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Indarjit Singh Baron Singh of Wimbledon looked quite frail at the coronation. Edit:

I forgot MM Lawrence from that CPIM list. Former CPIM central committee member, and Achuthanandan's friend/enemy/comrade, age around 93. He's been getting frailer and frailer for the last six years, multiple lengthy hospitalisations since 2021, bedbound and hospitalised in October 2022. Most recently he's been criticizing the current CPIM leaders and outlived his son (BJP member Avd. Abraham ML) two months ago. Alma Adamkienė said to be "stable" but Valdas says he "doesn't see that stabilization" as she doesn't react to anything in any way.

Haredi Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, Prince of Torah, under 24 hours before his death at 94. In January 2010 he ruled that "time of death may only be determined when one’s heart ceases to function, without any connection whatsoever to brain activity" - he went on to live another twelve years and two months. On the 18th of March 2022 he collapsed at his home from a massive heart attack and died quickly despite CPR.

Video of him performing at Willie's 90th From 2:40

Henri Konan Bédié, President of the Ivory Coast 1993-1999, 89 today! He succeeded longtime president Houphouët-Boigny a few hours after HB died from prostate cancer in December 1993, having been the President of the National Assembly. After years of worsening economic situation that started in HB's final years and a long political struggle with future president Alassane Ouattara, he was overthrown by the military on Christmas Eve 1999. He fled to Togo and then France, returning to Ivory Coast in 2001. He's still quite active in politics, was a candidate in the 2020 Presidential Election and that image is from March.

Kerala's #2 coffintease former Chief Minister Oommen Chandy hospitalised again with pneumonia. Suffers from throat cancer. Maybe this is his time to finally die? Rifat Rastoder, former Acting President of Montenegro (2003) dead at 72. Colombian politician Rodolfo Hernández Suárez "hospitalised urgently" but "in good health and strong as Tarzan" according to relatives.

Pauline Newman, oldest active US federal judge has been under investigation over her performance recently. 96 next month. I think there are a few other nonagenarian US federal judges. Richard W. Goldberg is 95.

