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Here's your unrequested list of provincial Chinese politicians born before 1940. Three centenarians, a 98 year old, and a lot born in the early 30s. Provinces: Anhui: Huang Huang (1933) Lu Rongjing (1933) Fujian: Chen Guangyi (1933) You Dexin (1931) Gansu: Song Ping (1917) Yan Haiwang (1939) Sun Ying (1936) Jia Zhijie (1935) Zhang Wule (1937) Guangdong: Zhu Senlin (1930) Lu Ruihua (1938) Zhang Guoying (1937) Guizhou: Liu Fangren (1936) Liu Yulin (1931) Wang Zhaowen (1930) Chen Shineng (1938) Hainan: Ruan Chongwu (1933) Liu Jianfeng (1936) Hebei: Ye Liansong (1935) Niu Maosheng (1939) Heilongjiang: Li Li'an (1920) Song Fatang (1939) Henan Ma Zhongchen (1936) He Zhukang (1932) Ren Keli (1936) Hubei Jia Zhijie (1935) Jiang Zhuping (1937) Hunan Xiong Qingquan (1927) Wang Maolin (1934) Chen Bangzhu (1934) Wang Keying (1937) Jiangsu Chen Huanyou (1934) Gu Xiulian (1936) Jiangxi Wan Shaofen (1930) Wu Guanzheng (1938) Shu Huiguo (1938) Ni Xiance (1935) Shu Shengyou (1936) Wu Ping (1931) Liu Fangren (1936) Zhu Zhihong (1933) Jilin He Zhukang (1932) Gao Dezhan (1932) Wang Zhongyu (1933) Liaoning None Qinghai Song Ruixiang (1939) Shaanxi Zhang Boxing (1930) An Qiyuan (1933) Chen Andong (1936) Shandong Zhao Zhihao (1931) Li Chunting (1936) Han Xikai (1939) Lu Maozeng (1928) Shanxi Wang Maolin (1934) Hu Fuguo (1937) Lu Gongxun (1933) Guo Yuhuai (1934) Sichuan Xie Shijie (1934) Song Baorui (1937) Liao Bokang (1924) Nie Ronggui (1932) Yunnan None Zhejiang Xue Ju (1922) Li Zemin (1934) Shen Zulun (1931) Liu Feng (1937) Autonomous regions: Guangxi: Chen Huiguang (1938) Zhao Fulin (1932) Inner Mongolia: Liu Mingzu (1936) Ningxia: Huang Huang (1933) Mao Rubai (1938) Xinjiang: None Tibet: Dalai Lama (1935) Gyaincain Norbu (1932) Yin Fatang (1922) Yangling Dorje (1931) Municipalities Bejing: Zhang Jianmin (1931) Wang Daming (1929) Chen Guangwen (1936) Chongqing: Ding Changhe (1934) Liao Bokang (1924) Zhang Delin (1939) Bao Xuding (1939) Shanghai: Jiang Zemin (1926) Zhu Rongji (1928) Xu Kuangdi (1937) Ye Gongqi (1929) Chen Tiedi (1935) Tianjin: Li Ruihuan (1934) Gao Dezhan (1932) Hu Qili (1928) Wu Zhen (1922)

Liz Sheridan dead. Bad times for Seinfeld.

Foreign thread, innit?

Actually for once Eunice Munoz is very famous in Portugal, but mostly had been on my radar since she was hospitalised in January in critical condition but bounced back misteriously after a few days. He has posted waaay more insignificant people before.

The two Brits gone in a short time. Now only Mahathir and Kissinger left, two hardline immortals.

Twitter and Wikipedia were reporting German-Israeli actor Michael Degen dead at 90. Articles about It have apparently been withdrawn. Hoax?

Hazem Nuseibeh dead at 99.

Jack Higgins dead at 92.

Raif Dizdarevic

So here's a quick new list. Suggest names if you want: 1)Ting Mao-shih (1925): former foreign minister. Looks frail, but sound of mind. 2)Tseng wen-hui (1926): has much deteriorated in the past two years as she now struggles to walk and is rarely seen in public. 3)Koo Kwang-ming (1926): bombastic iconic independence activist who is quite thin but still in good health and commented on Peng's death today. Left posts as presidential advisor last year. 4)Tang Fei (1932): former Prime Minister

Peng Ming-min dead at 98.

Can we stop discussing about the common cold? That's what it has become honestly. Number of COVID deaths on wiki has been the lowest for months. Bit anacronistic posts above.

If I remember correctly some years ago this guy had a cardiac arrest and was "clinically dead".

Carlos Salazar dead at 90.

Ciriaco De Mita suffered a stroke, but has already been discharged.

Thirty-seventh round masterlist: Newjack: Cesar Yanes Urias The Quim Reaper: Giorgio Napolitano chilean way: Francisco Morales Bermudez arghton: Khamtai Siphandon Perhaps: Abdelsalam Majali Hell: Mahathir Mohamad Funeralopolis: Ali Hassan Mwinyi Bibliogryphon: Josip Manolic Ali: Fidel V. Ramos theoldlady: Lubomir Strougal Ulitzer95: Luis Echeverria Joey Russ: Jimmy Carter redrumours: Arnaldo Forlani MortalCaso: Yang Hyong-sop Grimgrass: Jiang Zemin Yvonne: Elizabeth II WEP: Tomiichi Murayama The Old Crem: Arthur Foulkes drol: Raif Dizdarevic roaming_comrade: Arnold Ruutel

