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Frederik (79), Finnish schlager, pop and disco singer and "King of redneckdisco" cancels tour and apparently all upcoming concerts. He has during the last year broken his knee, arm, severed his eye in a tennis accident and caught severe pneumonia leading to a multiple week hospitalisation in the States, and also has suffered from heart problems for a while. I'll miss him a bit when he goes, he's "macho" to a comic extent and now seems a relic of a bygone era. He has probably hundreds or thousands of illegitimate children and has accidentally hit on atleast one of them, still regularly has had sex with women backstage in recent years and his autobiography was full of all kinds of sex stories.

1. Itooka: had a hemorrhagic stroke at 110 and underwent brain surgery. For whatever reason this isn't mentioned in the Gerontology Wikipedia or whatever it's called. 2. Canabarro Lucas: Hospitalised for a month in May 2022, back in hospital in October 2022 with covid. I recall she's been hospitalised atleast once since. Always seems to recover quite well. 3. Francis: Bedbound for atleast the last three or four years. 4. Caterham: In a slow health decline. 5. Hayashi: Described as very health conscious. Only recently in slightly worsening health. Back in May 2023 I predicted she might be the last living person born in the 1900s. We'll see. 6. Kretschmann: Seemingly in very good health. Visited a factory earlier this year, which is quite amazing for someone of that age. 7. Shiroishi: Very frail, mentally seems still there. 8. Tessier: Mentioned above. 9. Martin Diaz: Extremely frail, barely conscious but not bedbound. 10. Kondo: Decent health, frail but can apparently walk on good days.

Guy de Muyser, Court Marshall for Grand Duke Jean, Luxembourg's ambassador/representative to NATO, Soviet Union and longtime politician dead at 98. One of the around 12000 Luxembourgers forcefully recruited into the Wehrmacht near the end of WWII, and member of the Enrôlés de Force.

Now Sitaram Yechury, CPIM's General Secretary, in ICU with pneumonia. "Not serious", "had initially gone for a checkup" Bikash from the quoted post is still alive as are CPIM ancients VS Achuthanandan (100), MM Lawrence (95) and Paloli Mohammed Kutty (92) despite years of being in horribly frail conditions.

Eero Kekomäki, head of the Finnish Security and Intelligence Service 1990-1996, dead at 90. Outlived by his More notable predecessor Seppo Tiitinen (see Tiitinen list)

Count Ingolf of Rosenborg please.

Arubiefin IV, Owa of Idanre dead at "102". I don't think I've ever seen a more "emotional" obituary before: There were no signs that something ominous would happen that day (...) However to my shock at the eerie hours of that Thursday the news filtered in that the highly revered paramount ruler of my town, Idanre in Ondo State, Oba Fredrick Adegunle Aroloye, Arubiefin IV, the Owa of Idanreland, had gone to join his ancestors. For 30 minutes, I was dumbstruck. Bewildered. Speechless. I couldn’t accept that my Owa has translated to the world beyond . Just like that! (...) When I regained my composure, sweet memories of my beloved Kabiyesi began to reel with enthralling motion in my subconscious. He was everything to me. He was like the biblical Rock of Gibraltar to me (...) As the heavens open their arms to welcome Oba Fredrick Adegunle Aroloye, Arubiefin IV, to paradise -God’s abode – where there is no pain nor sorrow, where there is everlasting joy and eternal celebration, and endless worship of God, I have no doubt in my mind that the Owa of Idanre is happy and blissfully singing HALLELUJAH with the Angels. (...) But despite his longevity, his passing is a big blow to me. I will miss him sorely. Rest in perfect peace, my King. Leaves two or three living African traditional monarchs born in the 1920s. The Emir of Ringim was 75 in 2006, more likely born around 1931 than 1928.

P. Susheela in satisfactory condition, but also suffers from kidney diseases. Malayam cinema "superstar" and womanizer Mohanlal hospitalised with trouble breathing.

I've tried searching too. It's odd that they haven't shown her this time considering she's been wheeled out in a horrible condition on her birthday the last five or six years. If those two'd be dead, Soamsawali (mother of the coma one) definitely is too. She never recovered from her 2019 stroke and looked like this a couple of years ago: I don't think she's made appearances in atleast two years. On the other hand, the Thai have been very good at keeping "human zombies" alive in the past. King Bhumibol, Nyanasamvara Suvaddhana, Tinsulanonda, Thanat Khoman and others.

Here's Farouk Kaddoumi, former head of Fatah, visited sometime after his wife's death last month: Also, former PLO central committee and fatah revolutionary council member Salwa Abu Khadra seems to be in very poor health. Image from last month:

Images from the Navajo Code Talkers Day, held on Wednesday. Peter MacDonald and John Kinsel somehow healthy enough to attend, neither look as bad as I thought they'd and apparently it's Thomas Begay who's in poor health now.

Kim Dotcom of Megaupload to be extradited to the US. I can't see him living to 60, heart attack waiting to happen.

Lt. Galina Brok-Beltsova, last member of the Soviet women's aviation regiments dead at 99.

