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Zhu Qihe dead at 99.

Looks perfectly fine.

Ok, I'm back. Not looking has not solved the issues.

Ok, since this seems yet another wasted day, in order to protest, I'll refrain from watching the DL forums or the recent deaths wiki page for a week starting from now. I'll surely be back to many surprises

They are trying to get Mongo to the 20th Hall of Fame induction anniversary in 2044.

I'm not even strict with criteria for a significant death. For example, Robert Badinter and Dries van Agt were very significant for me. And aside from lack of A-listers death, we are on a forum where hundreds of the sickest, oldest or both, people get mentioned everyday, but there was basically no deaths among them in the last month. In other words, there isn't the usual background you expect for deaths. To make an example if Zhang Lixiong finally copped it, it would not be significant per se, but is surely someone who has carved a niche of significance within this forum. And like him many many others. Who are not dying at all in this period. Of course it will end, but for now 2024 has been the Merriam-Webster definition of "disappointing".

Steve Wright is not fucking world famous at all.

People who died in the last nine days I had heard of: Feb 18: no one Feb 17: Johann Galtung (because he was a Right Livelihood Award winner) Feb 16: Ian McMillan, Jorge Toro, Alexey Navalny (very natural death) Feb 15: no one Feb 14: no one Feb 13: no one Feb 12: no one (I know UK would say Steve Wright) Feb 11: Kelvin Kiptum (very natural death), Nerio Nesi (barely famous only in the North of Italy) Feb 10: no one Since I known a ridicolous amount of "notable" folks, and most of them are cranky old, critically ill or both, this just does not add up. I suspect some death has happened but has to be announced yet. Don't really remember a weaker month than this.

Deve Gowda d..ischarged.

The second one 100%. He is back to take power again and in this phase he just wants to avoid prosecution.

From New York Times article today: So no, sorry to disappoint @mymango, but the whole cancer thing was a mistake.

Oh, thanks for joining the older posts.

Thread for Pro Football Hall of Famer Steve McMichael, better known as Mongo. Also known as one of the Four Horsemen WCW stable and frequent opponent/ally of Ric Flair. Diagnosed with ALS in 2021, looked dead for two years, hospitalised in critical condition in August 2023, his wife had him resuscitated in order to see his HoF induction. Now that he is in the HoF he has been hospitalised with UTI, pneumonia and sepsis, still he is decisively improving and will be discharged in the next few days. No one would have bet on him being still alive two years ago.

What I said? They just don't understand when it's time to let him go, and the HoF was just an excuse.

Popular Peruvian singer Susana Baca hospitalised in ICU .

Ok, very insightful updates.

Cecchi Gori d....ecisively improving.

Virgil suffered multiple strokes recently.

Ali Hassan Mwinyi still hospitalised, and doctors may come from abroad, but he seems to be in no danger still.

Unthank, Alexander, Ceccarelli not notable enough (unless she becomes WOLP). Harald, Fittipaldi and Buzzi need to impress me more. The other names could be suitable.

Why the ? in the dead tag?

Reported on the Spanish version of Wikipedia. We've been here before and you were wrong IIRC.

Enrique Badía Romero (wiki), one of the authors of Modesty Blaise, reportedly dead at 93.