Noteworthy – Page 36

25Mar

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Cameroon, Noteworthy, Profiles

Manu Dibango, saxophonist

Emmanuel N'Djoké "Manu" Dibango –a Cameroonian musician and songwriter who played Saxophone and vibraphone – passed away after suffering from Covid-19 on 24 March 2020. He developed a musical style fusing jazz, funk, and traditional Cameroonian music. His father was a member of the Yabassi ethnic group, while his mother was a Duala. He was best known for his 1972 single "Soul Makossa". Emmanuel "Manu" Dibango was born in Douala, Cameroon in 1933. His father, Michel Manfred N'Djoké Dibango, was a civil servant. Son of a farmer, he met his wife travelling by pirogue to her residence, Douala. Emmanuel's mother was a fashion designer, running her own small business. Both her ethnic group, the Douala, and his, the Yabassi, viewed this union of different ethnic groups with some...

25Mar

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Noteworthy, Profiles, Switzerland

Steven Dick, diplomat

Steven Dick ‑ a British diplomat who was the deputy head of mission at the British Embassy in Budapest – died from Covid-19 on 24 March 2020. Dick joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 2008 and had served in Kabul and Riyadh. Dick arrived in Hungary in June 2019. He studied Hungarian in Pécs before receiving a secondment to the Hungarian Government. After a few weeks, he started his role in the Embassy in late November. On 25 March 2020, it was announced that Dick died from COVID-19 after having earlier tested positive for SARS-CoV-2. He was 37.

25Mar

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United Kingdom

Mohamed Farah, footballer

Abdulkadir Mohamed Farah –a Somali footballer – died on 24 March 2020 after contracting Covid-19 virus. Born in Beledweyne, Farah began his career in 1976 at schoolboy level, later playing at the regional level before playing club football for Batroolka. He also represented the Somali national team. Farah later worked as an advisor to the Minister of Youth and Sports. He died in a hospital in London from coronavirus.

25Mar

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

Alan Finder, journalist

Alan Finder –an American journalist and a longtime employee of the New York Times ‑ died on March 24, 2020, due to complications brought on by COVID-19. Alan A. Finder was born in Brooklyn and raised in Nassau County, New York, graduating from Valley Stream South High School. He earned a B.A. in history at the University of Rochester in 1969 and an M.A. in American studies at Yale University in 1972. From 1974 to 1979, he worked at The Record in Hackensack, New Jersey, and then until 1983 at Newsday on Long Island. Finder worked for 27 years at the New York Times and retired in December 2011. Times executive editor Dean Baquet described Finder as "one of Metro's stars in the 1980s and 1990s, a big writer in a big, hugely competitive era for Ne...

Terrence McNally, playwright, librettist & screenwriter

25Mar

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

Terrence McNally, playwright, librettist & screenwriter

Terrence McNally –an American playwright, librettist, and screenwriter – passed away on March 24, 2020 after suffering from coronavirus. Described as "the bard of American theater" and "one of the greatest contemporary playwrights the theater world has yet produced," McNally was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1996. He received the 2019 Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement, the Dramatists Guild Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011, and the Lucille Lortel Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2018, he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the highest recognition of artistic merit in the United States. He received the Tony Award for Best Play for Love! Valour! Compassion! and Master Class, as well as the Tony Award for Best Book of a Mus...

25Mar

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Noteworthy, Profiles

Jenny Polanco, fashion designer

Jenny Altagracia Polanco de Léon – a Dominican fashion designer – died from Covid-19 on March 24, 2020. Polanco, whose professional career spanned more than 37 years, was known for ready-to-wear women's clothing, jewelery, woven handbags, and other accessories that incorporated Dominican and Caribbean cultural elements into her collections. Her work was showcased throughout the Caribbean, the United States and Europe, including the Bahamas, New York City, Paris, Puerto Rico, and Miami Fashion Week. Polanco was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, on January 18, 1958. As a child, she began making clothing and costumes for her Barbie dolls. Polanco would later design clothing for herself during college. She earned her degree in int...

25Mar

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Netherland, Noteworthy, Profiles

Harry Aarts, politician

Henricus Johannes Bernardus "Harry" Aarts –a Dutch politician – died due to Covid-19 on 25 March 2020. He served in the House of Representatives for the Catholic People's Party and later the Christian Democratic Appeal from 23 January 1973 until 1 October 1993. Aarts was born in 's-Hertogenbosch on 9 March 1930. After attending primary and high school in the same city he studied political science at the Catholic University Nijmegen between 1949 and 1955. Aarts was a member of the municipal council of 's-Hertogenbosch from 1 September 1953 to 2 September 1958. After working at the Heineken brewery for two years he was organisation advisor at the Association of Netherlands Municipalities between 1959 and 1965. He was then appointed mayor of Berkel-Enschot and served from 16...

Maurice Berger, cultural historian curator & art critic

24Mar

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Maurice Berger, cultural historian curator & art critic

Maurice Berger ‑ an American cultural historian, curator, and art critic, who served as a Research Professor and Chief Curator at the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, University of Maryland, Baltimore County ‑ died due to presumed complications of a coronavirus disease on March 23, 2020. Berger was recognized for his interdisciplinary scholarship on race and visual culture in the United States. He curated a number of important exhibitions examining the relationship between race and American art, including the critically-acclaimed For All The World To See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights co-organized in 2011 by the National Museum of African American History and Culture of the Smithsonian Institution and the Center for Art, Design &...

24Mar

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Brian Crowe, diplomat

Sir Brian Crowe ‑ a British diplomat, who was Ambassador to Austria, 1989–1992 ‑ died on 23 March 2020 with COVID-19. He was born on 5 January 1938, the son of Eric Crowe, a diplomat, and Virginia Teusler. His grandfather was Sir Eyre Crowe. He was educated at Sherborne School and Magdalen College, Oxford.

24Mar

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Paul Karslake, artist

Paul Karslake ‑ a British artist, primarily a painter ‑ died on 23 March 2020 of sudden onset pneumonia, which was caused by COVID-19. Karslake was born in Basildon, Essex. He studied at SEEVIC College and Southend College of Art and Technology and started working with his father, Michael Karslake, an architectural model-maker working on such projects as Centre Point and the Thames Barrier. In the early 1970s Karslake was tutored by Sir Peter Scott; towards the end of that decade he met Salvador Dalí during a trip to Spain. Karslake then spent four years in California, working for the LA Art Studios, CBS Television and Disney, with whom he later collaborated on the EuroDisney project. Karslake had numerous solo exhibitions, and became famous for his d...