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A little bit late, but I've now 'won' Scavenger Hunt Bingo II.

I'm impatient. I just don't want to lose my TV Show again.

They make Margaret Thatcher's 'vegetables' look positively meaty.

God help us. 50 pages and all she's done is rest and start carrying a stick.

And Azam Khan again, for "pneumonia and breathlessness": https://www.siasat.com/uttar-pradesh-sp-leader-azam-khan-hospitalised-with-pneumonia-2383198/

Especially when she starts the hospital hokey-cokey

Jeanne Calment, the person with the longest verified lifespan, died on this day 25 years ago, aged 122. Calment was born in Arles, France, and remembered meeting Vincent van Gogh at her uncle's shop. A little over a century after their encounter, she appeared in the 1990 film Vincent and Me, and is the oldest person to appear in a motion picture. Calment married her second cousin Fernand, and they had a daughter, Yvonne. Yvonne died in 1934 from pneumonia (on her 36th birthday), and Fernand died in 1942 from food poisoning. At the age of 111 (June 20, 1986), Calment became the oldest living person in France, following the death of 112-year-old Eugenie Roux. On January 11, 1988, Calment became the world's oldest living person after the death of 114-year old American Florence Knapp, a title which she would hold for 9 and a half years. On May 12, 1990, Calment reached the age of 115 years, 80 days, becoming the oldest person ever, surpassing Augusta Holtz, who died in 1986. Additionally, Calment was the first person to reach the ages of 116-119, and the only person ever so far to reach and surpass the age of 120. After Calment's death, 116-year old Canadian Marie-Louise Meilleur became the world's oldest living person, while 111-year old Marie-Helene Chanteperdrix became the oldest living French resident.

I have submitted a team. I’ll be amazed if anyone has picked the show, but I’m open to surprises! Any problems @MortalCaso, let me know.

With all those survivors from early lists dying this year I really think it's time for a Leo Beenhakker thread, the sole survivor of the 1991 list. Been willing to start one for many years (in fact, every time I read a snippet of news on him) but never really took the time, but I will for sure regret it if he passes away without thread. He's the former football trainer of (among many many other clubs) Real Madrid, Ajax and Feyenoord and of the Netherlands, Trinidad and Tobago and Poland national team. I have no clue why he was on the 1991 list (i hope anyone else can shine a light on that) but but he's an avid cigar smoker, has had skin cancer in 2015 and he looks pretty pale nowadays. Plus he's 78 years old. He announced his retirement from the football world in 2015 but most likely he still is some kind of off-the-radar technical advisor at Sparta Rotterdam. Last news i can find is a radio interview in april this year, with Beenhakker complaining about sitting at home and feeling his life was over without being able to meet people and watching football.

Former NASCAR driver Buddy Arrington dead at 84.

You don’t have to reveal it in the forum. A Private Mail to me would suffice…

Barack Obama, the youngest living US president, is 61.

Georgina Hale, the notable stage actress probably remembered for her roles in the films of director Ken Russell including her BAFTA-winning performance as Alma Mahler in the 1974 film "Mahler", is 79 today. Dennis Lehane, the American novelist and screenwriter, is 57 today. Four of his novels were adapted as films of the same name: "Mystic River", "Gone Baby Gone", "Shutter Island" and "Live by Night". "Animal Rescue" was a short story which Lehane adapted for the film "The Drop" and all he did was transform it into a novel.

