Foreign Personalities, From Stage, Screen, Politics And Life

[Vinegar Tits 606]

I didn't realise the members of Bogart Co. were that old! Or was he older than the rest of them? Sad news anyway - my sister had a Finnish penpal and I remember them sending a couple of tapes, amongst them Bogart Co., which was probably the best out of them.

[alt obits guy 3,371]

Lee Wan-koo, a former President of South Korea, has died. He was 71.  He also served as an MP and as governor of South Chungcheong Province.

 

http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20211014000804

 

[En Passant 3,741]

I am absolutely not going to make a joke about how a man with that name died. No sir.

[arghton 6,715]

https://www.iltalehti.fi/fitnessvoimailu/a/7784effc-0525-4a04-9456-8b22738be3e9

Finnish bodybuilding legend Eino Akkila dead aged 90, died in September. 

 

A legend and probably if not the first, one of the first Finnish competitive bodybuilders. Started it during the 1950s, top bodybuilder in Sweden, Finland and Norway since 1960 until the 1980s. He won 46 titles during his career including Mr. Europe twice and knew Arnold Schwarzenegger after being his roommate in the 70s. 

Was in great health until his death as when he retired from bodybuilding around 1987 he started working as a physiotherapist.

Most of his giant medal collection will be on display in a museum according to his iltalehti obituary.

[MariNisia 4,194]

Spanish singer and actress Concha Márquez Piquer, daughter of Concha Piquer, one of the great stars of post-war Spanish song, and bullfighter Antonio Márquez y Serrano, died on Monday in a hospital in Madrid after several weeks of admission due to a lung infection.
She was 75 years old.
Concha Márquez Piquer was famous from birth.
Her godmother was Eva Perón:

 

https://www.kiratas.com/concha-marquez-piquer-dies-at-75/

 

 

[arghton 6,715]

Vicente Fernandez recently suffered from lung inflammation but now doctors say that he could leave intensive care if he remains stable:

https://www.eluniversal.com.mx/espectaculos/vicente-fernandez-podria-salir-de-terapia-intensiva

Has "periods of awakeness during the day" and tries to communicate through signs.

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55 minutes ago, arghton said:

Vicente Fernandez recently suffered from lung inflammation but now doctors say that he could leave intensive care if he remains stable:

https://www.eluniversal.com.mx/espectaculos/vicente-fernandez-podria-salir-de-terapia-intensiva

Has "periods of awakeness during the day" and tries to communicate through signs.

[arghton 6,715]

https://www.is.fi/taloussanomat/art-2000008345826.html

Meat company owner Veijo Votkin dead aged 73 from a long illness.

He was the owner of Lihatukku Veijo Votkin Oy (the company also used an english name, "Chef Wotkins") that he founded in 1978. Used to sell alligator meat (and once sold cobra meat) until the EU put an end to that. He was on trial in 2019 for buying one hundred kilos of bear meat from Estonia. 

[MariNisia 4,194]

Mexican actor Miguel Palmer died at the age of 78.
The actor, renowned for being the leading man of soap operas and an excellent villain, died of two cardiac arrests.
Palmer won the award TVyNovelas once for his role as the best villain in the telenovela "At the end of the rainbow".
He had been in poor health since April of this year:
https://www.americanpost.news/miguel-palmer-dies-first-actor-2-cardiac-arrests/

[MariNisia 4,194]

The Lebanese actor Pierre Jamjian passed away on Thursday at the age of 72, but the circumstances that led to his death have not yet been revealed:

https://middleeast.in-24.com/entertainment/News/amp/80502

 

Ziad Bourji, Lebanese actor, composer, lyricist and singer, said on Twitter: "A great loss, Piaro, thank you for planting a smile on the faces of all Lebanese":

 

[Ulitzer95 12,586]

Marcel Bluwal (wiki), Palme d'Or-nominated French film director and screenwriter, dead at 96.

