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30Mar

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Ken Shimura, comedian

Ken Shimura ‑ a Japanese comedian who co-starred with Masashi Tashiro, Nobuyoshi Kuwano in the Japanese variety show Shimura Ken no Bakatono-sama – died from Covid-19 on 29 March 2020. He was known as "Japan's Robin Williams.". Throughout his comedy career, Shimura was known for his "Bakatono-sama" character, which was unusual among Japanese comedians, in that he could satirize the deeds of powerful figures (a company president, a politician, a family head, a school principal, the head of a Japanese yakuza gang) under the garb of a foolish king who lived in the country a long time ago. Another popular shtick of Shimura in the same show was "Henna Oji-san" [weirdo] who entertained himself in the company of nubile girls....

30Mar

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Henri Tincq, journalist

Henri Tincq ‑ a French journalist and Vatican expert – succumbed to Covid-19 on 29 March 2020. He was a religious specialist for the newspaper Le Monde from 1985 to 2008 after having worked for the newspaper La Croix. He has also worked for the magazine Slate. Tincq obtained a degree in philosophy from Sciences Po in Paris and a degree in journalism from the École supérieure de journalisme de Lille. His most notable work is Larousse des religions, and he chaired the Association des journalistes de l’information religieuse (AJIR) from 1994 to 1999. Tincq had an interest in the history of popes. Following the election of Pope Benedict XVI in 2005, he established a list of "progressive objectives" for the Catholi...

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David Hodgkiss, administrator

David Michael William Hodgkiss ‑ a British administrator and chief executive officer, who was the chairman of Lancashire County Cricket Club (LCCC), a professional British cricket team, between April 2017 and March 2020 – died after contracting Covid-19 on 29 March 2020. He had been chief executive of a steel fabrication company, William Hare Group, for which he was awarded an Order of the British Empire for his services to the manufacturing and exporting industry. Hodgkiss was awarded the OBE in June 2014. His OBE was awarded as part of the Queen's Birthday list. After he gained his own honours, he continued to applaud others in the field of cricketing, for example, praising Clive Lloyd, when Clive was knighted as a CBE. Hodgkiss work...

29Mar

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Michel Tibon-Cornillot, anthropologist

Michel Tibon-Cornillot ‑ a French philosopher and anthropologist – passed away on 28 March 2020 due to Covid-19. He directed research at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS). He had an interest in the evolution of technology in the field of biology, leading to his authoring of the book Les Corps transfigurés. Tibon-Cornillot earned an agrégation and a doctorate in philosophy. He was highly interested in mathematics, and his discussions with René Thom led him to the philosophical fields of complexity and chaos. He worked at the Pasteur Institute's bacterial molecular genetics labs. He was also a lecturer in technical anthropology at EHESS. His research in the philosophy of science led him to work on iss...

29Mar

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William Wolf, film critic

William Wolf ‑ an American film and theater critic, and the author of several books – died of Covid-19 on March 28, 2020. He was a film critic for Cue and New York magazines in the 1960s-1980s. Later, he was the president of the Drama Desk and the chairman of the New York Film Critics Circle. Wolf served two years as Chairman of the New York Film Critics Circle and was a member of the National Society of Film Critics, the New York Film Critics Online, the Online Film Critics Society, PEN, the American Theatre Critics Association, the International Association of Theatre Critics, and the American Association of University Professors. He served for four years as President of the Drama Desk, an organization of critics and writers on the theater, and previously served ...

29Mar

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Kerstin Behrendtz

Clary Kerstin Margareta Behrendtz (18 August 1950 – 28 March 2020) was a Swedish radio presenter and director of music for Sveriges Radio's programmes. Biography She worked for Sveriges Radio, where she worked as a director who selected songs to be played in the radio stations programmes. She retired on 31 August 2017. On 7 October 2017, Behrendtz presented Jukeboxen on Sveriges Radio P4. She was part of the selection committee that decided what songs would take part in Melodifestivalen 2014. She was also part of the selection committee for the Swedish Music Hall of Fame from 2014 until her death. Behrendtz was between 1972 and 1977 married to film director Thomas Samuelsson and they had two children together. Behrendtz died on 28 March 2020 after suffering from...

29Mar

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Chato Galante, pro-democracy activist

José María Galante Serrano, best known as Chato Galante –a Spanish pro-democracy activist – succumbed to Covid-19 on 28 March 2020. Onetime political prisoner during the Franco era, he was tortured by Antonio González Pacheco. He died after suffering from COVID-19 in March 2020, aged 71.

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William B. Helmreich, sociologist

William Helmreich –a professor of sociology at the City College of New York Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York – died on March 28, 2020 due to Covid-19. Helmreich, a published author, was a distinguished professor at the City University of New York, who specialized in race and ethnic relations, religion, immigration, risk behavior, the sociology of New York City, urban sociology, consumer behavior, and market research. Helmreich was born in 1945 in Zürich, Switzerland, the son of Holocaust survivor parents. In 1946, he was brought to the US as an infant, and grew up in New York City on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Helmreich wrote about his early ye...

Denise Millet, illustrator & comic book artist

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Denise Millet, illustrator & comic book artist

Denise Millet –a French illustrator and comic book artist – died from Covid-19 on 28 March 2020. She worked with her husband, Claude Millet. The works of Claude and Denise Millet spanned from 1976 to 2019 and included nearly 200 titles. The pair collaborated with Bayard Presse, and designed the comic strip Pic et Pik, written by Stéphanie Janicot. They also drew a biographical comic of Martin Luther King, Jr., written by Benoît Marchon. Besides comics, Millet worked in advertising, communication, and cinema. She, along with Claude, designed the poster for I Hate Actors (1986), which was nominated for the César Award for Best Poster. Denise Millet died on 28 March 2020 at the age of 86 in Lariboisière Hospit...

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Pearson Jordan, sprinter

Pearson G. Jordan –a Barbadian sprinter who competed in the men's 100 metres at the 1976 Summer Olympics – died on 28 March 2020 from Covid-19. Jordan competed for the Louisiana State University Tigers from 1976 to 1979. He was part of the championship 4 × 400 m relay in 1979. Jordan died from complications due to COVID-19 on 28 March 2020, aged 69.