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Updated the Cold War leaders list for the deaths of Abolhassan Banisadr of Iran and Kåre Willoch of Norway.
 

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  On 30/11/2021 at 19:02, arghton said:

https://www.newagebd.net/article/156117/fakhrul-says-khaleda-better-now-though-re-bleeds

https://www.thedailystar.net/news/bangladesh/politics/news/khaleda-starts-bleeding-again-2906761

Khaleda Zia suffered from internal bleeding again yesterday for the fourth or fifth time but "the crisis is tackled for now due to the frantic efforts of the physicians"

Khaleda Zia can't go abroad for treatment because her passport can't be renewed. This is because she is a convicted criminal who misused the money raised by an orphanage trust:

https://www.daily-sun.com/post/592250/Khaleda-now-facing-passport-problem

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  On 13/09/2021 at 20:21, arghton said:

If only Europe is counted, I'd say that there are not very many.

 

However I did this "leaders who first came to power 1971-1980" list a while ago, and it's horribly long:

 

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Kayatyani Shankar Bajpai (1928-2020) Political Officer in Sikkim, ca. 1970-1975

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José Ramón Ávalos Navarrete (b. 1935), Héctor Dada Hirezi (b. 1938) and José Antonio Morales Ehrlich (1935-2021) as Members of the Revolutionary Government Junta of El Salvador

Kayatyani Shankar Bajpai, Indian diplomat, Political Officer in Sikkim during the Indian annexation of Sikkim, in charge of the area during the transition died in August 2020 from covid at 92:

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/former-envoy-katyayani-shankar-bajpai-dies-of-covid-19/articleshow/77837700.cms

Apparently a good friend of Henry Kissinger.

 

Dr. José Antonio Morales Ehrlich, member of the Revolutionary Govt Junta of El Salvador of 79-82 from 1980 to 1982 died in June at 85 or 86:

https://houstonianonline.com/former-san-salvador-mayor-dr-jose-antonio-morales-earlich-dies/

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Mustafa Ben Halim dead at 100.

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  On 30/04/2021 at 11:47, arghton said:

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1950s

1950 - Gyanendra (b. 1947) King of Nepal 1950-1951 and later 2001-2008

1952 - Elizabeth II (b. 1926) Queen of the United Kingdom (1952-present) Currently longest ruling state leader and monarch.

Fuad II (b. 1952) King of Egypt and Sudan (1952-1953)

1954 - Mustafa Ben Halim (b. 1921) Prime Minister of Libya (1954-1957) Oldest living state leader, earliest non-royal head of a country.

1956 - Sirikit (b. 1932) Queen Regent of Thailand (1956)

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If Ben Halim is actually dead this time, means that there are no living non-royal state leaders remaining from the 1950s.

Four royals remain. Sirikit's probably going to go next?

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  On 08/12/2021 at 07:05, drol said:

Mustafa Ben Halim dead at 100.

damn shame, we were only a few weeks from having 3 centenarian state leaders at once again.

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  On 08/12/2021 at 09:51, arghton said:

If Ben Halim is actually dead this time, means that there are no living non-royal state leaders remaining from the 1950s.

Four royals remain. Sirikit's probably going to go next?

 

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  On 30/11/2021 at 19:02, arghton said:

https://www.newagebd.net/article/156117/fakhrul-says-khaleda-better-now-though-re-bleeds

https://www.thedailystar.net/news/bangladesh/politics/news/khaleda-starts-bleeding-again-2906761

Khaleda Zia suffered from internal bleeding again yesterday for the fourth or fifth time but "the crisis is tackled for now due to the frantic efforts of the physicians"

Khaleda Zia again suffered from internal bleeding, for the fifth or sixth (?) time yesterday:

https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/2021/12/08/fakhrul-khaleda-zia-suffering-from-internal-bleeding-again

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said that she has already shown great generosity to Zia by letting her stay at the best hospital in the country and that Zia's party and supporters "can't expect more".

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Former PM of Georgia Otar Patsatsia dead at 92.

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Telegraph obit for Rainbow George Weiss (wiki), aged 81.

A Hampstead hippie who was a serial candidate for fringe parties at by-elections in the UK.

Also noted for making prank calls to LBC with his neighbour and drinking buddy, the late great Peter Cook.

Pictured below with Howling Laud Hope of the Monster Raving Loony Party. 

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  On 23/08/2013 at 15:37, the_engineer said:

 

If he really did shag his wife what was the punishment ? Other than shagging his wife of course. :)

 

 

 

Bo Xilai doesn't look too good these days. Expect him to have a 'heart attack' after 6 months in jail.

 

http://www.smh.com.a...0822-2se2m.html

Bo Xilai's mother in law died at 99 on 23 November. Bo and his wife, who are in prison, were only allowed to send a wreath to the funeral.

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  On 21/09/2021 at 12:27, arghton said:

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Paulias Matane (Governor-General of Papua New Guinea 2004-2010) is 90 today. Picture is from the 2nd of September.

 

DEAD

 

His autobiographical book "My Childhood in New Guinea" is a classroom staple in his homeland and he served as the first Papua New Guinean Ambassador to the US.

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  On 03/08/2021 at 13:47, arghton said:

Oceania...

