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Ebou Janha, last surviving WWII vet of the 1 Gambia Regiment died earlier this month at 102: Despite the Al Jazeera article, seems he didn't even get any local obits. I wonder if "Ghana's Tom Moore" Joseph Ashiteye Hammond is still alive.

I tend to keep track of birthdays of old/ill celebs/pool possibilities and world's oldest people, always great formspotting opportunities...Here's a longer list, 26 July - 26 August. Lots of names regularly mentioned here. 26 July: James Lovelock, 103 (turns out he died on his birthday, the day this was posted) and Wang Xiji, 101 27 July: Norman Lear, 100 28 July: Alberto Fujimori and Chuan Leekpai, 84 31 July: Stefan Arczyński, 106 2 August: Leo Beenhakker, 80 3 August: Tony Bennett, 96 4 August: Ali al-Sistani, 92 8 August: Dustin Hoffman, 85 9 August: Akintola Williams, 103 and Leonid Kuchma, 84 11 August: Pervez Musharraf, 79 12 August, Queen Sirikit, 90 and George Soros, 92 13 August: Sofia Rojas, 115 (Didn't make it) 14 August: David Crosby, 81 16 August: Frank Mawer, 110 17 August: Jiang Zemin, 96 and Theodoros Pangalos, 84 18 August: Just Fontaine and Roman Polanski, 89, Hifikepunye Pohamba, 87, Robert Redford, 86 19 August: Hsing Yun, 95 20 August: Tripolino Giannini, 110, Don King, 91, Ron Paul, 87 21 August: Ethel Caterham, 113 and Sister Jean, 103, X. J. Kennedy, 93, Festus Mogae, 83 23 August: Rose Eaton, 113, Barbara Eden, 91 24 August: Vince McMahon, 77 25 August: Frederick Forsyth, 84 26 August: John Tinniswood, 110 and Jet Black, 84

According to his Arabic wiki Hashim Aqrawi died on 10 May 1990. This LA Times article says he was "ailing" in July 1989, so I assume that death date is correct.

Kaikala Satyanarayana is 87 today, and here's a rare new video of him: Bedbound, and look at all those tubes... However I have to say it's a miracle that he even survived multiple organ failure (low survival rate, around 42% on average, not sure what it's at his age) and septic shock at 86 (survival rate a bit over 20% for people over 80) and everything else he had, and it's been six months. It'd be interesting if he lived another few years, but what's the life expectancy of someone with a permanent tracheostomy...

Burmese politician, rapper, hip hop artist, former member of the House of Representatives Zayar Thaw and writer, activist, politician Kyaw Min Yu and a few others executed by the junta: https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/24/asia/myanmar-executions-pro-democracy-figures-intl-hnk/index.html

https://www.geni.com/people/Achmad-Adnawidjaja/6000000002084528043

Thiounn Mumm died around March according to a post by facebook user Fichenou Lapaix, March 29. Translated from French. In recent days, several Cambodians have paid tributes on Facebook to Thiounn Mumm, one of the Pol Pot regime's "intellectual" bonds, who died in Paris aged 96. These admirers feel veneration for this "great man" from polytechnic, who is one of the four very famous "intellectual" brothers who served the Khmer Rouge regime. He is the third son of the powerful aristocratic family that has been linked to monarchic power since the French protectorate. Indeed, his grandfather, Thiounn, was the palace minister from 1902 to 1941. The Thiounn brothers curiously escaped the Khmer Red Purges while several important cadres were eliminated in S-21. They held important positions, but they did not have the decision-making power. They still remained loyal to Pol Pot for several years after the fall of Khmer Reds in 1979. Can't find any articles or other confirmation, knowing his Khmer name could help.

Congrats WEP 1922: Ravipudi Venkatadri / Gaositwe Chiepe 1923: Sen Sōshitsu XV / Qian Zhengying 1924: Khamtai Siphandone / Grace Onyango 1925: Ronnie de Mel/ Letitia Obeng 1926: Yitzchok Tuvia Weiss / Irene Camber 1927: Ahmad Jannati / Aira Samulin 1928: Paul Dooley / Nguyễn Thị Bình 1929: Tahar Zbiri / Violeta Chamorro 1930: Emmanuel Milingo / Faith Ringgold 1931: Michael Hardie Boys / Carroll Baker Edit: Iride Semprini seems to have died off the radar in June according to social media posts. Replaced with Carroll Baker.

I've got a list in Political Frailty, 1 May 2022 with Asian politicians by country born before 1940,. China, India, Indonesia, Vietnam a few other countries are excluded but most of Asia is covered. I sometimes check it for names to use in 20/20 + 2.

Says that the US is more totalitarian than 1970s Soviet Union, calls Lavrov the Prime Minister of Russia.

