Being one of the early pioneers of rock n’ roll, Buddy Holly rose to fame in the 50s, and his song That’ll Be The Day has become a timeless classic. In January 1959, Holly and his wife, Maria, woke up in the middle of the night, both in a state of great distress.

The couple had the same nightmare, which involved a plane, a farm, and Holly leaving his wife. Holly burst into tears, and remained deeply troubled by the dream.

A month later, Holly left for a tour of the Midwest that was supposed to last for several months. On Feb 2, his plane got caught in a storm after takeoff and plummeted into a field in Iowa, killing everyone on board.

Marc Bolan was the singer and guitarist of rock band T. Rex. He was known for writing entertaining and nonsensical lyrics. Some fans are convinced that a line from T. Rex’s song Solid Gold Easy Action was a clairvoyant prediction of his own death.

The line goes, “life is the same and it always will be, easy as picking foxes from a tree,” which sounded meaningless as most of T. Rex’s lyrics, up until the singer crashed his car, launching Bolan and his girlfriend into a tree requiring the extrication of their bodies from the branches.

The creepiest detail has to be his car’s number plate, which read FOX11.

Abraham Lincoln’s electoral victory was confirmed on November 6, 1860, so the Southern States started taking steps to secede from the union, instigating the American Civil War. Four years of brutal fighting had the North eventually declaring victory, but the war would cost Lincoln his life.

On April 14, 1965, confederate spy John Wilkes Booth snuck into Lincoln’s box at the Ford Theatre, shooting him in the back of the head. But three days before his assassination, Lincoln shared a troubling dream to one of his friends.

In the dream, he saw a coffin in the White House, so he asked the soldier guarding it who had died, “the President, he was assassinated”.

William Thomas Stead was a British author, newspaper editor, and a pioneer of investigative journalism. He tackled controversial issues, and his support for the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885, which raised the age of consent from 13 to 16, was instrumental in helping the bill pass that it became known as ‘The Stead Act’.

Stead was fond of penning short stories, often in maritime settings. He even told the tale of a ship that sank after colliding with an iceberg which led to the demise of its passengers.

If you hadn’t already guessed, Stead was a passenger on the RMS Titanic, and he perished in the arctic waters of the North Atlantic Ocean after the ship went down.

Ex-baseball player and Christian radio host Frank Pastore predicted his death live on air.

Pastore was an avid motorcyclist, and on November 19, 2012 he spoke about about negligent drivers on his show, exclaiming, “at any moment, especially with the idiot people who cross the diamond lane into my lane, all right, without any blinkers – not that I’m angry about it – but at any minute I could be spread out all over the 210”.

After finishing the broadcast, Pastore got on his motorcycle, drove onto the 210, and was killed by a woman driving a Hyundai who didn’t bother using her blinkers.

Pete Maravich was known as Pistol Pete. He was a basketball player who competed for the Louisiana Tigers and remains the highest scoring NCAA Division I scorer of all time. Maravich had a total score of 3,667 and an average of 44.2 points per game.

In an interview with his hometown newspaper in 1974, Maravich spoke of his intentions to retire, saying he didn’t want to “play ten years in the NBA and die of a heart attack at the age of 40”.

This odd statement proved to be startlingly prescient as Maravich unexpectedly suffered a heart attack during a game in 1988. He passed away six months after his 40th birthday.

Bob Marley is credited for bringing reggae to mainstream audiences. Originally hailing from Jamaica, Marley toured the world with his music, spreading messages of tolerance, peace and love.

In July 1977, Marley was diagnosed with melanoma which started on his toe. Doctors advised amputation, but Marley refused out of fear that it would affect his ability to perform, so he went for less extreme surgery.

As a result, the cancer spread to the singer’s liver, lungs and brain.

According to his friends, Marley had predicted that he would die at the same age as Jesus, and four years after his initial diagnosis, he passed away at the age of 36. The same age Jesus was said to have been when he was crucified.

James Dean remains the one symbol of teenage disillusionment due to his wild lifestyle and disregard for social expectations, which were epitomised in the 1955 film Rebel Without A Cause. He was known for his reckless streak, which extended to a love for fast cars and racing.

In an interview before his death, Dean stated, “people say racing is dangerous, but I’ll take my chances on the track any day than on a highway”.

Those words proved to be an omen as shortly after the release of Rebel Without A Cause, Dean was on the highway when he was involved in a catastrophic collision with a car coming the other way.

After his passing, Dean received an Academy Award nomination for his last film Giant, making him the first actor to receive this honour posthumously.

Hendrix is considered the greatest guitar hero of all time, but he tragically choked on his own vomit whilst high on barbiturates in 1970, at the age of 27. This gave him the dubious honour of belonging to the ’27 Club,’ alongside other musical legends who died at that age.

A track written with fellow musician Curtis Knight seemed to predict his death five years before it happened.

In the collaboration recorded in 1965, Knight sang, “Five years, this he said/He’s not gone, he’s just dead”, which many took as a reference to Hendrix’s future demise.

Mark Twain was an author, entrepreneur and lecturer, famous for penning The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer. He is considered to be one of the greatest American novelists, making a lot of money from his writings, although he did squander most of it on questionable business ventures.

