Profiles – Page 111

5Apr

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

Lila Fenwick, lawyer

Lila Althea Fenwick – an American lawyer, human rights advocate and United Nations official – died on April 4, 2020 due to Covid-19. She was the first black women to graduate from Harvard Law School. Fenwick was born in Manhattan, New York, on May 24, 1932. Her parents, John and Hilda Fenwick, had immigrated to the United States from Trinidad. She received her bachelor’s degree from Barnard College in 1953 before enrolling at Harvard Law School. A student in the class of 1956, Fenwick matriculated into the school’s fourth class that admitted women. She then completed her studies at the London School of Economics. During her career, Fenwick was a private practice lawyer and later became chief of the U.N. Human Rights Section. She held the position ...

5Apr

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Indonesia, Medics, Profiles

Wahyu Hidayat, Otolaryngologist

Wahyu Hidayat – an Otolaryngologist in Jakarta, Indonesia – passed away after suffering from COVID-19. It was reported on 5 April 2020. Source: The Jakarta Post Please help us in adding details.

5Apr

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Bangladesh, High Profilers, Profiles

Muhammad Sirajul Islam, politician

Md. Sirajul Islam, a Bangladesh Awami League politician, succumbed to COVID-19 virus on 4 April,2020. He was elected a member of parliament from Undivided Sylhet-12 (present Maulvibazar-1) in 1973 and 1979. He was the organizer of the Liberation War of Bangladesh. Sirajul Islam was born in 1943 in Barlekha Upazila of Moulvibazar District. Sirajul Islam was elected to parliament from Undivided Sylhet-12(present Maulvibazar-1) as a Bangladesh Awami League candidate in 1973 and 1979. Sirajul Islam died on 4 April,2020, undergoing treatment for COVID-19 at Elmhurst Hospital Center in Queens, New York City.

5Apr

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Iran, Medics, Profiles

Ghorbanali Hosseinzadeh, Nurse

Ghorbanali Hosseinzadeh – a Nurse in Kashan, Iran – passed away after suffering from COVID-19. Source: IRAN HRM Please help us in adding details.

5Apr

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Belgium, Noteworthy, Profiles

Marcel Moreau, writer

Marcel Moreau - a fancophone Belgian writer – died on 4 April, 2020 due to COVID-19. Moreau was born in Boussu, a town in the mining region of Borinage, in the Hainaut Province, into a working class environment in which there was, as he put it himself, a pure cultural void, a total absence of any cultural reference point”. He lost his father at the age of fifteen, and abandoned his studies a short time later. He worked in various trades before becoming an accountant’s assistant in Brussels for the newspaper Le Peuple. In 1955 he became a proof-reader for the daily Le Soir. In 1963 he published his first novel, Quintes, notably praised by Simone de Beauvoir. Considered a marginal writer with an idiosyncratic style, he was the author of a consider...

5Apr

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Medics, Morocco, Profiles

Assyad Meryem, General Practitioner

Assyad Meryem – a General Practitioner in Casablanca, Morocco – passed away on 4 April 2020 after suffering from COVID-19. In a press release, of which Le Site Info has a copy, the Independent Union of Public Sector Doctors (SIMSP) announced that it had registered the first case of death in the Moroccan medical profession due to Covid-19. “In these painful circumstances in our dear country, SIMPS has just lost one of these activists, Doctor MeryemAssyad, medical specialist at Mohammed V hospital in Casablanca, martyr of national duty. Her disappearance took place this Saturday, April 4, after she contracted the new coronavirus, "reads the said press release. Source: Lesite Info Please help us in adding details.

5Apr

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High Profilers, Profiles, United Kingdom

Alexander Thynn, aristocratic landowner

Alexander George Thynn ‑ 7th Marquess of Bath-styled Viscount Weymouth between 1946 and 1992, and a British aristocratic landowner, who sat in the House of Lords from 1992 until 1999, and a self- acclaimed artist and author ‑ died on 4 April, 2020 at the age of 87 due to COVID-19. Ranked 359th in the Sunday Times Rich List 2009 with an estimated wealth of £157 million, Lord Bath was in the media spotlight for his hippy fashion-sense and for developing Longleat as an animal sanctuary and tourist attraction. Thynn was born in London, the son of Henry Thynne, 6th Marquess of Bath and Daphne Fielding, and grew up at his family seat, Longleat, a grand Elizabethan house set in Wiltshire parkland landscaped in the 18th century by Capability Brown. After attending Ludgrove ...

Ferdinando Moretti, Painting Crew Foreman

5Apr

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Neighbors, Profiles, United States

Ferdinando Moretti, Painting Crew Foreman

Ferdinando Moretti – a Painting Crew Foreman at Mt. Sinai South Nassau, Oceanside, New York – passed away on 4 April 2020 due to COVID-19. Moretti was 73 years old. Moretti retired from MSSN in 2014 after 31 years of service. He returned to work per diem in 2015 to support the hospital’s various expansion projects. His colleagues recalled that Moretti was light-hearted and quick with a joke, and that he was well versed in topics ranging from construction to cooking. Source: Li Herald.com Please help us in adding details.

5Apr

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Jay Benedict, actor

Jay Benedict, an American actor who played Captain/Major John Kieffer in the British detective drama Foyle's War, in the episodes "Invasion" and "All Clear" – died of Covid-19 on April 4, 2020. Benedict was born in Burbank, California. He lived and worked in Europe from the 1960s onwards. His theatrical credits include The Rocky Horror Show in the Kings Road in the early 1970s, Harold Pinter's production of Sweet Bird of Youth, The Reverend Lee in The Foreigner and Riccardo in Franco Zeffirelli's production of Filumena in which he played opposite Pierce Brosnan in the latter's first stage role, and Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, in a touring production of "One Day at a Time". In 2013 he appeared opposite Stev...

Francisco Hernando Contreras, businessman

4Apr

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Noteworthy, Profiles, Spain

Francisco Hernando Contreras, businessman

Francisco Hernando Contreras aka Paco el Pocero ‑ a Spanish businessman in the construction industry who developed the project Seseña, promising to build 13,500 residences – died on 3 April 2020 of Covid-19. Following the collapse of the Spanish property bubble, he went to Equatorial Guinea and left his projects unfinished.