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Dr Burton “Bud” David Rose, nephrologist

8May

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Medics, Profiles, United States

Dr Burton “Bud” David Rose, nephrologist

Burton "Bud" David Rose an American nephrologist and the creator of the UpToDate medical software application died on April 24, 2020, due to complications of COVID-19. Rose was a clinical professor of medicine at Harvard University. He also held positions at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He was co-author of Clinical Physiology of Acid-Base and Electrolyte Disorders; Pathophysiology of Renal Disease; and Renal Pathophysiology: The Essentials. Rose created the first version of UpToDate in his house in 1992. It was released on floppy disks. His work (creation of UpToDate) has influenced the modern practice of medicine more than any work in the current generation of practicing physicians. Ma...

8May

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Canada, Noteworthy, Profiles

Marguerite Lescop, author

Marguerite Lescop ‑ a Canadian author, editor, and public speaker – succumbed to Covid-19 on April 3, 2020. After the death of her husband, René Lescop, she attended writing workshops and wrote her autobiography, Le Tour de ma vie en 80 ans, published in 1996 by Salon du livre de Montréal. The book obtained considerable success, with more than 100,000 copies sold. She gave numerous conferences at retirement homes across Quebec. Lescop founded her own publishing company, Éditions Lescop, and published two books with it: En effeuillant la Marguerite (1998) and Les Épîtres de Marguerite (2000). With Éditions Fides, she published Nous, les vieux, a series of interviews with Benoît Lacroix, a good friend of Lescop's. In 2007, ...

5May

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Brazil, Noteworthy, Profiles

Aldir Blanc Mendes, author and lyricist

Aldir Blanc Mendes a Brazilian author of crônicas and lyricist died of complications of COVID-19 on 4 May 2020 at the age of 73. He co-composed many songs with singer-songwriter João Bosco, guitarist Guinga, and others. A trained psychiatrist, eventually he quit medical practice and devoted all his time to music. Elis Regina recorded several of his songs, most notably "O bêbado e a equilibrista". Another song of his is "Resposta ao tempo" (with lyrics by Cristovão Bastos), a ballad that became one of Nana Caymmi's most famous songs, and which was recorded by many other musicians thereafter, amongst them Milton Nascimento and Aldir Blanc himself. Blanc's work 1972–1987 was analyzed by Charles A. Perrone in Masters of Contemporary Brazilian Song MPB 1965–1985 (U Texas P, 1989)....

18Apr

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United Kingdom

Matthew Seligman, bass guitarist

Matthew Seligman ‑ an English bass guitarist – died on April 17 2020 in St George’s Hospital London battling COVID-19. Seligman was best known for his association with the new wave music scene of the 1980s. Seligman was a member of The Soft Boys and the Thompson Twins, and was a sideman for Thomas Dolby. Seligman was also a member of Bruce Woolley & The Camera Club and The Dolphin Brothers, and backed David Bowie at his performance at Live Aid in 1985. Seligman was born in Cyprus, and his family moved to the UK eight months after his birth, settling in Wimbledon. Influenced by Paul McCartney, Free’s Andy Fraser, and Tina Weymouth of Talking Heads, he learned bass. Seligman was a founding member of Bruce Woolley and the Camera Club, w...

Rifat Chadirji, architect, photographer, author & activist

11Apr

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Rifat Chadirji, architect, photographer, author & activist

Rifat Chadirji ‑ an Iraqi architect, photographer, author and activist – died on 10 April 2020 due to Covid-19. He was often referred to as the father of modern Iraqi architecture, having designed more than 100 buildings across the nation. Chadirji was born in Baghdad in 1926 into an influential family. His father, Kamil Chadirji, played a central role in Iraq's political life as the founder in 1946 and then president of the National Democratic Party. Chadirji trained as an architect. In 1952, after completing his graduate training, he returned to Baghdad and began working on what he called his "architectural experiments." Rifat Chadirji's architecture is inspired by the characteristics of regional Iraqi architectur...

11Apr

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Noteworthy, Profiles, Spain

Iris M. Zavala, author

Iris M. Zavala –a Puerto Rican author, scholar, and poet, who later lived in Barcelona, Spain – died from Covid-19 on 10 April 2020 She had over 50 works to her name, plus hundreds of articles, dissertations, and conferences and many of her writings, including "Nocturna, mas no funesta", build on and express this belief. She died from COVID-19 in Madrid during COVID-19 pandemic in Spain, at the age of 83. Zavala was born on 27 December 1936 in Ponce, Puerto Rico. She graduated from the University of Puerto Rico with a B.A. in literature and from the University of Salamanca with a "Licenciatura" degree as well as a "Doctor en Filosofía y Letras" (Ph.D.). There, she was influenced by Spain's Fernando L&aa...

Dr Naek L. Tobing, physician, sexologist and author

7Apr

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Indonesia, Medics, Noteworthy, Profiles

Dr Naek L. Tobing, physician, sexologist and author

Dr Naek Lumban Tobing - an Indonesian physician, sexologist and author. He wrote Problems and Solutions (1994) and Premarital Sex, Extramarital Sex, and Building Marital Harmony ‑ died on April 6, 2020 age 79 due to COVID-19. Often appearing to fill sexology rubrics in various national magazines and newspapers. In addition, he was often invited as a speaker in a health rubric program related to sexology issues at various television and radio stations throughout Indonesia. He was born on Samosir Island, Tapanuli. He earned a medical degree from The University of North Sumatra in 1966, and psychiatrist degree from The University of Indonesia in 1976. He also earned certified sex educator from The University of Minnesota in 1983. He died at the Pertamina Central ...

Mike Longo, jazz pianist, composer & author

24Mar

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

Mike Longo, jazz pianist, composer & author

Michael Josef Longo ‑ an American jazz pianist, composer, and author ‑ died in Manhattan on March 23, 2020, three days after his 83rd birthday, from complications of COVID-19. Longo was born in Cincinnati, Ohio to parents who had a musical background. His father played bass, his mother played organ at church, and his music training began at a young age. Mike recalled seeing Sugar Chile Robinson playing boogie woogie piano: "The first time I saw him, man, he knocked me out. I must have been three or four years old. He played after the Count Basie show, so I went home and started picking out boogie woogie bass lines." His parents took him for formal lessons at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music at four. He moved to Fort Lauderdale, Florida soon after. At the ag...