On this day in 1999 american actor Victor Mature of Hollywoods golden age died aged 86 of leukemia. His most famous role would be as Samson in 1949 Hollywood Biblical epic Samson and Delilah opposite Hedy Lamarr. Other film credits include another biblical epic The Robe (1953) playing the role of defiant Greek slave Demetrius. The story being centered around the roman military tribune responsible for the crucifixion of Jesus, My Darling Clementine (1946)alongside Linda Darnell, musical comedy Red , Hot and Blue (1949) opposite leading lady Betty Hutton (Grable, Betty Hutton and Rita Hayworth being leading ladies he was cast opposite in musicals), The Long Haul (1957) with Diana Dors and and Dangerous Mission (1954) along with Piper Laurie and Vincent Price. Victor had a bit of a falling out with 20th Century Fox who he was in contract with. They wanted him to be a supporting cast member to Tyrone Power and Susan Hayward in Untamed in 1955. He refused complaining he had worked almost non stop for two years and needed a holiday. They replaced him with Richard Egan and put him on a 'friendly suspension ' Mature later signed a two film contract with Columbia Pictures but just before he began shooting his first film The Last Frontier Fox insisted he had to fulfil his contractual obligations to them first and was hauled back to film his last Fox studios film-Violent Saturday. Victor got bored of acting and retired aged 46 saying the job wasn't fun anymore and his finances were now OK. He was lured back though after 5 years to parody himself in Neil Simon cowritten film After the Fox about an ageing actor. He married 5 times and had one child from his final marriage to opera singer Loretta Sebena- as well as having previously been engaged to Rita Hayworth and Anne Shirley.

If I had 50 that made the game then she was a sub just in case the others left early and my subs would have been arranged in preference order but I can see why you might want to recognise she was on people radar I actually changed my team for this game to remove some of the more obscure picks from my shadow list but it ends up with my shadow list doing better than the theoretically more competitive teams

Its 45 years since the death of Michael Christodoulou Mouskos, better known as Archbishop Makarios. Born in 1913 in the Paphos district of Cyprus, he entered Kykkos Monastery as a novice aged 13, and studied theology prior to, and during the early years of World War II, graduating from Athens University in 1942. He became a priest in the Cypriot Orthodox Church, and was elected Bishop of Kition while studying at Boston University, taking the name Makarios. He was elected Archbishop of Cyprus in 1950, aged 37. After some years in exile, firstly as a 'guest' in the Seychelles (after being abducted by the British) and latterly in Athens, he was elected President of Cyprus in December 1959, assuming the office 16 August 1960, serving until July 1974. He survived four assassination attempts and a coup d'etat while in office. He died of a heart attack, attributed to many years of heavy smoking, aged 63.

