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Did anybody already mention the plight of former Argentina president Fernando De La Rua? https://punchng.com/ex-argentina-president-in-intensive-care-after-heart-attack/ Heart attack in January, heart surgery in 2017 and 2018. Cardiac problems since 2001.

Scott Dureau, an Australian rugby player, has brain cancer: https://www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-league/47088992

Man gave ailing wife meth, then they had a "death party", or so he says. Authorities found him naked, words painted on the front door, several guns and hundreds of rounds of ammunition: https://www.twincities.com/2019/01/30/southern-minnesota-man-says-he-gave-ailing-wife-meth-had-death-party-before-she-died/

Burst blood vessel and heavy cough... High blood pressure and lung damage? A sign of things to come?

Recent update: https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/arts-and-books/clive-james-what-im-reading The health tidbit: undergoing radiotherapy with "good prognosis".

Yes I think there even is a rule against it. Edit: On page two Wormfarmer mentioned that possibility. Second Edit: And it's a losing strategy, as my list would be worth 25pts and SC's team 15pts.

Manohar Parrikar with a tube in his nose and "high on Josh": https://www.thequint.com/news/india/ailing-goa-cm-manohar-parrikar-presents-budget

February team: Frank Robinson Walter Jones Harry Reid Micah Bowie Paul Volcker

Matt Rose, make-up artist for movies such as Hellboy and The Planet of The Apes (remake), dead at 53: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/matt-rose-dead-makeup-artist-hellboy-ed-wood-was-53-1180670

Concept artist with a taste for the paranormal, Susan Hiller, dead at 78: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/jan/29/susan-hiller-artist-who-explored-the-paranormal-dies-aged-78

Arthur Ashkin has a new invention (and recent picture): https://www.businessinsider.com/oldest-nobel-prize-winner-arthur-ashkin-optical-tweezers-levitation-2019-1?r=US&IR=T&utm_source=reddit.com

Perfect match? Hermes Phettberg:

The first male skater I watched, skated to a Queen medley.

I don't know...I'm kind of happy that it seems to be true that he actually WAS very ill. And it's not some kind of media whore exaggeration. But he's a bit ...delusional, and not just about his health. He (not his doctors!) declares himself cancer-free, yet he has two more years of chemo. True, it's not looking like he fulfills his doctors' prediction of 6 months to live which would take him to right now. But I think there is a small chance of a Charles Bradley-esque downturn. And it'll be worth watching him in the next years. This recurrence already almost killed him, the next one will be fatal.

European Championships in Figure skating

Debbie McGee has breast cancer, i.e. two tumours removed: https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/debbie-mcgee-reveals-secret-battle-13908522

Cruel fate... at least she seemed in good spirits. Very sad she didn't at least get the months she was expected to have. Her Ellen appearance probably was a good indication how fast she went down.

New scoreboard. Three dead chefs/maitres de cuisine plus Carol Channing, Muriel Pavlow, Diana Athill, and Shivakumara Swamiji. Chris Wilson is looking like another non-obit. Quite a few people have now cashed in their joker. The result is a new leader! 1 Phantom of the Midway 406 2 Joey Russ 358 3 drol 356 4 msc 346 5 Devon Death Trip 332 6 Banana 325 7 GCReptile 298 7 Clorox Bleachman 298 9 Cpt Chorizo 293 10 Sir Creep 289 11 Skinny Kiltrunner 264 12 YoungWillz 231 13 Death Impends 209 14 Grim Up North 181 15 Fixed Business 84 16 Yorkshire Banker 78 17 Book 63 18 Gooseberry Crumble 38 19 markb4 21 19 Grave Danger 21 21 theoldlady 7 21 The mad hatter 7 21 John Key 7 24 Bibliogryphon 0 24 The Unknown Man 0 24 The Quim Reaper 0 24 The old crem 0 24 Deathray 0 24 Prophet 0 24 Pedro 67 0 Feel free to point out any mistakes and/or omissions.

Meghan Markle (Windsor?) is faking it: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/meghan-markle-trolls-convinced-shes-13901831 #Megxit

He should have gone with "Okay, you convinced me".

There'll be an update on the weekend. I'm not at home right now to check, but I think @Gooseberry Crumble you also had a hit with Muriel Pavlov.

QO: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jan/24/diana-athill-writer-and-editor-dies-aged-101 Sad, and a bit of a missed opportunity, for the List.

Zimbabwe's biggest musical star, jazz musician Oliver Mtukudzi, dead at 66: https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-africa-46944062

There's a tape out there now... where he confesses that he lay with a man, but not until the "very end", if you know what I mean. Anyway, he also once coerced a 76-year old dementia sufferer to write him a check of 340.000$, so he's apparently someone who deserves all bad things happening to him.

Naser Ullah Khan has "weeks, if not days" left to live and is now being charged 32.000 pounds for getting somewhat "unnecessary" treatment by the NHS: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jan/22/dying-man-bill-thousands-pounds-nhs-treatment