Noteworthy – Page 38

20Mar

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France, Noteworthy, Profiles

Henri Richelet, painter

Henri Richelet –a French painter ‑ died of COVID-19 on 18 March 2020 in Paris, aged 75. Born to primary school teachers in a small village close to Domrémy, the birthplace of Joan of Arc, Henri Richelet spent his childhood and adolescence in the neighbouring small town of Neufchâteau (Vosges). After his Baccalauréat, he first attended the École des Beaux-Arts in Nancy, then the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. In 1968, he got the First Grand Prix of the Casa de Velázquez, Madrid in the etching category. He has been living in Paris since the seventies after having spent a few years in Quebec. He was married to the Chilean painter Ximena Armas. Besides his partic...

20Mar

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Italy, Noteworthy, Profiles

Luciano Federici, footballer

Luciano Federici –an Italian professional footballer – died from Covid-19 on 18 March 2020. He played in all three of Italy's top professional leagues, including for Carrarese, Cosenza and Pisa. On 18 March 2020, Federici died from COVID-19 in Italy.

17Mar

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Fariborz Raisdana, economist

Fariborz Raisdana –an Iranian economist, socialist, activist, professor, and a member of the Iranian Writers' Association – succumbed to Covid-19 on 16 March 2020. Raisdana graduated from The London School of Economics. He was the author of numerous articles and books, including Applied Development Economics; Money and Inflation; Political Economy of Development, and Globalization. Raisdana was arrested on March 21, 2012 in Tehran after criticizing the Iranian subsidy reform plan in an interview with BBC Persian and given a one-year sentence at Evin Prison, for a series of charges including "membership in the Writer's Association, preparing seditious announcements against the regime, giving interviews to BBC and VOA, and accusing the...

17Mar

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Italy, Noteworthy, Profiles

Sergio Bassi, singer & songwriter

Sergio Bassi –an Italian folk singer-songwriter – died from Covid-19 on 16 March 2020. Sergio was raised by his maternal grandparents in a small hamlet in Codogno, Lombardy. After adulthood, he moved to Legnano, later to Piacenza, then he lived in San Francesco al Campo for seven years. Later, he returned to his hometown. During the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy, he contracted novel coronavirus. On 16 March, he died from the infection in Crema.

16Mar

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Italy, Noteworthy, Profiles

Vittorio Gregotti, architect

Vittorio Gregotti –an Italian architect, born in Novara – died due to coronavirus on 15 March 2020. He was seen as both a member of the Neo-Avant Garde and a key figure in 1970s Postmodernism. Gregotti was born in Novara, in the Italian Piedmont, and attended the Politecnico di Milano. He worked as a contributor to Casabella, an architectural magazine, and was its editor-in-chief from 1955 to 1963. Gregotti founded his own studio, Gregotti Associati International, in 1974 but also lectured on architectural theory and curated several exhibits in Italy. His studio has designed several important sports venues and cultural buildings, such as the Barcelona Olympic Stadium, the Belém Cultural Center in Lisbon, the Arcimboldi Opera T...

15Mar

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Italy, Noteworthy, Profiles

Piero Schlesinger, jurist

Piero Schlesinger Knight Grand Cross OMRI (19 May 1930 – 14 March 2020) was an Italian jurist, banker, lawyer and academic who served as president of the Banca Popolare di Milano from 1971 to 1993. Piero Schlesinger graduated in jurisprudence in Turin. In 1956 he began his academic career at the University of Urbino and, two years later, personally chosen by its dean and founder Father Agostino Gemelli, moved to the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Milan, where he held the chair of private law for over three decades. Manuale di diritto privato, the academic textbook of private law he co-authored with Andrea Torrente, is considered one of the most studied and influential of its kind in Italy. Among his pupils were lawyers Giuseppe Lombardi...

14Mar

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Iran, Noteworthy, Profiles

Nasser Shabani, militaryman

Nasser Shabani ‑ an Iranian general and senior commander of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) – succumbed to Covid-19 on 13 March 2020. He took credit for using Houthi rebels to target Saudi oil tankers. Shabani began his military career in 1982 during the Iran-Iraq War. He participated in suppressing the Amol uprising the same year. In the final year of the Iran-Iraq War, he was promoted to become one of several fronts of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. He played a key role in Operation Mersad, and later wrote several books about the war. In 2011, he succeeded the president of the university of Imam Hussein and became one of the deputies of the Tharallah camp. In 2018, he stated in Iranian state media that the IRGC ordered the Houthi forces in Yemen to attack two Saudi oil t...

12Mar

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

Marcelo Peralta, performer

Marcelo Peralta –an Argentine performer, teacher, composer, and arranger who played saxophone, piano, accordion, and the Latin American aerophones – died from Covid-19 on 10 March 2020. This section does not cite any sources. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.Find sources: "Marcelo Peralta" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (March 2020) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Peralta was born in Buenos Aires. He studied piano and music theory at the Antiguo Conservatorio Beethoven, where he obtained a teaching certificate in 1979. At the age of 18, he began to play the baritone sax, showing ...

11Mar

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Italo De Zan, cyclist

Italo De Zan –an Italian racing cyclist – died from Covid-19 on 9 March 2020. He won stage 10 of the 1948 Giro d'Italia. De Zan died from COVID-19 in Treviso on 9 March 2020.

9Mar

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Reza Mohammadi Langroudi, cleric

Reza Mohammadi Langroudi –an Iranian Twelver Shi'a cleric of the rank of Ayatollah – died on 7 March 2020 after suffering from coronavirus. He served as representative of the Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in the town of Langroud. Reza Mohammadi Langroudi was a student of Hossein Borujerdi, Ruhollah Khomeini and Mohammad-Taqi Bahjat Foumani. During the 1979 Islamic Revolution, he played an influential role in the marches. For a time, he was the temporary Friday imam of Langroud and Amlash. Langroudi died at the age of 91 as a result of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on 7 March 2020.