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Taiwan independence activist Zhong Yiren, picked here by TheKillingTime is dead but his two English "obits" are both bot-written.

US "TikToker" teen boasts on video about never having gotten into a car accident...dies days later in a car accident.

President of Bangladesh Mohammad Abdul Hamid going to Singapore "for checkups" and eye treatment. This time it'll just be seven days.

Pascoal Mocumbi, Prime Minister of Mozambique 1994-2004 dead at 82. Outlived by longtime president Joaquim Chissano who has had multiple hospitalisations in the last decade.

Astrid Swan update. She's lived with terminal cancer for 5 years now and apparently she's still alive only due to one experimental drug that's worked around two years, looks fine but says she "could have only weeks to live".

Congrats again diego 1923: Roedad Khan / Tunku Ampuan Najihah 1924: Oscar Wyatt / Magdalena Gamayo 1925: Ronnie de Mel / Reuma Weizman 1926: Sheikh Salem Al-Ali Al-Sabah / Irene Camber 1927: Luigi Manocchio / Aira Samulin 1928: Archbishop Demetrios of America / Nguyễn Thị Bình 1929: Tahar Zbiri / Farida Khanum 1930: Emmanuel Milingo / Biljana Plavšić 1931: Michael Hardie Boys / Carroll Baker 1932: Tep Vong / Naina Yeltsina

Kitanofuji Katsuaki discharged (mentions it in the later part of the column) and "will focus on training his legs" now. Looking at the Sumo Wrestlers list on page 1 I think more of the ones who'd be over 80 now have died off-radar decades ago. The JSA (Japan Sumo Association) has been very bad at lots of stuff but also they haven't kept track of who's alive at all. There are tens of semi-professional sumo wrestlers with pages on the Japanese wikipedia born in the 1920s and 1930s who've likely died over 40 years ago, unfortunately most probably in poverty. Therefore here is a - this time proper - list of Sumo personalities over 83. List has only those that are known to have been alive during the last 10 years. Might add younger names later, but they're keeping better track of the under-80s. 1925 - Kimura Shōnosuke XXVII (Highest Sumo referee 1977-1990. Last interviewed in 2015, but should be still very much alive and recently outlived one of his successors.) 1926 - Tsuneo Watanabe (Major newspaper executive, political influencer, baseball club owner who's in Japan called "Dictator of the world of baseball". Was a member of the Yokozuna Deliberation Council 1991-2005 and President/Chair 2001-2003.) 1929 - Haruhiko Suzuki (TBS Radio, Nippon TV announcer, major sumo radio announcer.) 1930 - Kunihiro Sugiyama (NHK's sumo announcer for decades, also covered 1964 and 1968 Olympics and horse racing. Has still made appearances on NHK in recent years.) 1931 - Yoji Yamada (Major film director. Sumo connection is that he was a member of the Yokozuna Deliberation Council 2004-2014.) 1934 - Shigeo Fukuchi (Former NHK Chairman with major involvement in the Japan Sumo Association. Member of the Yokozuna Deliberation Council 2009-2010.) Katsuji Ebisawa (Former NHK chair, Member of the Yokozuna Deliberation Council 1999-2009, President/Chair 2007-2009.) 1935 - Masataka Ide (Controversial former Chairman of the West Japan Railway Company. Member of the Yokozuna Deliberation Council 2005-2010) 1936 - Kimura Shōnosuke XXIX (These types don't usually die off-radar) 1937 - Yutakayama Katsuo (Sumo professional wrestler more known as Chairman of the Japan Sumo Association 1998-2002. His sumo career lasted from 1961 to 1968. Has still made appearances in recent years.) Myōbudani Kiyoshi (Oldest known sumo professional still 100% alive. Main career from 1954 to 1969, sumo elder for eight years until 1977 when he left to become a Jehova's witness. Interviewed around 2013, said to be alive and well in 2023. Known especially for his "slight" build, uncommon in sumo.) Ryōki Sugita (Journalist, businessman. Former Nikkei CEO and President and former President of the Japan National Press Club. Member of the Yokozuna Deliberation Council 2013-2023.) 1938 - Kimura Shōnosuke XXX (See XXIX) Matsuoka Gantetsu is an annoying case. Turned to pro wrestling after his sumo career, worked with Great Kojika, Giant Baba and Danny Hodge but is said to have completely disappeared somewhere around the 1970s.

Ilkka Heiskanen at the Jussi Awards ("Finland's oscars") today: Doesn't sound really frail but I'd say 50/50 he's alive in two years. The "lifetime award" was given to Esko Salminen who was "very ill" with a carotid artery illness in 2007 but is now doing fine.

Indian Carnatic vocalist, singer, musician Bombay Jayashri suffers stroke on UK tour, from what I understand unconscious but stable and has undergone a successful surgery. Mentioned once before on these forums in the "What Are You Listening To Right Now?" thread.

Watched the Padma awards ceremony video from yesterday. Mostly quite boring, clearly didn't have most of the recipients there (Tula Ram Upreti and that septuagenarian Tabla maestro nowhere to be seen) but here are some notes. SM Krishna now walks with a cane but seems to have recovered pretty well from his acute respiratory failure. Suman Kalyanpur looked quite frail in my opinion, but not wheelchairbound Jodhaiya Bai Baiga, nonagenarian artist, looked her age. So did 95-year-old Sikh scholar Rattan Singh Jaggi. Guru Thiruvidaimarudur Kuppiah Kalyanasundara (had to copy paste the name from somewhere) looked frail, so did odisha puppet master Maguni Charan Kuanr. V. P. Appukutta Poduval - looked absolutely amazing for 99. Mangala Kanti Roy - Judging on his appearance I'll say no way he's 102. Our next Saalumarada Thimmakka/Pappammal. Gurcharan Singh - first-class cricketer, looks fine for 87. S. Subbaraman looked frail. Prakash Chandra Sood - nuclear science professor. Looked frail and very thin to me. The ultrafrails: Mahipatrai Prataprai Kavi, 91-year-old artist. Needed the help of two people to be lifted up from his wheelchair and still seems like he could've fallen down any moment. Prabhakar Bhanudas Mande - not very notable, not sure how old he is, but looked extremely frail, wheelchairbound with thin and discoloured legs.

