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20May

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Brazil, High Profilers, Profiles

Gil Vianna, politician

Gil Manhães Vianna Júnior, better known simply as Gil Vianna, was a Brazilian Politician and member of the Military Police of Rio de Janeiro State. He died of Covid-19 on May 19, 2020. Born in July 10, 1965 in Campos dos Goytacazes. Vianna was the son of Gil Manhães Vianna, a Waiter and Getúlia Santos Arêas Vianna, a Housewife. In 1984, Vianna joined the Brazilian Army. In 1986, he joined the Military Police of Rio de Janeiro State, where he remained for two decades until the start of his political career. At the time of his retirement, Vianna held the rank of Sergeant. In 2008, Vianna successfuly ran for the City council of his birth city of Campos dos Goytacazes.He started his term in 2009 and remained until 2012. In 2012, Vianna was re...

19May

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High Profilers, Profiles, United Kingdom

William John Olner, politician

William John Olner ‑ a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Nuneaton from 1992 until 2010 ‑ died from complications of COVID-19 at George Eliot Hospital in Nuneaton on 18 May 2020, at age 78. Previously,Olner had been Leader of Nuneaton Borough Council. Olner was educated at Nuneaton Technical College and trained as an engineer. He became a shop steward, and later area secretary for the AEEU (now Unite trade union). Olner was a councillor for the Labour group on Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough Council for 21 years, and was the council leader from 1982–87. In 1987 he became Mayor of Nuneaton and Bedworth, serving a 1-year term. Olner was first elected to the House of Commons in 1992, as the Member of Parliament for Nuneaton....

19May

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Vincent Malone, bishop

Vincent Malone ‑ an English prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He was the Auxiliary Bishop emeritus of the Archdiocese of Liverpool ‑ died on 18 May 2020 at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, after testing positive for COVID-19. Malone was born in Liverpool, and was ordained to the priesthood on 18 September 1955, in Old Swan. On 13 May 1989, he was appointed Titular Bishop of Abora and Auxiliary Bishop of Liverpool. He received his episcopal consecration on the following 3 July from Archbishop Derek Worlock, with Bishops Kevin O'Connor and John Rawsthorne serving as co-consecrators. In 2003 Malone wrote a contribution for Healing Priesthood: Women's Voices Worldwide, in which he argued that women should be allowed to hear confessions and absolve penit...

18May

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Brazil, High Profilers, Profiles

Wilson Braga, politician

Wilson Leite Braga ‑ a Brazilian politician, lawyer and businessman from the state of Paraíba – contracted Covid-19 and died due to its complications on May 17, 2020. Before pursuing a career in politics, Braga graduated in law at Federal University of Paraíba. In 1954, Braga was elected member of the Legislative Assembly of Paraíba and held the post from 1955 to 1967. In 1966, he was elected member of the Chamber of Deputies representing his birth state of Paraíba. He remained in power from 1967 to 1982. In 1982, he was elected governor of Paraíba, remaining from 1983 to 1987. In 1988, he was elected mayor of João Pessoa. He kept the post from 1989 to 1990. In 1992, he was elected city councillor of João Pessoa...

13May

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High Profilers, Profiles, United States

Morris Hood III, politician

Morris Hood III –an American politician who served as a member of the Michigan Senate – died on May 12, 2020 due to Covid-19. He represented District 3, encompassing Dearborn, Melvindale, and a portion of Detroit from 2011 to 2018. Hood was born in Detroit. He went to Wayne State University and Henry Ford College. Hood was the son of Morris Hood Jr. and the nephew of Raymond W. Hood. Prior to his election to the Legislature, Hood was an auto technician at Ford Motor Company's Detroit Engine Fuel Tank Plant. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the House in 1998. Hood was elected to the Michigan House of Representatives in 2003, serving for three terms. He was elected to the Michigan Senate in 2010, also serving as the Michigan Senate Minority Leader until 2018. He was unable to...

