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According to the Parliamentary website, Stanley Clinton-Davis, Baron Clinton-Davis, Labour MP for Hackney Central (1970-1983) who served in the Wilson, Callaghan and Blair Governments, is dead: https://members.parliament.uk/member/1116/career

 

Apparently the first MP to ask Thatcher a question at PMQs.

 

He was 94.

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On 05/05/2023 at 10:07, drol said:

Khaleda discharged.

Khaleda hospitalised yet again.

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3 minutes ago, arghton said:

Khaleda Zia seriously ill with Bullshititis and fighting for her life. 

Come on, it's Fakhrul, let's stop feeding the trolls.

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On 01/08/2022 at 13:34, arghton said:

 

Gennady Kulik (1935) Chairman of the Inter-Republican Food Commission 1991, former Deputy Premier

 

Gennady Kulik dead at 88.

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Jose Sarney, former President of Brazil, has made a rare appearance with Lula:

Frail but doesn't look bad for someone who's survived pleural effusion atleast twice and was very close to dying ten years ago.  

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On 25/12/2022 at 22:17, arghton said:

Dutch neonazi Joop Glimmerveen dead at 94.

 

(Fingers crossed Sweden's Vera Oredsson, Edward Reed Fields of the US and Germany's Ursula Haverbeck and Horst Mahler will follow him soon)

Swedish neonazi politician Vera Oredsson charged with incitement against groups of people. Her name isn't said but it's said it's a 95-year-old woman who's been involved in nazi/neonazi movements since youth and has been in leading positions in neonazi groups, which means it's her.

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Looking at the Oldest Living State Leaders list on Wikipedia almost all of them seem to be doing very well or much better than usual.

 

More than four months without a hit in the relative pool. Now that's a drought.

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On 20/10/2020 at 13:02, arghton said:

Oili Suomi (b. 1927) Parliament member 1970-1972 and 1977-1979. Didn't serve.

Oili Suomi died in April. No online obits, but there was a death notice on Turun Sanomat last month.

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On 01/09/2022 at 13:17, arghton said:

They've finally gotten the expert opinions:

 

Lubomir Strougal, 97, only suffers from "mild dementia" but can't understand the criminal proceedings. can only understand the meaning of criminal proceedings in a very general, formal and imprecise way, and only at a certain time of day and in the calm of the home environment.

Jan Fojtík, 94, suffers from senile dementia and is in even worse condition than Strougal.

Vratislav Vajnar, 91, suffers from a mild cognitive impairment, but well enough to be prosecuted.

Vratislav Vajnar, Interior Minister of Czechoslovakia in the 1980s accused of border killings now suffers from a severe but very stable case of DEAD

 

Edit: I think it's very possible he topped himself, a medical assessment was going to be done sometime soon.

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On 27/10/2021 at 19:06, arghton said:

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/10/27/national/tokyo-koike-hospital/

Yuriko Koike, Governor of Tokyo since 2016 hospitalised with extreme fatigue. Second time this year.

 

 

Also, a list of living Deputy Prime Ministers of Vietnam as they seem to live long (ones from before 2010):

 

 

Vũ Khoan (1937-) 2002-2006

 

Vu Khoan dead at 85.

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On 26/01/2017 at 20:14, Deathray said:

For the purposes of ending a ridiculous argument and an even more ludicrous "tradition" that's developing in the Denis Healey thread

 

UPDATED LIST (Lubbock, Grant and Prior deceased):

------------------------------------------------------

 

Thanks and goodnight

Streamlined and updated, considering OP hasn't been active for 3 years and I can't see that anyone else has posted a more recent list. 

 

LAST UPDATED 25th FEB 2024

 

1959 - 1/630

Stratton Mills (b.1932) - UUP

 

1964 - 10/630

Stratton Mills (b.1932) - UUP

Roy Hattersley (b.1932) - Labour

Pat Duffy (b.1920) - Labour

James Hamilton (b.1934) - UUP

Shirley Summerskill (b.1931) - Labour

Patrick McNair-Wilson (b.1929) - Conservative

Dick Taverne (b.1928) - Labour

Bill Rodgers (1928) - Labour

Terence Higgins (b.1928) - Conservative

Michael Jopling (b.1930) - Conservative

 

1966 - 20/630

Edwin Brooks (b.1929) - Labour

Stratton Mills (b.1932) - UUP

Roy Hattersley (b.1932) - Labour

Ted Rowlands (b.1940) - Labour

John Pardoe (b.1934) - Liberal

David Winnick (b.1933) - Labour

James Hamilton (b.1934) - UUP

David Howell (b.1936) - Conservative

Shirley Summerskill (b.1931) - Labour

Alan Lee Williams (b.1930) - Labour

Stanley Henig (b.1939) - Labour

Dick Taverne (b.1928) - Labour

Donald Anderson (b.1939) - Labour

David Owen (b.1938) - Labour

David Steel (b.1938) - Liberal

John Nott (b.1932) - National Liberal

Bill Rodgers (1928) - Labour

Michael Heseltine (b.1933) - Conservative

Michael Jopling (b.1930) - Conservative

Terence Higgins (b.1928) - Conservative

 

1966-1970 by-elections

Fred Silvester (b.1933) - Conservative

Christopher Ward (b.1942) - Conservative

Kenneth Baker (b. 1934) - Conservative

 

