This article is about people who predicted their death, but not how or from what they will die, but precise date of death (or very close to it). I know there are many people claiming they can predict the future, or tell you when you will or how to die, but this is not an article about them, or any other con artists, but about people who predicted their own deaths, by accident or using some methods. I found more examples, some people predicted how, some when, but these are the ones that were most interesting to me.

Mark Twain

I believe that most of you know who is this. Famous writer, best known for his work "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" but also "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn". What most of you don't know, is one interesting fact, and that is that he was born 2 weeks after the   Halley's comet was closest to the Earth. If you don't know, Halley's comet returns to Earth's vicinity about every 75 years, making it possible for a person to see it twice in their lifetime. This is actually a core thing for Mark, predicting his death. He said, in 1909. :

I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: "Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together".

And he was right. Although he didn't go the day it was closest to the Earth, in 1910., he died only the day after, on April 21st, of a heart attack. So I would say he missed the day by only one day. Of course, I don't think he knew it for sure, or could predict it, it was just an interesting coincidence.

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Kurt Cobain

Another very famous person. Even if you are not a Nirvana fan, I assume you heard of, or know for Kurt Cobain, lead singer. He made few predictions about himself and his life and death, in his teenager years, in high school, when he was 13 or 14. He said to his classmate that he was going to get rich and famous from being a rock star, and that he’d die in a blaze of glory like Jimi Hendrix. He for sure became a rock star of that time, and many years later. Jimi Hendrix died at the age of 27, and Kurt killed himself on April 5th, in 1994, at the age of 27. You can say he made prediction possible by doing it, but it was years later than he said it, and he didn't kill him because of that.

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Abraham de Moivre

This one is most interesting to me. It is about French mathematician, Abraham de Moivre. He pioneered the development of analytic geometry and the theory of probability. De Moivre also investigated mortality statistics and the foundation of the theory of annuities. An innovative piece of work by Halley, had been the production of mortality tables, based on five years of data, which he published in 1693. Toward the end of his life, as he turned 87, he noticed a change in his life. He said he was sleeping an extra 15 minutes than before and summing the arithmetic progression, calculated that he would die on the day that he slept for 24 hours, and that would be 27th November 1754. And he was right, that was the day of his death. Even though for previous cases, I said it was coincidence, here I have to leave space that it was possible, as it was about one scientist and mathematician.

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Hope this was interesting to you, maybe I can do part two if you like it. Lead image is from Unsplash.com

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