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Shirley Zussman (wiki), American sex therapist, being reported dead at 107 by the NY Times. She was still seeing patients until her retirement at 105. An unusual case where subject was an extreme age and had a Wikipedia page for years, but because it wasn't categorised, barely anyone knew it existed. A pity, because she would've got a QO via The Sun! Her sister died in 2016, aged 104, so presumably it's the genes, and not all the shagging that kept them alive for so long.

Itoi Kanji dead at 101.

Should still stay on the list IMO

Not Hollywood!!

Meant to say he was on Never Mind The Buzzcocks Christmas Special - currently being repeated now. Catch it if you can. Looks much as he has done for years. He sings The Power Of Love at the end and his voice pretty much stands up.

Hans Mark (wiki), U.S. Secretary of the Air Force (1979–1981) under both Carter and Reagan, dead at 92.

Very telling, isn't it, that pretty much every bit of that can be answered with "our government are shite". Government* has gone on and on about the NHS while cutting its budget. Now there are lots of areas where the NHS could be made more efficient, like (to pick one example) salaries paid to part-time consultant doctors who spend most of their hours working in private health care. But most of the cuts went to front line staffing, employing and equipment. There's bits of the NHS in England and Scotland where entire hospitals are running off of 20% staff (nurses, doctors, cleaners, the whole lot) with little government interest in dealing with this lopsided issue, so when a pandemic hit there was already an extreme shortage of beds, nurses, masks, etc. Because the UK has run off a "that'll do" short termism for as long as I can recall, and well, this happens. Also, we (the UK) had a pandemic plan in 2018 from Ben Wallace that got scrapped as soon as Boris Johnson went into office. There is no end to the man talents in being a completely useless wanker. We've spent two decades assuming there will not a time like this, and when it came, we were fucked well beyond what we should have been. *tbf, Blair did this too.

According to South African doctors and scientists ( the scientists clever enough to first discover the new variant ) we are jumping the gun a tad. Chris Witty, when asked about this, stated that it is different here , blah, blah, blah because we have had more delta cases and it has combined and, and... I haven't quoted verbatim but I could detect a slight whiff of bullshit. I've had the jabs, the booster and expect to be having boosters every few months for as long as I have left on planet Earth, which I accept. What I am struggling to accept is this constant 'Save the NHS' bollocks when it was created to save us. We KNEW that there could be new variants out there, we KNEW they could be more transmissible and our brilliant Government, scientific advisors and assorted big time Charlie experts did absolutely nothing to prepare the NHS for any major increase in covid stricken patients. Now, again, we are staring greater restrictions in the face, which is marvellous. To be fair, I went to White Hart Lane a couple of weeks back and wasn't asked to show my vaccination status, which I found strange. Nearly 60,000 in a stadium and I doubt if many were asked either. We have not been hot enough on that and now we are paying a high price. Omicron is not fucking the economy, the Government is and people that deny that the virus is nothing more than a bit of a cold. Apart from all that, business as usual, innit.

Discharged.

Saw a blog this morning offering up a freebie album from US jazz pianist Dick Hyman and it mentioned the man continues to breathe 95 in March - the beardy Guardian readers will be treated to an obit as and when

Richard Rogers brings me up to 34

Lisez cet article si vous voulez. Je pense que Dutronc est plus malade qu’on ne nous fait croire. https://www.trop-libre.fr/jacques-dutronc-des-problemes-de-sante-inquietants-18795/

Have you tried posting it in the search bar?

Apparently he was vaccinated. But In Mexico.

Adam Rosen, American born but Team GB competitor in the luge in 2006, 2010 and 2018, reported dead from cancer aged just 37:

George Gekas (wiki), Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Pennsylvania from 1983 until his electoral defeat in 2003, dead at 91.

Ron Anderson, vocal coach to stars including Ozzy Osbourne, Lenny Kravitz, Adele, Red Hot Chili Peppers and many others, has died aged 75.

@ThatcherLord Tim Hudson is dead. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/lord-tim-hudson-obituary-fk6vk9sxq&ved=2ahUKEwikwLuxvPD0AhUogv0HHcpsDWQQFnoECGIQAQ&usg=AOvVaw27d6tImt5EQYOzdOnCseW7 Also Leo De Lyon (died 2021)

Je garderais au moins Bouvard, mais pour les autres je suis d'accord que ça se justifie plus. Bouvard me fait penser à Bellemare qui était encore en train d'animer une émission drôle un moins avant sa mort, mais comme pour Bouvard, il avait physiquement un visage minci, de fin de vie...

