Although hard to believe, these people for their own reasons predicted their own deaths.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” is a novel written by writer Mark Twain in 1835 and quickly became famous.After the novel made Twain’s name, he seemed to feel himself. has a special association with Halley’s comet.
In 1909, Twain predicted that if Halley’s Comet reached Earth, he would also leave this world with the comet. At this point he knew he was suffering from heart disease. And the next year, on April 20, 1910, Halley’s Comet came closest to Earth, the very next day he died of a sudden recurrent heart attack.
Pete Maravich is one of the top 50 players in NBA history. Four years after the NBA debut in 1974, at the height of his career, he said in an interview, “I don’t want to play basketball until I’m 40 in the NBA and die of a sudden heart attack.”
At the time of these words, Pete has no health problems, but he has no intention of continuing to play basketball for a long time. He continued to play in the NBA for 6 years and retired after injury. Eight years later, on January 5, 1988, while playing in a private basketball game, he suffered a sudden and incurable heart attack. He was 40 years old then.
William Thomas Sted is a newspaper editor in England, he has published several novels in addition to his main work. Among the works, there is a scene depicting a ship from England to New York crashed into an iceberg. About 20 years later, in 1912, public opinion was shaken when the Titanic from England to New York collided with an iceberg, lifeboats were not enough and 1,500 passengers had to die. Among the passengers who died was Mr. Sted.
French mathematician Abraham de Moivre found a special relationship between a “mathematics” and “human death”. He believed that life expectancy could be calculated using special formulas. When he was 87 years old, he noticed that his sleep time increased by 15 minutes each night.
According to his calculations, that fateful day would be November 27, 1754. And what happened that day. As soon as he knew the day he would die, he had no intention of changing his sleep time and letting things happen naturally. As a result, he died on November 27, 1754.
Arnold Schoenberg is an Austrian composer and conductor. He was born on September 13 and always thought that sooner or later he would die on this day. He was so scared that he changed everything as long as he avoided the number 13. His fear finally came true, and on his 76th birthday, a relative reminded him that 7+ 6 = 13. Indeed, his worry was not wrong, when on Friday the 13th, when he was sleeping in his room, his wife came in, at that time he only exhaled for a few hours and died shortly after. .
US President Abraham Lincoln is a famous historical figure. Not only a brilliant leader, President Lincoln is also remembered for his dream of accurately prophesying his own death.
Specifically, President Lincoln once told some close friends about a prophetic dream. In the dream, the owner of the White House saw a coffin with many soldiers standing around protecting it. When President Lincoln asked the soldier standing next to the identity of the person lying in the coffin, the answer was: “It is Mr. President”.
Also in the dream, President Lincoln learned that he died after being assassinated. His prophetic dream came true on April 14, 1865. At that time, Mr. Lincoln was assassinated while watching a play at the Ford Theater in Washington DC. Due to his injuries, he died on the morning of April 15.
As a famous baseball player in the 70s and 80s, Frank Pastore once caused a stir when he made a prophecy about his own death on a radio program.
On November 19, 2012, Pastore talked about motorcycles and the brevity of life. He envisioned himself as possibly the victim of a traffic accident on 210. A few hours after the program ended, Pastore’s prophecy was fulfilled.
While riding a motorbike on 210, Pastore had a terrible accident. A 56-year-old woman lost control and crashed into Pastore. The serious accident caused him to be thrown from the motorcycle, resulting in a traumatic brain injury. A month later, Mr. Pastore died exactly as predicted in the radio program.