Here... Members of CAS (born 1929 or before) Yang You (17 October 1917-) Doyen of CAS, Jiusan society member, National People's Congress delegate 1978-1988. His most notable student is Huang Xuhua. Has been in the East China/Huadong Hospital for atleast five years now. Lu Yuanjiu (9 January 1920 - 6 June 2023) Physicist known for his work on INS and automation, purged during the cultural revolution and sent to a labor camp. Skeletal and ultrafrail, has been in a care facility for years now but still well enough to be interviewed now and then. Wang Xiji (26 July 1921-) Designed T-7, China's first sounding rocket and Long March 1, first space launch vehicle. Also a IAA member and International Astronautical Federation hall of famer. Wu Liangyong (7 May 1922-) Architect and urban planner. Yang Chen-Ning (1 October 1922-) Nobel-winning theoretical physicist who needs no introduction here. Also Academicia Sinica's doyen or vice-doyen. Hu Yuxian 胡聿贤 (12 October 1922 - 30 October 2023) One of China's most notable seismic engineers. Li Desheng 李德生 (17 October 1922-) Chief geologist of Beijing Petroleum Exploration and Development Research Institute of China National Petroleum Corporation. Not to be confused with the more notable military guy. Yin Wenying 尹文英 (18 October 1922 - 28 December 2023) Entemologist who studied prevention of parasitic diseases in fish. Rudolph A. Marcus (21 July 1923-) Canadian/US chemist, nobel prize recipient, oldest foreign member of CAS. Theodore Yatsu Wu 吴耀祖 (20 March 1924 - 16 December 2023) Chinese-American fluid mechanics scientist. Also a member of Academia Sinica. Torsten Wiesel (3 June 1924-) Swedish neuropsychiologist, nobel prize recipient. Zhu Qihe 朱起鹤 (12 July 1924 - 20 February 2024) Physical chemist Chen Ziyuan (7 September 1924-) "Father of China's nuclear agriculture" Dai Lixin 戴立信 (13 November 1924-) Organic chemist who was sent to camps during the Cultural Revolution. Li Jilun 李季伦 (15 March 1925-) Microbiologist, has been very frail for a long time. Huang Benli 黄本立 (21 September 1925-) Expert in Spectrochemistry. Sun Jun 孙钧 (3 October 1926 - 1 March 2024) Underground construction engineer. Li Deping 李德平 (4 November 1926-) Radiation safety & protection scientist, obese. Tsung-Dao Lee (24 November 1926-) Nobel-winning theoretical physicist who needs no introduction here. Also Academicia Sinica member. Chen Junwu (17 March 1927-) Oil-refinery engineer, Song Ping's brother-in-law, too ill to attend his sister's funeral in 2019. Chen Xingdan 陈星旦 (6 May 1927-) X-ray optics pioneer. Ye Shuhua (21 June 1927-) Astronomer known for achieving one of the world's most precise measurements of Universal Time in the 1960s and establishing VLBI and SLR in China. Wang Dezi 王德滋 (29 June 1927-) Petrologist, former VP of Nanjing University. Tian Zhiaowu 田昭武 (x June 1927-) Electrochemist. Ouyang Yu 欧阳予 (26 July 1927-) Nuclear engineering expert. He Zuoxiu (24 August 1927-) Nuclear physicist also notable for criticizing Falun Gong and believing in traditional medicine. Chen Yizhang 陈宜张 (28 September 1927-) Neuropsychiologist. Wang Geng 汪耕 (October 1927-) Electrical engineer. Wan Zhexian 万哲先 (7 November 1927 - 30 May 2023) Mathematician. Lin Xinyuan 刘新垣 (7 November 1927-) molecular biologist Shen Yunguang 沈允钢 (2 December 1927-) plant physiologist. Looked fine in 2019. Wu Yangjie 吴养洁 (1 January 1928-) organic chemist, decrepit Zhang Cunhao (23 February 1928-) Physical chemist notable for his work on lasers. Wang Kui 王夔 (7 May 1928-) inorganic chemist, looked very frail in 2018. Yu Hongru 俞鸿儒 (15 June 1928-) Aerodynamicist. Hu Hesheng (20 June 1928 - 2 February 2024) Mathematician, Chinese Mathematical Society VP. Han Jisheng 韩济生 (17 July 1928-) Neurophyschiologist still in good health. Gao Zhentong 高镇同 (15 November 1928-) structural fatigue expert. Wang Fangding 王方定 (21 December 1928-) Radiochemistry expert Lin Giao 林皋 (2 January 1929-) Sun Jiadong (8 April 1929-) China's "Father of Satellites", chief designer for the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program Zhao Bolin 赵柏林 (16 April 1929-) Atmospheric scientist Wang Zikun 王梓坤 (21 April 1929-) Mathematician and former Nankai University President. Zhou Guangzhao (15 May 1929-) Theoretical physicist, CAS President 1987-1997. Shen Zhiyun 沈志云 (28 May 1929-) Liu Guangjun 刘广均 (15 July 1929-) expert in isotope separation Jian Shuisheng 简水生 (25 October 1929-) Optical fibre expert Zhou Heng 周恒 (20 November 1929-) Fluid mechanics expert Gong Gong 鞠躬 (22 November 1929-) Neuroscientist Tang Chongti (26 November 1929-) China's likely most notable parasitologist. Members of CAE born 1927 or before Lu Yuanjiu (9 January 1920 - 6 June 2023) See CAS section. Sheng Zhiyong 盛志勇 (1 July 1920- 27 January 2024) Burn/trauma surgery expert. Wu Liangyong (7 May 1922-) See CAS section. Liu Yuqing 刘玉清 (14 March 1923-) Radiology expert. Shen Yucun 沈渔邨 (6 January 1924-) Psychiatrist Wang Guangyuan 王光远 (25 March 1924-) Structural engineering expert Feng Shuyu 冯叔瑜 (20 June 1924-) Explosives engineering expert Pei Rongfu 裴荣富 (24 August 1924-) Ore deposit geology expert Ren Jinzhou 任继周 (7 November 1924-) Agricultural scientist Wang Zhenyi (30 November 1924-) pathophysiologist and hematologist who discovered a cure for acute promyelocytic leukemia. Ye Minghan 叶铭汉 (2 April 1925-) experimental high-energy physics expert. Cui Kun 崔崑 (20 July 1925-) metal expert, developed the GB1299-85 standard. Xianzhong Wu 吴咸中 (28 August 1925-) "expert in the integration of traditional Chinese and Western medicine" Shizhen Zhong 钟世镇 or Zizhen Zhong (24 September 1925-) Clinical anatomy expert who is called the "founder of contemporary Chinese clinical anatomy" and wrote "Complete Works of Modern Clinical Anatomy" Zhou Jing 周镜 (21 December 1925-) geotechnical engineer Zhang Luqian 张履谦 (1 March 1926-) expert in radar technology. Huang Xuhua (12 March 1926-) Designed China's first nuclear submarines, Type 091 and Type 092. Zhai Guangming 翟光明 (1 October 1926-) Petroleum geology expert. Xu Chengen 徐承恩 (21 January 1927 - 3 December 2023) "expert in petrochemical engineering design and refining technology" Qian Gaoyun 钱皋韵 (14 March 1927-) "expert in China's nuclear fuel engineering and isotope separation" Wang Wenxiang 王文兴 (17 October 1927-) Environmental chemist Cheng Tianmin 程天民 (27 December 1927-) pathologist, antigen expert To be continued later - lots of future centenarians there. CAE should have much less nonagenarian members especially after half of them died from covid in December-January.

