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Bennie Gene Adkins, soldier
17Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

Bennie Gene Adkins, soldier

Bennie Gene Adkins ‑ a United States Army soldier – died on April 17 2020 battling Covid-19. Adkins received the U.S. military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions during the Vietnam War. In March 1966 Adkins distinguished himself during a 38-hour close-combat battle against North Vietnamese Army forces during the Battle of A Shau. At the time of the cited action, Adkins was a sergeant first class serving as an Intelligence Sergeant with Detachment A-102, 5th Special Forces Group, 1st Special Forces.   Adkins was born in Waurika, Oklahoma and was drafted in 1956. He was assigned to a garrison unit in Germany, with a follow-on assignment to the 2nd Infantry Division, Fort Benning, Georgia. After attending Airborne School, he volunteered for...
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Luis Sepúlveda Calfucura, writer
17Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
Noteworthy, Profiles, Spain

Luis Sepúlveda Calfucura, writer

Luis Sepúlveda Calfucura ‑ a Chilean writer and journalist. A communist militant and fervent opponent of Augusto Pinochet's regime ‑ He died on April 16 due to the Covid‑19. Luis Sepúlveda was imprisoned and tortured by the military dictatorship during the 1970s. Sepúlveda was author of poetry books and short stories; in addition to Spanish, his mother tongue, he spoke also English, French and Italian. In the late 1980s, he conquered the literary scene with his first novel, The Old Man Who Read Love Novels.   Luis Sepúlveda was born in Ovalle, Limarí Province, in 1949. His father, José Sepúlveda, was a militant of the Chilean Communist Party; and his mother, Irma Calfucura, was a nurse of Mapuche descent. After High S...
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Henry Miller, lawyer
17Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
High Profilers, Profiles, United States

Henry Miller, lawyer

Henry Miller ‑ an American lawyer and jurist – died on April 16 2020 due to Covid‑19. Miller was a past president of the New York Bar Association, and the author of several books and articles on trial advocacy; he was known as an expert in trial lawyering.   Miller was born in Brooklyn, the son of Henry A. and Anne Withers Miller, on February 18, 1931.   He attended St. John's College (class of 1952) and St. John's Law School (class of 1959).   Miller was the senior partner of the law firm of Clark, Gagliardi & Miller, P.C., where he practiced trial work starting in 1966. He was president of the Westchester Bar Association and the New York Bar Association, the largest voluntary bar association in the United States. He received man...
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Santiago Lanzuela Marina, politician
17Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
High Profilers, Profiles, Spain

Santiago Lanzuela Marina, politician

Santiago Lanzuela Marina ‑ a Spanish economist and politician for the People's Party (PP), who served as President of the Government of Aragon, one of the Spanish regional administrations ‑ died of COVID-19-related causes on 16 April 2020 in Madrid.  He was 71.   Lanzuela was born in Teruel, Spain. An economist by profession, he was married with two children. In 1974 he became head of the office for Spanish co-operation with Nicaragua and then served as a director in the Spanish Employment Ministry from 1976 to 1981. In 1987 he was elected to the Aragonese Regional Assembly and in 1989 the PP entered a coalition government with the Aragonese Party (PAR) with Lanzuela serving as Economics Minister until 1993. On 28 May 1995 the PP received the most votes in the Ara...
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Francesco Di Carlo, Italian mobster
17Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
France, High Profilers, Profiles

Francesco Di Carlo, Italian mobster

Francesco Di Carlo ‑ a member of the Sicilian Mafia who turned state witness ‑ died after contracting COVID-19 during the pandemic on April 16, 2020. Di Carlo was accused of being the killer of Roberto Calvi, nicknamed "God's banker", because he was in charge of Banco Ambrosiano and his close association with the Vatican Bank.   Di Carlo was born in Altofonte, where he was initiated into the Mafia family in 1966 by the boss at the time, Salvatore La Barbera (not to be confused with the Palermo Centro boss who was killed in 1963). He became capo famiglia in the mid 1970s. Altofonte was part of the mandamento of San Giuseppe Jato, headed by Antonio Salamone and Bernardo Brusca. According to the pentito Giuseppe Marchese, Di Carlo was an influential mafioso a...
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Samir Assi Mouselli, General Practitioner
17Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
Medics, Profiles, Spain

Samir Assi Mouselli, General Practitioner

Samir Assi Mouselli, a Family Medicine specialist/General Practitioner (retired) at Centro de Salud de La Solana, Ciudad Real, Spain – passed due to COVID-19. It was reported on April 16, 2020. Dr. Samir Assi was 71 years old. The Official College of Physicians of Ciudad Real has lamented this Wednesday and expressing its condolences "to the family, friends and colleagues of Dr. Samir Assi Mouselli, Primary Care physician at the La Solana Health Center until his retirement in 2015." Dr. Samir Assi, who was 71 years old, is the third deceased in the Ciudad Real province as a result of the COVID-19 Source: EL Digital CLM Please help us in adding details.
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