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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.

Not really. There's around fourteen women between JVPM and the world's second-oldest man. (Colombian unvalidated Eusebio Quintero Lopez, who'll be 113 in March if still alive)

Rest in Peace Lucile Randon. Newcomer is Ushi Makishi. 1. Maria Branyas Morera 2. Fusa Tatsumi 3. Edie Ceccarelli 4. Tomiko Itooka 5. Inah Canabarro Lucas 6. Hazel Plummer 7. Kimiko Ono 8. Yasue Okai 9. Nina Willis 10. Ushi Makishi Not only is the oldest living person is 115, the top 10 now seems to be a particularly frail group: Tatsumi, Plummer, Okai and Willis are pretty much bedbound, Ceccarelli suffers from dementia, Makishi hasn't been seen in a while, MBS and Canabarro Lucas both as far as I know had some health scares in 2022 and while otherwise seemingly healthy Itooka survived a stroke and brain surgery at around 110. At #11, Shinobu Hayashi isn't validated atleast yet. Juan Vicente Perez Mora is at #13, we'll see if he makes it to the top ten.

I am a bit suprised. While the Finnish media has almost never reported a hospitalisation of a former minister/member of parliament, even short term parliament members have during the last years usually pretty quickly gotten obituaries from YLE (Finland's version of the BBC), MTV3, local newspapers and/or the semi-yellow press (Iltalehti and Ilta-Sanomat). Sometimes it has taken them a few weeks and sometimes they've only gotten Helsingin Sanomat obituaries posted on this page, those HS obituaries are usually posted a month or two after the person has died. The only stuff she's gotten this far has been one facebook post and a small death mention on the blog part of the "Social Democrat Party's Naantali Branch" site that links that facebook post. I doubt it's a hoax though and I expect them to notice it this week.

King of Japanese mature porn Shigeo Tokuda is still alive, right? He was still active a couple of years as far as I know. Last mentioned here nine years ago, 89 this year. Georgina Spelvin is 86, Manu Pluton 81 and Peter Berlin 80. Can't name other octogenarian ex-stars of the industry, but British star of sex comedies Sue Longhurst will be 80 this month. There's also the controversial bipolar schizophreniac adult film actor/producer/director/draft dodger/counterfeiter/art forger/drug smuggler/meth manufacturer/erotica writer R. C. Hörsch, seemingly still active and either 80 or 90 this year.

Image of NBA player Johnny Macknowski on his 100th birthday this month:

Likely only him and Broch left. Some interesting or uninteresting European names that as far as I know have never been mentioned here before: Miloslav Masopust - 98-year-old Czechoslovak Army Corps officer. Promoted to Brig. Gen in 2005, Maj. Gen in 2019 and to the rank of Lieutenant General in 2022. Looked fine in October, check again when he's promoted to Army General. Agadadash Samedov - Decorated Azerbaijani veteran. 99 in March. Veljko Bulajić - A resistance fighter/child soldier in WWII, but more known for directing Yugoslavia's four most viewed films. UNESCO Kalinga prize recipient. Looked fine in October, 95 in March. Aris Poulianos - Greek archaeologist, anthropologist. Most known for studying the Petralona skull. And of course also known for controversy on the age of the skull. 98 and seemingly still active.

Long March veteran Wang Shaolian dead at 101. Died on the 9th of January, hasn't gotten a proper obituary yet but was mentioned as he was apparently recently interviewed (along with the late Jian Xianfo and 4 other Long March centenarian vets, names of the 4 not mentioned) for a new Chinese state tv show.

Russian necrophiliac serial killer Mikhail Popkov (confirmed to have killed 78 people, but confessed to 83) wants to join the Wagner mercenaries.

Now they're, atleast that account, saying he WENT there (with some talk about life-saving infant blood transfusions, assumably through bisexual satanic marxist witchcraft, included) This is why I don't trust anything that's only reported by sheltered conspiracy theorists living in their own bubble such as whoever runs that twitter account.

