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John Singleton will die today as his family decided to put him off life support.

New photo of Jiang Zemin. Looks good, will live for many years to come.

Yesterday morning I was thinking about the late Girma Woldegiorgis and went to see what presidents/rulers of Ethiopia were still living. The thing I thought was "This Negasso Gidada is relatively young. We'll probably talk about him in 20 years". The same day he died.

My mother was hardly there. I have very few fond memories. Plus she has been in a vegetative state for some time due to Alzheimer's. Not for that this affects me less.

Manuel Lujan dead at 90. Also this thread should be locked.

My mother has been diagnosed with colorectal cancer and we won't seek treatment.

Well, if I had to write a short history... The Dinosaurs: Richard Overton (1906-2018) Shivakumara Swamiji (1907-2019) Li Rui (1917-2019) Herman Wouk (1915) Born in the 1920s, first generation: Le Duc Anh (1920-2019) ND Tiwari (1925-2018) M. Karunanidhi (1924-2018) Francis Quinn (1921-2019) Dilip Kumar (1922) The perennial dementia sufferers: George Fernandes (1930-2019) Monica Vitti (1931) Joanne Woodward (1930) Jeanne Little (1938) Nobby Stiles (1942) Anne Hamilton-Byrne (1921) Sumner Redstone (1923) Stanley Ho (1921) The second generation of immortals: Violeta Chamorro (1929) Balbir Singh (1924) Abdelaziz Bouteflika (1937) And Leah Bracknell (1964). Simply undestructible.

Sirikit again hospitalized for a bladder infection.

I voted for Vera Lynn the first time. Now I'll switch to Mubarak, hoping I'm very wrong.

Last news I can find on Karkoc are from April 2018. Where was he confirmed alive in 2019?

No, rules are rules. You take Hyun Soong-jong. Forgive me, work, real life and all. @CastAway, you have to change your pick.

Why I do believe he is dead: 1)Article gives a specific cause of death (pneumonia) and Kercheval was a lung cancer survivor. 2)It says he was hospitalized in Terre Haute before the most recent hospitalization. Too specific, again. 3)It says funeral will be private. 4)Sonny Carey is the name of the Daily Clintonian's owner 5)They named the funeral home and talked with a "spokeswoman". A hoax article would have talked with a "spokesman". So I'm convinced he is dead. Media will be quite slow to pick up the story.

Seems he is dead or they are goddamnly convincing on that site. Maybe I'm falling for some stupid hoax, but it is just too specific and there is the name of the editor...

What about this?

They put Do Muoi's photo instead of Le Duc Anh's! Blasphemy!

True. Bibliogryphon has him. All right.

Did you edit this? I thought you picked Robert Mugabe. If that's the case once a name is chosen it can not be changed (or it would be easy if someone falls critically ill and the first person who swaps wins). It is not against rule to wait that one of them is declaredly dying, hoping he has not been picked by others before.

Don Marion Davis has appeared in two 1919 movies.

I confirm Adnan Pachachi as my pick.

Twelfth round masterlist: Newjack: Hau Pei-tsun Ulitzer95: Daniel arap Moi Lafaucheuse: Hyun Soong-jong Bibliogryphon: Robert Mugabe Joey Russ: Jimmy Carter paddyfool: Prem Tinsulanonda drol: Adnan Pachachi The Quim Reaper: Yasuhiro Nakasone Clorox Bleachman: Lee Teng-hui theoldlady: Jules Sedney Sir Creep: Mustafa ben Halim Prophet: Josip Manolic CastAway: Javier Perez de Cuellar CoffinLodger: Luis Echeverria

The problem with Fauja Singh is that he has not any known health issue. Usually we refer as immortals to those who are very old and very very ill. People like Tiwari, Karunanidi, Le Duc Anh, Richie Overton, the Swami, bishop Quinn, George Fernandes.... Only Dilip Kumar is left from them, and maybe Anne Hamilton-Byrne. Balbir Singh has proven to be a tough fucker, and the sad thing is I think he will live many years left as a zombie, slowly decomposing while he is still alive. In a few years we will be astonished by his staying power. But among the old generation only Dilip is left.... for how long?

Twelfth 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)Prem Tinsulanonda (1920), Prime Minister and Regent of Thailand 7)Kim Yong-ju (1920), vacancy Head of State of North Korea 8)Tun Tin (1920), Prime Minister of Burma 9)Mustafa ben Halim (1921), Prime Minister of Lybia 10)Francisco Morales Bermudez (1921), President of Perù 11)Luis Echeverria (1922), President of Mexico 12)Janez Stanovnik (1922), President of Communist Slovenia 13)Milos Jakes (1922), General Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia 14)Jules Sedney (1922), Prime Minister of Suriname 15)Branislav Soskic (1922) President of Communist Montenegro 16) Lee Teng-hui (1923), President of Taiwan 17)Adnan Pachachi (1923) Prime Minister of Iraq 18)Khamtai Siphandon (1924) Prime Minister and President of Laos 19)Robert Mugabe (1924) Prime Minister and President of Zimbabwe 20)Tomiichi Murayama (1924) Prime Minister of Japan 21)Abderrahmane Youssoufi (1924) Prime Minister of Morocco 22)Kenneth Kaunda (1924) President of Zambia 23)Dawda Jawara (1924) President of Gambia 24)Daniel arap Moi (1924), President of Kenya 25)Jimmy Carter (1924), President of United States of America 26)Lubomir Strougal (1924), Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia 27)Guillermo Rodriguez Lara (1924), President of Ecuador 28)Abdelsalam Majali (1925), Prime Minister of Jordan 29)Ali Hassan Mwinyi (1925), President of Tanzania 30)Giorgio Napolitano (1925), President of Italy Well, you all know Giorgio Napolitano. Kingmaker of Italy politics in the last ten years, suffered aortic dissection a year ago, but came back to full shape. 12th round is now open.

Congrats, @Clorox Bleachman, you win the eleventh round. List to be updated and twelfth round to start. @Lafaucheuse and @CoffinLodger, you have to wait for the round to start before choosing your picks. Do you confirm them?

If I understand Google Translate right, Kim Yong-ju has lost his seat during the last generational reshuffle.