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  5. Posted

    On 16/09/2021 at 22:20, Ulitzer95 said:

    Ok, said I'd take a look at this and it's not a perfect list by any means but here are the surviving heads of state and government from the Cold War (12 March 1947 – 26 December 1991).

    I've stuck to the main participants of the Cold War as defined on this Wiki page (i.e. the Eastern and Western Blocs), as opposed to spreading this too thinly and covering every single country who played a role in an event(s) of the period.

    Western Bloc

    Australia
    Elizabeth II (b. 1926)
    Paul Keating (b. 1944)

    Belgium
    Mark Eyskens (b. 1933)

    Canada
    Elizabeth II (b. 1926)
    Joe Clark (b. 1939)
    Brian Mulroney (b. 1939)

    Denmark
    Margrethe II (b. 1940)

    France
    Laurent Fabius (b. 1946)
    Édith Cresson (b. 1934)

    Greece
    Constantine II (b. 1940)
    Christos Sartzetakis (b. 1929)

    Iceland
    Vigdís Finnbogadóttir (b. 1930)
    Porsteinn Palsson (b. 1947)
    Davíd Oddsson (b. 1948)

    Iran
    Ali Khamenei (b. 1939)
    Abolhassan Banisadr (b. 1933)
    Mir-Hossein Mousavi (b. 1942)

    Iraq
    NONE

    Italy
    Arnaldo Forlani (b. 1925)
    Ciriaco De Mita (b. 1928)

    Luxembourg
    Jacques Santer (b. 1937)

    The Netherlands
    Beatrix (b. 1938)
    Dries van Agt (b. 1931)

    New Zealand
    Elizabeth II (b. 1926)
    Geoffrey Palmer (b. 1942)
    Jim Bolger (b. 1935)

    Norway
    Harald V (b. 1937)
    Gro Harlem Brundtland (b. 1939)
    Kåre Willoch (b. 1928)

    Pakistan
    Elizabeth II (b. 1926)
    Nawaz Sharif (b. 1949)

    Philippines
    NONE

    Portugal
    António Ramalho Eanes (b. 1935)
    Francisco Pinto Balsemão (b. 1937)
    Aníbal Cavaco Silva (b. 1939)

    Spain
    Juan Carlos I (b. 1938)
    Felipe González (b. 1942)

    Thailand
    Thanin Kraivichien (b. 1927)
    Anand Panyarachun (b. 1932)

    Turkey
    NONE

    United Kingdom
    Elizabeth II (b. 1926)
    John Major (b. 1943)

    United States
    Jimmy Carter (b. 1924)

    West Germany
    NONE

    Eastern Bloc

    Albania
    Fatos Nano (b. 1952)
    Ylli Bufi (b. 1948)
    Vilson Ahmeti (b. 1951)

    Bulgaria
    Georgi Atanasov (b. 1933)
    Philip Dimitrov (b. 1955)

    Byelorussia
    Nikolay Slyunkov (b. 1929)
    Yefrem Sokolov (b. 1926)
    Stanislav Shushkevich (b. 1934)

    Czechoslovakia
    Karel Urbánek (b. 1941)
    Lubomír Štrougal (b. 1924)
    Marián Čalfa (b. 1946)

    East Germany
    Egon Krenz (b. 1937)
    Sabine Bergmann-Pohl (b. 1946)
    Hans Modrow (b. 1928)
    Lothar de Maizière (b. 1940)

    Hungary
    Mátyás Szurös (b. 1933)

    Poland
    Lech Wałesa (b. 1943)
    Jan Krzysztof Bielecki (b. 1951)

    Romania
    Ion Iliescu (b. 1930)

    Soviet Union
    Mikhail Gorbachev (b. 1931)
    Nikolai Ryzhkov (b. 1929)
    Ivan Silayev (b. 1930)

    Ukraine
    Leonid Kravchuk (b. 1934)
    Vitold Fokin (b. 1932)

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    It seems like a long list, but it's really not when you consider that 95% of Cold War leaders are dead.

    Romania, West Germany, Turkey, the Philippines and Iraq are the only countries with no survivors. The USA to be the next?

    41 names remaining.