Thirty-seventh round: 1)Josip Manolic (1920), Prime Minister of Croatia 2)César Yanes Urías (1920), Salvadoran junta member 3)Francisco Morales Bermudez (1921), President of Perù 4)Luis Echeverria (1922), President of Mexico 5)Khamtai Siphandon (1924) Prime Minister and President of Laos 6)Tomiichi Murayama (1924) Prime Minister of Japan 7)Jimmy Carter (1924), President of United States of America 8)Lubomir Strougal (1924), Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia 9)Guillermo Rodriguez Lara (1924), President of Ecuador 10)Abdelsalam Majali (1925), Prime Minister of Jordan 11)Ali Hassan Mwinyi (1925), President of Tanzania 12)Giorgio Napolitano (1925), President of Italy 13)Mahathir Mohamad (1925), Prime Minister of Malaysia 14)Mohammad Hasan Sharq (1925), Chairman of Council of Ministers of Afghanistan 15)Yang Hyong-sop (1925), Chairman of the Presidium of North Korea 16)Arnaldo Forlani (1925), Prime Minister of Italy 17)Elizabeth II (1926), Queen of the United Kingdom 18)Abdoulaye Wade (1926), President of Senegal 19)Jiang Zemin (1926), President of China 20)Valdas Adamkus (1926), President of Lithuania 21)Raif Dizdarevic (1926), President of Yugoslavia 22)Thanin Kraivichien (1927), Prime Minister of Thailand 23)Benedict XVI (1927), Pope 24)Angelo Sodano (1927), Acting sovereign of Vatican City 25)Hans Modrow (1928), Chairman of the Council of Ministers of East Germany 26)Ciriaco De Mita (1928), Prime Minister of Italy 27)Kim Yong-nam (1928), Chairman of the Presidium of North Korea 28)Fidel V. Ramos (1928), President of Philippines 29)Arnold Rüütel (1928), President of Estonia 30)Arthur Foulkes (1928), Governor General of Bahamas New entry is Arthur Foulkes, former Governor General of Bahamas who seems to be in top shape. Choose your pick!

Congrats, @Funeralopolis! You win this round. New round to be started.

I've read his daughter died some days ago. If so Stanislaw probably died of a broken heart.

Saira Banu's mental health has much deteriorated according to her friends.

So real ages may be 94 for Saalumarada and Fauja, 105 for McLaurin. Still impressive ages, but nothing comparable to their unsubstantiated claims.

First thought is this fucker could die three years ago as I was working way more on OLEDs. OLEDs are light emitters exploiting an organic material, usually a polymer or a blend, and in general something that does not pack well (i.e. amorphous rather than a crystal). The active layer(s) is put between two electrodes, a cathode which injects electrons into the material LUMO and an anode injecting holes (i.e. subtracting electrons) from the material HOMO. Those would be CB and VB in inorganic LEDs. Due to the applied potential holes and electrons move inside the material. When a hole finds an electrons they shall form a quasiaparticle called exciton, which is held together by Coulombic interaction between the positive hole and the negative electron. Excitons exist only in organic matter, as its dielectric constant is way lower than inorganic material. An exciton shall then decay (i.e. recombine hole and electron) either radiatively, and that's what you want there, or non-radiatively, i.e. dissipating heat. Obviously the colour of the emitted light will depend on the HOMO-LUMO gap. Different polymers have different HOMO-LUMO gaps, which can be modulated depending on conjugation length and chemical functionalization. The electroluminiscence yield of an OLED will depend on: 1)The material quantum yield (if kr is the radiative decay constant the yield is QY=kr/(kr+knr), where knr is the non radiative decay constant. It could be easily shown this equates to the ratio between absorbed and emitted photons). 2)The ratio between holes and electrons inside the material. If it is one virtually there could be as many excitons as holes. This ratio is linked to the kinetic barriers for injection (so on the HOMO and LUMO energy levels again) and to the transport properties of the materials. 3)The ratio of singlets to total states. This is normally 25% as when you inject a hole and an electron they are both doublets (S=1/2) and due to angular momentum coupling you get the exciton as 3/4 a triplet, 1/4 a singlet. Sadly triplets are usually not emissive, as they have no dipole moments with the singlet ground state. Therefore 75% of formed excitons are wasted. Any of these three factors can be improved to raise OLED electroluminescence efficiency. For 1) you should use cis/trans mixtures, blends or other things which do not tend to cristallyze. What's the problem with crystals? Usually aromatic polymers crystallize forming so-called H aggregates. A H-aggregates is not fluorescent (or very weakly, due to vibronic coupling). So fluorescence would be easily suppressed. Approaches for 3) are the most interesting. If you use heavy metals (devices are called PHOLEDs) like Pd, Rh, Ir, exc then you get the spin-orbit coupling you need in order to mix the spin and spatial parts of the wavefunction. Due to mixing with the adiacent single state the triplet becomes emissive, although with a much longer lifetime. This is called phosphorescence. Then 100% of excitons could be virtually used for light emission! What are the problems with this? 1)Cost and toxicity of heavy metals. Mainly. 2)Due to Hund's rule triplet energy is lower than singlet energy. It is difficult to have a PHOLED which is efficient in the blue (and you strongly need blue OLEDs in RGB). Various approaches are being developed. I'll mention purely organic phosphorescence, Triplet-Triplet Annihilation (TTA) and Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence (TADF). This last one would repopulate (a process called RISC) the singlet states from the adjacent triplet state using thermal quanta at room temperature. Since this falls at 200 cm-1 in the microwaves, you need very close singlets and triplets. That's where chemical design comes into play.

Not going well, both because there have hardly been notable deaths recently and because the list is pretty bad.

Because she is eight years younger of her claimed age, and that's pretty much documented, but she and her family insist.

She is now 6 minutes closer.