Farewell

These are some of the people, famous and not, who have recently died from Covid-19.

Kenneth Lewes, clinical psychologist who wrote the 1988 book The Psychoanalytic Theory of Male Homosexuality, which challenged the prevailing view in psychoanalysis that homosexuality was a curable disease, died April 17, age 76.

Robert Laughlin, American anthropologist and linguist who spent decades working in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, where he meticulously documented and helped revitalize indigenous Mayan languages, died May 28, age 85.

Chris Trousdale, singer and actor who performed with the short-lived boy band Dream Street, and later appeared in Disney Channel shows such as Shake It Up and Austin & Ally, died June 2, age 34.

Lynika Strozier, who overcame a severe childhood learning disability to become a research scientist at the Field Museum in Chicago, where she extracted DNA from plants, some as tiny as an eyelash, died June 7, age 35.

Stephan Kamholz, chair of medicine at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, who kept working on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic even though his age made him highly vulnerable to the disease, died June 11, age 72.

Elsa Joubert, award-winning South African writer whose 1978 novel The Long Journey of Poppie Nongena— translated from Afrikaans into 13 languages—helped arouse white opinion against the racist apartheid system, died June 14, age 97.

Carsyn Davis, high schooler from Fort Myers, Fla., who had survived cancer and was living with a rare autoimmune disease, died June 23—two days after her birthday—age 17.