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Chemistry: Kurt Wüthrich Peace: Aung San Suu Kyi Literature: Herta Mueller Medicine/Physiology: Pierre Agostino Physics: Syukuro Manabe Economic Sciences: Myron Samuel Scholes

My proposition. To be included for 2025: George Soros (very advanced age) Jean Chretien (Canadian ex-PM) Susan Flannery (B&B) Juan Carlos I (previous Spanish monarch) Geoff Hurst Joe Biden (departing POTUS) Sir Trevor McDonald To be returned among survivors: Liza Minnelli Leo Beenhakker Alan Alda To be kept: Jimmy Carter Tom Brokaw Patricia Routledge Clint Eastwood Dick Cheney

UPDATE. List of surviving WC managers in 1978 and 1982 following Khalef's death. 1978 - 3/16 (Jacek Gmoch, Poland; Abdelmajid Chetali, Tunisia; Heshmat Mohajerani, Iran) 1982 - 6/27 [Nations - 5.5/24] (Antoni Piechniczek, Poland; Felix Latzke, Austria; Mauricio Rodriguez, El Salvador; Carlos Alberto Parreira, Brazil; Jose Santamaria, Spain; John Adshead, New Zealand)

Salvatore Schillaci passes away at age 59. He was 1990 World Cup top scorer. Here is a list of deceased top scorers: 26 Dec 1966 - Guillermo Stábile (1930) 22 Jul 1979 - Sándor Kocsis (1954) 20 Jan 1983 - Garrincha (1962 - co-top scorer) 11 Jun 1990 - Oldřich Nejedlý (1934) 11 May 1996 - Ademir (1950) 19 Jan 2002 - Vavá (1962 - co-top scorer) 24 Jan 2004 - Leônidas (1938) 09 Dec 2008 - Dražan Jerković (1962 - co-top scorer) 31 Oct 2011 - Flórián Albert (1962 - co-top scorer) 08 Nov 2011 - Valentin K. Ivanov (1962 - co-top scorer) 05 Jan 2014 - Eusébio (1966) 09 Dec 2020 - Paolo Rossi (1982) 15 Aug 2021 - Gerd Müller (1970) 02 Apr 2022 - Leonel Sánchez (1962 - co-top scorer) 28 Feb 2023 - Just Fontaine (1958) 18 Sep 2024 - Salvatore Schillaci (1990)

He became the 6th deceased player of winning champions of 1974.

Belarusian ice hockey player Konstantin Koltsov died suddenly at age (almost) 43. Participated at 2002 and 2010 Winter Olympics. Privately, he was partner of tennis player Aryna Sabalenka.

List of first deaths of overall winning teams by WC and years after: 1930 - Angel Melongo, 15 years 1934 - Umberto Caligaris, 6 years 1938 - Pietro Serantoni, 26 years 1950 - Washington Ortuno, 23 years 1954 - Werner Kohlmeyer, 20 years 1958 - Zozimo, 19 years 1962 - Zozimo, 15 years 1966 - Bobby Moore, 27 years 1970 - Everaldo, 4 years 1974 - Heinz Flohe, 39 years 1978 - Ruben Galvan, 40 years 1982 - Gaetano Scirea, 7 years 1986 - Jose Luis Cuciuffo, 18 years 1990 - Andreas Brehme, 34 years

Franz Beckenbauer is dead. Became the 5th player of winning champions of 1974 after Flohe, Mueller, Grabowski and Hoettges, to die. Here's update after Beckenbauer's death. List of surviving WC managers between 1986 and 1994 (in part). Names of 1994 WC managers are included. 1986 - 9/24 (Carlos Bilardo, Argentina; Kim Jung-nam, South Korea; Evaristo de Macedo, Iraq; Bora Milutinovic, Mexico; Gyorgy Mezey, Hungary; Rabah Saadane, Algeria; Sepp Piontek, Denmark; Alex Ferguson, Scotland; Antoni Piechniczek, Poland) 1990 - 14/24 (Josef Hickersberger, Austria; Bob Gansler, United States; Carlos Bilardo, Argentina; Valery Nepomnyashchy, Cameroon; Emerich Jenei, Romania; Sebastiao Lazaroni, Brazil; Bora Milutinovic, Costa Rica; Andy Roxburgh, Scotland; Olle Nordin, Sweden; Francisco Maturana, Colombia; Carlos Alberto Parreira, United Arab Emirates; Lee Hoe-taik, South Korea; Oscar Tabarez, Uruguay; Leo Beenhakker, Netherlands) 1994 - 19/24 (Francisco Maturana, Colombia; Anghel Iordanescu, Romania; Roy Hodgson, Switzerland; Bora Milutinovic, United States; Carlos Alberto Parreira, Brazil; Tommy Svensson, Sweden; Xabier Azkargorta, Bolivia; Berti Vogts, Germany; Kim Ho, South Korea; Javier Clemente, Spain; Alfio Basile, Argentina; Dimitar Penev, Bulgaria; Clemens Westerhof, Nigeria; Arrigo Sacchi, Italy; Miguel Mejia Baron, Mexico; Egil Olsen, Norway; Paul Van Himst, Belgium; Dick Advocaat, Netherlands; Jorge Solari, Saudi Arabia)

