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Shib Narayan Das dead at 78.

Norwegian aging political heavyweight Carl I. Hagen hospitalised with pneumonia.

1992 volleybal gold medallist André Ferreira (wiki) on life support after complications from chemotherapy, as he is suffering from lymphoma.

Rules: *Whoever wants chooses a pick from this list, which contains the names of the 20 oldest living state leaders at the moment. If your pick dies you get one point. * Whoever gets the highest number of points wins the game. *Any obit in any language is qualifying, if the man is really dead. *A new round is started whenever a state leader dies, even if he has not been picked by anyone. *You have to pick a name at every round. You can keep the same name if you want. *Every leader can be picked by a single user. Once the leader is already picked you can't choose him. *Game ends when all the original 20 leaders (the first list, including Anton Vratusa) are dead. List as of December the 8th, 2017: 1)Do Muoi (1917), Prime Minister of Vietnam 2)Babiker Awadalla (1917), Prime Minister of Sudan 3)Yasuhiro Nakasone (1918), Prime Minister of Japan 4)Hyun Soong-jong (1919), Prime Minister of South Korea 5)Mohammed Karim Lamrani (1919), Prime Minister of Morocco 6)Hau Pei-tsun (1919), Prime Minister of Taiwan 7)Javier Perez de Cuellar (1920), Prime Minister of Perù 8)Josip Manolic (1920), Prime Minister of Croatia 9)Prem Tinsulanonda (1920), Prime Minister and Regent of Thailand 10)Kim Yong-ju (1920), vacancy Head of State of North Korea 11)Tun Tin (1920), Prime Minister of Burma 12)Le Duc Anh (1920), President of Vietnam 13)Jean of Luxembourg (1921), Grand Duke 14)Mustafa ben Halim (1921), Prime Minister of Lybia 15)Abdelmalek Benhabyles (1921), President of Algeria 16)Francisco Morales Bermudez (1921), President of Perù 17)Luis Echeverria (1922), President of Mexico 18)Milos Jakes (1922), General Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia 19)Jules Sedney (1922), Prime Minister of Suriname 20) Lee Teng-hui (1923), President of Taiwan 21)Belisario Betancur (1923), President of Colombia Scores till now: The Quim Reaper: 8 (Daniel arap Moi, Javier Pérez de Cuellar, Hau Pei-tsun, Tun Tin, Jules Sedney, Francesc Badia Batalla, Valery Giscard d'Estaing, Lubomír Štrougal) Ulitzer95: 4 (Đỗ Mười, Belisario Betancur, Lê Đức Anh, Mustafa Ben Halim) Drol: 4 (Anton Vratusa, King Michael of Romania, Eduardo Martinez Somalo, Balakh Sher Mazari) ThereWillBeDeaths7: 3 (Hyun Soong-jong, Lee Teng-hui, Luis Echeverria) Lafaucheuse: 3 (Yasuhiro Nakasone, Kim Yong-ju, Francisco Morales-Bermudez) paddyfool: 2 (Babiker Awadalla, Prem Tinsulanonda) Life is Beautiful: 2 (Mohammed Karim Lamrani, Abderrahmane Youssoufi) Perhaps: 2 (Jiang Zemin, Giorgio Napolitano) MortalCaso: 2 (Yang Hyong-sop, Nikolai Ryzkhov) Bibliogryphon: 2 (Hans Modrow, Josip Manolic) The Unknown Man: 1 (Ciriaco De Mita, Fidel V. Ramos) Gcreptile: 1 (Liam Cosgrave) Joey Russ: 1 (George H. W. Bush) Newjack: 1 (Abdelmalek Benhabyles) Clorox Bleachman: 1 (Jean of Luxembourg) Master Tech: 1 (Dawda Jawara) CoffinLodger: 1 (Robert Mugabe) roaming_comrade: 1 (Miloš Jakeš) redrumours: 1 (Ali Bozer) deadsox: 1 (Kenneth Kaunda) Funeralopolis: 1 (Branislav Šoškić) grimgrass: 1 (Angelo Sodano) Yvonne: 1 (Queen Elizabeth II) chilean way: 1 (Benedict XVI) diego: 1 (Abdel Salam Majali) The Daredevil: 1 (Arnaldo Forlani) Deaths till now: Anton Vratusa: 30 July 2017 (aged 102) Liam Cosgrave: 4 October 2017 (aged 97) King Michael of Romania: 5 December 2017 (aged 96) Mohammed Karim Lamrani: 19 September 2018 (aged 99) Đỗ Mười: 1 October 2018 (aged 101) George H. W. Bush: 30 November 2018 (aged 94) Belisario Betancur: 7 December 2018 (aged 95) Abdelmalek Benhabyles: 28 December 2018 (aged 97) Babiker Awadalla: 17 January 2019 (aged 101) Lê Đức Anh: 22 April 2019 (aged 98) Jean of Luxembourg: 23 April 2019 (aged 98) Prem Tinsulanonda: 26 May 2019 (aged 98) Dawda Jawara: 27 August 2019 (aged 95) Robert Mugabe: 6 September 2019 (aged 95) Adnan Pachachi: 17 November 2019 (aged 96) Yasuhiro Nakasone: 29 November 2019 (aged 101) Janez Stanovnik: 31 January 2020 (aged 97) Daniel arap Moi: 4 February 2020 (aged 95) Javier Pérez de Cuellar: 4 March 2020 (aged 100) Hau Pei-tsun: 30 March 2020 (aged 100) Tun Tin: 1 May 2020 (aged 99) Hyun Soong-jong: 25 May 2020 (aged 101) Abderrahamne Youssoufi: 29 May 2020 (aged 96) Jules Sedney: 18 June 2020 (aged 97) Ema Derossi-Bjelajac: 20 June 2020 (aged 94) Miloš Jakeš: 10 July 2020 (aged 97) Lee Teng-hui: 30 July 2020 (aged 97) Francesc Badia Batalla: 14 August 2020 (aged 97) Ali Bozer: 30 September 2020 (aged 95) Valery Giscard d'Estaing: 2 December 2020 (aged 94) Kenneth Kaunda: 17 June 2021 (aged 97) Trần Thiện Khiêm: 24 June 2021 (aged 95) Arturo Armando Molina: 19 July 2021 (aged 93) Eduardo Martinez Somalo: 10 August 2021 (aged 94) Mustafa Ben Halim: 7 December 2021 (aged 100) Kim Yong-ju: 14 December 2021 (aged 101) Branislav Šoškić: 4 April 2022 (aged 99) Yang Hyong-sop: 13 May 2022 (aged 96) Ciriaco De Mita: 26 May 2022 (aged 94) Angelo Sodano: 27 May 2022 (aged 94) Luis Echeverria: 8 July 2022 (aged 100) Francisco Morales-Bermúdez: 14 July 2022 (aged 100) Fidel V. Ramos: 31 July 2022 (aged 94) Queen Elizabeth II: 8 September 2022 (aged 96) Balakh Sher Mazari: 4 November 2022 (aged 94) Jiang Zemin: 30 November 2022 (aged 96) Benedict XVI: 31 December 2022 (aged 95) Abdel Salam Majali: 3 January 2023 (aged 97) Lubomír Štrougal: 6 February 2023 (aged 98) Hans Modrow: 11 February 2023 (aged 95) Arnaldo Forlani: 6 July 2023 (aged 97) Giorgio Napolitano: 22 September 2023 (aged 98) Nikolai Ryzkhov: 28 February 2024 (aged 94) Josip Manolic: 15 April 2024 (aged 104) That's all folks! Join if you want.