As it seems I've not covered these before... List of European politicians born before 1930 + honorary mentions. (By population, largest first and I've numbered them to make cropping the post easier. Excluding the UK, countries partially in Asia and countries with a population of under one million as those have already been covered elsewhere. The list is not ready. I'll slowly update this now and then.) 1. Germany (Including "less notable" names up to 1925) Olga Sippl (1920) Social Democrat, founding member of the Seliger-Gemeinde. Reinhard Sommer (1921) Trade unionist, SPD member. Retired due to poor health 1988-1989, is he alive? Ernst Gerhardt (1921) CDU local politician. Herbert Weiz (1924-2023) Minister of Science and Technology of East Germany 1974-1989. Alive? Hans Reichelt (1925) Minister of Environmental Protection and Water Management of East Germany 1972-1990. Werner Schmieder (1926) Finance Minister of East Germany 1980-1981. Oscar Schneider (1927) Minister of Construction 1982-1989. Ernst Mecklenburg (1927) Chairman of the Democratic Farmers' Party of Germany 1982-1987, retired due to health reasons in the 80s, alive? Ludwig A. Rehlinger (1927-2023) West German official who traded political prisoners. Gerhard Woitzik (1927-2023) Two-time leader of the Centre Party. Hans Modrow (1928-2023) Chairman of the Council of Ministers of East Germany 1989-1990 Klaus von Dohnanyi (1928) Mayor of Hamburg 1981-1988 Werner Krolikowski (1928-2016 off radar) East Germany politburo member. Alive? Ursula Ragwitz (1928) East Germany Party Central Committee member in the 80s. Dorothee Wilms (1929) Federal Minister for Education and Science 1982-1987, Federal Minister for Inner-German relations 1987-1991. Kurt Wünsche (1929-2023) Two-time Minister of Justice of East Germany. Frank Terpe (1929-2013 off radar) East Germany Minister for Research and Technology 1990. 2. France (Including "less notable" names up to 1926) Jean Turco (1917) Former National Assembly member, alive? Edgar Morin (1921) Philosopher, politician André Chandernagor (1921) former Minister Philippe de Gaulle (1921-2024) Senator 1986-2004, frail and not seen on his 100th. Marcel Berthomé (1922-2023) Mayor of Saint-Seurin-sur-l'Isle for 49 years. Henri Bangou (1922-2023) Mayor of Guadeloupe's Pointe-à-Pitre 1965-2008, counts half Roland Dumas (1922-2024) Two-time Foreign Affairs Minister, President of the Constitutional Council 1995-2000. Henri Simon (1922) Cranky old Council Communism advocate. Christiane Papon (1924-2023) Former Constitutional Council member and MEP. Georges Berthoin (1925-2024) Jean Monnet's chief of staff 1952-1955. Jacques Delors (1925-2023) President of the European Commission 1985-1995, rumored to be in failing health. Christiane Scrivener (1925-2024) former Secretary of State of Trade for Consumers' protection. Pierre Pranchère (1927-2023) Former MEP Robert Badinter (1928-2024) Minister of Justice who abolished the death penalty. Jean-Marie Le Pen (1928) Far-right politician. Édouard Balladur (1929) Prime Minister 1993-1995 Pierre Mazeaud (1929) Former President of the Constitutional Council. André Lajoinie (1929) 1988 Presidential candidate of the Communist Party. Jean-Pierre Fourcade (1929) One of Giscard's Economy ministers. Yvette Roudy (1929) Former Women's Rights minister and mayor. Jean-Marie Rausch (1929-2024) Foreign Trade Minister 1988-1991 3. Italy (Including "less notable" names up to 1926) Bruno Segre (1918-2024) Lawyer/journalist/politician Maria Lisa Cinciari Rodano (1921-2023) Communist politician. Virginio Rognoni (1924-2022) Former Justice, Defence, Interior minister. Giorgio Napolitano (1925-2023) President 2006-2015 Nerio Nesi (1925-2024) Businessman, politician Maria Sole Agnelli (1925) Entrepreneur/politician Sergio Flamigni (1925) Former Senator. Francesco Merloni (1925-2024) Former Minister of Public Works. Arnaldo Forlani (1925-2023) Prime Minister 1980-1981, mostly bedbound. Nicola Signorello (1926-2022) Minister multiple times. Aldo Tortorella (1926) Communist Giorgio Ruffolo (1926-2023) Former Environment minister. Rino Formica (1927) Minister atleast four times. Gaspare Russo (1927) former President of Campania Giancarlo Tesini (1929-2023) Former Transport minister. Giorgio Bogi (1929) Former Parliamentary Relations minister. 