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Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

Maria Mercader, journalist

Maria Carla Mercader ‑ an American journalist and news producer who worked for CBS News for over three decades – succumbed to Covid-19 on March 29, 2020. For her work producing a CBS feature report about computer spam, Mercader won a business Emmy Award in 2004. In 2020, she died of COVID-19 during its pandemic in New York City. Mercader was born on November 28, 1965, in New York City to Manuel and Gladys Mercader. She studied at Dominican Academy, then at the College of New Rochelle, where she graduated in 1987. Mercader started working for CBS News in 1987 as a page in the company's page program, then began her news career at CBS Newspath, where she produced pieces for distribution at CBS' affiliates. She also worked on the netwo...

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Joe Diffie, singer

Joe Logan Diffie ‑ an American country music singer – succumbed to Covid-19 on March 29, 2020. After working as a demo singer in the mid 1980s, he signed with Epic Records' Nashville division in 1990. Between then and 2004, Diffie charted 35 singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, five of which peaked at number one: his debut release "Home", "If the Devil Danced (In Empty Pockets)", "Third Rock from the Sun", "Pickup Man" (his longest-lasting number-one song, at four weeks) and "Bigger Than the Beatles". In addition to these singles, he had 12 others reach the top 10 and ten more reach the top 40 on the same chart. He also co-wrote singles for Holly Dunn, Tim McGraw, and Jo Dee Messina, and recorded wi...

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Beryl Bernay, journalist

Beryl Bernay (March 2, 1926 – March 29, 2020) was a journalist and children's television creator, as well as a painter, photographer, actor and fashion designer. Bernay was born Beryl Bernstein in Brooklyn, New York. Her parents were Russian immigrants. Her father was a garment worker, and her mother, Sade, sold stockings and taught kindergarten. Her father changed the family name to Berney when Beryl was a child, but Beryl changed the spelling to Bernay when she reached adulthood. Bernay took acting classes with Uta Hagen and Herbert Berghof. She appeared on Broadway in Tonight in Samarkand in 1955 and later that year in ANTA's Paris production of Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth with Helen Hayes and Mary Martin. She returned to Bro...

29Mar

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Barbados, Noteworthy, Profiles

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.

29Mar

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Noteworthy, Profiles, Spain

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.

29Mar

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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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France, Noteworthy, Profiles

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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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 ...

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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...

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Noteworthy, Pakistan, Profiles

Azam Khan, squash player

Azam Khan –a Pakistani squash player who won the British Open four times between 1959 and 1962 – succumbed to Covid-19 on 28 March 2020. This section does not cite any sources. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.Find sources: "Azam Khan" squash player – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (March 2020) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) His brother Hashim Khan and granddaughter Carla Khan were also squash players. Azam was the second cousin of the two other leading Pakistani players of his time Roshan Khan and Nasrullah Khan, whose sons Rehmat Khan, Torsam Khan and Jahangir Khan ...