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William Deane (1931-) Governor-General of Australia 1996-2001

Michael Hardie Boys (1931-) Governor-General of New Zealand 1996-2001

Bill Hayden (1933-) Governor-General of Australia 1989-1996

Jim Bolger (1935-) Prime Minister of New Zealand 1990-1997

Peter Hollingworth (1935-) Governor-General of Australia 2001-2003

Tulaga Manuella (1936-) Governor-General of Tuvalu 1994-1996

Kamuta Latasi (1936-) Prime Minister of Tuvalu 1993-1996, Governor-General of Tuvalu 2010

Ati George Sokomanu (1937-) President of Vanuatu 1980-1984, 1984-1989

Tui Atua Tupua Tamasese Efi (1938-) Prime Minister of Western Samoa 1976-1982, 1982, O le Ao o le Malo of Samoa 2007-2017

Tomasi Puapua (1938-) Prime Minister of Tuvalu 1981-1989, Governor-General of Tuvalu 1998-2003

Julius Chan (1939-) Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea 1980-1982, 1994-1997, 1997

John Howard (1939-) Prime Minister of Australia 1996-2007

Updated the "Oceanian leaders" list for the death of Paulias Matane. From 1931 only William Deane and Michael Hardie Boys remain and I can't find any articles on either one from the last years.

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I've mentioned that Bill Hayden suffered a stroke in 2014 and later had a fall. Here's a picture from 2018 when he was baptized. Peter Hollingworth was widowed in April.

Ati George Sokomanu and Tui Atua Tupua Tamasese Efi are both over ten years above the life expectancy of their countries but can walk unaided, however the latter doesn't look great. Julius Chan was hospitalised in April and doesn't look great.

John Howard sounds a bit frail but feels like he still has a couple of years

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  On 03/08/2021 at 13:47, arghton said:

Oceania's Political Frailty, list of Oceanian leaders by birth year (Presidents, Prime Ministers, Kings...) born in and after 1916, plus honorary mentions who lived to the 2000s and have lead a country in Oceania before the day this list was posted. Oceanian politicians (excluding NZ and Australia) tend to die young, good picks for pools.

Bold is used to mark national founders, dictators and monarchs.


*snip*

 

Non-Independent Territories:

 

James Arthur Ewing (1916-?, disappeared 1956) Governor of American Samoa 1952-1956

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He didn't permanently disappear in 1956. His Wiki is somewhat misleading as it doesn't reveal that he subsequently re-emerged (there is some minor coverage of him up until the 1960s in the archives on Newspapers.com). He died in 1991 according to several family trees on Ancestry.

No idea where he died... possibly abroad, but his widow, Elva Jessie Bump, died in New York in 2010.

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  On 08/12/2021 at 16:27, arghton said:

Khaleda Zia again suffered from internal bleeding, for the fifth or sixth (?) time yesterday:

https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/2021/12/08/fakhrul-khaleda-zia-suffering-from-internal-bleeding-again

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said that she has already shown great generosity to Zia by letting her stay at the best hospital in the country and that Zia's party and supporters "can't expect more".

Khaleda Zia suffered from internal bleeding for the sixth or seventh time yesterday. Yawn.

https://www.newagebd.net/article/157199/khaleda-suffers-intermittent-bleeding

Her doctors are giving her meds to control the bleeding but apparently they don't know what causes it and she's now only given liquid food. They're now trying to get her a TIPS shunt and they talk of it like it would be some miracle cure for everything that would "save her life" 

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  On 13/12/2021 at 11:53, arghton said:

Khaleda Zia suffered from internal bleeding for the sixth or seventh time yesterday. Yawn.

https://www.newagebd.net/article/157199/khaleda-suffers-intermittent-bleeding

Her doctors are giving her meds to control the bleeding but apparently they don't know what causes it and she's now only given liquid food. They're now trying to get her a TIPS shunt and they talk of it like it would be some miracle cure for everything that would "save her life" 

 

Political Frailty as brought to you by Corrie script writers. "Today, she's even iller than she was yesterday!" (drag out for year)

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Yeah, no doubt that she is ill (judging from Prime Minister, her political opponent Sheikh Hasina's statements) but the Bangladesh press and her party are probably adding all the ailments and diseases they happen to know of into her long list of illnesses. 

 

She has (decompensated?) cirrhosis, heart problems and (uncontrolled?) diabetes, has had internal bleeding around 6/7 times now, urinary tract infection a while ago, blood clots, fever multiple times, had serious covid this year, (untreated?) arthritis/osteoarthritis/rheumatoid arthritis, dental problems, some troubles with her eyes and trouble breathing. 

 

The Bangladesh press have reported (usually without proper sources) that she also has CKD, "lung and kidney diseases",  "serious heart ailment", depression, hypertension, asthma, a mysterious autoimmune disease, heart failure, paralytic deformity on her hand, unstable haemoglobin, "ear ailments", a mild stroke in 2018 and "other old age diseases"

 

She's been in a wheelchair for ages and already looked like a corpse before getting covid but if she was as ill as they claim her to be, she would've died atleast ten times during the last year. My prediction is that she'll go around January/February 2022 as I am pretty sure she is actually very ill this time.

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Is she one of the Immortals. She should be with that health record. 

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  On 20/09/2021 at 10:15, arghton said:

Lots of deaths from the Philippines lately...nonagenarians Imelda Marcos (frail and in a wheelchair for years, "atleast seven ailments" in 2019), Cesar Virata (last living prime minister whose tenure was during the Marcos dictatorship, stroke+covid+pneumonia in April 2020), Fidel Ramos (has lost weight recently and sometimes does not attend events due to poor health, however in good health compared to the two above) and of course Juan Ponce Enrile (will never die, 98 next year and hopes that he will reach 110) are all still living but for how long?

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Cesar Virata on his 91st birthday yesterday. You would've thought that a stroke, a bad case of covid that caused him to be intubated and pneumonia would've taken its toll on him but apparently nope, he looks exactly like he did a couple of years ago.

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