What do Ingrid Bergman, George Washington Carver, William
Shakespeare and Merle Haggard have in common? They all died on their own
birthdays. Given that there are 364 days you might kick the bucket that are NOT
your birthday, it seems rather unlikely that the day you’re born and the day
you pass would be the same. But there are people – famous and not – who’ve beaten
those odds. Corrie Ten Boom, who was imprisoned by the Nazis for harboring Jews,
lived to tell the tale. She died of a stroke on her own 91st birthday. George
Kelly Barnes, better known as Machine Gun Kelly, was a gangster in the days of
prohibition. He suffered a heart attack at Leavenworth the day he turned 59. Kamehameha
V, king of the Hawaiian Islands, died just as his people were celebrating his 42nd
year. Resigned, he said, “It is hard to die on my birthday, but God's will be
done.”
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