Pour l'idée des deux listes, c'est plus intéressant à mon avis une 100% française, et l'autre 100% pas française, après indirectement ça crée une plus grosse liste de 100 persos dans l'année ! Bruno Latour est très mal en point (cancer), J. P. P vient d'avoir un autre cancer, du poumon, mais j'hésite encore, car ça ne veut pas dire qu'il ne va pas s'en sortir, et Bohringer, parce qu'il y a toujours des gens qui partent naturellement plus tôt, et l'alcool n'a jamais aidé la longévité même après avoir arrêté Je réfléchis aussi à d'autres noms peut-être Jean Malaurie à la place de Charles Juliet, mais ça fait beaucoup de centenaires...

Until you know what you're talking about , shut the fuck up.

I predict it will cause the resignation of Boris Johnson and maybe Chris Whitty (the Tory backbenchers are increasingly fed up of both of them).

Teams for 2022/2023: Physics Chemistry Medicine Literature Peace Economics Points arghton Carlo Rubbia Robert Huber Tu Youyou John M. Coetzee Martti Ahtisaari J. Edward Stiglitz 4.738 Bibliogryphon Peter Higgs John Goodenough James Watson Alice Munro Lech Walesa William F. Sharpe Book Klaus von Klitzing Jean-Pierre Sauvage William C. Campbell Elfriede Jelinek Aung San Suu Kyi Edmund S. Phelps 1.520 chilean way Sheldon Lee Glashow Martin Karplus Ferid Murad Louise Glück Óscar Arias Sánchez Vernon L. Smith 1.421 Evil Grimace Theodor W. Hänsch Joachim Frank Michael W. Young Patrick Modiano Jody Williams Eugene Fama ladyfiona Tsung Dao Lee Dudley Hershbach Harald zur Hausen Abdulrazak Gurnah Shirin Ebadi Paul Milgrom Lafaucheuse Chen Ning Yang Rudolph A. Marcs Roger Guillemin Wole Soyinka Mohamad ElBaradei Robert M. Solow MariNisia Leo Esaki John C. Polanyi Torsten N. Wiesel Kenzaburō Ōe Adolfo Pérez Esquivel Robert J. Auman MortalCaso Ivar Giaever Alan Jay Heeger Eric R. Kandel Bob Dylan HRH, 14. Dalai Lama Amartya Kumar Sen 3.630 RoverAndOut Leon N Cooper E. J. Corey Andrew V. Schally J.M.G. Le Clezio Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Robert Wilson Salmon Mousse Syukurō Manabe Paul Berg Chr. Nüsslein-Volhard Peter Handke Jimmy Carter Paul R. Krugman 2.730 Toast Herbert Kroemer Yuan Tseh Lee Werner Arber Mario Vargas Llosa Henry Kissinger Harry Max Markowitz TomTomTelekom Joseph H. Taylor Walter Gilbert Leland H. Hartwell Orhan Pamuk Muhammad Yunus Daniel MacFadden wannamaker Rainer Weiss Akira Suzuki Bengt I. Samuelsson Gao Xingjian Mairead Corrigan Daniel Kahneman 5.624 WEP Klaus Hasselmann Kurt Wüthrich Satoshi Ōmura Herta Müller Maria Ressa Robert E. Lucas Hits: 02-08-2022: Luc Montagnier, 89, Medicine/Pysiology 2008 [2.730/Salmon Mousse] 05-13-2022: Ben Roy Mottelson, 95, Physics 1975 [1.421/Chilean way] 07-03-2022: Robert Floyd Curl jr., 88, Chemistry 1996 [3.630/MortalCaso] 08-30-2022: Mikhail Gorbachev, 91, Peace 1990 [5.624/wannamaker] 11-06-2022: Edward C. Prescott, 81, Economic Sciences 2004 [4.738/arghton] 01-09-2023: K. Alexander Müller, 95, Physics 1987 [1.520/Book]

Anyone one else get the feeling we are never going to return to anything like normality