Tapani Mäkinen discharged already last month. Interesting details on his hospitalisation there, he had four heart surgeries, sepsis, spent two weeks intubated and survived being on ECMO. Now he has a permanent VAD and takes 20 pills every day for his heart problems. Jorge Lanata improving. Dilon Djindji is 97 today and recent posts seem to imply he is "recovering". Edit: Discharged - here he is! Picture of health: Olivia Grange, longtime Jamaican politician and current sports minister has been hospitalised for a week now with respiratory problems, apparently in ICU. Not the first time. Also, Chalong Pakdeevijit discharged after around 10 months in hospital.

He always looked so healthy. Definitely taken before his time. Points for me in Hares and Electoral atleast. And another for the DDP LotM.

Tuíre Kayapó, probably the most notable living Kayapo activist after Raoni, sister of Paiakan and activist, dead from uterine cancer at 54 or 57.

Queen Silvia of Sweden leaves the olympics to travel to visit her brother Ralf Sommerlath in Belgium.

I didn't know that perennial forum pool pick Saalumarada Thimmakka is a fan of freestyle wrestling. Amusing.

Jayapataka Swami undergoing tests due to rising blood pressure and blurry vision.

Lenita Airisto discharged some weeks ago, but frequently visited by two nurses. Sounds like a similar situation as with Chomsky. Edit: Six Iranian actors reported or rumored to be in failing health: 1) Mansour Sepehrnia (1930) Relic from the Pahlavi times. He was gravely ill with pleurisy, UTI and pneumonia last year. Quite frail. 2) Jamshid Hashempour (1944) "Legend" of Iranian cinema who has been rumored to suffer from cancer and dementia for a while and looks like it in recent images. Discharged today after a two-week hospitalisation. 3) Reza Naji (1942) "Iconic figure" who has had colon cancer multiple times and has been described as "very weak" for years now. 4) Akbar Abdi (1960) Morbidly obese diabetic anti-semite with diabetes and kidney failure who underwent a kidney transplant back in 2016. On oxygen last year. 5) Reza Iranmanesh (1967) Perennially ill due to chemical exposure and was most recently near death a month ago. 6) Mohammad Shiri (1950) Suffering from leukemia back in 2021 and in ICU with infections last year.

Leaves only a handful of Mr Universes from the time before Arnie. Joe Abbenda and Len Sell are still alive. Enrico Thomas and Elmo Santiago are probably dead, but I can't find confirmation. Mohammed Nasr...very, very unlikely he'd be alive. Edit: Some sources claim Nasr was also called "Tony Boulos". Searching that on google images gives one result which says he would've been 32 in 1960. Or maybe it wasn't the same person, who knows.

Crossposting, the drought is over. Not a very "memorable" immortal, but he had been gravely ill back in 2007 and mostly unable to attend events in his last ten years. Also, DDP LotM if I'm correct.

Perry Christie, former Windy City pick and Bahamas three-time Prime Minister suffers heart attack and undergoes angioplasty, but "doing extremely well" Rodolfo Hernandez hospitalised in ICU due to complications from burst vein and terminal colon cancer, "fighting for his life" but also "progressing favorably"

I remembered your post on "tough groups" from back in Dec 2020. "Chinese politicians" was already there, most of the very old/ill Ayatollahs are still alive as well as all the Indian frauds, the only group that has suffered major losses are the NK politicians. Some more "tough" groups that come to mind: 1) Hellraisers/hard living stars. Keith Richards is 80, Ozzy is 75, Iggy Pop is 77, Steven Tyler, Stevie Nicks and Alice Cooper are 76, John McVie is 78, Eric Clapton is 79, Brian Wilson is 82, Grace Slick and Phil Lesh are 84 and Dion DiMucci is 85, and there are many others. Willie Nelson, Sly Stone...Sonny Rollins who was a heroin addict. I'm less suprised by individual cases (however Slick, Keef, Ozzy and the last three are medical miracles) but the fact that so many of them have made it to great ages is very impressive. 2) Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church. There's been two deaths in the ten oldest cardinals in the last two years, and all the ones who have died this year have been relatively minor names. Nine of them are over 95 years old and all the four oldest (do Nascimento 1925-2024, Karlic, Wamala, Dri) have been or are in very poor health. Ruini, Sandoval Íñiguez, Darmaatmadja and many others of the younger ones have also been ill for years. 3) Elderly olympic gold medalists. To name some, George Rhoden 1926-2024 has been ailing for around ten years, Dick Button has suffered two or three major brain injuries, infections and other ailments and has been quiet for years now, Leon Rotman has dementia, long jumper Greg Bell suffers from severe heart problems, Larisa Latynina had a stroke and a heart attack a few years ago and Salvatore Gionta is very frail. From the paralympics, Aroldo Ruschioni of the initial Paralympics is very old. I also find the longevity with some of the boxers, wrestlers and weightlifters impressive. Rudolf Plyukfelder (who either has a heart defect or heart problems from physical stress, but has suffered from some type of heart failure since he was 18), Ján Zachara and Emam Ali Habibi are all in their mid-90s.

Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani (according to local sources) has been rumored dead recently, and is allegedly currently hospitalised. Everything has been denied, but there's no smoke without fire... 94 tomorrow, has been in poor health since atleast 2004 and is Shia Islam's top man. One of the most influential religious leaders in the world, and will obit everywhere.