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he's still alive but his condition deteriorated sharply yesterday http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/08/30/uzbek-president-in-intensive-care-after-brain-haemorrhage/ Dead Apparently, preparations for his funeral started yesterday already. It could be that the announcement was delayed until the Independence Day celebrations finish.

Mugabe is fine, he just landed in Tashkent to meet Uzbek President Karimov.

Karimov's death still unconfirmed. Editor-in-chief of the opposition media source Fergana (which was among those reporting Karimov's death) posted this picture in Facebook, apparently sent to him by the president's press office.

It was the biker, on the off chance something bad happens during the Isle of Man TT. Not surprisingly, seems like he will see 2017.

Gene Wilder dead at 83 of Alzheimer's disease.

Gene Wilder dead at 83.

Several unofficial reports now stating he is dead. His daughter confirmed earlier today that he did have a brain haemorrhage.

"Uzbek President Islam Karimov has been taken to hospital, the government says, amid rumours that he is seriously ill. Unconfirmed reports quoted by the Fergananews website said that Mr Karimov had suffered a stroke." Source: BBC

"Word reaches us that Dan Gurney, the 85-year-old motor racing legend, is not in the best of health at the moment." Posted in the official homepage of the McLaren Formula One team

Latvian

1945 DDP: if a pick was a PoW on January 1 and is executed during the year, you get no points.

Chris Amon is healthy and pensionable, living in New Zealand Amon dulled Apologies for awful krautrock pun. Mario Andretti once said of him: "If he became an undertaker, people would give up dying."

28. Latvian 29. Lithuanian

Murray Walker is "too frail" to attend this week's British Grand Prix.

Not another Kennedy sex scandal? Not as scandalous as his assassination, which had twice the ass.

Only on this list, which was provided by OoO in 2006 and which I have been updating. I'm sure there are probably others who can be added in if folk think they are important enough obit wise. The ones who are 90 now drove at a time when there was a much higher mortality rate in racing.

I will gladly accept that place if nobody else claims it.

Of course he has cancer. His hair has even fallen out as a result of chemotherapy.

Or, rather, a reason to read it more carefully.

Josef Newgarden suffered a pretty bad crash in IndyCar today and collapsed after getting out of the car. He has apparently suffered injuries to his right shoulder and right wrist, but thankfully no head injuries.

I realized that CoffinLedger already did a post, just can' figure out how to delete it. You can't. It will stay here forever for our amusement.

Christina Grimmie of "The Voice" fame has been shot dead. She was 22.

Too much SPAM is probably not good for the heart, anyway.

Five more: Georgian Hausa Kazakh Macedonian Mongolian

74 years old, still plays shows. I think he'll be fine.