Noteworthy – Page 24

10Apr

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France, Noteworthy, Profiles

Liliane Marchais, activist

Liliane Marchais –a French communist activist – passed away after contracting Covid-19 on 9 April 2020. Born in Malakoff on 24 August 1935, Marchais' father was a toolmaker, and her mother was unemployed. In 1961, she married Maurice Garcia, a member of the French Communist Party, with whom she had a daughter, Annie. The couple divorced, and Liliane married Georges Marchais in 1977. They had a son, Olivier. The family lived in Champigny-sur-Marne, a suburb southeast of Paris. The holder of a Certificat d'études primaires and a Certificat d'aptitude professionnelle, Marchais worked as a cable worker for Compagne générale de la télégraphie sans fil in her hometown of Malakoff. At age 15, she joined the...

10Apr

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United Kingdom

Lee Nurse, cricketer

Lee Harvey Nurse –an English cricketer – passed away on 9 April 2020 from Covid-19 complications. The son of Leon Nurse, he was born at Basingstoke in December 1976. Nurse made his debut in minor counties cricket for Berkshire in the 1997 Minor Counties Championship against Dorset at Reading. He played for Berkshire until 2006, playing a total of 29 matches in the Minor Counties Championship and fifteen matches in the MCCA Knockout Trophy, which included one match for the Derbyshire Cricket Board in 1998 when he was having trials at Derbyshire County Cricket Club. While playing for Berkshire, he played for the county in matches that held List A status in the domestic county one-day competition, making his List A debut against the Sus...

Rick May, voice actor & theatrical performer

9Apr

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Noteworthy, United States

Rick May, voice actor & theatrical performer

Rick May ‑ a Canadian-American voice actor and theatrical performer, director, and teacher from Seattle, Washington – died of Covid-19 on April 8, 2020. May provided the English-language voice for Peppy Hare in Star Fox 64 and Soldier in Team Fortress 2, among other video games. May was born on September 21, 1940. He was raised in Washington and Canada. May attended Roosevelt High School in Seattle and St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. May served in the U.S. military and was stationed in Japan, where he coordinated USO shows in Tokyo. May returned to the Seattle area to serve as the director of the Renton Civic Theatre and Civic Light Opera in Renton, Washington. In one production of the Cotton Patch Gospel in Renton, May played all 21 roles with a variety of ...

9Apr

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Noteworthy, United Kingdom

Harvey Goldstein, statistician

Harvey Goldstein –a British statistician known for his contributions to multilevel modelling methodology and software, and for applying this to educational assessment and league tables – died of Covid-19 on 9 April 2020. He was professor of social statistics in the Centre for Multilevel Modelling at the University of Bristol. From 1977 to 2005, he was professor of statistical methods at the Institute of Education of the University of London. He was author of a monograph on multilevel statistical models. He was elected a fellow of the British Academy in 1996 and awarded the Guy Medal in silver by the Royal Statistical Society in 1998. He died on 9 April 2020. It was reported that his death was due to COVID-19.

8Apr

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Armenia, Noteworthy, Profiles

Mishik Kazaryan, physicist

Mishik Airazatovich Kazaryan – a Russian-Armenian physicist specialising in laser physics and optics, the winner of the State Prize of the USSR in the field of science and technology, foreign member of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences, member of the AM Prokhorov Academy of Engineering Sciences ‑ – died on 7 April,2020 due to COVID-19. Kazaryan was a creator of the brightest repetitively pulsed laser in the visible region of the spectrum. Kazaryan‘s father, Airazat G. Kazaryan Gabrielovich, was a physician, who worked at the Yerevan Medical Institute; his mother, Serik O. Vanuni, was an honoured Doctor of the Armenian SSR, and an obstetrician-gynecologist at the Markaryan Yerevan Maternity Hospital. In 1970 Mishik Kazaryan graduated from the faculty of general and applied physi...

8Apr

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United Kingdom

Roger Matthews, criminologist

Roger Matthews, a British criminologist, died on 7 April,2020 due to COVID-19. He was a Professor of Criminology at the University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom. Prior to joining the University of Kent, he was a professor of criminology at London South Bank University and Middlesex University. Matthews is known as one of the key figures in left realism, a criminological critique of both the dominant administrative criminology and the critical criminology. He died on 7 April 2020 at the age of 71 from the effects of the COVID-19 virus.

8Apr

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Ireland, Noteworthy, Profiles

Tom Scully, football manager

Thomas Scully –a Gaelic football manager, priest and schoolteacher – died on 7 April 2020 due to Covid-19. He managed the Offaly county team, where he was pivotal in establishing them as a rising side in the sport. Scully was a native of Aharney in Tullamore. He had two brothers and six sisters: Ned, Michael, Nance (Hanlon), Mary (Garry), Rose (Cleary), Margaret (Henry), Lily (MacDonald) and Emily (Hanlon). All bar Emily predeceased him. During the 1960s, Scully trained the Belcamp College boarding school team in Dublin to three Leinster Schools' Football Championships. He led Offaly to the final of the 1968–69 National Football League (their first), the Leinster Senior Football Championship title (their third) and then to ...

8Apr

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

Yaakov Perlow, rabbi

Yaakov Perlow, an American rabbi, passed away on 7 April,2020 due to COVID-19. Born in Brooklyn, New York on November 16, 1930, to Rabbi Nochum Mordechai Perlow ,the Novominsker Rebbe, and his wife, Beila Rochma Morgenstern. Perlow began his Torah education at Yeshiva Toras Chaim in East New York, and continued on to the Lithuanian-type yeshivas of Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin in Brooklyn and Beth Medrash Govoha in Lakewood, New Jersey. He also graduated with honors from Brooklyn College. After his marriage, Perlow taught at Hebrew Theological College in Skokie, Illinois. He later moved back to Brooklyn and settled in Crown Heights, becoming a member of the administration of the mesivta of Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin. In 1969, he was appointed rosh yeshiva at the Breuer's y...

8Apr

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Allen Garfield, actor

Allen Garfield, an American film and television actor, succumbed to Covid-19 on April 7, 2020. Garfield was born in Newark, New Jersey, to a Jewish family, the son of Alice (née Lavroff), and Philip Goorwitz. He had one sister, Lois. A 1957 graduate of Weequahic High School, he was a sports reporter and Golden Gloves boxer before becoming an actor. He attended The Actors Studio in New York City, studying with both Lee Strasberg and Elia Kazan, and worked on stage before acting in film. Garfield appeared in over 100 films and television shows. He is known for having played nervous villains, corrupt businessmen and politicians. In addition he appeared in two art films by German director Wim Wenders, Der Stand der Dinge and Bis ans Ende der Welt. Quentin Tarantino once stud...

8Apr

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Ghyslain Tremblay, actor & comedian

Ghyslain Tremblay –a Canadian actor and comedian – died on April 7, 2020, due to Covid-19. Tremblay was married to actress Danielle Brassard-Leduc. They had two sons before divorcing. He died after exhibiting symptoms consistent with COVID-19 during the pandemic, and after developing Alzheimer's disease several years earlier. His doctor could not specify a cause of death.