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Top American psychologist Arnold Mindell (wiki) reportedly dead at 84.

Rajeev Taranath dead at 91.

Patricia Shanil Muluzi, another wife of Bakili, dead in the plane crash which took Malawi VP's life.

James Lawson dead at 95.

Terekhova discharged . Of course.

Maria da Conceição Tavares dead at 94.

Some of these days tower...bang...zoom...you're going to the Moon!

Huzz Kamaludin dead at 58.

Continuing with the above list from 1930 to 1934. 1930 Gene Hackman: legendary actor, looks very wough nowadays. Gary Snyder: American hippy poet, quite frail. Stephen Smale: one of the greatest mathematician of the last century, and often suspected of un-American activities. Off the radar for a while. Clint Eastwood: A-lister filmmaker, doing well despite having recently declined a bit. Jasper Johns: contemporary artist, doing well? Buzz Aldrin: original moonwalker, recently declined a bit. Stay away from flying aircrafts! Marie Bashir: longtime governor of New South Wales. Bilijana Plavsic: Yugoslav war criminal, was in critical condition with COVID during the pandemic. Vigdis Finnbogadottir: Icelandic president, in excellent health. José Sarney: Immortal Brazilian dictator, has suffered many ailments inclunding pleural effusion, strokes and serious falls in recent years. 1931 Heisuke Hironaka: Great Japanese mathematician, doing great in May 2024, frequently interviewed by the media. Leslie Caron: actress and dancer, has been frail for a few years. Rupert Murdoch: Australian mogul, serious health issues do not seem to affect him that much. Roger Penrose: Mathematical genius, Nobel Prize winner and controversial philosopher, doing astoundingly well. John Milnor: huge mathematician of the 20th century, health has probably declined in the last few years. Willie Mays: HoF baseball player, doing well but a bit frail Edwin Meese: US attorney general, still active in law and politics. Norman Tebbit: decrepit right wing politician, in failing health for years. Marjorie Jackson-Nelson: Governor of South Australia and Olympic athlete. Quite off the spotlight now. Jean Berko Gleason: psycholinguist, doing very well. 1932 The Wizard of New Zealand: political activist and nutshell, frail but still active. Walter Gilbert: Nobel Prize, doing well like those old immortal academics. Jacques Roubaud: French poet and mathematician. Louis de Branges de Bourcia: French-American mathematician, not heard so much nowadays. Alvin Plantinga: huge American philosopher, still active? Lady Antonia Fraser: British writer, survived a serious fall some years ago, has been on borrowed time for a while. Erró: Iceland greatest painter. John Searle: philosopher and alleged molester, now quite under the radar. Roy Hattersley: Brit politician, doing well though a bit decrepit. John Williams: legendary composer, bounced back from rough health. 1933 Roman Polanski: director and nonce, doing depressingly well. Yoko Ono: pain in the ass, suffered from Lewy body dementia for years, fucking overdue. Amartya Sen: Nobel Prize winner, suffered from every type of cancer for fifty years, fucking overdue. Joan Collins: actress, doing extremely well. John Burgee: architect, disciple of Philip Johnson, a bit off the spotlight now. Michael Caine: legendary for his film with Steven Seagal, frail but overall doing well. Michael Heseltine: Brit politician, doing incredibly well. James Meredith: civil rights icon, fell last year during his 90th birthday celebrations and looks a bit frail. Michael Dukakis: losing presidential candidate, doing well. Not so his wife. Al McCoy: Pheonic Suns announcer, retired last year, but still ocasionally commenting. 1934 Alan Garner: British novelist, doing well? Brigitte Bardot: French sex symbol of the 60s. Multiple health issues, most recently on oxygen for respiratory failure. Bud Selig: baseball commisioner, looks good due to a pact with the devil and his hairdresser. Piers Anthony: science-fiction writer, the classic name who could drop dead at any moment. Ralph Nader: legendary political activist and a clean bill of health. Wole Soyinka: Nobel Prize for literature, prostate cancer sufferer, variously rumored dead. Tony Hoare: one of the greatest computer scientists, these guys seem to go on forever. Sophia Loren: Italian sex symbol, suffered serious fall last year but bounced back. Carlo Rubbia: Nobel Prize winner and senator, doing very well. Jane Goodall: legendary ecologist, doing incredibly well.

I'm gonna stick him on the Immortals list next year.

Indian tycoon Ramoji Rao (wiki) hospitalised in unclear condition.

André Ferreira dead at 59.

Sergei Novikov (wiki), huge Russian mathematician and Fields Medal winner, reportedly dead at 86. Can't find any source at the moment.

I saw this but the timing is a bit suspicious.

William Mebarak Chadid hospitalised in ICU with pneumonia.

I once met some Indian post-docs from Kerala and they were very surprised I knew VS Achuthanandan.

COVID, during the great wave that killed half CAE.

