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Namibian president Hage Geingob hospitalised .

Former Haiti PM Jean-Jacques Honorat dead at 92.

Corrado Ferlaino hospitalised after fall, but "stable and improving"

Lula hospitalised again .

Hospitalised in ICU, but now on the mend.

Dayalu Ammal hospitalised .

Messina Denaro hospitalised again , but already discharged.

Isa Qassim discharged after surgery. Also 82 instead of 86 according to Arab wiki.

Juliette Mayniel, French actress which I remember as the face transplant victim in Eyes without a face, dead at 87.

Che Guevara's sister Celia Guevara dead at 93.

Nguyen Khanh dead at 95.

Tibor Füzessy dead at 94.

The Chinese cadres are so old that Kissinger was introduced to them as "a young guy from Hollywood".

Van der Sar out of ICU and to be discharged next week. All well that ends well.

Oommen Chandy's aunt dead at 94.

Swiss organic chemist Albert Eschenmoser dead at 97. I often look at organic reactions the way you look at artworks. For me Eschemoser is the painter whom you don't understand at all. Every time I look at one of Eschemoser's reactions I ask myself why there are so many heteroatoms close to each other, why is he putting an epoxy group next to a keto... and so on. He's like a Neil Buchanan of chemistry, you just don't figure out what he is using everything for. Beside this, it is impressive this guy conceived mechanisms this complex in the 50s and early 60s, when they barely knew what an electron was. That's the immense power of organic chemistry: you would need thousands of quantum calculations to elucidate the mechanism of Eschenmoser fragmentation and still mandatorily having an idea of what happens before running them. The chemist comes to the same mechanism by moving three couples of electrons at most. Still I tend to believe Eschemoser may have been on LSD while designing many of his reactions, his work is a bit too imaginative.

That IS fat.

José Sarney suffered stroke. Discharged . There's something deeply illogical with these immortal guys.

José Sarney hospitalised after fall, but of course recovering well and about to be discharged.

For the medical miracles series, 99-year old Holocaust survivor Lily Ebert hospitalised and underwent surgery , but now on the mend and soon to be discharged.

Clearly a stunt to get on the list.

Taiwanese composer Chen Mao-shuen (wiki) reportedly dead at 87, though I couldn't find any source.

Good suggestions, many old and frail who could drop at any moment. Jovanotti hospitalised after breaking his femur and clavicle in a fall, will undergo surgery.

American psychologist Dianne Chambless (wiki) reportedly dead at 75.

Aaaand that's three! Luigi Bettazzi dead at 99.