Celebrities who predicted their own deaths with eerie accuracy

The late rapper, who passed away in 1996 after being shot at a traffic light in Las Vegas, eerily predicted that he would not live to see his 26th birthday. 

His friend, Smooth B, shared on The Art of Dialogue that Tupac told him, "I've already seen death. I know how I'm gonna go out."

“I ain’t gonna be around long enough to have kids," he reportedly said. "I’m telling you I ain’t gonna live past 25.” As it happened, he succumbed to gunshot wounds two months after his 25th birthday.

Tupac also seemed to predict his passing in the song '[Expletive] Done Changed', in which he raps: "I been shot and murdered, can tell you how it happened word for word."

The US President, who served from 1861 to 1865, is said to have predicted his own assassination, which occurred on April 15, 1865, at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.

Days before he died at the hands of John Wilkes Booth, Abraham reportedly dreamt that he was in the White House and found a corpse that was surrounded by mourners and guarded by soldiers.

When he asked a soldier in the dream who had died, they replied: "The president. He was killed by an assassin." 

The story should be taken with a hefty grain of salt, though, as historians have noted that it first appeared in an 1895 book written by Abraham's friend, Ward Hill Lamon, decades after the president's death.

The famed Adventures of Tom Sawyer author correctly predicted that he would pass away the next time Halley's Comet returned to the skies. 

He was born just two weeks after it arrived in 1835, making him believe he had a deeper connection to the celestial body.

In 1909, Mark reportedly told his biographer, Albert Bigelow Paine, "I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it."

"It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley’s Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: 'Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.'"

Sure enough, Mark died from a heart attack in April 1910, a day after the famous comet passed by Earth.

NBA star "Pistol Pete" Maravich was playing for the Atlanta Hawks in 1974 when he said in an interview that he wouldn't be playing basketball forever.

"I don’t want to play 10 years in the NBA and die of a heart attack at age 40," he declared. In 1988, at 40 years old, Pete died from a heart attack during a pickup basketball game. 

The autopsy revealed that the heart attack had been caused by a missing left coronary artery, which forced the right artery to take on the brunt of the work.

The former bassist for Weezer, Mikey Welsh, predicted not only the time of his death, but also the location. 

"Dreamt I died in Chicago next weekend (heart attack in my sleep). Need to write my will today," he tweeted on September 26, 2011, and later corrected the date to "the weekend after next".

On October 8, Mikey was found unresponsive in his hotel room in Chicago, and his cause of death was put down to a suspected drug overdose.

John Lennon was shot outside his apartment in New York City on December 8, 1980, by Mark David Chapman, who later claimed that he killed the Beatles star due to personal resentment and a desire to be like the protagonist of J.D. Salinger's novel, The Catcher in the Rye.

15 years earlier, at the height of his Beatles fame, John seemed to predict the way he would die during an interview. "We’ll either go in a plane crash, or we’ll be popped off by some loony," he said.

The Doors frontman is said to have predicted his own death during an outing with friends that came just after the passing of Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix, two giants of the music world who had died at age 27.

Jim then correctly predicted that he would be part of this 27 Club – a group of celebrities who all died at the age of 27 (the list would later include Kurt Cobain and Amy Winehouse). 

"You're drinking with number three. That’s right, number three," Jim reportedly told his friends in October 1970 while mourning Janis' loss, less than a year before he died from heart failure at age 27.

Bruce Lee's movie star son, Brandon Lee, once told Brad Pitt that he would die young, just a year before booking the starring role in The Crow. "I remember back in the early days I hung out with Brandon Lee. He drove a hearse and lived in Echo Park," Brad recalled to Esquire.

"We went out one night, and everyone else had peeled off, and we ended up back at his place, and it was like six in the morning," Brad continued. 

"A real, you know, drunk and stony night, and he proceeded that night to tell me how he thought he was going to die young like his dad. And I just chalked it up to, you know, stony six a.m. talk. Then he got The Crow the next year."

Brandon died in March 1993 at just 28 years old when an actor on the set of The Crow fired a prop gun at him that had a dummy bullet stuck inside from an earlier scene. 

The fragment went through his abdomen to his spine, and he later died from internal bleeding. His father, the legendary martial arts star Bruce Lee, died aged 32 from severe swelling of the brain caused by a reaction to a painkiller.