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On 26/07/2022 at 14:06, arghton said:Finnish Prime Minister 2003-2010 Matti Vanhanen hospitalised yesterday with heart problems and atrial fibrillation but now doing fine.
Matti Vanhanen awarded counsellor of state title. That title has only been awarded to nine people and the last time was twenty years ago. Might be a sign he's in declining health.
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On 13/04/2024 at 11:41, drol said:Jayapataka has been out of oxygen for two days, just needs few more dialysis and will then be discharged.
Unbelievable.
Suffering from pulmonary edema again, still on antibiotics and needs more dialysis, but at the moment the greatest concern is that he's not able to travel yet. At the request of his medical team he will stay in hospital longer until he has "completely recovered".
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On 21/04/2022 at 11:54, arghton said:Sidney Cooke, now 95. How is he still alive? Wheelchairbound after a stroke or a double-stroke in the 2000s, heart attacks, everything. 12 years ago today he was fighting for his life after collapsing
Sidney Cooke is 97 today
Have a very unhappy birthday, die soon et cetera
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Palitha Thewarapperuma, Sri Lankan politician and former Member of Parliament (most known for starting two major fights in Sri Lanka's parliament, bringing a blunt knife there and trying to stab other MPs, attempting suicide by hanging while demanding the authorities to admit 9 children into a public school, chaining himself to a truck while fasting...) expectedly dies from electrocution in his own home or garden.
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Me too, apparently. Three hours ago. Fucking weird.
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Image from an event two days ago. Clearly frailer than last year, I'd say. He might be one of the greatest monsters in the history of the world for adding years into his age, but I love the way he dresses.
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1 hour ago, drol said:Governor of Arkhangelsk Oblast Pavel Balakshin dead at 87.
Some time ago I went through the living Russian governors and their longevity was depressingly bad. Balakshin was the oldest by a big margin, IIRC. Don't know who 's the oldest now.
They can't really compete with their Chinese counterparts.
Of republics...
Alexander Dzasokhov, "President of North Ossetia-Alania" 1998-2005 is still alive at 90. He should be the oldest.
After him, possibly Aslan Dzharimov, born 1936, head of Adyghe 1992-2006.
There's a few living born in 1937, including Dzharimov's successor Hazret Sovmen and Tatarstan's iron ruler Mintimer Shaimiev (who was widowed five years ago, but seems to be doing great for his age), and then a larger amount of ones in their early 80s.
Of oblasts...
I think allegedly corrupt former governor of Oryol Yegor Stroyev is the oldest governor of an Oblast now that Balakshin is dead, close second Eduard Rossel of Sverdlovsk whose father was killed by NKVD during Stalin's Great Purge.
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On 30/03/2022 at 19:29, arghton said:Adding 1928:
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Michael Dingake (1928-2024) Botswana author and political activist.
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Michael Dingake, Botswana author, politician and activist who spent 15 years on Robben Island with Mandela, dead at 96.
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Beverly LaHaye is dead as mentioned in the Dying Bigots thread. Hit number 8 for me, I think. Can't they keep these people alive for a bit longer?
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On 21/09/2023 at 22:57, arghton said:Up until recently one of those few current nonagenarian/octogenarian Finnish celebrities who've appeared very frequently on tv. I'd put dancer/tv face Aira Samulin (96), maybe politicians Jaakko Iloniemi (91) and Elisabeth Rehn (88), singers Pirkko Mannola, Eino Grön (both 84) and Danny (80) in the same group, all very notable in Finland and people who'll likely die once they stop appearing on tv/aren't interviewed anymore.
Pirkko Mannola hospitalised with bell's palsy.
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On 08/03/2023 at 23:39, arghton said:Apparently a sign that Than Shwe and Maung Aye still have some power over the current guy despite both of them having been in failing health for more than a decade.
Chinese ambassador visited Than Shwe, his old deputy Maung Aye and former president Thein Sein a week or two ago. They definitely hold a lot of power behind the scenes. There's a new image of Shwe in the article, he doesn't look particularly ill or frail at the moment.
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Jimmy Carter, President of the United States, tragically at the age of 99
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Can't find if this has been mentioned yet.
Isabelle Coutant-Peyre, French lawyer, lawyer and wife of Carlos the Jackal, dead at 70 from cancer. Also represented for example Roger Garaudy, Charles Sobhraj, 9/11 terrorists and Iran.
