Jay Smith RIIP, 9th Smith in the Cluster

The Deaths of 2013 site records yet another notable Smith, making it 9 over the course of this month who passed away, note the following found under March 26th:

Jay Smith, 34, Canadian guitarist (Matt Mays).^[33]

Note the following from Matt Mays wiki page, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Mays:

Matt Mays (born August 10, 1979) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and was the lead singer of Matt Mays & El Torpedo, a rock music group based in Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia and New York City. 

I live in Nova Scotia... not too far from Cole Harbour.  Audd too that my first name is May... Small world.

Note that out of the 522 Notable deaths on the Deaths in 2013 site that fall under the month of March to date, the following have the surname Smith:

1.     Manuel García Ferré, 83, Spanish-born Argentine cartoonist, complications of heart surgery.^[1]2.     Jay Smith, 34, Canadian guitarist (Matt Mays).^[33]3.     Bobby Smith, 76, American singer (The Spinners), complications of influenza and pneumonia.^[192]4.     Subas Herrero, 69, Filipino comedian, respiratory failure.^[202] (death announced on this date)
5.     Tommy Smith, 75, American jockey, won 1965 Grand National.^[412]6.     Hobart Muir Smith, 100, American herpetologist.^[430]7.     Toren Smith, 52, Canadian manga publisher and translator.^[431]8.     Len Smith, 86, Australian racehorse trainer, heart disease.^[472]9.     Alan Smith, 95, British World War II Spitfire fighter ace.^[493]

 So what's up with all the notable Smiths passing away this month-- 7 Smiths and 2 surnames that mean Smith in another language?!  According to the site re: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_common_surnames_in_North_America, note the 5 most popular surnames in the US:

Smith	1	1	0	2,376,207	880.85	880.85	73.35	22.22	0.4	0.85	1.63	1.56
Johnson	2	2	0	1,857,160	688.44	1569.3	61.55	33.8	0.42	0.91	1.82	1.5
Williams	3	3	0	1,534,042	568.66	2137.96	48.52	46.72	0.37	0.78	2.01	1.6
Brown	4	5	1	1,380,145	511.62	2649.58	60.71	34.54	0.41	0.83	1.86	1.64
Jones	5	4	-1	1,362,755	505.17	3154.75	57.69	37.73	0.35	0.94	1.85	1.44

Now then note the names that coincide with the above taken from the 522 notable deaths recorded so far this month:

• Paul Williams, 64, American music journalist, publisher (Crawdaddy!), and writer (Bob Dylan, Performing Artist), complications from Alzheimer's disease.^[20]
• Ray Williams, 58, American basketball player (New York Knicks), colon cancer. ^[91]
•  Robin M. Williams, 93, New Zealand mathematician, academic and civil servant, member of the Manhattan Project.^[162]
•  Brenda Box Johnson, 58, American journalist and radio personality (NPR, UPI, NBC Radio, USA Today), pancreatic cancer.^[361]
• Gaynelle Griffin Jones, 64, American lawyer and judge, US Attorney for the Southern District of Texas, member of the Texas Court of Appeals, cancer.^[483]

None of the names in the 522 matched any of the 5 names listed after Jones.   Even though Smith is a popular name, this certainly beats the audds.