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Reuven Maroth, Emergency Medical Technician

2Apr

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Reuven Maroth, Emergency Medical Technician

Reuven Maroth – an Emergency Medical Technician in Hackensack, New Jersey – passed away on 1 April 2020, after suffering from COVID-19. Source: NJEMSTF Please help us in adding details.

2Apr

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Noteworthy, Senegal

Pape Diouf, journalist & football agent

Mababa "Pape" Diouf ‑ a Senegalese journalist and football agent, who was the president of French football club Olympique de Marseille between 2005 and 2009 – died of Covid-19 on 31 March 2020. He was the first Black President of a top flight football club in any of Europe's top six leagues Diouf was born in Abéché, Chad, to Senegalese parents. The family returned to their native country shortly after Diouf's birth. Diouf had Chadian, French and Senegalese citizenships. Diouf moved to Marseille at the age of eighteen. He later studied at Sciences Po. Diouf started out as a journalist, working for La Marseillaise newspaper. Diouf centred his work around sport, and particularly the local football club, Olympique de Marseille. Eventually he turned his hand to be...

2Apr

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India, Noteworthy, United Kingdom

Gita Ramjee, virologist

Gita Ramjee ‑ a Ugandan-South African scientist and researcher in HIV prevention – died of Covid-19 on 31 March 2020. In 2018, she was awarded the ‘Outstanding Female Scientist’ award from the European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership. She died in Umhlanga, Durban, South Africa, from COVID-19 related complications. Gita Parekh was born on 8 April 1956 and grew up in Colonial Uganda before her family were driven into exile under Idi Amin in the 1970s. She attended high school in India before attending the University of Sunderland in England. She graduated in 1980 with a BSc (Hons) in Chemistry and Physiology. She married a South African-Indian fellow student, Praveen Ramjee, and moved to Durban where she bega...

2Apr

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Noteworthy, United States

Wallace Roney, jazz trumpeter

Wallace Roney ‑ an American jazz (hard bop and post-bop) trumpeter – died on March 31, 2020 from Covid-19. Roney took lessons from Clark Terry and Dizzy Gillespie and studied with Miles Davis from 1985 until the latter's death in 1991. Wallace credited Davis as having helped to challenge and shape his creative approach to life as well as being his music instructor, mentor, and friend; he was the only trumpet player Davis personally mentored. Roney was born in Philadelphia. He attended Howard University and Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, after graduating from the Duke Ellington School of the Arts of the D. C. Public Schools, where he studied trumpet with Langston Fitzgerald of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Found to have perfe...

2Apr

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Noteworthy, Profiles, Spain

Daniel Yuste, cyclist

Daniel Yuste Escolar ‑ a Spanish cyclist who competed in the individual pursuit at the 1968 Summer Olympics ‑ passed away after contracting Covid-19. On 31 March 2020, he died at the age of 75 due to complications of COVID-19 during the pandemic.

2Apr

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David Driskell, artist & scholar

David C. Driskell ‑ an artist and a scholar in the field of African-American art – died from coronavirus on April 1, 2020. Driskell was emeritus professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. David Clyde Driskell was born in Eatonton, Georgia, the son of George Washington Driskell, a minister, and Mary Cloud Driskell, a homemaker. When he was five years old, he moved with his family to western North Carolina. Driskell attended Howard University in Washington, D.C., graduating with a bachelor's degree in art in 1955; he also completed the summer program at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 1953. After teaching for several years at Talladega College in Alabama, he went on to earn a Master of Fine Arts degree...

2Apr

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France, Noteworthy, Profiles

Bernard Epin, writer

Bernard Epin ‑ a French writer, literary critic, and communist activist – died on 1 April 2020 after suffering from Covid-19. Born into a working-class family, Epin attended primary school in the 14th arrondissement of Paris. He joined the French Communist Party in 1954 and the editorial team of L'École et la Nation, a communist magazine, in 1957. After his military service in Algeria, Epin became editorial secretary of the magazine. He also collaborated with the weekly Révolution, the monthly Regards, and L'Humanité. In addition to his criticism in children's literature, Epin wrote ten essays, including Les livres de vos enfants, parlons-en in 1985. This essay defended the idea of emancipation in children's reading...

2Apr

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Ellis Marsalis Jr, jazz pianist

Ellis Louis Marsalis Jr. ‑ an American jazz pianist and educator – died from Covid-19 complications on April 1, 2020. Active since the late 1940s, Marsalis came to greater attention in the 1980s and 1990s as the patriarch of a musical family, with sons Branford and Wynton also becoming notable musicians. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, Marsalis was the son of Florence Marie (née Robertson) and Ellis Marsalis Sr., a businessman and social activist. Marsalis and his wife Delores Ferdinand had six sons: Branford, Wynton, Ellis III, Delfeayo, Mboya, and Jason. Branford, Wynton, Delfeayo, and Jason also became jazz musicians. Ellis III is a poet and photographer. Marsalis played saxophone during high school but switched to piano while st...

2Apr

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Richard Passman, aeronautical engineer

Richard Passman ‑ an aeronautical engineer and space scientist from the United States – succumbed to Covid-19 virus on April 1, 2020. He worked on projects including the Corona, the first spy satellite. He was a volunteer in the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum and author. Passman was born in Cedarhurst, New York to Ethel and Matthew Passman. He graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in aeronautical engineering in 1944 and mathematics in 1946. He earned a master's in aeronautical engineering in 1947. He joined the Navy Pilot Training program during WWII, but was discharged for medical reasons. He worked for Bell Aircraft, General Electric, the U.S. Department of Energy, and Grumman Corp. Passman worked on the team that created Bell X-1, the first airplane to ...

2Apr

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Bucky Pizzarelli, jazz guitarist

John Paul "Bucky" Pizzarelli, an American jazz guitarist, died due to Covid-19 on April 1, 2020 . He was the father of jazz guitarist John Pizzarelli and double bassist Martin Pizzarelli. He worked for NBC as a staffman for Dick Cavett (1971) and ABC with Bobby Rosengarden in (1952). The list of musicians he collaborated with includes Benny Goodman, Les Paul, Stéphane Grappelli, and Antônio Carlos Jobim. Pizzarelli cited as influences Django Reinhardt, Freddie Green, and George Van Eps. Pizzarelli was born on January 9, 1926, in Paterson, New Jersey. He learned to play guitar and banjo at a young age. His uncles, Pete and Bobby Domenick, were professional musicians, and sometimes the extended family would gather at one of their homes with the...