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Piero Schlesinger, jurist
15Mar By Web TeamNo Comments
Italy, Noteworthy, Profiles

Piero Schlesinger, jurist

Piero Schlesinger Knight Grand Cross OMRI (19 May 1930 – 14 March 2020) was an Italian jurist, banker, lawyer and academic who served as president of the Banca Popolare di Milano from 1971 to 1993.   Piero Schlesinger graduated in jurisprudence in Turin. In 1956 he began his academic career at the University of Urbino and, two years later, personally chosen by its dean and founder Father Agostino Gemelli, moved to the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Milan, where he held the chair of private law for over three decades.   Manuale di diritto privato, the academic textbook of private law he co-authored with Andrea Torrente, is considered one of the most studied and influential of its kind in Italy. Among his pupils were lawyers Giuseppe Lombardi...
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Giovanni Battista Rabino, politician
14Mar By Web TeamNo Comments
High Profilers, Italy, Profiles

Giovanni Battista Rabino, politician

Giovanni Battista Rabino –an Italian politician from the Christian Democracy party who served as member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1983 to 1992, then a single term, between 1992 and 1994, as Senator – died of Covid-19 on 12 March 2020.   He was born in Montaldo Scarampi, and served as mayor of the city between 2004 and 2009. Before his political career, Rabino was a trade unionist, active in Alessandria's Coldiretti branch.   Rabino died from COVID-19 at the Cardinal Massaja Hospital in Asti on 12 March 2020. His funeral was held two days later.
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Nasser Shabani, militaryman
14Mar By Web TeamNo Comments
Iran, Noteworthy, Profiles

Nasser Shabani, militaryman

Nasser Shabani ‑ an Iranian general and senior commander of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) – succumbed to Covid-19 on 13 March 2020. He took credit for using Houthi rebels to target Saudi oil tankers. Shabani began his military career in 1982 during the Iran-Iraq War. He participated in suppressing the Amol uprising the same year. In the final year of the Iran-Iraq War, he was promoted to become one of several fronts of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. He played a key role in Operation Mersad, and later wrote several books about the war. In 2011, he succeeded the president of the university of Imam Hussein and became one of the deputies of the Tharallah camp. In 2018, he stated in Iranian state media that the IRGC ordered the Houthi forces in Yemen to attack two Saudi oil t...
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Diego Bianco, Paramedic
14Mar By Web TeamNo Comments
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Diego Bianco, Paramedic

Diego Bianco – a Paramedic in Lombardy, Italy – passed away on 13 March 2020 due to COVID-19. Diego was 47 years old. Bianco lived and worked in Lombardy, a part of the country hit hard by the virus. “Diego was a trained worker, a rescuer who has always used personal protective equipment, was not elderly and did not have any other diseases,” his union representative said. Source: JEMS Please help us in adding details.
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Kourosh Goudarzipour, Haematologist
13Mar By Web TeamNo Comments
Iran, Medics, Profiles

Kourosh Goudarzipour, Haematologist

Kourosh Goudarzipour – a Haematologist, Mofid Hospital, Tehran, Iran – passed away after suffering from COVID-19. It was reported on 13 March, 2020. Kourosh was 49 years old. Source: Viva Please help us in adding details.
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