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From the music industry to screen stars and sports legends, if it feels like a large number of celebrities died in 2016, it's true.

Is 2016 the year of celebrity death?

Linnea Crowther is the author of celebrity obituaries for the site Legacy.com.

In October, Crowther offered her analysis of celebrity deaths.

"As of September 30, the total number of celebrity deaths so far in 2016 is 71," she wrote. "That's more than the total number of celebrity deaths for the full year in any of the other years I looked at for this study. We're already outpacing previous years by 5 to 20 deaths, and we still have three months to go."

Since then, more stars have been added to the list including beloved TV parents Florence Henderson and Alan Thicke, veteran newscaster Gwen Ifill and singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen.

On Christmas Day, police in the U.K. confirmed the death of Michael, whose music helped define the 1980s.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/22/entert...ths/index.html