Noteworthy – Page 29

3Apr

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Italy, Noteworthy, Profiles

Sergio Rossi, shoe designer

Sergio Rossi, an Italian shoe designer who founded his own brand, died due to coronavirus on 2 April 2020. Rossi was born in San Mauro Pascoli in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy. He worked with his father, a shoemaker, and learned the trade. In 1951, he opened his first shoe store. He also made sandals and sold them to beach-goers in Rimini and at Bologna boutiques. In 1968, the first shoes, marked with the Rossi brand, were produced. Each pair of shoes took at least 14 hours to make and went through 120 different stages. They were seen on runways for Gianni Versace, Azzedine Alaia and Dolce & Gabbana. He first gained attention in 1960 when film director Federico Fellini used his shoe for actress Anita Ekberg in La Dolce Vita. ...

3Apr

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

Aaron Rubashkin, businessman

Abraham Aaron Rubashkin, a Russian-American businessman, died due to complications brought on by COVID-19 on April 2, 2020. An adherent to Haredi Judaism of the Lubavitcher hasidic movement, Rubashkin was born in the late-1920s in the Russian town Nevel in the former Soviet Union He was the son of Getzel Rubashkin and Rosa Lubavicher Hasidim, who raised their two sons and daughters as observant Jews in spite of the anti-religious repression in the Soviet Union. When the Germans occupied Nevel in July 1941, the Rubashkin family fled east, eventually reaching the Uzbek city of Samarkand, where he married Rivka Chazanov of the Chein family of Nevel. After the war, the Rubashkin family left the Soviet Union via Lemberg and spent time in Austria, before they settled in Paris ...

3Apr

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India, Noteworthy, Profiles

Nirmal Singh Khalsa, theologist

Bhai Nirmal Singh Khalsa ‑ a Sikh Hazoori Ragi of Darbar Sahib in Amritsar, Punjab, India – succumbed to Covid-19 virus on 2 April 2020. Bhai Nirmal Singh was born on 12 April 1952, at village Jandwala Bhimeshah in Ferozepur, Punjab. In 1976, he graduated with a diploma in Gurmat Sangeet from Shaheed Missionary College in Amritsar. From 1977 to 1978, he served as a music teacher at Gurmat College in Rishikesh and later taught at Shaheed Sikh Missionary College in Sri Ganganagar, Rajasthan. From 1979, he started serving as a Hazoori Ragi at Darbar Sahib. He had performed Kirtan at all five Takhts, various historical Gurdwaras across South Asia and throughout 71 countries. Bhai Sahib was a highly regarded ragi with knowledge of all 31 Raags of Guru Granth Sahib. &...

3Apr

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France, Noteworthy, Profiles

Arnold Sowinski, footballer

Arnold Sowinski, a French footballer who played with RC Lens, died from Covid-19 on 2 April 2020. He also managed RC Lens on four different occasions. Sowinski was born in France and was of Polish descent.

3Apr

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

Arthur Whistler, ethnobotanist

Wayne Arthur Whistler ‑ an American ethnobotanist, academic and writer – died on April 2, 2020 from Covid-19. Whistler, an adjunct professor at the University of Hawaii's Department of Botany, was an expert on tropical flora of the Pacific Islands, especially Samoa and Tonga. Whistler was born near Death Valley in San Bernardino County, California. He earned a B.A. in Biology from the University of California, Riverside, in 1965; an M.A. in Botany, from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1966, and Ph.D. in Botany, from the University of Hawaii, in 1979. Once he completed his first two degrees, Whistler served in the Peace Corps as a teacher at Samoa College in Apia, Western Samoa (now known as Samoa). He then moved to Hawaii, where he ...

3Apr

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Noteworthy, Profiles, Spain

Goyo Benito, footballer

Gregorio "Goyo" Benito Rubio ‑ a Spanish footballer who played as a central defender – succumbed to Covid-19 on 2 April 2020. He spent most of his 16-year professional career with Real Madrid. Benito was born in El Puente del Arzobispo, Toledo, Castile-La Mancha. After practicing track and field in his early teens, inclusively being national javelin throw champion at school level, he signed for La Liga powerhouse Real Madrid in the summer of 1963, aged nearly 17. After two years on loan to neighbouring Rayo Vallecano, in Segunda División (his second being cut short as he was called for military service in Sidi Ifni), he returned to his main club, remaining there for the following 14 seasons and winning six leagues and five Spanish Cups. In 1982, after ...

3Apr

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United Kingdom

Eddie Large, comedian

Edward Hugh McGinnis, better known by the stage name Eddie Large, was a British comedian. He died on 2 April 2020 due to Covid-19 complications. He was best known as one half of the double act Little and Large, with Syd Little (the stage name of Cyril Mead). Large was born Edward Hugh McGinnis in Glasgow in 1941. His father Teddy served as a Petty Officer in the Royal Navy during World War II and after he returned from the war the family moved to a tenement in Oatlands. When he was nine years old, the family moved again to Manchester, where he attended Claremont Road Primary School and a grammar school. He played football as a schoolboy, becoming a supporter of nearby Manchester City which had its ground opposite his home, and he maintained a lifelong devotion to the club. Afte...

3Apr

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

Patricia Bosworth, journalist & actress

Patricia Bosworth ‑ an American journalist and biographer, memoirist, and actress – dies of Covid-19 on April 2, 2020. She was a faculty member of Columbia University’s school of journalism as well as Barnard College, and was a winner of the Front Page Award for her journalistic achievement in writing about the Hollywood Blacklist. She died due to complications brought on by COVID-19. Born Patricia Crum in Oakland, California, Bosworth was the daughter of prominent attorney Bartley Crum and novelist Anna Gertrude Bosworth. She grew up especially close to her younger brother, Bartley Crum Jr. Their father was active in politics as a confidant to Wendell Willkie during the 1940 U.S. presidential election, and served on the 1945 Anglo-American Commi...

2Apr

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

Anick Jesdanun, journalist

Anick "Nick" Jesdanun ‑ an American technology journalist who served as deputy technology editor for the Associated Press (AP) – succumbed to Covid-19 on April 2, 2020. Jesdanun covered technology, especially the internet, for AP for more than twenty years and sought to help readers navigate the relatively new technology and its impact on daily life, from the 1990s to the 2020s. Jesdanun was the first Associated Press reporter to be assigned as an "internet writer" in the news agency's history. Jesdanun's parents, Adisak and Orabhin Jesdanun, immigrated to the United States from Thailand. He was originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, but was raised in New Jersey. He earned a bachelor's degree from Swarthmore Col...

2Apr

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Noteworthy

Viktar Dashkevich, actor

Viktar Mikalayevich Dashkevich, a Belarusian stage actor, died of Covid-19 on 31 March 2020. He was born in Chashniki District, and died in March 2020 in Vitebsk, after suffering from COVID-19 complications. He had suffered from chronic lung disease for many years. He is buried in the Orthodox Hieorhijeŭskija Cemetery near Ruba.