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The 2012 date of death was proved to be a complete hoax. He was alive as of 2017, that's what is known.

And Prem is gone too.

You can choose your picks now! Thirteenth round masterlist: The Quim Reaper: Hau Pei-tsun Ulitzer95: Daniel arap Moi Prophet: Kim Yong-ju Bibliogryphon: Yasuhiro Nakasone Joeyruss: Jimmy Carter Clorox Bleachman: Lee Teng-hui Sir Creep: Francisco Morales Bermudez Newjack: Mustafa Ben Halim Drol: Abdelsalam Majali theoldlady: Robert Mugabe paddyfool: Hyun Soong-jong CoffinLodger: Javier Perez de Cuellar Life Is Beautiful: Abderrahmane Youssoufi Etushispushingupdaisies: Mahathir Mohamad

Thirteenth round: 1)Yasuhiro Nakasone (1918), Prime Minister of Japan 2)Hyun Soong-jong (1919), Prime Minister of South Korea 3)Hau Pei-tsun (1919), Prime Minister of Taiwan 4)Javier Perez de Cuellar (1920), Prime Minister of Perù 5)Josip Manolic (1920), Prime Minister of Croatia 6)Kim Yong-ju (1920), vacancy Head of State of North Korea 7)Tun Tin (1920), Prime Minister of Burma 8)Mustafa ben Halim (1921), Prime Minister of Lybia 9)Francisco Morales Bermudez (1921), President of Perù 10)Luis Echeverria (1922), President of Mexico 11)Janez Stanovnik (1922), President of Communist Slovenia 12)Milos Jakes (1922), General Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia 13)Jules Sedney (1922), Prime Minister of Suriname 14)Branislav Soskic (1922) President of Communist Montenegro 15) Lee Teng-hui (1923), President of Taiwan 16)Adnan Pachachi (1923) Prime Minister of Iraq 17)Khamtai Siphandon (1924) Prime Minister and President of Laos 18)Robert Mugabe (1924) Prime Minister and President of Zimbabwe 19)Tomiichi Murayama (1924) Prime Minister of Japan 20)Abderrahmane Youssoufi (1924) Prime Minister of Morocco 21)Kenneth Kaunda (1924) President of Zambia 22)Dawda Jawara (1924) President of Gambia 23)Daniel arap Moi (1924), President of Kenya 24)Jimmy Carter (1924), President of United States of America 25)Lubomir Strougal (1924), Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia 26)Guillermo Rodriguez Lara (1924), President of Ecuador 27)Abdelsalam Majali (1925), Prime Minister of Jordan 28)Ali Hassan Mwinyi (1925), President of Tanzania 29)Giorgio Napolitano (1925), President of Italy 30)Mahathir Mohamad (1925), Prime Minister of Malaysia New entry: Mahathir Mohamad, currently the oldest ruling head of government. Seemingly unstoppable and in perfect health, but you never know....

Well, @paddyfool, you win another round with a seemingly eternal pick! Congrats. @theoldlady and @CoffinLodger, you have to wait for another round to begin before choosing your picks.

It is a coincidence. He was rushed to hospital at about 5:05 a. m. local time in a medical emergency. That's about midnight in Italy. I wrote the post yesterday morning, so twelve hours before the medical emergency. No cheating there, just the Reaper having fun. Sincerely I think he had a heart attack because he read the post (what an honour!), but I'm not suee about this. Now I have to choose another elderly Asian general and I already have some ideas...

BTW, Jack Steinberger is 98 today!

The sad truth is that the Deathlist won't last forever. Not the forums, those attract new members almost every year, but the DL himself as it is in the hand of a restricted bunch of people. And as everything which is managed by few people, it is destined to end with those people, not necessarily because they are dead, but maybe because they have simply lost interest. There was a site in Italy called "Il Morto del Mese". Every month you could vote your favourite celebrity who died durig the last 30 days. The site started about in 2008 and it published dozens of humorous obits, mainly of unknown people (to give you an example, Dumiso Dabengwa would have probably been there). But the site was managed by a very small bunch of people and as years passed number and quality of obits started to decrease. As there was a chat on the site many asked the curators to delegate writing obits to people willing (and there were many, it was a popular site), but they always refused. Someone sticked up for the admins. saying quality of the site would become lower enlarging the group of obit-writers. But it was clear the site was utterly dying. And on 13th October 2017 the site died. Barry Dennen was the last obit. No one has ever given explanations about what happened, not on the site, not on its Facebook page. And it has been decomposing for a year and a half. It's a matter of time, but the DL will meet the same end. That said, I think it will still hold some years.

I announce that after frantic research and tough decisions, I've picked a substitute of the late general Le Duc Anh as my perennial favourite. And the winner is... General Prem Tinsulanonda! Who was the good twin of evil Le Duc Anh, of course. Or maybe not so good? The general is dead, long live the general!

Sorry for your loss. It is a moment most of us have to experience sooner or later.

Crikey, a good list of immortals! We'll be lucky if just one of them dies before 2021.

No surgery for Ric, because of complications. Well, no surgery today.

That's how I like my Reaper!

My father has been discharged but is not too well. I fear another hospitalization may be imminent.

Nasrallah Boutros Pierre Sfeir has succumbed to chest infection to prove the Kid wrong again.

86 today! "Final speech" in 2007.... dick.

He is stable now. But we knew and we know his time is limited. Still he is giving the Reaper a good run for his money. Hope your father gets better.

He has suffered another hemorrhage and has received emergency surgery. Looks like it is the end after all. I'm so sorry we all thought he was getting better.

Still in ICU, but according to the doctors he is improving and his life is not in immediate danger.

My father has been hospitalized in critical conditions after suffering an internal hemorrhage which resulted in the loss of 1 litre of blood.

Ok, we give up.

Ok. Who the fuck is he?

Speculation grows on mr. Nguyen Phu Trong as he misses mr. Anh's funeral. Ah, and mr. Anh got Guardian, Telegraph, BBC, WaPo obits...

Actually it was intestinal occlusion. Expected to be discharged on Monday.