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The Cardinals Of The Roman Catholic Church
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Is created the proper term? Ordained or summat? Yes, created is the proper term for cardinal. -
The Cardinals Of The Roman Catholic Church
Mercarte replied to Pagad Ultimo's topic in DeathList Forum
I suppose it depends if you count Ratzinger or not. Anyway, he is the last man standing from that generation. Since Ratzinger is no longer a cardinal, we can assume that Arns was the last living one. But of course, also Raztinger has been created by the same Pope, in the last concistory he hold. -
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Brazilian Roman Catholic cardinal, Paulo Evaristo Arns, passed away today at the age of 95. He was the last living cardinal created by Pope Paul VI. -
Nobel Prize laureates older than 85 years old: (Age calculated at the beginning of 2017) Physics: 1957: Tsung-Dao Lee, 90 1957: Chen Ning Yang, 94 1969: Murray Gell-Mann, 87 1972: Leon Cooper, 86 1972: Robert Schrieffer, 85 1973: Leo Esaki, 91 1973: Ivar Giaever, 87 1974: Antony Hewish, 92 1975: Ben Mottelson, 90 1976: Burton Richter, 85 1977: Philip Warren Anderson, 93 1981: Nicolaas Bloembergen, 96 1987: Karl Alexander Müller, 89 1988: Leon Lederman, 94 1988: Jack Steinberger, 95 1989: Hans Dehmelt, 94 1990: Richard Edward Taylor, 87 1990: Jerome Isaac Friedman, 86 1996: David M. Lee, 85 1999: Martinus Veltman, 85 2000: Herbert Kroemer, 88 2000: Žores Ivanovič Alfërov, 86 2002: Masatoshi Koshiba, 90 2002: Riccardo Giacconi, 85 2003: Aleksej Alekseevič Abrikosov, 88 2005: Roy Glauber, 89 2009: George Elwood Smith, 86 2013: Peter Higgs, 87 2014: George Elwood Smith, 87 Chemistry: 1967: Manfred Eigen, 89 1980: Paul Berg, 90 1982: Aaron Klug, 90 1986: John Charles Polanyi, 87 1990: Elias James Corey, 88 1992: Rudolph Marcus, 93 1994: George Andrew Olah, 89 1997: Paul Delos Boyer, 98 1997: Jens Christian Skou, 98 2008: Osamu Shimomura, 88 2010: Akira Suzuki, 86 2013: Martin Karplus, 86 Literature: 1992: Derek Walcott, 86 1993: Toni Morrison, 85 2013: Alice Munro, 85 Peace: RIP? 1973: Henry Kissinger, 93 1980: Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, 85 1984: Desmond Tutu, 85 1990: Michail Gorbačëv, 85 2002: Jimmy Carter, 92 Medicine: 1962: James Dewey Watson, 88 1977: Roger Guillemin, 92 1977: Andrew Viktor Schally, 90 1978: Werner Arber, 87 1978: Hamilton Smith, 85 1981: Torsten Wiesel, 92 1986: Stanley Cohen, 94 1992: Edmond Fischer, 96 2000: Arvid Carlsson, 93 2000: Paul Greengard, 91 2000: Eric Kandel, 87 2002: Sydney Brenner, 89 2007: Oliver Smithies, 91 2015: William C. Campbell, 86 2015: Tu Youyou, 86 Economics: 1972: Kenneth Arrow, 95 1987: Robert Solow, 92 1990: Harry Markowitz, 89 2002: Vernon Smith, 89 2005: Robert Aumann, 86
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Stephen Hawking hospitalized in Rome for checks http://www.reuters.com/article/us-stephen-hawking-health-idUSKBN13R2AN
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Emma Morano just turned 117 years old!
