Thursday, June 4

Profiles

Anncha Kepkey, Nurse
29May By Web TeamNo Comments
Medics, Profiles, South Africa

Anncha Kepkey, Nurse

Anncha Kepkey – a Nurse at Tygerberg Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa – passed away after suffering from COVID-19. Anncha was 52 years old. Source: iono.fm Please help us in adding details.
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Robert M. Laughlin, anthropologist & linguist
29May By Web TeamNo Comments
Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

Robert M. Laughlin, anthropologist & linguist

Robert Moody Laughlin ‑ an American anthropologist and linguist, and a curator at the Smithsonian Institution – died of Covid-19 on May 28, 2020. His research focused on the indigenous Maya peoples of Chiapas, Mexico and the Tzotzil language. In 1975, he published The Great Tzotzil Dictionary of San Lorenzo Zinacantán, containing 30,000 entries. He also published works on other aspects of Tzotzil culture, such as folktales and ethnobotany, and helped to found a local writer's cooperative, Sna Jtz'ibajom, and a theatre troupe. His work is credited with helping to standardize how the Tzotzil language is written and with reviving interest in indigenous languages in the region. Laughlin died of COVID-19 in Arlington, Virginia.
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Carlos Torres del Pozo, Family Doctor
28May By Web TeamNo Comments
Medics, Profiles, Spain

Carlos Torres del Pozo, Family Doctor

Carlos Torres del Pozo – a Family Doctor in Toledo, Spain – passed away on 27 May, 2020, after suffering from COVID-19. Carlos was 62 years old. The Official College of Physicians of Toledo has sent a note in which it joins the pain of family and friends and expresses its sincere condolences for the loss of another fellow colleague in this corporation: Dr. Carlos Torres del Pozo, 62, after 35 years of professional practice in the capital , where he had a private Family Medicine practice. The Board of Directors of the Official College of Physicians of Toledo "mourns the death of Dr. Carlos Torres and joins the pain of all the colleagues in the province in these moments of health alarm that are not being easy for the entire population, and especially , for health...
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Samvel Gasparov, film director
27May By Web TeamNo Comments
Noteworthy, Profiles, Russia

Samvel Gasparov, film director

Samvel Vladimirovich Gasparov ‑ a Russian film director and short story writer who worked for some time at the Odessa Film Studio ‑ died on 26 May 2020, at the age of 81, after contracting COVID-19 in Russia. Gasporov was one of the Russian filmmakers most interested in the Red Western form, having directed both Hatred and The Sixth One as well as the lesser known Bread, Gold and Pistol and Forget the Word "Death" in this genre. At the time of his death, Gasparov was married to actress Natalya Vavilova and had a daughter from a previous marriage.
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Vladimir Mikhailovich Lopukhin, economist & politician
27May By Web TeamNo Comments
High Profilers, Profiles, Russia

Vladimir Mikhailovich Lopukhin, economist & politician

Vladimir Mikhailovich Lopukhin, a Russian economist and politician, died after contracting COVID-19 in Moscow on 26 May 2020, three days after his 68th birthday. He served as 1st Minister of Fuel and Energy of the Russian Federation from 1991 to 1992. Lopukhin was born in Moscow and graduated from the Faculty of Economics of Moscow State University in 1975. From November 1991 until June 1992, he held the position of 1st Minister of Fuel and Energy of the Russian Federation. He was appointed as an adviser to Russian Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar in the fall of 1992, and also worked as partner of Lazard from 1992 until 1996.
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Marv Luster, footballer
26May By Web TeamNo Comments
Canada, Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

Marv Luster, footballer

Marvin Luster ‑ an American professional football player in the Canadian Football League (CFL) for fourteen years – passed away on May 25, 2020 after suffering from Covid-19. He played college football for the UCLA Bruins. Luster was selected originally by the Los Angeles Rams in the 1960 NFL Draft. He starred as a defensive back for the Toronto Argonauts and Montreal Alouettes. With the Alouettes he won the 1974 Grey Cup. He is a member of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame. In November, 2006, he was voted one of the CFL's Top 50 players (#35) of the league's modern era by Canadian sports network TSN. He resided in Atlanta. Luster died of complications of COVID-19 at an assisted living facility in Matthews, North Carolina.
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