Their Stories

Adam Lyons Schlesinger was an American singer-songwriter, record producer, bassist, guitarist, keyboardist, and drummer. He won three Emmy Awards, a Grammy Award, and the ASCAP Pop Music Award, and was nominated for Academy, Tony, and Golden Globe Awards. He was a founding member of the bands Fountains of Wayne, Ivy, and Tinted Windows, and was…
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Ellis Louis Marsalis Jr. was an American jazz pianist and educator. Active since the late 1940s, Marsalis came to greater attention in the 1980s and 1990s as the patriarch of a musical family, with sons Branford and Wynton also becoming notable musicians. He died of the coronavirus on April 1, 2020.

Kamal Lohani was a Bangladeshi journalist. He was awarded Ekushey Padak in 2015 by the Government of Bangladesh. He served as the Director General of Shilpakala Academy from April 2009 until April 2011. Lohani got his first job as journalist in the Daily Millat in 1955. He joined as a secretary at Chhayanaut, a cultural…
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Mikhail Vasilyevich Ignatyev was a Chuvash politician who served as the Head of the Chuvashia from 2010 to 2020. He died of the coronavirus on June 18, 2020.

Giulio Giorello was an Italian philosopher, mathematician, and epistemologist. Giorello won the 4th edition of the 2012 Frascati Philosophy National Award. He died of the coronavirus on June 15, 2020. Three days before his death, he married his partner Roberta Pelachin.

Patrick Francfort was a member of The Gibson Brothers until his death. The Gibson Brothers are a French musical group, originally from Martinique, who had their greatest success during the disco boom of the late 1970s. Their best known hit singles included “Cuba” and “Que Sera Mi Vida”. They recorded their first single “Come to…
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Xavier Dor was a French embryologist, well known for his activism against abortions. Dor was the founder and president of the SOS tout-petits association. He often led protests in front of hospitals which carried out abortions, often threatening staff and patients. He participated in several dozen of these protests. Dor was the French representative of…
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Hans Orlando Prade (23 July 1938 – 3 April 2020) was a Surinamese diplomat and politician. After graduating from Leiden University, Prade returned to Suriname, and founded the short lived Nationale Volkspartij together with Ronald Venetiaan. Later Prade became a member of the Progressieve Nationale Partij. During the coup, Prade was a commentator on Suriname…
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Nirmal Singh Khalsa was a Sikh Hazoori Ragi of Darbar Sahib in Amritsar, Punjab, India. In 1977-78, he served as a music teacher at Gurmat College in Rishikesh and later taught at Shaheed Sikh Missionary College in Sri Ganganagar, Rajasthan. From 1979, he started serving as a Hazoori Ragi at Darbar Sahib. He had performed…
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Juan Giménez was an Argentine comic book artist and writer, most recognized for his detailed machine-like imagery. Among his noted works include stories for the French Métal Hurlant and the Italian L’Eternauta magazines, and the comic series Metabarons co-developed by Alejandro Jodorowsky. He died of the coronavirus on April 2, 2020.