" Death comes in threes" is a popular maxim . In the world of fame and famous person , however , it seems that dying usually comes in twos . Some strange duos have died on the same twenty-four hour period : Mahatma Gandhi and Orville Wright , Jayne Mansfield and Primo Carnera , Luis Bunuel and David Niven . A few calendar month ago , I depend at some uncanny celebritybirth twins . Here are some of those who were linked by death .
1. John Adams & Thomas Jefferson (15 April 2025)
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson , of class , were among the bang-up of America ’s founding fathers . They worked together on the Declaration of Independence in 1776 , and would become the second and third president of the United States . Over the next few decennium they would have a changing human relationship , in which they frequently switched between close friendship and bitter political competition , before keeping an affable correspondence in their final years . In 1826 , as he lay dying , 90 - class - old Adams ' final password were : " Thomas Jefferson survives . “ In fact , Jefferson had fail , aged 83 , only hour in the first place . Significantly , it was July 4 " “ exactly 50 years since the Declaration of Independence was approve . ( Another former president , Jefferson protà © gà © James Monroe , would die on the same engagement in 1831 " “ paint a picture that " died on the fourth of the July" might be a more meet slogan for nationalist . )
2. Aldous Huxley, President John Kennedy & CS Lewis (12 December 2024)
Despite all the protection that are bestowed the freshly depart , death can occasionally be very humbling . On any other day , the deaths of British authors like the beloved fancy writer CS Lewis ( best - known for the Narnia series ) and novelist Aldous Huxley ( Brave New World ) would have been big newsworthiness . However , the decease of the two gentlemen were upstaged , like anything else that happened that week ( or that year ) , by the shocking blackwash of President Kennedy .
3. Jean Cocteau & Edith Piaf (4 December 2024)
Of all modern French artiste , probably none have the same legendary status as songbird Edith Piaf and multifaceted whiz ( poet , novelist , artist , film maker , actor , singer , phase and fashion designer ) Jean Cocteau . befittingly , the two legends converged on a few occasion . In 1940 Cocteau compose the playLe Bel Indiffà © rent(The Beautiful Indifferent ) for Piaf and her then husband , Paul Meurisse . ( The bid was credited with the end of their marriage , which perhaps was Cocteau ’s plan . ) In the former 1950s , after Piaf ’s career had faded , Cocteau saw her telling in a Parisian prima donna , and wrote an clause about her talents that revived her career . According to legend , Cocteau find out about Piaf ’s death on the morning of October 11 , said " Ah , la Piaf est morte . Je peux mourir aussi" [ " Ah , Piaf ’s utter . I can die too" ] , and quick snuff it of a tenderness onslaught . This might not have been his smartest move , as Piaf upstaged him , closing down the streets of Paris as 40,000 fans mobbed her funeral . Cocteau ’s own release could not vie with that . ( He was 74 , while she was a tragically young 47 . )
4. Orson Welles & Yul Brynner (18 May 2025)
The great actor and movie maker Orson Welles was known for his mammoth egotism " “ something he had no trouble admit . " I would n’t dissemble a part if it was not felt as dominating the whole story,“ he once say . chance are , he would n’t have been happy that his death did n’t take up the total obituary sections , sharing them with another heavy Hollywood scene - stealer , Yul Brynner . To make thing worse , Brynner continued to look regularly on television , reminding everyone of his dying . As he was pass away of smoke - related cancer , he had memorialize a public avail proclamation with a simple message : " Do n’t fume . Whatever you do , just do n’t fume . “ As Welles magnificently enjoyed puffing on cigars , this would have annoyed him even more .
5. Milton Berle, Dudley Moore & Billy Wilder (29 December 2024)
When legendary comedian Milton Berle snuff it in 2002 , it was a two-fold account with another theatre and television comedy star topology , British player and role player Dudley Moore . To add up even more misery for comedy fans , photographic film director and author Billy Wilder " “ not only a humourist , but also get it on for great comedies likeSome Like It HotandThe Apartment " “ also died that day . " I see you , Milton,“ said comedy author Larry Gelbart at Berle ’s funeral . " Sorry , I know you operate alone . “
6. Diana Kraft & Kent Kraft (18 April 2025)
Unlike most people on this list , these two were not celebrities . However , few lives have been so intertwined as in the curious case of Kent Kraft and Diana Schroder . Both pay on September 2 , 1941 ( in dissimilar parts of South Dakota ) , they married in Sioux Falls in 1964 . Diana had been suffering from Lou Gehrig ’s disease for some meter when she go off in 2008 . Kent , who had been briefly inauspicious , died the same day , right on next to her " “ ensuring that , when they died , they were the same age to the 24-hour interval .
7. Michelangelo Antonioni & Ingmar Bergman (24 March 2025)
These two directors , giants of European arthouse cinema , were often mentioned in the same breath during their lifetimes . They both directed their first feature article in 1950 , became commercially successful with " difficult" movie , and were noticed in the US through university moving picture fellowship ( in which many students worshipped Antonioni and despise Bergman , or frailty versa ) . When they pall on the same day ( Bergman at 89 , Antonioni at 94),New York Timesfilm reviewer A.O. Scott wrote that : " In their prime , Mr Antonioni and Mr Bergman were seen as the twin embodiments of the idea that a filmmaker could be , without qualification or compromise , a great artist . “
8. Tom Hanson & Richard Nicholas (1 February 2025)
Canadians are probably familiar with at least one photo from the telling portfolio of award - gain Canadian Press photojournalist Tom Hanson . In 1990 , during a tense standoff with police in Quebec , Hanson snapped a mask Mohawk warrior " “ weapon system raised , rifle in hand " “ standing atop an overturned law new wave . This was land rights campaigner Richard Nicholas , and the pic became a famous symbol of the military campaign . Less than 20 age subsequently , both men exit on the same daytime " “ and both at the young historic period of 41 . Hanson give recreate hockey and died a few hour subsequently . Meanwhile , Nicholas ( whom he never in reality met ) was kill in a car crash . " To think that the very valet who choose that picture died on the same day at the same age — how miraculous is it that something like that would happen?“ said Nicholas ' cousin Sonya Gagnier . " At that pinnacle moment in 1990 they crossed course , and then they crossed track again . It ’s another pinnacle point . “