The writer was born two weeks after Halley’s Comet streaked past Earth, an event which occurs every 75 years. A year before his death, Twain mused, “the Almighty has said, no doubt, ‘Now there are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.’”

That prediction was stunningly accurate. On April 21, 1910, just a day after the comet passed, Mark Twain passed away.

Weezer formed in 1992, and soon signed to Geffen Records a year later. Their first self-titled album went multi platinum. Following their tour for their second album, Pinkerton, bassist Matt Sharp decided to leave the band.

He was replaced by Mikey Welsh, providing the bass for Weezer’s third album. Walsh’s time with Weezer was short-lived, soon leaving the band due to health reasons, and becoming a full time artist instead.

On September 26, 2011, he tweeted that he had a dream of dying in Chicago in one week’s time, and that he needed to write his will. One week later, the artist was found dead in his Chicago hotel room. The cause of death given was an accidental heroin overdose.

Jimi Hendrix is widely regarded as the first member of the 27 Club, but it was the death of Janis Joplin, a close friend of The Doors’ frontman Jim Morrison, that the Club became an established cultural phenomenon.

Whilst drinking at an LA bar with friends, the conversation turned to the 27 Club, and Morrison claimed, “you’re drinking with number three, that’s right, number three”.

Nine months later, 27-year-old Morrison died of a heroin overdose. He became the Club’s third member.

Brian Jones of The Rolling Stones could be considered the first 27 Club member, dying at that age in 1969.

Warren Zevon was an American musician who achieved fame in the late 70s with songs like Werewolves Of London and Lawyers, Guns and Money. He had a phobia of doctors, which prevented him from getting his persistent cough checked out.

Eventually, he sought medical advice, receiving the devastating diagnosis of mesothelioma. It was a rare form of lung cancer usually caused by long-term exposure to asbestos.

Zevon never worked in an environment where asbestos would be found. What’s odd is that in his song, The Factory, Zevon sung the words, “I’ve been working in the factory, kickin’ asbestos in the factory.”

The iconic rapper and Black rights activist Tupac Shakur predicted his own death not once, but twice. In a 1994 interview, he was asked where he would be in 15 years.

His response of, “best case, in a cemetery” would prove to be correct two years later. Shakur was fatally shot in a drive-by. His second prediction was in a guest verse on a Richie Rich track.

The line was, “I been shot and murdered, can tell you how it happened word for word”.

It was even spookier by the fact that the song was released just months after Shakur’s death, giving the impression that he was communicating from beyond the grave.

A counterculture icon and all-round tragic figure, Kurt Cobain is just another famous musician who would die at the peak of his career. He was 13 when he predicted that he would become a rich and famous rock star, adding that he would “go out in a blaze of glory like Jimi Hendrix.”

As was prophesied, Cobain achieved massive success as the frontman of the legendary band Nirvana, penning classics like Smells Like Teen Spirit and In Bloom.

The musician struggled with mental health throughout his life, and, on April 5, 1994, Cobain took his own life with a shotgun, joining Hendrix in the 27 Club.

The great Austrian-American composer Arnold Schoenberg is considered one of the leaders of the expressionist movement, which flourished in Europe at the beginning of the 20th century.

A Jewish heritage meant Schoenberg was targeted by the Nazi party. He had to flee to America, where he continued composing. One of Schoenberg’s quirks was his fear of the number 13 (known as triskaidekaphobia).

The composer even made sure that none of the titles of his compositions contained 13 letters. Schoenberg also dreaded his 76th birthday, as seven and six add up to 13. He passed away aged 76, on Friday the 13th of July, 1951.

Big L is still one of the most beloved rappers amongst die-hard hip hop fans. The artist was responsible for bringing Jay-Z into the scene, and he was renowned for his virtuosic lyrical talent including dark subject matter he rapped about.

He had a bright future in music, but Big L kept one foot in the criminal underworld. His lyrics even dealt with the harsh realities of gang life.

In his track Casualties Of A Dice Game, Big L goes, “now I can hear the sirens, that means here comes the Jakes, but it’s too late, I’m knockin’ on the pearly gates”.

Shortly after being released, Big L was shot by a rival gang member. The rapper was 24 years old at the time of his passing.

The French mathematician Abraham de Moivre used his calculative abilities to figure out the exact day of his demise. Towards the end of his life, Moivre suffered from lethargy and developed somnolence, a condition characterised by strong urges to sleep.

He was big on collecting data, so he began taking measurements of how long he was sleeping. As his somnolence worsened, he found he was sleeping for an extra 15 minutes a day.

The mathematician then reasoned that the logical conclusion was that he would eventually sleep for a whole day, and that would be the day he died. Abraham de Moivre calculated the date to be November 27, 1754, and he was spot on.

Lisa Nicole Lopes, known as Left Eye, was an American rapper and a member of the R&B group TLC. After four multi-platinum selling albums and winning four Grammy Awards, she went solo and was poised for similar success.

In April 2002, Lopez was in a car accident that killed a ten-year-old boy. After the crash, she told friends that she was supposed to have died, and that death itself was after her.