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On 12/04/2024 at 13:11, drol said:Silverio Perez Rosado, father of Puerto Rican musician Silverio Pérez (wiki), hospitalised in serious condition.
He is 109.
Silverio Perez Rosado improving, but needs blood transfusions.
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Of course. When Ansari and Swami Smaranananda died two weeks ago I thought there'd be more deaths of perennially ill hospitalised people, but far too many have survived. None dead from my Cup team and it mostly seemed a good lineup at the start of the month when, for example, Manolis Mavrommatis (who is now out of ICU) was "critical and in urgent need of blood transfusions"...
Jayapataka Swami out of ICU, kidneys and lungs improving, but "still very weak".
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2008: "Musician played banjo on operating table while doctors carried out surgery on his brain"
I recall seeing the video somewhere before and today I stumbled upon it again on social media. Anyways, Eddie Adcock, he's still alive and now 85.
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Brazilian sportscaster Silvio Luiz hospitalised for tests.
Shib Narayan Das, designer of the first flag of Bangladesh was in critical condition earlier this week.
Luiz has one of the shortest Wikipedia pages I've seen.
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On 10/03/2024 at 18:58, arghton said: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.
Akebono dead as mentioned in the Wrestlers thread. One of the greatest sumo wrestlers of his generation, well-respected, but from what I understand local controversy (he dated a Japanese pop singer, that relationship wasn't widely accepted there) on his personal life lead to his 1990s financial trouble that caused him to get into MMA, show wrestling and kickboxing. It seems he wasn't much more than a freak show there.
Kitanofuji is still presumably in hospital with severe heart problems, completely incapacitated and will likely die any day now. It'll be interesting to see if Takamiyama Daigoro will be at Akebono's funeral as he trained him.
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On 09/11/2022 at 23:44, arghton said:Mentioning Eero Blåfield, 101-year-old WWII vet, HIFK superfan, oldest member of the Blåfield noble family who I remember was in the news once over a decade ago due to his senior badminton career. Looks quite frail now
On 03/12/2022 at 17:56, arghton said:The President of Finland invited some veterans and Lotta Svärd members to the Presidential Palace a couple of days ago.
Some of the people who attended:
Eero Blåfield, 101: Actually mentioned him just a while ago on the previous page! He attended, now in a motorized wheelchair, but looked great otherwise.
Helka Visuri, 100
Eila Karhula, 95
Fazlulla Fethulla, 98
Otto Virkki, 98
Väinö Aronen, 99
Algot Roos, 99
Unto Hakuli, 99
Eero Blåfield dead at 102. Expected considering his age, but still sad news. It's been 84 years since the Winter War, the remaining veterans are around Blåfield's age. No idea how many are still alive.
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On 21/03/2024 at 00:59, arghton said:Manolis Mavrommatis is apparently critical again too.
Manolis Mavrommatis out of ICU, his wife is still intubated.
I completely forgot Srinivas is still alive. He seemed near the end even before his "critical on ventilator" hospitalisation.
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On 07/04/2024 at 14:29, drol said:Jayapataka has greatly improved and is out of bed according to the latest update. Seems like he will make it even this time.
He's still in ICU but has been "greatly improving" the last few days, was able to participate in an event and did a small speech today through video call:
Picture of health.
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2 minutes ago, The Immortal said:Asides from maybe some Korean generals, I am not sure if there any properly notable Korean War veterans currently living who are famous for their participation.
Royce Williams is alive for now, but I have no idea if he's could be called properly notable. From South Korea, I think the last General notable for participation is Kim Too-man (97) who flew a modern fighter jet at 88 and still seems to be in pretty good health.
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1 hour ago, Octopus of Odstock said:Charlie Doherty of former Big Brother 'fame' has a brain tumour.
In the nerves. I don't know about acoustic neuroma, but a year ago I was diagnosed with a similar tumor in a different place of the head and it seems deaths caused by these types of tumors are extremely rare, usually they develop very slowly as mentioned later on in the article. I've been told my tumor could've been there for decades and it does not cause any problems to me. Very different "brain tumor" compared to for example meningioma
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The Ukraine Crisis
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Apparently decapitated by his own? Good move. The Donetsk militias have enough food supply for a week from his carcass.