Imran Khan hospitalised with infection and swollen foot, likely as a complication of his November assasination attempt injury (he was shot three times in the leg)

Indian politics & Cricket heavyweight Sharad Pawar quits as NCP President...but "not going to retire anytime soon". He's one of those people with impressive health histories...survived oral cancer two or three times, heart attack(s?), angioplasties and bypasses, gallbladder problems, mouth infections, ulcers, god knows how many surgeries and bouts of pneumonia. I'm also quite sure he thinks he'll never die. Quote from an ABP Live article last year: Taking a break from hospitalization to attend a political event is just a minor example for those who have seen Pawar doing greater feats. In 2004, when Pawar was diagnosed with cancer, doubts were raised about whether he would survive till the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. The political pundits predicted the end of his public career as well. However, Pawar was not ready to give up easily. When a young doctor, after assessing Pawar’s reports, said that he would not survive over six months, Pawar, in a lighter vein, remarked, “I will outlive you.”

I expect more to die from that list soon. Covid in the CAE/CAS is over (I might post a longer list of the 90+ academics in the academics thread later) but lots of those people are very frail. I don't think Shen Yucun has made an appearance since she was visited in 2011 (already looked very frail back then). Zhong Zizhen had an early 98th birthday celebration in January and while he looked frail he wasn't on a hospital bed which usually with these cases means he'll live a year or two more. Song Ping's brother-in-law Chen Junwu is one of those CAS academicians never mentioned here, 96 and was apparently too ill to attend his sister's funeral in 2019.

SuperBilly is according to his facebook page's latest post back in hospital & ICU from the rehab centre he was in, this time with acute kidney failure and other ailments, last time he had acute kidney failure was two months ago. Keep sending money to Jesus and praying for gofundme. Meanwhile, Abdullah the Butcher has set up a...gofundme too, but it's because his wife left and took the money.

Alma Adamkienė in "stable but serious" condition after suffering a stroke last week.

According to facebook posts local cops have moved Surat Singh Khalsa back to the hospital because his "physical condition is critical" and the authorities don't want him to die.

Giving advice on how to live to "112" now. He says he's hale and hearty and doesn't take medicine, plans on going to London and Nottingham again in July.

Antônio Delfim Netto, Brazilian economist, politician and Minister of Finance (1967-1974) and one of my Electoral DP picks, 95 today.

Shina Seki (Japanese supercentenarian, world's 13th-oldest at the time of her death with Pearl Berg who was born the same day, 1st of Oct 1909) dead at 113. Around 18 people born in the 1900s left.

Major Palestinian politician and former Fatah central committee chairman Farouk Kaddoumi not dead yet, but Mahmoud Abbas called him last week to check on his health and judging on recent facebook talk he's seriously ill. He's been in failing health for a while. Chung Ho-yong was in the US for treatment in 2021. He's now the last of those military leaders who violently suppressed the 1980 Gwangju Uprising. (Chun Doo-hwan and Roh Tae-woo died 2021 and minor names Lee Hee-seong and Hwang Yeong-si both died last year)

And...five of drol's immortals listers? Ali Yafie (25 Feb), Ignacio Lopez Tarso (11 Mar), Wan Haifeng (31 Mar), Tu Tongjin (3 Apr) and Parkash Singh Badal (25 Apr). At this point I feel like he'll outlive a few more.

"Comandante" Pedro Pires, Prime Minister (1975-1991) and President (2001-2011) of Cape Verde, 89 today

Soviet leader of Latvia Jānis Vagris died in January at 92. From what I understand he was a good guy, tried to make Latvia a better place to live during his two years and never got into politics again after the fall of the Soviet Union. Meanwhile Rubiks is an alleged crook who's had some connections to Putin.

Felicity Crump, oldest ever in Alderney, dead at 110.

Martin Beck actor Stina Rautelin unfortunately dead at 59. Persbrandt might be next, I can't see him making it to 70.

Juhani Aaltola (fi wiki) Finnish professor, father of philosopher Elisa Aaltola and Finnish Institute of International Affairs director Mika Aaltola, recently in hospital with dementia and heart problems but has been discharged now.

Recent video of her (with Mama Ngina Kenyatta, Jomo Kenyatta widow and Kenyatta family matriarch who looks amazing): Reading on her I thought Kirima's been the last living major Mau Mau Uprising figure since the deaths of Rawson Macharia (who was killed in a motorcycle crash in 2008...an uncommon way to die at 96), Terence Gavaghan in 2011 and Ian Henderson in 2013, but seems like Mukami Kimathi is still alive, the widow of Dedan Kimathi, the commander of the rebels. Her age is somewhere between 94 and 102 and she's been in and out of hospitals for years, most recently in January with pneumonia.