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7Apr

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Josep Maria Benet i Jornet, playwright

Josep Maria Benet i Jornet - a Spanish playwright and TV writer - died on 6 April 2020 due to coronavirus. He was born in Barcelona. In 1997, he was awarded the Creu de Sant Jordi by the Catalan government. He died from COVID-19 during the coronavirus pandemic in Spain on 6 April 2020 at the age of 79.

7Apr

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Riay Tatary, religious leader

Riay Tatary Bakry - a Syrian religious leader, chairman of the Union of Islamic Communities of Spain ‑ - died on 6 April,2020 due to COVID-19. He was imam of the Central Mosque in Madrid, Spain, as well as president of the Islamic Commission of Spain. He was born in Damascus on 19 March 1948. He settled in Spain in 1970 and studied Medicine at the University of Oviedo. He took part in the advisory committee for Freedom of Religion of the Ministry of Justice, being endowed the Encomienda of the Order of Civil Merit in 1998. He was interned in March 2020 in the Hospital de la Paz due to COVID-19 along with his wife; Tatary died weeks later, on 6 April, at the age of 72. He was buried at the Muslim cemetery of Griñón.

Jesús Montarroso Martín, General Practitioner

7Apr

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Jesús Montarroso Martín, General Practitioner

Jesús Montarroso Martín – a Family Medicine/General Practitioner at Centro de Salud Avenida de los Institutos de Alcázar de San Juan, Ciudad Real, Spain – passed away After suffering from COVID-19. It was reported on 7 April 2020. Martin was 64 years old. The College of Physicians wishes to show its condolences to the family, friends and colleagues of Dr. Jesús Montarroso Martín, Family doctor of the Avenida de los Institutas de Alcázar de San Juan Health Center (Ciudad Real), 64 years old. Source: NCR 24 Please help us in adding details.

7Apr

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Alfonso Cortina, businessman

Alfonso Cortina de Alcocer - a Spanish businessman who was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Repsol YPF, Spain's largest oil and gas group - died on 6 April 2020 of COVID-19. Cortina was born on 13 March 1944 in Madrid. He graduated in Industrial Engineering and held a further degree in Economic Sciences. His father was Pedro Cortina Mauri, foreign minister during the Francoist dictatorship. He began his career in the banking sector, where he held various positions at BBVA, Banco Zaragozano and Banco Central. Alfonso Cortina de Alcocer became president of the Spanish oil firm Repsol in 1996 despite his lack of experience in the petroleum industry. He also served as Vice Chairman and Senior Advisor for Spain and Latin America, Rothschild Europe. He died on ...

Juan Antonio Mingorance Espinosa, General Practitioner

6Apr

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Juan Antonio Mingorance Espinosa, General Practitioner

Juan Antonio Mingorance Espinosa – a Family Medicine/General Practitioner, Military Doctor at Centro privadoVirgen de la Caridad, Cartagena, Spain – passed away after suffering from COVID-19. It was reported on 6 April 2020. Juan was 72 years old. He was a well-known doctor in Cartagena, first as a military man and then as a company doctor. The doctor had confined himself to the house a week earlier with symptoms. He entered the plant of the Santa Lucía Hospital and, later, in the ICU, where he died at dawn. After retiring as a military doctor, he worked at the Virgen de la Caridad private center and did so as a Primary Care doctor. His center wrote this message on social networks to honor and dismiss him: "We are very sorry to report that our colle...

Carlos de Aragón Amunárriz, Primary Care Physician

6Apr

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Carlos de Aragón Amunárriz, Primary Care Physician

Carlos de Aragón Amunárriz – a Primary Care Physician at La Puebla de Montalbán, Toledo, Spain – passed away due to COVID-19. Crlos was 65 years old. It was reported on April 6, 2020. Dr. Aragon practiced in Yepes and continued to visit his patients in their homes during the coronavirus pandemic. Source: Elpais Please help us in adding details.

6Apr

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Fina Belenguer, Nurse

Fina Belenguer – a Nurse at Hospital Universitario Doctor Peset, Valencia, Spain – passed away after suffering from COVID-19. It was reported on April 6, 2020. Fina was 59 years old. She was 59 years old and was a well-known person at Dr. Peset Hospital, where she has worked for many years as a midwife and gynecology assistant. Those of us who practice here have turned to tributes and displays of affection. Source: Levante Please help us in adding details.

Francisco Hernando Contreras, businessman

4Apr

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Francisco Hernando Contreras, businessman

Francisco Hernando Contreras aka Paco el Pocero ‑ a Spanish businessman in the construction industry who developed the project Seseña, promising to build 13,500 residences – died on 3 April 2020 of Covid-19. Following the collapse of the Spanish property bubble, he went to Equatorial Guinea and left his projects unfinished.

3Apr

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Goyo Benito, footballer

Gregorio "Goyo" Benito Rubio ‑ a Spanish footballer who played as a central defender – succumbed to Covid-19 on 2 April 2020. He spent most of his 16-year professional career with Real Madrid. Benito was born in El Puente del Arzobispo, Toledo, Castile-La Mancha. After practicing track and field in his early teens, inclusively being national javelin throw champion at school level, he signed for La Liga powerhouse Real Madrid in the summer of 1963, aged nearly 17. After two years on loan to neighbouring Rayo Vallecano, in Segunda División (his second being cut short as he was called for military service in Sidi Ifni), he returned to his main club, remaining there for the following 14 seasons and winning six leagues and five Spanish Cups. In 1982, after ...

3Apr

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Pilar Garcia, Nurse

Pilar Garcia – a Nurse at Hospital Santa Bárbara, Puertollano, Spain – passed away on 3 April 2020, after suffering from COVID-19. Pilar was 64 years old. Source: El Digital CLM Please help us in adding details.