Noteworthy – Page 22

13Apr

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Noteworthy, Pakistan, Profiles

Zafar Sarfraz, cricketer

Zafar Sarfraz a Pakistani cricketer who played in fifteen first-class and six List A matches between 1988 and 1992 for Peshawar cricket team On April 13 2020, Sarfaz died from COVID-19 complications. He retired from playing competitive cricket in 1994. Following his retirement, he became a coach and was involved with the Peshawar Under-19 cricket team. He also worked for the National Bank of Pakistan. In April 2020, Sarfaz died from COVID-19 complications. He was the first professional cricketer known to have died from coronavirus during the pandemic in Pakistan.

13Apr

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Victor Batista Falla, editor

Víctor Batista Falla –a Cuban editor and publisher – died on 12 April 2020 after contracting Covid-19. Batista's father, Agustín Batista y González de Mendoza, was the founder of the Trust Company of Cuba, the most powerful Cuban bank prior to the Cuban Revolution. His mother, María Teresa Falla Bonet, was the daughter of Laureano Falla Gutiérrez, a powerful sugar tycoon. He was also the uncle of Maria Teresa, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg. Batista fled Cuba following the Cuban Revolution and settled in New York City. In the United States, he financed the creation of the magazine Exilio, intended for publishing young writers in exile. He then founded the Colibrí publishing house in Madrid on the proposa...

13Apr

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Victor Batista Falla, editor

13Apr

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Noteworthy, Profiles, Spain

Carlos Seco Serrano, historian

Carlos Seco Serrano ‑ a Spanish historian who specialised in the contemporary era – passed away in Madrid on 12 April 2020 after contracting Covid-19. He was 96. Born in Toledo, Seco Serrano was elected to medalla nº 12 of the Real Academia de la Historia on 21 January 1977 and took up his seat on 5 February 1978.

13Apr

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Netherland, Noteworthy, Profiles

Kishen Bholasing, singer

Kishen Bholasing–a Surinamese-Dutch singer and percussionist – died on 12 April 2020 after Covid-19 infection. Bholasing has been called one of the best interpreters of the Baithak Gana of his era. Bholasing played the Dholak and was lead singer in the formation Kishen & Friends. He has performed in the Netherlands and Suriname, during events such as Holi and sporting events of the Surinamese Wrestling Federation. Several of Bholasing's family members were also known for making baithakgana music, including his father, Angad Bholasing, his mother, Rosie Bholasing-Jiboth, as well as his aunt, Motimala Bholasing. Around 24 March 2020, it was announced that Bholasing was infected with COVID-19. On 12 April, he died in the Academi...

13Apr

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United Kingdom

Brian Arrowsmith, footballer

Brian Arrowsmith ‑ an English footballer and manager ‑ died on April 12 in hospital on Easter Sunday in 2020 having contracted COVID-19. Born in Barrow-in-Furness, he spent his entire professional career at his hometown club Barrow. He made 512 appearances for Barrow, including 378 in the Football League, the most at that level for the club. Arrowsmith started his career as a right back, but played across the defence when required. He captained Barrow during the 1966–67 season in which they won promotion from the Fourth Division, and stayed with the club for a total of eleven seasons. After leaving Barrow in 1971 Arrowsmith joined Northern Premier League club Netherfield, but returned to Barrow – who by then had been voted out of the Football ...

12Apr

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Simon Barrington-Ward, bishop

Simon Barrington-Ward, a bishop in the Church of England, died on 11 April 2020 after suffering from coronavirus. He was 89. Barrington-Ward was the son of Robert Barrington-Ward, who served as editor of The Times, and Margaret Adele Barrington-Ward. He was educated at Eton College and Magdalene College, Cambridge, from which he graduated Bachelor of Arts (BA), and Cambridge Master of Arts (MA Cantab.). After service as a Pilot Officer in the Royal Air Force, he taught at theological colleges before being ordained: he was made a deacon at Michaelmas 1956 (30 September), by Gordon Walsh, Assistant Bishop of Ely, at Ely Cathedral and ordained priest the following year. He was the General Secretary of Church Missionary Society (CMS), from 1975 to 1985. From 1985 to 1997, he served...

12Apr

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John Horton Conway, mathematician

John Horton Conway an English mathematician active in the theory of finite groups, knot theory, number theory, combinatorial game theory and coding theory – died on 11 April 2020 after contracting Covid-19. He also made contributions to many branches of recreational mathematics, most notably the invention of the cellular automaton called the Game of Life. Born and raised in Liverpool, Conway spent the first half of his career at the University of Cambridge before moving to the United States, where he held the John von Neumann Professorship at Princeton University for the rest of his career. On 11 April 2020, at age 82, he died of complications from COVID-19. Conway was born on 26 December 1937 in Liverpool, the son of Cyril Horton Conway and Agnes Boyce. He became interested in math...

12Apr

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

Wynn Handman, artist

Wynn Handman the Artistic Director of The American Place Theatre, which he co-founded with Sidney Lanier and Michael Tolan in 1963 died on April 11, 2020 in New York City at the age of 97 from COVID-19. His role in the theatre was to seek out, encourage, train, and present new and exciting writing and acting talent and to develop and produce new plays by living American writers. In addition, he initiated several Arts Education Programs, such as Literature to Life. Handman grew up in the Inwood neighborhood in Upper Manhattan. Handman also studied acting at The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theater in New York City. He died due to complications brought on by COVID-19. He was a recipient of the 1999 Obie for Sustained Achievement; the Lucille Lortel Award for Lifetime Achieve...

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France, Noteworthy, Profiles

Gillian Wise, artist

Gillian Wise - an English artist devoted to the application of concepts of rationality and aesthetic order to abstract paintings and reliefs – died on 11 April 2020 of COVID-19 while living in the Paris care home to which she had moved following the deterioration of her health in 2018. Between 1972 and 1990 she was known as Gillian Wise Ciobotaru. Wise was born at Ilford in London to Arthur, a timber merchant, and Elsie, nee Holden, a milliner. She studied art at the Wimbledon College of Art from 1954 to 1957 and then at the Central School of Arts and Crafts during 1959. Before she graduated, Wise was already showing works with a group of Constructionist artists, exhibiting at the 1957 Young Contemporaries exhibition at the Royal British A...