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Hospitalised due to thrombosis and diabetes complications but "in good condition", has undergone a surgery. Article also mentions that he has been in 24/7 care since leaving office.

Jordan Pop-Jordanov or Pop-Jordanow (researchgate, wikidata) Macedonian nuclear physicist, WWII partisan, member of the Yugoslav Communist Party Central Committee, professional tennis player, expert on renewable energy and full member of the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts has popped his clogs at 98. Interesting that researchgate profile that goes from nuclear physics to sustainable energy, to ADHD, postpartum depression, climate change and stress.

Surely some child actors (Terry Kilburn) and royal children / children of political/military leaders (not a great example, but Anita Bose-Pfaff) still living from that time? But not sure if there are any who were "famous". Virginia C. Claudon Allen should still be alive although I haven't read much about her, I have no idea if she was famous in any way at the time.

Mark Coleman, apparently a big name in MMA and freestyle wrestling (initial UFC Heavyweight Champion and an UFC Hall of Famer), on ventilator and in critical condition following house fire. Reading about him, he sounds like a nice guy who's suffered a lot in life, and has also been hospitalised atleast four times within the last six months before this.

Chiam See Tong, as mentioned in the quoted post, 89 today!

Thura U Tin Oo, Burmese activist/politician/general/former political prisoner/DDP pick/indestructible immortal is 97 today!

Myōbudani was never really heavy but I agree, an impressive run. Not only sumo wrestlers die due to obesity-related reasons, from what I've heard most of the time they're under enormous stress, if they perform badly they might get demoted and I recall the "low-level" sumo wrestlers will usually get no pension at all from the Sumo Association. Due to the aforementioned and the fact they have no post-middle school education many end up unemployed after their career. Modern sumo on top of all that also has steroid use etc. Last time I checked the life expectancy of a sumo wrestler was somewhere between 55 and 65, but steroids will cut another ten from that. The oldest one I'm a hundred percent sure is still alive is Yutakayama Katsuo, 86. The next major sumo deaths are probably going to be Kitanofuji Katsuaki (81) who has been in hospital for around a year now with heart failure and Takamiyama Daigoro (79) who was the heaviest wrestler of his generation and I remember he fairly recently said somewhere he "won't live much longer". I wouldn't be suprised if Akebono Tarō (former top-level sumo wrestler who permanently ruined his life by getting into show wrestling, kickboxing and MMA and now has enormous heart issues and likely CTE) clung on to life for years, his family clearly wants to keep him alive.

Possibly the most hated Finn ever, child rapist and murderer Antti Veikko Ilmari Siltavuori, better known as Jammu Siltavuori or Jammu-Setä ("Uncle Jammu") died on this day 12 years ago, aged 85.

Swami Smaranananda, 94-year-old head of the Ramakrishna Math and Mission hospitalised and very critical on ventilator. Edit: He has been in hospital for more than a month but has now taken a turn for the worse.

He had suffered six paralyzing strokes earlier, hospitalised some time ago for lung problems, then rehospitalised with myocarditis and oedema that he also survived but finally died from lung and kidney failure. Hares hit for me.

Bapu Surat Singh Khalsa hospitalised last week after "significant deterioration over the last few days". No updates since.

The great Leif Segerstam says he has been wheelchairbound since a bad bout of covid last year: https://www.is.fi/viihde/art-2000010267597.html Segerstam says that music is his nourishment. Otherwise, not much happens during the day, everyday life mostly consists of watching TV. In the interview, Segerstam was asked what he does. - I breathe and sleep and eat and piss and shit. And if I take SPAM, then something else, Segerstam tells HS. Edit: Spam meaning the sexual dysfunction medicine. He was one of the three Finnish maestros I mentioned almost three years ago - the others, Kaj Chydenius and Jorma Panula are still alive too. Panula is still working at 93, Chydenius has unfortunately been very quiet in recent years and if he died tomorrow it would not suprise me at all.

