Profiles – Page 66

27Apr

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France, High Profilers, Profiles

Henri Weber, politician

Henri Weber a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the north-west of France – died on 26 April 2020 after contracting COVID-19 in France. He was 75. He was a member of the Socialist Party (PS), which is part of the Party of European Socialists, and sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Culture and Education. Weber was born in Leninabad (now Khujand), Tajikistan, Soviet Union, from Jewish parents. His father was a watchmaker. Henri Weber was an activist in the May 1968 uprising and was a leading member of the Trotskyist Jeunesse communiste révolutionnaire (Revolutionary Communist Youth) and Revolutionary Communist League (LCR) before joining the PS. He was also a substitute for the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, a member of the deleg...

27Apr

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

Emilio Simeon Allué Carcasona, Bishop

Emilio Simeon Allué Carcasona, –a Spanish American prelate of the Catholic Church. died on 26 April 2020 after contracting COVID-19. He served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Boston until his retirement in 2010. Born in Huesca, Spain, on 18 February 1935, Emilio Allué made his profession as a Salesian in 1962 and attended Don Bosco College in Newton, New Jersey.He then furthered his studies at the Salesian Pontifical University in Rome, where he was ordained to the priesthood on 22 December 1966. He earned a Licentiate of Sacred Theology from the Salesian University in 1967, and was director of the Salesian Seminary in Goshen, New York, from 1972 to 1975. He received a Ph.D. in the history of Christianity from Fordham University in 1981, and later served as parish ...

26Apr

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

Alan Abel, musician

Alan Abel -- an American percussionist, music educator, and inventor of musical instruments -- died on April 25, 2020, of complications from COVID-19. He was the associate principal percussionist of the Philadelphia Orchestra from 1959 until his retirement in 1997. He is widely regarded as one of the most important percussion educators of the second half of the twentieth century, having taught at Temple University beginning in 1972. Abel’s inventions include several unique and ubiquitous triangles and a bass drum stand that allowed the instrument to be suspended with the use of rubber bands. Abel was born in Hobart, Indiana, in 1928. At the age of seven, he started percussion lessons. He studied with Clarence Carlson at the Roy Knapp School and then with Haskell Harr and William S...

26Apr

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High Profilers, Japan, Profiles

Yukio Okamoto, diplomat

Yukio Okamoto a Japanese diplomat, diplomatic analyst, and proponent of strong economic and political Japan–United States relations died from pneumonia caused by novel COVID-19 at a Tokyo hospital on April 24, 2020, at the age of 75. Okamoto guided Japanese and American diplomatic relations throughout the 1980s, during an era when both countries simultaneously competed for economic influence on the global stage. He served as a diplomatic advisor and analyst for several Japanese prime ministers, including Ryutaro Hashimoto from 1996 to 1998 and Junichiro Koizumi from 2003 until 2004. Biography Okamoto was a native of Kanagawa Prefecture. He joined the Japanese Foreign Ministry in 1968, where he worked for more than 20 years. He was posted to diplomatic missions in Paris, Cair...

26Apr

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

Michael Huckaby, DJ

Michael Huckaby an American DJ who produced electronic music died on April 24, 2020, aged 54 after contracting COVID-19. He began his DJ career in 1995 playing a combination of Detroit techno, groove, and jazz music. Between 1992 and 2005, he worked at Record Time, a record shop in Roseville, Michigan, as the buyer for store's dance section..

26Apr

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Japan, Noteworthy, Profiles

Kumiko Owada, actress

Kumiko Owada –a Japanese actress, voice actress, and television presenter was admitted to a Tokyo hospital on April 6, placed on a respirator and later diagnosed with COVID-19. Okae died from pneumonia caused by novel coronavirus in the Tokyo hospital on April 23, 2020, at the age of 63. She is survived by her husband and daughter. She was known for her work on television dramas, as well as hosting entertainment and variety shows, such as Renso Game on NHK. Okae also hosted the morning show Hanamaru Market on TBS Television from 1996 to 2014. Okae began her professional acting career in 1975. She appeared in numerous television roles and variety shows from the 1970s to the 2010s. She acted in television dramas, and hosted entertainment and variety shows, such as Renso Game on...

26Apr

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India, Profiles, United States

Floyd Cardoz, chef

Floyd Cardoz –an Indian-born American chef – passed away after contracting Covid-19 virus on March 25, 2020. He was born in Mumbai. He is noted for his respective ownership and executive chef tenures at the New York City eateries Paowalla and Tabla, as well as his victory on Top Chef Masters in 2011. His New York restaurants were known for food melding Indian flavours and spices with western cuisine techniques. After attending culinary school in Mumbai, India Floyd Cardoz went to Les Roches International School of Hotel Management, Switzerland. He moved to New York in 1988. He started working under Chef Gray Kunz at Lespinasse in 1992. He worked in various roles from chef de partie to executive sous chef. In 1997, he started working with Union Square Hospitality Group where he collabor...

26Apr

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Medics, Profiles, Russia

Aleksey Filippov, Neurosurgeon

Aleksey Filippov – the Head of Neurosurgery Department at Aleksandrovskaya Hospital, Saint Petersburg, Russia – passed away after suffering from COVID-19. Aleksey was 51 years old. It was reported on 26 April, 2020. “At 51, the head of the neurosurgery department, Filippov Aleksey Ivanovich, a neurosurgeon of the highest category, my classmate, died from COVID-19,” doctor Nyurgun Stepanov, a physician's friend, wrote . - We studied in the same group MLF-91-1. Without a husband, father left a wife, two children. Lesha sleep peacefully, let the earth rest in peace. Now I have personal accounts with this COVID19. Alexey Filippov graduated from the Medical Institute of the Northeast Federal University. Ammosov ...

Janeth Olivia García de la Cruz, Anaesthesiologist

26Apr

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Medics, Mexico, Profiles

Janeth Olivia García de la Cruz, Anaesthesiologist

Janeth Olivia García de la Cruz – an Anaesthesiologist at Instituto de Seguridad Social del Estado de Tabasco, Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico – passed away after suffering from COVID-19. It was reported on 26 April, 2020. Source: Facebook Please help us in adding details.

26Apr

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Iran, Medics, Profiles

Saeed Haghighi, Emergency Medicine

Saeed Haghighi – an Emergency Medicine in Isfahan, Iran – passed away after suffering from COVID-19. It was reported on 26 April 2020. Saeed was 52 years old. Source: Twitter Please help us in adding details.