Deaths in popular music

Causes of death

Source & method

List of 2026 deaths in popular music

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The headline graph plots two counts per year — all listed deaths (grey) and those who died before 70 (vermilion). It reads each annual list once, caches the counts in your browser and re-verifies them daily — and extends itself whenever Wikipedia creates a new year’s list.

Cause shares are my keyword grouping of the free-text cause column — treat as approximate. Ages and professions are shown exactly as given; the dead-before counters tally entries whose stated age is strictly under the threshold, and entries with no stated age are excluded from them.

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