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Awake, but the situation is serious according to Big Dave Meltzer.

Hospitalised.

It seems Robert Young has hit the fan...

Forty-ninth round masterlist: ThereWillBeDeaths7: Giorgio Napolitano MortalCaso: Josip Manolic TQR: Cesar Yanes Urias Perhaps: Zhu Rongji arghton: Orville Turnquest Bibliogryphon: Hans Modrow Newjack: Khamtai Siphandone Lafaucheuse: Violeta Chamorro WEP: Gombojavyn Ochirbat chilean way: Jimmy Carter The Daredevil: Arnaldo Forlani Funeralopolis: Mahathir Mohamad Redrumours: Selim Hoss theoldlady: Valdas Adamkus diego: Guillermo Rodriguez Lara Summer in Transylvania: Jamshid bin Abdullah Hell: Raif Dizdarevic

Forty-ninth 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)Hans Modrow (1928), Chairman of the Council of Ministers of East Germany 17)Kim Yong-nam (1928), Chairman of the Presidium of North Korea 18)Arnold Rüütel (1928), President of Estonia 19)Arthur Foulkes (1928), Governor General of Bahamas 20)Peter Boross (1928), Prime Minister of Hungary 21)Zhu Rongji (1928), Premier of China 22)Edouard Balladur (1929), Prime Minister of France 23)Sam Nujoma (1929), President of Namibia 24)Orville Turnquest (1929), Governor General of Bahamas 25)Jamshid bin Abdullah (1929), Sultan of Zanzibar 26)Nikolai Rhyzkov (1929), Chairman of the Council of Ministers 27)Violeta Chamorro (1929), President of Nicaragua 28)Gombojavyn Ochirbat (1929), General Secretary of Mongolia Communist Party 29)Alfred Moisiu (1929), President of Albania 30)Selim Hoss (1929), Prime Minister of Lebanon New entry is Selim Hoss, former PM of Lebanon who has been on the brink of death for the last three years. Choose your picks!

So, @TQR wins the round with old die hard communist Lubomir Strougal, extending his lead. Congrats! New round to be started.

Ned Jarrett's wife Martha dead.

Indian supercentenarian Teli Nigla dead at 131. Anyway in the first lines of the article his age is reported as 13. Averaging the two numbers you could get a more accurate result. EDIT: his son T. C. Teli was an Arunachal Pradesh minister who died at 50 in 2014. Old Nigla would have had him at 72, which could be quite unlikely.

Oomen Chandy hospitalised . It may not be his time yet but surely he is circling the drain.

Mordechai Bibi dead at 100.

For the Chinese medical miracles series: Shanghai politician Shi Ping has survived a serious COVID infection at 110. Anyway it left him permanently on oxygen and with a tracheostomy. New picture.

Seeing this updated by tracy and the 20th Century American Sitcoms thread updated by Drewsky1211 you really got me this time.

Hsing Yun is a hit here.

@Lafaucheuse, what's happening with French obits? Scherer was pretty notable in left wing circles and as a gay icon, I thought Libération had a write-up ready for him.

Hsing Yun (1927-2023) The Heavenly King goes to Heaven Age at death: 95 Known health issues: Diabetes for 55 years, three strokes in 2011, blood clot in 2016 with three hours surgery. Stroke and kidney failure in 2023. Cause of death: Kidney failure as a complication from a stroke Alignment: A good Buddhist guy who always tried to reconcicle people. Anyway he was also steadily pro-Bejing in Taiwan reunification and always declared all Taiwanese are Chinese. World needs more Hsing Yuns anyway.

Hsing Yun DEAD AT 96!!!

The Mirror covers attention seeker Superstar Billy Graham, who apparently has been resuscitated some time ago and lost 45 pounds during his latest hospital stint. If you add all the pounds he has lost since 2011 you'll likely find his weight must be a negative number right now.

New video of the mummy formerly known as Yang Zhenning. Sound of mind but looks so alive as usual.

Vani Jairam dead at 77 in apparent fall.

Zhang Mei confirmed dead at 102.

I knew an old man whose cat lived from 1982 to 2010. He never realized how rare this was.

AWA ancient wrestler Kenny Jay dead at 85.

Mohammed Saeed Al Mulla dead at 97.

Chen Qizhi, PLA lieutenant general and former president of the National University of Defense Technology, prematurely dead at 97. NUDT political commissioner Wang Hao predeceased him, dying on 1 January at 92.

Brazilian presenter and coffin teaser Raul Gil hospitalised for oesophagus surgery.