Sunday, June 21

Profiles

Daniel Yuste, cyclist
2Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
Noteworthy, Profiles, Spain

Daniel Yuste, cyclist

Daniel Yuste Escolar ‑ a Spanish cyclist who competed in the individual pursuit at the 1968 Summer Olympics ‑ passed away after contracting Covid-19.   On 31 March 2020, he died at the age of 75 due to complications of COVID-19 during the pandemic.  
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David Driskell, artist & scholar
2Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

David Driskell, artist & scholar

David C. Driskell ‑ an artist and a scholar in the field of African-American art – died from coronavirus  on April 1, 2020.   Driskell was emeritus professor at the University of Maryland, College Park.   David Clyde Driskell was born in Eatonton, Georgia, the son of George Washington Driskell, a minister, and Mary Cloud Driskell, a homemaker. When he was five years old, he moved with his family to western North Carolina.   Driskell attended Howard University in Washington, D.C., graduating with a bachelor's degree in art in 1955; he also completed the summer program at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 1953. After teaching for several years at Talladega College in Alabama, he went on to earn a Master of Fine Arts degree...
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Kevin Duffy, judge
2Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
High Profilers, Profiles, United States

Kevin Duffy, judge

Kevin Thomas Duffy ‑ an American lawyer and United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York – died from Covid-19 on April 1, 2020.   Born on January 10, 1933, in the Bronx, Duffy received a bachelor's degree from Fordham University in 1954 and a Bachelor of Laws from the Fordham University School of Law in 1958.   He clerked for Judge J. Edward Lumbard at the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (1955–1958). Duffy served as an Assistant United States Attorney (1958–1959) and assistant chief of the Criminal Division (1959–1961) at the office of the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York before going into private practice as an associate with t...
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Bernard Epin, writer
2Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
France, Noteworthy, Profiles

Bernard Epin, writer

Bernard Epin ‑ a French writer, literary critic, and communist activist – died on 1 April 2020 after suffering from Covid-19.   Born into a working-class family, Epin attended primary school in the 14th arrondissement of Paris. He joined the French Communist Party in 1954 and the editorial team of L'École et la Nation, a communist magazine, in 1957. After his military service in Algeria, Epin became editorial secretary of the magazine. He also collaborated with the weekly Révolution, the monthly Regards, and L'Humanité.   In addition to his criticism in children's literature, Epin wrote ten essays, including Les livres de vos enfants, parlons-en in 1985. This essay defended the idea of emancipation in children's reading...
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Juan José López Lerena, Nuclear Medicine Specialist
2Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
Medics, Profiles, Uruguay

Juan José López Lerena, Nuclear Medicine Specialist

Juan José López Lerena – a Nuclear Medicine Specialist in Montevideo, Uruguay – passed away on 1 April 2020, after suffering from COVID-19. Juan was 61 years old. López Lerena, who suffered from hypertension and diabetes, was also technical director of Avanzada Ophthalmological Technology, an outsourced service of the Spanish Association, and fulfilled tasks at CASMU. Source: Uy. press Please help us in adding details.
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Nur Hassan Hussein, politician
2Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
High Profilers, Profiles

Nur Hassan Hussein, politician

Nur Hassan Hussein aka Nur Adde ‑ a Somali politician who served as Prime Minister of Somalia from November 2007 to February 2009 – succumbed to Covid-19 on 1 April 2020.   He was from Mogadishu and part of the Abgaal sub-clan of the Hawiye.   Hussein began his professional career in the early 1950s as a police officer for Italian Somaliland before Somalia gained its independence. After completing studies in Law at the Somalia National University and the Fiscal Law School in Rome, Hussein became chief police officer and attorney general in 1987 under President Siad Barre, a post he held until 1991 when the Somali Civil War broke out. He subsequently served as the Secretary General of the Somali Red Crescent Society (SRCS).   On 22 November 2007,...
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