Profiles – Page 133

25Mar

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Italy, Medics, Profiles

Ivan Mauri, General Practitioner

Ivan Mauri – a General Practitioner in Lecco, Italy – passed away on 24 March 2020, due to COVID-19. Ivan was 69 years old. Source: Fnomceo Please help us in adding details.

25Mar

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High Profilers, Italy, Profiles

Lorenzo Acquarone, lawyer & politician

Lorenzo Acquarone –an Italian lawyer and politician – succumbed to Covid-19 on 24 March 2020. Born in Ventimiglia, Acquarone graduated in law and became a lawyer and university lecturer. As a member of the Italian People's Party, he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies for three legislatures. In 2002 he participated in the formation of the new political entity called the "Margherita" or Democracy is Freedom - The Daisy, but in September 2003 decided to leave the party to join the Popular-UDEUR. On 27 December 2007, Acquarone was awarded the Knight Grand Cross Order of Merit of the Italian Republic - uniform ribbon. Acquarone died at the age of 89 on 24 March 2020 due to COVID-19 in Italy.

Rabbi Yaakov Meltzer, Physician Assistant

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Medics, Profiles, United States

Rabbi Yaakov Meltzer, Physician Assistant

Rabbi Yaakov Meltzer – a Physician Assistant in Brooklyn, New York – passed away after suffering from COVID-19. It was reported on 24 March 2020. Rabbi was 60 years old. Meltzer, 60, was also a physician assistant and was a member of the Queens Hatzolah, the local Jewish volunteer paramedic organization, for 35 years, according to Yeshiva World. Family members told the organization that Meltzer also had a heart condition. Source: Fast Forward Please help us in adding details.

Romi Cohn, rabbi, mohel & real estate developer

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

Romi Cohn, rabbi, mohel & real estate developer

Romi Cohn –a Czechoslovakian-born American rabbi, mohel, and real estate developer – died after contracting coronavirus on March 24, 2020. Avraham Hakohen Cohn was born on March 10, 1929 in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia. He was one of seven children. World War II and the Holocaust See also: The Holocaust in Slovakia During World War II, most Slovak Jews were deported to concentration camps. While Cohn's family managed to sneak him into Hungary, his mother, as well as two of his brothers and two of his sisters died in camps. In Hungary, Cohn studied in a Hasidic yeshiva until 1944 when the Nazis occupied the country. At that point, at the age of 15, he escaped back into Slovakia and joined a partisan brigade fighting the Nazis. As a ...

25Mar

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Cameroon, Noteworthy, Profiles

Manu Dibango, saxophonist

Emmanuel N'Djoké "Manu" Dibango –a Cameroonian musician and songwriter who played Saxophone and vibraphone – passed away after suffering from Covid-19 on 24 March 2020. He developed a musical style fusing jazz, funk, and traditional Cameroonian music. His father was a member of the Yabassi ethnic group, while his mother was a Duala. He was best known for his 1972 single "Soul Makossa". Emmanuel "Manu" Dibango was born in Douala, Cameroon in 1933. His father, Michel Manfred N'Djoké Dibango, was a civil servant. Son of a farmer, he met his wife travelling by pirogue to her residence, Douala. Emmanuel's mother was a fashion designer, running her own small business. Both her ethnic group, the Douala, and his, the Yabassi, viewed this union of different ethnic groups with some...

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Noteworthy, Profiles, Switzerland

Steven Dick, diplomat

Steven Dick ‑ a British diplomat who was the deputy head of mission at the British Embassy in Budapest – died from Covid-19 on 24 March 2020. Dick joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 2008 and had served in Kabul and Riyadh. Dick arrived in Hungary in June 2019. He studied Hungarian in Pécs before receiving a secondment to the Hungarian Government. After a few weeks, he started his role in the Embassy in late November. On 25 March 2020, it was announced that Dick died from COVID-19 after having earlier tested positive for SARS-CoV-2. He was 37.

25Mar

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United Kingdom

Mohamed Farah, footballer

Abdulkadir Mohamed Farah –a Somali footballer – died on 24 March 2020 after contracting Covid-19 virus. Born in Beledweyne, Farah began his career in 1976 at schoolboy level, later playing at the regional level before playing club football for Batroolka. He also represented the Somali national team. Farah later worked as an advisor to the Minister of Youth and Sports. He died in a hospital in London from coronavirus.

25Mar

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Alan Finder, journalist

Alan Finder –an American journalist and a longtime employee of the New York Times ‑ died on March 24, 2020, due to complications brought on by COVID-19. Alan A. Finder was born in Brooklyn and raised in Nassau County, New York, graduating from Valley Stream South High School. He earned a B.A. in history at the University of Rochester in 1969 and an M.A. in American studies at Yale University in 1972. From 1974 to 1979, he worked at The Record in Hackensack, New Jersey, and then until 1983 at Newsday on Long Island. Finder worked for 27 years at the New York Times and retired in December 2011. Times executive editor Dean Baquet described Finder as "one of Metro's stars in the 1980s and 1990s, a big writer in a big, hugely competitive era for Ne...

Terrence McNally, playwright, librettist & screenwriter

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Terrence McNally, playwright, librettist & screenwriter

Terrence McNally –an American playwright, librettist, and screenwriter – passed away on March 24, 2020 after suffering from coronavirus. Described as "the bard of American theater" and "one of the greatest contemporary playwrights the theater world has yet produced," McNally was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1996. He received the 2019 Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement, the Dramatists Guild Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011, and the Lucille Lortel Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2018, he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the highest recognition of artistic merit in the United States. He received the Tony Award for Best Play for Love! Valour! Compassion! and Master Class, as well as the Tony Award for Best Book of a Mus...

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Jenny Polanco, fashion designer

Jenny Altagracia Polanco de Léon – a Dominican fashion designer – died from Covid-19 on March 24, 2020. Polanco, whose professional career spanned more than 37 years, was known for ready-to-wear women's clothing, jewelery, woven handbags, and other accessories that incorporated Dominican and Caribbean cultural elements into her collections. Her work was showcased throughout the Caribbean, the United States and Europe, including the Bahamas, New York City, Paris, Puerto Rico, and Miami Fashion Week. Polanco was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, on January 18, 1958. As a child, she began making clothing and costumes for her Barbie dolls. Polanco would later design clothing for herself during college. She earned her degree in int...