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Martin Aliker dead at 95.

The real challenge is Tun Tin vs. Le Duc Anh vs. Kim Yong-ju. The others are here only to make them look better.

John Cruickshank wins by fatality.

Josip "Joza" Manolic was the last one of the original state leaders, and that means the game has now ended. It's been almost seven years and we saw them falling one by one: Bush snr, General Anh, Mugabe, Tun Tin, Kim Yong-ju, Echeverria, The Queen, Comrade Jiang, Benedict XVI, Napolitano and finally Manolic. Scoring with the likes of legendary Burmese PM Tun Tin, @TQR has won the game with 8 hits!!! Congrats, well done ! I'll evaluate if a new game should be started, but I won't likely live to see the end of it!

Josip Manolic has died and @Bibliogryphon wins the round.

Josip Manolic (1920-2024) "He is in very good health but can't currently be interviewed because he is in a coma" (Josip's family updates his status) "Joža Manolić je nadživio Joža Manolić" Age at death: 104 Known health issues: Severe COVID pneumonia in 2021, bedridden and received last rites in 2023. Cause of death: So sudden and unexpected he may have been murdered. Alignment: Resistance fighter during WWII, he was a controversial communist agent after the war, and took part in imprisoning archbishop Stepinac and putting him on a communist show trial. In the 90s he was seen as a moderate opposing ultranationalists. He was perceived by Croatians as the Ultimate Immortal, a bit like JP Enrile in the Philippines and Jimmy Carter in the Milky Way.

Tony Jones, featured in Beyond the Mat, dead at 53.

He's so despicable he will easily live to 100...

When an obit shows up...

Polish chess player Joanna Dworakowska (wiki) reportedly dead at 45.

Discharged.

Ed Williams from the Naked Gun series. Seemed decrepit back then and turns 98 this year.

She was doing well recently. Still think she has some more years to live.

Jayapataka has been out of oxygen for two days, just needs few more dialysis and will then be discharged. Unbelievable.

Eddy Merckx received emergency surgery due to volvulus, but was never in danger of life and has been already discharged.

OJ Simpson has died out of hospital, so -10 points for livingbygrace. Faustao has been discharged (rinse and repeat), so +10 points for DeathByArsenic Faustao, Nelson Acosta, Jayapataka Swami, Yuriko, Susana Baca, Pratibha Patil have spent 10 days in hospital, so +5 points for a lot of people. SCOREBOARD: DeathByArsenic +50 Lafaucheuse +45 ThereWillBeDeaths7 +45 gcreptile +35 EvilGrimace: +35 Summer In Transyvlania +30 Perhaps +25 WEP +25 The Immortal +25 Hell +25 arghton +20 En Passant +10 drol +10 CaptainChorizo +5 livingbygrace -10 deadsox -5 Famous6Eva -15 GuyFromFuture -15

Faustao discharged .

Frederico Fischer was alive and running in 2022, but now he was born in 1923 and not 1917...

Silverio Perez Rosado, father of Puerto Rican musician Silverio Pérez (wiki), hospitalised in serious condition. He is 109.

List of surviving elderly commanders of Chinese military regions: Guangzhou none Chengdu Fu Quanyou (1930) Wei Fulin (1938) Nanjing Liang Guanglie (1940) Jinan none Lanzhou Liu Jingsong (1933) Wang Ke (1931) Fu Quanyou (1930) Beijing Wang Chengbin (1928) Li Xinliang (1936) Shenyang Liu Jingsong (1933) Wang Ke (1931) Li Xinliang (1936) Liang Guanglie (1940) Not a large number indeed.

Thanks, amended.

Lorena Velazquez dead at 86. Though their wiki pages always describe them as "one of the last actors from the Golden Age of Mexican cinema" it appears there's still plenty of them around.

Of course you lose points.

Jazz elders are incredibly tough. Ray Anthony, Marshall Allen and Roy Haynes are doing extremely well despite their age and lifestyle.

Queen Sofia of Spain hospitalised with UTI, but of course greatly improving.