Every year, in January, the British web portal List of dead publishes his famous and macabre list of the 50 celebrities who could die before the end of December. This curious list is sorted by way of ranking and features actors, models, politicians, scientists, artists and musicians from around the world famous enough for their deaths to appear in the UK press. The one of 2021, for example, reserved the 41st place for Raúl Castro.
By the rules of its creators, only 25 of which survived the macabre list of the previous year can be repeated. The calculation of the positions is made from the probabilities of dying of each figure, taking into account the age or diseases they suffer.
The list of 2021 is curious the fact that the Duke of Edinburgh, husband of Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain, appears for the second time in a row in first place, as it is close to 101 years and since 2019 is keeps away from public life.
This list of bad luck, which has existed since 1987, managed to hit 2020 with 20 of the 50 candidates to die, which represents its current record. They have previously hit with figures such as Hugo Chávez and Fidel Castro.
The ‘Deathlist’ of 2021 looks at these characters in the following order:
Duke of Edinburgh, Betty White, Dick van Dick, Bob Dole, Emperor Akihito, Loretta Lynn, George Schultz, Rush Limbaugh, Murray Walkers, Angela Lansbury, Bob Barker, Alan Greenspan, Henry Kissinger, June Brown, Jimmy Carter, Leslie Phillips, Jacques Delors, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, David Crosby, Prunella Scales, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Tony Bennet, Rosalynn Carter, Dick Cheney, Queen Elizabeth II, Harry Belafonte, Bob Newhart, Jimmy Greaves, Barbara Walters, Pope Benedict XVI, Imelda Marcos, Yoko Ono, Walter Mondale, Linda Nolan, Joanne Woodward, Mel Brooks, Willie Nelson, Betty Boothroyd, Jean-Marie Le Pen, Sidney Poitier, Raúl Castro, Burt Bacharach, Leon Spinks, Frank Williams, Stanley Baxter, Bernard Cribbins, Vanessa Redgrave, Shane MacGowan, Shannen Doherty, Captain Tom Moore.