Two weeks later in Honduras, Lopez was involved in another traffic collision. She was flung from her car into a ditch, dying on impact.

Proof was one of the founding members of rap-group D12. He will forever be owed a debt for developing the talent of his best friend, Eminem.

An incredibly talented rapper, Proof seemingly predicted his own death in a song entitled 40 oz. In the track, he rapped “I’m in the club to beef, you gotta murder me there.”

On April 11, 2006, Proof was shot three times after a fight in the CCC Club on 8 Mile Road, Detroit. His murder caused Eminem to go into depression and substance abuse. Eminem would later process the death of his best friend in the song You’re Never Over.

Ronnie Van Zant was an American singer who was best known as the songwriter and frontman of legendary rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd. In 1977, Zant wrote a song titled, That Smell, predicting the death of Gary Rossington, the band’s guitarist, whose substance abuse led to near-death experiences.

The song did in fact predict a death, but not Rossington’s. Three days after the song was released, a charter plane that Zant was flying on went down after takeoff. He died from head injuries after the plane collided with a tree.

The record company scrambled to pull the album since the artwork depicted the band engulfed in flames.

It was in 1993 when Oliver Reed, a British actor famous for his masculinity and party lifestyle, appeared on an episode of The Obituary Show. It was a comedy show in which celebrities played themselves in the afterlife, recounting the circumstances of their death.

Describing his fictional demise, Reed said he suffered a heart attack during a competition in a bar, and had died “full of laughter.”

Six years later, during production on his last film, Gladiator, Reed took part in a drinking game at an Irish pub when he went into cardiac arrest, dying soon after.

Reports of his death didn’t confirm whether or not Reed had died “full of laughter,” but it was in a bar so it seemed probable that he did.

Jeff Buckley is best known for his cover of Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah. He died on the evening of May 29, 1997. Buckley was swimming at night in Wolf River Harbor when a tugboat sailed past. It created a wake which sucked him underwater.

Despite efforts by emergency services, Buckley’s body wasn’t found until the following day. Eerily, Buckley’s song Dream Brother ends with the line, “asleep in the sand, with the ocean washing over.”

He’s hailed as one of the most influential soul artists of all time. Cooke’s untimely demise in 1964 was eerily predicted in one of his hit songs. The song, Frankie and Johnnie, tells the story of a murder.

The victim is shot thrice by a woman named Frankie before falling dead on the floor.

The song cracked the top 40. A year after its release, The King Of Soul was shot three times by hotel manager Bertha Franklin. The killing was ruled as self defence, and Franklin was acquitted.

Naturally, she was harassed by furious fans of Cooke afterwards.

American writer Ernest Hemingway sadly took his own life on July 2, 1961. 33 years earlier, his father had committed suicide, which led to Hemingway writing, “I’ll probably go the same way.”

In his later years, the writer’s health began declining, all while he was struggling with depression. He tried various treatments, including electroconvulsive-therapy and medication, but nothing helped.

Hemingway shot himself with his favourite shotgun. He fulfilled the prophecy he had written decades before.

James Hellwig was known by his ring name The Ultimate Warrior, though he did legally changed his name to Warrior. He was one of the most popular wrestlers of the 1980s, performing in WWE and WCW.

In 2014, many years after his retirement, the WWE inducted Warrior into the Hall Of Fame. In his acceptance speech, Hellwig said, “every man’s heart beats its final beat”, then added “the Spirit of the Ultimate Warrior will run forever.”

So in what seemed like an eerie case of tempting fate, Warrior died three days later from a heart attack.

The murder of legendary rapper The Notorious B.I.G., known as Biggie Smalls, still remains unsolved to this day. Smalls was born Christopher George Latore Wallace and he grew up in Brooklyn, surrounded by gang violence.

Many of his lyrics confronted death, and one lyric in particular, from his track Suicidal Thoughts, seemed proof that Smalls predicted his impending doom. He rapped that “death was calling” him, and three weeks after the song’s release, he was fatally shot.

To make matters creepier, Smalls’ last album, released just three months before his murder, was entitled Life After Death.

Musician and peace advocate John Lennon had a near death experience when his yacht got caught in a severe storm on the way to Bermuda. The violent waves had the entire crew incapable of functioning due to seasickness.

The Beatles’ frontman piloted the boat himself, successfully guiding it to safety. The incident had Lennon reflecting on his own mortality, and he wrote the line, “living on borrowed time, without a thought for tomorrow,” in his song Borrowed Time.

The song was released in 1980, six months before he was shot outside his New York residence by Mark David Chapman.

Jackie Wilson was a soul singer known for his stage presence and showmanship, earning him the nickname Mr. Excitement. Throughout his career, he released over 50 chart singles. That made him one of the most prolific soul musicians to ever live.

On September 25, 1975, Wilson was performing his signature song Lonely Teardrops. As he was singing the line, “my lonely heart is crying,” he suddenly clutched his chest, toppled over, and collapsed.

Wilson fell into a pneumonia-related coma. He would remain unconscious for eight years before passing away in January 1984.