Thatcher 2,124 Posted December 4, 2017 On 08/04/2014 at 13:47, Bibliogryphon said: Surviving Presidents of the European Commission Jacques Delors (1925) Jacques Santer (1937) Manuel Marin (1949) Romano Prodi (1939) Jose Manuel Barroso (1956) Manuel Marín, President of the European Commission (March 1999 - September 1999), has died aged 68. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Thatcher 2,124 Posted December 7, 2017 Philippe Maystadt, Belgian Finance Minister (1988-1998) and Deputy Prime Minister (1986-1988, 1995-1998), has died aged 69. Additionally, he served as President of the European Investment Bank from 2000-2011. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
drol 10,057 Posted December 7, 2017 Ok, here comes the fourth round: Scores: Drol 2 (Anton Vratusa, Mihai of Romania) Gcreptile 1 (Liam Cosgrave) Updated list: 1)Do Muoi (1917), Prime Minister of Vietnam 2)Babiker Awadalla (1917), Prime Minister of Sudan 3)Yasuhiro Nakasone (1918), Prime Minister of Japan 4)Hyun Soong-jong (1919), Prime Minister of South Korea 5)Mohammed Karim Lamrani (1919), Prime Minister of Morocco 6)Hau Pei-tsun (1919), Prime Minister of Taiwan 7)Javier Perez de Cuellar (1920), Prime Minister of Perù 8)Josip Manolic (1920), Prime Minister of Croatia 9)Prem Tinsulanonda (1920), Prime Minister and Regent of Thailand 10)Kim Yong-ju (1920), vacancy Head of State of North Korea 11)Tun Tin (1920), Prime Minister of Burma 12)Le Duc Anh (1920), President of Vietnam 13)Jean of Luxembourg (1921), Grand Duke 14)Mustafa ben Halim (1921), Prime Minister of Lybia 15)Abdelmalek Benhabyles (1921), President of Algeria 16)Francisco Morales Bermudez (1921), President of Perù 17)Luis Echeverria (1922), President of Mexico 18)Milos Jakes (1922), General Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia 19) Lee Teng-hui (1923), President of Taiwan 20)Belisario Betancur (1923), Presidet of Colombia Game ends when all the original twenty (the list including Vratusa) are dead. This time I pick Jean of Luxembourg. Choose your pick if you want. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CastAway 475 Posted December 7, 2017 2 hours ago, drol said: Ok, here comes the fourth round: Scores: Drol 2 (Anton Vratusa, Mihai of Romania) Gcreptile 1 (Liam Cosgrave) Updated list: 1)Do Muoi (1917), Prime Minister of Vietnam 2)Babiker Awadalla (1917), Prime Minister of Sudan 3)Yasuhiro Nakasone (1918), Prime Minister of Japan 4)Hyun Soong-jong (1919), Prime Minister of South Korea 5)Mohammed Karim Lamrani (1919), Prime Minister of Morocco 6)Hau Pei-tsun (1919), Prime Minister of Taiwan 7)Javier Perez de Cuellar (1920), Prime Minister of Perù 8)Josip Manolic (1920), Prime Minister of Croatia 9)Prem Tinsulanonda (1920), Prime Minister and Regent of Thailand 10)Kim Yong-ju (1920), vacancy Head of State of North Korea 11)Tun Tin (1920), Prime Minister of Burma 12)Le Duc Anh (1920), President of Vietnam 13)Jean of Luxembourg (1921), Grand Duke 14)Mustafa ben Halim (1921), Prime Minister of Lybia 15)Abdelmalek Benhabyles (1921), President of Algeria 16)Francisco Morales Bermudez (1921), President of Perù 17)Luis Echeverria (1922), President of Mexico 18)Milos Jakes (1922), General Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia 19) Lee Teng-hui (1923), President of Taiwan 20)Belisario Betancur (1923), Presidet of Colombia Game ends when all the original twenty (the list including Vratusa) are dead. This time I pick Jean of Luxembourg. Choose your pick if you want. Javier Perez de Cuellar, because if he croaks before the end of the year the DL gets another hit and that would just be fun. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Zsa Zsa's leg 751 Posted December 7, 2017 Hyun Soong-Jong Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Death Impends 7,373 Posted December 7, 2017 Be a good idea to make this its own thread if you're gonna make this recurring. 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Joey Russ 7,119 Posted December 7, 2017 The guy with Jakes as their last name... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,013 Posted December 8, 2017 Awadalla seems to have defied logic. I'll take him. Plus there's no guilt rooting for a Sudanese to die. SC Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bibliogryphon 8,662 Posted December 8, 2017 I will take Prem Tinsulanondra. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
deadsox 891 Posted December 8, 2017 Le Duc Ahn, if I'm permitted to participate. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
drol 10,057 Posted December 8, 2017 15 hours ago, Death Impends said: Be a good idea to make this its own thread if you're gonna make this recurring. I'm gonna make it. I just did not want to enlarge the amount of threads on DL as many of them are really useless. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bibliogryphon 8,662 Posted December 8, 2017 39 minutes ago, drol said: I'm gonna make it. I just did not want to enlarge the amount of threads on DL as many of them are really useless Yeah but there is always space in the Dead Pools section for live games. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sean 5,998 Posted December 9, 2017 :One https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/politics/2013/jun/29/douglas-hurd-eu-referendum of Hurds most recent interviews from 2013.Not aged well 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sean 5,998 Posted December 9, 2017 Can't find any public comment from Hurd since 2015.Surprising seeing as we have had a lot of political events since then. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 17,762 Posted December 9, 2017 Hmm, found this: And a reference to him being seriously ill in the Express back in 2010, but he's written a book and been in public since then. Curious, however. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sean 5,998 Posted December 9, 2017 He resigned from house of Lords last year too. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Thatcher 2,124 Posted December 12, 2017 Ed Lee, the first Asian American Mayor of San Francisco serving from 2011-2017, has unexpectedly died aged 65. Edit: Daily Mail, Guardian obituaries. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sean 5,998 Posted December 14, 2017 Was catching up on PMQs from earlier .Peter Also is sounds like a Dalek with a cold.Not sure of any health issues but sounds dreadful. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sean 5,998 Posted December 14, 2017 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-42353642 :Plaid Cymru AM Steffan Lewis has stage 4 cancer but needs more tests to determine just how screwed he is. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 17,762 Posted December 14, 2017 22 minutes ago, Sean said: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-42353642 :Plaid Cymru AM Steffan Lewis has stage 4 cancer but needs more tests to determine just how screwed he is. He sounds like the polite sort who would tell us what type it is if he finds out before Hogmanay... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sean 5,998 Posted December 14, 2017 Just now, msc said: He sounds like the polite sort who would tell us what type it is if he finds out before Hogmanay... Somehow I doubt it will be anything other than I am fucked.Judging by his comments they don`t know where the cancer started which is indicative it has spread substantially. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
