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  5. Posted

    Congrats diego

     

    1923: Roedad Khan / Tunku Ampuan Najihah

    1924: Oscar Wyatt / Magdalena Gamayo

    1925: Ronnie de Mel / Reuma Weizman

    1926: Sheikh Salem Al-Ali Al-Sabah / Irene Camber

    1927: Luigi Manocchio / 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 / Naina Yeltsina

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  8. Posted

    On 28/02/2023 at 12:37, arghton said:

    Taiwan independence activist Zhong Yiren back on oxygen, but seemingly recovering again. Hospitalised for over a month, he says that he'll not die anytime soon, claims that he will be discharged in a few days and needs to attend a memorial event this week. (Unless the reaper has other plans)

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    The reaper had other plans, he was never discharged but fought quite a (over two-month) fight against all his ailments and now Taiwan independence activist Zhong Yiren is dead at 101.

    He's a DL Cup pick but will he get an English obit? I could only found one bot-generated.

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    On 29/04/2021 at 16:28, arghton said:

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    Former 90s Finnish daft bimbo in Hustler, financial criminal, reality tv face, covid scammer, former bodybuilder and plastic surgery company owner Tiina Jylhä (b. 1962) looking horrible nowadays.

    Picture from a trial as she has been selling doping substances with her current husband. One of her former husbands was Juhani Palmu, who I have talked about in the art topic.

    Jylhä has a history of cocaine and amphetamine use. Maybe a good pick for some pools next year.

    Tiina Jylhä hospitalised after suffering heart attack or stroke, condition unknown according to her current husband Tapani Tape Valkonen (who I mentioned in the Bodybuilders thread a while ago because he carries an oxygen tank around with him)

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    Pekka Paavola, Finnish Minister of Justice 1972 and longtime crook mayor/city manager of Tampere dead at 89 after a short stay in palliative care. One of those "they're still alive?" names for me.

     

    Four ministers of the Feb-Sept 1972 Paasio II government left, known as "Nappulaliiga" ("child league") for having a large amount of ministers under 45, multiple under 30. Those still living are Seija Karkinen, 86, second Minister at the Ministry of Finance, Matti Louekoski, 81, Minister at the Prime Minister's Office, Seppo Lindblom, 87, Minister at the Ministry of Trade and Industry and Ulf Sundqvist, 78, Minister of Education. Sundqvist is a heart attack, brain tumor and mouth cancer survivor who chainsmoked for four decades, Lindblom has been frail for a while. Louekoski is still active.

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    JVPM has made it very far. He's now the 10th*-oldest validated man ever, around one more month and he'll reach Israel Kristal. There's also now two 113-year-old validated men, hasn't happened in around a decade.

     

    *Or possibly soon the 9th-oldest, 11th-oldest or 12th-oldest. There are two cases of 114-year-old men pending validation, one from Peru and one from the Dominican Republic. If those two are validated he'd be "only" at spot #12, but I'd say it's likely that current #4 Mathew Beard will be "un-validated" in the future.

     

    Brazilian longevity claimant Sebastiao Batista dos Santos celebrated his "121st" a few days ago. There's a video on youtube and while he's able to sit and seemingly communicate with people, he looks quite ill, bloodshot eyes and barely able to talk.

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    Taiwan actress Lu Bih-yun 盧碧雲 (zh wiki, imdb) is as far as I know still alive at 101. Not mentioned here anywhere, but has 112 imdb credits.

     

    Burmese artist San Hlaing, said to be living on his recently created wikipedia page, (if google translate is correct, he was also on oxygen in Nov '15) died in December 2015 according to this facebook post, so don't bother picking him in next year's Centenarians DP.

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  14. Posted

    Here's a few more "immortals":

     

    Li Rui, Mao's personal secretary and later dissident, around five months before his death at 101 in 2019 after suffering from multiple organ failure, possibly cancer and other ailments for a year:

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    Münir Özkul, Turkish actor, "State Artist of Turkey". Not sure if this is the last image of him but probably one of the last. He died in 2018 at 92 after having suffered from COPD and Alzheimer's for atleast 15 years.

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  17. Posted

    On 16/02/2023 at 22:24, arghton said:

    Leaves us with 3 notable Indian names born 1922 - cricketer Rusi Cooper who is seemingly quite ill, literacy exam passer and potential age fraudster Karthyayani Amma who is bedbound and P. Sabanayagam, Tamil Nadu civil servant and WWII vet.

