Noteworthy – Page 25

8Apr

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United Kingdom

Nipper Read, police officer

Leonard Ernest "Nipper" Read - a British police officer and boxing administrator – died on 7 April, 2020 due to COVID-19. Read was the son of Leonard Read Snr., who worked for a leather company, and his wife Ida (née Morris). His mother died when he was four and he was sent to live with her brother. After their father remarried, Leonard and his two sisters and brother returned to live with their father and stepmother. Read did well in school, always being one of the top three pupils in junior and senior school. He learned to box, winning his first medal in 1937. He later joined the Grundy boxing club, where he was nicknamed "Nipper". Read had hoped to attend Nottingham High School and passed the entrance exam, but his father could not afford the...

8Apr

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

John Prine, singer-songwriter

John Prine, an American country folk singer-songwriter, passed away on April 7, 2020 due to Covid-19. He was active as a composer, recording artist, and live performer from the early 1970s until his death and was known for an often humorous style of original music that has elements of protest and social commentary. Born and raised in Maywood, Illinois, Prine learned to play the guitar at the age of 14. He attended classes at Chicago's Old Town School of Folk Music. After serving in West Germany with the U.S. Army, he returned to Chicago in the late 1960s, where he worked as a mailman, writing and singing songs first as a hobby, and then becoming a club performer. A member of Chicago's folk revival, Prine credited film critic Roger Ebert and singer-songwriter Kris Kri...

8Apr

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

Hal Willner, music producer

Hal Willner – an American music producer working in recording, films, TV and live events – passed away after contracting Covid-19 on April 7, 2020. He was best known for assembling tribute albums and events featuring a wide variety of artists and musical styles (jazz, classical, rock, Tin Pan Alley). Willner was born in Philadelphia in 1956. His father and uncle were Holocaust survivors. Willner moved to New York City in 1974 to attend New York University, but did not graduate. In the late 1970s, Willner worked under record producer Joel Dorn, credited as associate producer on Leon Redbone's albums Double Time and Champagne Charlie, and The Neville Brothers' Fiyo on the Bayou. Willner became the sketch music prod...

8Apr

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Italy, Noteworthy, Profiles

Donato Sabia, runner

Donato Sabia - an Italian middle-distance runner who specialized in the 800 metres – died on 7 April,2020 due to COVID-19. Donato Sabia was born in Potenza and won two medals, at senior level, at the International athletics competitions, one of these with national relay team. He participated at two editions of the Summer Olympics (1984, 1988), reaching, in both cases, the Olympic 800 metres final; he had 17 caps in national team from 1982 to 1988. His personal best time was 1:43.88 minutes, achieved in June 1984 in Florence. In the 400 metres he had 45.73 seconds, achieved in June 1984 in Milan. Donato Sabia died on 7 April 2020 in San Carlo Hospital, in Potenza, from COVID-19, He was 56.

8Apr

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Noteworthy, Philippines, Profiles, United States

Leila Benitez-McCollum, journalist

Leila Benitez-McCollum ‑ a Filipino-born American radio and television host, presenter, journalist and broadcaster – died on April 9, 2020 from Covid-19 complications. Benitez, who was nicknamed as the "first lady of Philippine television", became a household name in the Philippines from the 1950s to the early 1970s due to a string of successful radio and television shows. She was best known for co-hosted Student Canteen, the country's first afternoon variety show, from 1959-64. Benitez was born in Quezon City, Philippines. She received her bachelor's degree in psychology from Georgetown University in Washington D.C. Benitez was best known for hosting the variety show, Student Canteen, which began as a radio show in the l...

8Apr

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

Martin S. Fox, publisher

Martin Standford Fox ) an American publisher who served as President of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, the oldest and largest international news agency and wire service serving Jewish community newspapers and media around the world – died on April 8, 2020, from Covid-19 complications. Fox was born in Newark, New Jersey in June 1924, the son of Mae Fox and of Jacob Fox (1898–1992), who was the longtime attorney for the Newark Board of Education. He was a graduate of Amherst College and received his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1949. He served as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Army during World War II. He served as Vice Chairman of the Essex County, New Jersey Chapter of Americans for Democratic Action. He was a partner at the Newark...

8Apr

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Noteworthy, Profiles, Spain

Miguel Jones, footballer

Miguel Jones Castillo –a Spanish footballer who played as a midfielder for SD Indautxu and Atlético Madrid during the 1950s and 1960s – passed away due to Covid-19 on 8 April 2020. Although born in Spanish Guinea, now known as Equatorial Guinea, Jones grew up in Bilbao. He began his career with local sides Barakaldo and Indautxu, where his teammates included the veteran Lezama and another emerging young player, Jesús María Pereda. Jones and Pereda, and later a third Indautxu player, José Eulogio Gárate, were all controversially rejected by Athletic Bilbao because the club's signing policy required for them to be born in Biscay; he maintained throughout his life that his rejection was not due to racism, as the other shunn...

8Apr

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Italy, Noteworthy, Profiles

Francesco La Rosa, footballer

Francesco La Rosa –an Italian footballer who played as a forward and competed in the men's tournament at the 1952 Summer Olympics – died from Covid-19 on 8 April 2020.

8Apr

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France, Noteworthy, Profiles

Henri Madelin, theologian

Henri Madelin –a French Jesuit priest and theologian – passed away on 8 April 2020 after contracting Covid-19. Madelin was born on 26 April 1936 in a family of nine children. His family moved to Blois in 1939, where Madelin practiced scouting. After studying philosophy at the Jesuit formation in Vals-près-le-Puy, two years at Collège Libermann in Douala, and studying theology in Fourvière, Madelin was ordained a priest of the Society of Jesus in 1967. In 1973, Madelin became director of Action populaire, which became the Center for Research and Social Action (CERAS). After earning a doctorate in political science, he chaired the Centre Sèvres in Paris from 1985 to 1991, when he was appointed national chapl...

8Apr

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France, Noteworthy, Profiles

Robert Chaudenson, linguist

Robert Chaudenson - a French linguist – died on 7 April,2020 due to COVID-19. He was a specialist in creole languages and an emeritus professor of linguistics at the University of Provence. He was a widely known author on the subject of creolistics and president of the International Committee of Creole Studies. He was born in Lyon, and died aged 82, just 5 days before his 83rd birthday in Metropolitan France due to complications of COVID-19.