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I updated the list Nobel Prize laureates who will reach, maybe, 85 years old before the end of 2016: (Age calculated at the beginning of 2016) Physics: 1957: Tsung-Dao Lee, 89 1957: Chen Ning Yang, 93 1969: Murray Gell-Mann, 86 1972: Leon Cooper, 85 1972: Robert Schrieffer, 84 1973: Leo Esaki, 90 1973: Ivar Giaever, 86 1974: Antony Hewish, 91 1975: Ben Mottelson, 89 1976: Burton Richter, 84 1977: Philip Warren Anderson, 92 1980: James Cronin, 84 1981: Nicolaas Bloembergen, 95 1987: Karl Alexander Müller, 88 1988: Leon Lederman, 93 1988: Jack Steinberger, 94 1989: Hans Dehmelt, 93 1990: Richard Edward Taylor, 86 1990: Jerome Isaac Friedman, 85 1996: David M. Lee, 84 1999: Martinus Veltman, 84 2000: Herbert Kroemer, 87 2000: Žores Ivanovič Alfërov, 85 2002: Masatoshi Koshiba, 89 2002: Riccardo Giacconi, 84 2003: Aleksej Alekseevič Abrikosov, 87 2005: Roy Glauber, 88 2009: George Elwood Smith, 85 2013: Peter Higgs, 86 2014: George Elwood Smith, 86 Chemistry: 1967: Manfred Eigen, 88 1980: Paul Berg, 89 1982: Aaron Klug, 89 1986: John Charles Polanyi, 86 1990: Elias James Corey, 87 1992: Rudolph Marcus, 92 1994: George Andrew Olah, 88 1997: Paul Delos Boyer, 97 1997: Jens Christian Skou, 97 1998: Walter Kohn, 92 2008: Osamu Shimomura, 87 2010: Akira Suzuki, 85 2013: Martin Karplus, 85 Literature: 1992: Derek Walcott, 85 1993: Toni Morrison, 84 1997: Dario Fo, 89 2002: Imre Kertész, 86 2013: Alice Munro, 84 Peace: RIP? 1973: Henry Kissinger, 92 1980: Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, 84 1984: Desmond Tutu, 84 1986: Elie Wiesel, 87 1990: Michail Gorbačëv, 84 1994: Shimon Peres, 92 2002: Jimmy Carter, 91 Medicine: 1962: James Dewey Watson, 87 1977: Roger Guillemin, 91 1977: Andrew Viktor Schally, 89 1978: Werner Arber, 86 1978: Hamilton Smith, 84 1981: Torsten Wiesel, 91 1986: Stanley Cohen, 93 1992: Edmond Fischer, 95 2000: Arvid Carlsson, 92 2000: Paul Greengard, 90 2000: Eric Kandel, 86 2002: Sydney Brenner, 88 2007: Oliver Smithies, 90 2015: William C. Campbell, 85 2015: Tu Youyou, 85 Economics: 1972: Kenneth Arrow, 94 1987: Robert Solow, 91 1990: Harry Markowitz, 88 1994: Reinhard Selten, 85 2002: Vernon Smith, 88 2005: Thomas Schelling, 94 2005: Robert Aumann, 85 2012: Lloyd Stowell Shapley, 92
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The Cardinals Of The Roman Catholic Church
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Polish Roman Catholic cardinal, Franciszek Macharski, passed away today at the age of 89. -
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Italian Roman Catholic cardinal, Silvano Piovanelli, passed away today at the age of 92. -
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Italian Roman Catholic cardinal, Loris Francesco Capovilla, passed away today at the age of 100. -
The Cardinals Of The Roman Catholic Church
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Cardinals (85+): 1973: Paulo Evaristo Arns, 94 1979: Roger Etchegaray, 93 1979: Franciszek Macharski, 89 1983: Michael Michai Kitbunchu, 87 1983: Alexandre Do Nascimento, 91 1983: Thomas Stafford Williams, 86 1985: Miguel Obando Bravo, 90 1985: Ricardo Jamin Vidal, 85 1985: Henryk Roman Gulbinowicz, 92 1985: Jozef Tomko, 92 1985: Friedrich Wetter, 88 1985: Silvano Piovanelli, 92 1988: Eduardo Martinez Somalo, 89 1988: Achille Silvestrini, 92 1988: José Freire Falcao, 90 1988: Alexandre José Maria Dos Santos, 92 1988: Christian Wiyghan Tumi, 85 1991: Angelo Sodano, 88 1991: Edward Idris Cassidy, 91 1991: Camillo Ruini, 85 1994: Nasrallah Pierre Sfeir, 95 1994: Gilberto Augustoni, 93 1994: Emmanuel Wamala, 89 1994: William Henry Keeler, 85 1994: Adam Joseph Maida, 86 1998: Jorge Arturo Medina Estevez, 89 1998: Dario Castrillón Hoyos, 86 1998: Salvatore de Giorgi, 85 1998: Serafim Fernandes De Araujo, 91 1998: Marian Jaworski, 89 1998: Jānis Pujats, 85 2001: Agostino Cacciavillan, 89 2001: Theodore Edgar McCarrick, 85 2001: Desmond Connell, 90 2001: Francisco Alvarez Martinez, 90 2003: Julián Herranz Casado, 86 2003: Bernard Panafieu, 85 2006: Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo, 90 2006: Albert Vanhoye, 92 2007: Estanislao Esteban Karlic, 90 2010: José Manuel Estepa Llaurens, 90 2010: Elio Sgreccia, 87 2010: Walter Brandmüller, 87 2012: Prosper Grech, 90 2014: Loris Francesco Capovilla, 100 2014: Fernando Sebastián Aguilar, 86 2015: José de Jesús Pimiento Rodriguez, 97 2015: Luigi de Magistris, 90 2015: Júlio Duarte Langa, 88 2016: Sebastian Koto Khoarai, 87 2016: Ernest Simoni, 88 -