Jaakko Estola (see spoiler) WWII vet, war invalid, agronomist and good friend of late Finnish President Mauno Koivisto (1923-2017) dead at 104.

Navajo Nation chairman/crook Peter MacDonald actually just made an appearance at some event a few days ago: The event was related to the WWII Navajo Code Talkers but as far as I know he was the only one of the living three to attend. He's now 94 with a long health history (tuberculosis, diabetes, multiple heart attacks, triple bypass, arthritis, etc)...and seems to be running out of successors to outlive. Looked fine, he's looked quite frail for years and is mostly wheelchairbound.

Iranian translator, writer, editor Ahmad Samiei Gilani dead at 102. I recall either he or Ardeshir Kazemi was hospitalised a few months ago.

Shakira's mom Nidia Ripoll Torrado hospitalised with leg blood clot as a deep vein thrombosis complication.

Finnish military intelligence colonel, professor and Russia-Ukraine war expert Martti J. Kari hospitalised after suffering a stroke or a heart attack. Other ailments include...terminal cancer for five years with atleast four "incurable tumors" and last year he said that statistically he should be dead. (Video from 2018)

Major ultraorthodox rabbi Moshe Hillel Hirsch, 86, in serious condition in intensive care, Dov Lando and Gershon Edelstein write that he's "suffering greatly and needs the mercy of heaven". He's suffered from some illness, likely terminal, for around two months now and was also hospitalised and in ICU ten days ago and has been undergoing normal treatments related to that illness for a bit over two months.

Congrats diego 1923: Roedad Khan / Tunku Ampuan Najihah 1924: Oscar Wyatt / Magdalena Gamayo 1925: Ronnie de Mel / Reuma Weizman 1926: Sheikh Salem Al-Ali Al-Sabah / Irene Camber 1927: Luigi Manocchio / Aira Samulin 1928: Archbishop Demetrios of America / Nguyễn Thị Bình 1929: Tahar Zbiri / Farida Khanum 1930: Emmanuel Milingo / Biljana Plavšić 1931: Michael Hardie Boys / Carroll Baker 1932: Tep Vong / Naina Yeltsina

Finnish crime writer Harri Nykänen most known for creating the character Raid dead at 69. One of the most known modern Finnish crime writers (Reijo Mäki and Seppo Jokinen are the largest ones), the tv series and movie based on his books were widely popular in Finland in the early 2000s. See imdb - Raid.

Ultraorthodox Charedi Council leader Moshe Sternbuch (the obese 97-year-old who had a pacemaker implanted last year) visits another rabbi who's "recovering from illness" (Sanz dynasty rebbe Zvi Elimelech Halberstam, 71, apparently being treated at home now, not mentioned what his illness is, but he had hypoxia due to covid in 2020):

The reaper had other plans, he was never discharged but fought quite a (over two-month) fight against all his ailments and now Taiwan independence activist Zhong Yiren is dead at 101. He's a DL Cup pick but will he get an English obit? I could only found one bot-generated.

Tiina Jylhä hospitalised after suffering heart attack or stroke, condition unknown according to her current husband Tapani Tape Valkonen (who I mentioned in the Bodybuilders thread a while ago because he carries an oxygen tank around with him)

Chun Woo-won, grandson of late South Korea dictator Chun Doo-hwan, reportedly critical after overdosing on drugs, just talked about the slush fund money his father, stepmother and grandmother (Lee Soon-ja) have.

Pekka Paavola, Finnish Minister of Justice 1972 and longtime crook mayor/city manager of Tampere dead at 89 after a short stay in palliative care. One of those "they're still alive?" names for me. Four ministers of the Feb-Sept 1972 Paasio II government left, known as "Nappulaliiga" ("child league") for having a large amount of ministers under 45, multiple under 30. Those still living are Seija Karkinen, 86, second Minister at the Ministry of Finance, Matti Louekoski, 81, Minister at the Prime Minister's Office, Seppo Lindblom, 87, Minister at the Ministry of Trade and Industry and Ulf Sundqvist, 78, Minister of Education. Sundqvist is a heart attack, brain tumor and mouth cancer survivor who chainsmoked for four decades, Lindblom has been frail for a while. Louekoski is still active.

JVPM has made it very far. He's now the 10th*-oldest validated man ever, around one more month and he'll reach Israel Kristal. There's also now two 113-year-old validated men, hasn't happened in around a decade. *Or possibly soon the 9th-oldest, 11th-oldest or 12th-oldest. There are two cases of 114-year-old men pending validation, one from Peru and one from the Dominican Republic. If those two are validated he'd be "only" at spot #12, but I'd say it's likely that current #4 Mathew Beard will be "un-validated" in the future. Brazilian longevity claimant Sebastiao Batista dos Santos celebrated his "121st" a few days ago. There's a video on youtube and while he's able to sit and seemingly communicate with people, he looks quite ill, bloodshot eyes and barely able to talk.

Taiwan actress Lu Bih-yun 盧碧雲 (zh wiki, imdb) is as far as I know still alive at 101. Not mentioned here anywhere, but has 112 imdb credits. Burmese artist San Hlaing, said to be living on his recently created wikipedia page, (if google translate is correct, he was also on oxygen in Nov '15) died in December 2015 according to this facebook post, so don't bother picking him in next year's Centenarians DP.