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Enzo Mari was an Italian modernist artist and furniture designer who is known to have influenced many generations of industrial designers. Mari married art historian Lea Vergine in 1978. They had known each other since the 1960s. He died on 19 October 2020, at the age of 88, due to COVID-19, during the pandemic in…
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Dariusz Gnatowski was a Polish actor, known for his roles in Demons of War (1998), With Fire and Sword (1999) and most importantly for his role as Arnold Boczek in the sitcom Świat według Kiepskich. He died of the coronavirus on October 20, 2020.

Bogdan Józef Wojtuś was a Polish Roman Catholic prelate, auxiliary bishop of the archdiocese of Gniezno from 1988 until 2012. He was born on 4 July 1937 in Łąsko Wielki. He graduated from high school in Sępólno Krajeńskie. As a priest, he was ordained on 20 May 1961 in Gniezno by Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński, the…
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Pradeep Maharathy was an Indian politician belonging to the Biju Janata Dal (BJD). At the time of his death, he was a member of the Odisha Legislative Assembly representing Pipili Constituency. He died of the coronavirus on October 4, 2020.

Mordechai Yissachar Ber Leifer was the third Rebbe of the Pittsburgh Hasidic dynasty. Born in the United States, he joined his father, Grand Rabbi Avraham Abba Leifer, in Ashdod, Israel, to serve as rosh yeshiva of a new Pittsburgher yeshiva in that city in 1981. After succeeding his father as Rebbe, he expanded the Hasidic…
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Ibnu Saleh was an Indonesian politician, member of the Nasdem Party. Between 2016 and 2017, he was Deputy Regent of the Central Bangka Regency, and Regent from 2017 till his death in office during the COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia. Saleh graduated at the Faculty of Agriculture of the Lampung University and later obtained a master…
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David Refael ben-Ami was an Israeli singer. In 1970, he recorded the song “Desdemona,” which was composed for him by Mati Caspi and written by Gad Kaynar. In 1971, Desdemona reached the top of the Israeli Hit Parade. David ben Ami contracted COVID-19 during the pandemic in Israel. He was hospitalized on October 7, 2020,…
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Antonio Ángel Algora Hernando was a Spanish prelate of the Catholic Church who served as bishop of Teruel and Albarracín from 1985 to 2003 and Ciudad Real from 2003 to 2016. He died from complications of COVID-19 in Madrid on October 15, 2020.

Alfons “Fons” Remi Emiel Viscount Verplaetse was a Belgian economist who served as Governor of the National Bank of Belgium (NBB) from 1989 until 1999. He was one of the architects of the devaluation of the Belgian Frank in 1982 when he worked at the cabinet of Wilfried Martens in the government Martens V. As…
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Itzhak Ilan or Yitzhak Ilan (Hebrew: יצחק אילן‎), served in the Israel Security Agency (a.k.a. ISA, Shin-Bet, Shabak) during the years 1982–2012, and served during his last position as the Deputy Director of the ISA during the years 2010–2011. Itzhak Ilan was born in the town of Surami in central Georgia on 28 July 1956.…
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