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Ivan Silayev dead at 92.

Ignacio Ernabide died yesterday, just a week after his 106th birthday https://canales.diariovasco.com/esquelas/diario/2023-02-09/ignacio-ernabide-goyaga-798435.htm

Given that Gorbachev died recently, Ryzhkov isn’t just the last living PM of the Soviet Union, he’s the last living Soviet leader. All Chairmen, General Secretaries, Presidents etc. are dead. Very significant.

Mia Farrow, the famous American actress, the daughter of the director John Farrow and the actress Maureen O'Sullivan, well known for great films, such as "Rosemary's Baby", "The Great Gatsby", and "Hannah and Her Sisters", is 78 today. Rose Leslie, the attractive Scottish actress, who started her television acting career in 2008, whose first credited film appearance was in the drama "Now Is Good" (2012), and best known for her performances as Gwen Dawson in "Downton Abbey", Ygritte in HBO's worldwide smash hit "Game of Thrones", and Maia Rindell on the legal drama "The Good Fight", is 36 today.

Only one former Soviet PM left now then

Le Pen is mightier than the scythe.

Chris Browne, who took over penning the Hagar The Horrible cartoon strip after the death of his father Dik Browne in 1989, reportedly dead: https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2023/02/08/chris-browne-rip/

Zhang Huixia dead at 94. 45 survivors left.

Joe Pesci is 80.

Putin doing his damnedest to get the band back together again though....

Amazing of how time moves so fast. Another huge event of the 20th century is down to it's last sole survivor

There's been a load of Long March, WWII vets dying since Christmas too. Only three long march vets died between July and 21 December, six between December 21 and January 17. I recall twice the normal amount of Chinese WWII vets were dying at the start of January. When Shi Ping and Feng Zigen survived (or "survived" with tubes going into them for the rest of the weeks or months they have) it, the news said they had it. In China it's only covid when you survive long enough to get discharged, otherwise it's "natural causes", "a lung infection", "illness and failed treatment" or something else.

I'm a claimer, I'm afraid. Not here obvs, not playing this game. Hosted myself, always pleased to see a claim. Some hosts update sporadically, so always good to have a list to double check. We've all seen the updated leaderboards and then someone trots along and says "but you need to give me points for ...". Of course, I don't get many hits due to my innate ability to grant almost certain immunity from death by picking them. I can appreciate it might be annoying for some hosts though. Posters gonna post...what ya gonna do? "shrug"

59 A-ha – The Sun Always Shines on TV 39 The Communards & Sarah Jane Morris – Don’t Leave Me This Way 39 Pet Shop Boys – It’s A Sin 34 Whitney Houston - I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me) +3 32 Pet Shop Boys — West End Girls +1 24 Rick Astley — Never Gonna Give You Up 23 Madonna — La Isla Bonita 21 Bee Gees — You Win Again 19 Falco – Rock Me Amadeus -6 10 George Michael & Aretha Franklin – I Knew You Were Waiting For Me Happy with that top 5. FAO whoever keeps changing Rick Astley to Ashley, the former is correct.

Oscar Lawton Wilkerson died yesterday, one day before his 97th birthday. Death notice from his local church on Facebook.

Fetterman hospitalised again after feeling lightheaded. Being kept overnight.

Approved for posterity just to confirm his fate has been sealed.

On this day 3 years ago in 2020, american actor Robert Conrad died aged 84 . He had a steady acting career in both television and film . His acting credits include television series Highway Patrol,The Wild wild west and Hawaiian Eye . His busy film career was largely as a steadily employed Hollywood B Lister. His films include Breaking up is hard to do (1979), Five Desperate Women, The Fifth missile and Jingle all the way (1996) a Christmas movie starring Arnold Schwarzenger.