Since the very notable names born in the 20s are fading out, here's a quick list, from 1924 to 1929, of the 10 people whose Wiki page was created the earliest, for each year. 1924 Jimmy Carter: former POTUS, Absolute King of Immortals, God of Deathlist Robert G. Shulman: American biophysicist, doing very well. Eve Marie Saint: American relic actress, in good health... 6 years ago. Tomiichi Murayama: Japanese PM, minor issues here and there. Khamtai Siphandone: likely on life support for a while, uberfrail. Charlie Smith Dannelly: North Carolina State Senator, doing well. Marshall Allen: Sun Ra Arkestra leader, doing unexplicably well for a hard-living character like him. William H. Webster: former FBI director, doing very well. Torsten Wiesel: Nobel Prize, doing very well despite having declined a bit recently. Lee Adams: Lyricist. 1925 Leo Esaki: Nobel Prize, still doing very well. Mahathir Mohamad: Malaysian legendary PM, extensive heart issues, miracolusly doing well. Daniel J. Evans: senator and governor, frail but recently less frail than before. Ann Fagan Ginger: political activist, still doing well. Dick Van Dyke: DL legend, still doing very well. Roy Haynes: Jazz legend, unexplicably alive despite hard living for 99 years. Peter Murray: British DJ and DL pick, quite overdue at this point. Alan Bergman: recently widowed composer. Adele Addison: operatic singer, Van Vetchen's portrait, not seen in a while? June Lockhart: Lessie's mum and perennial dead pool pick, not seen in a while? 1926 Mel Brooks: comedy legend, still well, but won't be a surprising death just in case. David Attenborough: Brit legend who is reportedly doing well, but I think he has vastly declined recently. Alan Greenspan: US economist, fading from the public scene quickly. Jean-Pierre Serre: French mathematical genius, still acting as he is in his 30s, but for how long? Tsung Dao-lee: Nobel Prize and Immortal, not seen in years. Lou Donaldson: Jazz saxophonist and another unexplicably longeve guy. Gyorgy Kurtag: legendary composer, still giving interviews last year. Abdoulaye Wade: Senegalese president and Immortal. Rumoured dead multiple times, but seemingly unsinkable. Roscoe Bartlett: Legendary US representative, now living off-grid. George Ariyoshi: Hawaii governor, very frail for years. 1927 William J. Perry: Secretary of Defense who was scammed by Theranos, doing incredibly well. Herbert Blomstedt: Swedish conductor, hospitalised in December, but still working. Vernon L. Smith: autistic Nobel Prize, unsinkable. John Kander: composer, doing very well. Pierre Alechinsky: fuck, is he still alive? Major avant garde artist. Doc Severinsen: Jonny Carson's sidekick, doing well. LK Advani: BJP patriarch, frail. Marcel Ophuls: another one "still fucking alive"? William Labov: apparently huge name in sociology. Leontyne Price: American soprano, a bit overdue at this point. 1928 Desmond Morris: ethologist, DL pick, doing well. James Watson: Nobel Prize who faked dying for years in order to avoid obvious controversies stemming from his ideas. Noam Chomsky: DL pick, on the brink of death for months. Tom Lehrer: legendary comedic songwriter, very reclusive. Jean Marie Le Pen: immortal patriarch of French right wing, hospitalised multiple times in recent years, bit overdue. Zhu Rongji: Chinese PM, has suffered from Parkinson's for the last ten years, permanently hospitalised for five years. Hans Blix: OH, NO, HANS BRIX! Elias James Corey: Nobel Prize, father of the retrosynthetic approach and known in the field to be quite a slaver. John Little: MIT professor, Little's law namesake. Dr. Ruth Westheimer: survived massive stroke last year. 1929 Jurgen Habermas: disfigured German sociologist, WW2 veteran. Frank Gehry: legendary architect. Len Deighton: British writer who feels a bit overdue. Bob Newhart: Comedic genius who has been dying for the last five years. Alfred Moisiu: Overweight Albanian president, doing incredibly well. Eddie Stobart: agriculture fuhrer of UK, not seen in a while? Hal Lindsey: apocalyptic prophet, not seen in years. Eric Kandel: Nobel Prize, doing well as you expect from decrepit academics. Jim Whittaker: legendary climber and mountaineer, going strong. Ramon Luis Rivera: Puerto Rican retired politician, looks frail.

Former mayor of San Paulo and current federal deputy Luiza Erundina, 90 later this year, hospitalised but stable and not in danger.

Wu Chengzhang was hospitalised last year? Can you share a link?

Julian Munoz hospitalised again .

Afa the Wild Samoan underwent successful back surgery.

Ahmad Shah Khan, Crown Prince of Afghanistan, dead at 89.

Telangana musician Darshanam Mogilaiah (wiki) hospitalised in critical condition.

For me Silvestre, Iglesias and Henry Silva were the same person.