Swiss-American sculptor Emilie Benes Brzezinski, also the widow of Carter's National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, dead at 90: https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2022/07/22/brzezinski-dies/

Removed Rahimuddin Khan and H. V. Hande. Hande's alive and seems to be such a big political personality in Tamil Nadu I doubt he'll die off radar. Here's a picture apparently from last month:

Removed OPEC boss Subroto from the list, seems very much alive. Here's a picture from May: Tin Sein died around July or August 2020 at 94 according to this facebook post.

Updated the list. The oldest male royal, excluding Saudi nobodies who you can't find any information online, is probably now either Sheikh Salem al-Ali al-Sabah or Sheikh Tahnoun bin M. Both born in 1926, but as far as I know their exact birthdates aren't known...Kuwait's Sheikh Salem was rumored dead in October 2020 when he was ill and has been wheelchairbound for over a decade. Tahnoun of the UAE is doing fine and has a twitter account.

Jean Todt says he watches F1 races with Schumacher: https://www.independent.co.uk/f1/michael-schumacher-f1-races-ferrari-b2128173.html

Remember when I mentioned Abdoulaye Wade is participating in Senegal's July 31st elections, leading an opposition coalition? He is in France and has not spoken publicly since the start of his campaign. https://www.rfi.fr/fr/afrique/20220720-législatives-au-sénégal-abdoulaye-wade-96-ans-tête-de-liste-de-wallu-et-grand-absent However he "might come back to Senegal before the election"

Heikki Haavisto, Foreign Minister of Finland 1993-1995 dead at 86, 27 years after his near-fatal stroke.

Lalu Prasad Yadav discharged after 18 days in hospital. Now AIIMS doctors will decide if he can to go to Singapore for a kidney transplant.

"Anonymous of Ireland" died at 110 or 111 at an unknown point between April 27 and July 20 according to 110club. If he wasn't a fraudster, he was the oldest man ever from Ireland, at the time of his death the oldest person in Ireland and depending on when he died, possibly the oldest man in Europe. The oldest man in Europe is now Hans Schornack, German supercentenarian and first male supercentenarian born on the leap day. Oldest person and oldest man in Ireland is now Michael O'Connor, 108.

