No one knows exactly when they're going to die.
But every once in a while, someone says something which inadvertently foreshadows the circumstances
of their death.
Sometimes, these people are famous.
Here are some actors who predicted their own deaths.
The legendary rapper Tupac Shakur died at age 25 in 1996 while in Las Vegas leaving
a Mike Tyson boxing match.
He was shot by unknown assailants and died days later in the hospital.
It was a tragic end for a promising young musician and actor.
Tupac envisioned his death many times.
His songs frequently had morbid lyrics about death and gun violence, and he used a lot
of the same imagery in album art and music videos.
Calling these predictions might be exaggerating.
Tupac knew he lived a dangerous lifestyle, and gun violence is, sadly, a common way for
people involved with gangs to go out.
Still, many people believe he did predict his own death, to the point where there's
a whole weird subculture of people thinking that Shakur coded messages into his own works
that indicated he planned to fake his own death.
But perhaps the eeriest coincidence involves his final music video, "I Ain't Mad At Cha,"
filmed a month before his death.
In the video, Tupac is shot numerous times outside of an event and then dies in an ambulance
on the way to the hospital.
In real life, Tupac died several days after being shot, but it's still strange.
The video was released three days after he died.
Oliver Reed was a legendary British actor best known for his roles in films like 1966's
The Trap and 1968's Oliver!
He may be most well-known to modern audiences for his final role in Gladiator, but sadly,
Reed actually passed away during the production of that film in 1999.
Weirdly, he sort of predicted his death on a bizarre TV show called Without Walls, a
documentary series on Britain's Channel Four which had a few special episodes called "The
Obituary Show," wherein they would memorialize living famous people as if they had passed
away.
Most curious about these episodes was that the supposedly deceased person would actually
say how they died in first-person language, as though they were reading a eulogy at their
own funeral.
Oliver Reed had such an episode in 1993, and in it, Reed describes his own imaginary death,
saying he died of a heart attack in a bar full of laughter where he was participating
in a, quote, "cabbage competition."
"And I was very confident, for once, that I was going to win this vegetable competition."
It's unclear just what a cabbage competition is, but just six years later, Reed died in
a bar in Malta, where he had been filming Gladiator, of a heart attack, and it was indeed
during a competition.
The competition in question was an Irish drinking contest, but despite there being no cabbage
in sight, it's still a strange coincidence when you think about it.
James Dean was Hollywood's original bad boy.
His hobbies included acting and driving cars very fast.
Naturally, it was the latter that eventually took his life.
On Sept. 30, 1955, Dean was driving his Porsche 550 Spyder from Los Angeles to Salinas, California,
when a man named Donald Turnupseed turned left out of an intersection.
Dean, who was speeding, was unable to stop in time and crashed into Turnupseed's vehicle.
Turnupseed and Dean's passenger both survived with minor injuries, but James Dean himself
was killed by the impact.
There's also a famous Hollywood story about this crash.
On September 23, exactly one week before Dean's death, Sir Alec Guinness, best known to audiences
today as Obi-Wan Kenobi, said he encountered Dean outside of a restaurant in Hollywood.
When Dean showed his new car off to Guinness, he took one look at it and told Dean that
he'd be dead within a week if he drove that car.
But what's less known is that Dean predicted his death himself, as well.
In an interview filmed earlier in 1955, Dean talked about his drag racing hobby and was
asked about driving too fast on highways.
Dean claimed he had no urge to speed on the highway, which was obviously false, and said
that it was dangerous because you couldn't know what other drivers might do.
He said as a result he had to be extra cautious driving on the highway, and urged others to
be careful too.
"Take it easy driving.
The life you might save might be mine."
Martial arts master and action film superstar Bruce Lee passed away unexpectedly at age
32 on July 20, 1973, of a cerebral edema, exacerbated by a bad reaction to some medicine
Lee had taken earlier that same day.
The world, and Lee's family, were shocked.
His son Brandon, only eight years old, was deeply affected by his death, so much so that
he apparently believed his family was cursed.
According to Celebrity Ghosts and Notorious Hauntings by Marie D. Jones, Brandon believed
his grandfather, Bruce's father, had been cursed after a business deal went bad, and
that meant that his descendants were destined to live short lives.
It had come true for his father, and Brandon felt he was next.
According to his former girlfriend, Shannon Bradley-Colleary, he once told her he thought
he'd die even younger than his father.
This came true on March 31, 1993, when Brandon Lee was killed in an on-set accident while
filming The Crow.
He was accidentally shot after a prop mixup.
He was 28.
While this is creepy enough on its own, it gets even weirder when you consider that his
father's final movie, Game of Death, had to be changed after Bruce Lee's death.
To explain his character being taken over by another actor, Lee's character fakes his
own death after an assassin swaps out a fake bullet for a real one on a movie set.
Beloved actress Carrie Fisher was best known for playing Princess Leia in the Star Wars
saga, but she was also highly admired because of her no-nonsense stance on life in Hollywood,
drug use, and mental illness.
In the early 2000s, she became friends with singer James Blunt — the "You're Beautiful"
guy.
He and Fisher were such good friends that he actually moved in with her for several
months while he recorded an album at a studio near her house.
Sadly, Fisher passed away on December 27, 2016, at the age of 60.
She had been in intensive care for several days after suffering a medical emergency on
a flight from London to Los Angeles.
Fans worldwide were devastated, but a few months after her passing, James Blunt had
a very unsettling story to tell.
According to Blunt, when he was staying in Fisher's house, she displayed some of her
trademark dark humor by putting a cardboard cutout of herself as Princess Leia outside
of his bedroom with her date of birth and a seemingly random date of death written on
the cutout's forehead.
While Blunt couldn't remember the exact date she had written there, he did recall that
it ended up being very close to her actual death date.
Blunt remembered because he thought it was too soon — which it absolutely was.