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Detailed article on Ma Shitu. He was diagnosed with lung cancer recurrence in 2018 and given the all clear after months of treatment. The illness he survived in 2023 was COVID-19.

That's relative to three weeks ago, not this hospitalization.

Ezequiel Lavezzi in ICU after overdose. EDIT: his son has denied it's an overdose, but he is hospitalised.

Michael Curry hospitalised again .

I don't think he is going anywhere yet.

Ip Chun failed to attend his (Chinese reckoning) 100th birthday party which was held in September and apparently lives in a nursing home. On his way out but seems to take forever.

Mario Zagallo (1931-2024) "I'm very concerned about the health of Zagallo" (Pelé before being outlived by Super Mario) Insert here generic pun which involves Jimmy Carter outliving another one Age at death: 92 Known health issues: Irregular heartbeat in 2007, hospitalised in 2016, hospitalised with extreme respiratory failure in 2022, Pelé concerned for him, Pelé ends the years in a casket, Zagallo discharged. Hospitalised in July 2023 for UTI, discharged, hospitalised in December 2023. Cause of death: Went down like a true immortal, multiple organ failure. Alignment: Brazilian legend of football who was called Formiguinha (Little Ant) for his diminutive frame. Lived to 180 in footballer years.

Everyone is so quiet. Very tough crowd here.

Tep Vong would not die even if shot at multiple times with antiaircraft gun.

One of the last celebrities who were almost killed by the first COVID wave. A lot of them survived (Pierino Gavazzi, El Loco Gatti, Hanbury-Tenison all still going), but he was the only one to be damaged to this extent. It should have really killed him in the first place.

This didn't age well.

Nah, he'll be fine.

Fielmann is only recently becoming quite popular in Italy.

Abdul Hadi Awang hospitalised again. EDIT: according to the same article also Ziauddin Sardar (wiki) is hospitalised.

Here's someone who won't be a hit this year.

Saint should go for a check-up.

Marco Cappato (wiki), former MEP and deputy who spends his life driving terminally ill folks to Switzerland to end their lives, suffered a minor stroke and will undergo heart surgery. Nothing too serious actually, but he is one of the most controversial people in Italy in the last few years. I personally admire him enough for his battle.

Quick and brutal. Jimmy back as DL' s oldest pick.

Leonid Tkachenko (wiki), Ukrainian-Russian footballer, reportedly dead at 70.

Third and fourth oldest men in U.S., Johnnie Collier and Horace Baumer, both died at 110 last month. Leaves just one man born in 1913 (Otis Randall) in the whole country.

Programmer who invented Pascal, Niklaus Wirth, dead at 89.

My pick Horace Baumer died... last year.

Sebastian Brodrick dead at 85.

Vladimir Ageyev (wiki), Chuvash painter, reportedly dead at 91.

I'd actually deserve it! I just took the risk and got it wrong.