Asian politicians born 1922-1929 with no death date, if someone wants to find a death date/confirmation that someone from this list is alive, go ahead... Lachhman Singh (10 January 1922) India, Rajya Sabha member 1996-2002, a relatively small amount of time ago. However he was 80 then, he'd be 100 now if still alive. DEAD 2006 Manmohan Tudu (14 January 1922) India, Lok Sabha member 1971-1972 and 1980-1984. English wikipedia says he's 100, Odia wikipedia says he died in January 2007 just before his birthday at 88. Harinder Singh (20 January 1922) India, Punjab opposition leader 1969-1971. Wikipedia page says "Died: Not known" DIED 1972 Tulsiram Kamble (8 March 1922) India, Lok Sabha member 1962-1977. Dhireswar Kalita (22 April 1922) Assam communist leader, very likely long dead. DEAD 1997 Narendra R Deoghare (2 May 1922) India, Lok Sabha member 1967-1971. Likely long dead. Ramji Lal Yadav (5 May 1922) India, Lok Sabha member 1977-1980. Achmad Adnawidjaja (5 June 1922) Indonesia, Suharto-era politician. Dead on Geni but Geni has been incorrect before. Ronda Narappa Reddy (29 August 1922) India, Lok Sabha member 1957-1962 Baksi Nayak (11 September 1922) India, Lok Sabha member 1971-1977. Gulabrao Jedhe (9 December 1922) India, Lok Sabha member 1960-1967. Hari Charan Soy (19 December 1922) India, Lok Sabha member 1962-1967. DEAD, 1999 Heera Bhai (25 December 1922) India, Lok Sabha member 1977-1980 and 1989-1991. DEAD, 1995 Bhaurao Dagadurao Deshmukh (29 Dec 1922) India, Lok Sabha member 1962-1971 Rituparna Kishore Das (1922) India, Raja of Chhuikhadan 1940-1947. Likely long, long dead. Mandala Venkata Swamy Naidu (1922 1919) India, Lok Sabha member 1962-1967. Judging on how his wikipedia page is written I assume he's long dead. DEAD, unknown date. Sankar Narayan Singh Deo (1922) India, Lok Sabha member 1971-1977. (From this point on I'll exclude the ones who were just Rajya/Lok Sabha members. There's an overwhelming amount of them) Kamichetty Savithri (26 February 1923) India, Yanam politician DEAD UNKNOWN, BEFORE 2018 Nazih Deif (4 March 1923) Egypt Nasser-era Minister. DEAD 1992 Jong Chang-ryol (1923) NK politician and four star general. Was alive in 2010, could've died since. Iqbal Singh (1923) India, Lok Sabha member 1954-1970, deputy minister of petroleum in the sixties. Likely dead. DIED 1988 Mahipal Shastri (19 January 1924) India, Governor of Gujarat in 1990. DIED 1994 H. W. Dissanayake (3 February 1924) Sri Lanka/Ceylon former Member of Parliament. DIED 1985 S. K. K. Suriarachchi (5 February 1924) Sri Lanka/Ceylon former Member of Parliament DIED 1991 Amir Murtono (7 July 1924) Indonesian Suharto-era politician, former chairman of Golkar. DEAD 2021 Charu Mihir Sarkar (31 August 1924) India, West Bengal politician. K. D. David Perera (19 November 1924) Sri Lanka/Ceylon former Member of Parliament. Sawar Khan (1 December 1924) Former Governor of Punjab (Pakistan) Tamara Ilangaratne (15 March 1925) Ceylon/Sri Lanka politician, former Member of Parliament, widow of T. B. Ilangaratne. DIED 2000. Abeyratne Pilapitiya (25 May 1925) Sri Lanka, Governor of Uva and Sabaragamuwa CM in the 80s and 90s. Seems to have been alive when his wife died in 2019. Nathuram Shakyawar (14 November 1925) 1980s Indian member of parliament who took part in the Quit India Movement during WWII. DEAD 2005 Thiounn Mumm (8 December 1925) Cambodia, Pol Pot-era politician, intellectual who personally knew Pot and somehow survived his rule. "Thought to be alive" 2 years ago. DEAD 2022 Don Edwin Malawaraarachchi (27 December 1925) Sri Lanka/Ceylon former member of parliament Mohammed Saeed Al Mulla (1926) UAE politician, Unification Minister in the 70s. Tin Sein (1926) Myanmar Deputy Defence Minister in the 1980s. His son is married to Than Shwe's daughter and is active on facebook. Died August 2020. Abdul Wahed Sarābi (1926) Former VP of Afghanistan. Hashim Aqrawi (1926) Iraqi Kurdish politician. DIED 1990 S. S. Abeysundara (14 April 1927) Sri Lanka/Ceylon politician. T. B. Jayasundera (4 May 1927) Sri Lanka/Ceylon former Member of Parliament. DIED BEFORE 2009 Muhammad al-Sufi (1927) Syrian military figure and Minister of Defence in 1963. DIED 2018 Hossein Tabib (1927) Iran pre-revolution politician and former member of parliament. G. D. Mahindasoma (19 February 1928) Sri Lanka, 1st CM of the Northern Central Province 1988-1996 DEAD before 2006 Nijmeddin Dajani (7 August 1928) Jordan's former trade minister and ambassador to Germany. Kamal Rana (1928) First woman in Nepal's senate, 1959-1960. Shafiqa Ziaie (1928) Afghanistan, minister multiple times in the 1970s, second woman to become a member of the Afghan govt. Sumanapala Dahanayake (4 February 1929) Sri Lanka former member of the parliament DEAD before 2008 Ashoknath Banerji (7 October 1929) India, Karnataka governor 1983-1988 DEAD 2006 Hari Anand Barari (1929) India, Governor of Haryana 1987-1989. Died in 2016. Md. Reazuddin Ahmed (1929) Bangladeshi politician. Marked living on wikipedia but the page also says he's dead. DEAD 1997

Didn't die and has now been discharged, but Indian politician, CM of Punjab Bhagwant Mann drank water from a polluted river to show it's clean, got hospitalised two days later:

Reino Paasilinna, writer, tv journalist, former member of the Finnish Parliament, former member of the European Parliament, former director-general and chairman of YLE and former vice-chair of the delegation to the EU–Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committe dead at 82 from Parkinson's complications. As mentioned in the quoted post he appeared in Vodkaa, komisario Palmu, the movie I picked in Deaths of the Silver Screen III, he's a miss for me there.

Some kind of an update post: Mani Kumar Chetri seems to still work. Thanga Darlong is still "healthy", but looks much thinner than a few years ago. Pravrajika Bhaktiprana (President Mataji) seems to be doing fine, but she's been wheelchairbound for over a decade. Her VP at the Sri Sarada Math, Pravrajika Anandapranaji was hospitalised in January due to "pneumonia and other complications" but discharged a month later. Weird thing is that she was discharged in critical condition, so they probably expected her to die. However she recovered. Since 2014 the Math's website has given updates on the health of Bhaktiprana and since around October 2020 also on the health of Anandapranaji. They also usually give a full health history and death cause in their obituaries. Here is a picture of Bhaktiprana from the most recent update, April 2022:

But William Burns said there was no evidence to suggest this, joking that he appeared "too healthy" Maybe the CIA could do something to change that.

93rd birthday picture of Gaston Glock, posted on the Glock company twitter account