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https://t.me/meduzalive/101134 Nikolai Ryzhkov dead

In my personal life between 1989-1993 I lost both parents ages 52, 57, an uncle 54, and had 3 friends lose at least 1parent all in their 50;s all due to heart attacks, and strokes. 3 of my 4 grandparents died in the 1960's all in their 50's as well due to cancer, heart attack and aneurism. A certain percentage of people have always died younger than the expected life expectancy and in both of those eras it certainly was not due to new untested vaccines or covid. I am putting a link to an article about how life expectancy is determined because it is apparent that you don't understand how it works. Life expectancy - Wikipedia

Feng Zigen prematurely dead at 106. Shocking, he looked so well.

I think it’s worth mentioning that the world population has quadrupled since 1900. This increase coupled with the major expansion in types of fame in the last 100 years (television, social media, etc.) means there are a larger number of well-known individuals each generation. Some portion of these are going to die young and some portion of those are going to be well known. Also, as @Toast pointed out social media and the 24 hour news cycle means more attention is paid to these deaths than in years past. Get over your conspiracy theory that more young people are dying which we all know is shield for peddling your ridiculous anti-vax views.

Said it before but has to be on the 2025 list (if he makes it!) Increasing number of hospitalisations over the last few years

Brought the great man back for this auspicious occasion

28/Feb/2024 43 X-Press 2 ft. David Byrne — Lazy 42 Mis-Teeq — Scandalous 40 Coldplay — In My Place +4 40 Busted — Year 3000 35 Justin Timberlake — Cry Me A River 34 Pink — Get The Party Started 33 Kylie Minogue — Love At First Sight 31 Justin Timberlake — Rock Your Body 30 S Club — Say Goodbye / Love Ain’t Gonna Wait For You 30 The Darkness — I Believe In A Thing Called Love 28 Electric Six — Danger! High Voltage 28 Oasis — Stop Crying Your Heart Out 28 Oasis — Little By Little / She Is Love 25 Girls Aloud — Jump 25 Lumidee — Never Leave You 25 Dido — White Flag -6 24 Liberty X — Got To Have Your Love 23 Rachel Stevens — Sweet Dreams My L.A. Ex 23 Scooter — The Logical Song 23 S Club 7 — You 22 Appleton — Fantasy 21 Kevin Lyttle — Turn Me On 21 Ultrabeat — Pretty Green Eyes 21 Benny Benassi PTS The Biz — Satisfaction 19 Puretone — Addicted To Bass 18 Dannii Minogue — I Begin To Wonder 14 Kelly Rowland — Stole 13 A1 — Caught In The Middle 11 Atomic Kitten — The Last Goodbye / Be With You 10 Girls Aloud — No Good Advice

Cool. I'll just carry on as I was then.

Santhan dead.

Fifty-third round: 1)Josip Manolic (1920), Prime Minister of Croatia 2)César Yanes Urías (1920), Salvadoran junta member 3)Khamtai Siphandon (1924) Prime Minister and President of Laos 4)Tomiichi Murayama (1924) Prime Minister of Japan 5)Jimmy Carter (1924), President of United States of America 6)Guillermo Rodriguez Lara (1924), President of Ecuador 7)Ali Hassan Mwinyi (1925), President of Tanzania 8)Mahathir Mohamad (1925), Prime Minister of Malaysia 9)Mohammad Hasan Sharq (1925), Chairman of Council of Ministers of Afghanistan 10)Abdoulaye Wade (1926), President of Senegal 11)Valdas Adamkus (1926), President of Lithuania 12)Raif Dizdarevic (1926), President of Yugoslavia 13)Thanin Kraivichien (1927), Prime Minister of Thailand 14)Kim Yong-nam (1928), Chairman of the Presidium of North Korea 15)Arnold Rüütel (1928), President of Estonia 16)Arthur Foulkes (1928), Governor General of Bahamas 17)Peter Boross (1928), Prime Minister of Hungary 18)Zhu Rongji (1928), Premier of China 19)Edouard Balladur (1929), Prime Minister of France 20)Sam Nujoma (1929), President of Namibia 21)Orville Turnquest (1929), Governor General of Bahamas 22)Jamshid bin Abdullah (1929), Sultan of Zanzibar 23)Michael J. Williams (1929) Acting president of Trinidad and Tobago 24)Violeta Chamorro (1929), President of Nicaragua 25)Gombojavyn Ochirbat (1929), General Secretary of Mongolia Communist Party 26)Alfred Moisiu (1929), President of Albania 27)Selim Hoss (1929), Prime Minister of Lebanon 28)Lee Hyun-jae (1929), Prime Minister of South Korea 29)Milan Panić (1929), Prime Minister of Yugoslavia 30)Efraín Goldenberg (1929), Prime Minister of Peru New entry is Efraín Goldenberg, former corrupted PM of Peru under the Immortal Alberto Fujimori. Choose your picks!