4. Spain (Including "less notable" names up to 1927) Antonio Alvarado Largo (1912-2022) Oldest man in Spain, Mayor of Cremenes 1987-1996, Spanish Civil War vet. Mateo Balbuena Iglesias (1913-2024) Communist politician/author, Spanish Civil War vet. Josep Rahola i d'Espona (1918-2023) Catalonian communist, former senator, Spanish Civil War vet. Antolín de Santiago (1918) Ex-Mayor of Valladolid and 70s Civil Governor. Ángeles Flórez Peón (1918-2024) Writer/politician, Honorary President of the Socialist Youth of Asturias, last Spanish Civil War socialist militiawoman. Pedro Morales Moya (1922-2023) Former Deputy. Luis Guillermo Perinat y Elío (1923) Former Deputy, Senator, Ambassador. Ramón Germinal Bernal (1924) Former Senator and Deputy. Luis Suárez Fernández (1924) Francoist historian, member of the Real Academia de la Historia. Nicolás Redondo (1927-2023) Trade unionist, former PSOE boss. Jesús Aparicio-Bernal (1929) Franco-era politician, TV boss. Jordi Pujol (1930) President of the Government of Catalonia 1980-2003. Ancient and doesn't look healthy. Fernando Suárez González (1933-2024) Last Franco-era minister. Pasqual Maragall (1941) Barcelona Mayor 1982-1997, Catalonia Govt President 2003-2006, Peter Falk's disease since 2006/2007. 5. Ukraine Ihor Yukhnovskyi (1925-2024) First Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine 1992-1993, Presidential candidate in the 1991 elections. Mykhailo Herets (1925) Activist, nationalist Dmytro Pavlychko (1929-2023) former Ambassador to Poland and Slovenia Ivan Diyak (1929) 6. Poland Marian Ryba (1919-2019 off the radar) Communist politician, alive? Aleksander Krawczuk (1922-2023) Minister of Culture 1986-1989 Andrzej Werblan (1924) Sejm member 1971-1982, alive? Tadeusz Makarewicz (1925) Member of Jaruzelski's Military Council of National Salvation 1981-1983, seems to have been alive around 2015. Marian Turski (1926) Workers' Party politician who survived Auschwitz. Andrzej Januszajtis (1928) Gdansk local politician. Stanisław Gebhardt (1928) Longtime christian democrat politician and holocaust survivor. Helena Kurnatowska (1929-2005 off the radar) Member of the Sejm 1976-1985. Eugenia Kempara (1929) Member of the Council of State, collective head of state 1975-1985. 7. Romania Mihai Șora (1916-2023) Dissident author and poet, former Minister of Culture. Radu Theodoru (1924) Ancient Greater Romania Party VP Dinu Zamfirescu (1929) Liberal politician. Ion Iliescu (1930) President 1990-1996, 2000-2004, frail. (There's a lot of Romanian communist politicos/early independence Members of Parliament who could be long dead now) 8. The Netherlands Jan Reehorst (1923-2024) House of Representatives member 1956-1957, former Mayor of Haarlem. Harrij Notenboom (1926-2023) Former House of Representatives member and former MEP. Paul Joan George Kapteyn (1928-2024) Judge/politician. Joop Glimmerveen (1928-2022) Ancient neonazi. 9. Belgium Lise Thiry (1921-2024) Politician/scientist. Cécile Goor-Eyben (1923) Minister of the region of Bruxelles-Capitale 1980. Paula D'Hondt (1926-2022) Minister of Post, Telephony and Telegraph Services 1981-1988, Minister of Public Works 1988 Firmin Aerts (1929) Former Senator. Lydia De Pauw (1929) Secretary of State - Brussels Affairs 1979-1980 10. Greece Paraskevas Avgerinos (1927) Socialist MEP 1984-1999 Petros Molyviatis (1928) Three-time Minister of Foreign Affairs. Vassilis Papazachos (1929-2022) Seismologist/politician. 