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27Apr

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José Agapito Montero, Nurse

José Agapito Montero, a Nurse at Centro de Salud Puertollano 3 Carlos Mestre, Ciudad Real, Spain, died on April 26 due to COVID-19 at the age of 63. He was reportedly in the ICU of the Santa Bárbara hospital for several weeks. Source: Cadenaser Please help us in adding details.

Enrique Castellón Vargas, Flamenco singer, actor and dancer

23Apr

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Enrique Castellón Vargas, Flamenco singer, actor and dancer

Enrique Castellón Vargas aka El Príncipe Gitano ("The Gypsy Prince") a Spanish flamenco singer, actor and dancer – died on 22 April 2020, due to Covid-19 complications. He was the brother of rumba singer Dolores Vargas "La Terremoto". At the age of 14 he made his debut at the Teatro Calderón in Madrid in the same show as Lola Flores and very soon after he performed his first show, “Pinceladas”, becoming a great figure in Spanish song in the 1950s, despite the fact that his real passion was bullfighting, but he did not have success in that field. His most famous song is "Obí, obá". He also made a peculiar version of the Elvis Presley song "In the Ghetto".

José María Fernández Calleja, journalist

22Apr

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José María Fernández Calleja, journalist

José María Fernández Calleja a Spanish journalist, political prisoner during the Francisco Franco era and anti-ETA activist died in Madrid, aged 64, after suffering from COVID-19, on 21 April 2020. He was born in Ponferrada. Until the end of the ETA's activity, he had to live with bodyguards as he was under threat of death from the Basque terrorist group.

22Apr

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Josep Sala i Mañé, casteller

Josep Sala i Mañé a Spanish Catalan casteller died on 20 April 2020 in his hometown, at the age of 82, after suffering from COVID-19 during COVID-19 pandemic in Spain. He was born in Vilafranca del Penedès in 1938. In his youth, he was member of the Castellers de Vilafranca until his family moved to Barcelona in the 50s. In 1958, alongside the Duch family and Pere Català i Roca [ca] he founded the colla (team) of Castellers de Ballets de Cataluña, but this group dissolved in 1963. Six years later, Sala founded the Castellers de Barcelona, the fourth oldest, and was its head between 1969 and 1976.

20Apr

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Joaquin Diaz Dominguez, Surgeon

Joaquin Diaz Dominguez – a Chief of Surgery and Digestive Diseases at Hospital Universitario La Paz, and Professor at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Hospital Universitario La Paz & Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Madrid, Spain – passed away on 19 April 2020 after suffering from COVID-19. Dominguez was 64 years. He received the Doctorate Award from the López Sánchez Foundation, granted by the Royal Academy of Medicine and is the author of several publications and the book "History of Biliary Surgery in Spain". After learning the news, his colleagues from the hospital gathered at the gates of the center to pay tribute to a doctor "with a long history and loved by all," as indicated by the Minister of Hea...

20Apr

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Aurelio Capilla, Medical Director

Aurelio Capilla - a Medical Director at Hospital Beata María Ana, Madrid, Spain – passed away on 19 April 2020 due to COVID-19. "Man very appreciated and admired in his profession, and also very loved and respected among his colleagues at Hospital Beata María Ana, with whom he shared the day-to-day of his activity, he also owed the imposition of numerous measures that have resulted in the constant improvement of the care services of the center ", the center has broken down. Finally, the hospital has highlighted "his enormous medical vocation, also anchored in deep spiritual and human values that led him to always help those in need and dedicate himself body and soul to his work." Source: Redaccion Medica Please help us in adding details.

19Apr

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Emilio Úcar Corral, Medical Director

Emilio Úcar Corral – a Medical Director at Hospital Universitario Santa Cristina, Madrid, Spain- passed away on 18 April, 2020, after suffering from COVID-19. Emilio was 58 years old. Source: Tellereport Please help us in adding details.

17Apr

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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...

17Apr

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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...

Samir Assi Mouselli, General Practitioner

17Apr

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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.