11May

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Bangladesh, High Profilers, Profiles

Anwarul Kabir Talukdar, politician

Anwarul Kabir Talukdar ‑ a politician of Bangladesh Nationalist Party and Liberal Democratic Party – succumbed to Covid-19 on 10 May 2020. He was a Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Jamalpur-4 constituency and State Minister of Power. Talukder served in Bangladesh Army and retired as a major general. He was elected to parliament from Jamalpur-4. He was the State Minister for Planning and Finance, and later served as the State Minister of Power in the Second Khaleda Cabinet. He resigned his post to protest corruption in the power sector. The Bangladesh Nationalist Party government reported that he had not resigned but in fact had been sacked from his ministerial post by the government. Talukdar resigned from Bangladesh Nationalist Party on 26 October 2006....

9May

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Greece, High Profilers, Medics, Profiles

Dimitris Kremastinos, politician

Dr Dimitris Kremastinos Dr Dimitris Kremastinos ‑ a Greek politician who served as an MP ‑ died after suffering from COVID-19 on May 8, 2020. He was 78. Greece’s former health minister, cardiologist and university professor Dimitris Kremastinos was a widely respected doctor who became a household name in Greece as the personal physician of late Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou in the mid-1990s. He was admitted to Athens’ Evangelismos hospital on March 26. He died on May 8 after being in the intensive care unit for COVID-19.

9May

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Brazil, High Profilers, Profiles

Dr Vicente André Gomes, Politician

Vicente André Gomes a Brazilian politician and physician with a specialization in cardiology from the state of Pernambuco died on May 8, 2020, at the age of 68 after almost 3 weeks of hospitalization due to complications brought on by COVID-19. Son of Geanny and Moacyr André Gomes. Gomes went to medical school at the Fundação de Ensino Superior de Pernambuco, graduated in 1978 and later finished his specialization in Cardiology at the Federal University of Pernambuco. During his medical career, Gomes worked at various well known hospitals in Recife, such as Santa Casa de Misericórdia do Recife and Hospital dos Servidores do Estado de Pernambuco from 1979 to 1981. In 1985, Gomes decided to pursue a career into politics and at the same year he was elected as one of the members of the Mun...

8May

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High Profilers, United States

Noach Dear, judge

Noach Dear an American attorney, politician, and jurist who served as a New York Supreme Court judge died on April 19, 2020, aged 66.[21] Dear was elected in 2008 as a civil court judge, in 2010 as an Acting Supreme Court Justice, and in 2015 for a 15-year term as a Permanent Justice on the New York Supreme Court. Prior to his appointment, he served as a member of the New York City Council from 1983 to 2001. He died during the COVID-19 pandemic due to complications of COVID-19. Dear was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Joan (Lipins) and Sidney Dear. As a child, Dear was in Eli Lipsker's Pirchei Agudath Israel Choir, and sang on the first New York Pirchei album Pirchei Sings אליך ה' אקרא. He attended Yeshiva Torah Vodaas. Dear received a B.S. from Brooklyn College (1975),...

Princess Diana of Bourbon-Parma, aristocrat

8May

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France, High Profilers, Profiles, Spain

Princess Diana of Bourbon-Parma, aristocrat

Princess Diana Margherita of Bourbon-Parma ‑ a French aristocrat and member of the House of Bourbon-Parma, a cadet branch of the Spanish royal family – died of Covid-19 on 7 May 2020. She was the second royal to have reportedly died from COVID-19. Princess Diana was born in Paris on 22 May 1932 to Prince Gaetano of Bourbon-Parma, the youngest child of Robert I, Duke of Parma and Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal, and Princess Margarete von Thurn und Taxis, the youngest child of Prince Alessandro, 1st Duke of Castel Duino and Princess Marie de Ligne. On 15 March 1955 she married Prince Franz Josef Hubertus Maria Meinrad Michael of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, son of Frederick, Prince of Hohenzollern, in a civil ceremony London. They later had a Catholic ceremony on 16 A...