1987: Ozzy Osbourne (1/31)  1989: Frank Bruno, Mike Ditka, Ozzy Osbourne, Brian Wilson, David Jenkins (5/32)  1990: Mike Ditka, Rex Williams, Oprah Winfrey, Terry Waite (4/42)  1991: Leo Beenhakker (1/40)  1992: Shaun Ryder (1/37)  1993: Tony Bennett, Henry Kissinger, George Lineker (3/56) 1994: Edmund White, Holly Johnson, Peter Shilton (3/50)  1995: Holly Johnson (1/50)  1996: Mr T (1/50)  1997: (0/50)  1998: (0/50)  1999: Nick Leeson, Carly Simon (2/50)  2000: Louis Farrakhan (1/50)  2001: Liza Minnelli (1/50)  2002: (0/50)  2003: (0/50)  2004: Pervez Musharraf (0/50)  2005: Hamed Karzai (1/50) 2006: (0/50)  2007: Tim Johnson, Louis Farrakhan (2/50)  2008: Russell Watson, Hamed Karzai, Charles Taylor (3/50)  2009: (0/50)  2010: (0/50)  2011: Ali Khamenei, Dick Cheney, Michael Douglas (3/50)  2012: Nigel Lawson, Henry Kissinger, Dick Van Dyke, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi (4/50) 2013: Henry Kissinger (1/50)  2014: Dick Van Dyke, Tony Bennett (2/50)   2015: Henry Kissinger, Jake Roberts (2/50)  2016: Prunella Scales, Jimmy Carter, Henry Kissinger, Tommy Chong, Sandy Gall, Paul Gascoigne (6/50)  2017: Jimmy Carter, Bob Barker, Sandy Gall, Emperor Akihito (4/50)  2018: Linda Nolan, Bob Barker, Prunella Scales, Jimmy Carter, Henry Kissinger, Dick Van Dyke, Stanley Baxter, Mel Brooks, Louis Farrakhan, Ronnie Wood, Joni Mitchell, Paul Gascoigne (12/50)  2019: Jimmy Carter, Henry Kissinger, Bob Barker, Emperor Akihito, Alan Greenspan, Dick Van Dyke, Harry Belafonte, Vanessa Redgrave, Cleo Laine, Prunella Scales, Tina Turner, Shane MacGowan (12/50) 2020: Dick Van Dyke, Emperor Akihito, Bob Barker, Alan Greenspan, Henry Kissinger, Jimmy Carter, Tony Bennett, Harry Belafonte, Prunella Scales, Jacques Delors, Willie Nelson, Shane MacGowan, Dick Cheney, Imelda Marcos, Joanne Woodward, Jean-Marie Le Pen, Pervez Musharraf, David Attenborough (17/50) 2021: Dick Van Dyke, Emperor Akihito, Bob Barker, Alan Greenspan, Henry Kissinger, Jimmy Carter, Jacques Delors, Ali Khamenei, Prunella Scales, Tony Bennett, Rosalynn Carter, Dick Cheney, Harry Belafonte, Bob Newhart, Imelda Marcos, Yoko Ono, Linda Nolan, Joanne Woodward, Mel Brooks, Willie Nelson, Betty Boothroyd, Jean-Marie Le Pen, Raul Castro, Burt Bacharach, Stanley Baxter, Vanessa Redgrave, Shane MacGowan, Shannen Doherty (28/50)  2022: Dick Van Dyke, Henry Kissinger, Bob Barker, Alan Greenspan, Nigel Starmer-Smith, Jimmy Carter, Tony Bennett, Dick Cheney, Harry Belafonte, Mel Brooks, Bobby Charlton, David Attenborough, Emperor Akihito, Rosalynn Carter, Sandy Gall, Desmond Morris, Ted Kaczynski, Jean-Marie Le Pen, James Whale, Cleo Laine, Jacques Delors, Denis Law, Prunella Scales, Burt Bacharach, Stanley Baxter, Noam Chomsky, Norman Tebbit, Michael Gambon, Douglas Hurd, Silvio Berlusconi, Marianne Faithfull, Milan Kundera, Linda Ronstadt, Joss Ackland, Shane MacGowan (35/50) Updated for Pervez Musharraf. The 2004 list is now extinct.

Khamtai Siphandone, former President, Chairman and Prime Minister of Laos, richest man in Laos and the father of the current Prime Minister of the country, 99 today

There is an incredibly interesting story behind the donor of Rod Carew's heart. He was Konrad Reuland, an NFL player inspired to dedicate his life to sport by none other than Rod Carew, after the Baseball player visited his school.

Bobbie Wygant, 96, American tv news reporter, film critic and interviewer (NBC).

What, alive?

Today Jimmy Carter has surpassed the lifespan of John Adams of 90 years and 247 days. This now means that the four longest living Presidents in order are: 1. Gerald Ford; July 14, 1913-December 26, 2006; 93 years, 165 days 2. Ronald Reagan; February 6, 1911-June 5, 2004; 93 years, 120 days 3. George H.W. Bush; June 12, 1924-still living; 90 years, 359 days 4. Jimmy Carter; October 1, 1924-still living; 90 years 248 days This is significant because the four longest lived U.S. Presidents served consecutively to each other from 1974-1993, each have lived longer than every President from George Washington to Richard Nixon, they each lived into the 21st Century, and two of them (George HW Bush and Jimmy Carter) are still alive. Also we are now in the second period in history that two 90+ year old Presidents were alive at once, the first period was between July 13, 2003 (Gerald Ford's 90th birthday) and June 5, 2004 (Ronald Reagan's death). On October 1, 2014 Jimmy Carter turned 90 and joined George HW as the other living President who turned 90 on June 12, 2014.

Welcome (why not take the time to register?) Is hustle a tv programme or an asmatic porn magazine ?,I would have thought he was a bit old. For the magazine.