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19May

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High Profilers, Profiles, United Kingdom

William John Olner, politician

William John Olner ‑ a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Nuneaton from 1992 until 2010 ‑ died from complications of COVID-19 at George Eliot Hospital in Nuneaton on 18 May 2020, at age 78. Previously,Olner had been Leader of Nuneaton Borough Council. Olner was educated at Nuneaton Technical College and trained as an engineer. He became a shop steward, and later area secretary for the AEEU (now Unite trade union). Olner was a councillor for the Labour group on Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough Council for 21 years, and was the council leader from 1982–87. In 1987 he became Mayor of Nuneaton and Bedworth, serving a 1-year term. Olner was first elected to the House of Commons in 1992, as the Member of Parliament for Nuneaton....

8May

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Medics, United Kingdom

William Brodie, Infirmary Manager

William Brodie – a Manager at Operational Estates Department, Glasgow Royal Infirmary, Glasgow, Scotland – passed away on 27 April 2020, due to COVID-19. Wiliam was 56 years old. The 56-year-old, from West Lothian, had worked at Glasgow Royal Infirmary, as a manager in the estates department, and was said to be "proud" to be playing his part in battling the virus. Devastated colleagues have described his as a "great manager but also a fantastic person and excellent friend." "William was a great manager but also a fantastic person and excellent friend to many within NHSGG&C and out with the NHS." Source: The Scottish Sun Please help us in adding details.

18Apr

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Medics, Profiles, United States

William Mantell, Pharmacist

William Mantell – a Pharmacist, Variety Drugs in Rochdale Village, Queens, New York – passed away on 17 April 2020, after suffering from COVID-19. Source: PHARMACIST STEVE Please help us in adding details.

15Apr

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

William Henry Gerdts Jr., art historian

William Henry Gerdts Jr. an American art historian and professor of Art History at the CUNY Graduate Center. Gerdts was the author of over twenty-five books on American art died of complications of the COVID-19 virus, aged 91, on April 14, 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. An expert in American Impressionism, he was also well known for his work on nineteenth-century American still life painting. Gerdts was born in Jersey City, New Jersey. Beginning in 1945 he attended Amherst College. After receiving a Bachelor of Arts from Amherst in 1949, Gerdts attended Harvard Law School, but after four days switched to the Department of Fine Arts. There he earned a master's degree in 1950 and a Ph.D. in 1966. Gerdts' professional positions included that of Cura...

12Apr

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Colombia, Medics, Profiles

William Gutiérrez, Anaesthesiologist

William Gutiérrez – an Anaesthesiologist, Chief of ICU at Centro Policlínico del Olaya, Bogotá, Colombia – passed away after suffering from COVID-19. It was reported on 12 April, 2020. William was 59 years old. Gutiérrez was an Air Force officer and worked as an anesthesiologist and intensivist at the Los Nogales Clinic and as head of the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Olaya Polyclinic Center. The 59-year-old doctor had been hospitalized for several days in the ICU of the Military Hospital , where he died of pneumonia , which worsened significantly over time, caused by the new coronavirus. The Colombian Medical Federation , through a statement published on its official Twitter account, confirmed the professional's death. ...

4Apr

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Profiles, United Kingdom

Dr. William Frankland

An allergy pioneer who popularized the pollen count, United Kingdom Dr. William Frankland, 108, an allergy pioneer who popularized the pollen count, died from Covid19 in the United Kingdom on April 2, 2020. The pioneering work of Dr Frankland, a British immunologist who transformed the world’s understanding of allergies, included developing the idea of a pollen count to help hay fever sufferers. Dr Frankland, whose medical career spanned 70 years, was known as “the grandfather of allergy”. As a British army doctor in World War Two, he spent three-and-a-half years in Japanese prisoner of war camps. Historian Dan Snow tweeted he would never forget meeting Dr Frankland, who he called “one of the greatest Britons”. Prof Adam Fox, president of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical...

29Mar

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

William B. Helmreich, sociologist

William Helmreich –a professor of sociology at the City College of New York Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York – died on March 28, 2020 due to Covid-19. Helmreich, a published author, was a distinguished professor at the City University of New York, who specialized in race and ethnic relations, religion, immigration, risk behavior, the sociology of New York City, urban sociology, consumer behavior, and market research. Helmreich was born in 1945 in Zürich, Switzerland, the son of Holocaust survivor parents. In 1946, he was brought to the US as an infant, and grew up in New York City on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Helmreich wrote about his early ye...

29Mar

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

William Wolf, film critic

William Wolf ‑ an American film and theater critic, and the author of several books – died of Covid-19 on March 28, 2020. He was a film critic for Cue and New York magazines in the 1960s-1980s. Later, he was the president of the Drama Desk and the chairman of the New York Film Critics Circle. Wolf served two years as Chairman of the New York Film Critics Circle and was a member of the National Society of Film Critics, the New York Film Critics Online, the Online Film Critics Society, PEN, the American Theatre Critics Association, the International Association of Theatre Critics, and the American Association of University Professors. He served for four years as President of the Drama Desk, an organization of critics and writers on the theater, and previously served ...

22Mar

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United Kingdom

William Stern, businessman

William George Stern ‑ a businessman most notable as the owner of the British Stern Group of companies – died of Covid-19 on 21 March 2020. When the British Stern Group of companies collapsed in 1973, Stern became Britain's biggest bankrupt with debts of £118 million. The uninsured losses sustained by thousands of investors led directly to the creation of Britain's first Policyholders' Protection Act. He died during the Covid-19 pandemic due to complications brought on by Covid-19. He was born Vilmos György Stern or Ze’ev HaKohen Stern in Budapest, the youngest of three children of Chaim Stern, who owned a textile factory supplying goods to the Hungarian government. When Hungary was invaded by Nazi Germany in March 1944, Stern along with hi...