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Swiss Roman Catholic cardinal, Georges Marie Martin Cottier, passed away today at the age of 93. -
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Not the happiest day for the College of Cardinals -
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Bolivian Roman Catholic cardinal, Julio Terrazas Sandoval, passed away today at the age of 79. -
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Nobel Prize laureates who will reach, maybe, 85 years old before the end of 2016: (Age calculated at the beginning of 2016) Physics: 1957: Tsung-Dao Lee, 89 1957: Chen Ning Yang, 93 1969: Murray Gell-Mann, 86 1972: Leon Cooper, 85 1972: Robert Schrieffer, 84 1973: Leo Esaki, 90 1973: Ivar Giaever, 86 1974: Antony Hewish, 91 1975: Ben Mottelson, 89 1976: Burton Richter, 84 1977: Philip Warren Anderson, 92 1980: James Cronin, 84 1981: Nicolaas Bloembergen, 95 1987: Karl Alexander Müller, 88 1988: Leon Lederman, 93 1988: Jack Steinberger, 94 1989: Hans Dehmelt, 93 1990: Richard Edward Taylor, 86 1990: Jerome Isaac Friedman, 85 1996: David M. Lee, 84 1999: Martinus Veltman, 84 2000: Herbert Kroemer, 87 2000: Žores Ivanovič Alfërov, 85 2002: Masatoshi Koshiba, 89 2002: Riccardo Giacconi, 84 2003: Aleksej Alekseevič Abrikosov, 87 2005: Roy Glauber, 88 2009: George Elwood Smith, 85 2013: Peter Higgs, 86 2014: George Elwood Smith, 86 Chemistry: 1967: Manfred Eigen, 88 1980: Paul Berg, 89 1982: Aaron Klug, 89 1986: John Charles Polanyi, 86 1990: Elias James Corey, 87 1992: Rudolph Marcus, 92 1994: George Andrew Olah, 88 1997: Paul Delos Boyer, 97 1997: Jens Christian Skou, 97 1998: Walter Kohn, 92 2008: Osamu Shimomura, 87 2010: Akira Suzuki, 85 2013: Martin Karplus, 85 Literature: 1992: Derek Walcott, 85 1993: Toni Morrison, 84 1997: Dario Fo, 89 2002: Imre Kertész, 86 († 31/03/2016) 2013: Alice Munro, 84 Peace: RIP? 1973: Henry Kissinger, 92 1980: Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, 84 1984: Desmond Tutu, 84 1986: Elie Wiesel, 87 1990: Michail Gorbačëv, 84 1994: Shimon Peres, 92 2002: Jimmy Carter, 91 Medicine: 1962: James Dewey Watson, 87 1977: Roger Guillemin, 91 1977: Andrew Viktor Schally, 89 1978: Werner Arber, 86 1978: Hamilton Smith, 84 1981: Torsten Wiesel, 91 1986: Stanley Cohen, 93 1992: Edmond Fischer, 95 2000: Arvid Carlsson, 92 2000: Paul Greengard, 90 2000: Eric Kandel, 86 2002: Sydney Brenner, 88 2007: Oliver Smithies, 90 2015: William C. Campbell, 85 2015: Tu Youyou, 85 Economics: 1972: Kenneth Arrow, 94 1987: Robert Solow, 91 1990: Harry Markowitz, 88 1994: Reinhard Selten, 85 2002: Vernon Smith, 88 2005: Thomas Schelling, 94 2005: Robert Aumann, 85 2012: Lloyd Stowell Shapley, 92 († 12/03/2016)
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Who Should Be On The 2016 Deathlist?
Mercarte replied to Davey Jones' Locker's topic in DeathList Forum
My suggestion: Carlo Azeglio Ciampi (95), former italian president. René de Obaldia (97), french playwright. Georg Ratzinger (91), german priest and brother of the former Pope. Charlotte Rae (89), american actress. -
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Slovakian Roman Catholic cardinal, Ján Chryzostom Korec, passed away today at the age of 91. -
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Hungarian Roman Catholic cardinal, László Paskai, passed away today at the age of 88. -
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American Roman Catholic cardinal, William Wakefield Baum, passed away today at the age of 88. -
The Cardinals Of The Roman Catholic Church
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Italian Roman Catholic cardinal, Giacomo Biffi, passed away today at the age of 87. -
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American Roman Catholic cardinal, Francis Eugene George, passed away yesterday at the age of 78. -
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Italian Roman Catholic cardinal, Roberto Tucci, passed away yesterday at the age of 93. -
1999: Günter Grass, 87 is dead