The website Gizmodo crunched the numbers from 2010 through last year, and found that the number of deaths of particularly famous people was indeed unusually high. They made up some formula to determine just HOW famous all the people who died in that six year span were. I won’t bore you with the details, but it turns out that David Bowie was the MOST FAMOUS person to kick off over that period. Prince, Leonard Cohen, Fidel Castro, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, and George Michael were also pretty high up on the fame scale. For us, it was Merle Haggard.
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