it's rather spooky thinking that she sat
and prophesied her own death welcome to
watch mojo and today we're counting down
our picks for the top 10 celebrities who
actually predicted their own deaths
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for this list we'll be looking at famous
celebrities from any background who made
illusions whether intentionally or not
as to how they would eventually die
which of these stories do you find the
most fascinating the most creepy let us
know in the comments
number 10 buddy holly
this pioneer of rock and roll was taken
far too early having died in a plane
crash at just 22 at the time holly was
in the midst of his winter dance party
tour
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shortly before the tour began both holly
and his wife maria elena santiago
experienced eerily prophetic dreams on
the same night holly dreamed that he was
sitting in a plane while santiago
dreamed of a fireball descending from
the sky and crashing into a field what
happened next quickly made headlines
around the world and left rock and roll
fans across america
in shock on the day the music died holly
was inside a small aircraft when it
crashed into a cornfield outside mason
city iowa
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number nine mark twain
this writer was one of the most genius
men of his time so genius in fact that
he was able to successfully predict his
own demise mark twain really is one of
the most incredible and influential
writers in american literature and his
influence is still very much palpable in
writing today twain was born on november
30th 1835 just missing halley's comet
for those unaware halley's comet passes
by earth every 75 years this is
important no friends i go to meet the
comet in 1909 twain stated quote i came
in with halley's comet in 1835. it is
coming again next year and i expect to
go out with it that's really why you
want to meet the comet isn't it
and i am looking forward to that his
prediction couldn't have been more
accurate twain died at 74 on april 21st
1910 just one day after halley's comet
made its scheduled flyby of earth
number eight mikey welsh
a prominent bass guitarist mikey welsh
played for numerous bands including
weezer
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he performed base duties on their
self-titled green album but soon left
the band owing to severe mental health
problems following a brief resurgence he
permanently retired from music and began
a career in art i want to come up with
something clever
and witty and
hopefully it will make people happy on
september 26 2011 welsh wrote a rather
creepy tweet it read quote dreamt i died
in chicago next weekend heart attack in
my sleep need to write my will today
less than two weeks later welsh died
from a heart attack brought on by a
heroin overdose he was in chicago
number 7 frank pastore
hailing from alhambra california frank
pastore was a professional baseball
pitcher who played in the mlb from 1979
to 1986. you were 17 years old when you
were drafted by the cincinnati reds and
in 1979 you were the youngest player in
the national league all but one of those
seasons were with the cincinnati reds
past story suffered a bad arm injury in
1984 and became a born-again christian
and in 2004 he started a christian talk
show called the frank pass story show
all right 99.5 kkla fm los angeles the
intersection of faith and reason here at
the franchise story show and welcome
aboard during the episode of november 19
2012 pastore said that he could easily
die from someone hitting his motorcycle
on the 210 freeway it's pretty dangerous
yeah especially in this town they don't
see you most of the time that very same
day pastory was riding on the 210 when
he was struck by a hyundai sonata he
remained in the hospital for about a
month and eventually died from his
injuries
number 6. arnold schenberg
an austrian composer arnold schenberg is
renowned as one of the 20th century's
greatest musical minds
he was a genius but he also suffered
from a debilitating fear of the number
13. this is a genuine phobia and it
bears the name triskaidekaphobia
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when schoenberg turned 76 he was made
aware that the numbers 7 and 6 equaled
13. he spent the rest of the year in a
state of horrific anxiety and agony then
july 13th came around and the anxiety
reached a breaking point schenberg spent
the whole day in bed and died just 15
minutes before midnight arnold
schoenberg died at 11 45 pm
on the 13th of july 1951.