I've noticed a pattern here. So many of these immortals have families/followers who always seem to deny everything. (However Carter tends to outlive them one by one) Some miscellaneous news on other of the immortals listers: Sonomyn Luvsangombo celebrates 100th birthday (East Asia age reckoning). He lives on Moscow's Michurinsky avenue, I'm not sure if the images are new. Filipino immortals Enrile and Cesar Virata interviewed on longevity last month. Aged 100 and 93, both are still working and Virata seems quite sure he'll reach 100 too.

Abdul Taib is a hit for me here but seems I forgot I picked him here. Died on the 21st of February. Paul Vachon is also a hit for many here including me.

Silvia Pinal hospitalised but not in critical/serious condition. Javier Batiz, Tijuana music icon hospitalised with pneumonia, pulmonary edema, prostate and heart problems. And, last but not least, Cup pick Kaiti Grey "making a miraculous recovery". Smells like terminal lucidity. ...And more: My cup pick Manolis Mavrommatis and his wife Rena Venieri both undergo tracheostomy and are in critical condition Tin Oo discharged. Herlda Senhouse, US supercentenarian is currently hospitalised according to the gerontology folk.

Today is the Iranian legislative election, so a lot of very old Ayatollahs have appeared to cast their votes. Some images below. Grand Ayatollah Hossein Noori Hamedani (98): Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati (97): Grand Ayatollah Naser Makarem Shirazi (97): Grand Ayatollah Ja'far Sobhani (94): I'll add more to this post later today if I find any. Many of the 90+ ayatollahs are very "overdue" and clearly getting frailer.

And there's still "Ghana's Tom Moore" Joseph Ashitey Hammond, 99 and even has an active twitter account.

Orville Turnquest again

Died from lung cancer, had been receiving treatment in the UK since November before returning to Tanzania according to BBC Swahili.

Picture from a Breaking Bad reunion some days ago: Especially Anna Gunn looks quite thin but apparently that's due to lupus. Not shown in the image but Mike or whatever his name is looks pretty much the same.

Kagamisato Kiyoji, the 42nd Yokozuna of sumo wrestling, died on this day 20 (or, you know, 5) years ago at 80. Born in 1923, allegedly weighing over 8 kilos as a newborn, he had already gained local reputation of being a "big guy" as a young teenager. After being invited to join sumo in 1940 (and he and his mother being offered financial assistance for it, his father had died when he was a small child) he made his professional debute at 18 in 1941. He was promoted to Ozeki in 1949 and finally Yokozuna, the highest rank in sumo, in 1953. He retired from sumo due to a chronic knee problem in 1958, remaining an elder of the Japan Sumo Association until 1988. He remained a "big guy" until his later years and on his 80th birthday was asked "What's your next goal?" to which he said "To reach Yoneju (age 88)" Unfortunately he didn't, dying only ten months later. The most beautiful, graceful sport.

Article on cartel boss Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo's health from December. It mentions he suffers from colon cancer, rheumatism, hiatal hernia, hypertension, "long list of other diseases" and apparent dementia and is almost completely bedbound.

Orville Turnquest please...again

Reportedly hospitalised in Malaysia with infection.

Stefan Olszowski, Polish communist hardliner and Minister of Foreign Affairs who wanted to supress the Solidarity movement, died without much fanfare in December at 92. Four years later, all three of those listed dead. The question is, are there any of left? Colonel Eugenia Kempara should be the last left of the 7 (Jaruzelski included) accused in 2006 of crafting the martial law and will be 95 this year if still alive. Then there are the members of the Junta - Military Council of National Salvation. The three living or probably still living are Colonel Tadeusz Makarewicz (98), Brigadier General Jerzy Jarosz (92) and Colonel Jerzy Włosiński (80). Of other "notable" Polish communist politicians of that time Andrzej Werblan (99) is still probably alive too but wasn't a hardliner.