The Grim Reaper was busy at the end of 2022, taking the lives of soccer great Pelé, retired Pope Benedict XVI and TV journalist Barbara Walters.
Of the top 20 public figures marked for death in 2022 by players on dead-pool website Stiffs.com, eight died last year. They included Queen Elizabeth II, Pope Benedict XVI, Barbara Walters, American essayist Roger Angell, actress Angela Lansbury, actor Larry Storch, singer and actress Olivia Newton-John, and actor Sidney Poitier.
And death won’t take a holiday in 2023.
What follows are the top 20 public figures (with their ages) predicted to die in 2023, according to Stiffs.com.
- Bob Barker, 99, game show host
- Jimmy Carter, 98, former U.S. president
- Henry Kissinger, 99, former U.S. secretary of state
- Tony Bennett, 96, singer
- Al Jaffee, 101, cartoonist known for Mad magazine work
- Dick Van Dyke, 97, actor
- Norman Lear, 100, television writer and producer
- Mel Brooks, 96, director, writer, actor, comedian
- Glynis Johns, 99, British actress
- Bob Newhart, 93, actor and comedian
- Alan Greenspan, 96, former chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve
- Harry Belafonte, 95, singer and actor
- Eva Marie Saint, 98, actress
- Rosalyn Carter, 95, former U.S. first lady
- Shannen Doherty, 51, actress
- June Lockhart, 97, actress
- Gene Shalit, 96, film critic for NBC’s “The Today Show”
- David Attenborough, 96, broadcaster and naturalist
- Joanne Woodward, 92, actress
- Vladimir Putin, 70, Russian president
63. Toby Keith, 61, country music singer and songwriter
67. Michael J. Fox, 61, actor
75. Kanye West, aka Ye, 45, rapper
80. Celine Dion, 54, singer
110. Britney Spears, 41, singer
126. Christina Applegate, 51, actress
132. Bam Margera, 43, “Jackass” stuntman
135. Charlie Sheen, 57, actor
142. Artie Lange, 55, comedian
165. John Daly, 56, golfer
166. Kim Jong-un, 40, supreme leader of North Korea
184. Andy Dick, 57, actor and comedian
194. Demi Lovato, 30, singer
Photo: Vladimir Putin (Kremlin photo via Creative Commons)
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