Curated Dataset of Celebrity Deaths with Cardiovascular and Non-Cardiovascular Classification for Exploratory Mortality Analysis (n=164)

Abstract

This dataset contains 164 curated records of publicly reported celebrity deaths, with demographic variables, reported cause of death, and classification into cardiovascular and non-cardiovascular categories. In version 1.1, cardiovascular cases are further subdivided into six ICD-10–aligned subcategories. Cases were identified through publicly available English-language sources, principally Wikipedia entries and their cited references. The dataset is curated and is not population-representative; it is intended for descriptive and methodological analysis rather than epidemiological inference. This dataset underpins the study: "Patterns in Curated Celebrity Mortality Data: An Exploratory Analysis of Cardiovascular Disease Representation and Dataset Bias."