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That's Kabosu the Original Doge, she is more important than the pope.

Li Jing, former commander of Chinese Naval Air Force, dead at 92. He was being treated at 301 military hospital in Bejing, likely being the "high profile" figure rumoured to be admitted there in the past few days.

In ICU, condition "serious".

Forty-seventh 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)Lubomir Strougal (1924), Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia 7)Guillermo Rodriguez Lara (1924), President of Ecuador 8)Abdelsalam Majali (1925), Prime Minister of Jordan 9)Ali Hassan Mwinyi (1925), President of Tanzania 10)Giorgio Napolitano (1925), President of Italy 11)Mahathir Mohamad (1925), Prime Minister of Malaysia 12)Mohammad Hasan Sharq (1925), Chairman of Council of Ministers of Afghanistan 13)Arnaldo Forlani (1925), Prime Minister of Italy 14)Abdoulaye Wade (1926), President of Senegal 15)Valdas Adamkus (1926), President of Lithuania 16)Raif Dizdarevic (1926), President of Yugoslavia 17)Thanin Kraivichien (1927), Prime Minister of Thailand 18)Hans Modrow (1928), Chairman of the Council of Ministers of East Germany 19)Kim Yong-nam (1928), Chairman of the Presidium of North Korea 20)Arnold Rüütel (1928), President of Estonia 21)Arthur Foulkes (1928), Governor General of Bahamas 22)Peter Boross (1928), Prime Minister of Hungary 23)Zhu Rongji (1928), Premier of China 24)Edouard Balladur (1929), Prime Minister of France 25)Sam Nujoma (1929), President of Namibia 26)Orville Turnquest (1929), Governor General of Bahamas 27)Jamshid bin Abdullah (1929), Sultan of Zanzibar 28)Nikolai Rhyzkov (1929), Chairman of the Council of Ministers 29)Violeta Chamorro (1929), President of Nicaragua 30)Gombojavyn Ochirbat (1929), General Secretary of Mongolia Communist Party New entry is Gombojavyn Ochirbat, Mongolian communist still sitting in the Parliament and going strong. Choose your picks!

@chilean way wins the round, congrats! New round to be started.

Drop Silvio, bring back General Perv and enter Kabosu are my suggestions.

Well, Tongo back in hospital in serious conditions. Rinse and repeat.

Hanif Kureishi currently hospitalised in Rome after "sudden illness". Article is paywalled, so nothing specific about his conditions.

There is a list of deceased member on the Chinese Academy of Sciences site, though I can't find it now. It is not in chronological order. If he is dead he should be there.

Janez Zemljaric dead on his 94th birthday.

Khamtai Siphandone has.... Well, Khamtai Siphandon's son has become prime minister.

Didn't know I was doing so well. Will retire from this game if I win.

And the worst thing is I already sent my Deathrace team

Shmuel Toledano dead at 101.

Zhu Zhengshi dead at 122.

Hmmm... they insist he is good, but looks like he is already dead.

I take Wanda Poltawska.

Not necessary, we know you are not able to break such big news. EDIT: evil and unneeded. Am I turning into Ulitzer?

East Asian reckoning!

Catherine Kasavuli dead at 60. I had her picked in the AODP and few other places for 2023.

Italian newspaper Repubblica, which broke the news, wrote about "a long illness" which had worsened in recent months. So, yeah, cancer is my guess.

Vivienne Westwood dead at 81.

Indian legend Tulsidas Balaram, 86, hospitalised.

Ancient Japanese archistar Arata Isozaki dead at 91.

Edgar Savisaar finally dead.