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Mabel Zùñiga de Logacho, Dentist
3Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
Ecuador, Medics, Profiles

Mabel Zùñiga de Logacho, Dentist

Mabel Zùñiga de Logacho – a Dentist at MinisterioInternacional Talita Cumi, Guayaquil, Ecuador – passed away after suffering from COVID-19. It was reported on 3 April 2020. Mabel was 48 years old. Mabel Zúñiga, 48, had been showing symptoms for a few days. Source: The Washington Post Please help us in adding details.
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Arnold Sowinski, footballer
3Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
France, Noteworthy, Profiles

Arnold Sowinski, footballer

Arnold Sowinski, a French footballer who played with RC Lens, died from Covid-19 on 2 April 2020.   He also managed RC Lens on four different occasions.   Sowinski was born in France and was of Polish descent.
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Francisco Marín, Physician
3Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
Argentina, Medics, Profiles

Francisco Marín, Physician

Francisco Marín – a Physician, Director of Health at Municipality of Resistencia, Chaco, Argentina – passed away on 2 April 2020, after suffering from COVID-19. Francisco was 61 years old. Initially, he had refused to be admitted to a clinic. When he was diagnosed as positive by coronavirus, he preferred to recover at home, but when the condition worsened, he was rushed to the Femechaco sanatorium. Before becoming director of Health, Marín worked as a doctor in special schools in the interior of Chaco and in Resistencia, integrating technical teams. In the last decade, he served at the Special School No. 2. Source: Infobae Please help us in adding details.
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Arthur Whistler, ethnobotanist
3Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

Arthur Whistler, ethnobotanist

Wayne Arthur Whistler ‑ an American ethnobotanist, academic and writer – died on April 2, 2020 from Covid-19.   Whistler, an adjunct professor at the University of Hawaii's Department of Botany, was an expert on tropical flora of the Pacific Islands, especially Samoa and Tonga.   Whistler was born near Death Valley in San Bernardino County, California. He earned a B.A. in Biology from the University of California, Riverside, in 1965; an M.A. in Botany, from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1966, and Ph.D. in Botany, from the University of Hawaii, in 1979. Once he completed his first two degrees, Whistler served in the Peace Corps as a teacher at Samoa College in Apia, Western Samoa (now known as Samoa). He then moved to Hawaii, where he ...
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Goyo Benito, footballer
3Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
Noteworthy, Profiles, Spain

Goyo Benito, footballer

Gregorio "Goyo" Benito Rubio ‑ a Spanish footballer who played as a central defender – succumbed to Covid-19 on 2 April 2020. He spent most of his 16-year professional career with Real Madrid. Benito was born in El Puente del Arzobispo, Toledo, Castile-La Mancha. After practicing track and field in his early teens, inclusively being national javelin throw champion at school level, he signed for La Liga powerhouse Real Madrid in the summer of 1963, aged nearly 17. After two years on loan to neighbouring Rayo Vallecano, in Segunda División (his second being cut short as he was called for military service in Sidi Ifni), he returned to his main club, remaining there for the following 14 seasons and winning six leagues and five Spanish Cups. In 1982, after ...
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Eddie Large, comedian
3Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
Noteworthy, Profiles, United Kingdom

Eddie Large, comedian

Edward Hugh McGinnis, better known by the stage name Eddie Large, was a British comedian. He died on 2 April 2020 due to Covid-19 complications. He was best known as one half of the double act Little and Large, with Syd Little (the stage name of Cyril Mead). Large was born Edward Hugh McGinnis in Glasgow in 1941. His father Teddy served as a Petty Officer in the Royal Navy during World War II and after he returned from the war the family moved to a tenement in Oatlands. When he was nine years old, the family moved again to Manchester, where he attended Claremont Road Primary School and a grammar school. He played football as a schoolboy, becoming a supporter of nearby Manchester City which had its ground opposite his home, and he maintained a lifelong devotion to the club. Afte...
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Aptripel Tumimomor, politician
3Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
High Profilers, Indonesia, Profiles

Aptripel Tumimomor, politician

Aptripel Tumimomor ‑ an Indonesian politician, businessman and engineer – passed away on April 2, 2020 due to coronavirus. He served as the Regent of North Morowali Regency, in Central Sulawesi, from February 17, 2016, until his death in office on April 2, 2020, from Covid-19. Aptripel Tumimomor was born on April 3, 1966, in Kolonodale, Central Sulawesi. He was a member of the Mori people [id], who are native to the present-day North Morowali Regency in Sulawesi. His parents, Hendrik Tumimomor Kamesi and Maligene Damantora Lande, were teachers. Tumimomor was a descendant of Mokole Ede Kamesi, known by the royal title Datu Ri Tana VIII (King Mori), who ruled the small Mori Kingdom [id] in central Sulawesi from 1907 until 1928. Tumimomor attended elementary school in Tom...
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