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Antonio González Pacheco, police officer

8May

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Noteworthy, Profiles, Spain

Antonio González Pacheco, police officer

Antonio González Pacheco Antonio González Pacheco died on 7 May 2020 from COVID-19 in Spain at the age of 73. Pacheco, known also as Billy the Kid (Billy el Niño) was a Spanish police inspector in Francoist Spain who was charged with 13 counts of torture and sought for extradition by an Argentine judge in 2014. María Romilda Servini had called for the indictment. The request for extradition was refused by the Spanish High Court on the basis that the statute of limitations had run out on the accusation against him. He competed in a half-marathon in Madrid in 2010. He previously had a pension that was 1.5 times larger than the usual one and he had four medals of honour. A report from the Ministry of the Interior in 2018 revealed this. ‘That year interior minister Fernando Gra...

8May

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Medics, Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

Daniel Schaeffer Kemp, organic chemist

Daniel Schaeffer Kemp an American organic chemist and an emeritus professor of chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology – died from respiratory complications due to COVID-19 near Concord, Massachusetts. He is survived by his legacy as a giant of chemistry and teaching, revered by the countless students and a close group of associates he trained, mentored and inspired during his unique and celebrated life. His close companion over the last 35+ years, cockatoo Octavian (“Tavvy”), has been placed in loving care. Kemp's work was focused on the synthesis and conformational analysis of peptides. He developed several chemical ligation strategies and methods for templating the formation of helices and sheets. The eponymous Kemp's triacid and the Kemp elimination reacti...

8May

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France, Noteworthy

Daniel Cauchy, actor & film producer

Daniel Cauchy –a French film actor and producer known for his role in Jean-Pierre Melville's 1956 crime film Bob le flambeur ‑ died from COVID-19 on 7 May 2020. "Yes, it is the COVID-19 has won," asserted Jean-Marie Périer to France Info in referring to the death of one who was a well-known face of French cinema. Father of comedian Didier Cauchy (The Crim’, Research Section), Daniel Cauchy was a regular supporting roles on the big screen in the 1950s to the 1970s. Born in 1930 in Boulogne-Billancourt, it is known in particular by turning in When you will read this letter Jean-Pierre Melville, The Portrait of his father André Berthomieu, Not touch the grisbi Jacques Becker, or Bob the big-time gambler Jean-Pierre Melville. To its cr...

8May

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Germany, Noteworthy, Profiles, United Kingdom

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...

8May

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Noteworthy, Pakistan, Profiles

Zafar Rasheed Bhatti, journalist

Zafar Rasheed Bhatti – a Pakistani journalist . died on 27 April 2020 at the age of 70 in Islamabad after contracting coronavirus. Bhatti joined Associated Press of Pakistan (APP) in 1984 after having worked in Pakistan Press International and Nawaiwaqt. He remained associated with APP until 2010. During his association with APP, he worked as chief reporter of the news agency and served as president of the APP's employees' union.

Miguel Ángel Troitiño Vinuesa, geographer

8May

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Miguel Ángel Troitiño Vinuesa, geographer

Miguel Ángel Troitiño Vinuesa a Spanish geographer, professor of human geography at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) died of COVID-19 on 21 April 2020. He was an expert in cultural tourism and heritage preservation. Born in El Arenal, province of Ávila in 1947, Troitiño earned a licentiate degree in Geography and History from the UCM. He obtained a PhD in Geography in 1979 from the UCM, reading a dissertation on the city of Cuenca, titled Cuenca, la crisis de una vieja ciudad castellana and supervised by Manuel de Terán Álvarez. A lecturer at the UCM since 1973, he obtained a Chair of Human Geography in 1991. During his career, he focused on fields such as tourism, cultural heritage, urban planning and territorial development. A great deal of his scholar productio...

8May

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Canada, Noteworthy, Profiles

Marguerite Lescop, author

Marguerite Lescop ‑ a Canadian author, editor, and public speaker – succumbed to Covid-19 on April 3, 2020. After the death of her husband, René Lescop, she attended writing workshops and wrote her autobiography, Le Tour de ma vie en 80 ans, published in 1996 by Salon du livre de Montréal. The book obtained considerable success, with more than 100,000 copies sold. She gave numerous conferences at retirement homes across Quebec. Lescop founded her own publishing company, Éditions Lescop, and published two books with it: En effeuillant la Marguerite (1998) and Les Épîtres de Marguerite (2000). With Éditions Fides, she published Nous, les vieux, a series of interviews with Benoît Lacroix, a good friend of Lescop's. In 2007, ...

Ann Katharine Mitchell, cryptanalyst and psychologist

8May

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United Kingdom

Ann Katharine Mitchell, cryptanalyst and psychologist

Ann Katharine Mitchell a British cryptanalyst and psychologist who worked on decrypting messages encoded in the German Enigma cypher at Bletchley Park during the Second World War died on 11 May 2020, aged 97, in Edinburgh. She tested positive for COVID-19 shortly before her death. After the war she became a marriage guidance counsellor, then studied for a Master of Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. She worked at the university's Department of Social Administration and wrote several academic books about the psychological effects of divorce on children including Someone to Turn to: Experiences of Help Before Divorce (1981) and Children in the Middle: Living Through Divorce (1985). Ann Williamson was born in Oxford on 19 November 1922, to Herbert Stansfield Williamson...

8May

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Noteworthy, Profiles, Uncategorized

Roger Chappot, ice hockey player

Roger Chappot - a Swiss professional ice hockey player - died due to complications of COVID-19 during the pandemic on 8 April 2020 at the age of 79. He played for HC Villars and Genève-Servette HC in the National League A. He also represented the Swiss national team at the 1964 Winter Olympics.

8May

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United Kingdom

Robert Mandell, conductor

Robert Mandell an American-born British-based conductor, particularly noted in the United Kingdom for his popular family and children's concerts, and stage musicals died in Leicester in April 2020 at the age of 90. He had been admitted to hospital following a fall and had tested positive for COVID-19. Robert Mandell was born in New York City in August 1929, and was the youngest of four children. At the age of eight, Robert acted on the stage and in radio shows under the professional names Bobby Lee and Robert Lee. He worked on noted American radio shows such as Let’s Pretend and Ellery Queen. His Broadway stage credits include the original season of Lady in the Dark with Gertrude Lawrence. Mandell played Tad Lincoln in Yours, A. Lincoln, starring Vincent Price. Mandell began h...