Top 20 celebrities predicted to die in 2021

Death didn’t take a holiday in 2020 as the Covid-19 pandemic swept the globe.
To date, the coronavirus has killed over 1.8 million people worldwide, including over 350,000 in the U.S., according to Worldometer. It has claimed the lives of such celebrities as singers John Prine and Charley Pride, Broadway actor Nick Cordero and “Gilligan’s Island” actress Dawn Wells. (See article by the Wrap.)
Some of the more shocking deaths by other causes in 2020 included actor Chadwick Boseman, actress Kelly Preston, actress Naya Rivera and basketball great Kobe Bryant.
Likely no one participating in the Stiffs.com dead pool contest predicted those deaths. Contestants tend to choose the old and infirm when picking celebrities most likely to die in the year ahead.
Of the top 20 public figures marked for death in 2020 by players on Stiffs.com, nine died last year. They included actor Kirk Douglas, actress Olivia de Havilland, “Jeopardy” host Alex Trebek and comedian Carl Reiner. The others were political matriarch Roberta McCain, English singer Vera Lynn, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, TV news anchor Hugh Downs and media magnate Sumner Redstone.
Who’s likely to croak in 2021?
What follows are the top 20 public figures (with their ages) predicted to die in 2021, according to Stiffs.com.

1. Prince Philip, 99, husband of Queen Elizabeth II
2. Jimmy Carter, 96, former U.S. president
3. Beverly Cleary, 104, children’s book writer
4. Bob Dole, 97, retired U.S. senator
5. Bob Barker, 97, game show host
6. Rush Limbaugh, 69, conservative talk-radio host
7. Henry Kissinger, 97, former U.S. secretary of state
8. Betty White, 98, actress
9. George Shultz, 100, former U.S. secretary of state
10. Tommy Lasorda, 93, Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team manager
11. Dick Van Dyke, 95, actor
12. Lawrence Ferlinghetti, 101, American poet, painter, social activist
13. Queen Elizabeth II, 94, queen of the United Kingdom
14. Roger Angell, 100, American essayist known for writing on sports
15. Mel Brooks, 94, director, writer, actor, comedian
16. Cloris Leachman, 94, actress
17. Olivia Newton-John, 72, singer
18. Norman Lear, 98, television writer and producer
19. Angela Lansbury, 95, actress
20. Barbara Walters, 91, broadcast journalist

Here are some notable younger public figures predicted to die this year by multiple Stiffs.com dead-pool players:

22. Shannen Doherty, 49, actress
70. Michael J. Fox, 59, actor
77. Kim Jong-un, 36, supreme leader of North Korea
87. Val Kilmer, 61, actor
107. Michael Schumacher, 51, racecar driver
146. Artie Lange, 53, comedian
159. Lindsay Lohan, 34, actress
180. Charlie Sheen, 55, actor
204. Amanda Bynes, 34, actress
209. Britney Spears, 39, singer
224. Kanye West, 43, rapper, fashion designer

Photo: Actress Lindsay Lohan in 2013 (Wikipedia Commons)