†

After the asterisk, the dagger: the classic sequence of note marks is *, †, ‡ — doubling up when it runs out. The sign descends from the obeli with which the philologists of Alexandria flagged suspect passages.

Beside a name the dagger holds another, more solemn trade: it marks that the person has died. The entity is †; its two-bladed sister, U+2021, is ‡.

Wrong:  second note marked with **   (stacked asterisks)
Right:  first note with *, second with †, third with ‡