Comments on: Is 2016 really killing more celebrities than other years did?

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By: Wow

Wow — Sun, 01 Jan 2017 17:20:28 +0000

Richard Adams (writer of Watership Down) also died 2016.

By: Christopher Winter

Christopher Winter — Sun, 01 Jan 2017 17:15:07 +0000

Here’s a site I last used maybe ten years ago. Back then it was a valuable reference for finding out if someone prominent had died. It still is.

Incidentally, it says William Christopher (Father Mulcahy in M*A*S*H died on 31 December. So bump the 2016 total up to 61.

http://www.whosaliveandwhosdead.com/

By: Wow

Wow — Sun, 01 Jan 2017 12:13:31 +0000

That method is also

1) NOT claiming himself to be the arbiter of celebrityhood, hengist.
2) NOT an obscure and incomprehensible method of determining who could be included in celebrityhood, hengist.

Apparently, hengist wants no one person to decide who is a celebrity, nor does he want an organisation whose work is finding out who watches what and why to decide from their data who is a celebrity. Hengist doesn’t want ANYONE to decide who is a celebrity. Hengist just wants a whinge. Even Hengist doesn’t know why.

By: Eric Lund

Eric Lund — Sat, 31 Dec 2016 23:00:14 +0000

Celebrity is a matter of geography. One reason the BBC list may appear wonky is because somebody who was a celebrity in the UK but not elsewhere is more likely to be on that list than a list compiled by somebody outside the UK. There would be similar issues with any such list compiled outside the US: they are much more likely to include people who were famous in that country but not the US. For instance, David Hasselhof is much more famous in Germany than the US, so while he might turn up on a US-based list the year he dies, he will be much more prominent on such a list compiled by Der Spiegel or Deutsche Welle.

What that says is that, while no method will be perfect, Greg’s method of comparing lists from a given source to earlier lists from the same source is the most likely approach to give a meaningful answer. That answer will still depend on the source, however.