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Have more celebrities died this year than usual?

Have more famous people have died this year compared to other years? It's a hard one to measure - but Tim Harford and Charlotte McDonald have had a go at some back of the envelope calculations with data from Who's Who and ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ obituaries. Is the intuitive feeling that more people have died this year misplaced?

First broadcast on More or Less, 18 April 2016.

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