Moved to house arrest due to heat wave in the country.

But with a good make-up he managed to conceal it until now.

Hmmm Holtzman definitely the intruder in terms of decrepitude.

Runner and huge age fraudster Fauja Singh turns 112 today. First mentioned on these forums back in 2011, he still haunts the threads twelve years later, becoming sort of a DL legend, or demigod. The problem of being 100 when you are 83 is you will be 117 when you are 100. Happy Birthday Fauja, and may it be your fucking last.

English astrophysicist Ian Morison (wiki) reportedly dead at 80.

K. G. Jayan dead at 89.

This has been a hell of a day!

Good luck with that and Holt's obits.

Governor of Arkhangelsk Oblast Pavel Balakshin dead at 87. Some time ago I went through the living Russian governors and their longevity was depressingly bad. Balakshin was the oldest by a big margin, IIRC. Don't know who 's the oldest now.

Colombian cardinal Pedro Rubiano Saenz dead at 91.

Clarence Thomas misses session without explanation. Might be nothing, might be something.

Rafiqul Islam Miah hospitalised again.

Martin Aliker dead at 95.

John Cruickshank wins by fatality.

The real challenge is Tun Tin vs. Le Duc Anh vs. Kim Yong-ju. The others are here only to make them look better.

Josip "Joza" Manolic was the last one of the original state leaders, and that means the game has now ended. It's been almost seven years and we saw them falling one by one: Bush snr, General Anh, Mugabe, Tun Tin, Kim Yong-ju, Echeverria, The Queen, Comrade Jiang, Benedict XVI, Napolitano and finally Manolic. Scoring with the likes of legendary Burmese PM Tun Tin, @TQR has won the game with 8 hits!!! Congrats, well done ! I'll evaluate if a new game should be started, but I won't likely live to see the end of it!

Josip Manolic has died and @Bibliogryphon wins the round.

Josip Manolic (1920-2024) "He is in very good health but can't currently be interviewed because he is in a coma" (Josip's family updates his status) "Joža Manolić je nadživio Joža Manolić" Age at death: 104 Known health issues: Severe COVID pneumonia in 2021, bedridden and received last rites in 2023. Cause of death: So sudden and unexpected he may have been murdered. Alignment: Resistance fighter during WWII, he was a controversial communist agent after the war, and took part in imprisoning archbishop Stepinac and putting him on a communist show trial. In the 90s he was seen as a moderate opposing ultranationalists. He was perceived by Croatians as the Ultimate Immortal, a bit like JP Enrile in the Philippines and Jimmy Carter in the Milky Way.

Tony Jones, featured in Beyond the Mat, dead at 53.

He's so despicable he will easily live to 100...

When an obit shows up...