Noteworthy – Page 15

28Apr

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United Kingdom

John Rowlands, footballer

John Rowlands – an English professional footballer who played as a defender and a forward died in April 2020 at the age of 73, from COVID-19. Active in England, South Africa and the United States, Rowlands made nearly 400 appearances in a 13-year career. Born in Liverpool, Rowlands began his career in non-league football with Marine and Skelmersdale United, before signing for Mansfield Town as an amateur in October 1967. He went on to play professionally in England, South Africa and the United States for Mansfield Town, Torquay United, Exeter City, Cape Town City, Stockport County, Barrow, Workington, Crewe Alexandra, the Seattle Sounders, Hartlepool United, the San Jose Earthquakes, the Oakland Stompers and the Tulsa Roughnecks. After retirement, Rowlands moved to Florida and o...

28Apr

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Noteworthy, Profiles, Sweden

Gunnar Seijbold, photographer

Gunnar Seijbold a Swedish freelance press photographer and musician died on 25 April 2020 after suffering from COVID-19. He had been ill for a month and spent the last week in hospital. During his career he worked for several newspapers, including Expressen, Dagens Nyheter, and Aftonbladet. He also worked in the capacity of photographer for the Swedish government and worked as the official European Union photographer. During his career, Seijbold met and photographed U.S. President Barack Obama. Seijbold was born and raised in Stockholm. His father, Olle Seijbold, was also a photographer who took photos of the Swedish extradition of Baltic soldiers in 1945. During his career, Seijbold worked for several newspapers including Expressen, Dagens Nyheter and Aftonbladet. Seijbol...

28Apr

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

Madeline Faith Kripke, book collector

Madeline Faith Kripke a book collector who held one of the world's largest collections of dictionaries died on April 25, 2020, due to complications of COVID-19. Madeline Kripke was born on September 9, 1943, in New London, Connecticut, to mother Dorothy Karp Kripke and father Myer S. Kripke, a rabbi. Kripke's brother was philosopher Saul Kripke, and her sister was Netta Kripke Stern. She graduated with a bachelor's in English from Barnard College. In fifth grade, she recalled receiving a Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary from her parents, which she said "unlocked the world for me". Kripke acquired a collection of approximately 20,000 dictionaries in her two-bedroom apartment. The oldest dictionary in her collection was a Latin dictionary published in 1502 by Ambrogio Calepino. Sh...

28Apr

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Belgium, Noteworthy, Profiles

Henri Kichka, holocaust survivor

Henri Kichka a Belgian writer and Holocaust survivor who was one of the leading figures in Holocaust education in Belgium died on 25 April 2020 at the age of 94 in Brussels as a result of COVID-19. Kichka was the only member of his family to have survived the deportation of Belgian Jews to camps in Central and Eastern Europe. He began speaking on the importance of the memory of those who perished at the hands of the Nazis in the 1980s and spoke widely on his experiences to school audience. In 2005, published his autobiography, Une adolescence perdue dans la nuit des camps, prefaced by Serge Klarsfeld. He is the father of cartoonist Michel Kichka. Henri Kichka was born in Brussels, Belgium on 14 April 1926 into a Jewish family which had emigrated from Poland. His father, Josek ...

27Apr

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

Emilio Simeon Allué Carcasona, Bishop

Emilio Simeon Allué Carcasona, –a Spanish American prelate of the Catholic Church. died on 26 April 2020 after contracting COVID-19. He served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Boston until his retirement in 2010. Born in Huesca, Spain, on 18 February 1935, Emilio Allué made his profession as a Salesian in 1962 and attended Don Bosco College in Newton, New Jersey.He then furthered his studies at the Salesian Pontifical University in Rome, where he was ordained to the priesthood on 22 December 1966. He earned a Licentiate of Sacred Theology from the Salesian University in 1967, and was director of the Salesian Seminary in Goshen, New York, from 1972 to 1975. He received a Ph.D. in the history of Christianity from Fordham University in 1981, and later served as parish ...

26Apr

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

Alan Abel, musician

Alan Abel -- an American percussionist, music educator, and inventor of musical instruments -- died on April 25, 2020, of complications from COVID-19. He was the associate principal percussionist of the Philadelphia Orchestra from 1959 until his retirement in 1997. He is widely regarded as one of the most important percussion educators of the second half of the twentieth century, having taught at Temple University beginning in 1972. Abel’s inventions include several unique and ubiquitous triangles and a bass drum stand that allowed the instrument to be suspended with the use of rubber bands. Abel was born in Hobart, Indiana, in 1928. At the age of seven, he started percussion lessons. He studied with Clarence Carlson at the Roy Knapp School and then with Haskell Harr and William S...

26Apr

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Michael Huckaby, DJ

Michael Huckaby an American DJ who produced electronic music died on April 24, 2020, aged 54 after contracting COVID-19. He began his DJ career in 1995 playing a combination of Detroit techno, groove, and jazz music. Between 1992 and 2005, he worked at Record Time, a record shop in Roseville, Michigan, as the buyer for store's dance section..

26Apr

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Japan, Noteworthy, Profiles

Kumiko Owada, actress

Kumiko Owada –a Japanese actress, voice actress, and television presenter was admitted to a Tokyo hospital on April 6, placed on a respirator and later diagnosed with COVID-19. Okae died from pneumonia caused by novel coronavirus in the Tokyo hospital on April 23, 2020, at the age of 63. She is survived by her husband and daughter. She was known for her work on television dramas, as well as hosting entertainment and variety shows, such as Renso Game on NHK. Okae also hosted the morning show Hanamaru Market on TBS Television from 1996 to 2014. Okae began her professional acting career in 1975. She appeared in numerous television roles and variety shows from the 1970s to the 2010s. She acted in television dramas, and hosted entertainment and variety shows, such as Renso Game on...

24Apr

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Netherland, Noteworthy, Profiles

Hendrikus Overgoor, footballer

Hendrikus Johannes Paulus Overgoor–a Dutch footballer who played as a left back – passed away on 23 April 2020, due to complications from COVID-19 in Amsterdam, aged 75. . He was born in Gendringen, Netherlands. He played for Go Ahead Eagles from 1963 to 1965 and for De Graafschap from 1965 to 1979. With De Graafschap he won the 1968–69 Tweede Divisie. He was nicknamed De Kapper (The Hairdresser) because he came from a hairdressing family.

24Apr

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Fred the Godson, DJ & rapper

Frederick Thomas, known as Fred the Godson an American DJ and rapper from the Bronx died at Montefiore Medical Center on April 23, 2020 at age 35. Frederick Thomas was born on New Year's Day in 1985 and grew up in The Bronx, New York City. He gained an early nickname of "Big Bronx". He started rapping freestyle in New York City in the early 2000s. Thomas's music was characterized by his husky voice, humorous wordplay, and creative rhymes. In the early-2010s, he released two mixtapes; his debut was Armageddon in 2010, featuring samples of The Notorious B.I.G., Busta Rhymes and Cam'ron. His second release, City of God, was one of a series for DJ Drama’s Gangsta Grillz, and featuring Puff Daddy, Pusha T and Raekwon of Wu-Tang Clan. In 2011, XXL included him in its annual Fresh...