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I don’t think he looks that great to be honest. Everyone seems to think he’ll be fine and he looks good but he does look frail. Nothing unusual at his age but that’s not because you’re still working that you can’t drop dead all of a sudden, which is I suspect, the way it’ll go for him

Simone Weber, "la Diabolique de Nancy" dead at 94. Surprisingly enough, this makes all the front cover right now (and a breaking news notification from Le Monde ) whereas I thought she might have died under the radar… Should have put her on my french list, didn't know she was famous enough. She was convicted of having cut up her husband with a concrete grinder but always refuted the allegations

Martial Solal is another one of them, don’t know if he’s famous enough outside of France but here he’s an A lister

Did someone really created a thread for a prime minister dead 18 years earlier ?

Also my impression. A lot of hanging fruits on the list who managed to survive that far but I can’t see Chomsky, Starmer Smith, Woodward, Newhart, Rantzen or Sonny Rollins surviving 2024. Let alone the great Carter. I don’t think it’s a bad list but if most of them survive the year, then 2025 will probably be a bloodbath

The heavy breathing of the person taking the video is sending me. Feels like he’s ready to attack

actually, he did ! Le Monde doesn't give breaking news about death that much so I guess they judge he was significant enough

Stafford last flight ! Thomas P. Stafford is a hit for gcreptile, maxbossetti, perhaps and Sean and a miss for CaptainChorizo and therewillbedeaths @gcreptile : Sven Goran Eriksson in and two others subs to choose since both Joe Flaherty and Fritz Wepper from your sub bench didn't last long enough max_bossetti : Juhani Palmi in @Perhaps : Frank Caprio in and Josip Manolic on the sub list @Sean : another Eriksson for the official list and Nelson Acosta waiting for his turn -------------------------------- Ettinger Extinguished ! Amy Ettinger surprisingly secured a Washington Post obit and is thus a solo pick for Captain Chorizo : Anders Vendel in, whoever that is. -------------------------------- Not everyone who makes it to 114 makes it to 115… Juan Vicente Perez Mora is a hit for buffalophil and CaptainChorizo @BuffaloPhil : Sven Goran Eriksson in and June Spencer as sub 3 @CaptainChorizo : Eriksson makes it onto the official list too, ans Caprio as sub 3 -------------------------------- End of the Lynn ! Lynn Reid-Banks is a hit for handrejka and yorkshireBanker @Handrejka : Roy Strong in and Le Pen père as new sub @YorkshireBanker : Dickie Bird in and Bob Packwood as sub 3 -------------------------------- Zhang Lixiong is not faking it this time ! Zhang Lixiong is a hit solo hit for @max_bossetti : Sven Goran Eriksson in again and two subs to choose please -------------------------------- Puckett kicks the bucket ! Ralph Puckett is a solo hit for @tracy: Steve McMichael and Sven Goran Eriksson as new sub @Famous6Eva : Fritz Wepper didn't make it to your official list so still one sub to choose please Sven Goran Eriksson seems to be the new favorite at this point… Let me know if I missed someone !

2nd of April 2024 Hit n°9 Condead Literary genius Maryse Condé has died two months after her 90th birthday to score yet another hit for our french deathlist. Condé was born in Guadeloupe in 1934, in a upper-class family which got her used to reading French classics from an early age. At 19, she moved to Paris where she started writing her first novels. In the late 1950's she traveled to Africa where she wrote her first published novel and moved back to the UK where she worked for a while for the BBC Africa. For the next decades, she focused on writing plays, before her rise to fame in 1984 with the novel Ségou. Since this critically acclaimed novel, Condé was seen as one of the main black writers on colonialism, slavery and black identity. Her other main works included I, Tituba : Black Witch of Salem and Windward Heights, in which she imagined the sequel of Emily Brontë's famous Wuthering Height taking place in the very early XXth century in Guadeloupe. In the second part of her prolific career, she ended up teaching history, literature and history of black movement in such prestigious university as Berkeley and Columbia. In 2018, she received the New Academy Prize in Literature, often referred as the Alternate Nobel Prize for Literature due to the cancellation of the attribution of the Literary Nobel Prize that year. In her final years, Condé suffered from ill-health and secured a spot in the middle of our list, being chosen in 25th position. She is the 9th hit of our productive french deathlist.

André Boniface, former XV de France player, dead at 89

6th hit for my ddp theme this far, not bad

Will update everything at the beginning of next week

Her albums are back on Spotify ! Love it

I Wonder if your obsession for Jimmy is not What keeping him alive at this point…

In fact, She has an insta page and She seems to be in fine health

Yes ofc !

Guess I jinxed them by putting them as sub then…

At this pace, Kabosu will be the last one standing to succeed to Carter… if ever he is mortal. How many immortals have Carter outlast now ?

is that some kind of april's fool ? I had a sense he wouldn't linger forever, hence my deliberate omission in the Hospitalization pool which turned out to be successful.