PROPOSITION To be added for 2024: George Soros (93 years old) Vladimir Putin (71 years old) Anthony Hopkins (86 years old) Linda Evans (81 years old) Geoff Hurst (82 years old) Lech Wałęsa (80 years old) Tom Selleck (78 years old) Ion Iliescu (93 years old) Albert II of Belgium (89 years old) Juan Carlos I (85 years old) Pope Francis (87 years old) To be returned: Liza Minnelli Leo Beenhakker Ozzy Osbourne To be kept: Jimmy Carter Dick Cheney Yoko Ono Angie Dickinson Alan Alda Desmond Morris Dick van Dyke Prunella Scales

My list: Jimmy Carter (USA) Ion Iliescu (Romania) Daniel Ortega (Nicaragua) Alexander Lukashenko (Belarus) Vladimir Meciar (Slovakia) Valdas Adamkus (Lithuania) Peter Boross (Hungary) John Major (United Kingdom) Anibal Cavaco Silva (Portugal) Jean Chretien (Canada) Substitutions: Viktor Zubkov (Russia), Kazimira Prunskiene (Lithuania), Heinz Fischer (Austria), Lech Wałęsa (Poland), Felipe Gonzalez (Spain)

So, Mario Zagallo became the last living coach of both 1970 & 1974 FIFA World Cup.

It's 9th death among coaches of 1990 FIFA World Cup.

Patrick Gasienica died tragically in motorcycle accident aged 24, he was American ski jumper. He competed in 2022 Winter Olympics. Obit (in Polish).

Miroslav "Ćiro" Blažević died 2 days before his 88th birthday. UPDATE. Last surviving (and still living) coaches [until 1990 - names of living coahces are included]: 1970 - 2/16 (Hernan Carrasco Vivanco, El Salvador; Mario Zagallo, Brazil) 1974 - 2/16 (Rale Rasic, Australia; Mario Zagallo, Brazil) 1978 - 4/16 (Cesar Luis Menotti, Argentina; Jacek Gmoch, Poland; Abdelmajid Chetali, Tunisia; Heshmat Mohajerani, Iran) 1982 - 9/27 [Nations - 7.5/24] (Antoni Piechniczek, Poland; Mahieddine Khalef, Rachid Mekhloufi, Algeria; Felix Latzke, Austria; Cesar Luis Menotti, Argentina; Pipo Rodriguez, El Salvador; Carlos Alberto Parreira, Kuwait; Jose Santamaria, Spain; John Adshead, New Zealand) 1986 - 10/24 (Carlos Bilardo, Argentina; Kim Jung-nam, South Korea; Evaristo de Macedo, Iraq; Bora Milutinovic, Mexico; Gyorgy Mezey, Hungary; Rabah Saadane, Algeria; Sepp Piontek, Denmark; Alex Ferguson, Scotland; Franz Beckenbauer, Germany; Antoni Piechniczek, Poland) 1990 - 16/24 (Josef Hickersberger, Austria; Bob Gansler, United States; Carlos Bilardo, Argentina; Valery Nepomnyashchy, Cameroon; Emerich Jenei, Romania; Sebastiao Lazaroni, Brazil; Bora Milutinovic, Costa Rica; Andy Roxburgh, Scotland; Olle Nordin, Sweden; Francisco Maturana, Colombia; Carlos Alberto Parreira, United Arab Emirates; Franz Beckenbauer, West Germany; Lee Hoe-taik, South Korea; Luis Suarez Miramontes, Spain; Oscar Tabarez, Uruguay; Leo Beenhakker, Netherlands) 1994 - 19/24 1998 - 31/35 [Nations - 28/32] 2002 - 30/33 [Nations - 29/32] 2006 - 26/32 2010 - 29/32 2014 - 30/32 2018 - all of 32 2022 - all of 32

Polish Senator, ex-MEP and ex-Member of Sejm Marek Plura is dead at age 52 after several days in the ICU. He suffered from muscular atrophy since his birth.