About 150,000 [0]

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

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/

There are also more people total, and more people considered celebrities

Feels like the end of an era.