News 2020 was an ‘unusually deadly year’ for shark attacks, with the most deaths since 2013 January 25, 2021 Doyle Rice, USA TODAY Comments Off on 2020 was an ‘unusually deadly year’ for shark attacks, with the most deaths since 2013 In what's called "an unusually deadly year," sharks killed 10 people around the world in unprovoked attacks in 2020.