the Epidemic takes people not paying attention to the names, positions, titles. It was in the days of rampant “Spanish flu”, the invasions of the plague, attacks of cholera… With those of their esteemed predecessors takes the example and the current coronavirus among his victims there are already a few famous people. In Russia, the most recent such event was the departure of Vladimir Lopukhin – a member of the first composition of the Russian government of Boris Yeltsin.
On the death of the “crown” 68-year-old Vladimir Lopukhin, who held the post of Minister of fuel and energy in 1991-1992, it became known on 26 may. Before the epidemic had to strike out too few media personalities in the West and in Russia.
on March 23, Italian cinema said goodbye to one of its most honored stars of the past: Lucia Bose, who came to the movies in the distant 1947, after he won the title of Miss Italy. She starred in the films of legendary Directors Michelangelo Antonioni, Federico Fellini, Pedro Almodovar. Old actress died from pneumonia, which developed from COVID-19.
on March 31 from complications caused by a coronavirus, at the age of 76 years died actor Andrew Jack, who became famous thanks to participation in the on-screen mega-project “Star wars.”
2 APR was not popular Scottish comedian, singer and screenwriter Eddie Large. An elderly man from the attack of heart failure was forced to go to the hospital, and there, alas, did not protect him from the “kovida”.
on April 2 died due to complications provoked by insidious SARS-Cov-2, the famous Italian designer, “king of shoes”, the owner of the prestigious Shoe brand Sergio Rossi.
20 April due to complications caused by coronavirus has died the Russian actor and Director Ivan Shchegolev, who has directed over a dozen TV movies. The greatest popularity among the audience have earned the series “Morozova”.
may 19 has information about the death from COVID-19 52-year-old Maksim Sarychev, son of the famous all over the country speaker and TV presenter Svetlana Morgunova.
the Current COVID many believe to be brother to the “Spanish flu”, a devastating pandemic which swept through the Land a hundred years ago. Much has been written about the horrors that had accompanied the outburst of the disease in 1918-1919, which killed 50 to 100 million lives. But for all that a number of iconic names that were its victims, not so great.
the First call recognized silent film star of the national Faith Cold. In the spring of 1918 she moved to Odessa to participate in the filming of another movie. In February 1919, the actress was ill with “Spanish flu”, the disease proceeded in a severe and just a few days, February 16, Cold died. She was only 25 years old (There is, however, different – the criminal version Gib��Lee movie stars: supposedly, she died from a bouquet of lilies, which she handed from a fan; the flowers were poisoned).
Exactly a month later, March 16, 1919 due to the Spanish flu died the “second man” in the young Soviet Republic – the Chairman of the Central Executive Committee Yakov Sverdlov. According to the existing basic version, 33-year-old Bolshevik leader had contracted a dangerous infection for 9 days before, when, returning from a trip to Ukraine, he gave a speech at one of the factories in Orel. But some researchers reject this “Spanish trail” and referred to as the cause of death beatings. – At the station the eagle Swerdlow, allegedly tried to resolve the conflict with the striking rail workers, but an angry crowd attacked a prominent party member with his fists, inflicting serious injury.
In November 1919 in Paris, died from the “Spanish flu”, the famous French poet avant-garde and “the inventor of surrealism” Apollinaire, Guillaume. During the 1st world war, he volunteered for the front in spring 1916 was severely wounded by shrapnel in the head and had a serious operation, after which a long time could not recover. In the end, the weakened body of the poet not in forces was to resist the onslaught of the flu.
a Year earlier in early December, 1918, there in Paris in the midst of the second wave of the epidemic of Spanish flu died from the disease popular poet and playwright, author of the world-famous Comedy “Cyrano de Bergerac” Edmond Rostand.
16 January 1919 Brazil because of the “Spanish flu” has lost its only elected President. The well-known politician, Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves already held this high post in the beginning of the century, and now, during a new election campaign, announced his candidacy for a second term and won the election. However, to begin presidential duties, Alves was not meant to be. Shattered politics of epidemic illness forced him to abandon official inauguration, to give place to Vice President. Shortly after this 70-year-old Francisco Alves did not.
On account of the “Spanish flu” and another statesman of the highest rank Prime Minister of South African Union, Louis Botha.
Among the victims of the “Spanish flu” are also used several known artists of the time – the Austrian Egon Schiele, Czech Bohumil Kubista, the Portuguese Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso.
“Spanish flu” claimed the lives of the German philosopher max Weber, a talented chess player from Austria Karl lehtera. In the midst of the epidemic became ill famous French singer Edith Piaf and her daughter Marcel (she came to visit mom in the hospital, where he contracted the flu). Most Edith managed to recover, but her only child she lost.
Among Russian victims of the “Spanish flu” – the father of the world-famous scientist physicist�� Pyotr Kapitsa, Leonid Petrovich Kapitsa, a famous military engineer, the Builder of the FORTS in Kronstadt. The epidemic destroyed not only the General but also his wife and two children.
Even the not-so-scary “normal” flu that have been “visited” continents also became a cause of death of famous people.
In 1891 from complications after suffering flu she died a famous woman mathematician, Europe’s first female Professor Sofia Kovalevskaya. She died in the 43rd year of life.
a Few years later, influenza struck again Russian science. In 1907 there was a famous chemist, founder of periodic system of chemical elements Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev. The older scientist after suffering colds they developed a complication – pneumonia, with which the body could not cope.
in our time “banal” flu was the actual perpetrator of the death of one of the legends of the national sport – the world and European champion Soviet weightlifter Leonid Zhabotinsky. Weightlifter was not 14 Jan 2016. He died from complications that arose after Contracting flu.
a Ruthless killer smallpox among the many thousands of lives took to the famous associate of Tsar Peter the great Alexander Menshikov, – in the disgrace statesman was exiled to Siberia, where he died in late 1729 from carousing there, the epidemic of “black death”. The victim of this terrible disease was in February, 1910, one of the best dramatic Actresses of the last century Vera Komissarzhevskaya, she’s not lucky enough to be on tour in Tashkent at a time when the region was raided by the pox.
Repeatedly encountered in the past plague did not spare many famous and talented. Here are just a few names: Queen of France Jeanne of Burgundy (1348), famous Italian painter Giorgione (1510), English playwright John Fletcher (1625), famous Russian botanist and physician Konstantin Shchepin (1770)… According to researchers from the plague “plagues” died in the autumn of 1428 the great Russian icon painter Andrei Rublev.
a Lot of important “trophies” on account of cholera. From this disease died, for example, the brilliant composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1893), an ardent revolutionary and Lenin’s lover Inessa Armand (1920).