[arghton 6,715]

On 19/10/2021 at 23:38, arghton said:

Vicente Fernandez recently suffered from lung inflammation but now doctors say that he could leave intensive care if he remains stable:

https://www.eluniversal.com.mx/espectaculos/vicente-fernandez-podria-salir-de-terapia-intensiva

Has "periods of awakeness during the day" and tries to communicate through signs.

https://www.hola.com/us/celebrities/20211027305902/vicente-fernandez-is-out-of-the-icu/

Out of ICU after being there for nearly three months.

It was also announced that Fernández will continue to use a breathing aid device. “Don Vicente remains stable. He is more alert and cooperative in his rehabilitation therapy. His breathing remains weak which is why he need the intermittent use of breathing aids.”

[gcreptile 10,967]

Puneeth Rajkumar, Indian host of their "Who wants to be a millionaire" dead of a heart attack at 46:

https://www.the-sun.com/news/3957032/puneeth-rajkumar-dead-cardiac-arrest/

[Gooseberry Crumble 5,341]

 

 

Italian actor and model Rossano Rubicondi has died age 49. He is also the fourth husband of Ivana  Trump. The tweet is apparently incorrect in saying ex husband because their divorce wasn't finalised according to other media reports. 

[gcreptile 10,967]

Hmm... Trump's eskimo brother then. Isn't that kind of family/fringe, too?

Edit: Ah yes, it's posted there, too.

[TomTomTelekom 3,727]

Mexican actor Octavio Ocana died at only 22 years:

https://www.excelsior.com.mx/funcion/muere-el-actor-octavio-ocana-mejor-conocido-como-benito-en-vecinos/1479882

After playing the role of Benito Rivers in the Mexican television series Vecinos, the teenage Ocaña was cast as Otto Von Ferdinand in a telenovela called Lola...

[arghton 6,715]

On 10/12/2017 at 02:35, Thatcher said:

Here is a list of surviving People's Artists of the USSR. Remarkably, they all they all tend to receive an obituary in their home country (and usually one in Russia too). Many of these, particularly the Russians, are still popular and prominent even today. After the fall of the Soviet Union they remained well connected and some went into politics themselves. You'll often see them at photoshoots with Vladimir Putin or waving Russian flags at events in support of the annexation of Crimea.

• Igor Kirillov  - Russian State News Anchor - b. 14th September 1932

https://www.1tv.ru/news/2021-10-30/415583-skonchalsya_igor_kirillov_diktor_zhurnalist_narodnyy_artist_sssr_i_obladatel_samogo_uznavaemogo_golosa

Dead. He announced the deaths of Brezhnev, Andropov and Chernenko in the 1980s:

Chernenko (1985):

Brezhnev (1982):

 

[time 8,599]

On 10/12/2017 at 00:35, Thatcher said:

Here is a list of surviving People's Artists of the USSR. Remarkably, they all they all tend to receive an obituary in their home country (and usually one in Russia too). Many of these, particularly the Russians, are still popular and prominent even today. After the fall of the Soviet Union they remained well connected and some went into politics themselves. You'll often see them at photoshoots with Vladimir Putin or waving Russian flags at events in support of the annexation of Crimea.

• /snip
• Igor Kirillov  - Russian State News Anchor - b. 14th September 1932 
•  

Igor Kirillov hs died aged 89.

[Ulitzer95 12,586]

7 minutes ago, time said:

Igor Kirillov hs died aged 89.

Have you muted poor Arghton?

[drol 11,944]

7 minutes ago, time said:

Igor Kirillov hs died aged 89.

[Ulitzer95 12,586]

Just now, drol said:

Ooooo you get the double treatment for that 

[drol 11,944]

Just now, drol said:

Oh, no! 

[drol 11,944]

Stop it, stop it, stop iiiiiit!!!!

[time 8,599]

12 minutes ago, Ulitzer95 said:

Have you muted poor Arghton?

No, but some people (no names, no pack-drill) don't mention the name of the deceased in their posts, thus, the search function doesn't find it. 

 

This has been mentioned previously (or , if you like)

 

 

[chilean way 1,898]

Gladys del Rio, Chilean actress and comedian has died at 79 https://www.biobiochile.cl/noticias/espectaculos-y-tv/tv/2021/10/30/muere-actriz-gladys-del-rio-a-los-79-anos.shtml (in Spanish)