11. Czech Republic Vojtěch Mencl (1923-OTR 2013) Social Democrat Lubomír Štrougal (1924-2023) Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia 1970-1988 Marie Kabrhelová (1925) Member of Czechoslovakia's Federal Assembly 1976-1989 Marie Čermáková (1925) Communist politician Karel Floss (1926-2024) Senator 1996-1998 Lubomír Šik (1928) Major figure of the city of Litovel. Jan Fojtík (1928) Minister of the Interior of Czechoslovakia, Member of Czechoslovakia's Federal Assembly 1969-1989 Jaroslav Šedivý (1929-2023) Former Foreign Affairs Minister of the Czech Republic. Miroslav Grégr (1929) Deputy Prime Minister 2001-2002, longtime politician. Hugo Mensdorff-Pouilly (1929-2023) Monarchist. 12. Sweden Evert Svensson (1925) Ancient social democrat politico, member of parliament 1957-1991 Bertil Zachrisson (1926-2023) Decrepit former Minister of Education Torsten Stridsman (1926-2024) Centrist Margit Sandéhn (1926-2023) Former Social Democrat Member of Parliament Ulla Orring (1926) Liberal Gunnel Liljegren (1927) Moderaterna minor politician Elisabeth Fleetwood (1927-2024) Moderaterna parliament member 1979-2002 Sigrid "Stina" Eliasson (1927) Former Member of Parliament Vera Oredsson (1928) Ancient neonazi Hans Blix (1928) UN guy Gerda Antti (1929) Centre party politician 13. Portugal Adriano Moreira (1922-2022) Minister of the Overseas Provinces 1961-1962, Member of the Assembly three times, member of the Council of State since 2016. Margarida Tengarrinha (1928-2023) Communist anti-Estado Novo politician. Ester de Lemos (1929) Author, member of the National Assembly of Portugal 1965-1969 14. Hungary Imre Tatár (1920-2023) Ancient journalist and politician. Rudolf Földvári (1921-2024) Ancient politico and writer, should be alive. Péter Boross (1928) Prime Minister 1993-1994, former Minister. Tibor Füzessy (1928-2023) Antall's and Boross' Civilian Intelligence Services minister 15. Belarus Aleksandr Sloboda (1920-2022) Politician Nikolay Slyunkov (1929-2022) First Secretary of the Communist Party of Byelorussia 1983-1987 16. Austria Hans Tuppy (1924-2024) Minister for Science and Research 1987-1989 Heinrich Pfusterschmid-Hardtenstein (1927-2024) Ancient diplomat who looked very frail last year Helmut Kritzinger (1928-2023) Right-wing ÖVP influencer politician who retired due to failing health in 2019. Anton Nigl (1928) Another ÖVP ancient Alois Partl (1929) Third ÖVP ancient, comes from Tirol. Josef Ratzenböck (1929) Fourth ÖVP ancient, decrepit. Beatrix Eypeltauer (1929-2023) Social Democrat Kurt Jungwirth (1929) ÖVP, looked dead in 2019. Bertram Jäger (1929) ÖVP, possibly has parkinson's. Johanna Preinstorfer (1929) ÖVP, Decrepit Willibald Pahr (1930) Former Foreign Affairs Minister Christian Schwarz-Schilling (1930) former High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina 17. Switzerland Julius Binder (1925) Ancient Christian Democrat Member of Parliament. Jean Pythoud (1925-2020) Local politician more known for architecture. Werner Martignoni (1927) Centrist politician. Not 100% sure if he's alive, never looked the picture of health. Geneviève Aubry (1928) Arthur Schmid junior (1928-2023) Paul Wyss (1928) Also an olympic ice hockey player Franco Masoni (1928) Riccardo Jagmetti (1929) Politician and lawyer 18. Bulgaria Marko Granchev (1932) Union of Democratic Forces writer and politician 19. Serbia Milan Panić (1929) Prime Minister and Minister of Defence of FR Yugoslavia 1992-1993. Smilja Tišma (1929/1932) Socialist politician who survived being a child prisoner in WWII, Member of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia 2020-2022 and acting President of the National Assembly 2020. 20. Denmark Tove Smidth (1923) Social Democrat Mayor of Gladsaxe 1974-1983, Lech Walesa's friend Eggert Petersen (1927) Former Member of Parliament and Member of the European Parliament. Carl-Einar Jørgensen (1928) Psychologist and politician Addi Andersen (1928) Former Member of Parliament recently famous for being a football fan Knud Enggaard (1929-2024) Former President of the Nordic Council and Minister 21. Finland Eeri Hyrkkö (1922-2022) Centre party influencer Sinikka Luja-Penttilä (1924-2022) Minister of Social Affairs and Health 1979-1982 Taisto Tähkämaa (1924) Minister of Defence 1977-1979, Minister of Agriculture and Forestry 1979-1983 Ele Alenius (1925-2022) Socialist philosopher, SKDL