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Nancy Ajemian, Family Medicine Specialist

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Nancy Ajemian, Family Medicine Specialist

Nancy Ajemian – a Family Medicine Specialist at Beaumont Hospital, Grosse Pointe, Michigan – passed away on 7 April, 2020 due to COVID-19. Nancy was 60 years old. Source: Twitter Please help us in adding details.

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Henri Madelin, theologian

Henri Madelin –a French Jesuit priest and theologian – passed away on 8 April 2020 after contracting Covid-19. Madelin was born on 26 April 1936 in a family of nine children. His family moved to Blois in 1939, where Madelin practiced scouting. After studying philosophy at the Jesuit formation in Vals-près-le-Puy, two years at Collège Libermann in Douala, and studying theology in Fourvière, Madelin was ordained a priest of the Society of Jesus in 1967. In 1973, Madelin became director of Action populaire, which became the Center for Research and Social Action (CERAS). After earning a doctorate in political science, he chaired the Centre Sèvres in Paris from 1985 to 1991, when he was appointed national chapl...

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Adharul Anam, Nurse

Adharul Anam – a Nurse in Jakarta, Indonesia – passed away due to COVID-19. The death of 25 years old Adharul was announced on April 8. 2020. Source: Instagram Please help us in adding details.

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Robert Chaudenson, linguist

Robert Chaudenson - a French linguist – died on 7 April,2020 due to COVID-19. He was a specialist in creole languages and an emeritus professor of linguistics at the University of Provence. He was a widely known author on the subject of creolistics and president of the International Committee of Creole Studies. He was born in Lyon, and died aged 82, just 5 days before his 83rd birthday in Metropolitan France due to complications of COVID-19.

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Mary Virginia Howell Christopher, Nurse

Mary Virginia Howell Christopher – a Registered Nurse in Army Nurse during World War II, New Orleans, Louisiana – passed away on 6 April 2020 due to COVID-19. Mary was 97 years old. Mary Virginia was born in Talladega, Alabama on May 24, 1922 and was the descendant of some of the first early 19th century settlers in Talladega County. Upon graduation from High School, she traveled to New Orleans to attend the Mather School of Nursing at Baptist Hospital from 1940 to 1943. After becoming a Registered Nurse, she enlisted in the military in January 1944 and was deployed in 1945 to the European Theater, serving as part of the 134th Evacuation Hospital, which replaced the 51st Field Hospital, where she was ultimately promoted to 1st Lieutenant, Chief Nurse, and participated in the Rhineland ...

Jean-Laurent Cochet, movie director and actor

8Apr

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Jean-Laurent Cochet, movie director and actor

Jean-Laurent Cochet - a French director and actor – died on 7 April,2020 due to COVID-19. He was best known for starring in movies such as A Thousand Billion Dollars and Fort Saganne. He was an important teacher for acting. Hundreds of his students have succeeded in theater and cinema.

Roy Coleman, Emergency Medical Technician

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Roy Coleman, Emergency Medical Technician

Roy Coleman – an Emergency Medical Technician in Shreveport, Louisiana – passed away on 7 April, 2020, after suffering from COVID-19. Roy was 64 years old. “I extend my deepest condolences to the families of Roy Coleman and Vianna Thompson. Their avoidable and untimely deaths highlight the risks facing frontline health care providers and other mission-critical workers every day — and the scandalous lack of action to keep these workers safe,” AFGE National President Everett Kelley said in the statement. AFGE filed a complaint with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration this week, criticizing the VA for failing to protect staff. The union claimed the VA created an unsafe working environment by not providing enough personal protective equip...

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Henry Graff, historian

Henry Franklin Graff - an American historian who served on the faculty of Columbia University from 1946 to 1991, including a period as Chairman of the History Department – died on 7 April,2020 due to COVID-19. Graff specialized in the history of the Presidency of the United States and of American foreign relations. His pioneering “Seminar on the Presidency,” one of Columbia’s most popular courses, was attended by President Harry Truman in 1959 and President Gerald Ford in 1989. Graff has twice served as Chairman of the Pulitzer Prize jury in American history. In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed Graff to the National Historical Publications Commission, and in 1993 President Bill Clinton appointed Graff to the President John F. Kennedy Assassina...

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Leilani Dayrit, Nurse

Leilani Dayrit – a Nurse in Rugby, England – passed away on 7 April 2020 after suffering from COVID-19. Dayrit was 47 years old. Her daughter Mary Dayrit described her as 'selfless until the very end', putting others' wellbeing before her own Source: Mirror Please help us in adding details.

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Leib Groner, theologist

Yehuda Leib "Leibel" Groner ‑ a Hasidic Jewish teacher, scholar, and author – died on April 7, 2020 from Covid-19. He had served as the personal secretary to Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the seventh Lubavitcher Rebbe, for 44 years. His parents were Rabbi Mordechai Avrohom Yeshaya Groner and Menucha Rochel Groner. Groner studied at the Central Yeshiva Tomchei Tmimim Lubavitch in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, where he excelled as a student. Groner is a co-author, with Volf Greenglass of Montreal, of Sefer HaMinhagim, the authoritative book describing Chabad-Lubavitch customs. He was also an editor of Otzar HaChasidim, the editorial group that publishes works on Chabad Chassidut. He also taught at Beis Rivka in Crown Heights, a school for girls who are part of t...