    Maybe you should add Edward Schreyer to that list who was Governor-General of Canada (1979-1984) and is 88 right now.

  6. Posted

    4 hours ago, drol said:

    Tomiichi Murayama.... in excellent health ahead of his 100th birthday. Will we ever see another oldest state leader dead?

     

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    would be the first time that 3 100-year olds are alive from that list at once since Javier Perez de Cuellar died right?

  9. Posted

    14 hours ago, The Daredevil said:

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    Barenboim leading the BerlinPhil at the conclusion of 2023. Doesn't look like a worthy 2024 DeathList candidate at all based on these pics.

     

    Does anyone here know what "serious neurological condition" Barenboim has been suffering from?

     

     

    you should look at video versions, he can barely play piano anymore

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  10. Posted

    I really hate when Monarchs resign due to old age. Like, you signed up for the job for life, there's no retiring, otherwise its just a glorified presidency.
    There should be a global law assigning every Monarch who wants to resign for a ritual execution to make him do so in that way.

  11. Posted

    10 hours ago, Death Impends said:

    Such high placement means surely they're seeing him out. Popes shouldn't be misses in general, but yes, feels symbolic given he's far more iconic than Benny was.

    the first pope to retire since the Middle Ages is not iconic?

  12. Posted

    4 hours ago, Perhaps said:

    Sir Michael Hardie Boys, former Governor-General of New Zealand (not a pornstar) dead at 92.

     

    Mentioned here by arghton a few dozen times and picked for a couple of 2024 pools.

    amazing that that guy was still alive. He hadnt been reported on since 2016

  14. Posted

    4 hours ago, arghton said:

     

    I'm genuinely suprised that Emir Nawaf wasn't picked in the DDP but,suprise, Sheikh Salem is on a team.

     

    It'll be interesting to see if Mishal meets with him...Salem is still the Commander of the National Guard of Kuwait (a position he's held since he founded the National Guard in 1967) and when Sabah died three years ago Nawaf held meetings with him.

     

    Similar thing going on in Kuwait. 4 out of the 5 Emirs in Kuwait during the last 45 years have been sons of Ahmad Al-Jaber who's been dead for nearly 74 years now. Mishal is the last of his prominent sons.

     

    I think they'll sooner or later make the current Prime Minister (Emir Nawaf's son who's only 67 and has only held major positions since Nawaf made him deputy commander of the National Guard in 2020) the Crown Prince, but there seems to be fears the Muslim Brotherhood will take over and also seems a chance for a power struggle within the royal family that could get nasty especially if Mishal dies soon.

    What do you mean with "Muslim Brotherhood takeover"? Couping the monarchy or are there just pro-Brotherhood candidates for the Throne that could take power?

  16. Posted

    I worked in customer service for a few years and always looked at people's birthyear. There, I noticed that theres some age line in people's late 60s, at which you can tell from their voice that they are past that age line. It really is a thing that almost no one before their early 60s has but everyone of 70+. Some kind of raspiness in the voice.
    And, well, looking at the voice actors of the Simpsons, there's many in that age range, Homer's voice actor is getting there too.

    Would be the easiest to soon just replace them with AI that imitates their old voices.

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  18. Posted

    14 hours ago, Comped said:

    With all due respect to her... She wasn't up dancing and singing much in her final years!

    I dont know man, she seemed pretty hyped for her 100th birthday up to 3 weeks before she died and we're 2 years from that mark for Dick van Dyke.

    Also dont forget thats its mostly heart disease that usually gets very old men that are still fit, like Prince Philip or almost Dr Mahathir of Malaysia.

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  22. Posted

    This is literally the most decayed ive seen someone on this forum since that Vietnamese(?) communist who's face they had to pixelate for his 105th birthday or something because he was so rotten.

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  23. Posted

    14 hours ago, Sean said:

    I do wonder what definition of hospice they are using.In Jimmy's case it certainly seems the most basic form of having a DNAR with an instruction not to go to hospital if the cause of admission is irreversible (I.e a broken bone).

    why is a broken bone irreversible?

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  24. Posted

    3 hours ago, JonNgoat said:

    Not sure why she is constantly posting pictures like that of him. He looks horrific.

    "if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best"

     

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