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Profiles

Pilar Garcia, Nurse
3Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
Medics, Profiles, Spain

Pilar Garcia, Nurse

Pilar Garcia – a Nurse at Hospital Santa Bárbara, Puertollano, Spain – passed away on 3 April 2020, after suffering from COVID-19. Pilar was 64 years old. Source: El Digital CLM Please help us in adding details.
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Patricia Bosworth, journalist & actress
3Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

Patricia Bosworth, journalist & actress

Patricia Bosworth ‑ an American journalist and biographer, memoirist, and actress – dies of Covid-19 on April 2, 2020.   She was a faculty member of Columbia University’s school of journalism as well as Barnard College, and was a winner of the Front Page Award for her journalistic achievement in writing about the Hollywood Blacklist. She died due to complications brought on by COVID-19.   Born Patricia Crum in Oakland, California, Bosworth was the daughter of prominent attorney Bartley Crum and novelist Anna Gertrude Bosworth. She grew up especially close to her younger brother, Bartley Crum Jr. Their father was active in politics as a confidant to Wendell Willkie during the 1940 U.S. presidential election, and served on the 1945 Anglo-American Commi...
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Bernardita Catalla, diplomat
3Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
High Profilers, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Lebanon, Malaysia, Philippines, Profiles

Bernardita Catalla, diplomat

Bernardita Leonido Catalla ‑ a Filipina career diplomat who was last appointed as the Philippine ambassador to Lebanon – passed away after suffering from Covid-19  on April 2, 2020.   Prior to her posting in Lebanon, she was also assigned to Hong Kong, Indonesia, and Malaysia.     Catalla was born on February 18, 1958 in Makati, then a part of the Province of Rizal. She graduated in 1979 from University of the Philippines Los Baños with a Bachelor of Arts degree in communication arts. From 1987 to 1993, she studied at the University of the Philippines Diliman for her master's degree in communication research and in 1991, she graduated with a Master of Arts degree in development studies from the International Institute of Social Studies at Erasmus University Rotterda...
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Sergio Rossi, shoe designer
3Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
Italy, Noteworthy, Profiles

Sergio Rossi, shoe designer

Sergio Rossi, an Italian shoe designer who founded his own brand, died due to coronavirus on 2 April 2020.   Rossi was born in San Mauro Pascoli in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy. He worked with his father, a shoemaker, and learned the trade.   In 1951, he opened his first shoe store. He also made sandals and sold them to beach-goers in Rimini and at Bologna boutiques. In 1968, the first shoes, marked with the Rossi brand, were produced.   Each pair of shoes took at least 14 hours to make and went through 120 different stages. They were seen on runways for Gianni Versace, Azzedine Alaia and Dolce & Gabbana. He first gained attention in 1960 when film director Federico Fellini used his shoe for actress Anita Ekberg in La Dolce Vita.   ...
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Aaron Rubashkin, businessman
3Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

Aaron Rubashkin, businessman

Abraham Aaron Rubashkin, a Russian-American businessman, died due to complications brought on by COVID-19 on April 2, 2020.   An adherent to Haredi Judaism of the Lubavitcher hasidic movement, Rubashkin was born in the late-1920s in the Russian town Nevel in the former Soviet Union He was the son of Getzel Rubashkin and Rosa Lubavicher Hasidim, who raised their two sons and daughters as observant Jews in spite of the anti-religious repression in the Soviet Union. When the Germans occupied Nevel in July 1941, the Rubashkin family fled east, eventually reaching the Uzbek city of Samarkand, where he married Rivka Chazanov of the Chein family of Nevel. After the war, the Rubashkin family left the Soviet Union via Lemberg and spent time in Austria, before they settled in Paris ...
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Goran Ivankovic, Urologist
3Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
Medics, Profiles, Serbia

Goran Ivankovic, Urologist

Goran Ivankovic – a Urologist in Cuprija, Serbia – passed away after suffering from COVID-19. It was reported on 2 April 2020. Goran was 56 years old. Source: Telegraf Please help us in adding details.
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Nirmal Singh Khalsa, theologist
3Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
India, Noteworthy, Profiles

Nirmal Singh Khalsa, theologist

Bhai Nirmal Singh Khalsa ‑ a Sikh Hazoori Ragi of Darbar Sahib in Amritsar, Punjab, India – succumbed to Covid-19 virus on 2 April 2020.   Bhai Nirmal Singh was born on 12 April 1952, at village Jandwala Bhimeshah in Ferozepur, Punjab. In 1976, he graduated with a diploma in Gurmat Sangeet from Shaheed Missionary College in Amritsar. From 1977 to 1978, he served as a music teacher at Gurmat College in Rishikesh and later taught at Shaheed Sikh Missionary College in Sri Ganganagar, Rajasthan. From 1979, he started serving as a Hazoori Ragi at Darbar Sahib. He had performed Kirtan at all five Takhts, various historical Gurdwaras across South Asia and throughout 71 countries. Bhai Sahib was a highly regarded ragi with knowledge of all 31 Raags of Guru Granth Sahib. &...
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