I was just going randomly through my blog archive, and saw that the lead article for September 2007 was Robert Jordan dying, and the lead article for 2006 was Steve Irwin dying. This September it was Keith Floyd and Patrick Swayze.

 

September was also classically the month when fresh waves of newbies, morons and trolls swept Usenet, back in the day. Not so much of the dying, but I can't credit it with mere coincidence.

 

A whole mess of people died in September 2001, as well, but I hesitate to mention it because it has such huge hype value - really, on a global disasters / conflict scale it wasn't that huge. It was definitely tragic and horrible, but it's wormed its way into an entirely unwarranted position in the mass psyche's World's Greatest Disasters list.

 

Speaking of tragic and horrible, I still can't believe Floyd died.