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(2,710 posts) Fri Jan 23, 2015, 07:16 AM Jan 2015

Abraham de Moivre

French mathematician Abraham de Moivre predicted the date of his own death. He noted he was sleeping fifteen minutes longer each day and predicted he would die the day he slept 24 hours. November 27, 1754. He was correct.