11 (?) round mastelist : Clint Hill : YoungWillz A.J. Foyt : Bibliogryphon John Hemingway : hell Ray Anthony : Livingbygrace Ivan Martynushkin : chilean way Bobby Shantz : Mortal Caso Iris Cummings : Toast

Lou Counted down ! As I didn't rule the pool properly (I apologize) I'd say both @chilean way and @MortalCaso get a point for Ryzkhov and Counter's deaths. New Round Opens : 1) John Hemingway (b. 1919) : last surviving airman of The Few 2) Caren Marsh Doll (b. 1919) : last survivor of the 1949 Standard Air Lines Crash 3) Iris Cummings (b. 1920) : last participant of the 1936 Olympic Games 4) Ray Anthony (b. 1922) : last member of the Glenn Miller Orchestra 5) Ivan Martynushckin (b. 1923) : last liberator of the Auschwitz concentration camp 6) Khamtai Siphandon (b. 1924) : last Pathet Lao leader in the Vietnam War 7) Galina Brok-Beltsova (b. 1925) : last member of the 586th, 587th and 588th women's aviation regiments of the Soviet Union during WWII 8) Ruth Slenczynska (b. 1925) : last pupil of Sergei Rachmaninoff 9) Bobby Shantz (b. 1925) : last surviving member of the Philadelphia A's 10) Tsuzuko Sugawara (b. 1927) : last participant of the 1st NKH Kōhaku Uta Gassen  11) Albert H. Crews Jr. (b. 1929) : last astronaut from the Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar program 12) Jamshid bin Abdullah of Zanzibar (b. 1929) : last Sultan of Zanzibar 13) Fred R. Harris (b. 1930) : last participant of the Kerner Commission 14) Buzz Aldrin (b. 1930) : last member of Apollo 11 15) Khieu Samphan (b. 1931) : last member of the Khmer Rouge 16) David Scott (b. 1932) : last member of Apollo 15 17) Clint Hill (b. 1932) : last passenger of the JFK infamous limousine 18) Joe Engle (b. 1932) : last X-15 pilot 19) Joseph P. Kerwin (b. 1932) : last member of Skylab 2 20) Vasilije Krestic (b. 1932) : last signer of the Sanu Memorandum 21) Kurt Diemberger (b. 1932) : last person to make the first ascents on two mountains over 8000 metres  22) James A. Abrahamson (b. 1933) : last astronaut from Manned Orbiting Laboratory Group 3 23) Fernando Suarez Gonzalez (b. 1933) : last minister of Francisco Franco's regime 24) Boris Volynov (b. 1934) : last member of the first squad of Soviet Cosmonauts  25) Dave Burgess (b. 1934) : last recipient and nominee of the 1st Grammy Award 26) Robert Siatka (b. 1934) : last member of the 1956 European Cup Final 27) A. J. Foyt (b. 1935) : last driver to participate in the Races of Two Worlds 28) Harrison Schmitt (b. 1935) : last crew member of Apollo 17 29) Tenzin Gyatso (b. 1935) : last monarch of an independant Tibet 30) Try Sutrisno (b. 1935) : last Vice President of Indonesia to serve under Suharto era New addition are : Caren Marsh Doll born 6th of april 1919 and the last survivor of the Standard Air Lines Crash of 1949 Iris Cummings, born 21th of december 1920 and the last participant of the 1936 Olympic Games Bobby Shantz born september 26th 1925, last surviving member of the Philadelphia A's

I’m quite amazed by how good this list is doing actually and, not to jinkx ourselves, but I won’t be surprised now if we reach 18-20. The thing is last year was so dry in term of french deaths that a lot of lingerers are now, unsurprisingly, giving up. Condé was long overdue, so are Chirac, Marie France Garaud, Morin and Dumas. I wouldn’t rule out some other frails and ills to drop dead from nowhere (Le Pen, Delon, Laborde or Hardy). A few nonagenarian could also surprise us (Geminiani, Villalonga, Serre or Dumont) and I sense some unexpected hits such as Fontaine, Pivot, Renaud or Léaud. obit to come for Condé, probably tomorrow as I’m quite busy today also, to end the Clark’s debate, I just found out thanks to La Tombe that Sophia Loren was naturalized french. I’d say She doesn’t belong in such a french list as much of her work and notoriety has relied on her italian work.

Maryse Condé obit : https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/02/maryse-conde-guadelopean-grand-storyteller-dies-aged-90 third hit for my french theme team there, could have been more if I knew Brunhoff and Malaurie would have qo but they wouldn't have scored the same amount so… 25 points which makes me 4th in the theme team league, pretty good that far

I was absolutely sure this would come soon, was about to make a post just a week ago, saying that the next hits would be Maryse Condé, Chirac or Marie France Garaud. Also a DDP pick of mine…

Maryse Condé dead at 90. 9th hit !