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Zamir missed the Yom Kippur anniversary in September, he was clearly on his way out.

In very delicate condition and no improvement is expected.

I still dream on Jimmy Carter doing an Inigo Montoya on Siphandone.

Syrian political dissident Riad al-Turk, previously mentioned by @arghton, dead at 93.

It's breaking news on Italian news sites. I'd say he's famous enough.

Silvia Pinal d...ischarged.

I hope all Eastwood, Hackman and Duvall remain a DL fixture for the next five years.

Things are going with Sidney possibly making it and the Queen dead and dusted. Fair.

Enough for the Sun "Who we lost in 2024" section anyway.

Iwona Śledzińska-Katarasińska, unremarkable Polish politician, dead at unremarkable 82, seems to be the first reported death of 2024.

Not so strange for a sect. Shincheonji Church of Jesus venerates him as a Messiah, meaning he is immortal and infallible. So far the immortality thing seems to be holding.

No, an immortal is an immortal for life (makes sense). So every year new immortals are created, but the previous ones retain their title, of course. It's additive. Immortals are ruled by their King, and King Jimmy has been reigning for more than two years following the death of King Bob (Dole).

Doing well, apparently still able to talk and interact normally.

Good new names, but I feel it's too early for most of them. The trio Eastwood, Hackman and Duvall was overdue, but they all seem to be doing well, so maybe a year/two years too early for any of them. Pope Francis, Walters, Barenboim, Bardot, Stone, Bugner definitely too early. Fritzl seems to be doing great right now, and even for Ted Turner it may be a tad early.

Xiaohong Xu picked by banana died in December. Also Lisandro Meza is dead.

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the Class of 2024! 1)Chavalit Yongchaiyduh (1932): Thai PM who survived a massive stroke and being on life support for weeks in 2023 in addition to double pneumonia. On IV meds and hospitalised for most of 2023. 2)Tinto Brass (1933): Italian obese, chain-smoking porn filmmaker who survived brain hemorrhage in 2010 and extremely critical conditions in 2017. 3)Silvia Pinal (1931): Mexican actress suffering from dementia and extensive heart disease, hospitalised in critical condition in December 2021, December 2022, December 2023. 4)Kim Yong-nam (1928): most senior NK politician, needs assistance walking and suffers from dementia. Has looked progressively frailer in the last five years and survived almost all other NK senior cadres. 5)Sonomyn Luvsangombo (1924): decrepit Mongolian general who looked like a zombie in 2020. 6)Tep Vong (1932-2024): Cambodian supreme patriarch/regime bootlicker who suffered a severe stroke in 2020. Hospitalised multiple times in 2023. 7)Joseph Lagu (1929): South Sudan perennial warlord, survived severe COVID which killed his wife in 2021, hospitalised in 2023, but bounced back from deathbed in a week. 8)Shmuel Kamenetsky (1924): American Haredi rabbi, survived a severe stroke in May 2023, hospitalised multiple times with pneumonia, recently underwent life saving surgery. 9)Jean Marie Le Pen (1928): French bigot who was on his deathbed in 2020, heart attack in 2023, but still unsinkable. 10)Shi Ping (1911-2024): Chinese academic administrator and good-natured apparatchik. Hospitalised, wheelchair bound and suffering from dementia for years, survived severe COVID in 2023, now permanently on oxygen. 11)Juan Vicente Perez Mora (1909-2024): wheelchair bound for year, oldest living man for an incredible long time, able to survive Tanaka, Randon and Tatsumi. 12)Willie Nelson (1933): chain-smoker, collapsed lung in 1981, COPD since at least 2012, hospitalised in 2015, most recently survived severe COVID. 13)Khieu Samphan (1931): last surviving Khmer rouge leader, survived serious heart attack in 2007. 14)Selim Hoss (1929): Lebanese PM, on his deathbed for three years and counting. Continuous death hoaxes and looked like a cadaver in 2021. 15)Surat Singh Khalsa (1933): Indian hunger striker for nine years, always near death but never dying. 16)Manohar Joshi (1937-2024): Indian politician, who survived a serious stroke and brain cancer in 2023, after being in a coma for a month. 17)Ilia II of Georgia (1933): Georgian patriarch who has suffered from Parkinson's , heart and respiratory issues for a decade. 18)Muja (1937): Serbian alligator who survived WW2 bombs, and gangrene which required amputation in 2012. 19)Josip Manolic (1920-2024): Last of the original "oldest living state leaders", survived serious COVID in 2021. Bedbound and frail in 2023, last rites in December 2023. 20)Manmohan Singh (1932): Indian PM who underwent extensive heart surgery in 2009 and given ten more years to live. Hospitalised with dengue in 2021, wheelchair bound for years. 21)Solihin G. P. (1926-2024): Indonesian general who survived a massive stroke in 2017 and severe COVID in 2021. 22)Ivan Krasko (1930): survived a ridicolous amount of hospitalizations in 2023 following multiple strokes/bouts of pneumonia. 23)Alexander Mitta (1933): Russian film director who survived serious stroke in May 2023, serious stroke in November 2023, mutiple bouts of pneumonia and kidney cancer. 24)José Sarney (1930): Brazlian president who survived pleural effusion in 2022, and stroke in 2023. 25)Guy Warren (1921-2024): Australian painter who survived a severe stroke at 100. 26)Red Farmer (1932): NASCAR driver who survived severe double pneumonia in at least two occasions. 27)Jayapataka Swami (1948): American-Indian HIndu guru who survived a debilitating stroke and a ridicolous amount of hospitalizations, mainly concerning his advanced yet innocuous kidney failure. 28)David Graham (1925): survived a serious stroke in 2021, bedridden since. 29)Ri Man-hee (1931): South Korean godman and responsible for the biggest COVID outbreak in South Korea, survived leprosy as a young man. Declared as immortal by his sect, wheelchair bound in 2020 and 2021, only to bounce back later. 30)Du Daozheng (1923): Advanced Parkinson's, dementia, recurring infections and pneumonia for years, very severe C difficile infection complicated by other ailments that put him into coma for some time two years ago (apparently hospitalised since).

Chuck Wepner would have been a better boxing pick.

Where is Kissinger?

This article from early this month seems to imply Ma Shitu's cancer is back.

Jimmy Ca-oh, yeah. This just doesn't work.

The last time that killed someone dinosaurs were still walking Earth.

You raised my expectations a bit too high here.

Ana Ofelia Murguia dead at 90.

This means Mel Brooks is the last living actor from History of the World, Part I born before the 40s. There was a host of them, but most died in their 80s/90s in the last decade.

I was concerned because I did not find room for Shecky Greene on the 2024 immortals class, so I was going to give him a honorable mention. That problem has been solved now.