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Joe Dixon, world's oldest retired firefighter and Britain's third-oldest man (behind John Tinniswood and John Farringdon), dead at 109.

Abdullah the Butcher around a week ago: Yes, he's in a wheelchair in recent videos and images and looks like he's almost gasping for air, but doing amazing for someone who should've died a decade, two or three ago (hardcore wrestling, Hep C, morbid obesity, the bleeding thing and chainsmoking cigars). Now 82.

Sami Sharaf, Nasser's Minister of State for Presidential Affairs who was arrested and imprisoned during Anwar Sadat's presidency, dead at 93 after being in hospital for months. (Yes, he was born in 1929, not 1925)

Subs as requested Centenarians: Ma Shitu, Arch Jelley Nonagenarians: Raimo Ilaskivi, Cleopa Msuya Terminal cancer: Linda Nolan ALS: Daniel L. Doctoroff, John Driskell Hopkins Free picks: Arnold Rüütel, Kimura Shōnosuke XXVII

Suprised Juraj Jakubisko isn't more talked here. He had a heart transplant over a decade ago after suffering a heart attack and other problems, then broke his leg. In 2021 he spent two months in serious condition with covid and a kidney disease.

Trying this, but I probably won't do very well. Many names I have used somewhere else. I hope these are acceptable, thank you for hosting 1. María Isabel Rodríguez 2. Wei Wei 3. Zou Yu 4. Phyllis Latour 5. Michael Loewe 6. Valdas Adamkus 7. Aira Samulin 8. Juan Ponce Enrile 9. L.K. Advani 10. Mengesha Seyoum 11. Jonnie Irwin (terminal lung cancer) 12. Cynthia Mulligan (stage IV breast cancer) 13. Gary Glenn (stage IV prostate cancer) 14. Jason Becker (ALS) 15. Tempt One/Tony Quan (graffiti artist, ALS) 16. Vytautas Landsbergis (90 or something and also had a pneumonia hospitalisation a while back) 17. Ilia II of Georgia (parkinson's and 90) 18. Harald V (hospitalised with infection last year) 19. Chiam See Tong (parkinsons for a few decades) 20. Maria Nyerere 21. William Roache 22. Olusegun Obasanjo (diabetes) 22. Alan Alda (parkinsons) 23. James Earl Jones (diabetes) 24. Vigdís Finnbogadóttir 25. Than Shwe (diabetes) 26. Anastasios of Albania 27. Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati 28. Warren Buffett 29. Henepola Gunaratana 30. DD Lapang (qualifies to the obese rule?) 31. Princess Mette-Marit (pulmonary fibrosis, qualifies under terminal lung disease?) 32. Ram Narayan 33. Parkash Singh Badal 34. Choe Yong-rim 35. Sam Nujoma 36. Yoshiro Nakamatsu 37. Bibhash Chakraborty (85, heart attack/cardiac arrest in December 2022) 38. Win Htein (diabetes) 39. Juha Väätäinen (stroke in 2022) 40. Ong Pang Boon

Some 20/20 possibilities Solihin G. P. - Indonesian politician and Lt. Gen who was the Governor of West Java 1970-1975. He's been in and out of hospital since suffering a stroke in 2017 and was rumored dead in 2021 when he was ill with covid. 97 this year. Sao Sanda - Burmese royal and last princess of Yawnghwe, 95 this year. Apparently attended the wedding of QEII. Probably not many of those still living. Mohamed Fayek - Nasser-era Egyptian cabinet minister. 94 this year. Sankara Narayana Menon Chundayil - One hell of a name (try saying that), however also called Shri Sankaranarayana Menon and Unni Gurukkal. Indian martial artist, master of Kerala's Kalaripayattu and Padma Shri recipient. Wheelchairbound and quite frail. 94 next month. Jukka Haavisto - Finnish jazz vibraphonist and accordionist. Lyme disease, 93 this year. K. W. Lee - Korean-US journalist. Liver and stomach cancer survivor and underwent a liver transplant 31 years ago. 95 in June. Max Baldwin - Australian Olympic canoeist, 95. Lost the ability to move his other leg due to polio in 1929. T. K. Murthy - 98-year-old Indian mridangam master. Has never really looked very healthy. Wang Huo - Chinese writer and best friend of Ma Shitu. Survived multiple heart attacks a few years ago and every time he makes a public appearance he looks like a different person. 99 this year. Budimir Lončar - Formerly the Foreign Affairs Minister of Yugoslavia, Croatia's own Kissinger still around to tell how things should be done in his opinion. 99 this year. Gazi Yaşargil - Turkish pioneer of microneurosurgery. 98 this year. Ihor Yukhnovskyi - Former Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine. 97. Vija Vētra - Latvian Classical Indian dancer who lives in the US. Appeared in a few episodes of Mister Rogers' Neighbourhood in the 1960s and 1970s. 100 next month.

He makes Ric Flair look healthy

Russian news sites say Ivan Krasko has been discharged and seems like they're suprised he survived it. Here's an image: He's apparently been in hospital 10 times during the last 2 years. Russia's Leslie Phillips?

He had four visits to Italy last year as mentioned in the Sheikhs thread and also sounds very frail in videos from late last year. Very ill and I doubt he'll see 2024.

