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Jiang Ping, most important Chinese legal scholar, dead at 92. Breaking news on all Chinese news sites. He succeeded Zou Yu as president of CUPL and was still holding a tour of conferences this year. Senior legal scholars in China include the aforementioned Zou Yu (1920) and former SC president Ren Jianxin (1925).

Alexandra Pakhmutova discharged and "in excellent health". Of course, of course, better reserve the Kremlin for her 150th birthday, just to be sure.

Fake news.

M. Daud Kilau dies early, aged 85.

I was reading the centenarians list to pick 15 names for the centenarian pool and there are plenty who are incredibly overdue and getting ridicolously high with age: 1)Marita Camacho Quiros: 113 next year (!!!), dementia sufferer, wheelchair bound. But above all, fucking 113. 2)Shi Ping: 112 next year, hospitalised for years, severe COVID in 2023, permanently on oxygen and wheelchair bound, advanced dementia. 3)Zhang Lixiong: 111 next year, hospitalised for three years, spent two of them in ICU, permanently on oxygen, advanced dementia. 4)Muazzez İlmiye Çığ: 110 next year (!!!), obese and frail. 5)James C. Floyd: 110 next year, not seen in years. 6)Ma Shitu: 109 next month, terminal cancer survivor, suffered from an illness this year. 7)James Clayton Flowers: 109 next years, has looked on the brink of death for at least four years. 8)Song Ping: A-lister who turns 107 next year! It's 107, how is he still going? 9)Yang You: 107 next year, hospitalised for at least five years. 10)Lloyd Geering: 106 next year, buried a lot of wives, has looked ancient since the 60s. 11)John Hemingway: 105 next year, wheelchair bound and in a nursing home for years. 12)David Musuguri: 104 next month, suffered from years of diabetes, wheelchair bound, hospitalised in 2023. 13)Henry Hu: 104 next month, looked decaying four years ago. 14)Erwin Schild: 104 next year, on oxygen for at least five. 15)Nguyen Dinh Dau: 104 next years, looks frailer at every birthday 16)Josip Manolic: 104 next year, survived two wives and COVID pneumonia in 2021. Bedridden in 2023. 17)Yosh Uchida: 104 next years, wheelchair bound in 2023, overall decrepit. 18)Li Dak-sum: 104 next year, lost wife in September, wheelchair bound in 2016, no public appearances for years. 19)Zou Yu: 104 next year, pulmonary edema in 2016, frail for years. 20)Franca Pilla: 104 next years, "extremely frail" in 2021. 21)Guy Warren: 103 next year, survived massive stroke in 2021. 22)Wang Xiji: 103 next year, hospitalised and looks like a zombie. 23)Wu Liangyong: 102 next year, severe illness in 2011, wheelchair bound and bloated in 2022. 24)Chen Ning Yang: 102 next year, frail for years, severe fall in 2023. 25)Gaositwe Chiepe: 102 next years, advanced dementia, wheelchair bound. 26)Du Daozheng: 101 next years, Parkinson's, dementia, hospitalised for five years. 26)Robert Kuok: 101 next year, frail and reclusive for years. 27)VS Achuthanandan: 101 next year, severe stroke in 2018, critical condition in 2021, advanced dementia. 28)Guillermo Rodriguez Lara: 101 next year, wheelchair bound for ages. 2024 may finally get rid of good part of them. They are fucking overdue.

1. Juan Vicente Perez Mora 2. Luis Torras 3. Zhang Lixiong 4. James Clayton Flowers 5. Lloyd Geering 6. John Hemingway 7. Howard Bier 8. Sister Jean 9. Erwin Schild 10. Josip Manolic 11. Franca Pilla 12. Guy Warren 13. Jim Cullivan 14. Vic Seixas 15. VS Achuthanandan Subs: Ma Shitu, Song Ping, Wang Xiji

None of the elder Nobel Prize winners seems to be in failing health. I recently spoke with two elderly Chemistry winners (won't name them) and they still go to work ten hours a day. Also Martin Karplus is still directing his small group in Boston, he just seems unsinkable.

Would be the third Indian public enemy to be poisoned in recent months (I don't remember who the other two were), yet none of them died, so I'm quite doubtful about this.

That's usually a well-liked presente for a prelate.

Bollywood superstar Tanuja hospitalised in ICU , but "perfectly fine".

His 83-year old successor is already in failing health. For a long and stable reign they should have chosen Sheikh Salem.

Reports on Twitter that Kenpachiro Satsuma, who played Godzilla between 1984 and 1995, has died of pneumonia at 76.

Zeman discharged too.

Grillo, Garcia and KCR all discharged. Pretty weak list this time, none of them seems to be in a serious condition.

Just 12 people left from the 00s... We should begin to count them down to extinction.

Yuko Sato, previously unknown, dead at 113.

Former first lady of Missouri Betty Cooper Hearnes dead at 96.

The more they complain the less they die.

Carlos Alberto de Nóbrega hospitalised for brain surgery.

Ra. Sankaran dead at 92.

Next CAE member dead: Wang Zicai, aged 91.

Liu Ho-Chien dead at 97.

Soviet cult actress Larisa Luzhina sharply deteriorated due to heart disease, but refusing hospitalization. I begin to think Russian media heavily exaggerate celebrities health issues, as deaths to hospitalization ratio is close to zero.

Stenio Garcia hospitalised again.

When I saw this thread updated my fear was Rolf Schimpf, who is bit of a cult figure for me, had died. Luckily this is not the case and he plans to live other three years. Good luck Rolf!