Their Stories

Ratnakar Matkari \was a Marathi writer, a movie and play producer/director, and a self-taught artist from Maharashtra, India. He died of the coronavirus May 17, 2020

Claes Borgström was a Swedish lawyer and politician. He served as Equality Ombudsman (JämO) from 2000 until 2007. A member of the Social Democratic Party prior to 2013, he joined the Left Party in that year. He died of the coronavirus on May 15, 2020.

Anisuzzaman was a Bangladeshi academic of Bengali literature. He was an activist who took part in the Language Movement (1952), participated in Mass Uprising (1969), and took part in the War of Liberation (1971). He was a member of the Planning Commission to the Government of Bangladesh during the Bangladesh liberation war and a member…
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Henk Overgoor was a Dutch footballer who played as a left back. He was born in Gendringen, Netherlands. He played for Go Ahead Eagles from 1963 to 1965 and for De Graafschap from 1965 to 1979. He died of the coronavirus on April 23, 2020.

Munir Mangal was an Afghan general whose professional military career spanned more than 40 years. Mangal served in high-level military and government positions, most latterly as the Commander of the Afghan National Police, before his retirement in 2016. He died of the coronavirus on May 2, 2020.

Shobushi Kanji was a Japanese sumo wrestler from Kōfu, Yamanashi. He was the first sumo wrestler to die from the coronavirus, and is also thought to be the first person in their 20s to die from the virus in Japan. He died of the coronavirus on May 13, 2020.

Annie Glenn was an American advocate for people with disabilities and communication disorders and the wife of astronaut and senator John Glenn. A stutterer from an early age, Glenn was notable for raising awareness of stuttering among children and adults as well as other disabilities. She died of the coronavirus on May 19, 2020.

Dan van Husen was a German actor who also performed in Hollywood films. He died of the coronavirus on May 24, 2020.

John Conway was an English mathematician active in the theory of finite groups, knot theory, number theory, combinatoric game theory and coding theory. He also made contributions to many branches of recreational mathematics, most notably the invention of the cellular automaton called the Game of Life. He died of COVID-19 on April 11, 2020.

Iris Zavala was a Puerto Rican author, scholar, and poet, who later lived in Barcelona, Spain. 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 of the coronavirus on April 10,…
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