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Noel Sinkiat

Noel Sinkiat, 64, planned to retire in December after 41 years working as a nurse at Howard University Hospital. He would finally go on a long motorcycle trip with his friends. On March 27 he died of covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, according to his family. Sinkiat was the first member of National Nurses United, which represents about 150,000 health-care workers nationwide, to succumb to the virus, the union said. “It was so fast,” his wife, Lourdes Gerardo, said. As he was hospitalized at MedStar Montgomery Medical Center near their house in Olney, Md., Sinkiat’s condition deteriorated rapidly. Gerardo was able to see him only briefly, from behind a protective suit. Since her husband’s death, Gerardo has tested positive, so she could not pick up his body from t...

28Mar

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Orlando McDaniel, footballer

Orlando Keith McDaniel –an American professional football player who was a wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL) for one season with the Denver Broncos – died from Covid-19 on March 27, 2020. He played college football for the LSU Tigers. He was drafted by the Broncos in the second round of the 1982 NFL Draft. He appeared in three games during the 1982 season and did not catch a pass. McDaniel was born in Shreveport, Louisiana, and attended Lake Charles High School in Lake Charles, Louisiana. He attended college at Louisiana State University, where he played as a wide receiver for the Tigers. At LSU, he caught 64 passes for 1,184 yards and three touchdowns over four seasons. His 17.5 yards per reception in 1981 ranked second in the ...

28Mar

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Michael McKinnell, architect

Noel Michael McKinnell –a British-born American architect and co-founder of the Kallmann McKinnell & Wood architectural design firm – succumbed to Covid-19 on March 27, 2020. In 1962, McKinnell, who was a Columbia University graduate student at the time, and Columbia professor Gerhard Kallmann submitted the winning design for Boston City Hall, which opened in 1968. McKinnell and Kallman moved to Boston shortly after winning the competition and founded their firm, now known as Kallmann McKinnell & Wood, in 1962. McKinnell was born on December 25, 1935, in Salford area of Manchester, England, His father was an accountant and war veteran. He graduated from the University of Manchester in 1958 with a first class degree in architecture. He stu...

27Mar

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Kenneth Bradshaw, Facilities Director

Kenneth Bradshaw – a Director of Facilities (retired) at University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee – passed away on 26 March 2020 due to COVID-19. Kenneth was 64 years old. He professed a hope in Christ at Olivet Baptist Church and later joined World Overcomers Church where he served faithfully in the capacity of Watchman for Senior Pastor Alton R. Williams. Kenneth also was owner of Bradshaw Home Improvement and Remodeling and volunteered a segment of his staff to assist the church with the Hickory Hill Mall restoration project. He graduated from Manassas in 1973 and due to his interest in architect he took four years of mechanical drawings and was a member of the Industrial Arts Club, Kenneth also played football and ran track and was a mem...

27Mar

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Michael Sorkin, architect & critic

Michael David Sorkin –an American architectural and urban critic, designer, and educator – died on March 26, 2020 from Covid-19. He was considered to be "one of architecture’s most outspoken public intellectuals," a polemical voice in contemporary culture and the design of urban places at the turn of the twenty-first century. Sorkin first rose to prominence as an architectural critic for the Village Voice in New York City, a post which he held for a decade throughout the 1980s. In the ensuing years, he taught at prominent universities around the world, practiced through his eponymous firm, established a nonprofit book press, and directed the urban design program at the City College of New York. He died at age 71 due to complicatio...

26Mar

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Mark Blum, actor

Mark Blum–an American actor who worked in theater, film and television – died of Covid-19 on March 25, 2020. Blum found success with a lead role in the 1985 film Desperately Seeking Susan, which he followed up the next year with a supporting role in Crocodile Dundee. On the stage, he won an Obie Award for his role in the play Gus and Al during its 1988–1989 season. Near the end of his career, Blum had a regularly recurring role on the Amazon Prime series Mozart in the Jungle from 2014 to 2018. He also made guest appearances on dozens of shows throughout his career. Blum was born in Newark, New Jersey, to Lorraine (née Fink) and Morton Blum, who worked in the insurance industry. His family was Jewish. He grew up in Maplew...

Romi Cohn, rabbi, mohel & real estate developer

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Romi Cohn, rabbi, mohel & real estate developer

Romi Cohn –a Czechoslovakian-born American rabbi, mohel, and real estate developer – died after contracting coronavirus on March 24, 2020. Avraham Hakohen Cohn was born on March 10, 1929 in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia. He was one of seven children. World War II and the Holocaust See also: The Holocaust in Slovakia During World War II, most Slovak Jews were deported to concentration camps. While Cohn's family managed to sneak him into Hungary, his mother, as well as two of his brothers and two of his sisters died in camps. In Hungary, Cohn studied in a Hasidic yeshiva until 1944 when the Nazis occupied the country. At that point, at the age of 15, he escaped back into Slovakia and joined a partisan brigade fighting the Nazis. As a ...

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Alan Finder, journalist

Alan Finder –an American journalist and a longtime employee of the New York Times ‑ died on March 24, 2020, due to complications brought on by COVID-19. Alan A. Finder was born in Brooklyn and raised in Nassau County, New York, graduating from Valley Stream South High School. He earned a B.A. in history at the University of Rochester in 1969 and an M.A. in American studies at Yale University in 1972. From 1974 to 1979, he worked at The Record in Hackensack, New Jersey, and then until 1983 at Newsday on Long Island. Finder worked for 27 years at the New York Times and retired in December 2011. Times executive editor Dean Baquet described Finder as "one of Metro's stars in the 1980s and 1990s, a big writer in a big, hugely competitive era for Ne...

Terrence McNally, playwright, librettist & screenwriter

25Mar

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Terrence McNally, playwright, librettist & screenwriter

Terrence McNally –an American playwright, librettist, and screenwriter – passed away on March 24, 2020 after suffering from coronavirus. Described as "the bard of American theater" and "one of the greatest contemporary playwrights the theater world has yet produced," McNally was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1996. He received the 2019 Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement, the Dramatists Guild Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011, and the Lucille Lortel Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2018, he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the highest recognition of artistic merit in the United States. He received the Tony Award for Best Play for Love! Valour! Compassion! and Master Class, as well as the Tony Award for Best Book of a Mus...

Rabbi Yaakov Meltzer, Physician Assistant

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Rabbi Yaakov Meltzer, Physician Assistant

Rabbi Yaakov Meltzer – a Physician Assistant in Brooklyn, New York – passed away after suffering from COVID-19. It was reported on 24 March 2020. Rabbi was 60 years old. Meltzer, 60, was also a physician assistant and was a member of the Queens Hatzolah, the local Jewish volunteer paramedic organization, for 35 years, according to Yeshiva World. Family members told the organization that Meltzer also had a heart condition. Source: Fast Forward Please help us in adding details.