drol 10,067 Posted June 17, 2023 Malawi's most important musician, 92-year old Giddess Chalamanda (wiki), hospitalised with pneumonia, but already on the mend. 2 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,013 Posted June 17, 2023 5 hours ago, drol said: Malawi's most important musician, 92-year old Giddess Chalamanda (wiki), hospitalised with pneumonia, but already on the mend. Malawi’s WHAT? The next important thing coming straight outta Malawi will be the first important thing. Pray tell, who is the SECOND most important Malawi musician? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TQR 12,223 Posted June 17, 2023 19 minutes ago, Sir Creep said: Malawi’s WHAT? The next important thing coming straight outta Malawi will be the first important thing. Pray tell, who is the SECOND most important Malawi musician? Interesting question. Could be Lucius Banda, reggae & Afropop singer-songwriter with 9 studio albums to date? Or it might be Malia, whose albums garnered fair recognition across Europe. Or the late Tony Bird if we’re including dead people, who was an anti-colonialist icon with a musical style comparable to Bob Dylan. Oh shit none of them reached Michigan so they’re all nobodies dw. 2 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Grimgrass 477 Posted June 18, 2023 On 11/10/2022 at 00:12, arghton said: Eva Hög (1928-) Cross-country skier in the 1960 olympics. Eva Hög dead at 95: https://www.keskipohjanmaa.fi/artikkeli/arvokisahiihtaja-eva-hog-on-kuollut Checking other names on your post: Tauno Honkanen, Helge Törn, Viktor Ahven and Heikki Hakola have also been confirmed dead. EDIT: And Eero Saari, whose passing has been mentioned on this forum earlier this year. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
drol 10,067 Posted June 22, 2023 On 05/08/2022 at 16:55, drol said: After the death of Ali Haydar, here's three old henchmen of Assad still going: 1)Ali Duba (1933): chief of military intelligence who was seen voting in a wheelchair last year. Clearly suffering from extreme physical frailty and possibly dementia. 2)Ali Aslan (1932): chief of the military staff who was awarded the Order of Merit last year. Seems to be fine. 3)Rifaat al-Assad (1937): vice president and uncle of Bashar, suffered a gastric hemorrhage some time ago. Wanted for every kind of fraud in France, so came back to Syria last year. Ali Duba dead at 89. Good riddance to bad rubbish. 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Grimgrass 477 Posted June 22, 2023 On 14/12/2022 at 00:51, arghton said: Ilkka Kuusisto - born 1933, composer and musician. Father of Jaakko Kuusisto (1974-2022) Ilkka Kuusisto has dementia: https://www.etlehti.fi/artikkeli/ihmiset/jaakko-veljen-kuolema-ja-vanhempien-muistisairaus-muuttivat-lotta-kuusiston-arjen 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ulitzer95 11,089 Posted June 23, 2023 On 10/10/2022 at 22:12, arghton said: Going through pages of Finnish people born 1912-1929 on the English wikipedia. Defintely still living people in bold *snip* Tania Weber (1926-) Actress who appeared in many Italian films in the 1950s. *snip* I wonder how many of these fifties sportspeople are dead already. Suprised so many have Wikipedia pages. So now that @Gisooo has uncovered a film historian's post about Weber, we now know that she was German-born Italian, not Finnish, which makes more sense as I don't think Finnish-born personalities tend to die off radar? Anyway, born in 1933, not 1926, and died in 2009 (aged 76) so another off your list. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lafaucheuse 3,659 Posted June 24, 2023 Claude Barzotti, perenial ill and hospitalized french singer dead at 69. Often talked about in french topics. Should have put him on some lists. Breaking News from le Monde. Thought that Herbert Léonard would go before him tbh… 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 19,106 Posted June 26, 2023 Sir Lloyd Erskine Sandiford, 4th PM of Barbados, reportedly dead aged 86: https://www.nationnews.com/2023/06/26/former-prime-minister-sir-lloyd-passes/ 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
arghton 6,124 Posted June 28, 2023 On 13/12/2022 at 23:32, arghton said: Jiřina Bohdalová hospitalised last month and has been in hospital for more than two weeks now with flu, spinal problems and other stuff. Now slowly improving. Czech actress Jiřina Bohdalová also survived a major pulmonary embolism around January that put her into critical conditions for weeks and later a fall in April. Seems like she's recovered well. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
