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Re:Peter Montgomery Has Died by aerovistae on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @09:05PM (#22372150)
Jesus how many people are gonna die today?
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Re:Peter Montgomery Has Died by kcdev on Thursday February 20, 2020 @12:08AM (#22372835)
About 150,000 [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortality_rate

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Re:Peter Montgomery Has Died by Invictus0 on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @10:36PM (#22372485)
There was some analysis of celebrity deaths in 2016 that was interesting [0][1]. Analyses disagree on whether 2016 was particularly deadly for celebrities, but they generally agree that there are more people we consider celebrities dying each year.

[0] https://medium.com/@jasoncrease/was-2016-especially-dangerou...

[1] https://macro.media.mit.edu/2017/

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Re:Peter Montgomery Has Died by gibolt on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @10:47PM (#22372529)
There are also more people total, and more people considered celebrities
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Re:Peter Montgomery Has Died by yingw787 on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @09:19PM (#22372195)
Feels like the end of an era.
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