Is 1930s strongwoman Relna Brewer McRae of Muscle Beach, US still alive? Unlikely as she'd be 103 now, but she was still alive and in good health back in 2010, so there's a chance. Betty Brosmer is alive. Widow of Mr. Olympia founder Joe Weider. 87 this year. To add one name to Ulitzer's list on the previous page Clarence Bass is alive and 86 this year. Arthur Robin lives in Italy as far as I know.

India's Padma Awards are announced next week. Going to keep an eye on who gets the Padma Shris, lots of them tend to die a few months after being awarded it.

1. Who actually killed Olof Palme? 2. Did "Mongolian Stalin" Khorloogiin Choibalsan actually die from cancer? 3. Where's Gedhun Choekyi Nyima? 3.5. And where's Chadrel Rinpoche? 4. What happened to Emmanuel Bodjollé? 5. See above - why do Wikipedia editors keep marking him as living despite everything pointing to him having died around sixty years ago?

Chris Leitch incumbent leader of NZ's Social Credit Party being reported dead from neck cancer. (Source on wikipedia, seems to be region locked)

Recently saw this image, taken in Dresden in 2013: GM, International Arbiter Borislav Ivkov (1933-2022) GM Mark Taimanov (1926-2016) (Behind them the organizer of the event) GM Robert Hübner (1948-) Behind Vasiukov GM Evgeni Vasiukov (1933-2018) World Chess Champion, GM Boris Spassky (1937-) in a wheelchair GM Klaus Darga (1934-) GM, ICCM Hans-Joachim "Hajo" Hecht (1939-) Holding a wine glass next to Kraidman GM William Lombardy (1937-2017) GM Yair Kraidman (1932-) behind Lombardy and Malich GM Burkhard Malich (1936-) International Master Andreas Dückstein (1927-) Behind Ólafsson next to Kraidman GM Friðrik Ólafsson (1935-) GM Wolfgang Uhlmann (1935-2020)

#10?: Liang Jincai (wikidata) is dead at 95 on Wikipedia's database reports but not on Chinese wikipedia.

Kuwaiti Sheikh Fawaz Duaij Al-Salman Al-Homoud Al-Sabah dead. Kuwait's Emir Nawaf (mentioned above) has again been in Italy for "private visits". Here's the image of him returning a few weeks ago: He had four "private visits" to Italy in 2022.

I'd like to participate, I don't remember if I've ever participated in this before,

Nikos Xanthopoulos out of ICU, "out of danger" and improving I'm very suprised he's alive, he was critical in ICU for a whole month and most of the time intubated! (And two weeks ago his family were "asking for a miracle") I doubt anyone that age can completely recover from that or similar conditions (or even survive more than a few weeks or months - except that Malaysian crooner mentioned a few pages back in September, Abdel Rahman Abou Zahra and Immortals listers), but now we'll see if he actually survives it or has a serious infection that puts him back into ICU during the next week or two.

Chief Emeka Anyaoku is 90 today.

Ukraine's Minister of the Interior, Denys Monastyrsky being said to have died in a plane crash today...

Kazuhisa Ōmura, oldest professional Shogi player, dead at 94 from heart failure. Yukio Miyasaka is now the oldest one. That 83-year-old Shogi professional/pool pick Hifumi Kato has an interesting Twitter account. (https://twitter.com/hifumikato) He loves food and cats and uses a lot of emojis.

Some predictions just so that I can see how good these predictions were in late December. (Probably not very good): - Multiple 99-year-olds will die this year just before reaching their 100th, three weeks or less. Maybe Menahem Pressler, V. S. Achuthanandan, Al Quie, David H. Murdock, Vic Seixas, Yuriko Princess Mikasa, Ashi Tashi Dorji, Santiago Omar Riveros and Rudolph Pariser. - Unexpected deaths: A worldfamous A-lister businessman will die either very suddenly or due to an illness we weren't aware he had. - 2023 will further continue the massacre of old Soviet politicians, watch out Nizoramo Zaripova, Ivan Silayev, Enver Mamedov, Kallibek Kamalov, Boris Pankin, Vera Sidorova, Boris Kravtsov, Nikolai Ryzhkov. - One or two major current Russian politicians will die around May. - A current or former Head of State of an Asian country will be assasinated. - A major religious leader will die - The pope, Patriarch Bartholomew, Kirill or Ali al-Sistani, likely around April-June. - One of the less-expected-by-many-to-die 2023 listers will die in the final quarter the year. Possibly Dick Cheney, DVD, Robert Duvall or Alan Alda. - Mid-2023 will have a flood of those Chinese coffintease politicians dying. - A notable US/UK nonagenarian will miraculously survive a "critical condition" hospitalisation nobody expected them to survive. - Either Joanne Woodward, Carmen Sevilla, Prunella Scales, Jacques Delors, Jimmy Carter or Margarita Terekhova will die in November or December from pneumonia.

Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori who identified the concept of Uncanny valley in 1970 is alive and 96 next month. Mentioned by Summer in Transylvania last year. Bonus: British art critic, curator and art gallery director Jasia Reichardt who translated the term to English is also alive and 90 this year. As far as I know not mentioned here before.

Who won the Randon sweepstake? Drol was the closest one with 5th of February, right? Musharraf and Harris sweepstakes both still going but both have seemingly outlived all the bets by months.