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Titanic passengers considered as a group of individuals, who, although all on the same doomed ship, where not all equally likely to meet destruction the night the Titanic sank. This is made plain enough by an analysis of the demographics of the Titanic passengers who died. Men were disproportionately likely to die – around 1,514 people died when the Titanic sank, 1,352 of whom were men (i.e., not women or children) – and passengers with lower class tickets were more likely to die than First Class passengers. The fact that not all Titanic passengers were equally likely to die is also made evident when you look at the individual passengers on board the ship. And for reasons unrelated to the unfairness that characterized the Titanic tragedy, it is still quite interesting to look at some of the more notable passengers on the Titanic. And so we will…
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