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    6 hours ago, diego said:

    Patrice Lecornu was born in Flers, and died at the age of 65, the Frenchman was a footballer who played for Nantes, Red Star (where he was also coach), and Angers, and played for the French national team as well.

    From 2000 to 2005, he was also the head of PSG’s youth academy.

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    Turkish Football player Galip Haktanir, who was an unused substitute at the 1948 Olympic Football Tournament, has died aged 102.

    He was the last known* male Turkish Olympian from the 1948 Games.

    Now the last known* 1948 Turkish Olympian is Uner Teoman. She ran the 100 metres.

     

    Haktanir was Turkey’s longest lived Olympian ever.

     

    He was also the longest lived and only centenarian Olympic football player, though he was a substitute.

     

    Now the last known** living member of the 1948 Olympic Football Tournament is Dutch Kees Rijvers, who played Netherlands only game against Great Britain.

     

    * Mustafa Batman whereabouts are unknown. Olympedia gives his birth date, 1927, but does not mention anything about his death. His Turkish wiki doesn’t say his birth nor death dates. He is not listed here either.

    He was member of the Athletic team but didn’t took part in the tournament.

     

    **Several 1948 football players whereabouts are unknown : the whole Afghanistan squad, and a few Chinese and Egyptian. However they’re most likely dead as they don’t appear on this or that list.

     

     

     

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    2 hours ago, Toast said:

     

    I'm no expert on French historic vocabulary, but I always wondered if it meant that he was a man of few words.  Bref meaning brief, succinct, laconic.  If he was short in stature I would have expected him to be described as petit.

    In the previous centuries french words could have a (slightly) different meaning than today. So Pépin was indeed nicknamed "le bref" because of his short stature. But you’re right, nowadays it would have been "le petit"


    Another example is king Jean II le Bon. Nowadays "le bon" for a person  means the gentleman, the kind one, the righteous one. But at that time he was nicknamed le bon because he was good, skilled, at battles and war.

     

    Ironically Pépin Le Bref wife, Charlemagne’s mother, was nicknamed Berthe aux grands pieds, which means Berthe with big feet !

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    Now for the first time in the history of Italian Republic, incumbent President Sergio Mattarella is the only living president.

     
    The record of the most living presidents at the same time is four :

    During Sandro Pertini’s term, from 9 July to 17 October 1978 : Pertini himself, Giovanni Cronchi, Giuseppe Saragat, and  Giovanni Leone. This ended with Cronchi’s death.

    During Napolitano’s first term,  from 15 May 2006 to 17 August 2010: Napolitano himself, Francesco Cossiga, Oscar Scalfaro and Carlo Ciampi. This ended with Cossiga’s death.

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  11. Posted · Edited by Sinbabad

    Walewska Oliveira, who was Olympic Champion with Brazil in volleyball in 2008, has died aged 43. 
    She’s the first member of the 2008 Brazilian volleyball team to die.

     

    She is the first female 2008 Olympic champion to die, and the fifth overall after Samuel Wanjiru, Kobe Bryant, Tibor Benedek and Markis Kido.

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    Aimo Vartiainen, one the two last surviving Finnish Olympians from the 1948 Games (both Winter and Summer), has died on 7 August, aged 96. He competed in Alpine skiing.

    Now the last survivor is nordic skier Heikki Hasu.

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    4 hours ago, Perhaps said:

    Burhan Sargun dead

    He was the last surviving goalscorer of the 1954 WC. He was also the earliest-surviving World Cup hat-trick scorer (he scored one against South Korea). Now this is Geoff Hurst.


    @Perhaps, can I ask how and when exactly did you find out about Sargun’s death ? Because around 8am, I was actually doing a search about him and the Turkish from 1954, but found nothing ?

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  21. Posted

    6 hours ago, Spade_Cooley said:

    (dull question) Throughout history, how many first ladies of non-Anglophone nations would you say are DL worthy? Obviously Imelda Marcos is in the mix currently. Surprised Madame Chiang Kai-shek wasn't a pick in the early 2000s. Is that about it?

    What about Eva Peron ?

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