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Eileen Sheridan dead at 99.

Alberto Zaccheroni improving.

Openly attacks Zelensky. He is quite an embarassment for his political faction.

Xiang Yuan dead at 96.

Ma Shitu, Wang Huo and another decrepit Sichuan writer named Li Zhi just received a lifetime award. None of them managed to attend the ceremony due to "old age".

New photo of Nguyen Thi Binh. Wheelchair bound but looks better than usual.

I think Jon Ha-chol is still alive and will get a mention when he dies.

No state funeral for O Kuk-ryol, as if they were expecting a bigger death coming soon or very soon... Among the remaining major old timers Choe Yong-rim is wheelchair bound and visibly frail, Kim Ki-nam is suffering from "age related issues", Kim Yong-nam is rumoured to have severe dementia. Choe Thae-bok seems to be doing well, so probably the last one standing.

Libyan former PM Abdul Majid al-Qa′ud died in 2021, but for some reason his wiki page was not updated until now.

If Krenz will live more or less for another decade, he will end up on the DL. Would be a too big relic to miss.

Jacob L. Mey (wiki), Dutch-Danish linguist, reportedly dead at 96.

When you were constantly choosing Jimmy Carter in this game back in 2018 and he was kind of a newcomer I thought he'd be among the first deaths. We are in 2023.

Cough cough... Ryzhkov...cough.

Fiftieth round masterlist: Newjack: Josip Manolic Summer in Transylvania: Khamtai Siphandone Comtech Sio Bibble: Giorgio Napolitano Lafaucheuse: Mahathir Mohamad Joey Russ: Jimmy Carter TQR: Cesar Yanes Urias Funeralopolis: Zhu Rongji Hell: Nikolay Ryzkhov chilean way: Guillermo Rodriguez Lara Mortal Caso: Selim Hoss

Fiftieth round: 1)Josip Manolic (1920), Prime Minister of Croatia 2)César Yanes Urías (1920), Salvadoran junta member 3)Khamtai Siphandon (1924) Prime Minister and President of Laos 4)Tomiichi Murayama (1924) Prime Minister of Japan 5)Jimmy Carter (1924), President of United States of America 6)Guillermo Rodriguez Lara (1924), President of Ecuador 7)Ali Hassan Mwinyi (1925), President of Tanzania 8)Giorgio Napolitano (1925), President of Italy 9)Mahathir Mohamad (1925), Prime Minister of Malaysia 10)Mohammad Hasan Sharq (1925), Chairman of Council of Ministers of Afghanistan 11)Arnaldo Forlani (1925), Prime Minister of Italy 12)Abdoulaye Wade (1926), President of Senegal 13)Valdas Adamkus (1926), President of Lithuania 14)Raif Dizdarevic (1926), President of Yugoslavia 15)Thanin Kraivichien (1927), Prime Minister of Thailand 16)Kim Yong-nam (1928), Chairman of the Presidium of North Korea 17)Arnold Rüütel (1928), President of Estonia 18)Arthur Foulkes (1928), Governor General of Bahamas 19)Peter Boross (1928), Prime Minister of Hungary 20)Zhu Rongji (1928), Premier of China 21)Edouard Balladur (1929), Prime Minister of France 22)Sam Nujoma (1929), President of Namibia 23)Orville Turnquest (1929), Governor General of Bahamas 24)Jamshid bin Abdullah (1929), Sultan of Zanzibar 25)Nikolai Ryzhkov (1929), Chairman of the Council of Ministers 26)Violeta Chamorro (1929), President of Nicaragua 27)Gombojavyn Ochirbat (1929), General Secretary of Mongolia Communist Party 28)Alfred Moisiu (1929), President of Albania 29)Selim Hoss (1929), Prime Minister of Lebanon 30)Lee Hyun-jae (1929), Prime Minister of South Korea New entry is Lee Hyun-jae, former PM of South Korea. Nuff said. Choose your picks!

@Bibliogryphon wins the round with one of the last communist rulers of the short century! Congrats! New round to be started.

Glad Ryzhkov has a thread at this point. He is really the last survivor of a generation of communist leader with the recent deaths of Strougal, Silayev and Modrow. I find it signifcant that the Eastern Bloc is fading, for what it meant to me and to those who can remember. The Eastern Bloc was the suppression of individuality, everything had to be gray and the same, emotions were constantly to be repressed. Look at those men who just died, or Ryzhkov himself. All impassive, dressed in the same way, many identical gray bureaucrats. That was the Eastern Bloc.

Wow, Eastern Bloc nonagenarian commies falling like flies! Rhyzkov should really hide somewhere...

O Kuk-ryol dead at 93.

Reportedly 95 this year.

There's a linked source I believe, otherwise it wouldn't be there. And since I added him I know there is.

Already picked.

Ivan Silayev dead at 92.

Zhang Huixia dead at 94. 45 survivors left.

Perenially dying football manager Miroslav "Ciro" Blazevic dead at 87, two days before turning 88.