He already said he wouldn't abdicate. But I agree, he's in far worse condition than most of the others, he only just recovered from a prior infection and this is now his 4th or 5th hospitalization within the last 2 years.

Martti Mansikka, Finnish gymnast who won a team bronze medal in the 1956 Olympics has died at 90.

Ainsley Harriott is 67.

Iona Campbell, Dowager Duchess of Argyll, widow of the 12th Duke and mother of the 13th Duke, death notice: https://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/marketplace/advert/argyll-notices_55977 Thought I'd better post it as she has her own Wiki page.

Have you got statistical proof of that? There have always been cases of sudden death in the young though. I knew someone who died in their sleep at 31 from an unsuspected heart defect, and have been surprised how many people have had friends die in a similar way, and I'm talking over 20 years ago not recently.. Because of social media we just tend to hear about more of them.

Jimmy Carter

You missed me off the Masterlist

Angel Kerezov, Bulgarian wrestler who won silver in 1964 Olympics, died in 2002 according to the Bulgarian Wrestling Federation Masamitsu Ichiguchi, Japanese wrestler who won gold on 1964 Olympics, is implied to have died on 7 February 2024 by the Japan Wrestling Federation. Correct me if I'm wrong on this one as I have doubts by Google translate.

28/02/24 43 X-Press 2 ft. David Byrne — Lazy 42 Mis-Teeq — Scandalous 40 Busted — Year 3000 36 Coldplay — In My Place 35 Justin Timberlake — Cry Me A River 34 Pink — Get The Party Started 33 Kylie Minogue — Love At First Sight 31 Dido — White Flag +4 31 Justin Timberlake — Rock Your Body 30 S Club — Say Goodbye / Love Ain’t Gonna Wait For You 30 The Darkness — I Believe In A Thing Called Love 30 Electric Six — Danger! High Voltage 28 Oasis — Stop Crying Your Heart Out 28 Oasis — Little By Little / She Is Love 25 Girls Aloud — Jump 25 Lumidee — Never Leave You 24 Liberty X — Got To Have Your Love 23 Rachel Stevens — Sweet Dreams My L.A. Ex 23 Scooter — The Logical Song 23 S Club 7 — You 23 Benny Benassi PTS The Biz — Satisfaction -6 22 Appleton — Fantasy 21 Kevin Lyttle — Turn Me On 21 Ultrabeat — Pretty Green Eyes 19 Puretone — Addicted To Bass 18 Dannii Minogue — I Begin To Wonder 14 Kelly Rowland — Stole 13 A1 — Caught In The Middle 11 Atomic Kitten — The Last Goodbye / Be With You 10 Girls Aloud — No Good Advice 

And there it is. Facebook. A few years ago you wouldn't even have known these people existed. My point perfectly illustrated. Yes, and a large part of that is because of delays. Delays in getting funding, delays in getting tests organised, you name it, a lot of these things spend months if not years sitting on desks with nothing happening. The difference with the Covid vaccines is that everything was fast-tracked and money poured into it because of the urgency.

@Azrael... Estelle Parsons and Don King are duplicate picks, too:

John Savident sounds like he was just as much of a character as his, well, character. Like this anecdote from Gareth Roberts, a writer who, among many things, once worked on Coronation St:

None of my 19 women got pregnant last year (or indeed this), not helped by the fact that 2 of them turned out to be lesbians. However I caught part of Blankety Blank the other night (there's an admission) and there was the talentless Moffat woman announcing her pregnancy and thereby proving me right, albeit a year too late.

Ryzhkov's still quite active, incumbent Federation Council member, in December he talked about how it'd be great if the Soviet Union was recreated. He's dreamed about it since the 90s. Hated and still hates Gorbachev and wishes Andropov never died (I assume Andropov liked him more than Gorba?). Sanctioned by the US in 2014 too for involvement in the Crimea invasion as a member of the Russian leadership's inner circle. Quite an asshole in many ways

I’ve been on this forum approaching 4 years and I have never had the urge to make a thread. Why do people that first join this forum have an overwhelming desire to create a topic for any fucker that pops in their head? Surely it’s not hard to stop postless newbies from creating new topics.