Max Fink, Austrian-born US neurologist and psychiatrist known for researching and defending Electroconvulsive therapy (he's also called the "Grandfather of American ECT") is 100 today.

As expected now he's "stable/improving" and out of ICU according to the newest post. Gofundme link all over the facebook page (of course) 2002: Cirrhosis due to Hep C, liver transplant etc 2006: bowel obstruction 2010: "one year to live" with terminal liver disease 2011: cirrhosis part two 2012: stage three liver disease and cirrhosis 2013: critical with double pneumonia and possible heart failure 2014: "liver complication" - two years to live 2016: internal bleeding 2019: pneumonia 2020: toe infection 2021: fluid in lungs, a-fib, congestive heart failure 2022 & 2023: toe amputation, resuscitation due to cardiac arrest, skull and ear infection, kidney failure, fluid in lungs etc. ... Future predictions: 2024: terminal skin cancer and lung failure 2025: stage 4 kidney disease, only two years to live 2026: diagnosed with ALS 2027: letter bombed by angry deadpoolers and undergoes mustache amputation, partial left ear amputation due to diabetes complications 2028: terminal liver failure, four months to live, ear infection 2030: undergoes partial right ear amputation due to nuclear blast and diabetes complications, critical with kidney failure

Congrats DoorSlammer 1923: Roedad Khan / Tunku Ampuan Najihah 1924: Oscar Wyatt / Grace Onyango 1925: Ronnie de Mel / Reuma Weizman 1926: KH Ali Yafie / Irene Camber 1927: Harvey Carignan / 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 / Lora Yakovleva

This article from 2010 mentions he was discharged/came back to Kuwait in January 2010 after a hospitalisation of two and a half years! (Extremely impressive for someone who isn't a Chinese politician/scientist/veteran) Apparently he was in Manchester, London and Berlin hospitals, but seems to have spent most of it in Manchester. Found an image of him in that Manchester hospital, from Kuwait News Agency: I recall the Emir (sitting on the sofa next to wheelchairbound Sheikh Salem) also spent a lot of time in different European hospitals before his death in 2020. Ignacio Lopez Tarso reached 98, there's a birthday video and interview on youtube. He looks great, can walk outside, seems to talk clearly and wants to reach 100.

Japanese death row serial killer Miyuki Ueta (only convicted of two murders, but there are four "suspicious deaths" of people somehow related to her) dead at 49 from choking on her food.

Bangladesh politician of BNP Mirza Abbas hospitalised with dyspnea, severe UTI and irregular heartbeat. Bangladesh politician and BNP GenSec Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir hospitalised but only for checkups. (Edit: discharged already)

Reported on facebook that the oldest former member of the Finnish parliament and oldest former minister (Minister of Social Affairs and Health 1979-1982) Sinikka Luja-Penttilä has died at 98. Can't find any obituaries on the internet yet but it seems true, as far as I know she'd been in failing health for a while and there's apparently an obituary in the Demokraatti newspaper. Ancient anti-NATO defence minister Taisto Tähkämaa is now the oldest former Finnish minister and member of parliament, 99 in December and has been in a care home for years (also one of my Electoral DP picks)

Not dead Interrograted. There's a new image and he looks thinner and more gray than before and I think there's some difference with the nasal cannula he has too. I doubt he'll die this year (or atleast in the next few months) as he's still well enough to talk for a longer time. Assuming he actually has pulmonary fibrosis, the life expectancy for it is around 3-5 years, not sure what it's for an 84-year-old. He was diagnosed a year and two months ago.

Was on my radar since around a week ago when I was reading on some Ryuichi Sakamoto-related people and saw the part of his wikipedia page saying he had a brain tumor in 2020 but underwent treatment, surgeries and it was "removed". Cause of death mentioned as brain cancer.

Durai Murugan discharged yesterday, then hospitalised again today.

Sichuan author/popular pool pick/immortal Ma Shitu is 108 today

Chinese Civil War and WWII veteran, WWII war correspondant, Former Deputy Director of the Propaganda Department of the Shanxi Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China and founder of Shanxi Radio and Television Liu Jiang dead at 104.