leader, 2nd Minister of Finance 1966-1970 Jutta Zilliacus (1925) Former Member of Parliament. Väinö Vilponiemi (1925-2022) Former Member of Parliament, WWII vet, socialist. Heimo Linna (1925-2022) Minister of Agriculture 1973-1975 and 1975-1976 Heikki Hasu (1926) Former Member of Parliament. Carl Olof Tallgren (1927-2024) Minister of Finance 1970-1971 Pirkko Ikonen (1927) Former Member of Parliament. Elsi Hetemäki-Olander (1927-2023) Longtime former member of parliament. Oili Suomi (1927-2023) Former Member of Parliament. Raimo Ilaskivi (1928) Ancient Lord Mayor of Helsinki 1979-1991 Liisa Hilpelä (1928) Former Member of Parliament. Tellervo Koivisto (1929-2024) Former Member of Parliament and First Lady. Erkki Pystynen (1929) Former Speaker of the Parliament. Orvokki Kauppila (1929) former member of parliament 22. Norway Olav L. Hannisdal (1920-2017 OTR) Local politician Edel Hætta Eriksen (1921-2023) Sami minority politician, member of the Sami council 1956-1963. Reidar Tveit (1921-2023) Former County Mayor of Sogn og Fjordane. Bernt H. Lund CBE (1924) Labor party politician and former ambassador to Namibia. Margit Hansen-Krone (1925) Conservative party (Høyre) politician since the 60s and former Member of Parliament. Johannes H. Fosse (1926-2023) ChrisDem politician and metalsmith. Kenneth Skofteland (1928) Another Christian Dem local politician. Rolf Køste (1929-2016 OTR) labour party politician 23. Slovakia Karel Kaplan (1928-2023) Historian-politician. Milan Sečánsky (1929) Mikuláš Beňo (1930) Former Member of Parliament. Juraj Hraško (1931) Former Health Minister. Kamil Haťapka (1932) Decrepit old politician and diplomat. 24. Ireland Thomas J. Fitzpatrick (1926) 1970s Minister of State, oldest living Teachta Dála and "major" Irish politician. Patrick Norton (1928) Former Senator Frederick Morris (1929) High Court judge 25. Croatia Josip Manolić (1920-2024) Immortal Mate Meštrović (1930) Antun Vrdoljak (1931) Head of the Croatian Radiotelevision during the Yugoslav Wars. Stjepan Mesić (1934) Former President. 26. Bosnia and Herzegovina Raif Dizdarević (1926) Former President of the Presidency of Yugoslavia Biljana Plavšić (1930) War criminal, Republica Srpska president Rajko Kuzmanović (1931) Social democrat Abdulah Mutapčić (1932) 27. Albania Bik Ndoja (1925-2015) singer, songwriter, actor, politician Alfred Moisiu (1929) Former President. Ismail Kadare (1936-2024) poet Rexhep Qosja (1936) 28. Lithuania Valdas Adamkus (1926) Former President. 29. Moldova Petru Pascari (1929) Soviet leader Semion Grossu (1934) Pascari's successor Grigore Eremei (1935) soviet leader Mircea Druc (1941) Last pre-independence Prime Minister Andrei Sangheli (1944) Former Prime Minister 30. Slovenia 31. North Macedonia Vladimir Mitkov (1931) Communist "leader" Stojan Andov (1935-2024) Founder of the Liberal Party, former President of Parliament Vasil Tupurkovski (1951) picture of health 3rd Member of the Presidency of Yugoslavia for SR Macedonia 1989-1991 32. Latvia 33. Kosovo 34. Estonia Arnold Rüütel (1928) Former President and communist leader. ...

We have our next hit. German former Politician Trude Unruh died at 97 years: https://www.wuppertaler-rundschau.de/lokales/im-alter-von-97-gestorben-trauer-um-trude-unruh_aid-74030217

Ric Flair won his final fight, but got pretty pissed of: https://www.espn.com/wwe/story/_/id/34326246/ric-flair-73-handles-pressure-authors-classic-performance-winning-final-wrestling-match

On this day in 1964 popular American country singer Jim Reeves died in a plane accident, a plane of which he was the pilot, during a thunderstorm. He was just 40 years old

You know, this looks like... "The three faces of Eve"... Joanne Woodward won an Oscar for portraying three personalities... This is so much fun...

Actress Sheila Mercier dead at 100 years: https://metro.co.uk/2019/12/13/emmerdale-legend-sheila-mercier-aka-annie-sugden-dies-aged-100-11903846/

Daewoo founder Kim Woo-Jung dead at 82 years: https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20191210000451325