Their Stories

Óscar Chávez was a Mexican singer, songwriter and actor. He was the major proponent of the Nueva Trova movement in Mexico in the 1960s and 1970s. He died of the coronavirus on April 30, 2020.

Francesco Perrone was an Italian long-distance runner. He competed in the marathon at the 1960 Summer Olympics. Perrone was an athlete of the Gruppo Sportivo Fiamme Oro. He died of the coronavirus on April 27, 2020.

Asdrubal Bentes was a Brazilian politician and lawyer from the state of Pará. He represented Pará in the national Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of the National Congress of Brazil, for several tenures beginning in 1987. Most recently, he served in the Chamber of Deputies for four consecutive terms from February 1, 2001, to…
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Lúcia Braga was a Brazilian politician, social worker and lawyer from the state of Paraíba. She died of the coronavirus on May 8, 2020.

Dimitris Kremastinos was a Greek politician, physician, Professor of Cardiology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, and member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. He had served as Minister of Health and Welfare and Social Security, Chairman of the Standing Committee on Social Affairs of the Hellenic Parliament, and in 2015…
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Abraham Palatnik was a Brazilian artist and inventor whose innovations include kinechromatic art. He is considered a pioneer of technological art in Brazil for his early use of mechanical systems and light. He exhibited some of his works in the First Biennial of São Paulo in 1951. He died of the coronavirus on May 9,…
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David Corrêa was a Brazilian singer-songwriter of the genres samba, samba-enredo and pagode. He died of the coronavirus on May 10, 2020.

Riad Ismat was a Syrian writer, critic and theatre director. He served as Minister of Culture of Syria from 3 October 2010 to 23 June 2012. He died of the coronavirus on May 13, 2020.

Claude Goasguen was a French politician who served as a member of the National Assembly for Paris from 1993 to 1995 and again from 1997 until his death in 2020. A member of The Republicans, he also briefly was Minister of Reform of the State, Decentralisation and Citizenship in 1995 under Prime Minister Alain Juppé.…
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Marvin ‘Marv’ Luster was an American professional football player in the Canadian Football League (CFL) for fourteen years. He also played college football for the UCLA Bruins. He died of the coronavirus on May 25, 2020.