt, a recipient of the United Nations Human Rights Hero Award, and a human rights activist ‑ died of complications from Covid-19 on April 14, 2020. She was 94 years old. Ella King Russell was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Norman F.S. and Ella D. Russell. The family lived in Edgewater Park, New Jersey. Russell attended Agnes Irwin School in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. She was an aspiring dancer and auditioned for the Rockettes after graduation, but was not selected to join the dance company. Russell received a bachelor's degree in English from Bennington College in 1947. She continued her studies at the University of Pennsylvania, but moved to Paris six weeks before receiving he...