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Nah, completely different field, completely different places.

Irene Camber dead at 98.

Cuban dancer Juana Bacallao (wiki), 98, hospitalised. Death reports circulated this morning but are untrue.

Chinese beverage billionaire Zong Qinghou hospitalised in ICU with lung cancer complications.

Manohar Joshi (1937-2024) "One day I will become the king of Immortals and MyMango will spam my thread all day long!" (Joshi's shattered dreams) "Close but no cigar" (Murli Manohar Joshi) Age at death: 86 Known health issues: suffering from brain cancer after years of failing health, he suffered a massive cerebral hemorrhage in June 2023, putting him in a coma for good. Back then the chances of recovery were bleak, but in December he was giving interviews for his 86th birthday. Hospitalised in very critical condition in February 2024 after heart attack. Cause of death: Heart attack. Alignment: Seemed reasonably a nice guy, differently from his namesake Murli Manohar Joshi, who has a reputation of being an asshole.

Not on the list, sir.

Assassinate MyMango?

You never say that with immortals, but in this case

Manohar Joshi hospitalised.

To be discharged today.

Ok, that's significant!

Abdul Taib is the only bloke I knew who died during my absence. Better one than zero.

Zhu Qihe dead at 99.

Looks perfectly fine.

Ok, I'm back. Not looking has not solved the issues.

Ok, since this seems yet another wasted day, in order to protest, I'll refrain from watching the DL forums or the recent deaths wiki page for a week starting from now. I'll surely be back to many surprises

They are trying to get Mongo to the 20th Hall of Fame induction anniversary in 2044.

I'm not even strict with criteria for a significant death. For example, Robert Badinter and Dries van Agt were very significant for me. And aside from lack of A-listers death, we are on a forum where hundreds of the sickest, oldest or both, people get mentioned everyday, but there was basically no deaths among them in the last month. In other words, there isn't the usual background you expect for deaths. To make an example if Zhang Lixiong finally copped it, it would not be significant per se, but is surely someone who has carved a niche of significance within this forum. And like him many many others. Who are not dying at all in this period. Of course it will end, but for now 2024 has been the Merriam-Webster definition of "disappointing".

Steve Wright is not fucking world famous at all.

People who died in the last nine days I had heard of: Feb 18: no one Feb 17: Johann Galtung (because he was a Right Livelihood Award winner) Feb 16: Ian McMillan, Jorge Toro, Alexey Navalny (very natural death) Feb 15: no one Feb 14: no one Feb 13: no one Feb 12: no one (I know UK would say Steve Wright) Feb 11: Kelvin Kiptum (very natural death), Nerio Nesi (barely famous only in the North of Italy) Feb 10: no one Since I known a ridicolous amount of "notable" folks, and most of them are cranky old, critically ill or both, this just does not add up. I suspect some death has happened but has to be announced yet. Don't really remember a weaker month than this.

Deve Gowda d..ischarged.

The second one 100%. He is back to take power again and in this phase he just wants to avoid prosecution.

From New York Times article today: So no, sorry to disappoint @mymango, but the whole cancer thing was a mistake.