Sunday, January 1, 2017

Top 20 celebrities predicted to die in 2017

Last year a lot of notable celebrities died, including Prince, David Bowie, George Michael, Carrie Fisher, Debbie Reynolds and Gene Wilder.
Of the top 20 public figures marked for death in 2016 by Stiffs.com, five died: actress Zsa Zsa Gabor, former First Lady Nancy Reagan, Cuban leader Fidel Castro, actor Abe Vigoda, and football coach Buddy Ryan.
Who will the Grim Reaper take this year?
Players in several online dead pool competitions have made their picks for celebrities and public figures most likely to die in 2017.
Here are the top 20 public figures (with their ages) predicted to die in 2017, according to Stiffs.com:
  1. Kirk Douglas, 100, actor
  2. Olivia de Havilland, 100, actress
  3. Billy Graham, 98, Christian evangelist
  4. George H.W. Bush, 92, former U.S. president
  5. Herman Wouk, 101, author
  6. Irwin Corey, 102, comedian
  7. Roberta McCain, 104, political matriarch
  8. David Rockefeller, 101, American banker and philanthropist
  9. Prince Philip, 95, husband of Queen Elizabeth II
  10. Jimmy Carter, 92, former U.S. president
  11. Carol Channing, 95, actress
  12. Glen Campbell, 80, country music star
  13. Valerie Harper, 77, actress
  14. Beverly Cleary, 100, children’s book writer
  15. Doris Day, 94, actress and singer
  16. Queen Elizabeth II, 90, monarch
  17. I.M. Pei, 99, architect
  18. Vera Lynn, 99, singer
  19. Bob Dole, 93, retired U.S. senator
  20. Betty White, 94, actress
Here are some notable younger public figures predicted to die this year by multiple Stiffs.com dead-pool players:

29. Val Kilmer, 57, actor
36. Shannen Doherty, 45, actress
75. Charlie Sheen, 51, actor
86. Kanye West, 39, rapper and music producer
100. Lamar Odom, 37, basketball player
110. Michael J. Fox, 55, actor
131. Justin Bieber, 22, singer
132. Lindsay Lohan, 30, actress

Photo: Kanye West performing at Lollapalooza Chile on April 3, 2011, in Santiago, Chile. (Photo by Flickr user rodrigoferrari.)

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