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Josip Manolić (wiki) dead at 104.

About time this 87-year-old Hollywood icon gets his own thread, especially with his consistent absences in public nowadays, sparking speculation about the state of his health. Doubt he'll see 90. One to keep on the DL's radar.

Now I'm tempted to post here a million times a day.

Carl Erskine dead at 97 and straight to QO.

Josip Manolić is a hit for @Commtech Sio Bibble, @wannamaker, @The Daredevil, @drol, @Bibliogryphon, @Summer in Transylvania, @Insane, @theoldlady, @diego, @DoorSlammer, @gcreptile, @msc, @LizLemon, @MortalCaso, @Book, @Funeralopolis and @MariNisia CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Josip "Joza" Manolic was the last one of the original state leaders, and that means the game has now ended. It's been almost seven years and we saw them falling one by one: Bush snr, General Anh, Mugabe, Tun Tin, Kim Yong-ju, Echeverria, The Queen, Comrade Jiang, Benedict XVI, Napolitano and finally Manolic. Scoring with the likes of legendary Burmese PM Tun Tin, @TQR has won the game with 8 hits!!! Congrats, well done ! I'll evaluate if a new game should be started, but I won't likely live to see the end of it!

Josip Manolic (1920-2024) "He is in very good health but can't currently be interviewed because he is in a coma" (Josip's family updates his status) "Joža Manolić je nadživio Joža Manolić" Age at death: 104 Known health issues: Severe COVID pneumonia in 2021, bedridden and received last rites in 2023. Cause of death: So sudden and unexpected he may have been murdered. Alignment: Resistance fighter during WWII, he was a controversial communist agent after the war, and took part in imprisoning archbishop Stepinac and putting him on a communist show trial. In the 90s he was seen as a moderate opposing ultranationalists. He was perceived by Croatians as the Ultimate Immortal, a bit like JP Enrile in the Philippines and Jimmy Carter in the Milky Way.

From the FT describing Truss: "Unfortunately, her approach worked a bit like this: imagine a bunch of people are stuck in a warm, stuffy room together. Everyone wants the windows to be opened, but they are fastened shut by complicated locks. While people try to work out how the locks operate, one of them, Liz, attempts to throw a chair through the window. The chair bounces off and hits her in the face."

Baseball Hall of Famer Whitey Herzog, Former Manager of the Cardinals, dead at 92.

Sorry.

I assumed Francis Ford Coppola had his own thread for years. He's 85 years old and directed some of the most iconic films ever made.

German former professional footballer and world cup winner Bernd Hölzenbein, who played as a striker, died at 78 years: https://www.bild.de/sport/fussball/eintracht-frankfurt/tot-mit-78-eintracht-frankfurt-trauert-um-weltmeister-hoelzenbein-87900948.bild.html At international level, he was a member of the Team that won the World Cup 1974.

No, nobody knows. It’s uncartered territory.

Because he dreams of Jimmy licking him all over.

@The Old Crem I have hidden your most recent post as, yet again, you have chosen to regurgitate a tweet and plaster it here with no context whatsoever. The tweet has no information about Sharon Osborne's health and you haven't even bothered to type anything which may indicate why it might be interesting. If you want to have another go, you're welcome. You seriously need to work on your quality control though!

It would be a bit silly (but this is Rishi we're talking about, so not entirely implausible) if he didn't. "Mr. Sunak, when is the election going to be?" "Oh, it was last week, I'm just not announcing it yet."

American artist Sylvia Fein (wiki) dead at 104 according to this San Francisco art page on FB. Post is from April 3rd. An unsourced edit to her Wiki page suggests she died on April 1st.

Frank Olson, Executive Who Linked O.J. Simpson With Hertz, Dies at 91

It might be of interest here to say that after Prince Richard dies, the Dukedom of Gloucester will cease to be Royal. After two generations they lose their Royal status. Richard's father Henry was a son of a monarch (George V) and Richard a grandson and first cousin of a monarch. After this the relationship of the Duke becomes too distant from the Crown. The same will apply to Kent when Prince Edward, the current Duke of Kent, dies. This is why Edinburgh was changed to a life peerage - to prevent the Dukedom going out of the immediate family.

Arnold Yarrow is 104 today.

Werner Spitz, a forensic pathologist who testified at OJ’s trial, has died aged 97. He had also worked on the investigations of the assassinations of JFK and Martin Luther King.

Beverly LaHaye, Mrs. Left Behind, dead at 94.

So do I. Unfortunately I'm only 43.

George Schappell The Country Music Star who was a conjoined twin with his sister Lori is dead at age 62. Both died last Sunday George Last picked in the DDP in 2019 Lori Last Picked in 2018