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If Krenz will live more or less for another decade, he will end up on the DL. Would be a too big relic to miss.

Jacob L. Mey (wiki), Dutch-Danish linguist, reportedly dead at 96.

When you were constantly choosing Jimmy Carter in this game back in 2018 and he was kind of a newcomer I thought he'd be among the first deaths. We are in 2023.

Cough cough... Ryzhkov...cough.

Fiftieth round masterlist: Newjack: Josip Manolic Summer in Transylvania: Khamtai Siphandone Comtech Sio Bibble: Giorgio Napolitano Lafaucheuse: Mahathir Mohamad Joey Russ: Jimmy Carter TQR: Cesar Yanes Urias Funeralopolis: Zhu Rongji Hell: Nikolay Ryzkhov chilean way: Guillermo Rodriguez Lara Mortal Caso: Selim Hoss

Fiftieth 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)Giorgio Napolitano (1925), President of Italy 9)Mahathir Mohamad (1925), Prime Minister of Malaysia 10)Mohammad Hasan Sharq (1925), Chairman of Council of Ministers of Afghanistan 11)Arnaldo Forlani (1925), Prime Minister of Italy 12)Abdoulaye Wade (1926), President of Senegal 13)Valdas Adamkus (1926), President of Lithuania 14)Raif Dizdarevic (1926), President of Yugoslavia 15)Thanin Kraivichien (1927), Prime Minister of Thailand 16)Kim Yong-nam (1928), Chairman of the Presidium of North Korea 17)Arnold Rüütel (1928), President of Estonia 18)Arthur Foulkes (1928), Governor General of Bahamas 19)Peter Boross (1928), Prime Minister of Hungary 20)Zhu Rongji (1928), Premier of China 21)Edouard Balladur (1929), Prime Minister of France 22)Sam Nujoma (1929), President of Namibia 23)Orville Turnquest (1929), Governor General of Bahamas 24)Jamshid bin Abdullah (1929), Sultan of Zanzibar 25)Nikolai Ryzhkov (1929), Chairman of the Council of Ministers 26)Violeta Chamorro (1929), President of Nicaragua 27)Gombojavyn Ochirbat (1929), General Secretary of Mongolia Communist Party 28)Alfred Moisiu (1929), President of Albania 29)Selim Hoss (1929), Prime Minister of Lebanon 30)Lee Hyun-jae (1929), Prime Minister of South Korea New entry is Lee Hyun-jae, former PM of South Korea. Nuff said. Choose your picks!

@Bibliogryphon wins the round with one of the last communist rulers of the short century! Congrats! New round to be started.

Glad Ryzhkov has a thread at this point. He is really the last survivor of a generation of communist leader with the recent deaths of Strougal, Silayev and Modrow. I find it signifcant that the Eastern Bloc is fading, for what it meant to me and to those who can remember. The Eastern Bloc was the suppression of individuality, everything had to be gray and the same, emotions were constantly to be repressed. Look at those men who just died, or Ryzhkov himself. All impassive, dressed in the same way, many identical gray bureaucrats. That was the Eastern Bloc.

Wow, Eastern Bloc nonagenarian commies falling like flies! Rhyzkov should really hide somewhere...

O Kuk-ryol dead at 93.

Reportedly 95 this year.

There's a linked source I believe, otherwise it wouldn't be there. And since I added him I know there is.

Already picked.

Ivan Silayev dead at 92.

Zhang Huixia dead at 94. 45 survivors left.

Perenially dying football manager Miroslav "Ciro" Blazevic dead at 87, two days before turning 88.

Awake, but the situation is serious according to Big Dave Meltzer.

Hospitalised.

It seems Robert Young has hit the fan...

Forty-ninth round masterlist: ThereWillBeDeaths7: Giorgio Napolitano MortalCaso: Josip Manolic TQR: Cesar Yanes Urias Perhaps: Zhu Rongji arghton: Orville Turnquest Bibliogryphon: Hans Modrow Newjack: Khamtai Siphandone Lafaucheuse: Violeta Chamorro WEP: Gombojavyn Ochirbat chilean way: Jimmy Carter The Daredevil: Arnaldo Forlani Funeralopolis: Mahathir Mohamad Redrumours: Selim Hoss theoldlady: Valdas Adamkus diego: Guillermo Rodriguez Lara Summer in Transylvania: Jamshid bin Abdullah Hell: Raif Dizdarevic

Forty-ninth 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)Giorgio Napolitano (1925), President of Italy 9)Mahathir Mohamad (1925), Prime Minister of Malaysia 10)Mohammad Hasan Sharq (1925), Chairman of Council of Ministers of Afghanistan 11)Arnaldo Forlani (1925), Prime Minister of Italy 12)Abdoulaye Wade (1926), President of Senegal 13)Valdas Adamkus (1926), President of Lithuania 14)Raif Dizdarevic (1926), President of Yugoslavia 15)Thanin Kraivichien (1927), Prime Minister of Thailand 16)Hans Modrow (1928), Chairman of the Council of Ministers of East Germany 17)Kim Yong-nam (1928), Chairman of the Presidium of North Korea 18)Arnold Rüütel (1928), President of Estonia 19)Arthur Foulkes (1928), Governor General of Bahamas 20)Peter Boross (1928), Prime Minister of Hungary 21)Zhu Rongji (1928), Premier of China 22)Edouard Balladur (1929), Prime Minister of France 23)Sam Nujoma (1929), President of Namibia 24)Orville Turnquest (1929), Governor General of Bahamas 25)Jamshid bin Abdullah (1929), Sultan of Zanzibar 26)Nikolai Rhyzkov (1929), Chairman of the Council of Ministers 27)Violeta Chamorro (1929), President of Nicaragua 28)Gombojavyn Ochirbat (1929), General Secretary of Mongolia Communist Party 29)Alfred Moisiu (1929), President of Albania 30)Selim Hoss (1929), Prime Minister of Lebanon New entry is Selim Hoss, former PM of Lebanon who has been on the brink of death for the last three years. Choose your picks!

So, @TQR wins the round with old die hard communist Lubomir Strougal, extending his lead. Congrats! New round to be started.

Ned Jarrett's wife Martha dead.

Indian supercentenarian Teli Nigla dead at 131. Anyway in the first lines of the article his age is reported as 13. Averaging the two numbers you could get a more accurate result. EDIT: his son T. C. Teli was an Arunachal Pradesh minister who died at 50 in 2014. Old Nigla would have had him at 72, which could be quite unlikely.

Oomen Chandy hospitalised . It may not be his time yet but surely he is circling the drain.