Motorhead singer Lemmy Kilmister died of cancer at 70 on Dec. 28. And then the hits kept on coming: Natalie Cole, David Bowie, Alan Rickman and others died in the weeks that followed.

Celebrity deaths come in threes? Not in 2016, where the year got off to an even sadder start with a slew of departed musicians, actors and entertainers.

Here's a look at famous people we've said goodbye to in 2016:

*Natalie Cole technically died in 2015, but her death was announced Jan. 1.