his last word was harmony in some ways
this was a self-fulfilling prophecy
schoenberg made himself so sick and
anxious that he essentially stressed
himself to death
number five james dean
this ruggedly handsome actor became
famous both for his looks and his acting
talk to me father
i gotta know who i am i gotta know what
i'm like i gotta know
throughout the mid 50s dean became a
cultural symbol of rebelliousness and
starred in classics like east of eden
and rebel without a cause it was around
this time that he also developed an
interest in auto racing while filming
giant dean was approached for a tv
featurette and was asked to give some
advice to teenage drivers do you have
any special advice for the young people
who drive he then said the ironic words
take it easy driving the life you might
say might be mine
on september 30th 1955 dean was
traveling down route 466 in a porsche
when he collided into donald turnip
seeds ford during a drive to a weekend
race dean suffered a head-on collision
in his porsche 550 spider and was killed
almost immediately turnip seed received
minor injuries but dean suffered a
broken neck and died instantly
number four pete marovich
known nationally as pistol pete
basketball player pete maravich is one
of the all-time greats you're looking at
pistol pete marvich
in my opinion
the greatest playmaker playing today he
enjoyed a decade-long career playing for
three teams between 1970 and 1980. in
1974 marovich was giving an interview
when he said quote i don't want to play
10 years in the nba and then die of a
heart attack when i'm
there's 40. much i don't know about you
but i'm running out of things to say
about marvin
unfortunately both statements eventually
came true he did play 10 years in the
nba and he did die of a heart attack at
the age of 40. marovich was born without
a left coronary artery and he was not
aware of this rare defect on january 5th
1988 he collapsed and died while playing
a game of pickup basketball in pasadena
pete maravich was playing the game he
loved and gave so much of his life too
when he died this morning in pasadena
california the 40-year-old former
superstar with lsu the hawks jazz and
celtics was playing a pickup game at the
church of the nazarene number three bob
marley
one of the greatest musical minds of the
20th century bob marley helped
popularize reggae in the west and has
sold more than 75 million records
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however marley lived through some
difficult times and on december 3rd 1976
he was nearly killed in an assassination
attempt perhaps because of the recent
turbulence marley reportedly told his
closest friends and associates that he
didn't expect to live beyond 36.
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in july of 1977 marley was diagnosed
with a particularly aggressive and
exceedingly rare form of skin cancer he
died in may of 1981 at the age of 36.
the day he passed away we were at
grandmother's house
and then i saw her coming down the
stairs
and she didn't even have to say anything
because i kind of knew
i never cried i was just like
it was silent
number two tupac shakur
one of the greatest rap artists of all
time tupac shakur was a prominent voice
in west coast hip-hop
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aside from releasing hit singles like
california love he also earned critical
praise for his socially conscious lyrics
in one collaboration with richie rich
tupac rapped
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how it happened
on the night of september 7th 1996 tupac
was shot on the vegas strip and died six
days later both halves of the lyric came
true tupac was shot and killed and for a
long time no one knew exactly how it
happened the shooting happened after a
mike tyson fight against bruce sheldon
at mgm grand and then there was a brawl
inside of the lobby right after that
fight tupac was in the car with marion
suge knight who was grazed by a bullet
no one has ever been arrested for
tupac's murder it wasn't until 2002 that
an investigative journalist for the los
angeles times fingered member
orlando anderson for the crime
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number one diana princess of wales
august 31 1997 will remain in infamy
just nine minutes after leaving the ritz
hotel
henry paul lost control of the car and
crashed into the 13th pillar in the
tunnel on that night princess diana's
car was rushing through paris's
tunnel when it collided into a pillar at
high speeds diana survived the initial
crash but died of her injuries about
four hours later the queen
and the prince of wales and the prime
minister have been informed of the
accident and of the death
of the princess
the crash was blamed on the car's driver
who had a high blood alcohol content but
in 2003 a note written by diana herself
was released to the public in it she
writes quote my husband is planning an
accident in my car brake failure and
serious head injury in order to make the
path clear for him to marry tiggy but
you can't get away from the fact that
she actually wrote it
she actually took time
and bothered to write down
what her fears and feelings were the
note was in turn given to her butler and
diana was killed in the accident a
couple of years later
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