Is that actually more likely? Sometimes statistical &quot;streaks&quot; <i>are</i> real. Given that &quot;celebrity culture&quot; really kicked off in the modern way we have it now in the 1960s, so the number of celebrities from that era is far higher than previous eras, <i>and</i> that those celebrities are now of the age when people typically die, I don&#x27;t think there&#x27;s anything illusory happening. It&#x27;s likely to be a very real, and very easy to explain, phenomenon.