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New Zealand rugby league "legend" Olsen Filipaina (wiki) on life support with kidney failure.

Roger Guillemin.

After weeks they denied she was on life support...

Legendary Indian singer Sandhya Mukherjee (wiki), who just made the headlines for refusin Padma Shri, hospitalised after fall and lung infection.

Awfully awfully awfully quiet these last days.

Out of CCU and recovering fast. Who's laughing now, @Ulitzer95?

Mangosuthu Buthelezi hospitalised for high blood pressure, but "nothing to worry about". Which is true for everyone who gets hospitalised in this period apparently.

Chilean footballer Jorge Spedaletti in a very critical condition.

Vittorio Cecchi Gori hospitalised with acute respiratory failure. Since we are not in India he may as well cark it.

Sharad Pawar tests positive for COVID-19. Obviously this virus won't kill anymore. Unless, you know...

Discharged. Casually only the unvaxxed one is still in ICU, but that may be a coincidence.

Discharged. Vaccines don't work

There were 2 deaths in the top 10, Santa Cruz and Sutcliffe, and also Saturnino is dead. Tanaka's time has come.

Two side notes to @arghton's list: 1)Gombojavyn has been elected to the Mongolian Parliament this year (at 92!) and is in excellent health. 2)Kim Yong-nam looked very pale and was sitting for the whole time when Kim visited him in 2021. Plus, he missed a lot of public events. Seems he has significantly declined after leaving his office.

Doesn't look bad at all. https://mobile.twitter.com/6NNNEWS/status/1485299725536575493

Was just looking her up this morning.

KP Sharma Oli tests positive for COVID-19, but does not require hospitalization.

What do you laugh for? He ain't dead yet, hold your laughs. Meanwhile all the state leaders born in 1926 are still alive, and Betty is the frailest one.

Continuous improvement in her health.

It seems very serious. Strait Times has just denied his death, adding he was visited by his family.

Hospitalised.

Thanks for finding a recent pictures of Wan Haifeng, honestly thought he would look worse considering how his family was describing his situation. If there are two people on the list I'd seriously doubt were still alive they would be Saleh Ajeery and Monica Vitti. Chris, how is it even remotely possible.

Also, for quicker reference, here are the survivors from the 2021 class, with updated descriptions: 1)Jimmy Carter (1924): king of immortals since December 2021. Survived metastasized cancer, bad falls, cerebral hemorrhages. 2)Tin Oo (1927-2024): Burmese general who survived a massive stroke (and a bad fall) in 2017. Now wheelchair bound and suffering from dementia. 3)Leslie Phillips (1924-2022): Suffered ill health since 2010 at very least, survived at least three strokes, wheelchair bound and frequent seizure sufferer. Fights with Tin Oo to succeed Jimmy. 4)Monica Vitti (1931-2022): 90-year old who has been suffered from Alzheimer's from 2001 more or less and broke her femur in 2003 (when it seemed she was already on her last legs!) 5)Joanne Woodward (1930): suffering from end-stage Alzheimer's in 2014! 6)Carmen Sevilla (1930-2023): has suffered from Alzheimer's since 2009. Rumoured dead in 2020. 7)Ma Shitu (1915-2024): survived three bouts of lung cancer and one of skin cancer. Hospitalised in 2020, now wheelchair bound but again out of retirement. 8)Saleh Ajeery (1920-2022): COPD and heart failure sufferer who survived being on life support with COVID in November 2020. 9)David Musuguri (1920): 102-year old Tanzanian general who has been suffering from advanced diabetes and numerous complications for years. Wheelchair bound and extremely frail. 10)Wan Haifeng (1920-2023): Chinese general and one of the last two members of Deng's advisory board. Bedridden and unable to speak for over two years. 11)Saalumarada Thimmakka (1910): reportedly on her deathbed in 2017, hospitalised multiple times in 2020, also broke her hip. Again ailing in 2021 after a fall. Now wheelchair bound and dangerously swollen. 12)Henry Kissinger (1923-2023): Overweight geezer who stills seems somehow invicible. 13)Fauja Fraudster Singh (1911, actually 1928): Fraudster who is looking progressively thinner and now struggles to walk. 14)VS Achuthanandan (1923): survived a cerebral hemorrhage in 2018, hospitalised in critical condition in 2021, hospitalised with COVID in 2022. 15)Jiang Zemin (1926-2022): suffered a serious cardiac illness in 2011. Frail and hardly able to walk, missing every event since fall 2019. 16)Hu Qili (1928): was on his deathbed in August 2018. Somehow rebounded and now going strong. 17)Zou Yu (1920): was gravely ill in 2017 with oxygen support. Somehow doing well now. 18)Gaositwe Chiepe (1922): Cranky old Botswanan Foreign Minister. 19)Chen Ning-yang (1922): yet another Chinese, in frail health and rumoured to be dead in 2021. 20)Tsung Dao-lee (1926-2024): took a bit of immortality from his older pal above. 21)Alberto Fujimori (1938): hospitalised what, 35 times, in recent years with tongue cancer, heart failure, pulmonary fibrosis and mainly a strong will to be released from prison. 22)Mulayam Singh Yadav (1939-2022): hospitalised about 10 time with stomach disease and also with COVID in 2020. Wait for that to give another try? 23)Luis Echeverria (1922-2022): suffered from blood shortage to the brain in 2006, hospitalised with pneumonia in 2017 and twice in 2018, rumoured dead multiple times. Wheelchair bound. 24)Lotfollah Safi Golpaygani (1919-2022): just an unsinkable bastard. 25)Maria Nyerere (1930): Tanzania, land of immortals. Mama Maria was in a bad condition in 2019, also survived her daughter in 2020. Somehow still going strong. 26)Yuriko, Princess Mikasa (1923): Hospitalised at least three time with severe heart failure and fluid in her lungs between 2020 and 2021. 27)Sirikit (1932): survived a massive stroke in 2012, hospitalized multiple times in later years. Wheelchair bound. 28)Raoni Metukyire (1930): survived ICU with gastric hemorrhage in 2020 and then a serious bout with COVID. 29)Song Ping (1917): in splendid health despite being older than the world itself. 30)Ri Yong-mu (1925-2022): one of the frailest NK cadres, missing from events multiple times due to frequent hospitalizations. 31)Amadou Mahtar M'Bow (1921): Senegalese immortal. 32)Abdoulaye Wade (1926): rumoured dead multiple times, this monster seems to be actually faring pretty well. 33)Emmanuel Milingo (1930): hospitalised for malaria in 2018, ailing and near death in 2020, hospitalised in critical condition in 2021, with connected death hoax. 34)Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf (1940): suffered from cancer since 2014, rumoured dead at least 4 times. Annoying. 35)Yu Miu-lin (1937): Hong Kong actress who suffered from terminal blood cancer and pulmonary fibrosis in fall 2020. 36)Violeta Chamorro (1928): has suffered from brain tumors for years, survived stroke in 2018 (!), bedridden and unable to speak. 37)Juan Ponce Enrile (1924): all Filipinos agree he is immortal, and I quite agree.

Likely Italy's most famous living writer, or surely in the top five, Alessandro Baricco (wiki) is suffering from leukemia and will undergo bone marrow transplant in the next few days.