Their Stories

The stories cut short by COVID-19

Bernard Stalter (63)

Bernard Stalter was a French entrepreneur and politician. He died of the coronavirus on April 13, 2020.

Dennis Peters (82)

Dennis Gail Peters was an analytical chemist who specialized in electrochemistry and was named the Herman T. Briscoe Professor at Indiana University in 1975. Peters led his own research group at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana until his death. Peters’ research focused on the electrochemical behavior of halogenated organic compounds, more recently moving to focus…
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Sarah Maldoror (90)

Sarah Maldoror was a French filmmaker of French West Indies descent. She is best known for her feature film Sambizanga (1972) on the 1961–1974 war in Angola. She died on April 13, 2020.

Henry Grimes (84)

Henry Grimes was an American jazz double bassist and violinist. After more than a decade of activity and performance, notably as a leading bassist in free jazz, Grimes completely disappeared from the music scene by 1970. Grimes was often presumed to have died, but he was discovered in 2002 and returned to performing. He died…
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Allen Daviau (77)

Allen Daviau was an American cinematographer known for his collaborations with Steven Spielberg work on E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), The Color Purple (1985), and Empire of the Sun (1987). He received five Academy Award nominations and two British Academy Film Award nominations, with one win. In addition to his work in film, Daviau served as…
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Adam Alsing (51)

Adam Alsing was a Swedish television and radio presenter, best known for presenting Big Brother Sweden on Kanal 5. He moved to TV4 in 2005, presenting the Swedish version of Jeopardy!. He also presented his own show Adam Live. He later ventured into radio presenting shows on Rix FM and Mix Megapol. He died of…
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Patrick Devedjian (75)

Patrick Devedjian was a French politician of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) party. A close adviser of Nicolas Sarkozy since the 1990s, he was Minister under the Prime Minister in charge of the Implementation of the Recovery Plan, a special ministerial post created for two years following the global financial crisis of 2008,…
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Detto Mariano (82)

Detto Mariano was an Italian composer, arranger, lyricist, pianist, record producer and music publisher. Mariano started his career in 1958 but was launched by entering Adriano Celentano’s “Clan Celentano”, becoming keyboardist in his accompanying group “I Ribelli”, sporadic lyricist and official arranger of all the songs of the Clan between 1962 and 1967. He also…
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Ito Curata (60)

Ito Curata was a Filipino fashion designer who specialized in conceptualizing bridal gowns and Filipiniana clothing. Among his notable clients were Hollywood actress Sharon Stone, former Philippine president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, and Filipino actress Bea Alonzo. He died of the coronavirus on March 26, 2020.

Michael Sorkin (71)

Michael Sorkin was an American architectural and urban critic, designer, and educator. He was considered to be “one of architecture’s most outspoken public intellectuals,” a polemical voice in contemporary culture and the design of urban places at the turn of the twenty-first century. Sorkin first rose to prominence as an architectural critic for the Village…
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