    More on Karthyayani Amma's condition: Apparently she's somewhat recently suffered a stroke and she's now completely bedbound and partially paralysed.

     

    Time for a new list of Indian centenarians/notable centenarian claimants, this time a smaller and "frailer" list than the one I posted in October 2021:

     

    Up to 1919

    Swami Sivananda (1896, probably ca. 1925-1935 - ) Yoga teacher, once in a while hospitalised for "checkups". No matter how old he is, he isn't immune to aging and has been getting frailer.

    Saalumarada Thimmakka (1910/1911/1913/1919/likely ca. 1928 -) Environmentalist. Very frail with a health history but now attending events nearly every week. Impressive even though she's much younger than she claims to be. 

    Fauja Singh (1st of April 1911/likely ca. 1928 -) Runner. Frail and skeletal for multiple years.

    Kewal Krishan (27th of July/4th of August 1913 - 1st of April 2023) member of the drafting committee of the Constituent Assembly of India. Hospitalised for surgery in 2019, hasn't apparently left his house nearly at all during the pandemic. Can't find much recent news.

    Pappammal ("1914", likely later -) Organic farmer, frailish. Probably born 20 years later. Wheelchairbound.

    1920-1921

    Mollie Lentaigne (6th of May 1920 - 29th of April 2024) Medical artist, British but born in India so counts half

    Mani Kumar Chetri (23rd of May 1920 -) Cardiologist. Bed/wheelchairbound with a blanket covering his legs in one recent image and has declined a lot since his 100th.

    Thanga Darlong (20th of July 1920 - 3rd of December 2023) Folk music artist. Decrepit and suffering from some kind of neck injury last year.

    C. R. Rao (10th of September 1920 - 23rd of August 2023) Mathematician, statistician. Unable to hold a knife properly and very frail on his 100th, doesn't make appearances anymore as far as I know.

    Jang Bahadur Singh (10th December of 1920 -) Bhojpuri folk singer/wrestler. Has a long wikipedia page but would his death make local news? Name for search purposes जंगबहादुर सिंह.

    Mangala Kanti Roy (1920? -) West Bengal folk musician and 2023 Padma Shri recipient. Very likely fraudster.

    N. Sankaraiah (15th of July 1921 - 15th of November 2023) Politician, former Tamil Nabu Legislative Assembly member. Very thin with swollen feet, but just released a new book and still active in politics.

    1922

    Karthyayani Amma (1922 - 11th of October 2023) Woman who passed literacy exam at 96. Suffered a paralysing stroke after her claimed 100th, bedbound and very frail.

    P. Sabanayagam (7th of June 1922 - 22nd of June 2023) Politician. Diabetes for half a decade and now wheelchairbound, suffering from complications.

    Rustom Sorabji "Rusi" Cooper (15th of December 1922 - 31st of July 2023) First-class cricketer, longest-lived first-class player in the history of Middlesex County Cricket Club. Said to be very ill.

    I won't add the 1923 names (atleast yet), as far as I know none of them have reached 100. All of them seem to be May-December births. There's also a politician called Shankar Dev, born 1922 marked living on wikipedia, but I doubt he's alive.

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  19. Posted

    All the talk about Carter's longevity and immortality reminded me, over a year ago I saw this post by drol while searching for something:

    On 06/12/2019 at 20:28, drol said:

    The brand-new generation of immortals created in 2019:

     

    1)Jimmy Carter: melanoma which metastasized to the brain, fall with cerebral hemorrhage, urinary infection, continuos hospitalizations and being over 95. None of this thing suffice to kill the old peanut lover.

    2)Lata Mangeshkar: spending a week on life support for acute respiratory failure and a month in ICU is not enough to kill a 90-year old overweight national icon. Another pearl from the country of immortals.

    3)Balbir Singh Sr.: Acute respiratory and heart failure, 14 days on life support, three months in ICU, a heart attack and another fortnight in ICU, pneumonia and again in ICU with respiratory failure. Nothing is enough to kill a 95 year old man who breathes through a tube.

    4)Daniel arap Moi: Repeated hospitalizations, acute respiratory failure and almost a week on life support, over two months in hospital, one of whom in ICU. Still no harm to the 95 year old dictator.

