Do celebrity deaths come in threes like airline crashes?

[El Supremo]

If so, we have another one due.

Sorry for the morbidity. It just seems like it happens all the time.

[postulater]

1. Not Bob Weir please.

[Xipe Totec]

2. Airline crashes come in trees.

Or buildings, or power lines, or other airlines.

But not threes.

[GeorgeGist]

3. NO NO NO

[pinboy3niner]

4. You can ALWAYS find a pattern...if that's what you're looking for

But if you stop and think about it for even a second, how does that superstition even begin to make sense?

[Bluenorthwest]

5. Garner, Williams, Bacall. 3.

Garner and Bacall worked together on more than one occasion.

[MADem]

10. Phillip S. Hoffman co-starred with Robin Williams in PATCH ADAMS

[onehandle]

6. Again, Bill O'Reilly is the third.

Only a loofah of that stature of falafel could complete the three.

[arcane1]

7. Nope. And next time it happens, no one will remember that it didn't happen last time.

Ditto for plane crashes

[SheilaT]

8. It depends on where you start counting,

and where you stop.

Are there rules? Like the three crashes or deaths have to occur within some specific time?

Just think about it and you'll see it's a silly superstition. People die every day of the week. About two and a half million people die every year in this country. That's nearly seven thousand every day. Put into groups of three, that's lots of deaths happening in threes.

Just saying.

[longship]

9. Confirmation biases always come in fives.

Confirmation bias (Wiki)

Confirmation bias (RationalWiki)

[whistler162]

11. Not really Bacall, Williams, Garner, and Stritch

in just the last month.