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1Apr

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Medics, Profiles, United Kingdom

Dr Labeja Acellam, Physician

Labeja Acellam, a Physician at the University Hospital Lewisham in England, died on March 31 at the age of 69 due to COVID-19. Source: https://chimpreports.com/coronavirus-7th-ugandan-dies-in-uk/ Please help us in adding details.

1Apr

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Andrew Jack. dialect coach

Andrew Jack ‑ a British dialect coach and actor, from London who had worked on over 80 motion pictures since 1982 – died on 31 March 2020 after suffering from Covid-19. He was 76. His father Stephen Jack was an actor in films, radio and television. His mother Julia (née Hutchinson), was a horticulturist. He had worked with over 200 actors including Robert Downey Jr. (in Richard Attenborough's Chaplin, Michael Hoffman's Restoration and Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes), Pierce Brosnan (in GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies and Die Another Day), Cate Blanchett, and Viggo Mortensen. As supervising dialect coach for The Lord of the Rings, he created the Middle-earth accents and taught them, along with Elvish and Black Speech, to the cast of the trilogy. He designe...

Hilary Dwyer, actress, businessperson & film producer

31Mar

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Hilary Dwyer, actress, businessperson & film producer

Hilary Dwyer aka Hilary Heath ‑ an English actress, businessperson, and film producer – passed away after contracting Covid-19 on 30 March 2020. She was best known for her acting roles in films such as Witchfinder General (1968) and Wuthering Heights (1970). She also performed on the London stage. In 1974, she married the talent agent Duncan Heath, with whom she had two children, and helped to found Duncan Heath Associates, which was later bought by ICM Partners. They divorced in 1989. Later in her career, under her married name, "Hilary Heath", she produced the feature film An Awfully Big Adventure (1995), as well as TV remakes of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca (1997) and Tennessee Williams's The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (2003)....

30Mar

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David Hodgkiss, administrator

David Michael William Hodgkiss ‑ a British administrator and chief executive officer, who was the chairman of Lancashire County Cricket Club (LCCC), a professional British cricket team, between April 2017 and March 2020 – died after contracting Covid-19 on 29 March 2020. He had been chief executive of a steel fabrication company, William Hare Group, for which he was awarded an Order of the British Empire for his services to the manufacturing and exporting industry. Hodgkiss was awarded the OBE in June 2014. His OBE was awarded as part of the Queen's Birthday list. After he gained his own honours, he continued to applaud others in the field of cricketing, for example, praising Clive Lloyd, when Clive was knighted as a CBE. Hodgkiss work...

30Mar

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Thomas Harvey, Healthcare Assistant

Thomas Harvey – a Healthcare Assistant at North East London NHS Foundation Trust, London, England – passed away on 29 March, 2020, after suffering from COVID-19. Thomas was 57 years old. Mr Harvey was signed off sick from the hospital in Ilford on 11 March after developing symptoms including a cough, shortness of breath and body aches. Source: BBC Please help us in adding details.

28Mar

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Michael McKinnell, architect

Noel Michael McKinnell –a British-born American architect and co-founder of the Kallmann McKinnell & Wood architectural design firm – succumbed to Covid-19 on March 27, 2020. In 1962, McKinnell, who was a Columbia University graduate student at the time, and Columbia professor Gerhard Kallmann submitted the winning design for Boston City Hall, which opened in 1968. McKinnell and Kallman moved to Boston shortly after winning the competition and founded their firm, now known as Kallmann McKinnell & Wood, in 1962. McKinnell was born on December 25, 1935, in Salford area of Manchester, England, His father was an accountant and war veteran. He graduated from the University of Manchester in 1958 with a first class degree in architecture. He stu...

27Mar

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Andy Howe, Bus Driver

Andy Howe ‑ a Bus Driver running transit service to hospitals, Nottingham, England – passed away on 26 March, 2020, after suffering from COVID-19. Andy was 48 years old. Andy Howe worked on the Medilink service, which took NHS workers and patients to hospital. He died on the way to hospital after falling ill, his employer said. A spokesman for the RMT union said: “We are saddened by the news of Andy’s passing. We’re also angered by the reports we have received about a lack of duty of care for Andy, his colleagues and the wider public.” Source: The Guardian Please help us in adding details.

26Mar

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Pooja Sharma, Hospital pharmacist

Pooja Sharma, 33, died on March 26, 2020 Pooja Sharma, 33, died on March 26, 2020, a day after her father also passed away from the coronavirus. She was working with Eastbourne district general hospital, East Sussex, the United Kingdom. A friend, Amarjit Aujla, paid tribute on Facebook: “Her laughter was contagious and her random calls made my day. From when we were in primary school until we last spoke two weeks ago, you gave me nothing but love, support and a tummy ache with all the laughter. Life can never be the same without you my dear friend.” Lara Stacey Young, a nurse in the area, said: “So many people will be devastated. She was such a lovely soul.” Sharma’s father, Sudhir, 61, was an immigration officer at Heathrow, but officials said it was likely he had contracted ...

26Mar

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Dr Habib Zaidi

Dr Habib Zaidi, a family GP, is thought to be the first doctor in the UK to have been killed by coronavirus on March 25. The 76-year-old, from Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, died in intensive care just 24 hours after being taken ill. His daughter Dr Sarah Zaidi, also a GP, said the knowledge that coronavirus had taken him was “too much to bear.” She added: “It is reflective of his sacrifice. He had a vocational attitude to service.” Dr Zaidi had been self isolating at home and had not seen patients for a week before he died. He and his wife, Dr Talat Zaidi, 70, were both managing partners of Eastwood Group Practice and had served three generations of families in the area for nearly 50 years. Their daughter added: “We can’t mourn in the normal way. We can’t have a normal funera...

25Mar

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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.