Pagad Ultimo

Vitaly Ginzburg, Nobel Laureate in Physics for 2003, is dead at 93.

Al-Megrahi again.

Am sticking with Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Gaddafi.

al-Megrahi.

He was 84, and he died two weeks ago... Besides which, a poet isn't really and truly an author in the truest sense. Ah, I see.

New Zealand poet Alistair Te Ariki Campbell, 85 is no more.

Veteran Russian author Sergey Mikhalkov, father of the Oscar winning director Nikita Mikhalkov, died at 96. Not sure about his chances of UK obit but he was very much known for penning lyrics for the Soviet (and then Russian) national anthem. The lyrics was first commissioned by Stalin and mentioned his name, then it was discarded and Mikhalkov penned a new text. Then, in modern Russia after Putin came to power, he commissioned to rewrite lyrics of the old anthem for the third time to make it the 'new old anthem' and Mikhalkov did it duly. The guy had long record of brown nosing. Expect a state funeral orgy.

Levi-Strauss.

Not sure about his UK obit chances, anyone else be able to make an intelligent guess on that? Dead. Aksyonov's obit in The Independent.

Cardinal Jean Margéot, former bishop of Port-Louis, Mauritius, has died on July 17, aged 93. Link

The Pope has fractured his wrist in fall. That's how it starts...

Not sure about his UK obit chances, anyone else be able to make an intelligent guess on that? Dead.

Shamir -- just because another former Israeli president has recently died and there has to be a consequence.

Maurice Druon (1918-2009) Jean Overton Fuller (1915-2009) Pierre Bourgeade (1927-2009)

Cardinal Umberto Betti, former Rector of the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome, has died on April 1, aged 87. Link He is the fifth cardinal who died just for the first four months of this year (compared to 8 cardinals who died in 2008). I am watching closely these fellows. Some kind of cardinal plague maybe?

American writer James Purdy is dead at 94. I liked him. RIP

Cardinal Paul Joseph Pham Ðình Tung, former Archbishop of Hanoi, Vietnam, has died on February 22, aged 89. Link

Cardinal Stephen Sou Hwan Kim, former Archbishop of Seoul, has died on February 16, aged 86. Link

Cardinal Stéphanos II Ghattas, 88, patriarch emeritus of Alexandria of the Copts, Egypt, died on January 20, in Cairo. Link

Surely Havel.

Cardinal Pio Laghi, prefect emeritus of the Congregation for Catholic Education and patron of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, died on January 10, 2009 aged 86, at Carlo di Nancy Hospital, Rome, where he was recovering from a cardio-vascular insufficiency cause by an hematologic disease. Link

Kim Jong-il. I think he's already dead.

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Patriarch Alexius II of Russia is dead at 79. Link to follow.

Not sure about his UK obit chances, anyone else be able to make an intelligent guess on that? Think there is a chance of The Independent obit. Aksyonov in Wikipedia.