Monday, June 22

Profiles

Nipper Read, police officer
8Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
Noteworthy, Profiles, United Kingdom

Nipper Read, police officer

Leonard Ernest "Nipper" Read - a British police officer and boxing administrator – died on 7 April, 2020 due to COVID-19. Read was the son of Leonard Read Snr., who worked for a leather company, and his wife Ida (née Morris). His mother died when he was four and he was sent to live with her brother. After their father remarried, Leonard and his two sisters and brother returned to live with their father and stepmother. Read did well in school, always being one of the top three pupils in junior and senior school. He learned to box, winning his first medal in 1937. He later joined the Grundy boxing club, where he was nicknamed "Nipper". Read had hoped to attend Nottingham High School and passed the entrance exam, but his father could not afford the...
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Robert L. Carroll, vertebrate paleontologist
8Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
Medics, Profiles

Robert L. Carroll, vertebrate paleontologist

Robert "Bob" Lynn Carroll ‑ an American–Canadian vertebrate paleontologist who specialised in Paleozoic and Mesozoic amphibians and reptiles – passed away on April 8, 2020, due to Covid-19.   Carroll was an only child and grew up on a farm near Lansing, Michigan. He was introduced to paleontology by his father shortly after his fifth birthday, and by the time he was eight he had decided he wanted to be a vertebrate paleontologist. In that same year he received as a Christmas present the left femur of an Allosaurus, courtesy of Edwin H. Colbert, whom his father had told about his interest. In his teen years his parents took him on many fossil hunting trips to Wyoming and South Dakota. Allosaurus was discovered by Edwin Harris Colbert at the year 1942 i...
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Donato Sabia, runner
8Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
Italy, Noteworthy, Profiles

Donato Sabia, runner

Donato Sabia - an Italian middle-distance runner who specialized in the 800 metres – died on 7 April,2020 due to COVID-19. Donato Sabia was born in Potenza and won two medals, at senior level, at the International athletics competitions, one of these with national relay team. He participated at two editions of the Summer Olympics (1984, 1988), reaching, in both cases, the Olympic 800 metres final; he had 17 caps in national team from 1982 to 1988. His personal best time was 1:43.88 minutes, achieved in June 1984 in Florence. In the 400 metres he had 45.73 seconds, achieved in June 1984 in Milan. Donato Sabia died on 7 April 2020 in San Carlo Hospital, in Potenza, from COVID-19, He was 56.
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Martin S. Fox, publisher
8Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

Martin S. Fox, publisher

Martin Standford Fox ) an American publisher who served as President of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, the oldest and largest international news agency and wire service serving Jewish community newspapers and media around the world – died  on April 8, 2020,  from Covid-19 complications.   Fox was born in Newark, New Jersey in June 1924, the son of Mae Fox and of Jacob Fox (1898–1992), who was the longtime attorney for the Newark Board of Education. He was a graduate of Amherst College and received his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1949.   He served as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Army during World War II. He served as Vice Chairman of the Essex County, New Jersey Chapter of Americans for Democratic Action. He was a partner at the Newark...
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Allen Garfield, actor
8Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

Allen Garfield, actor

Allen Garfield, an American film and television actor, succumbed to Covid-19 on April 7, 2020. Garfield was born in Newark, New Jersey, to a Jewish family, the son of Alice (née Lavroff), and Philip Goorwitz. He had one sister, Lois. A 1957 graduate of Weequahic High School, he was a sports reporter and Golden Gloves boxer before becoming an actor. He attended The Actors Studio in New York City, studying with both Lee Strasberg and Elia Kazan, and worked on stage before acting in film. Garfield appeared in over 100 films and television shows. He is known for having played nervous villains, corrupt businessmen and politicians. In addition he appeared in two art films by German director Wim Wenders, Der Stand der Dinge and Bis ans Ende der Welt. Quentin Tarantino once stud...
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Miguel Jones, footballer
8Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
Noteworthy, Profiles, Spain

Miguel Jones, footballer

Miguel Jones Castillo –a Spanish footballer who played as a midfielder for SD Indautxu and Atlético Madrid during the 1950s and 1960s – passed away due to Covid-19 on 8 April 2020.   Although born in Spanish Guinea, now known as Equatorial Guinea, Jones grew up in Bilbao. He began his career with local sides Barakaldo and Indautxu, where his teammates included the veteran Lezama and another emerging young player, Jesús María Pereda. Jones and Pereda, and later a third Indautxu player, José Eulogio Gárate, were all controversially rejected by Athletic Bilbao because the club's signing policy required for them to be born in Biscay; he maintained throughout his life that his rejection was not due to racism, as the other shunn...
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John Prine, singer-songwriter
8Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

John Prine, singer-songwriter

John Prine, an American country folk singer-songwriter, passed away on April 7, 2020 due to Covid-19. He was active as a composer, recording artist, and live performer from the early 1970s until his death and was known for an often humorous style of original music that has elements of protest and social commentary. Born and raised in Maywood, Illinois, Prine learned to play the guitar at the age of 14. He attended classes at Chicago's Old Town School of Folk Music. After serving in West Germany with the U.S. Army, he returned to Chicago in the late 1960s, where he worked as a mailman, writing and singing songs first as a hobby, and then becoming a club performer. A member of Chicago's folk revival, Prine credited film critic Roger Ebert and singer-songwriter Kris Kri...
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Bernie Juskiewicz, politician
8Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
High Profilers, Profiles, United States

Bernie Juskiewicz, politician

Bernard Charles Juskiewicz Jr. –an American politician in the state of Vermont – died of Covid-19 on April 8, 2020.     He was a member of the Vermont House of Representatives, who sat as a Republican from the Lamoille-3 district, after having being elected for the first time in 2012. Juskiewicz did not seek reelection in 2018. He also served on the Lamoille Union High School Board, the Cambridge Elementary School Board and the Cambridge Select Board.   Juskiewicz was born in Northampton, Massachusetts, and graduated from Hopkins Academy in Hadley, Massachusetts. He completed his bachelor of arts degree in business administration from the College of Emporia in Kansas. In 1967, he married his wife, Suzan, with whom he had three children.  ...
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