    5)Leiji Matsumoto: Suffers severe stroke and put on life support. Two weeks later discharged in excellent conditions-

    6)Manolis Glezos: 97-year old resistance fighter, neurological problems, in ICU with heart and respiratory failure, and great deterioration in general health. The natural outcome, he survives and is discharged in good health.

    7)Desmond Tutu: prostate cancer for 20 years (!!!!), continuos hospitalizations for infections, 88 year old, but, no, hey, he is well and goes home again.

    8)Everton Weekes: heart attack in June, minimizes everything, again hospitalized for medical emergency some months later, and presumably still recovers at 94.

    9)Dilip Kumar: No one heard anything from him from over a year. This guy is 97 and was continuosly hospitalized for pneumonia and infections, plus he has late stage dementia and is likely to be a vegetable with kidney failure on permanent dialysis.

    10)Hau Pei-tsun: severe stroke at 99, still going at 100 and no hints at a possible demise.

     

    Almighty science in keeping alive human cases.

    I didn't double-check, but I think he's been the last survivor of this list since Leiji Matsumoto died last month.

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  20. Posted

    On 15/11/2022 at 20:39, arghton said:

    Kitanofuji Katsuaki a few days ago:

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    He has some heart problems and mobility problems, but (still) absolutely amazing for a 80-year-old ex-sumo wrestler, average life expectancy of a sumo wrestler is something around 55 to 65 and as far as I know no professional sumo wrestler has ever made it to 90. Still works as a commentator.

    "Sumo ancient" Kitanofuji Katsuaki hospitalised according to his new column (half of it seems to be about him not being a big fan of baseball, now popular in Japan), not mentioned what his ailment is but sounds like he's been there for a while. Now improving and likely to be discharged soon. Too ill to travel to Osaka for the sumo tournament held there but hopes he'll bounce back.

  21. Posted

    On 14/03/2023 at 20:21, arghton said:

    Nicholas Calabrese, Chicago hitman and made man who testified in court against the Chicago Outfit resulting in the 2007 murder convictions of high-ranking mobsters Frank Calabrese Sr (his brother), Joseph Lombardo (1929-2019) and James Marcello (1943-, currently at ADX Florence Supermax prison) dead at 80.

    Crossposting.

     

    Another interesting name not mentioned here before is Peter "Pitch" Picciurro, head of the Milwaukee Crime Family or what's left of it.

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    He also owns a ribs restaurant that looks like quite a nice place. Should be around 93-94 now.

  22. Posted

    On 26/12/2012 at 20:17, charon said:

    Franki Calabrese sr @ 75 has gone with the breeze...... http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/Convicted-Mobster-Frank-Calabrese-Sr-Dies-In-Prison-Report-184827051.html

    Nicholas Calabrese, Chicago hitman and made man who testified in court against the Chicago Outfit resulting in the 2007 murder convictions of high-ranking mobsters Frank Calabrese Sr (his brother), Joseph Lombardo (1929-2019) and James Marcello (1943-, currently at ADX Florence Supermax prison) dead at 80.

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  24. Posted

    Chinese full General (promoted 1994), WWII veteran and Commander of the Beijing Military Region 1993-1997 Li Laizhu dead at 90.

     

    As far as I know there are a few older Generals living, by far the oldest being Wan Haifeng who fought in the Long March.

     

    Edit: Wan Haifeng's the oldest, Tiananmen butcher Chi Haotian is the second-oldest (but nine years younger than Wan Haifeng) and then there's Fu Quanyou, Cao Pengsheng and Dai Xuejiang from 1930, Yu Zhenwu, Zhang Lianzhong, Yu Yongbo, Ding Henggao, Wang Ke and Gu Shanqing from 1931, Sui Yongju from 1932, Liu Jingsong from 1933 and Zhang Zhijian from 1934.

     

    Wan Haifeng, Chi Haotian and Wang Ke are the last ones to have enlisted before the end of WWII/fought in it.

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  25. Posted

    Chiam See Tong, Singaporean politician, former opposition leader and Sec-Gen of the centre-left Singapore People's Party 1996-2019, 88 today :birthday:

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    Well-respected in Singapore, he's founded for example the Chiam See Tong Sports Fund that helps children and youth from disadvantaged backgrounds to excel in sports. He's been in ill health for a while, suffered strokes in 1989, 2008 and a third more severe stroke in February 2009, severe fall and broken hip in 2013 and has been suffering from Parkinson's for around two decades.

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