1970 - 49/630

Jim Sillars (b.1937) - Labour

David Madel (b.1938) - Conservative

Neil Kinnock (b.1942) - Labour

Stratton Mills (b.1932) - UUP

Roy Hattersley (b.1932) - Labour

Robert Hicks (b.1938) - Conservative

Dennis Skinner (b.1932) - Labour

Laurance Reed (b.1937) - Conservative

Tom King (b.1933) - Conservative

Andrew Bowden (b.1930) - Conservative

Gwynoro Jones (b.1942) - Labour

Christopher Tugendhat (b.1937) - Conservative 

David Clark (b.1939) - Labour

John Pardoe (b.1934) - Liberal

Peter Trew (b.1932) - Conservative

Gavin Strang (b.1943) - Labour

Norman Tebbit (b.1931) - Conservative

John Hannam (b.1929) - Conservative
Frank McManus (b.1942) - Unity

Barry Jones (b.1938) - Labour

John Horam (b.1939) - Labour

Sally Oppenheim-Barnes (b.1928) - Conservative

David Howell (b.1936) - Conservative

Shirley Summerskill (b.1931) - Labour

Hugh Dykes (b.1939) - Conservative

Joan Hall (b.1935) - Conservative 

John Prescott (b.1938) - Labour

David Knox (b.1933) - Conservative

John Gummer (b.1939) - Conservative

Dick Taverne (b.1928) - Labour

Jeffrey Archer (b.1940) - Conservative

Janet Fookes (b.1936) - Conservative

John Suttcliffe (b.1931) - Conservative

Alan Haselhurst (b.1937) - Conservative

Patrick McNair-Wilson (b.1929) - Conservative

Norman Fowler (b.1938) - Conservative

Les Huckfield (b.1942) - Labour

David Owen (b.1938) - Labour

David Steel (b.1938) - Liberal

Ken Clarke (b.1940) - Conservative

John Nott (b.1932) - Conservative

Patrick Duffy (b.1920) - Labour

Bill Rodgers (1928) - Labour

Michael Heseltine (b.1933) - Conservative

Bernadette D. McAliskey (b.1947) - Unity

Eric Deakins (b.1932) - Labour

Michael Jopling (b.1930) - Conservative

Jack Cunnigham (b.1939) - Labour

Terence Higgins (b.1928) - Conservative

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6 minutes ago, Ulitzer95 said:

@Commtech Sio Bibble, I always keep at least one version of any of my lists up to date. In this case, it's the last version I copied out. Available here at the Denis Healey thread.

In any case, probably time someone wrote out 1966 and 1970.

I did see a few things in the Healy thread but they were a tad too cluttered for my liking.

 

I don't know if by mentioning 66 & 70 you were volunteering to do it yourself but if not I'm happy to update for those two elections.

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1 hour ago, Commtech Sio Bibble said:

I did see a few things in the Healy thread but they were a tad too cluttered for my liking.

 

I don't know if by mentioning 66 & 70 you were volunteering to do it yourself but if not I'm happy to update for those two elections.


Not going to have time over the next few days. Please feel free to do so!

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2 minutes ago, Ulitzer95 said:


Not going to have time over the next few days. Please feel free to do so!

Edited my post above to include 66 & 70, feel free to copy the information for your own list.

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On 17/06/2023 at 12:46, arghton said:

Jose Sarney, former President of Brazil, has made a rare appearance with Lula:

Frail but doesn't look bad for someone who's survived pleural effusion atleast twice and was very close to dying ten years ago.  

 

Known as Cucumber in the changing rooms.

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On 09/06/2022 at 22:23, arghton said:

...

CANADA (Only ministers/ longtime politicians past 1925, up to 1930)

Charles Godfrey (1917-2022) Durham local politician known for his opposition towards the proposed Pickering International Airport in the 1970s. Also a physician who worked until 2020.

Hazel McCallion (1921-2023) Mayor of Mississauga 1978-2014, ancient but still active.

Neville Roper (1922) Alberta local politician.

Doris Margaret Anderson (1922-2022) Former Senator.

Paul Shooner (1923) Local politician, still active as of 2020.

William Frank (1923-2023) Former Member of Parliament.

Clare Westcott (1924) Ontario politician. Lost son-in-law in 2014, wife in 2019, daughter in 2020.

Roland Armitage (1925) Former local politician.

Robert Nixon (1928) Longtime Ontario politician.

Pearl McGonigal (1929) Former Manitoba lt.gen

Marc Lalonde (1929-2023) Former Finance Minister

Marion Reid (1929) Former lt.gov of the Prince Edward Islands

Yves Michaud (1930) Hardline Quebec independence supporter.

 

...

Marion Reid, Canadian politician and Lt. Gov of the Prince Edward Islands 1990-1995, dead at 94.

 

One of the "Prince Edward Islands famous five", when in 1993 five of the most influential positions of government in the province were held by women:

1. Nancy Guptill (1941-2020) Speaker of the Legislative Assembly

2. Pat Mella (1943-) Official Opposition leader.

3. Elizabeth "Libbe" Hubley (1942-) Deputy Speaker of the Legislative Assembly

4. Marion Reid (1929-2023) Lt. Governor

5. Catherine Callbeck (1939-) Premier.

 

2018 - back row L-R Guptill, Mella, Hubley, front row Reid and Callbeck:

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