Profiles – Page 101

9Apr

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Medics, Mexico, Profiles

Luis Alberto Mendez, Pneumologist

Luis Alberto Mendezm – a Pneumologist in Monclova, México – passed away after suffering from COVID-19. It was reported on 9 April, 2020. Source: Debate Please help us in adding details.

9Apr

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Medics, Morocco, Profiles

Ruimy Amran, General Practitioner

Ruimy Amran - a General Practitioner in Casablanca, Morocco – passed away on 8 April 2020, due to COVID-19. He was known to have treated several generations of the economic metropolis. Source: Le Desk Please help us in adding details.

9Apr

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Brazil, Medics, Profiles

Ana Cláudia Monteiro, Ophthalmologist

Ana Cláudia Monteiro – an Ophthalmologist in Divinopolis, Brazil – passed away on 8 April 2020 after suffering from COVID-19. Ana was 46 years old. The patient was under treatment for 21 days, according to Semusa. There are still no details on how she would have contracted the coronavirus and if she had any comorbidities. Source: Estado De Minas Please help us in adding details.

8Apr

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Ireland, Noteworthy, Profiles

Tom Scully, football manager

Thomas Scully –a Gaelic football manager, priest and schoolteacher – died on 7 April 2020 due to Covid-19. He managed the Offaly county team, where he was pivotal in establishing them as a rising side in the sport. Scully was a native of Aharney in Tullamore. He had two brothers and six sisters: Ned, Michael, Nance (Hanlon), Mary (Garry), Rose (Cleary), Margaret (Henry), Lily (MacDonald) and Emily (Hanlon). All bar Emily predeceased him. During the 1960s, Scully trained the Belcamp College boarding school team in Dublin to three Leinster Schools' Football Championships. He led Offaly to the final of the 1968–69 National Football League (their first), the Leinster Senior Football Championship title (their third) and then to ...

8Apr

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Guyana, High Profilers, Profiles

John Percy Leon Lewis, military officer

John Percy Leon Lewis - a Guyanan military officer - died on 7 April, 2020 due to COVID-19. Lewis had also been president of the Guyana Rugby Football Union. He is believed to have been Guyana's sixth coronavirus victim, dying a few days after his wife Juliet Lewis who died on March 27 from pneumonia. Deputy Commandant of The Guyana Peoples Militia Longest serving reserve officer in Guyana with over 30 years of service. Only reserve officer to become a full Colonel by moving up from a Reserve Subaltern in 1968. Only reserve officer to be awarded the Military Service Medal. Lewis died on 7 April, 2020, in Guyana due to complications from COVID-19.

8Apr

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Noteworthy, Profiles

Ghyslain Tremblay, actor & comedian

Ghyslain Tremblay –a Canadian actor and comedian – died on April 7, 2020, due to Covid-19. Tremblay was married to actress Danielle Brassard-Leduc. They had two sons before divorcing. He died after exhibiting symptoms consistent with COVID-19 during the pandemic, and after developing Alzheimer's disease several years earlier. His doctor could not specify a cause of death.

8Apr

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United Kingdom

Roger Matthews, criminologist

Roger Matthews, a British criminologist, died on 7 April,2020 due to COVID-19. He was a Professor of Criminology at the University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom. Prior to joining the University of Kent, he was a professor of criminology at London South Bank University and Middlesex University. Matthews is known as one of the key figures in left realism, a criminological critique of both the dominant administrative criminology and the critical criminology. He died on 7 April 2020 at the age of 71 from the effects of the COVID-19 virus.

8Apr

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

Hal Willner, music producer

Hal Willner – an American music producer working in recording, films, TV and live events – passed away after contracting Covid-19 on April 7, 2020. He was best known for assembling tribute albums and events featuring a wide variety of artists and musical styles (jazz, classical, rock, Tin Pan Alley). Willner was born in Philadelphia in 1956. His father and uncle were Holocaust survivors. Willner moved to New York City in 1974 to attend New York University, but did not graduate. In the late 1970s, Willner worked under record producer Joel Dorn, credited as associate producer on Leon Redbone's albums Double Time and Champagne Charlie, and The Neville Brothers' Fiyo on the Bayou. Willner became the sketch music prod...

8Apr

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

Yaakov Perlow, rabbi

Yaakov Perlow, an American rabbi, passed away on 7 April,2020 due to COVID-19. Born in Brooklyn, New York on November 16, 1930, to Rabbi Nochum Mordechai Perlow ,the Novominsker Rebbe, and his wife, Beila Rochma Morgenstern. Perlow began his Torah education at Yeshiva Toras Chaim in East New York, and continued on to the Lithuanian-type yeshivas of Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin in Brooklyn and Beth Medrash Govoha in Lakewood, New Jersey. He also graduated with honors from Brooklyn College. After his marriage, Perlow taught at Hebrew Theological College in Skokie, Illinois. He later moved back to Brooklyn and settled in Crown Heights, becoming a member of the administration of the mesivta of Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin. In 1969, he was appointed rosh yeshiva at the Breuer's y...

8Apr

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Noteworthy, Philippines, Profiles, United States

Leila Benitez-McCollum, journalist

Leila Benitez-McCollum ‑ a Filipino-born American radio and television host, presenter, journalist and broadcaster – died on April 9, 2020 from Covid-19 complications. Benitez, who was nicknamed as the "first lady of Philippine television", became a household name in the Philippines from the 1950s to the early 1970s due to a string of successful radio and television shows. She was best known for co-hosted Student Canteen, the country's first afternoon variety show, from 1959-64. Benitez was born in Quezon City, Philippines. She received her bachelor's degree in psychology from Georgetown University in Washington D.C. Benitez was best known for hosting the variety show, Student Canteen, which began as a radio show in the l...