drol 10,067 Posted July 2, 2023 91-year old Brazilian actor Stênio Garcia hospitalised with acute septicemia, but of course improving and not in danger. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gisooo 2,553 Posted July 2, 2023 On 05/12/2022 at 20:40, arghton said: Đorđe Mihailović, cemetary keeper of the Serbian Military Cemetery at WWI allied military cemetary and memorial park Zeitenlik in Thessaloniki (see 2014 apnews article) seems to have retired earlier this year. 94 next year with a history of leg and lung problems Dead at 95 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gisooo 2,553 Posted July 6, 2023 On 30/03/2022 at 09:29, arghton said: I didn't include some (Maurice McGregor, Sydney Kentridge, Doreen Mantle, Martial Solal, Graham Tainton and Pauline Lesley Perry) as they don't live in Africa and some because I couldn't find much proof they're still alive (Arthur Upton, Rifaat Garrana, Olive Mary Hilliard, Dennis Lotis, Don Dyke-Wells, Abdul Ganiyu Agbaje, David Eduard van Dijk, Aubrey Kachingwe, Fanny Friedman, Leonora van den Heever, Emmanuel Welbeck Nortey, Michel El Khoury, George Getzel Cohen, Ibrahim Badreldin-Sayed, Mohamed Riad, Ahmad Bishti, Mirghani Alnasri, Mahawa Bangoura, Alfred W. Crompton, Mohamed Kabil, Ahmed Fahti Mohamed Hashad and Alexander Ransford Ababio. Olympe Bhely-Quenum). Egyptian composer Rifaat Garrana (Wiki) dead in 2017 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Imhotep 9 Posted July 7, 2023 Dennis Lotis died Feb. 8 2023 in Norfolk, England. This is a link to his obit in The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/feb/12/dennis-lotis-obituary 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ulitzer95 11,089 Posted July 7, 2023 2 hours ago, Imhotep said: Dennis Lotis died Feb. 8 2023 in Norfolk, England. This is a link to his obit in The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/feb/12/dennis-lotis-obituary Already reported on here in several places at the time. Also, he's not a "foreign" personality. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sinbabad 829 Posted July 8, 2023 Joseph Kebet, Kenyan long distance runner, has died yesterday aged 52. He had won 4 marathons : Amsterdam in 1996, both Boston and New York in 1999 and Vienna in 2003. His best time was 2h 07min at the 1998 Boston marathon where he had finished 2nd, 3 seconds behind the winner, his countryman Tanui. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gisooo 2,553 Posted July 8, 2023 Brazilian actress Neusa Maria Faro (Wiki) dead at 78 from thrombosis 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
drol 10,067 Posted July 8, 2023 On 02/07/2023 at 16:41, drol said: 91-year old Brazilian actor Stênio Garcia hospitalised with acute septicemia, but of course improving and not in danger. Discharged. Impressive comeback. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,013 Posted July 10, 2023 Well, she and Elvis had one thing in common… A celebrated Korean singer was found dead in a rest room at a concert venue minutes before she was supposed to go on stage. Lee Sang-Eun, 46, was set to perform “Carmina Burana” at Grand Hall of Gimcheon Culture and Art Center when she was discovered. No cause of death was given. A graduate of the Mannes School Of Music in New York, she won female musician of the year at the Korean Music Awards in 2004 and 2006. SC Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
drol 10,067 Posted July 10, 2023 On 28/09/2022 at 13:49, arghton said: Searched the professional Shogi players born 1940 and before on the Japanese wiki, found a few more: Masao Kitamura (1934-, ja wiki) Was already a professional in 1953 and has the earliest "Shogi number" from all living players: 60, earlier than Katō (64), Miyasaka (65), Ōmura (71), Naitō (77) and Saeki (79). Masao Kitamura dead at 88. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gisooo 2,553 Posted July 12, 2023 On 04/04/2022 at 19:33, Gisooo said: Spain Teresa Cunille (Wiki) - born 1924 Montserrat Salvador (Wiki) - born 1927 Mercedes López de Luzuriaga (Wiki) - born 1927 Laurita Valenzuela (Wiki) - born 1931 Helga Line (Wiki) - born 1932 Julia Gutierrez Caba (Wiki) - born 1932 Julieta Serrano (Wiki) - born 1933 Elisa Montes (Wiki) - born 1934 Esperanza Roy (Wiki) - born 1935 Gemma Cuervo (Wiki) - born 1936 Concha Velasco (Wiki) - born 1939 Spanish actress Mercedes López de Luzuriaga dead at 95 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MariNisia 3,499 Posted July 14, 2023 On 12/07/2023 at 13:44, Gisooo said: Spanish actress Mercedes López de Luzuriaga dead at 95 Mercedes López de Luzuriaga started her professional acting career when she was only seventy-eight years old. Never give up on your dreams, @Gisooo. A stupendous comedic actress. Rest in Peace. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
arghton 6,124 Posted July 17, 2023 Sonja Melin, apparently the inspiration of Swedish fictional character Pippi Longstocking (created during WWII), dead at 89. 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Joey Russ 7,119 Posted July 18, 2023 Brazilian pianist and composer Joao Donato has died at 88 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lafaucheuse 3,659 Posted July 20, 2023 Marc Herrand, last member of the Compagnon de la Chanson, french boysband founded in 1941, has died at 98. He was the last original member of the band. Here with Piaf in 1946 6 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
