Noteworthy – Page 31

2Apr

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

Adam Schlesinger, singer & songwriter

Adam Lyons Schlesinger ‑ an American singer-songwriter, record producer, bassist, guitarist, keyboardist, and drummer – passed away after suffering from Covid-19 on April 1, 2020. He won three Emmy Awards, a Grammy Award, and the ASCAP Pop Music Award, and was nominated for Academy, Tony, and Golden Globe Awards. He was a founding member of the bands Fountains of Wayne, Ivy, and Tinted Windows, and was a key songwriting contributor and producer for Brooklyn-based synth-pop duo Fever High. Schlesinger grew up in Manhattan and Montclair, New Jersey. He died in the United States due to complications brought on by COVID-19. Schlesinger was born in New York City, the son of Barbara "Bobbi" (Bernthal), a publicist, and Stephen Schlesinger. He grew up in Manhattan ...

2Apr

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France, Medics, Noteworthy, Profiles

Dora Werzberg, nurse & social worker

Dora Werzberg Amelan, a French nurse and social worker, succumbed to Covid-19 on 1 April 2020. In 1942, she rescued Jewish children through Œuvre de secours aux enfants (OSE). She worked in the Camp de Rivesaltes and the Gurs internment camp, and took care of children who had survived the Nazi concentration camps. She died due to complications brought on by COVID-19. Werzberg was born in Strasbourg, the daughter of Karl Werzberg and Gisèla Blum, who were Jewish emigrants from Poland. The family moved to Antwerp when Werzberg was ten, and stayed until the death of her mother and the invasion of Belgium by Nazi Germany. She then joined a Zionist youth movement. Werzberg had two sisters, Manda, who died of sepsis in 1942, and Simone Be...

2Apr

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

Robert Beck, pentathlete

Robert Lee Beck ‑ an American modern pentathlete and fencer who won three gold medals in these disciplines at the Pan American Games in 1963-1971 – died of coronavirus on April 2, 2020. He also won bronze medals in the individual and team modern pentathlon events at the 1960 Summer Olympics. He was less successful at the 1968 Games, placing 22nd individually and fourth with the American team. Beck was a practising dentist in San Antonio, Texas, during his professional career. He was hospitalised in February 2020, due to a head injury from a fall in front of his home. He died at age 83 on April 2, 2020, after contracting COVID19 while in the hospital. As of the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympics, he was the last athlete from the United States to ...

1Apr

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India, Noteworthy, Profiles, United Kingdom

Sister Sienna, septuagenarian nun

Sister Sienna died on April 1, 2020 Sister Sienna, a 73-year-old Indian member of the Missionaries of Charity in the United Kingdom, was admitted to Morriston Hospital in Swansea with complications of the viral infection and succumbed to the illness on April 1, 2020. The septuagenarian nun was working with the poor and destitute in Swansea, Wales, some 300 km west of London. She was involved in distributing food packets for those affected by the recent outbreak of coronavirus. A native of Jharkhand state in eastern India, Sister Sienna has served the community in North London until 2016. She was also active in the spiritual services of the Indian Catholic community. Matters India

1Apr

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Julie Bennett, actress & voice artist

Julie Bennett, an American actress and voice artist, died on March 31, 2020 from coronavirus. A native of Hollywood, Bennett worked as a character actress on stage, on radio, and in several film and television programs, including The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show, Adventures of Superman, and Dragnet. Bennett worked as a voice actress from the 1950s until the early 2000s. She recorded voices for UPA, Warner Bros., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Format Films' The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show (for the segment Fractured Fairy Tales), and Hanna-Barbera Productions. She is best known as the voice of Hanna-Barbera's Cindy Bear on The Yogi Bear Show and its feature-film spin-off Hey There, It's Yogi Bear! She reprised the character in Yogi's Tre...

1Apr

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Noteworthy, Profiles, Turkey

Turhan Kaya, actor

Turhan Kaya ‑ a Turkish theatre, movie and television actor – succumbed to Covid-19-related complications on 31 March 2020. Kaya was born on 30 November 1951 in Istanbul. He was a graduate of the Yeditepe University School of Communication. He studied acting in England and Italy. He started acting with theatre in the early 1980s, but later switched to television. He was known for playing the Ordinary’s character in the series Kurtlar Vadisi Pusu. Kaya returned to television for his final role by portraying the character Cengiz Erkmen in the TV series Halka broadcast on TRT 1. Tuhan Kaya, who had a son from his French former wife, died at the age of 68 on 31 March 2020 at a hospital in Istanbul where he was being treated for COVID19. His body was buried in a priva...

1Apr

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Israel, Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

Israel Tolentino

Israel Tolentino, 33, a firefighter and an EMT volunteer in Passaic, New Jersey, died from Covid-19 on March 31, 2020. He battled it for nearly two weeks. Israel Tolentino died from complications after contracting Covid-19, Passaic Mayor Hector Lora said in a Facebook Live, flanked by Passaic Fire Chief Patrick Trentacost. Tolentino, who joined the Passaic Fire Department in December 2018, leaves behind a wife and two children, ages 7 and 9, Lora said. Battling tears, Trentacost said that Tolentino’s death was considered a line of duty death, as he remembered the young firefighter who fulfilled his dream of joining the fire department little more than a year ago. “Israel was a great father, person, husband, son,” said Trentacost. Israel is survived by his wife and two small children...

1Apr

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United Kingdom

Andrew Jack. dialect coach

Andrew Jack ‑ a British dialect coach and actor, from London who had worked on over 80 motion pictures since 1982 – died on 31 March 2020 after suffering from Covid-19. He was 76. His father Stephen Jack was an actor in films, radio and television. His mother Julia (née Hutchinson), was a horticulturist. He had worked with over 200 actors including Robert Downey Jr. (in Richard Attenborough's Chaplin, Michael Hoffman's Restoration and Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes), Pierce Brosnan (in GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies and Die Another Day), Cate Blanchett, and Viggo Mortensen. As supervising dialect coach for The Lord of the Rings, he created the Middle-earth accents and taught them, along with Elvish and Black Speech, to the cast of the trilogy. He designe...

31Mar

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Germany, Noteworthy, Profiles

Wilhelm Burmann, dancer

Wilhelm "Willy" Burmann ‑ a German dancer, ballet master, and teacher – succumbed to Covid-19 on March 30, 2020. Burmann was born on April 3, 1939 in Oberhausen, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, where he grew up on a farm. He had one sister, Chrystal Weideman. He began training as a dancer when he was fifteen years old. Burmann was a principal dancer for companies including Frankfurt Ballet, Grand Théâtre du Genève, and Stuttgart Ballet. He also danced with companies including New York City Ballet, Pennsylvania Ballet, and New Jersey Ballet. Burmann retired from dancing in 1977. Burmann was a ballet master at the Washington Ballet and the Ballet du Nord. He was also known for his professional dance classes at St...

31Mar

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Mexico, Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

Lorena Borjas, activist

Lorena Borjas ‑ a Mexican-American transgender and immigrant rights activist, known as the mother of the transgender Latinx community in Queens, New York – died of Covid-19 on March 30, 2020. Her work on behalf of immigrant and transgender communities garnered recognition throughout New York City and the United States. She lived for many years in the Jackson Heights neighborhood of Queens, where she was a community figure and leader. In 1960, Borjas was born in Veracruz, Mexico. When she was seventeen years old, she ran away from home and lived on the streets of Mexico City. She later studied public accounting in Mexico City. In 1981, Borjas emigrated to the United States at twenty years old, with the goal of obtaining hormone therapy and ...